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Save A Turkey... Feast on These Books November 2018
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The chocolate war
by Robert Cormier
Jerry Renault, a high-school freshman who refuses to participate in the Trinity School annual fund-raising chocolate sale, is forced to defend his convictions.
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Close to famous
by Joan Bauer
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
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You wish
by Amanda Hubbard
Kayla McHenry's life is transformed when a wish on her sixteenth birthday comes true--along with all of her previous birthday wishes, beginning with the appearance of a pink pony.
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Love and peaches : a novel
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
In this conclusion to the Peaches series, which is filled with Southern charm, three irresistible Georgia girls embark on their final adventure together, finding love and friendship that will last a lifetime.
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Hunger : a tale of courage
by Donna Jo Napoli
A tale inspired by the Irish potato famine follows the experiences of a farm girl who struggles to protect her family in the wake of the devastating blight while hiding her friendship with the daughter of a wealthy landowner .
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Tell me three things
by Julie Buxbaum
Struggling to acclimate after moving from Chicago to Los Angeles, high school junior Jessie receives an offer of assistance from an anonymous person through email who becomes her confidante and ally and who Jessie wishes she could meet in person.
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Cupcake
by Rachel Cohn
Former "bad girl" Cyd Charisse moves to New York City to live with her half-brother Danny while exploring career options and various relationships, including the one with Shrimp, who is surfing in New Zealand.
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See you at Harry's
by Johanna Knowles
Fern feels invisible in her family, where Sarah is working at the family restaurant, Holden is struggling with bullies, and Charlie is the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
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I am the cheese : a novel
by Robert Cormier
An innocent young boy recounts a suspenseful tale of government corruption and espionage, in a new edition that celebrates the acclaimed novel's twentieth anniversary.
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The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
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Eve & Adam
by Michael Grant
A story told from alternating viewpoints by the husband-and-wife team creators of the Animorphs series follows the efforts of a car accident patient who, while recovering in her mother's research facility, is given the task of creating a perfect boy using detailed simulation technologies.
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Peaches : a novel
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.
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Himouto! Umaru-chan. 3
by SankakuHead
Umaru's dreams of lunchtime pizza are dashed when Ebina shows up with a bag of super high-quality rice.
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The way you make me feel
by Maurene Goo
Sentenced to a summer working on her father's food truck after taking a joke too far, prankster Korean-American Clara Shin unexpectedly bonds with a straitlaced co-worker and a cute boy on another food truck while reevaluating her relationship with her estranged mother.
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Dumplin'
by Julie Murphy
Questioning her plus-sized body for the first time when an athletic boy appears to return her affections, Willowdean enters her city's beauty pageant and uses her sassy styles and talents to compete against thinner contestants.
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Puddin'
by Julie Murphy
A companion to the best-selling Dumplin' follows the unlikely friendship between a longtime weight-loss camper who aspires to become a newscaster and kiss her crush, and a pretty and popular dance-team captain with an equally popular boyfriend who tends to clash with girls her own age.
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Scrambled eggs at midnight
by Brad Barkley
Calliope and Eliot, two fifteen-year-olds in Asheville, North Carolina, begin to acknowledge some unpleasant truths about their parents and form their own ideas about love.
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