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Bibliography:  Goode, Laura. (2011).  Sister Mischief. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.  ISBN: 978-0763646400 Plot Summary:  Esme may be the only white Jewish lesbian teen in her Minneapolis suburb, but she has found her place with her 3 best friends performing in Sister Mischief, laying down hip hop beats and rhymes.  The girls decide to protest when the school [...]

Bibliography: Watkins, Steve. (2011).  What Comes After.  Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN: 978-0763642501 Plot Summary:  When her veterinarian dad dies, 16 year old Iris goes to live with her Aunt Sue and Cousin Book  she has never really met.  They don’t understand Iris, a vegetarian and animal lover.  When Iris sets two baby goats free to prevent their [...]

Bibliography: Smith, Andrew.  (2010). The Marbury Lens.  New York:  Feiwel and Friends.  ISBN: 978-0312613426 Plot Summary:  Coming home from a party, Jack is kidnapped by a predator.  He manages to escape telling  no one except his best friend, Connor.  Later when Connor and Jack stumble across the same man, he ends up dead.  Travelling to England [...]

Bibliography: Carey, Mike. (2007).  The Devil You Know.  New York: Grand Central Publishing.  ISBN: 978-0446580304 (hc) 978-0446618700 (pb) Plot Summary: Felix “Fix” Castor is trying to quit–the exorcism trade that is.  He agrees to take one last case at the Bonnington Archive in London.  Seems like it should be straight forward enough, but he should have learned [...]

Bibliography: Alexander, Jill S. (2011).  Paradise.  New York: Feiwel and Friends. ISBN: 978-0312605414 Plot Summary:  Paisley lives to play the drums, and sneaks away every day after school to play with a country rock band in her uncle’s airplane hangar.  They have hopes of playing in Austin at Texaspolooza and getting out of their small town. [...]

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