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1) Going bovine
Author
Language
English
Description
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt- Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
3) Shark girl
Author
Series
Shark girl volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
5) The weirdo
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhaten National Wildlife Refuge.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The polygamous Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too. Now their Prophet has been murdered and their camp set aflame, and it's clear that Minnow knows something -- but she's not talking. As she languishes in juvenile detention, she struggles to un-learn everything she has been taught to believe, adjusting to...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On his way to State University, nineteen-year-old James runs into a former friend and is immersed in memories from the year they were twelve and learned that monsters exist in the world--and within themselves.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
169 pages ; 18-22 cm
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When two lonely teenagers, one the son of a widower rabbi and the other the sister of an autistic twin, are drawn together by a tragic accident, they discover they have more in common than they guessed.
11) White midnight
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While barbarians threaten the land, mysterious visions help guide fifteen-year-old Rose when she is given the chance to free her family from servitude, if only she will provide a wicked old man an heir fathered by his deformed grandson, "the Thing" locked in the attic.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Legally-blind college reporter Mike Mavic hopes to get a story about a body found in Steepleton, believed to be that of long-missing teen Christopher Creed, but finds something odd about the town, including Justin Creed's obsessive drive to learn what really happened to his older brother.
Author
Series
Shark girl volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Surviving a shark attack that cost her an arm, high school senior Jane, an aspiring artist, reevaluates her ambitions and sense of identity while harboring a crush on her attractive tutor and considering a relationship with a boy from her science class.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Angela, distraught over her mother and stepfather's separation, confides in a statue of St. Felix that suddenly seems to come alive, after which she befriends Jesse, a nineteen-year-old disabled veteran, although Felix, her family, and friends warn her to be wary of him.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kara, a high school junior, is popular with a great group of friends, an amazing boyfriend, and expectations of being Homecoming Queen until she leaves a party angry and wakes up in a hospital bed, paralized from the waist down, but as she is forced to adjust to her new physical reality, she also learns that her friends are not who they seemed to be.
Author
Series
Because you'll never meet me volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ollie, who has seizures when near electricity, lives in a backwoods cabin with his mother and rarely sees other people, and Moritz, born with no eyes and a heart defect that requires a pacemaker, is bullied at his high school, but when a physician who knows both suggests they begin corresponding, they form a strong bond that may get them through dark times.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Laureth Peak's father has taught her to look for recurring events, patterns, and numbers, a skill at which she's remarkably talented. Her secret: she is blind. But when her father goes missing, Laureth and her younger brother Benjamin are thrust into a mystery that takes them to New York City. Surviving will take all her skill at spotting the amazing, shocking, and sometimes dangerous connections in a world full of darkness.
19) Leaving Paradise
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-olds Caleb and Maggie relate the difficulties of readjusting to school, and changing relationships with family, friends, and one another, a year after a drunk driving accident sent her to the hospital with a crippling leg injury and him to prison.
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