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Impulse
by Ellen Hopkins. Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen
Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with
each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in
their lives.
The
Green Glass Sea: a Novel by Ellen Klages. In 1943,
eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan lives with her scientist father in Los
Alamos, New Mexico, as he works on a top secret government program, and
befriends an aspiring artist who is a misfit just like her.
A
Drowned Maiden’s Hair: a Melodrama by Laura Amy Schlitz. At
the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, eleven-year-old Maud is adopted
by three spinster sisters moonlighting as mediums who take her home and
reveal to her the role she will play in their seances.
Story
of a Girl: a Novel by Sara Zarr. In the three years since
her father caught her in the back seat of a car with an older boy,
sixteen-year-old Deanna's life at home and school has been a nightmare,
but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his family, she
discovers the power of forgiveness.
Flora
Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her
Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House With
Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog
by Ysabeau S. Wilce. Fourteen-year-old
Flora Fyrdraaca, whose mother is the Warlord's Commanding General and
whose father is mad, kindly helps her house's magical--and
long-banished--butler, unaware that he draws strength from the Fyrdraaca
will.
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