CHILDREN'S
Released: July 1, 2008
"Teen readers might scream loud enough to raise the dead. (Fiction. 14 & up)"
After seeing a ghost in her school, Chloe Saunders arrives at the Lyle House, a home for troubled teens, but specters keep surfacing, causing her to question both her sanity and supposedly safe surroundings.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2007
"Junior's keen cartoons sprinkle the pages as his fluid narration deftly mingles raw feeling with funny, sardonic insight. (Fiction. YA)"
Alexie nimbly blends sharp wit with unapologetic emotion in his first foray into young-adult literature.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 4, 2005
"Mostly, however, this is a flawed, didactic exploration of the nature of freedom, juxtaposing the brutality of 19th-century American slavery with the society of a faraway planet where skin color is irrelevant because "behind all existence there is one great mind." (Fiction. 12-16)"
Forty-seven is the name and number of a 14-year-old slave working on Master Tobias's Georgia plantation in 1832.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 11, 2005
"Speed, suspense, excitement. (Science fiction. YA)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 12, 2004
"Written with immediacy and charm, there is accessibility to the very American Milly's attitudes and ideas that will help readers accompany her on her journey of discovery and growth. (Fiction. YA)"
Ninth-grader Milly struggles to deny her adopted status in a loving family until she begins to understand her origins through a friendship with Pablo, a new arrival from her country of birth.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2003
Freaky Green Eyes, born during a drunken assault at a teen party, becomes one teen's inner voice of resistance as her family crumbles around her.
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