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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college--but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time....
2) Butterfly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1980s Australia, nearly fourteen-year-old Ariella "Plum" Coyle fears the disapproval of her friends, feels inferior to her older brothers, and hates her awkward, adolescent body but when her glamorous neighbor befriends her, Plum starts to become what she wants to be--until she discovers her neighbor's ulterior motive.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his favorite uncle's violent death, Tom Mackee watches his family implode, quits school, and turns his back on music and everyone who matters, and while he is in no shape to mend what is broken, he fear that no one else is, either.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laura Horton has always been an outsider, more interested in writing, drawing, or spending time with her free-spirited family than in her fellow teens, but she is drawn to Leon, a new student, as together they explore the mysteries of her eccentric old house.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Though Henry Khoo is twelve years old, he's still treated like a baby. He's forbidden from going anywhere without his sister/chaperone/bodyguard. And he definitely CAN'T take a journey halfway around the world all by himself! But that's exactly his plan. After his family's annual trip to visit his father in Singapore is canceled, Henry decides he doesn't want to be cooped up at home with his overprotective family and BFF turned NRFF (Not Really Friend...
13) Lucy the good
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Lucy's great-aunt Bep comes from Holland to Adelaide, Australia, to visit, she is shocked by some of Lucy's behavior, and Lucy begins to wonder about herself. Includes a glossary of Dutch words and a recipe.
14) On the run
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben, who aspires to be a police officer, struggles to do the right thing when his parents suddenly take him and his little sister "on vacation," and he learns they took a large amount of money that was mistakenly deposited in their bank account.
Author
Publisher
A. A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Listen Taylor learns a great deal from the eccentric and secretive Zing family, as she fumbles her way through a new school, problems with old friends, and a spell book she finds soon after she and her father move in with Marbie Zing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Even though she loves the family of her best friend, Griffin Silk, especially grandmother Nell, Layla Elliott, who no longer has a grandmother, determines, despite many difficulties, to find an old person of her own to bring to the school's Senior Citizens' Day.
17) Night train
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
His family, peers, and teachers despair of eighteen-year-old Luke, who seems to have turned himself into a loser, failing at school, paralyzed with fear and indecision, losing touch with reality.
18) Wolf on the fold
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When his father dies, fourteen-year-old Kenny has to leave school and find work. Includes flashbacks to previous generations of Kenny's family.
19) Girl defective
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Friendship, love, and a mystery fill the life-changing summer of fifteen-year-old Sky, who lives with her unconventional family in a run-down record store in St. Kilda, a seaside suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When superstitious eighteen-year-old John "Beatle" Lennon, who is dating the best friend of his twin sister, meets Destiny McCartney, their instant rapport and shared quirkiness make it seem that their fate is written in the stars.
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