Publisher: Dutton Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/17/2007
ISBN-13: 9780525478027
ISBN-10: 0525478027

When the character actors at Disney World go on strike and are replaced by a new group of teens, the new workers get a dose of reality when a team-building scavenger hunt breaks apart one relationship and creates an unexpected new one to the surprise of everyone involved.

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Publisher: Aladdin Mix
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/03/2008
ISBN-13: 9781416964438
ISBN-10: 1416964436

Katani's Jamaican vacation is not as relaxing as she thought after her grandmother discovers that their family's banana bread bakery is in trouble and Katani has to use her business skills to help out.

Publisher: Simon Pulse
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/05/2011
ISBN-13: 9781442403734
ISBN-10: 144240373X

In a remote corner of Washington State where she and her father have gone to escape her obsessive boyfriend, Clara meets two brothers who captain a sailboat, a lighthouse keeper with a secret, and an old friend of her father who knows his secrets.

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Publisher: Simon Pulse
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/03/2011
ISBN-13: 9781442423442
ISBN-10: 1442423447

Dreading another tourist-laden summer in the Georgia beach town where she lives year round, Anna falls head over heels in love with a visitor from New York and embarks on a near-perfect summer that she fears will end in heartbreak when he returns home at the end of the season.

Publisher: Skyscape
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/25/2013
ISBN-13: 9781477816547
ISBN-10: 1477816542

A boy sent to a camp for unwanted children adopts the samurai lifestlye in order to protect himself and his friends from the sadistic camp overseer, Matron, and her adult son who is stalking one of the female campers.

Publisher: Henry Holt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/15/2011
ISBN-13: 9780805092400
ISBN-10: 0805092404

Quebrado has been a slave on Captain Bernadino de Talavera's pirate ship for years, but when a hurricane sinks the ship and kills most of the crew, Quebrado escapes to safety and finds acceptance and refuge in a nearby village.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/12/2011
ISBN-13: 9781416979203
ISBN-10: 1416979204

In the 1970s, a teenaged Iranian princess, a German-Canadian girl, and a Cuban-Jewish girl from New York City become friends when they spend three summers at a Swiss boarding school.

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Publisher: Sleuth/Speak
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/15/2008
ISBN-13: 9780142411179
ISBN-10: 0142411175

Living with her parents on their remote tropical island resort, Aphra is excited when handsome Seth Mulo comes for a stay and the sparks fly between them, but when a girl's body washes up on the beach, rumors begin to circulate and Aphra begins to wonder about her mysterious new beau's past.

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Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780385900560
ISBN-10: 0385900562

As the three survivors of a plane crash on their way to the rain forests of Ecuador, Semi, Miranda, and Arnie believe they are the only people on the island, yet they soon discover they are not as Dr. Franklin, a genetic engineer, reveals himself and his twisted plans.

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/05/2009
ISBN-13: 9781416968238
ISBN-10: 1416968237

Ignored by Conrad and Jeremiah one summer after the next, Belly is shocked when she returns to the beach house the following season and discovers that everything has changed, for both the better and worse.

Publisher: HarperTeen
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780060824112
ISBN-10: 0060824115

When their fathers insist that they get summer jobs, three fifteen-year-old friends in Tacoma, Washington, dedicate their summer vacation to fooling their parents into thinking that they are working, which proves to be even harder than having real jobs would have been.

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Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2013
ISBN-13: 9780545417792
ISBN-10: 0545417791

Dreaming of fame in a futuristic Brazilian city of technology and tradition, talented artist June befriends the popular but doomed Summer King Enki, a fellow artist with whom she creates sumptuous works that inadvertently fan a growing rebellion against the government's strict limits on new technologies

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/09/2006
ISBN-13: 9781416903628
ISBN-10: 1416903623

When her mother, while recovering from a serious car accident, takes her and her mute brother to Maine, where she encounters the beach for the very first time, twelve-year-old Lise learns past secrets about her mother that threaten her safe world.

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Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/13/2007
ISBN-13: 9780385730907
ISBN-10: 038573090X

Finding a deserted ship on the water while adrift at sea, Tom Tin and his four convict companions consider themselves saved, but after they rescue two men stranded on an iceberg, things take a perilous turn after the real identities of their new shipmates are revealed.

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Publisher: HarperTeen
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780060740344
ISBN-10: 0060740345

Jock and his eccentric family spend the summer working at Grampus's golf complex, where they end up learning the rules of "The Big Game of Everything."

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Publisher: HarperTeen
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/29/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061731044
ISBN-10: 0061731048

Visiting the Paradise resort in the Caribbean for different reasons, teens Jena, Dakota, Skye and Owen find their lives tangling in unexpected ways over the course of four months while they struggle to keep secrets and pursue their hearts' desires.

Publisher: Razorbill
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/10/2007
ISBN-13: 9781595141378
ISBN-10: 1595141375

Unhappy with her new stepfather, sixteen-year-old Amy goes on a family vacation with little expectations for a good time, but during a stop at Mermaid Park where girls dress as mermaids and perform underwater shows, Amy is touched by the magic of the moment and her outlook for her future is instantly changed.

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/22/2012
ISBN-13: 9781442445888
ISBN-10: 1442445882

Seeking one last adventure before going off to college, Alice and her friends find summer employment on a Chesapeake Bay cruise ship.

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316051590
ISBN-10: 0316051594

While hanging out in Zanzibar Bay one summer and looking for a fun fling along with her best friend Frankie, Annie begins to feel guilty over a secret she has kept and knows that the time has come to tell the truth about something that took place between her and his late brother.

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/16/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316002899
ISBN-10: 0316002895

When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.

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Publisher: Yearling
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780553494655
ISBN-10: 0553494651

After he is given his grandfather's old lawnmower and begins mowing lawns to earn a bit of money, a twelve-year-old boy is greatly changed as his business grows, he meets a financial adviser, and he makes a good investment in a prizefighter named Joey Pow.

Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/12/2011
ISBN-13: 9780385907927
ISBN-10: 0385907923

Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.

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Publisher: Graphia
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/05/2010
ISBN-13: 9780152066499
ISBN-10: 0152066497

Swearing off boys after a junior year of dating disasters, Polly Martin looks forward to spending the summer with her famous advice columnist grandmother only to discover that her grandmother is man-crazy, a situation that is further complicated by Polly's unwanted feelings for a cute skateboarder.

Publisher: HarperTeen
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/15/2011
ISBN-13: 9780061547911
ISBN-10: 0061547913

When Jill, a competitive high school fencer, goes with her family on vacation to the Bahamas, she is magically transported to an early-eighteenth-century pirate ship in the middle of the ocean.

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/04/2011
ISBN-13: 9780399250996
ISBN-10: 0399250999

A young girl trains to be the new spiritual leader of her remote Andaman Island tribe, while facing increasing threats from the modern world.

Publisher: Zondervan
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780310715580
ISBN-10: 031071558X

Forced by her father to get a summer job, seventeen-year-old Candace makes the most of selling cotton candy in an amusement park, despite a botched nametag, vindictive co-workers, lewd patrons, and growing distant from her best friend.

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Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/15/2012
ISBN-13: 9781616086572
ISBN-10: 1616086572

Struggling with mixed feelings about sleepaway camp despite her anger toward her mother who is unduly harsh with her autistic brother, Amy is subjected to humiliating "initiation" rites and relentless bullying by senior campers until a cousin reveals dark secrets about Amy's mother's past.