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The Loud Silence of Francine Green
by Karen Cushman
Francine Green doesn’t speak up much, and who can blame her? Her parents aren’t interested in her opinions, the nuns at school punish girls who ask too many questions, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities is blacklisting people who express unpopular ideas. There’s safety in silence. Francine would rather lose herself in a book, or in daydreams about her favorite Hollywood stars, than risk attracting... (more)
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My Name Is Not Easy
by Debby Dahl Edwardson
My name is not easy. My name is hard like ocean ice grinding at the shore . . . Luke knows his Inupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. So he leaves it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles away from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School, students Eskimo, Indian, White line up on different sides of the cafeteria like there's some kind of war going on.... (more)
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Unfinished Desires
by Gail Godwin
From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory. It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends... (more)
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Estrella's Quinceañera
by Malin Alegría
For as long as Estrella Alvarez can remember, her mother has beenplanning to throw her an elaborate quinceañera for her fifteenthbirthday -- complete with a mariachi band, cheesy decorations, and ahideous dress. Just thinking about her quince makes Estrella cringe. Buther mother insists that it's tradition. Estrella has other things on her mind, anyway -- like dating Speedy. Doesit matter that her new friends --... (more)
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Leap of Faith
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Abigail is starting a new middle school, a Catholic school, because she’s been expelled from her old one. She’s sure that this place will be just the same as the last, and no one will listen to her here either. Even her parents don’t seem able to really hear the truth about what happened at the previous school. But now she finds herself in a community of people who do listen, who want to be her friends, and... (more)
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The Red Blazer Girls: Book 2
The Vanishing Violin
by Michael D. Beil
When there are mysteries to be solved, the Red Blazer Girls are on the case! The discovery of the Ring of Rocamadour has secured the girls' reputation as Upper East Side super-sleuths, bringing many sundry job requests (no mystery too small, right?) and some unwanted attention from crooks. This time the girls must follow a trail of cryptic clues, involving everything from logic to literature, to trace a rare... (more)
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Pigs or Coffee - A Baby Boomers Guide to How We Got This Far
by George G Zimmerman
A compellation of saterical, comedic vignettes about growing up in the 1950's and 1960's up to and including 2012. The book is promoting the creation of the readers own rememberances as a child and teenager growing up, to memorialize those persons and happenings that shaped the readers life and established our social DNA. The book brings the reader back to a simple life style that was enjoyed fifty plus years ago... (more)
The Loud Silence of Francine GreenKaren Cushman
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This Gorgeous Game
by Donna Freitas
A CHILLING NOVEL ABOUT THE ISOLATION OF BEING STALKED AND THE ABUSE OF POWER. Olivia Peters is over the moon when her literary idol, the celebrated novelist and muchadored local priest Mark D. Brendan, offers to become her personal writing mentor. But when Father Mark’s enthusiasm for Olivia’s prose develops into something more, Olivia’s emotions quickly shift from wonder to confusion to despair. Exactly what... (more)