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Finding Your True IdentityOut in the open
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A matter of heart
by Amy Fellner Dominy
When a fainting incident at a meet reveals a deadly heart condition and puts an end to her Olympic swimming dreams, 16-year-old Abby is challenged to discover who she is without the one thing that has defined her young life.
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Where the stars still shine
by Trish Doller
Abducted at age five, Callie, now seventeen, has spent her life on the run but when her mother is arrested and she is returned to her father in Florida, Callie must find a way to leave her past behind and become part of a family.
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Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents and his family that he has never asked before.
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Symptoms of being human
by Jeff Garvin
A gender-fluid teen who identifies as a boy or girl on different days—and whose challenges are complicated by a new school and a conservative politician father—is encouraged by a therapist to write an anonymous blog that goes unexpectedly viral.
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Lock and key
by Sarah Dessen
When her mother abandons her at her estranged sister's house to start her life anew, Ruby tries to adjust to her new home, family, and strange new reality the best she can while dealing with the sad fact that her mother is most probably gone from her life for good.
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Gorgeous
by Paul Rudnick
When 18-year-old Becky Randle's mother dies, she is whisked away from a Missouri trailer park to New York City, where fashion designer Tom Kelly offers to transform her into a glamorous "Rebecca"--a girl fit for a prince--but soon she begins to fear that she's on the road to losing touch with her real self.
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American born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang
A graphic novel by the author of Duncan's Kingdom alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in American popular culture.
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Don't look back
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Resurfacing with no memory of what happened to her after disappearing with her best friend, Samantha struggles with her former identity as a popular bully and elects to start over by being kinder to her family and bonding with a boy she once disdained.
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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Leaving the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school, Junior struggles to find his place in his new surroundings in order to escape his destiny back on the reservation.
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The first time she drowned
by Kerry Kletter
Emancipating herself from the mental institution where she was abandoned more than two years earlier, 18-year-old Cassie resolves to start a new life only to find herself succumbing to the unhealthy parent-child dynamic that has dominated her life.
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Don't touch
by Rachel Wilson
Struggling with a phobia that compels her to wear full-length gloves to avoid touching others, aspiring actress Caddie finds inspiration to overcome her problems while auditioning for a school play opposite an attractive boy.
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Reality Boy
by A. S. King
Haunted by his past as a child reality television celebrity, teen Gerald Faust struggles with violent anger that has relegated him to a very lonely world and the special education program at school, where he starts to feel dangerously close to snapping--until he chooses to create possibilities for himself that he never knew he deserved.
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Saving Montgomery Sole
by Mariko Tamaki
An outcast teen girl explores the mysteries of friendship, family, faith, and phenomena, including the greatest mystery of all--herself.
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