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Tear-JerkersMiddle School
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The line tender
by Kate Allen
When a Great White shark appears in the water near in her sleepy Rockport community, triggering a devastating tragedy, a 12-year-old girl must pick up the work of her late marine-biologist mother to lift the cloud of grief hanging over her community.
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Brief chronicle of another stupid heartbreak
by Adi Alsaid
Struggling with writer's block after being dumped after graduation, a teen romance columnist in fear of losing her college scholarship chronicles the relationship of a couple that has planned their end-of-summer breakup.
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A story about cancer (with a happy ending)
by India Desjardins
When she is ten years old, a girl is diagnosed with leukemia and describes her journey through the next five years, including her medical treatments, her relationships with nurses and other patients, and falling in love.
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Phantom limbs
by Paula Garner
Separated from his best friend in the aftermath of a terrible accident that ended his little brother's life, Otis becomes the unlikely protTgT of a former champion swimmer before he is forced to confront painful memories when his best friend returns.
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In Your Shoes
by Donna Gephart
Miles is an anxious boy who loves his family's bowling center even if though he could be killed by a bolt of lightning or a wild animal that escaped from the Philadelphia Zoo on the way there.
Amy is the new girl at school who wishes she didn't have to live above her uncle's funeral home and tries to write her way to her own happily-ever-after.
Then Miles and Amy meet in the most unexpected way . . . and that's when it all begins. . . .
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Just wreck it all
by N Griffin
Crippled with guilt after causing a horrific accident two years earlier, sixteen-year-old Bett's life is a series of pluses and minuses. But when the pluses become too much to outweigh the minuses, Bett is forced to confront her self-harming behavior.
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We are okay
by Nina LaCour
Running back to college and shutting out everyone from her life in California after a traumatic summer that nobody else knows about, Marin is forced to confront what happened during a lonely, fateful winter break. By the award-winning author of Hold Still.
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Trail of crumbs
by Lisa J. Lawrence
Seventeen-year-old Greta struggles with confusion and shame after blacking out at a party and discovering she has been raped.
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Everything all at once
by Katrina Leno
When her struggles with anxiety worsen in the aftermath of a family death, Lottie is bequeathed a series of letters from her late aunt, a best-selling author, who leaves instructions to help Lottie overcome her fears and explore her own literary voice.
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The lost & found
by Katrina Leno
Forging a friendship through an online support group, Frannie and Louis, teens whose losses are tied to mysterious disappearances, search for answers during a road trip to Austin, where they find magical things that the other has lost.
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Five feet apart
by Rachael Lippincott
A teen on the waiting list for a lung transplant faces an impossible choice when her infection risks prevent her from getting within five feet of the boy she loves, a fellow patient who is determined to experience life outside the hospital.
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When we collided
by Emery Lord
Resigning himself to another summer of just getting by, a young man overwhelmed by family responsibilities meets a vibrant, beauty-loving girl whose zest for life turns dangerous when she pursues increasingly high-risk adventures.
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The girl with the broken heart
by Lurlene McDaniel
To escape her father's overprotectiveness, twenty-year-old Kenzie Caine spends the summer working at a horse farm rehabilitating Tennessee Walking horses, where a good deed results in a violent end to the summer and the revelation of her attractive assistant's secrets.
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Nathan
by Susan Ouriou
Ten-year-old Nathan struggles with the school bully and his Grampa's Alzheimer's Disease, but when his grandfather moves in with him, he teaches Nathan about his indigenous heritage and he soon discovers the wisdom and strength he holds.
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The square root of summer
by Harriet Reuter Hapgood
When the fabric of the universe surrounding her sleepy seaside town begins to fray, 17-year-old Gottie is sent through wormholes to her past, causing her to reshape the experiences of attending her grandfather's funeral, falling in love and saying goodbye to a friend.
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Girl against the universe
by Paula Stokes
Convinced that she is jinxed after a series of devastating accidents occur whenever she's around, Maguire falls in love with tennis star Jordy, who wants to help her break her unlucky streak but who Maguire avoids for his own safety.
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Come November
by Katrin van Dam
Senior year at high school is going to be hard enough for Rooney Harris, desperate to get into a good college and away from her small town, but things get tougher when she ends up as the sole support for herself and her younger brother because of their mother's obsession with the Next World Society, a cult that believes they will be whisked away to a new world paradise on November 17.
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