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"Rory has a secret: she's the vandal who paints graffiti lions all over her town. When Hayes, a former screwup on the path to recovery, catches her in the act, Rory is sure she's busted. Instead he makes her a deal: if she tells him about her graffiti, he won't turn her in. As the two grow closer, the police efforts to find the vandal ramp up, and Rory is forced to confront a secret she still can't bring herself to face"--
85) Close to famous
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Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
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Eighteen-year-old Arcadia wants adventure. Living in a tiny Florida town with her dad and four-year-old brother, Cadie spends most of her time working, going to school, and taking care of her family. So when she meets two handsome cousins at a campfire party, she finally has a chance for fun. They invite her and friend to join them on a road trip, and it's just the risk she's been craving -- the opportunity to escape. But what starts out as a fun,...
88) The moonlit vine
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After her older brother is sent away to live with their father for getting in trouble at school, fourteen-year-old Taína Perez is forced to help care for her younger brother and aging grandmother. Her mother, who works two jobs to support them, is rarely around, leaving Taína alone to struggle with their family's financial stress, trouble in her neighborhood, and racism at school. One day, her ailing grandmother tells Taina she's a descendant...
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Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
90) Feral
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"After Claire Cain survives a brutal attack in Chicago, she and her father move to Peculiar, Missouri, where she discovers the body of a high-school girl and realizes that she cannot escape her past"--
91) Lemons
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Lemonade Liberty Witt's mama told her to make lemonade out of the lemons life sends her way, but when she has to move to Willow Creek, California, to live with her grandfather after her mother dies, Lem struggles to find the good in any of it. Then she meets Tobin Sky, the eleven-year-old CEO of Bigfoot Detectives Inc., who invites her on an adventure to capture Bigfoot on film.
92) Struts & frets
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Sammy wants to be a musician, as was his grandfather, but while the band he is in is self-destructing, Sammy is too distracted by his grandfather's decline and confused feelings about his best friend to fix it--and his mother stays too busy to help.
93) Pashmina
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Indian-American teen, Priyanka "Pri" Das, attempts to reconnect with her mother's homeland through a magical pashmina shawl. Presented in comic book format.
Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions and the topic of India is permanently closed. For...
95) The field guide
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When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.
96) Golden arm
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High school senior Lazarus Weathers wants out of the run-down trailer park where he lives with his mother and brother. When he receives an invitation to move in with a well-off family and pitch for a high-profile high school baseball team on the other side of town, it's his chance to impress major-league scouts and maybe become a professional baseball player. But it also means leaving his family behind. As his brother gets sucked into the trailer...
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Zeke Stahls is not the best kid in the world. Some days he struggles just to be good . He'd rather be pulling pranks than doing extra credit, and he's too busy performing experiments on his little brother, Nate, or tormenting his older sister, Jackie, to volunteer for charity. Which is why Zeke and his entire family are shocked when they receive word that he has been selected as a contestant in an online competition to find the World's Greatest Kid....
98) Demon dentist
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The toothfairy has been usurped, apparently, by some diabolical creature which leaves dead slugs, or live spiders, or gross earwigs under children's pillows at night in payment for their teeth. A boy named Alfie is the only hope for getting the tooth fairy back in action and ousting this usurper, who may in fact be the mean-looking new dentist in town.
99) Ralph S. Mouse
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Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys.