The Comeback Season
Jennifer E. Smith
High School freshman Ryan Walsh, a Chicago Cubs fan, meets Nick when they both skip school on opening day. When she discovers that Nick is seriously ill, she again feels the pain of losing her father five years earlier.
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The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
Deb Caletti
Eighteen-year-old Indigo Skye is looking forward to becoming a full-time waitress after graduation, until a mysterious man at the restaurant leaves her a 2.5 million-dollar tip.
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A Little Friendly Advice
Vivian Siobhan
Ruby's turning 16, but her long-lost father shows up, and Ruby doesn't want to have anything to do with him. Instead, she wants to hang out with her three best friends, who have plenty of advice for her--about boys, her dad, how she should look, and what she should be feeling.
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Sunrise Over Fallujah
Walter Dean Myers
A two-time Newbery Honor-winning author looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam War with his classic, Fallen Angels.
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The White Darkness
Geraldine McCaughrean
Sym is not your average teenage girl. She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic figure of Captain Oates from Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole. But Sym's uncle Victor is even more obsessed--and when he takes her on a dream trip into the bleak Antarctic wilderness, it turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival.
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