Kaplow, Robert.
Summary: "This is the story of one week in my life. I was seventeen. It was the week I slept in Orson Welles's pajamas. It was the week I fell in love. and it was the week I changed my middle name twice"--Quotation from back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAPProse, Francine
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROBanks, Russell
Summary: When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANBlume, Judy.
Summary: Unable to accept or explain his family's newly acquired wealth, his growing interest in sex, and a friend's shoplifting habit, a thirteen-year-old finds the pains in his stomach getting worse and worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1971
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLUShriver, Lionel.
Summary: Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2003
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Summary: Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition for teen chefs--in memory of his mom, and to bring much-needed publicity to his aunt's struggling Chinese takeout in Brooklyn. Enter Theo Somers: charming, wealthy, with a smile that makes Dylan's stomach do backflips. AKA a distraction. Their worlds are sun-and-moon apart, but Theo keeps showing up. He even convinces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Underlined 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NEVImperioli, Michael
Summary: After the loss of both his father and grandfather, sixteen-year-old Matthew moves from Queens to Manhattan with his mother. There he learns to navigate a new school, a new neighborhood and a neighbor upstairs, Lou Reed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IMPKing, Stephen
Summary: Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself, and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and his aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: Southern Appalachia. He was born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Damon braves the perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Zadoorian, Michael
Summary: "Danny Yzemski is a husky, pop radio-loving loner balancing a dysfunctional homelife with the sudden harsh realities of freshman year at a high school marked by racial turbulence."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Zadoorian 2018McCarthy, Cormac
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION MCCEdwards, Louis
Summary: "The Whiting Award-winning author makes his long-awaited comeback with this epic tale, spanning from the Deep South to the Middle East, that bridges four countries, two cultures, and three families who struggle to love and survive in the face of war, natural disasters, and other calamities beyond their control. Ramadan Ramsey is the improbable love story between Alicia Ramsey, a ninth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWWittenborn, Dirk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WITWolff, Tobias
Summary: A young man at a prestigious, literary New England preparatory school who has spent his entire time there hiding his real self in order to fit in finds his facade and his world falling apart during his senior year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLAcito, Marc
Summary: It's 1983, and 17-year-old Edward Zanni wants to study acting at Juilliard, but his newly remarried father--who earns too much for Edward to claim scholarship money--refuses to pay. So, Edward enlists the aid of his creative theater pals to swindle the money from his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACIBraff, Joshua
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KINKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 0000