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Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
Scott Hudson begins his freshman year of high school as a source of income to Wesley, the school shakedown artist. The girl he's known since kindergarten has blossomed into a goddess, but doesn't seem to know he's alive. He gets roped into writing the sports column for the school newspaper, even though he's not an athlete. On top of everything else, his mom is pregnant. As Scott maneuvers through a number of serious situations (bullying, a suicidal classmate, school dances) he still manages to be upbeat and true to himself. Overloaded with extracurricular activities and honors homework, he begins a journal filled with lists and tips for his expected sibling on how to survive freshman year. (From Amazon.com)
True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet by Lola Douglas
Morgan Carter, Hollywood child-star-rehab-has-been, is sent to Fort Wayne, IN.
In the guise of Claudia Miller, high school junior transfer student, she is in
the custody of a recently divorced, close family friend. Morgan/Claudia's
journal entries slowly reveal the painful details of her life: hitting
rock-bottom after nearly dying from a drug overdose, rehab in a cushy facility,
and being raped by a costar. Her banishment is intended to provide time and
space for her to stay clean and sober to lead up to a triumphant comeback.
Struggling with school life, she meets a somewhat geeky, yet likable group of
students. She also learns how to shop, dress, and act like a normal teenager.
As Morgan's feelings for her new friends grow, she finds herself having to keep
careful note of who knows what (fact or fiction) about her prior life. (From Amazon.com)
Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
Vince Luca, 17, has a problem. His wealthy family runs the, uh, vending machine
business in New York, and Vince is determined not to be part of it. Especially
after a hot date is ruined when he finds that his older brother Tommy has
conducted some business with Jimmy the Rat and hidden the messy and temporarily
unconscious body in the trunk of Vince's car. Although Vince keeps a low profile at school, his family connection brings him
unwanted advantages, like the birthday Porsche that gets him arrested on stolen
vehicle charges, or the football game in which he makes touchdown after
touchdown because word has gotten around and nobody is willing to tackle him.
Even private conversations at home have to be carried on in the basement
because the FBI has bugged the house and an agent is always listening. Vince's
life is inextricably tangled up with the family business, no matter how hard he
tries to stay out of it. How can he show them he's serious? Then he meets
Kendra, and when she innocently reveals that her father's an FBI agent--that
FBI agent--it's a match made in heaven . . . (from Amazon.com)
Prom by David Lubar
This is the story of Ashley, who is definitely not a prom-type person,
and her best friend Nat, who lives for the prom. When the math teacher
disappears with the funds just eleven days before the dance, determined and
organized Nat goes into high gear to find alternative ways to make the prom
happen and drags an unwilling Ashley into the flurry of urgent details.
Ashley has enough problems in her life already, starting with the complexities
of her crowded but loving working class family -- her extremely pregnant mother
and her three exuberant and prom-crazy aunts, and her cab-driving father and
three younger brothers, who think nothing of happily trashing the kitchen in a
game of hot dog baseball. Then theres Mr. Gilroy, the evil vice principal of
discipline, who has Ashley on endless detention, her awful job at EZ-CHEEZ-E,
where she has trouble seeing the customers through the eyeholes of her rat
costume, and her good-looking but lowlife boyfriend TJ, who wants her to join
him in a future as depressing as the dank one-room apartment he has so proudly
rented for them. Not to speak of Nats loony grandmother, who wears her red
bathing cap even when shes not doing the backstroke in a wading pool, babbles
at Ashley in Russian, and spits on the floor to show her disapproval.
But in the end its grandma with her skill at baking (pastries to bribe the
custodians) and sewing (a magical prom dress) who saves both the prom and
Ashleys belief in herself and her future in this delightful and heartfelt
novel. (from Amazon.com)
On our purchase list this October is the Case Closed series, more Naruto and
Fullmetal Alchemist.
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