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2) First love
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Austin, aware that life is short, asks his best friend and secret love, Kaylee, to take him to visit people and places in and around Tacoma, Washington, so that he can try to make a difference in the time he has left.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1913.
Language
English
Description
Written before his masterpiece Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie's novel Sentimental Tommy grapples with a number of the same themes that the author would later so memorably enshrine in his best-known work. Both feature a central character who clings to the vestiges of youth and refuses to grow up -- often with dire consequences.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Y. Crowell Co
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
Description
Overview: Young and orphaned, Tom Pippin has just been sold by his greedy uncle to the captain of a great sailing ship bound for America. Although Tom has been sold into slavery, no one can buy or sell his unwavering spirit. Tom longs to be free on the shores of America, but when a pirate's ship captures his boat, the young boy's life changes forever. Pirate Captain Land and his motley crew of men reveal to Tom all of the secrets - and dangers - of...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Upon learning on Christmas Day that their rich and imperious grandmother may soon die and disown the family unless the one who offended her deeply will confess, each of the three Sullivan sisters sets down her offenses on paper.
14) Rock star's girl
Author
Series
Sweet Valley High ; 72
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Andrea Slade hides the fact that her father, Jamie, is a rock star so people will like her for who she is. Of course, Lila and Jessica will stop at nothing to find out her connection to Jamie.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
Frances began her writing career there at age 19 to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines.
Several of Burnett's novels for adults were also very popular in their day, according to the
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