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"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn
him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile
detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy campers. In...Read more
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When Bee and her older brother Jacky were younger, they used to play a game in the woods
near their grandparents' house. It was a war game in which Bee always played the wounded,
and Jacky always played the savior: Bee "waited for Jacky to save her....Read more
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Despite recent media attention, obsessive-compulsive disorder remains perplexing to those
who haven't experienced the illness firsthand. In her compassionate debut novel, Terry
Spencer Hesser skillfully and credibly explains exactly what OCD feels...Read more
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Angela Johnson, whose Toning the
Sweep won the Coretta Scott King Award in 1994, once again proves her finesse at
capturing the voices of youth and the struggles they face in the 12 poignant, exquisitely
crafted short takes constituting Gone from...Read more
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Like so many teenagers, Tar and Gemma are fed up with their parents. Tar's family is
alcoholic and abusive, and Gemma feels her home life is cramped by too many restrictions.
The young, British couple runs away to Bristol in search of freedom, and...Read more
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Lanky lizards! The slinkster-cool novels in Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series have
finally been compiled into one delicious volume. All of the ethereal, mesmerizing titles
are here--Weetzie
Bat, Witch Baby,
Cherokee
Bat and the Goat Guys, ...Read more
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Judy Blume first won legions of fans with such young adult classics as Are You There
God? It's Me, Margaret and Forever, in which she tackles the cultural hot
button of teenage sexuality. In Summer Sisters, her third novel for adults, the
author...Read more
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"We used to sit on the playground and plan our weddings, tracing long flowing white
gowns in the sand with sticks. Then, in sixth grade--I can't remember the day it
happened--a stone rolled in front of our futures. We dropped the sticks and our...Read more
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"Sometimes our inside-the-head world gets so crammed with what other people think
that what we think gets squished out our ears or something." So laments the young
protagonist Molly-Be-Gone in C. Drew Lamm's "Stay True," the title story in
this...Read more
Amazon.com Armageddon Summer provides a front-row seat for the type of event most of us only
witness on a TV screen. Reverend Raymond Beelson is gathering 144 "Believers"
atop Mount Weeupcut in Massachusetts to camp out, pray, and await Armageddon--July 27,...Read more
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Funny young adult writers are a rare treasure, and Joan Bauer is one of the funniest.
Critics and young readers rejoiced at her three previous novels--Squashed,
Thwonk,
and Sticks--and
with Rules of the Road, she has written a story that is wise and...Read more
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In a dazzling display of virtuosity, Australian writer Sonya Hartnett carries the idea of
a double self to the extreme of madness in a gothic tale of twin brothers. Sardonic and
mercurial Indigo was born "first and ferocious," and compliant...Read more
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