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Between Sundays
by Karen Kingsbury

Football season becomes a time of realization that life's most important victories are won off the field. A star running back with much to learn, a younger player with much to give, and a woman with a heart for underprivileged kids?thrown together into a time of self-discovery and a new awareness of the things that matter most. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Black Box : A Novel
by Julie Schumacher

When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.

The Disappeared
by Gloria Whelan

Silvia tries to save her brother, Eduardo, after he is captured by the military government in 1970s Argentina.

Generation Dead
by Daniel Waters

When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.

The Hollow
by Jessica Verday

High-school junior Abbey struggles with the loss of her best friend Kristen, who vanished on a legendary bridge, but her grief is eased by Caspian, an attractive and mysterious stranger she meets in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery.

The Pluto Project
by Melissa Glenn Haber

Alan and his friends like to eavesdrop on other people's conversations. When they hear a sinister plan unfolding, their worlds start to spin out of control.

The wicked history of the world : history with the nasty bits left in!
by Terry Deary and Martin Brown

An illustrated, humorous introduction to world history with a emphasis on violence and villains.

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