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81) Keep holding on
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Bullied at school and neglected by her poor, self-absorbed, single mother at home, high school junior Noelle finally reaches the breaking point after a classmate commits suicide.
83) Scrawl: a novel
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When eighth-grade school bully Tod and his friends get caught committing a crime on school property, his penalty--staying after school and writing in a journal under the eye of the school guidance counsellor--reveals aspects of himself that he prefers to keep hidden.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
When he stumbles upon Ricky, a young Navajo man, beaten and dying in the newly fallen snow, part-time history professor Ben Bailey questions everything in his life, including his relationship with his fiancée Sara, and decides to discover the truth about Ricky's death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Examines the problems that come with being excessively dissatisfied with one's own body, and offers advice for establishing a healthy body image and improving self-esteem without taking extreme cosmetic and nutritional measures.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Rebecca "Rebel" Blue, a loner rebel and budding artist, reluctantly completes the bucket list of Kennedy Green, an over-committed do-gooder classmate who dies in a car accident following a stint in detention where both girls were forced to consider their morality and write bucket lists.
88) Deadline
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
89) Sophie's trophy
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Sophie the toad wishes she were as good looking as her brother, but she discovers that her talent lies in singing. Includes Spanish vocabulary.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the not-to-distant future, where biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After graduating from high school, class valedictorian Julia travels to Poultney, Vermont, to visit her older sister, and while she is there she learns about long-held family secrets that have shaped her into the person she has grown up to be.
93) Ten
Author
Series
Winnie years volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Winnie's celebrates her unique style through her first year with a double-digit age as she has many new experiences, from the high of spending time in New York City with her aunt and big sister, to the low of her two best friends suddenly becoming interested in boys.
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
About an ordinary extraordinary eleven-year-old trying to win back her best friend and get her mother to stop sighing. Cricket Karlsson is going to become an artist just like her aunt, who loves cheese and art and always speaks her mind. Not like Cricket's mother, who is dieting and sighs at everything. But now Aunt Frannie has lost her joy and Cricket's best friend has dumped her for the horse girls.
95) What I lost
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Elizabeth is sent to the Wallingfield Psychiatric Facility's Residential Treatment Center, she encounters girls whose problems seem much greater than her own anorexia.
96) Starfish
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From early childhood boys often feel pressured to be athletic and muscular. But what impact does this have on physical and mental well-being through their teens and beyond? Worryingly, a third of teen boys are trying to 'bulk up' due to body dissatisfaction, and boys and men account for 25% of eating disorder cases. What can we tell our boys to help them feel happy and confident simply being themselves? Being You has the answers! It's an easy-to-read,...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Three close friends start down the path of self-discovery and begin to find their own voices. When the twin brother of one of the friends dies in a childish prank, they come together to grapple with feelings of revenge, learn the burden of grief, and to experience the changes of growing up.
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