cousins

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cousins

Crystal doors

2006
Two fourteen-year-old cousins are accidentally transported to the island of Elantya, site of ancient magic, vicious creatures, and fierce battles produced by a territorial feud with the sea-dwelling merlons, conflict between the bright and dark sages, and the cousins' own mysterious roots.

Boy2girl

2005
After the death of his mother, thirteen-year-old Sam comes to live with his cousin; and as a prank, he dresses up as a girl for school.

Send one angel down

2000
A young slave tries to hide the horrors of slavery from his younger cousin, a light-skinned slave who is the daughter of the plantation owner.

Over the wall

2000
Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life.

The killer's cousin

1998
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.

Soulfire

1996
A rift develops in the closeness shared by Todd and Ezekiel, two African-American cousins, when Ezekiel tries to single-handedly end the problem of gang violence in his Denver neighborhood.

How ya like me now

2007
After his father dies and his mother goes into rehab, Eddie moves from the suburbs into his cousin's Boston loft, where he gradually adjusts to being one of the few white kids in a progressive private school, and learns how to feel like a normal teenager.

Bone

three book collection
2005
Collects three comic adventures of Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, three cousin who end up in a the mysterious Valley after being run out of their hometown of Boneville.

Lester's dreadful sweaters

2012
When Lester's mysterious cousin Clara comes to stay with his family she insists on knitting him ugly sweaters and Lester must figure out how to accept the unwanted gifts without hurting his cousin's feelings.

Return to Gone-Away

2000
Eleven-year-old Portia and her family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures and secrets.

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