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• Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet
  Mica High, the hallways hum with the murmur of
  Stargirl, Stargirl. She captures Leo Borlocks
  heart with just one smile. She sparks a
  school-spirit revolution with just one cheer.
  The tudents of Mica High are enchanted. At first.
• Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly
  shunned for everything that makes her different,
  and Leo, desperate with love, urges her to become
  the very thing that can destroy her normal.

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• Mary Lou Finney is less than excited about her
  assignment to keep a journal over the summer.
  Boring! Then cousin Carl Ray comes to stay with
  her family, and what starts out as the dull dog
  days of summer quickly turns into the wildest
  roller coaster ride of all time.
• How was Mary Lous supposed to know what would
  happen with Carl Ray and the ring? Or with her
  boy-crazy best friend Beth Ann? Or with (sigh)
  the permanently pink Alex Cheevey? Suddenly a
  boring school project becomes a record of the
  most exciting, incredible, unbelievable summer of
  Mary Lous life.

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• Thirteen year old Raspberry Hill is starved for
  money, and will do just about anything legal to
  get it- wash cars, sell rotten candy, skip lunch,
  clean houses. Memories of being homeless, of
  sleeping in the streets and eating handouts keep
  Raspberrys eye on the only prize that matters to
  her cold, hard cash that she can touch, hold,
  smell- even kiss.
• But money cant answer the questions that keep
  Raspberry awake at night. Will she and Momma
  ever move out of the projects? What did Janae
  do with the two hundred bucks Raspberry loaned
  her? And whats really going on with Momma and
  the rich doctor?

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• Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that
  began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing
  great-great- grandfather and has since followed
  generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been
  unjustly sent to a boys detention center, Camp
  Green Lake, where the boys build character by
  spending all day, everyday, digging holes exactly
  five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no
  late at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful
  lot of holes.
• It doesnt take long for Stanley to realize
  theres more than character improvement going on
  at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes
  because the warden is looking for something. But
  what could be buried under a dried-up lake?
  Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this
  inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and
  punishment- and redemption.

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• What do a 12-year-old student who moonlights as a
  tie salesman, a tall, outspoken girl, a gay
  middle schooler and a kid branded as a hooligan
  have in common? Best friends for years, they've
  all been the target of cruel name-calling and now
  that they're in seventh grade, they're not about
  to take it any more. In this hilarious and
  poignant novel, Howe focuses on the quietest of
  the bunch, overweight Bobby Goodspeed (the tie
  salesman), showing how he evolves from nerd to
  hero when he starts speaking his mind. Addie (the
  outspoken girl) decides that the four of them
  should run against more popular peers in the
  upcoming student council election. But her lofty
  ideals and rabble-rousing speeches make the wrong
  kind of waves, offending fellow classmates,
  teachers and the principal.

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• Greg "Slam" Harris is a seventeen-year-old who
  thinks he is all that on the court -- and he's
  not that far off. He can play point guard and
  slam dunk the ball, making him a tough
  combination for a defender to handle. The problem
  is that this year Slam is at a new school, and
  here his new coach and teammates don't give him
  the respect he thinks he deserves, and his
  teachers just won't get off his back about his
  grades.
• Not only is his new school becoming a problem,
  but so much of his support system is falling
  apart as well. His mom, though trying to help
  Slam the best that she can, is dragging him down
  with all her talk about raising his grades. His
  younger brother Derek is as meddling as ever.
  Even his best friend, Ice, seems to be drifting
  further and further away, and Slam fears that
  drugs are the cause.

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• A heroic story of friendship and belonging
• Pony boy can count on his brothers. And on his
  friends. But not on much else besides trouble
  with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose
  idea of a good time is beating up greasers like
  Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect- until
  the night someone takes things too far.

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• LaVaughn needs a part time job. Something she
  could do after school to help earn money for
  college. Jolly needs a babysitter. Someone she
  could trust with two kids while she works the
  evening shift.
• It doesnt matter that LaVaughn is fourteen
  years old- only three years younger than Jolly.
  What matters is that LaVaughn gives Jolly and her
  two babies more love and understanding than
  anyone else will. Life is a struggle for all of
  them. But together they might make it through.

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• August 1793. Fourteen year old Mattie Cook is
  ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of
  listening to her mother. Mattie has plans of her
  own. She wants to turn the Cook Coffeehouse into
  the finest business in Philadelphia, the capital
  of the new United States.
• But the waterfront is abuzz with reports of
  disease. Fever spreads from the docks and
  creeps toward Matties home, threatening
  everything she holds dear.
• As the cemeteries fill with fever victims, fear
  turns to panic, and thousands flee the city.
  Then tragedy strikes the coffeehouse, and Mattie
  is trapped in a living nightmare. Suddenly, her
  struggle to build a better life must give way to
  something even more important- the fight to stay
  alive.