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"It's the summer of 1972, and Kansas wheat fields are baking under the relentless sun. Teenagers are celebrating the first taste of freedom as they line their pockets with newly printed driver's licenses and long-awaited paychecks. Days off are spent at the town's only lake, nights under the yellow lights of the drive-in restaurant. But Billy Tupper's life is a far cry from that of other teenagers. One mistake too many lands him in front of a judge...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Even though he likes helping people, Jake, who avoids kids his own age, mirrors and food, must help himself when the destructive voices inside get to be too much, in this raw and transformative novel-in-verse about managing and articulating pain, and embracing self-acceptance, support and love.
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Forever desert volume 2
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Young Osi grew up believing that his City of Truth was the last bastion of civilization holding back the ravening hordes of the Aleke and that his father was a hero for falling in the city's defense. But his first journey into the desert shows him the lies at his city's heart and the truth of his enemies. When his journey comes full circle, Osi is beaten, broken, and reformed, and finally learns the lesson that the Forever Desert has been attempting...
84) On the island
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Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Stranded on an uninhabited island after their private plane crashes, thirty-year-old Anna Emerson and sixteen-year-old T.J. Callahan, her tutee, struggle to survive and, as the months pass, slowly fall in love.
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