Victoria Leonard and Caitlin Somers, two girls from very different backgrounds, form a friendship that blooms over the summers spent in Caitlin's privileged world, until heartbreak and betrayal tear them apart.
Call number: F BLU (LA IMC)
Blume, Judy. Summer Sisters. New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.
Paul lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik and fights for the right to play soccer, despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
Call number: F BLO (LA IMC)
Bloor, Edward. Tangerine. San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace, 1997.
A comic lineup of stories, essays, cartoons, and more, from Lardner and Runyon to Philip Roth, Charles Addams to Charles Schulz, plus dozens of other funny fans.
Call number: 817 JOY (LA IMC)
Schaap, Dick and Mort Gerberg. Joy in Mudville: the big book of baseball humor. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most.
Call number: RC WEA (Media Office, Room 146)
Weaver, Will. Farm Team. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of a baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.
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Lubar, David. Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie. Chagrin Falls, Ohio: Findaway World, 2006.
Presents fourteen short horror stories by Stephen King, including several prize-winning selections as well as "Riding the Bullet," originally published as an e-book.
Call number: F KIN (LA IMC)
King, Stephen. Everything's Eventual. New York: Pocket Books, 2003.