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| Catalyst |
Anderson, Laurie Halse |
YA ANDERSON |
| Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death. |
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| Sounder |
Armstrong, William Howard |
J ARMSTRONG |
| Sounder traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the 19th-century South. The boy's life is changed forever when his father is caught stealing a ham to feed his starving family. His dog, Sounder, is wounded in the incident and waits faithfully for his master to come home. |
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| Thirteen Reasons Why |
Asher, Jay |
YA ASHER |
| When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death. |
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| Hate List |
Brown, Jennifer |
YA BROWN |
| Valerie thought she knew her boyfriend Nick. Until the day he walked into the school Commons and killed six students and one teacher, then turned the gun on himself. |
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| Before I Die |
Downham, Jenny |
YA DOWNHAM |
| A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies. |
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| If I Stay |
Forman, Gayle |
YA FORMAN |
| While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death. |
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| Would You |
Jocelyn, Marthe |
YA JOCELYN |
| Natalie and her friends play the “Would you…” game all the time, with the highest marks going to the grossest or grimmest options. In fact, it’s just after they’ve been sitting around shooting the “would you” bull on a perfect summer night when Natalie gets the call that changes everything. Natalie’s older sister Claire has been hit by a car. |
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| Kira-Kira |
Kadohata, Cynthia |
YA KADOHATA |
| Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair felt when one sister becomes terminally ill. |
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| Hold Still |
LaCour, Nina |
YA LACOUR |
| Caitlin was devastated when her BFF Ingrid committed suicide. Now she struggles with overwhelming feelings of guilt, wondering if there was anything she could have done to halt Ingrid’s gradual and largely secret descent into depression and pain. |
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| Bridge to Terebithia |
Patterson, Katherine |
JUV PATTERSON |
| Join Jess and Leslie as they form an unlikely friendship and create the imaginary land of Terabithia. There they rule as king and queen, until a terrible tragedy occurs that helps Jess understand just how much he has learned from Leslie. |
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| My Sister's Keeper |
Picoult, Jodi |
F PICOULT |
| Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. |
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| Where the Red Fern Grows |
Rawls, Wilson |
J RAWLS |
| A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters. |
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| A Walk to Remember |
Sparks, Nicholas |
PB SPARKS |
| In 1958 Landon Carter is a shallow but well-meaning teenager who spends most of his time hanging out with his friends and trying hard to ignore the impending responsibilities of adulthood. Then Landon gets roped into acting the lead in the Christmas play opposite the most renowned goody two-shoes in town: Jamie Sullivan. Against his best intentions and the taunts of his buddies, Landon finds himself falling for Jamie and learning some central lessons in life. |
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