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81) Starfish
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Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
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Penny and Tate have often clashed, despite their mothers' epic friendship; but now that they are living in the same house, beset by medical crises and Penny's problems dealing with the trauma of her father's death, they have to come to terms with their true feelings for each other.
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The three Babcock sisters and their mother spend a lot of time at a Mexican clinic across the border from their San Diego home. There the mother is receiving alternative treatments for her leukemia. Vanessa, the middle child and a talented pianist, is trying to hold her family together despite the painful loss that they all know is inevitable. As she and her sisters navigate first loves and college dreams, they are completely unaware that an illness...
86) American street
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American Street is an evocative and powerful coming-of-age story perfect for fans of Everything, Everything; Bone Gap; and All American Boys.
In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture. On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une...
87) King of fools
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Shadow game trilogy volume 2
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Enne continues the search for her missing mother, while Levi enters a partnership with the estranged son of a mafia donna in his quest for freedom and wealth.
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In a near-future Melbourne ravaged by food shortages, Piper struggles with her mum's desire for her to use hearing aids to be "normal" and pass as hearing. She then meets Marley, who introduces her to sign language and the Deaf community, and her world is opened up.
89) Out of the Easy
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Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
91) Killing time
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True-crime-obsessed Natalie Temple teams up with the new boy in town to investigate the death of her favourite teacher after the rumour mill starts churning out lies, but has to hide the investigation from her disapproving mom.
93) Haphaven
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Ever-superstitious Alex Mills will do anything to avoid a jinx. Picking up pennies, knocking on wood, collecting rabbit's feet . . . you name it. That is until she steps on a crack and it actually does break her mother's back. To save her mom, Alex must follow Hubbub Caskside, a trusty leprechaun, on a journey through the end of a rainbow to Haphaven, the world where all of Earth's superstitions draw their power. All she needs is a rabbit's foot to...
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Amy's diary volume 1
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Amy recounts her daily teenage troubles in her diary, including her mother dating again after her father's death, her best friend falling in love, and Amy trying to find her place in the universe.
96) Moving on
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Amy's diary volume 3
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Since Amy's been going out with John, she has become the most popular girl in the halls. But she spends so much time with her new friends that she forgets Kat, her best friend. As for her ex, Nick, he still thinks about his lost love, Amy. And the icing on the cake: Amy's mom tells her that they're moving in with her new fianc�, Francis. Aaaaargh! Help! Noooo! Gross! Even if change terrifies her, Amy must try to brave the future with style!
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Fourteen-year-old Bun O'Keefe has lived a solitary life with her mother, a compulsive hoarder, and had little contact with the outside world. Bun and her mother rarely talk, so when Bun's mother tells Bun to leave one day, she does. Hitchhiking out of town, Bun ends up on the streets of St. John's, Newfoundland, where she meets Busker Boy, a street musician who takes her in. Together they live in a house with an eclectic cast of characters, and Bun...
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If Rika's life seems like the beginning of a familiar fairy tale-- being an orphan with two bossy cousins and working away in her aunts' business-- she would be the first to reject that foolish notion. After all, she loves her family (even if her cousins were named after Disney characters), and with her biracial background, amazing judo skills and red-hot temper, she doesn't quite fit the princess mold. All that changes the instant she locks eyes...
100) From dust, a flame
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On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.
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