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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: 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: 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. [...]

Bibliography:  Scott, Michael. (2009).  The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel: The Sorceress.  New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers.  ISBN: 978-0385735292 (hc) 978-0385735308 (pb) Plot Summary:  Leaving a destroyed Paris behind them, Nicholas takes the twins Josh and Sophie (and the pages of the codex) to London, dangerous territory of Dr. John Dee, in hopes of finding Gilgamesh the King [...]

Bibliography: Godbersen, Anna. (2010). Bright Young Things. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN: 978-0061962660 Plot Summary:  Cordelia and Letty escape Union, Ohio after Cordelia’s forced wedding to the streets of New York City.  Letty longs to see her name in lights and Cordelia is searching for the father she has never known.  After a falling out, they part [...]

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