Big Fat Manifesto
Susan Vaught
Jamie is a senior in high school, fighting for her rights as a very fat girl. And not quietly: she's writing a column every week in the paper with her thoughts and fears and gripes. As her column raises all kinds of questions, so too, must she find her own way in her world, with love popping up in an unexpected place, and satisfaction in her size losing ground to real frustration.
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Big Slick
Eric Luper
In this breakneck-paced novel about gambling and growing up, the stakes are high, and 16-year-old Andrew Lang must ask himself: What does going all in really mean?
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Don't Call Me Ishmael
Michael Gerard Bauer
Ninth-grader Ishmael Leseur knows it won't be long before his lame name makes him a target. But all that changes when James Scobie arrives. Now nothing will stop James and Ishmael in the toughest, weirdest, most embarrassingly awful . . . and the best year of their lives.
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Fake Boyfriend
Kate Brian
The author of the wildly popular Private
series returns with this novel about two girls who try to get their best friend out of her revolving-door relationship with her no-good boyfriend by creating the perfect candidate on MySpace.
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When the Black Girl Sings
Bil Wright
Lahni Schuler is African-American, and both of her adoptive parents are white. When she finds out her parents are separating, Lahni finds solace singing in a church choir. The sense of belonging she finds in the choir gives Lahni the confidence to compete in her school's vocal competition.
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