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In 1870s Arkansas, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross persuades U.S. Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn to ride into Indian Territory and help her capture the gang of outlaws who murdered her father.

Miaka Y?ki, a normal junior high student from Tokyo, begins reading a book set in ancient China and suddenly finds herself not in the library, but in the book itself, transformed into the priestess of the god Suzaku and sent on a quest to find her seven Celestial-Warrior protectors, with whom she does not always get along.

Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for Lily like a mother for ten years, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina, at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.

Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love.

"Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets.

"Intertwines the stories of a defiant Renaissance painter and a modern teenage girl .

"Kansas, 2065: Adri has been handpicked to live on Mars. But weeks before launch, she discovers the journal of a girl who lived in her house more than a hundred years ago and is immediately drawn into the mystery surrounding her fate.

"Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor"--OCLC.

"Newbery Medal-winning author of 'Bridge to Terebithia' follows a young Cuban teenager as she volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read.

"Manon Wouters grew-up in the idyllic Belgian city of Damme, where she spent her afternoons cycling into beautiful Bruges to study nursing.

"A class project opens a girl's eyes to the issues surrounding U.

"In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant"--Provided by publisher.

"In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high.

"Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11"--OCLC.

"Now: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine.