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Avenging the owl
by Melissa Hart
Sentenced to community service after trying to avenge the death of his kitten, Solo Hahn, a boy named for the popular movie hero and one who had been a good kid until his family's move to Oregon, is forced to serve his time working with owls, now his sworn enemies, while struggling with a damaged reputation and the ominous challenges of suicide and depression.
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A heart for any fate : westward to Oregon, 1845
by Linda Crew
Coming of age on the Oregon Trail, Lovisa King finds the strength to help her family survive death, sickness, and the "Terrible Trail" on their journey to the Oregon Territory.
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If I stay : a novel
by Gayle Forman
With no memory of the car accident itself, 17-year-old Mia must come to terms with never really knowing what happened one horrific winter's day that changed her life forever.
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The Nowhere Girls
by Amy Lynn Reed
Three misfits team up to avenge a sexual assault on a classmate, triggering change within the misogynist culture in their high school and everyone around them, in an evocative story told from rotating viewpoints.
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Piecing me together
by Renée Watson
Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
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The steep & thorny way
by Cat Winters
A suspenseful reimagining of Hamlet is set in 1920s Oregon, where the outcast daughter of a white mother and a black father finds her survival further complicated by the fearmongering of the KKK and the discovery that her stepfather might have murdered her father.
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The summer of chasing mermaids
by Sarah Ockler
Losing her ability to speak after a tragic accident, a once-talented singer finds romance with a notorious playboy in a picturesque seaside town.
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Uncaged
by John Sandford
Searching for her reckless hacker brother in Hollywood despite scant resources, 16-year-old Shay receives a frantic call from him only to learn that they are both being targeted by a ruthless research company that is conducting unspeakable experiments.
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What light
by Jay Asher
Dividing her life between her family's Oregon Christmas tree farm and the California tree lot where they spend the holiday seasons, Sierra falls for a boy who lives under the shadow of a terrible mistake, a relationship that is met with disapproval and suspicion.
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The wicked deep
by Shea Ernshaw
Three sisters, drowned as witches in Sparrow, Oregon, in the 1800s, return each summer for revenge but Penny, seventeen, is determined to stop them to save the boy she loves.
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Winger
by Andrew Smith
Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, 14-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers; falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid; and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dormmates, including the biggest bully on the team.
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Zomburbia
by Adam Gallardo
Courtney Hart, 16, is a typical teen living after the zombie apocalypse that wiped out the human population in the world's major cities. She hangs out with her friends when she's not working at her part-time job at Bully Burger and hopes to become a zombie researcher and move to New York when she graduates high school.
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The six rules of maybe
by Deb Caletti
Scarlet, an introverted high school junior surrounded by outcasts who find her a good listener, learns to break old patterns and reach for hope when her pregnant sister moves home with her new husband, with whom Scarlet feels an instant connection.
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