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In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
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During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences.
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Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
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From New York Times best-selling authors Michael I. Bennett, MD and Sarah Bennett--a book for teens that shows readers that we all deal with crap in our lives and how to laugh at some of the things we can't control. Being a teenager can suck. Your friends can become enemies, and your enemies can become friends. Your family can drive you crazy. School and teachers can be a drag. Your body is constantly changing. And everyone seems to tell you to just...
9) Trust me
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Emma would like to help her best friend Jordan win the debate finals against rival Camden High, but when Emma learns information about Camden's strategy from her boyfriend Darius, she must decide whether to help her friend or keep her boyfriend's trust.
10) Tangled
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The lives of four very different teenagers become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined after a short stay at a Caribbean resort.
11) Friend or foe?
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After promising to vote for his friend, Cory, for class president, Jazz decides he would like to run himself. Will he turn out to be Cory's friend or foe?
13) The game
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At the end of a high-school basketball game, Marcus messes up, but his best friend Taj makes the game-winning shot. Marcus gets a chance to relive the day. Will he be happy with the new outcome?
14) Broken promise
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Forced to choose between his friend and his dad, Josh breaks a promise made to his dad when he drives two friends to a dance.
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"Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker, and writer Alexi Pappas shares the touchstone moments in her life that helped her learn about confidence and self-reliance, compassion and forgiveness, and loss and hope. Adapted for young readers from Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas (The Dial Press; 2021)"--