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Series
Publisher
Dell Laurel-Leaf
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Ten stories by such notable authors as Richard Peck, Chris Crutcher, and Chris Lynch, each of which presents the life of a teenager in a different decade of the twentieth century, accompanied by a brief description of the historical and cultural highlights of that decade.
84) Hawk moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Will faces a mystery involving drugs at his high school, while being framed for the disappearance and possible murder of his girlfriend.
85) Prophecy Rock
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Will Lansa visits his father, who is the tribal police chief on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona, and learns about some sacred Hopi traditions while he helps investigate several murders.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy who was raised by an abusive old woman and who has always had questions about his parents sees a picture of a missing child and sets out to discover if he is that child.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Lucy, a fourteen-year-old high school freshman, experiences the happiness and confusion of dating a popular older boy, changing relationships with life-long friends, and sharing a bedroom with her older brother's pregnant girlfriend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.
91) Sights
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Laurel-Leaf
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Despite years of abuse at the hands of her drunken father, Baby Girl has always believed that she was special, partly because of her "gift" of seeing the future, until she and her mother set out to begin a new life on their own.
92) Ostrich eye
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Laurel-Leaf
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ginger, who lives with her mother, stepfather, and younger stepsister and never knew her father, is convinced that the strange man who keeps showing up unexpectedly is really her dad.
95) Tending to Grace
Author
Series
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When Cornelia's mother runs off with a boyfriend, leaving her with an eccentric aunt, Cornelia must finally confront the truth about herself and her mother.
96) Overboard
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell-Laurel Leaf
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Escaping from a sinking ferry in the waters off Sumatra, fourteen-year-old Emily fights for survival for herself and a young Indonesian boy, who draws courage from his quiet but firm Islamic faith.
97) Runaway
Author
Series
Publisher
Laurel Leaf
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.
98) Eva
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.