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  A Dog's Life

  The Autobiography Of A Stray

  by Ann M. Martin

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  The Boy Who Couldn't Die

  by William Sleator

  The "brisk, addictive" thriller, now in paperback! Sleator, a recognized master of sci-fi and horror and a favorite of reluctant readers, is a paperback powerhouse, with more than 600,000 copies of his novels sold in softcover. Here he gives fans a spin on the classic zombie story, following sixteen-year-old Ken as he bargains with a psychic to gain immortality, only to awaken one night with blood-spattered... (more)
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  The Last Universe

  by William Sleator

  Sleator is at his sci-fi best with this quantum thriller, now available in paperback In this gothic, sci-fi thriller from a master storyteller, Susan and her wheelchair-bound brother, Gary, discover a mysterious maze in the vast gardens of their isolated home. Planted by a scientist uncle who disappeared long ago, the maze offers seemingly endless routes and choices. The teenagers discover that each turn they... (more)
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  Flash Point

  by Sneed B. Collard III

  Grade 7-10–High school sophomore Luther, an ex-football player, finds himself at odds with his logger stepfather and his peers as forest fires blaze near Heartwood, MT. A hinted-at incident at last season's play-off celebration soured Luther on sports and the party scene and turned former teammate Warren Juddson into an enemy. Now, Luther works for Kay, a vet who rehabilitates raptors, and his interest in the... (more)
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  Return (Fawcett Juniper)

  by Sonia Levitin

  Fifteen-year-old Desta belongs to a small, isolated mountain community of Ethiopian Jews. She and her brother and sister leave their aunt and uncle and set out on the long and dangerous trip to freedom -- an airlift from the Sudan to Israel, the Promised Land. They travel barefoot, facing hunger, thirst and bandits. "Vivid and compelling...Levitin's tour de force is sensitively written." BOOKLIST. An ALA 1987 Best... (more)
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  Keeping the Moon

  by Sarah Dessen

  Also published as Last Chance, Keeping the Moon is the story of fifteen-year-old Colie is spending the summer with her eccentric Aunt Mira while her mother travels. Formerly chubby and still insecure, Colie has built a shell around herself.It is Sarah Dessen's third novel and was first published in 1999.
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  Ghost Boy

  by Iain Lawrence

  Harold Kline is an albino—an outcast. Folks stare and taunt, calling him Ghost Boy. It’s been that way for all of his 14 years. So when the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it. Full of colorful performers, the circus seems like the answer to Harold’s loneliness. He’s eager to meet the Cannibal King, a sideshow attraction who’s an albino, too. He’s touched that Princess Minikin and the Fossil Man,... (more)
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  Mr. Was

  by Pete Hautman

  This involving tale of destiny, passion, and death takes teenager Jack Lund from the mysterious town of Memory, Minnesota, to the steamy jungle of World War II Guadalcanal to the sterile walls of a secret government asylum--all because of a strange metal door that changes the lives of all who pass over its threshold .
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  Labyrinth

  by John Herman

  Fourteen-year-old Gregory has been experiencing dreams about a boy named Gregor in another world-strange dreams that are so real, he can't tell where his life ends and Gregor's begins! As he tries to come to grips with his father's suicide in this world, the boy Gregor is selected by his school as one of the "Golden Ten" to travel as ambassador to a faraway place called the Mother Country from which no other... (more)