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Burnout

Nan struggles to recollect her memories from the past twenty-four hours after she wakes up in a subway car wearing skeleton makeup and a too-small Halloween costume, but her efforts cause her to recall memories from her previous life, which was filled with danger and fueled by alcohol.

Cracked

Sixteen-year-old Victor Konig is tormented at school by bully Bull Mastrick and ridiculed at home by his parents, but when he attempts suicide by taking a bottle of his mom's sleeping pills, Victor is dismayed when he wakes up in a psychiatric hospital and discovers Bull is his roommate.

The freak observer

Suffering from a crippling case of post-traumatic stress disorder, sixteen-year-old Loa Lindgren tries to use her problem solving skills, sharpened in physics and computer programming, to cure herself.

Every you, every me

Evan is haunted by the loss of his best friend, but when mysterious photographs start appearing, he begins to fall apart as he starts to wonder if she has returned, seeking vengeance.

Middle school, the worst years of my life

When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent, " to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

Revolution

An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.

Things we have in common

a novel
Yasmin, a high school misfit who desperately wants to fit in, notices a strange, sinister-looking man stalking Alice, the most popular girl in the school. Yasmin develops a relationship with him despite her resolution to use him to become a hero.
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The disturbed girl's dictionary

2018
Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.
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Stronger than you know

2014
After fifteen years of horrific abuse and neglect by her mother and her mother's boyfriends, Joy struggles to understand and accept a normal life with relatives, at school, and with a boyfriend.

We now return to regular life

2017
"When fourteen-year-old Sam Walsh returns home after three years in the custody of his kidnapper, his older sister Beth and childhood friend Josh must deal with their survivors' guilt, their memories of what really happened the day Sam disappeared, and with the fact that Sam is not the boy they remember, but a troubled teen struggling to re-adapt to normal life"--Provided by publisher.

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