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LEAVING A TRACE: TEEN JOURNALS, DIARIES, POEMS
| BLACK, Jonah |
Girls, Girls, Girls |
Jonah Black finds himself living with his genius sister and radio personality and sex therapist mother while he repeats his junior year in his former high school and deals with a mysterious accident in his past.
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| CABOT, Meg |
The Princess Diaries |
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne. Book 2: Princess in the Spotlight; Book 3: Princess in Love.
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| CAMPBELL, Jack (comp.) |
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul |
Inspirational stories about life, love and learning for teens; including contributions by teens.
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| CLARK, Catherine |
Wurst Case Scenario |
Courtney, a vegetarian animal-rights activist, records in her diary events of the beginning of her freshman year at a Wisconsin college, far away from Colorado and her boyfriend Grant, surrounded by cheese- and meat-lovers.
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| CORRIGAN, Eireann |
You Remind Me of You: a Poetry Memoir |
Autobiographical poems recount events in a teenager's life, including her battles with eating disorders, her time in treatment, and the suicide of her boyfriend.
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| FLINN, Alexandra |
Breathing Underwater |
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father. A first novel.
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| FRANCO, Betty (ed.) |
Things I Have to Tell You: Poems & Writing by Teenage Girls |
A collection of poems, stories, and essays written by girls twelve to eighteen years of age and revealing the secrets which enabled them to overcome the challenges they faced. The concerns of teenage girls as reflected in their poems and stories.
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You Hear Me? Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys |
Anthology of poems and stories written by teenage boys as they reflect on their world.
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| GLENN, Mel |
Split Image: a Story in Poems |
A series of poems reflect the thoughts and feelings of various students--the librarian, parents, the principal, and others--about the seemingly perfect Laura Li and her life inside and out of Tower High School. Alternating poems by classmates, parents, and teachers tells the tragic story of Laura Li.
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| HERRERA, Juan Felipe |
CrashBoomLove: a Novel in Verse |
After his father leaves home, sixteen-year-old Cesar Garcia lives with his mother and struggles through the painful experiences of up as a Mexican American high school student in California.
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| KOERTGE, Ronald |
The Brimstone Journals |
In a series of short interconnected poems, students at a high school nicknamed Brimstone reveal the violence existing and growing in their lives. High school students reflect on the violence in their lives through interconnected poems.
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| LUNDGREN, Mary Beth |
Love Sara |
In a series of emails and journal entries Sara, a high school junior with a history of sexual abuse and foster home care, reveals feelings about herself and two friends who have formed a suicide. A first novel. E-mails and journal entries reveal Sara's feelings and the suicide pact she makes with two others.
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| MCCAFFERTY, Megan |
Sloppy Firsts |
Devastated when her best friend Hope moves away from Pineville, sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling feels isolated at school and at home, as she struggles to deal with her father's obsession with her track meets, her boy-crazy peers, and her own nonexistent love life.
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| MEYER, Stephanie (ed.) |
Teen Ink 2: More Voices, More Visions |
A collection of stories and poems by teenage writers, arranged under the categories "Family," "Friends," "Challenges," "Love," "Imagination," "School Days," "Fitting in," "Milestones," and "Memories."
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| REES, Celia |
Witch Child |
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts. Mary's journal recounts her life as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts in 1659.
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| RENNISON, Louise |
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson |
Fourteen-year-old Georgia continues her diary in which she records her misadventures trying to reclaim the attention of seventeen-year-old Robbie, while coping with her friends, family, and dog-like cat Angus at the same time. further misadventures of a 14-year-old as recorded in her diary. Book 1: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging; Book 3: Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas.
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| STAVANS, Ilan (ed.) |
Wachale! Poetry & Prose on Growing Up Latino in America |
A bilingual collection of poems, stories, and other writings which diversity among Latinos.
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| STRATTON, Allan |
Leslie's Journal |
In her diary, Leslie records her life after her parents' divorce her relationship with a rich but abusive boyfriend who finally threatens her when she tries to break up with him
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| YOUNG, Karen Romano |
Video |
"Mean Janine" turns out to be a complicated person, as Eric discovers during his spring term assignment to observe a classmate and record his observations, an assignment that changes both of them in unexpected ways and ending with his protecting Janine with a video of a fisherman exposing himself to her. A school assignment to secretly observe and record a classmate's activities changes Janine and Eric in surprising ways.
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Collection Development Services
with contributions by Susan Schlaeger, Montebello Library
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