Defining Dulcie by Paul Acampora

After the tragic accidental death of her father, Dulcie’s mother decides that they are moving away from Dulcie’s beloved Connecticut to far off California. Then her mother does the unthinkable. She tells Dulcie she’s selling her father’s beloved truck for $300. Dulcie does the unthinkable in return. She steals her dead dad’s Chevy pickup truck and heads back home to Connecticut. There, under the supervision of a larger than life grandfather, she meets Roxanne Soule, a girl whose scary home life makes Dulcie realize that her own situation might not be so bad.

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The Battle of Jericho by Sharon M. Draper

When Jericho is invited to pledge his high school's exclusive club the Warriors of Distinction, he thinks this is his ticket to popularity, gorgeous girls, and their swanky silk jackets. The pledge activities, though, are getting rougher and more dangerous. Is this pledging or hazing? And can Jericho stand up for himself before it goes too far?

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Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

In Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins, Debbie wishes on her necklace that something would happen. Her friend Hector, across town, realizes that there could be more to his life and decides to learn to play the guitar. Together with their childhood friends, Debbie and Hector have a quiet yet eventful summer full of learning to drive, loosing a necklace, finding a brief romance, and figuring out more about who they are.

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Something to Blog About by Shana Norris

After a particularly trying day in which she sets her hair on fire in chemistry class in front of her crush, Libby Fawcett decides to start an online journal. A password protected for her eyes only type of online journal, not a public blog. She can type faster than she can write, and her written journals have a tendency to get lost and read by others. She spends a month pouring her heart out to this blog, telling it secrets about the crushes her friends have, how her arch nemesis Angel Rivera is ruining her life, and about her blossoming friendship with her crush. Then Angel Rivera pulls her worst prank yet ... she steals the password to Libby's blog and posts her secrets all over school. Will Libby ever be able to show her face again? And will her friends ever forgive her?

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The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

If you are looking for something fun and funny to start off your lazy summer days, The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett might just be the perfect book for you. Tiffany Aching lives on a farm, makes very good cheese, and wants to be a witch when she grows up. When the monsters of Fairyland start invading her land, Tiffany grabs her trusty frying pan and sets out to defend her home. She has befriended a small, angry tribe of blue skinned "pictsies" called the Nac Mac Feegle or the Wee Free Men who will follow her as far as she will lead them (as long as there is a chance for stealin' and drinkin' and fightin' along the way) to help her defeat the Queen of Fairyland.

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Mouse Guard Fall 1152 by David Petersen

I tagged Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Peterson with "Super Heroes," but these mice aren't super heroes in the traditional sense. They don't have special powers and they don't wear spandex, but give them a cloak and a sword and they WILL save mousedom.

The Mouse Guard was created years ago to bring down the evil Weasel Warlord and ever since they have defended the kingdom. Now they find they have a traitor in their midst who has stolen their secrets and given them to a strange shadowy power bent on the destruction of the Mouse Guard.

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Street Love by Walter Dean Myers

In Street Love Walter Dean Myers takes his talent for words into the romance genre by giving us this gritty, realistic story of two teenagers in love on the streets of Harlem. Damien has broken free of the gang-infested streets he lives on and his parents are excited about him being on the fast track to getting "A PhD in mucho buckology." Damien, however, has his sights set on the quiet Junice he's seen around. Junice's life couldn't be more different from Damien's. Her mother is in jail, her grandmother failing to Alzheimer's, she is left to take care of her younger sister and her grandmother all while trying to finish high school.

When their two worlds collide, something amazing happens. Check it out at Y MYE