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1) Dreamland
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After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
2) Paper hearts
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Felicity, seventeen, has struggled to meet her mother's expectations since her older sister disappeared but when she connects with Alec Williams, a member of the band Heartbreakers, at a charity ball, she begins to consider what will make her truly happy. After uncovering a shocking family secret, Felicity begins a road trip to find her sister.
3) Altered
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Altered series volume 1
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Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Branch, along with the four teen boys the Branch had been experimenting on, as they try to make sense of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.
4) Family
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In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.
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Cade, seventeen, yearns to leave the border town of Tanner, Texas, and when a mysterious girl appears, broken and bleeding, on his family farm the two begin to plan their escape, unaware that a cartel boss wants the girl back.--
Cade yearns to leave the border town of Tanner, Texas. When a mysterious girl appears, broken and bleeding, on his family farm, the two begin to plan their escape. Cade is unaware of Jane Doe's past filled with drugs and...
8) Belle epoque
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Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, a plain, impoverished girl in Belle Epoque Paris, is hired by Countess Dubern to make her headstrong daughter, Isabelle, look more beautiful by comparison but soon Maude is enmeshed in a tangle of love, friendship, and deception.
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"Getting into bed with the wrong guy can get you killed. Wanting to free herself from her boyfriend, aging gangster ?Maddog? Palmieri, Bobbi Ricci concocts a misguided plan with Denny, Maddog?s ex-driver, a guy who?s bent on getting even with the gangster for the humiliating way in which he was sacked. Helping themselves to the gangster?s secret money stash, along with his Cadillac, Bobbi and Denny slip out of town, expecting to lay low for a while...
12) Beholding Bee
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In 1942, when life turns sour at the carnival that has always been her home, eleven-year-old Bee takes her dog, Peabody, and piglet, Cordelia, and sets out to find a real home, aided by two women only Bee and her pets can see.
14) A dog for life
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When John, who has a special ability to communicate with animals, finds that his dog, Mouse is scheduled to go to the pound, he and Mouse decide to run away and find his uncle who may be able to help them.
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Convinced he should have died in the accident that killed his parents and sister, sixteen-year-old Drew lives in a hospital, hiding from employees and his past, until Rusty, set on fire for being gay, turns his life around. Includes excerpts from the superhero comic Drew creates.
19) A hundred horses
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Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.