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Showing posts with label coming of age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coming of age. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Faithful/Alice Hoffman/258 pages

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Shelby is a ordinary teenage girl until one night a tragedy changes her fate. Hoffman has written a sometimes dark but moving account of a y...
Friday, December 9, 2016

You will know me / Megan Abbott / 345 pgs

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In the competitive world of girls Gymnastics, once athletes reach the "elite" level stakes are raised and tensions run high.  You...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Pollyanna Grows Up/ Eleanor Porter/ 216 pages

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Pollyanna Grows Up was written by Eleanor Porter as a sequel to Pollyanna.  Pollyanna has recovered from her accident and has returned home ...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

We Are All Made of Molecules/Nielsen/243 pages

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This Susin Nielsin title was recommended by one of my sixth grade teen advisory members. She loved this title and told me it was a great bo...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Winger / Andrew Smith / 438 pgs

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Ryan Dean West is a smart 14 year old who attends a boarding school and plays on the Rugby team.  He has been placed in the dorm for "t...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Brass Sun: The Wheel of Worlds / Ian Edginton & I.N.J. Culbard / 208 pages

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 Honestly how does one review a graphic novel? You can exclaim over the story, character development but really isn't it all about the p...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Dollbaby / Laura Lane McNeal / 352 pages

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   A debut novel from a woman who grew up in New Orleans. Ibby Bell has just been dumped on her grandmother's front walk. She has never ...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls / Anton DiSclafani/ 390 pages

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This first novel from DiSclafani is fairly interesting.  It is about Thea and her banishment to the riding camp which is, for her, a year ro...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Cold Sassy Tree / Olive Ann Burns 391 p. December Challenge: 5 Gold Rings

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E. Rucker Blakeslee, owner and proprietor of the general store, sets the town of Cold Sassy, Georgia on its ear in 1905 when he marries Miss...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

THE YONAHLOSSEE RIDING CAMP FOR GIRLS / Anton Disclafani / 388 pages

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In her début novel, Disclafani has the main character, Thea Atwell, relate the story of how at age 15 she is sent away from home to a girls ...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Woman Who Rides Like a Man / Tamora Pierce 238 p.

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Continues the series Song of the Lioness, the story of Alanna of Trebond, knight of Tortall. Alanna seeks adventure in the southern desert w...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Flyaway / Lucy Christopher 328 p.

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Thirteen year old Isla and her father have a deep bond with wild swans that migrate from Iceland each year. On the trip to see them returnin...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Okay for Now / Gary Schmidt 360 p.

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Doug Swieteck moves to "The Dump" in Marysville , New York where his father has found employment. He is saved by weekly visits to...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Queen of Hearts / Martha Brooks 214 p.

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Set during World War II, teenager Marie-Claire and her younger brother and baby sister are all stricken with tuberculosis. Sent to the sanit...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Under the Mesquite / Guadalupe Garcia McCall 224 p.

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Lupita, a Mexican-American teenage girl, takes on familial responsibilities when her mother gets cancer.   With seven siblings, Lupita bala...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

ROCKET BOYS/OCTOBER SKY by Homer Hickam - 368 Pages

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Book Discussion title at Corporate Parkway Branch ... I'm sure everyone has seen the wonderful movie "October Sky". If not...