Young Adult - Coming of Age
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A Boy and His Dragon
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Bradley Wallace Murphy just turned thirteen, and life sucks. He doesn’t fit in at school, he is no good at sports, a bully torments him, he is a disappointment to his parents, and his only “friends” are fictional characters on a TV show called “Dark...
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A Part to Play
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"A Part to Play" by Jennifer L Fry is a punchy YA novel. The author doesn’t shy away from dealing head on with difficult issues including bereavement, mental breakdown, uncontrolled anger, emotional insecurity and pressure to conform. Heroine Lucy has recently lost her sister Kate,...
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Abby
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"Abby" by Lisa A. McCombs is a delightful read that is appropriate for teenage girls as well as well as adults. The reader is taken on a journey through the school year by seventh grader Abigail Van Buren Masterdon. Abby, her mother, and little brother...
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Atomic Summer
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It is the summer of 1953 and three high school friends, Faith, Octavia and Bernadette, live in the New York State town of Port Pompeii which was once an active part of the famous Erie canal system. Faith lives with her father and grandfather in...
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Benevolent
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"Benevolent" is a story about the parallel lives of fraternal twins, Gaby and Annie, and their friends Melodie and Mikhail. There is great mystery and magic surrounding them as they grow into adulthood hearing wonderful, fantastical tales of The Queen, The Angel, and Jaden the...
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Beyond a Black Hole
The Skymasters Series, Book 3
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“Beyond a Black Hole” by Dr. Karen Hutchins Pirnot is a highly entertaining and imaginative standalone novel in the “Skymasters” series. Although it works quite nicely as a standalone, it has me wanting very much to read the previous and subsequent episodes. In “Beyond a...
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Blurring the Lines
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In "Blurring the Lines" by Jerry Zehr, we first meet Thomas as he is setting up a meeting with an Los Angeles detective. He is obviously frightened and concerned about his predicament, making the reader wonder how he ended up in this situation and how...
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Butternut Moon
A girl, a Dog and a Ghost: An Appalachian Adventure
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In the same easy, morally upright way that “Little House on the Prairie” and “The Waltons” enchant and delight with their homespun tales of life in simpler times, “Butternut Moon” by Robin L. Ramey invites readers into the refreshingly uncomplicated world of Bitsy, a young...
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Crossing the Line
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Willow Maine has tried many things in her life from ballet to ice skating but she has always quit, causing her mother to call her a quitter. The fact is that Willow has never really had a great relationship with her mother. She actually has...
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Dark of the Moon
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"Dark of the Moon" by Tracy Barrett plumbs the depth of Greek Mythology, re-spinning the story of the Minotaur into a tale for today’s teens. Fifteen-year-old Ariadne is Krete’s moon goddess in training. Sixteen-year-old Theseus, a misfit in the small village of Troizena, discovers that...
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