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Chanda's Secrets
A girl's struggle amid the African AIDS pandemic, Chanda, is an astonishingly perceptive girl living in the small city of Bonang, a fictional city in Southern Africa. When her youngest sister dies, the first hint of HIV/AIDS emerges, Chanda must confront undercurrents of shame and stigma. Not afraid to explore the horrific realities of AIDS, Chanda's Secrets also captures the enduring strength of loyalty, friendship and family ties. Above all, it is a story about the corrosive nature of secrets and the healing power of truth.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2005
- ISBN: 9781550378344
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Donorboy
When her lesbian mothers are killed in an accident, 14-year-old Rosalind meets and moves in with her young sperm donor father. With humor and empathy, the author tells a moving story of strangers creating a family.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2005
- ISBN: 9781400062775
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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
When thirteen-year-old Steven's little brother is diagnosed with leukemia, Steven's world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with Jeffrey's illness and his parents' attempts to keep the family in one piece. This story takes the reader on a journey through a year in the life of a family in crisis.
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The Gangsta Rap
When teenage Ray and his two friends, Prem and Tyronne, form a successful rap band in the London's East End where they live, they soon find themselves embroiled in increasingly violent gang warfare.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2005
- ISBN: 9781582348865
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Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
The members of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduate from high school and spend their last summer before college learning about life and themselves.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2005
- ISBN: 9780385729352
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How I Live Now
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2005
- ISBN: 9780385746779
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How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater
In 1983 Wallingford, New Jersey, feckless teenager Edward Zanni is enjoying a carefree summer, until his father remarries and refuses to pay for him to study acting at Juilliard, and joins forces with his loyal misfit friends to assist him in stealing the tuition money from his father while practicing for a high school production of Grease.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2005
- ISBN: 9780767918411
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2005
- ISBN: 9780544022799
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Looking for Alaska
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. -
My Sister's Keeper
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2005, Teens' Top Ten 2005
- ISBN: 9780743454520
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Project X
School is a nightmare for eighth-grader Edwin, who suffers daily indignities and bullying. With his only friend, he plots a terrible revenge. A searing, startlingly real account of one boy's path to violence.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2005
- ISBN: 9781400033485
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
In this vivid and thrilling account, a journalist recounts the adventures of the two deep-sea divers who discover a WWII German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey and become obsessed with uncovering its story.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2005
- ISBN: 9780375508585
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Teen Idol
When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker shows up at a small-town Indiana high school to do research for a movie role, he persuades junior Jenny Greenley to use her considerable talents to try to change things at school for the better.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2005
- ISBN: 9780060096168
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The Truth About Forever
Dessen has given teens a safe haven highlighting the many complexities teens face today. Her voice is authentic and assumes the reader is as intelligent and multi-faceted as her characters. Notably, each of the honored selections is engaging and accessib