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Dairy Queen

Catherine Gilbert Murdock · 275 pages

After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.

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First & Then

Emma Mills · 280 pages

Devon Tennyson wouldn't change a thing. She's happy silently crushing on best friend Cas and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. But the universe has other plans. It delivers Devon's cousin Foster, an unrepentant social outlier with a surprising talent, and the obnoxiously superior and maddeningly attractive jock Ezra right where she doesn't want them -- first into her gym class and

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Done and Dusted

Lyla Sage · 321 pages

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Pepped Up Forever

Ali Dean · 184 pages

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The Deal

Elle Kennedy · 376 pages

The international bestseller! A standalone novel* from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle Kennedy! She’s about to make a deal with the college bad boy… Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she’s carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. If she wants to ge

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Wrecked

Lauren Asher · 584 pages

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I'm With Stupid

Geoff Herbach

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Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

Chris Crutcher · 303 pages

The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie · 256 pages

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

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A Matter of Heart

Amy Fellner Dominy · 313 pages

Sixteen-year-old Abby Lipman is on track to win the state swim championships and qualify for the Olympic trials when a fainting incident at a swim meet leads to the diagnosis of a deadly heart condition. Now Abby is forced to discover who she is without the one thing that's defined her entire life.

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The Running Dream

Wendelin Van Draanen · 336 pages

When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

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Girl Against the Universe

Paula Stokes · 379 pages

Maguire is bad luck. No matter how many charms she buys or good luck rituals she performs, horrible things happen. She spends a lot of time in her room to avoid causing damage. But then she meets Jordy, a talented, lucky, aspiring tennis star. He's convinced he can help Maguire break her unlucky streak; she is convinced the best thing she can do for Jordy is stay away. But it turns out that stayin

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Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Markus Zusak · 213 pages

Partly because of their family's poor finances and partly to prove themselves, brothers Ruben and Cameron take jobs as fighters and find themselves reacting very differently in the boxing ring.

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Catalyst

Laurie Halse Anderson · 232 pages

Meet Kate Malone—straight-A science and math geek, minister's daughter, ace long-distance runner, new girlfriend (to Mitchell "Early Decision Harvard" Pangborn III), unwilling family caretaker, and emotional avoidance champion. Kate manages her life by organizing it as logically as the periodic table. She can handle it all—or so she thinks. Then, things change as suddenly as a string of chemical r

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My Life with the Walter Boys

Ali Novak, Fallzswimmer · 379 pages

Devastated when her parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year old Jackie moves from New York City to Colorado to live with her mother's best friend, who has twelve children, including two boys who start to show an interest in Jackie that goes beyond brotherly. Devastated when her parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year old Jackie moves in with her mother's best friend, who has

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What We Saw

Aaron Hartzler · 328 pages

The story of a town torn apart by the events surrounding the rape of drunk girl at a house party, from the perspective of the partygoers who witnessed it.

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Exit, Pursued by a Bear

E.K. Johnston · 264 pages

At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team--and in the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town, the often awkward reaction of her classmates, the rejection of her boyfriend, the discovery that her best friend, Polly, is gay, and above all the need to remember what happened so that

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Patina

Jason Reynolds · 360 pages

"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--

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Play With Me

Anna Katmore, Piper Shelly · 316 pages

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Bully

Penelope Douglas · 336 pages

My name is Tate. He doesn't call me that, though. He would never refer to me so informally, if he referred to me at all. No, he'll barely even speak to me. But he still won't leave me alone. We were best friends once. Then he turned on me and made it his mission to ruin my life. I've been humiliated, shut out, and gossiped about all through high school. His pranks and rumors got more sadisti

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Stealing Parker

Miranda Kenneally · 258 pages

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Flawless

Elsie Silver · 424 pages

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Squashed

Joan Bauer · 208 pages

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