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81) Amalia
Author
Series
California diaries volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
With a unique diary page design, the "California Diaries" series is an intimate look at preteen life in the '90's. Amalia Vargas is the new girl in school, and she's fitting right in. With a new group of friends, living by a new set of rules, Amalia's life is spinning in a whole new direction- especially when her boyfriend won't let her break up with him.
82) Ninth house
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"Galaxy 'Alex' Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Preparing for the birth of an unexpected baby, forty-one-year-old Santa Fe newlywed Glory Vigil spends time with her adopted college-age daughter, Juniper, who has fallen in love and who is haunted by memories of a sister who disappeared years earlier.
84) School's out
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In this brilliant and surreal French thriller, a teacher commits suicide and a colleague takes over his class of strangely unsettling children. A novel that skates close to fantasy, it is also chillingly observant about society and the children it produces.
85) Water, carry me
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The author who made an impressive literary debut with "The Man in the Box" pens this breathtaking love story of a young woman's journey from innocence to betrayal, across the vivid brightness and darkness that is the heartbreaking landscape of her beloved Ireland.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A music student working in Prague cataloging Beethoven's manuscripts discovers clues that her deceased mentor may not have committed suicide and becomes involved with a time-travel drug, a 400-year-old dwarf, a handsome Prince and a powerful U.S. senator.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A mystery set in Yale, mixing murder and philosophy. It begins when someone steals Zach Blumberg's dissertation on an obscure nihilistic French philosopher. When another student reports a similar problem and is killed, Zach realizes the foul play is more than academic. A debut in fiction.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A homosexual romance in Massachusetts between two students, one upper-class black, the other working-class Irish-Italian. It is told against the background of racial disturbances after a white girl is murdered. A first novel.
89) Second helpings
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
90) Ducky
Author
Series
California diaries volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Ducky McCrae not only has to figure out where he fits in at school, but he also must figure out the right way to help his severely depressed friend Alex. Ducky's best friends used to be Jay and Alex, but now he's not so sure. Jay is a slave to coolness, and he and Alex are taking paths that Ducky doesn't want to follow.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"T. Lily Decker is a high school senior with a twelve-year plan: avoid stress, drugs, alcohol and boyfriends, and take regular psych quizzes administered by her best friend, Sawyer, to make sure she's not developing schizophrenia. Genetics are not on Lily's side. When she was seven, her mother, who had paranoid schizophrenia, tried to kill her. And a secret has revealed that Lily's odds are even worse than she thought. Still, there's a chance to avoid...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When a professor at Ellsford College dies and students start disappearing, Sammy Greene, a college radio talk-show host, starts to look for the truth behind these events and ends up getting deeper and deeper into a dangerous situation.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who's never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Breakfast Club meets We Are the Ants in this timely story for a generation of young activists. If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you do? This is the question that haunts Amina as she watches new and horrible stories of discord and crisis flash across the news every day. But when she starts at prestigious Gardner Academy, Amina finds a group of like-minded peers to join forces with-fast friends who dedicate their year...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sahara, a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who feels like an all-around failure, finds hope, answers, and unexpected redemption when she sets out to find the truth about The Unfortunates--the unlucky subset of black undergrads who have been mysteriously disappearing.
Sahara is Not Okay. Entering her sophomore year at Elite University, she feels like a failure: her body is too curvy, her love life is nonexistent, her family is disappointed in...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A relationship develops between fiercely independent bartending college student Camille "Cami" Camlin and Big-Man-On-Campus- turned-tattoo-parlor-employee Trenton Maddox.
Tending bar at The Red Door, Cami doesn't have time for much besides work and classes. On her first weekend off in almost a year, she's sitting alone at a table at The Red when Trenton walks in. He left campus after an accident left him with crushing guilt, and now lives at home...
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