Joan Bauer
1) Soar
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Language
English
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Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
4) Almost home
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English
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Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
6) Tell me
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English
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Feeling scared and powerless when her father's anger escalates and her parents separate, twelve-year-old Anna spends the summer with her grandmother and decides to make a difference when she sees what seems to be a girl held against her will.
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father. Jenna Boller is the confident, smart, & moral heroine of this novel that deals with the effects of alcoholism on a family & a girl's growing friendship with a wealthy,...
9) Peeled
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.
10) Backwater
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Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.
11) Stand tall
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
12) Squashed
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Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As sixteen-year-old Ellie pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own.