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Things I Know about Loveby Kate Le Vann

Seventeen-year-old Livia Stowetravels from England toPrinceton, New Jersey, to visither brother who is studyingthere and to celebrate herrecovery from a year-longstruggle with leukemia, andwhile she is there she writes ablog about her experiences,which include falling in love.

The Red Umbrellaby Christina Diaz Gonzalez

In 1961 after Castro hascome to power in Cuba,

fourteen-year-old Lucia andher seven-year-old brotherare sent to the United Stateswhen her parents, who arenot in favor of the newregime, fear that the childrenwill be taken away from themas others have been.

Threads and Flamesby Esther Friesner

After recovering from typhus,thirteen-year-old Raisa leavesher Polish shtetl for America to

join her older sister, and goesto work at the TriangleShirtwaist factory.

Paper Daughterby Jeanette Ingold

When her father, a respected journalist in Seattle, is killedin a hit-and-run accident,Maggie Chen, a high schoolintern at her father'snewspaper, searches for cluesto the mysteriouscircumstances surroundinghis death, an investigationthat forces her to confronther ethnicity and a family shenever knew.

Voss: How I Come toAmerica and am Hero,Mostlyby David Ives

Through a series of lettershome, fifteen-year-oldVospop "Voss"Vsklzwczdztwczky shares hisexperiences as he is smuggledout of Slobovia, tries to find a

job in an American city, andfoils a sinister plot.

Chasing the Jaguarby Michele Dominguez Greene

After having unsettling dreamsabout the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she isa descendant of a long line of curanderas--Mayan medicinewomen with special powers.

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Red Glassby Laura Resau

Sixteen-year-old Sophie hasbeen frail and delicate sinceher premature birth, butdiscovers her true strengthduring a journey throughMexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopesto adopt was born, and to

Guatemala, where herwould-be boyfriend hopesto find his mother and plansto remain.

The Killers Tearsby Anne-Laure Bondoux

A young boy, Paolo, and the

man who murdered hisparents, Angel, graduallybecome like father and sonas they live and work together on the remoteChilean farm where Paolowas born.

The Indigo Notebook by Laura Resau

Fifteen-year-old Zeeta comesto terms with her flightymother and their itinerant lifewhen, soon after moving toEcuador, she helps anAmerican teenager find hisbirth father in a nearby village.

Boys, Bears and a SeriousPair of Hiking Bootsby Abby McDonald

Seventeen-year-old Jenna,an ardent vegetarian andenvironmentalist, is thr illedto be spending the summercommuning with nature inrural Canada, until shediscovers that not all of the

rugged residents there shareher beliefs.

Bone Chillerby Graham McNamee

Four high school students face

off against a soul-stealing beastthat has been making youngpeople disappear their smallOntario, Canada, town forcenturies.

Jenny Greens Killer JuniorYearby Amy Belasen

When a self-described "JewishAmerican Princess" fromLong Island moves toMontreal, Canada, to attendMolson Academy, shediscovers how despicable themale gender can be anddecides to make them pay--with their lives.

Mistik Lakeby Martha Brooks

After Odella's mother leavesher, her sisters, and their fatherin Manitoba and moves toIceland with another man, shethen dies there, and the familyfinally learns some of the manysecrets that have haunted themfor two generations.

Cate of the Lost Colonyby Lisa Klein

When her dalliance with SirWalter Ralegh is discoveredby Queen Elizabeth in1587, lady-in-waiting

Catherine Archer isbanished to the strugglingcolony of Roanoke, whereshe and the other Englishsettlers must rely on aCroatoan Indian for theirsurvival.

Amy & Rogers E picDetourby Morgan Matson

After the death of her father,Amy, a high school student,and Roger, a collegefreshman, set out on acarefully planned road tripfrom California toConnecticut, but wind uptaking many detours, forcingAmy to face her worst fearsand come to terms with hergrief and guilt.