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The probability of miracles

2011
After spending the last seven years of her life in and out of hospitals, sixteen-year-old Cam Cooper is less than thrilled with her family's decision to move to Promise, Maine, where she discovers purple dandelions, a boy named Asher, and an envelope that could help her rekindle her ability to believe in both life and love.

Guantanamo boy

2011
Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from England, is kidnapped while on holiday with his family in Pakistan and struggles to understand when he is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge.

iBoy

2011
Sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack causes fragments of an iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power, but using that power against the gang that attacked him and a friend could have deadly consequences.

The Cinderella society

2011
Sixteen-year-old Jess Parker fears she will never fit in at her new school, until she is invited to join the Cinderella Society, a secret sisterhood of the most popular girls in school, who need Jess in a battle of good versus evil as they face off against the Wickeds, who are targeting innocent girls in their war against the Cinderellas.

Stick

2011
Fourteen-year-old Stark McClellan, also known as Stick, has always had his older brother, Bosten, to help protect him from the bullies who teased him for being born with only one ear, but when Stick realizes that Bosten is gay and their abusive father's reaction will be dangerous, Bosten must leave and Stick goes looking for him.

Black boy white school

2012
When fourteen-year-old Anthony "Ant" Jones from the ghetto of East Cleveland, Ohio, gets a scholarship to a prep school in Maine, he finds that he must change his image and adapt to a world that never fully accepts him, but when he goes home he discovers that he no longer truly belongs there either.

Mousetraps

2008
When Maxie's best friend from elementary school returns years later after a horrible act of violence against him, Maxie feels guilty about how she treated him and conflicted over whether or not she wants to befriend him again.

Motorcycles, sushi & one strange book

2010
Fifteen-year-old Jessie Hatcher, forced to go to Florida with the father she thought was dead, finds that his faith, a book that seems to speak to her heart, and new friends help her get control of her ADHD and her life.

The Midnight Palace

2011
When a mysterious threat reenters the lives of twins Ben and Sheere, separated as babies and reunited as teenagers in 1930s Calcutta, the siblings must confront an unspeakable terror, with the help of their secret society of fellow orphans.

Cheat

2010
Laurel, an aspiring investigative journalist, becomes a social outcast after writing an article about cheating at her high school, but she continues to pursue the story with no thought to the people she might be hurting, until she makes a shocking discovery.

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