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Robi’s Flying Saucer Drive-In is the story of Saffron Wilson, a fourteen-year-old freshman. Saffron works at Robi’s Flying Saucer Drive-In, a restaurant her parents bought, and is saving up for a trip to Paris. She lives in Antoninio, a town that is anything but ordinary. Every year, a carnival comes to town, stationed right beside the drive-in. At school, Saffron meets Clair, a peculiar girl who travels with the carnival. The story intertwines Saffron’s past and present through flashbacks to her previous summer spent at her aunt’s house.

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Lily and Dunkin is a coming of age novel that follows two main characters Lily and Dunkin. Lily has always known she was a girl but trapped in a boys body. She wants to stop hiding behind her boy clothes and finally be who she is, but middle school means bullies around every corner. Dunkin is starting a new life in Florida. He is struggling with his bipolar disorder and his newfound popularity. Dunkin has to ask himself is popularity worth loosing the only true friend he may ever have and his ?

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Liberty Frye and the Sails of Fate is the continuing story of the young witch named Liberty Frye. It is now her eleventh birthday, and her magic is getting stronger than ever. Her parents are taking her on a birthday trip down to the bay, but this is no ordinary trip.

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Deacon’s Folly is a book about 14-year-old Devon and his life in a very small town with some very mean people. He doesn’t know much; he doesn’t know his parents or even his last name. All he knows is that 6 years ago a man named Mr. Audette adopted him. He also knows that he is dreadfully dumb, but then again, everyone in the town knows that. 

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Like most sixteen year old girls, all Ashley Asher wants is to live a normal life. However, that privilege was taken from her years ago when her stepfather sexually abused her. She now lives in Texas with her father, away from her abuser and neglectful mother.

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JoJo has been best friends with Sam since she was five. Sam has always been different than other boys; he was never rude to girls and he never seemed interested in girls' bodies like the other boys, until he starts changing and going through puberty. When JoJo sees the bruises on Sam's back she realizes she needs to get Sam out of his house with his abusive step-father. Sam won't leave his mom and his step-sister, though. As this is going on, Sam and JoJo grow into something even more than friends and it scares JoJo more than she'd like.

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Six middle school students with different backgrounds and personalities are stuck in an upstairs bathroom during an emergency severe weather lockdown. The story is told by Jordan, one of the six boys.

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Jessie Holmes’ entire world has flipped upside down. Things have never been the same between Jessie and her dad since her mother died six years ago, but never did she imagine ending up where they are today. Her father has remarried a rich woman in Los Angeles, where Jessie and her dad move to at the start of her junior year of high school. Here, Jessie attends Wood Valley High School, a prestigious, expensive school where everybody seems to be spoiled brats. Despite these circumstances, Jessie still manages to make friends- and enemies too.

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