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 Dope
Sick by Walter Dean Myers.
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old
Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and
meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life
when he could have made better choices.
 Heroes
of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud.
When young Halli Sveinsson takes one
of
his practical jokes too far, he is forced to leave
the
House of
Svein and go on a hero's quest where he encounters highway robbers,
terrifying monsters, and a girl who may be as fearless as he is.
 The
School for Dangerous Girls by Eliot Schrefer.
Sent to a remote, run-down reform
school
in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better
girls,
but upon learning that her "dangerous"
friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes
radical steps to join them and help them escape.
 Magic
and Misery by Peter Marino.
TJ, a sturdy teenaged girl with little self-confidence, becomes best
friends with a new, gay student in her high school, and when he is
bullied and she tries to convince him to tell the authorities, he
refuses.
 Waiting
for Normal
by Leslie
Connor.
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior
and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when
she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks
on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
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Waiting
for Normal
by Leslie
Connor.
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior
and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when
she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks
on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
