Kirsten Potter
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Orphaned at age 16, Hattie Brooks longs for a place where folks will welcome her and become her family. After inheriting her uncle's 320 acre homesteading claim in Montana, Hattie travels from Iowa to make a home for herself and encounters some problems, being unprepared for life on the prairie in the brutal winter of 1918.
2) If I stay
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While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
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An award-winning foreign correspondent who contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners.
5) Fat cat
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Overweight teenager Catherine embarks on a high school science project in which she must emulate the ways of hominins, the earliest ancestors of human beings, by eating an all-natural diet and foregoing technology.
7) Tricks
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Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
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Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on a darker edge ... A white man shoots dead a black boy creating a media frenzy. But could it be that it was self-defense as he claims? A nervous woman tries to escape her husband. He says he loves her, but she's convinced he wants to kill her ... These quietly lethal...
11) Madapple
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A girl who has been brought up in near isolation is thrown into a twisted web of family secrets and religious fundamentalism when her mother dies and \she goes to live with relatives she never knew she had.
12) Major Barbara
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"A play about poverty and society, dramatized in the struggle between a wealthy man and his daughter, Barbara, who works with the Salvation Army."
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Ruby Oliver novels volume 2
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A high school junior continues her quest for relevant data on the male species, while enjoying her freedom as a newly licensed driver and examining her friendship with a clean-living vegetarian classmate.
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Ruby Oliver novels volume 3
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A Seattle sixteen-year-old juggles therapy, running a school bake sale, coping with her performance artist mother, growing distant from an old friend, and conflicting feelings about her ex-boyfriend and potential new boyfriends.
15) Deviant
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Scottish foster teen Abigail goes to live with her newly discovered father and sister in California, where she uncovers a horrifying global plot to control adolescent behavior.