Summary: With a new boyfriend, asthma attacks that come when least expected, and a pesky younger brother, fifteen-year-old Savannah’s summer vacation takes many unexpected twists and turns.
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Posts Tagged ‘Viking’
Breathing, by Cheryl Herbsman
July 24, 2009Alis, by Naomi Rich
July 20, 2009
Summary: Raised within the strict religious confines of the Community of the Book, Alis flees from an arranged marriage to the much older Minister of her town and her life takes a series of unexpected twists before she returns to accept her fate.
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The Morgue and Me, by John Ford
June 30, 2009
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Christopher, who plans to be a spy, learns of a murder cover-up through his summer job as a morgue assistant and teams up with Tina, a gorgeous newspaper reporter, to investigate, despite great danger.
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Introducing Sarah Dessen…
June 24, 2009
Our very own Nicole had the honor of introducing Sarah Dessen at her recent visit to Quail Ridge Books and Music in Raleigh. Ms. Dessen was at QRB on tour with her newest book, Along for the Ride. Yeah Nicole!
Waiting for You, by Susane Colasanti
June 4, 2009
Summary: Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Marisa, who has an anxiety disorder, decides that this is the year she will get what she wants–a boyfriend and a social life–but things do not turn out exactly the way she expects them to.
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Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
April 17, 2009
Summary: When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents’ divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
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Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas
April 11, 2009
Summary: The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action. 352 p., Viking.
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
March 23, 2009
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend’s death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
278 pages, Viking
Response by Paul Volponi
March 11, 2009
Summary: When an African American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood, three boys are charged with a hate crime.
145 pages, Viking
Fancy White Trash by Marjetta Geerling
August 16, 2008
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Abby Savage hopes that her five rules for falling in love will keep her from making the same mistakes as her mother and two older sisters–all unwed mothers who have slept with the same man, among others–while she also tries to help her best friend Cody admit that he is gay, and decide how she really feels about Cody’s older brother, Jackson. 257 p., Viking.
