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Up A Road Slowly

author: Hunt, Irene, Hunt
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1130

Life As We Knew It

author: Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Through journal entries, sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 132
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

Dead Girl Walking

author: Singleton, Linda Joy
When Amber, a smart, middle-class, high school student, is hit by a truck, she meets her deceased grandmother in a dreamlike place, then takes a wrong turn and awakens in the body of a wealthy, beautiful, popular classmate with serious problems.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
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The Lovely Bones

author: Sebold, Alice
This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 107
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890

Marni

author: Bates, Marni
Marni Bates, who suffers from a stress-related disorder called trichotillomania, describes how she discovered the source of her frustration that lead her to want to pull out all her hair, hide her impulse from others, and being confronted about it by others.
920
year: 2009
copies: 6
call number/section: 920
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subjects: bates, marni, teenage girls [X], families, self-mutilation, family life [X], teenagers, girls

Anastasia Has The Answers

author: Lowry, Lois
Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up as her thirteenth year involves her in conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowered uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760

Keeping Faith

author: Daniels, Lucy
When her family is forced to close the stables, Josie Grace knows that she must find a caring home for Faith, the elderly mare who was the stable's first horse.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: horses, teenage girls [X], riding schools, daniels, lucy, family life [X]

The No-so-great Depression

author: Koss, Amy Goldman
Depicts Jacki, a teen-ager, whose life is turned upside down when the depression affects her family.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: teenage girls [X], family life [X], depressions

Perfect You

author: Scott, Elizabeth
Kate Brown is upset when she has to work with her father at the mall and her best friend begins ignoring her.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750

Girls In Tears

author: Wilson, Jacqueline
In the midst of trouble at home, with her best friends, and with her love life, thirteen-year-old Ellie receives an encouraging letter from her favorite illustrator.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: artists, friendship, teenage girls [X], interpersonal relations, england, family life [X]

If I Have A Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?

author: Kantor, Melissa
High school sophomore Lucy Norton's life is turned upside down when her father remarries and moves Lucy to Long Island, where she finds herself trapped in a Cinderella story with a wicked stepmother, two evil stepsisters, and a dashing prince who could make all Lucy's dreams come true.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: teenage girls [X], stepmothers, coming of age, family life [X], teenagers, long island (n.y.), girls

Kicked Out

author: Goobie, Beth
Sixteen-year-old Dime, having difficulty adjusting to her parents' rules, moves in with her older brother and realizes that if she starts believing in herself others will too.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520

Earthgirl

author: Cowan, Jennifer
Sixteen-year-old Sabine Solomon, having been in an altercation with a driver who threw garbage at her, decides to change her life and become a crusader for the environment, but finds her new passion met by resistance from her family and friends and taking a dark turn.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860

Chasing Shadows

author: Avasthi, Swati
Best friends for eleven years, Holly, Savitri, and Holly's twin, Corey, are a unit, freerunning through Chicago as if they were superheroes until a random act of violence takes Corey's life and, as they tell in their separate voices, Holly seeks the murderer and revenge while Sav feels left behind.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630

Token

author: Kwitney, Alisa
Shira, a fifteen-year-old who lives with her grandmother and widowed father in a Miami hotel, picks up shoplifting as a new hobby and is caught by a streetwise boy from Spain who becomes her friend, ally, and possibly more as she wrestles with the hardships of growing up.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

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