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1) Kicked Out
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Dime is 15 and angry all the time. Her parents don’t like the way she dresses, her boyfriend, her attitude. Her older brother Darren was paralyzed in an accident she walked away from, and Dime is sure her parents wish she were the one in the wheelchair. When the fights and accusations finally become too much, Dime moves in with her brother. At first she is overjoyed with the change of scenery and lack of parental control. But when her troubles follow...
2) Fixed
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Nellie Joanne Kinnan is an Advanced Cadet in the Black Core Program at the Detta training center. Weapons and violence are second nature to this 12-year-old, but she is never exactly sure what it is she is being trained for. Nellie is a dedicated and skilled cadet. She knows she wants to serve the Goddess and the Empire. But there is so much that she doesn't understand. When a weapons training session brings her face-to-face with her twin, Nellie's...
3) Flux
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Several years earlier, Nellie and her mother fled the Interior and its hated security police for the Outbacks, a loose-knit resistance of small cities, towns and rural areas. Since then, her mother has disappeared and 12-year-old Nellie is on her own, scrounging a living where she can find it. When loneliness opens her mind to flux, the ability to alter her vibratory state in the molecular field, she learns to travel to other levels of reality. When...
4) The Lottery
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Every student at Saskatoon Collegiate knew that all the most important aspects of school life were controlled by a secret club called Shadow Council. Each fall, Shadow held a traditional lottery during which a single student's name was drawn. The rest of the student body called the student the lottery winner. But Shadow Council knew better; to them the winner was the lottery victim. Whatever the label, the fated student became the Council's go-fer,...
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
No one knows why she hurt herself, least of all Skey. After five long months in treatment for self-destructive behavior, Skey continues to dream of dark tunnels with mysterious designs carved into their stone walls, a place where she is safe and alone. Then she encounters another dreamer, a boy her own age, dreaming the same dream, wandering the same tunnels. A boy with secrets much like her own. While trying desperately to remember what happened...
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Kelly Paddik is locked up. Sent to a secure facility because she is a “danger to herself,” all Kelly wants is to escape. But she has been running from everybody since her father abused her and her mother stood by and let it happen. It is only when she meets Chris that she begins to realize she is running from herself, and that if she wants control over her own life, she will first have to gain some self-respect.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Sophie is in trouble. She is on probation for stealing and is doing poorly at school. Her mom doesn’t talk to her, and the other adults in her life are pressuring Sophie to talk about her bruises. Sophie worries that if she tells, she will be sent to live in a group home. Her friend Jujube is the only person who knows the truth, and now Jujube, too, wants Sophie to speak up.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
Dime tiene quince años y siempre enfadada. Sus padres no la entienden, y su hermano estaba paralizado por un accidente. Cuando las peleas y acusaciones se vuelven demasiado, Dime va a vivir con su hermano. Pero sus problemas la siguen. Hasta que ella se de cuenta que tiene que empezar a tomar alguna responsabilidad, nada cambiará.
Dime is fifteen and always angry. Her parents don't understand her, and her brother was paralyzed in an accident. When...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
Jujube se entusiasma cuando Brent la invita a salir. Ella no es tan feliz cuando los rumores comienzan a volar en la escuela. Muy pronto su nombre está apareciendo en las paredes del cuarto de baño y todos se ríen maliciosamente y critican. Cuando su madre se involucra, su reputación toma otro giro. Decidiendo que alguien tiene que tomar una posición, Jujube reúne todas las otras chicas que están etiquetadas de putas—y peor—trata de impresionar...
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Jujube is thrilled when Brent asks her out. She is not so happy when the rumors start flying at school. Pretty soon her name is showing up on bathroom walls and everyone is snickering and sniping. When her mother gets involved, Jujube’s reputation takes another hit. Deciding that someone has to take a stand, Jujube gathers all the other girls who are labeled sluts—and worse—and tries to impress on her fellow students the damage that can be done...
11) Hello, Groin
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When Dylan Kowolski agrees to create a display for her high school library, she has no idea of the trouble it's going to cause—for the school principal, her family, her boyfriend Cam and his jock friends and her best friend, Jocelyn. And for Dylan herself. If only her English class had been studying a normal, run-of-the-mill, mundane book like Lord of the Flies instead of Foxfire, things wouldn't have gotten so twisted. Then the world wouldn't have...
12) Before Wings
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Having barely survived a brain aneurysm two years earlier, 15-year-old Adrien, working at her Aunt Erin's summer camp, is caught between the land of the living and the spirit world, unsure where she belongs. As she struggles to understand the message delivered by the spirits of the five young women that only she sees, she learns of the tragic consequences of their connection to her aunt. Faced with the knowledge that another aneurysm could strike...
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