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21) Joe
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When a hard-living ex-con meets a homeless fifteen-year-old boy on the run from his father, he realizes that he may have to change his way of life.
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"A captivating mystery about a boy with synesthesia--a condition that causes him to see colors when he hears sounds--who tries to uncover what happened to his beautiful neighbor, and if he was ultimately responsible. Thirteen-year-old Jasper Wishart lives in a world of dazzling color that no one else can see, least of all his dad. Words, numbers, days of the week, people's voices--everything has its own unique shade. But recently Jasper has been haunted...
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Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show...
28) The lifeguard
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"A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager"--from www.imdb.com.
30) The outsiders
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A story about teenage hopes, fears, bravery and violent rebellion and living on the right side of the tracks.
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Order of the Majestic volume 1
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Thirteen-year-old daydreamer Joey Kopecky discovers magic as he is caught in an epic battle between two powerful, ancient orders in an alternate New York City.
32) Brighton rock
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Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene's best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the “appalling strangeness of the mercy of God,” a classic of its kind. Set in Brighton, England, among the criminal rabble, the book depicts the tragic career of a seventeen-year-old boy named Pinkie whose primary ambition...
34) No good deed
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From New York Times bestselling author Goldy Moldavsky comes an uproarious take on when the best of intentions go horribly wrong.
Gregor Maravilla doesn't want much. Just to feed all the starving children. That's why he goes to Camp Save the World, a summer program for teen activists who care about making a difference. What could be better?
It's almost perfect. Except some of these causes are kind of... strange. Like Eat Dirt-a campaign started by...
35) Wildlife
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Criterion collection volume 1031
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"A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job"--www.imdb.com.
38) Dayveon
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Following the death of his older brother, a thirteen-year-old boy joins a gang and begins a violent life of crime.
39) Canada
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The story of Dell Parsons, a young man forced by catastrophic circumstances to reconcile himself to a world rendered unrecognizable. Spirited across the Montana border into Saskatchewan and taken in by Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic man whose own past exists on the other side of the border, Dell struggles to understand what his future can be even as he comes to understand the violence simmering below the surface in his new life.
40) Last message
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Seven volume 7
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Following his late grandfather's wishes, Adam travels to France to perform three difficult tasks involving a lost painting, a famous book, and a forbidden cave, and ends up learning things about his grandfather--and himself--that he never imagined.
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