family

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family

Count your blessings

2007
Kate Blessing, a high school senior who has stepped up to run her father' mob business, struggles to keep the family's enemies at bay while balancing a love triangle that will come to a nasty end.

A Christmas memory, one Christmas, & the Thanksgiving visitor

1996
Collects three autobiographical fiction stories by Truman Capote, two of them telling of holidays spent with distant relatives in Alabama, and one recalling a Christmas spent in New Orleans with his estranged father.

Boot camp

2008
After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.

A streetcar named Desire

1974
Blanche DuBois, a haggard and fragile southern beauty finds her pathetic last grasp at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.

A boy from Ireland

a novel
2007
Bullied because of the English father he barely remembers, fourteen-year-old Liam gladly leaves Connemara, Ireland, in 1901 with his uncle and sister, but his problems follow them to Hell's Kitchen in New York City, until he finds a way to leave the past behind.

Saint maybe

1991
In 1965 the Bedloe family lives on a quiet street in Baltimore. Seventeen-year-old Ian has dreams for the future, until the night when he meddles in his older brother's life--and from that careless moment on, nothing can ever be the same.

The truth about family life

2005
Presents an A to Z volume that provides information on the different kinds of families, and addresses issues important to teens on topics such as adoption, divorce, coping with stepparents, teen pregnancy, violence in the family, and more.

Prom

2006
Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.

One whole and perfect day

2007
As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together.

Dreamhunter

2006
In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl trains to be a dreamhunter, and when her father disappears, she is left to carry on his mysterious mission.

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