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Bibliography: Pearce, Jackson. (2011). Sweetly. New York: Little Brown Young Readers. ISBN: 978-0316068659 Plot Summary:  As a child, Gretchen all but watched as her twin sister was taken by a witch in the woods.  Brother Ansel could do nothing either.  They kept waiting for the witch to return for them.  Many years later,  their stepmother kicked [...]

Bibliography: Coben, Harlan. (1998). One False Move.  New York:  ISBN: 0385323697 Plot Summary: Basketball star Brenda Slaughter is as beautiful as she is tough.  Twenty years ago, Brenda’s mother disappeared, and just as she is set to join the women’s pro basketball scene, her father disappears too. She reluctantly agrees to accept sports agent Myron Bolitar’s [...]

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. [...]

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