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Zahrah The Windseeker

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by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
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Book, Houghton Mifflin, 2005
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Adventure and adventurers · Juvenile fiction · Bildungsromans · Flight · Best friends · Jungles · Fiction · Coming of age · Fantasy · Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi
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Touch

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Francine Prose
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Book, 1st ed, HarperTeen, 2009
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The incident at the back of the bus becomes the center of Maisie’s life and the talk of the school, and, horribly, it becomes news. From nationally acclaimed author Francine Prose comes an unforgettable story about the difficulties of telling the truth, the consequences of lying, and the most dangerous twist of all?the possibility that you yourself will come to believe something that you know isn’t true. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Coming of age · Fiction · Best friends · Friendship · Family problems · Stepmothers · High schools · Schools · Prose, Francine, 1947-
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After Tupac & D Foster

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Jacqueline Woodson
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Book, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008
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D Foster showed up a few months before Tupac got shot that first time and left us the summer before he died. Although all of them are crazy about Tupac Shakur?s rap music, D is the one who truly understands the place where he?s coming from, and through knowing D, Tupac?s lyrics become more personal for all of them. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Shakur, Tupac, · 1971-1996 · Fiction · African Americans · Juvenile fiction · Coming of age · Friendship · Queens (New York, N.Y.) · Woodson, Jacqueline
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Dark Dude

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Oscar Hijuelos
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Book, 1st ed, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008
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For anyone who loved The Outsiders — and for anyone who’s ever felt like one — Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos brings to life a haunting choice and an unforgettable journey about identity, misidentity, and all that we take with us when we run away. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Self-perception · Juvenile fiction · Coming of age · Cuban Americans · Wisconsin · History · 20th century · Hijuelos, Oscar
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What I Saw And How I Lied

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Judy Blundell
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Book, 1st ed, Scholastic Press, 2008
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Coming of age · Fiction · Family problems · Secrets · Florida · History · 20th century · Blundell, Judy
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Paper Towns

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John Green
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Book, 1st ed, Dutton Books, 2008
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When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night?dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge?he follows her. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Missing persons · Juvenile fiction · Fiction · Coming of age · Mystery and detective stories · Florida · Green, John, 1977-
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Carlos Is Gonna Get It

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Kevin Emerson
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Book, 1st ed, Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008
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So Trina, Donte, Thea, Sara, and Frankie decide to use the upcoming 7th-grade class trip to “get” Carlos and scare him into acting normal. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Peer pressure · Juvenile fiction · Practical jokes · Coming of age · Schools · African Americans · Boston (Mass.) · New Hampshire · Emerson, Kevin
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Brooklyn Bridge : A Novel

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by Karen Hesse
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Book, 1st ed, Feiwel and Friends, 2008
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Karen Hesse has achieved many honors for her more than twenty books over the course of her award-winning career: the Newbery Medal, the Scott O?Dell Historical Fiction Award, the MacArthur Fellowship ?Genius? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Family · New York (State) · New York · Juvenile fiction · Teddy bears · Social classes · Homeless persons · Immigrants · Russian Americans · Jews · United States · Coming of age · Fiction · Family life · Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) · History · 20th century · Hesse, Karen
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Me, The Missing, And The Dead

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Jenny Valentine
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Book, 1st American ed, HarperTeen, 2008
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Me: Lucas Swain?I’m nearly sixteen years old and live in London. The Dead: That’s Violet . . . . . . (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Death · Juvenile fiction · Missing persons · Fathers · Single-parent families · Coming of age · London (England) · England · Valentine, Jenny
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Down To The Bone

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Mayra Lazara Dole
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Book, 1st ed, HarperTeen, 2008
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In a first novel as crazy, joyful, hilarious, and painful as your first love, Mayra Lazara Dole goes beyond the many meanings of tortillera to paint a vivid picture of a girl who gets kicked out of home only to find a new kind of family. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Lesbians · Juvenile fiction · Cuban Americans · Self-acceptance · Fiction · Coming of age · Identity · Dole, Mayra L
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Rex Zero, The King Of Nothing

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Tim Wynne-Jones
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Book, 1st American ed, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
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In sixth grade now, the wildly imaginative Rex Zero and his friends hatch a plan to replace Miss Garr, the substitute teacher from hell, and Rex takes on the persona of none other than ?Dr. Love.? Delightfully eccentric characters, humorous scenes of well-intended plans gone awry, a finely crafted plot interwoven with serious themes about love and war?this new Rex Zero is a gem! (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Coming of age · Juvenile fiction · Family life · Canada · Fiction · Interpersonal relations · Schools · Ottawa (Ont.) · History · 20th century · 1945- · Wynne-Jones, Tim
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Deep Down Popular : A Novel

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by Phoebe Stone
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Book, 1st ed, Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008
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6th-grader Jessie Lou is deeply, madly, passionately in love with Conrad Parker Smith. Jessie Lou and Conrad start spending a lot more time together, but she can’t help wonder — is she just a substitute friend? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Popularity · Juvenile fiction · Schools · Country life · Virginia · Coming of age · Fiction · Family life · Stone, Phoebe, 1947-
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Petropolis

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Anya Ulinich
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Book, Viking, 2007
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Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she?s a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Teenage mothers · Fiction · Emigration and immigration · Coming of age · Fathers and daughters · Ulinich, Anya, 1973-
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The Melting Season

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Celeste Conway
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Book, 1st ed, Delacorte Press, 2006
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Giselle is a cultured ballet student, the daughter of the famous ballerina Marina Parke-Vanova and the late dance historian Grigori Vanov. Will introduces Giselle to the world beyond Manhattan, and for the first time, makes her feel comfortable outside her perfectly protected apartment on Central Park West. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Ballet dancing · Juvenile fiction · Ballet dancers · Mothers and daughters · Fathers and daughters · Schools · Fiction · Coming of age · Conway, Celeste
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Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows

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J.K. Rowling
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Audio, Unabridged, Listening Library, 2007
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The most eagerly anticipated book of the year, the grand finale of the Harry Potter series, is here. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Potter, Harry (Fictitious character) · Juvenile sound recordings · Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Imaginary place) · Juvenile sound recordings · Wizards · Magic · Boarding schools · Audiobooks · Juvenile literature · Schools · Fiction · Coming of age · England · LAMSON LIBRARY COMPACT DISCS · Rowling, J. K · Dale, Jim
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