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Chains
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
Cover By: Christopher Silas Neal
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
Ages: above 10
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth,...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Venomous
By: Christopher Krovatin
Cover By: Kelly Yates
This edition: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date: September 2, 2008
Ages: above 14
Locke Vinetti is a high school junior, disenchanted and more than a little hostile. In fact, for years he's had a lousy social life because of a problem he has with his anger--a force he calls "the venom." Ever since he was...
Other Formats: eBook
Living Dead Girl
By: Elizabeth Scott
Cover By: Russell Gordon
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: September 2, 2008
Ages: above 16
Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared.Once upon a time, my name was not Alice.Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends -- her life. She...
