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Falcondance

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978-0-440-23885-0

In this suspenseful novel, a falcon shapeshifter journeys back to the homeland his parents have tried their best to forget, and is forced to choose between his duty and his destiny.

         

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

ANN BRASHARES

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Once there was a pair of pants. Just an ordinary pair of jeans. But these pants, the Traveling Pants, went on to do great things. This is the story of the four friends—Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen—who made it possible.

         

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

ANN BRASHARES

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With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood who wears them—Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen—embark on their second summer together.

         

Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

ANN BRASHARES

978-0-553-37593-0

It's the summer before the Sisterhood departs for college…their last real summer together before they head off to start their grown-up lives. It's the time when they need their Pants the most.

         

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

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978-0-385-73401-1

With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. Join the sisterhood once again in a dazzling, fearless novel about a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena, Carmen, Bee, and Tibby, here and now, past and future, together and apart.

         

A Great and Terrible Beauty

LIBBA BRAY

978-0-385-73231-4

Sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle is sent to the Spence Academy in London after tragedy strikes her family in India. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma finds her reception a chilly one. But at Spence, Gemma's power to attract the supernatural unfolds; she becomes entangled with the school's most powerful girls and discovers her mother's connection to a shadowy group called the Order. A curl-up-under-the-covers Victorian gothic.

         

Rebel Angels

LIBBA BRAY

978-0-385-73341-0

Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy—spending time with her friends in the city, attending balls in fancy gowns with plunging necklines, and dallying with the handsome Simon Middleton. Yet amid these distractions, her visions intensify—visions of three girls in white, to whom something horrific has happened that only the realms can explain.

         

Walking Naked

ALYSSA BRUGMAN

978-0-440-23832-4

Megan doesn't know a thing about Perdita, since she would never dream of talking to her. Only when the two girls are thrown together in detention does Megan begin to see Perdita as more than the school outcast. Slowly, Megan finds herself drawn into a challenging almost-friendship.

         

Code Orange

CAROLINE B. COONEY

978-0-385-73260-4

Mitty Blake loves New York City, and even after 9/11, he's always felt safe. Mitty doesn't worry about terrorists or blackouts or grades or anything, which is why he's late getting started on his Advanced Bio report. He considers it good luck when he finds some old medical books in his family's weekend house. But when he discovers an envelope with two scabs in one of the books, his report is no longer about the grade—it's about life and death.

         

I Am the Cheese

ROBERT CORMIER

978-0-375-84039-5

A boy's search for his father becomes a desperate journey to unlock a secret past. But it is a past that must not be remembered if the boy is to survive. Since its publication in 1977, Robert Cormier's taut, suspenseful novel has become a celebrated classic—with chilling implications.

         

Keeper of the Night

KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT

978-0-553-49441-9

Living on the island of Guam, a place lush with memories and tradition, young Isabel struggles to protect her family and cope with growing up after her mother's suicide.

         

Farewell to Manzanar

JEANNE WAKATSUKI HOUSTON and JAMES D. HOUSTON

978-0-553-27258-1

The true story of one spirited Japanese American family's efforts to survive the indignities of forced detention during World War II…and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States.

         

I Am the Wallpaper

MARK PETER HUGHES

978-0-440-42046-0

Thirteen-year-old Floey Packer feels as if she's always blended into the background. After all, she's the frumpy younger sister of the Fabulous Lillian. But when Lillian suddenly gets married and heads off on a monthlong honeymoon, Floey decides it's her time to shine.

         

The Parallel Universe of Liars

KATHLEEN JEFFRIE JOHNSON

978-0-440-23852-2

Surrounded by superficiality, infidelity, and lies, Robin, a self-described chunk, isn't sure what to make of her hunky neighbor's sexual advances, or of the attention paid her by a new boy in town who seems to notice more than her body.

         

Hattie Big Sky

KIRBY LARSON

978-0-440-23941-3

For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie has been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa all by herself to prove up on her late uncle's homestead claim near Vida, Montana. With a stubborn stick-to-itiveness, she faces frost, drought, and blizzards—and despite many hardships, Hattie forges ahead.

         

Girl, 15, Charming but Insane

SUE LIMB

978-0-385-73215-4

With her hilariously active imagination, Jess Jordan has a tendency to complicate her life, but now, as she's finally getting closer to her crush, she's determined to keep things under control. Readers will fall in love with Sue Limb's insanely optimistic heroine.

         

Girl, Nearly 16: Absolute Torture

SUE LIMB

978-0-385-73217-8

Jess has the perfect summer planned: She and Fred, lounging in the park, gazing into each other's eyes and engaging in witty repartee. And then her maddening mum announces a two-week “road trip” to Cornwall to visit Jess's dad. Something Jess might have enjoyed, were it not for the monstrously bad timing. As if all this weren't enough, Jess's mum seems to expect her to weep at the grave of every departed literary hero in Britain's long history. It's absolute torture.

         

Girl, Going on 17: Pants on Fire

SUE LIMB

978-0-385-73219-2

It's never fun when a great summer comes to an end. Particularly when one argues with one's adorable, but grossly insensitive, boyfriend the night before school starts. It's such a terrible fight, Jess doesn't know—are they broken up? When she ends up pantless in her own backyard, Jess is left to ask herself: Where did she go wrong?

         

The Boyfriend List

E. LOCKHART

978-0-385-73207-9

Ruby Oliver is fifteen and has a shrink. She knows it's unusual, but she's had a rough ten days. She's lost her boyfriend, her best friend, and all her other friends; had a panic attack; failed a math test; done something suspicious with a boy; had an argument with a boy; and had graffiti written about her in the girls' bathroom. But Ruby lives to tell the tale (and make more lists).

         

The Boy Book:

A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

E. LOCKHART

978-0-385-73209-3

Here's how things stand at the beginning of newly licensed driver Ruby Oliver's junior year at Tate Prep: Kim—not speaking. But far away in Tokyo. Cricket—not speaking. Nora—speaking, sort of. But by winter break, a new job and entries in The Boy Book help Ruby see that there is life outside the Tate Universe.

         

Gathering Blue

LOIS LOWRY

978-0-385-73256-7

Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously taken to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

         

The Giver

LOIS LOWRY

978-0-385-73255-0

Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices, until Jonas is given an opportunity that will change his world forever.

         

Messenger

LOIS LOWRY

978-0-385-73253-6

Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man known for his special sight. Now something sinister has seeped into Village, and the people have voted to close it to outsiders. Matty must make one last journey and convince Kira, Seer's daughter, to return with him.

         

The Silent Boy

LOIS LOWRY

978-0-440-41980-8

When tragedy strikes a small turn-of-the-century town, only Katy realizes what the gentle, silent boy did for his family. He meant to help, not harm. It didn't turn out that way.

         

Harmony

RITA MURPHY

978-0-440-22923-0

Power is coursing through Harmony—the power to affect the universe with her energy. This is a frightening gift for a girl who has always hated being different, and Harmony must decide whether to hide her abilities or embrace the consequences—good and bad—of her full strength.

         

Holes

LOUIS SACHAR

978-0-440-22859-2

Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake. But there's more than character improvement going on at the camp—the warden is looking for something.

         

Small Steps

LOUIS SACHAR

978-0-385-73315-1

Armpit, a memorable camp mate of Stanley Yelnats's in Louis Sachar's acclaimed
Holes,
takes lessons learned at Camp Green Lake and sets out to turn his life around—one small step at a time.

         

Stargirl

JERRY SPINELLI

978-0-440-41677-7

Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” The students are enchanted. Then they turn on her.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2007 by Barbara Hall

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this work as follows:
Hall, Barbara.

The Noah confessions / Barbara Hall.

p. cm.

Summary: Instead of a car for her sixteenth birthday, Lynnie receives from her father a manuscript in which her deceased mother writes about family secrets, helping Lynnie to understand more about her parents and the complexity of growing up.

[1. Family problems—Fiction. 2. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 3. Mothers—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.H1407No 2007                   [Fic]—dc22                            2006015640

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