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Bibliography: Nadin, Joanna. (2011). Wonderland.  Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.  ISBN: 978-0763648466 Plot Summary:  Sixteen year old Jude longs to escape from her small town life; her place on the fringe, the ghost of her dead mother.  She dreams about theater and prestigious drama school, but lacks courage to try out–if she fails, what else is [...]

Bibliography: Nichols, Lee.  (2010).  Deception: A Haunting Emma Novel.  New York: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books ISBN: 978-1599903088 Plot Summary:  Seventeen year old Emma Vaile is living every teenager’s dream–her parents gone on a trip, her older brother away, she can do whatever she wants.  Except she worries about her family, is ignored by her best [...]

Bibliography: Gill, David Macinnis. (August 2010). Black Hole Sun. New York: Greenwillow Books. ISBN: 978-0061673047 Plot Summary:  Durango is the chief of a small band of mercenaries who live by their own code of behavior on dystopian Mars.  Joining Durango to defend a community of miners from the cannabalistic Draeu are second in command Vienne, [...]