The Noah Confessions
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KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT
978-0-553-49441-9
Living on the island of Guam, a place lush with memories and tradition, young Isabel struggles to protect her family and cope with growing up after her mother’s suicide.
Farewell to Manzanar
JEANNE WAKATSUKI HOUSTON and JAMES D. HOUSTON
978-0-553-27258-1
The true story of one spirited Japanese American family’s efforts to survive the indignities of forced detention during World War II…and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States.
I Am the Wallpaper
MARK PETER HUGHES
978-0-440-42046-0
Thirteen-year-old Floey Packer feels as if she’s always blended into the background. After all, she’s the frumpy younger sister of the Fabulous Lillian. But when Lillian suddenly gets married and heads off on a monthlong honeymoon, Floey decides it’s her time to shine.
The Parallel Universe of Liars
KATHLEEN JEFFRIE JOHNSON
978-0-440-23852-2
Surrounded by superficiality, infidelity, and lies, Robin, a self-described chunk, isn’t sure what to make of her hunky neighbor’s sexual advances, or of the attention paid her by a new boy in town who seems to notice more than her body.
Hattie Big Sky
KIRBY LARSON
978-0-440-23941-3
For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie has been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa all by herself to prove up on her late uncle’s homestead claim near Vida, Montana. With a stubborn stick-to-itiveness, she faces frost, drought, and blizzards—and despite many hardships, Hattie forges ahead.
Girl, 15, Charming but Insane
SUE LIMB
978-0-385-73215-4
With her hilariously active imagination, Jess Jordan has a tendency to complicate her life, but now, as she’s finally getting closer to her crush, she’s determined to keep things under control. Readers will fall in love with Sue Limb’s insanely optimistic heroine.
Girl, Nearly 16: Absolute Torture
SUE LIMB
978-0-385-73217-8
Jess has the perfect summer planned: She and Fred, lounging in the park, gazing into each other’s eyes and engaging in witty repartee. And then her maddening mum announces a two-week “road trip” to Cornwall to visit Jess’s dad. Something Jess might have enjoyed, were it not for the monstrously bad timing. As if all this weren’t enough, Jess’s mum seems to expect her to weep at the grave of every departed literary hero in Britain’s long history. It’s absolute torture.
Girl, Going on 17: Pants on Fire
SUE LIMB
978-0-385-73219-2
It’s never fun when a great summer comes to an end. Particularly when one argues with one’s adorable, but grossly insensitive, boyfriend the night before school starts. It’s such a terrible fight, Jess doesn’t know—are they broken up? When she ends up pantless in her own backyard, Jess is left to ask herself: Where did she go wrong?
The Boyfriend List
E. LOCKHART
978-0-385-73207-9
Ruby Oliver is fifteen and has a shrink. She knows it’s unusual, but she’s had a rough ten days. She’s lost her boyfriend, her best friend, and all her other friends; had a panic attack; failed a math test; done something suspicious with a boy; had an argument with a boy; and had graffiti written about her in the girls’ bathroom. But Ruby lives to tell the tale (and make more lists).
The Boy Book:
A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them
E. LOCKHART
978-0-385-73209-3
Here’s how things stand at the beginning of newly licensed driver Ruby Oliver’s junior year at Tate Prep: Kim—not speaking. But far away in Tokyo. Cricket—not speaking. Nora—speaking, sort of. But by winter break, a new job and entries in The Boy Book help Ruby see that there is life outside the Tate Universe.
Gathering Blue
LOIS LOWRY
978-0-385-73256-7
Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously taken to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
The Giver
LOIS LOWRY
978-0-385-73255-0
Jonas’s world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices, until Jonas is given an opportunity that will change his world forever.
Messenger
LOIS LOWRY
978-0-385-73253-6
Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man known for his special sight. Now something sinister has seeped into Village, and the people have voted to close it to outsiders. Matty must make one last journey and convince Kira, Seer’s daughter, to return with him.
The Silent Boy
LOIS LOWRY
978-0-440-41980-8
When tragedy strikes a small turn-of-the-century town, only Katy realizes what the gentle, silent boy did for his family. He meant to help, not harm. It didn’t turn out that way.
Harmony
RITA MURPHY
978-0-440-22923-0
Power is coursing through Harmony—the power to affect the universe with her energy. This is a frightening gift for a girl who has always hated being different, and Harmony must decide whether to hide her abilities or embrace the consequences—good and bad—of her full strength.
Holes
LOUIS SACHAR
978-0-440-22859-2
Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake. But there’s more than character improvement going on at the camp—the warden is looking for something.
Small Steps
LOUIS SACHAR
978-0-385-73315-1
Armpit, a memorable camp mate of Stanley Yelnats’s in Louis Sachar’s acclaimed Holes, takes lessons learned at Camp Green Lake and sets out to turn his life around—one small step at a time.
Stargirl
JERRY SPINELLI
978-0-440-41677-7
Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” The students are enchanted. Then they turn on her.
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Hall, Barbara.
The Noah confessions / Barbara Hall.
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Summary: Instead of a car for her sixteenth birthday, Lynnie receives from her father a manuscript in which her deceased mother writes about family secrets, helping Lynnie to understand more about her parents and the complexity of growing up.
[1. Family problems—Fiction. 2. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 3. Mothers—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H1407No 2007 [Fic]—dc22 2006015640
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