Decisions, Decisions
Decisions, Decisions
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Author: by Evelyn Coleman
Summary: Despite serious
obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of
becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor. |
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Author: Anna Feinberg
Summary: A sixteen-year-old feels
alienated from her family while struggling with the difficult decisions
surrounding her unplanned pregnancy. |
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Author: Caroline B. Cooney
Summary: When a girl she had met
at an inner-city church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her
grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had
not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community. |
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Evolution,
Me, and Other Freaks of Nature
Author: Robin Brande
Summary: Following her conscience
leads high school freshman Mena to clash with her parents and former
friends from their conservative Christian church, but might result in
better things when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include
"Intelligent Design" in lessons on evolution. |
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Author: Tim Tharp
Summary: In his senior year, high
school star linebacker Hampton Greene finally begins to think for himself
and discovers that he might be interested in more than just football. |
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Koyal
Dark, Mango Sweet
Author: Kashmira Sheth
Summary: Growing up with her
family in Mumbai, India, sixteen-year-old Jeeta disagrees with much of her
mother's traditional advice about how to live her life and tries to be
more modern and independent. |
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Author: Carl Deuker
Summary: While trying to prove
that he is good enough to on his high school's varsity basketball team,
Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and erratic behavior of a
troubled classmate who lives across the street. |
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No
Easy Answers: Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices
Author: edited by Donald R. Gallo
Summary: A collection of sixteen
short stories, by Louise Plummer, M.E. Kerr, Jack Gantos, and others,
about teenagers in situations that test their character. |
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Author: Rich Wallace
Summary: Eigtheen-year-old
Michael Kerrigan, writer of obituaries for the Scranton Observer and
captain of the track team, is ready for the most important season of his
life--until the police find four joints in his school locker, and he is
faced with a choice that could change everything. |
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Author: Gail Giles
Summary: Shy and unremarkable,
seventeen-year-old Matt Lathrop is surprised and flattered to find himself
singled out for the sexual attentions of the alluring Skye Colbly, until
he discovers the evil purpose behind her actions. |
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Author: Robert Lipsyte
Summary: Matt Rydeck, co-captain
of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he
witnesses the rape of a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his
own use of performance-enhancing drugs. |
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She's
So Money
Author: Cherry Cheva
Summary: Maya, a high school
senior bound for Stanford University, goes against her better judgment
when she and a popular but somewhat disreputable boy start a profitable
school-wide cheating ring in order to save her family's Thai restaurant,
which she fears will be shut down due to her irresponsible actions. |
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Author: Sarah Dessen
Summary: Halley's junior year of
high school includes the death of the boyfriend of her best friend
Scarlett, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first
serious relationship. |
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Up
Country
Author: Alden R. Carter
Summary: When his mother's
drinking problem causes him to spend several months with country relatives
in upstate Wisconsin, sixteen-year-old Carl begins to build a new life for
himself, only to see it threatened by a serious mistake from his painful
past. |
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Author: An Na
Summary: As her senior year in
high school approaches, Mina yearns to find her own path in life but
working at the family business, taking care of her little sister, and
dealing with her mother's impossible expectations are as stifling as the
southern California heat, until she falls in love with a man who offers a
way out. |