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Clark, Catherine
Wish You Were Here
On a free-wheeling bus tour of the West with assorted family members, senior citizens galore, and one boy her age, sixteen-year-old Ariel writes postcards to her maybe-boyfriend and others while trying to cope with the effects of her parents' divorce.
212 p. 2008
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Cody, Diablo
Juno : the Shooting Script
Presents a script of the film, along with photographs, complete cast and crew credits, and a foreword by the director.
112 p. 2007
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Coy, John
Box Out
High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing teamwide participation.
276 p. 2008
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Crocker, Nancy
Billie Standish Was Here
When the river jeopardizes the levee and most of the town leaves, Miss Lydia, an elderly neighbor, and Billie form a friendship that withstands tragedy and time.
281 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
 Minnesota Book Awards
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Cumbie, Patricia
Where People Like Us Live
In 1978, when her restless father moves the family to Racine, Wisconsin, fourteen-year-old Libby quickly becomes friends with neighbor Angie, but there is something strange about Angie's stepfather and when Libby learns the truth, she must make a very difficult choice.
210 p. 2008
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Dines, Carol
The Queen's Soprano
Seventeen year-old Angelica Voglia lives in seventeenth-century Rome and has the voice of an angel, but because the pope forbids women to sing in public, she must escape to Queen Christina's palace to become a court singer.
318 p. 2006
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Downing, Erin
Drive Me Crazy
Rising high school senior Kate has dreamed of the road trip with best friends Alexis and Sierra from New Jersey to Love, Wisconsin, that will reunite her with the boy she kissed the previous summer, but Alexis' irritating cousin Adam tags along, threatening to spoil everything.
210 p. 2009
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Durbin, William
The Winter War : a Novel
When Russian troops invade Finland during the winter of 1939-40, Marko, a young polio victim determined to keep his homeland free, joins the Finnish Army as a messenger boy.
231 p. 2008
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Friesen, Jonathan
Jerk California
Plagued by Tourette's syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man in his small Minnesota town who sends him on a road trip designed to help him discover the truth about his life.
327 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Schneider Family Book Award
Schneider Family Book Award for Older Readers
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Gaiman, Neil.
Batman. Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? : with other Tales of the Dark Knight
A man doesn't live forever-- a legend does. From the moment he declared war on crime, the Batman knew his story would eventually come to an end. But for each soul he has touched, either as an ally or an enemy, a lover or a friend, an inspiration or an obsession, the life of the Dark Knight-- and its tragic conclusion-- is viewed differently. Now those closest to the Caped Crusader gather for his memorial service. Stories are told, feelings are revealed and tears are shed in a final retrospective of Batman's long and astonishing career. And for those of you who think you know the Dark Knight, prepare to find out you never did--Dust jacket flap.
1 v. (unpaged) 2009
Appears on the following book lists:
Graphic Novels: Superheroes
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Hautman, Pete
How to Steal a Car
2009
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Hokenson, Terry
The Winter Road
Seventeen-year-old Willa, still grieving over the death of her older brother and the neglect of her father, decides to fly a small plane to fetch her mother from Northern Ontario, but when the plane crashes she is all alone in the snowy wilderness.
175 p. 2006
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Jones, Patrick, 1961-
The Tear Collector
2009
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LaRochelle, David
Absolutely Positively Not
Chronicles a teenage boy's humorous attempts to fit in at his Minnesota high school by becoming a macho, girl-loving, Playboy pinup-displaying heterosexual.
219 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
GLBTQ
Rainbow Project
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Malloy, Brian
Twelve Long Months
From the end of her senior year at Minnesota's Le Seur High School through her first year as a physics major at Columbia University, Molly Swain finds the inner strength and good friends to help her cope with huge challenges, including learning that the boy she loves is gay.
316 p. 2008
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GLBTQ
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Qualey, Marsha
Just Like That
A tragic accident ending with the death of two people her own age changes life forever for an eighteen-year-old woman.
233 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
My So-Called Life
Minnesota Book Awards
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Schumacher, Julie
Black Box
When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.
168 p. 2008
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Ursu, Anne.
The Immortal Fire
As Philonecron plots to destroy the gods, transform the Underworld, destroy humanity, and remodel Olympus, Mr. Metos takes thirteen-year-old cousins Charlotte and Zee to join the Prometheans, who have an age-old weapon that may help protect them.
xiv, 514 p. 2009
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Weaver, Will
Saturday Night Dirt
In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable, Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.
163 p. 2008
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Quick and Easy
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Wrede, Patricia C.
The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After : Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the Realm
In 1828, English cousins Cecelia and Kate and their husbands search for a missing German railway engineer and with the help of their wizardry skills, uncover a plot that could endanger the unity of England.
328 pages , 2006
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