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"Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away...so she decided to run not from somewhere but to somewhere. That was how Claudia and her brother, Jamie, ended up living in the Metropolitan Museum of Art-and right in the middle of a mystery that made headlines."-- Page [4] of cover.
2) Dreamland
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After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
3) Paper hearts
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Felicity, seventeen, has struggled to meet her mother's expectations since her older sister disappeared but when she connects with Alec Williams, a member of the band Heartbreakers, at a charity ball, she begins to consider what will make her truly happy. After uncovering a shocking family secret, Felicity begins a road trip to find her sister.
4) Altered
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Altered series volume 1
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Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Branch, along with the four teen boys the Branch had been experimenting on, as they try to make sense of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.
5) Family
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In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.
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"When Leo's sister Paris goes missing, she and her new friend Max must follow Paris's secret notes and clues to find her"--
Sisters Leo and Paris Hollings have only ever had each other to rely on. They can't trust their mother, who hops from city to city and from guy to guy, or their gambler stepfather, who's moved them all to Las Vegas. When Paris disappears from the Heartbreak Hotel Diner, where moments before they had been talking with physics...
10) Bud, not Buddy
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OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
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OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
OBD Newbery Medal Winners (1922-2022) - YOUTH
OBD YA Historical Fiction - YOUTH
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
12) First love
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Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
14) Prettiest doll
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A beauty contestant since she was three, Olivia, now thirteen, has begun feeling limited by her beauty but a shared journey with Danny, a boy struggling with his own appearance, show her she has choices and resources beyond her appearance.
16) Daniel's desire
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From the author of Feels Like Family, a Netflix Book Club Pick!
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods brings readers the final chapter in the classic tales of the Devaneys... five brothers torn apart in childhood, reunited by love. Previously published in The Devaney Brothers: Daniel.
When a runaway teen surfaces at Molly Creighton's tavern, Daniel Devaney's...
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods brings readers the final chapter in the classic tales of the Devaneys... five brothers torn apart in childhood, reunited by love. Previously published in The Devaney Brothers: Daniel.
When a runaway teen surfaces at Molly Creighton's tavern, Daniel Devaney's...
20) Erased
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"Seventeen-year-old Anna searches for answers about her past while she evades the Branch with genetically altered boys Sam, Cas, and Nick"--
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