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1) Gossamer
Author
Language
English
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
2) Lock and key
Author
Language
English
Description
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
6) Split
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A teenaged boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years ago to escape the abuse.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he's got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn't easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can't complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian--the foster brother he hasn't...
8) Keeping 13
Author
Series
Boys of Tommen ; 2
Language
English
Description
"Stripped of his beloved number 13 jersey, Johnny Kavanagh, whose first love was always rugby until a devastating injury, sets his sights on unraveling the mystery of Shannon Lynch, who was traumatized beyond repair after her return to Dublin and haunts his every waking hour"--
9) Bruiser
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
11) Counterfeit son
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Language
English
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Description
When serial killer Hank Miller is killed in a shoot-out with police, his abused son Cameron adopts the identity of one of his father's victims in order to find a better life.
12) Riptide
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While training for a surfing competition to earn a college scholarship, Grace Parker struggles with her feelings toward her best friend Ford Watson and tries to conceal her family's toxic dynamics"--
13) Orbiting Jupiter
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Language
English
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Description
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice." --
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of high school, Johanna finally begins dating the girl she has loved from afar, but Reeve is as much trouble as she claims to be as she and her twin brother damage Johanna's self-esteem, friendships, and already precarious relationship with her sister.
16) Trapped
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Kevin makes a startling discovery that he hides from his abusive foster parents"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club ; 117
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Claudia starts babysitting for a new family, she suspects the father is abusing his children.
18) Bitter melon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the encouragement of one of her teachers, a Chinese American high school senior asserts herself against her demanding, old-school mother and carves out an identity for herself in late 1980s San Francisco.
19) The maestro
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Language
English
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Description
Fleeing from his brutal father, fourteen-year-old Burl arrives at the remote cabin of an eccentric genius who in just one day changes the young man's life forever.
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