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  Before I Die

  by Jenny Downham

  Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of ‘normal’ life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa’s feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her... (more)
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  Ways to Live Forever

  by Sally Nicholls

  1. My name is Sam. 2. I am eleven years old. 3. I collect stories and fantastic facts. 4. I have leukemia. 5. By the time you read this, I will probably be dead. Living through the final stages of leukemia, Sam collects stories, questions, lists, and pictures that create a profoundly moving portrait of how a boy lives when he knows his time is almost up.
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  Hit and Run

  by Lurlene McDaniel

  If no one meant for it to happen, should someone be guilty? Analise : She knows the roads and feels secure riding her bike. Laurie : When asked out by Quin, Laurie is happy. Then his car hits something. Later, Laurie realizes there is a way to get Quin to date her. Quin : Because Quin is athletically gifted, his father expects him to get a scholarship. Nothing is to get in his way of college, athletics,... (more)
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  Hitler's Daughter

  by Jackie French

  Her name was Heidi, and she was Hitler's daughter. It began on a rainy morning in Australia, as part of a game played by Mark and his friends. It was a storytelling game, and the four friends took turns weaving tales about fairies and mermaids and horses. But Anna's story was different this time: It was not a fairy tale or an adventure story. The story was about a young girl who lived during World War II. Her... (more)
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  Private Peaceful

  by Michael Morpurgo

  As the enemy lurks in the darkness, Thomas struggles to stay awake through the night. He has lived through the terror of gas attacks and watched friends die by his side. But in the morning, Thomas will be forced to confront an even greater horror. As the minutes tick by, Thomas remembers his childhood spent deep in the countryside with his mother, his brothers, and Molly, the love of his life. But each... (more)
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  I Am David

  by Anne Holm

  David a twelve-year old, knows nothing more than his depressing, thoughtless life in a concentration camp. When given the chance to escape by "the man" David accepts this opportunity and makes his way over the walls. Finally free, David takes on a whole new challenge, struggling to defend and protect his freedom. He will face things he has never known before, happiness, hope, love. In Holm's instant classic, this... (more)
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  Where the Red Fern Grows

  The Story of Two Dogs and A Boy

  by Wilson Rawls

  First published in 1961, a modern-day classic for children follows the friendship between a boy and his two dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann, as they search out adventure along the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country, hunting for coons. But all they know will soon change...
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  My Sister's Keeper

  by Jodi Picoult

  New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her... (more)
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  Marly's Ghost

  by David Levithan

  Ben is dealing with just about the hardest thing you can think of. His girlfriend Marly has died. A life that was once filled with love and vibrancy is now gray and meaningless. When Marly and several other ghosts come back to haunt him on Valentine’s Day, Ben takes a painful journey through Valentine’s Days past, present, and future, and is forced to acknowledge that his current state of agony is not only... (more)
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  Once, Then, Now & After: Book 2

  Then

  by Morris Gleitzman

  Felix and Zelda have escaped the train to the death camp, but where do they go now? They're two runaway kids in Nazi-occupied Poland. Danger lies at every turn of the road.   With the help of a woman named Genia and their active imaginations, Felix and Zelda find a new home and begin to heal, forming a new family together. But can it last?   Morris Gleitzman's winning characters will tug at readers' hearts as... (more)
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  Waiting for Anya

  by Michael Morpurgo

  Jo places his life in danger when he helps protect a growing number of Jewish children who have sought refuge at a reclusive widow's farm.
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  Briar Rose

  by Jane Yolen

  A powerful retelling of Sleeping Beauty that is “heartbreaking and heartwarming.” An American Library Association “100 Best Books for Teens” An American Library Association “Best Books for Young Adults” Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma’s stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother will lead her on a remarkable journey to uncover... (more)
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  Alice 19th: Book 1

  Lotis Master

  by Yuu Watase

  Alice Seno seems like a normal girl in high school. She's a bit shy, she has a crush on a boy name Kyo, and she has a pretty older sister, Mayura, who is more popular than she is - especially with Kyou. Pretty normal stuff, until one day when, walking down the street, Alice hears strange voices instructing her to save a rabbit from being run over by a car. Alice's brave act almost costs her life, but the handsome... (more)
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  The Dancing Bear (Young Lion Storybook S.)

  by Michael Morpurgo

  A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by a master storyteller. High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village -- safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear!
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  Anna Karenina

  by Leo Tolstoy

  Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина; Russian pronunciation: <ˈanə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə>) (sometimes Anglicised as Anna Karenin) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment; therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in... (more)
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  The Lovely Bones

  by Alice Sebold

  My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer. This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their... (more)
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  The Book Thief

  by Markus Zusak

  Set during World War II in Nazi Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing something she can’t resist–-books. With the help of her best friend Rudy, she learns to live on Himmel Street after her brother dies on the train-ride there. She learns to read thanks to her... (more)
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  A Walk to Remember

  by Nicholas Sparks

  In the prologue to his latest novel, Nicholas Sparks makes the rather presumptuous pledge "first you will smile, and then you will cry," but sure enough, he delivers the goods. With his calculated ability to throw your heart around like a yo-yo (try out his earlier Message in the Bottle or The Notebook if you really want to stick it to yourself), Sparks pulls us back to the perfect innocence of a first love.In... (more)
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  Dave Pelzer's Memoirs: Book 2

  The Lost Boy

  A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

  by Dave J. Pelzer

  The boy lost out as the most important book on the dedication and affection only to social services and foster families provide to our children at risk. Dave Pelzer is certainly a living testament to persistence, personal responsibility and the triumph of human spirit. " John Bradshaw, author of the successes editorials, Bradshaw On: The Family, Homecoming and Family Secrets Imagine a boy who never had a home. His... (more)
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  Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924

  by Philip Mansel

  Mansel's sweeping narrative of the last five centuries of Constantinople reinterprets the history of the Ottoman Empire and provides an enthralling biography of "the city of the world's desire". "This is a work for the general reader which will also earn the admiration of all academic specialists in Ottoman history".--Sunday Telegraph (London) of photos.