Lola and the boy next door
by Stephanie Perkins
Language: English
New York, N.Y. : Dutton Books, 2011.
338 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780525423287 ; 0525423281
Summary: Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Lola-Next-Door-Stephanie-Perkins/dp/0142422010/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431689641&sr=8-1&keywords=Lola+and+the+boy+next+door+%2F+Stephanie+Perkins
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How I fell in love & learned to shoot free throws
How I fell in love & learned to shoot free throws
by Jon Ripslinger
Language: English
Brookfield, Conn. : Roaring Brook Press, ©2003.
170 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0761327479 ; 9780761327479
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Danny Henderson, an indifferent basketball player, has his eye on Angel McPherson, star of the girls' team in their Iowa high school.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761318925/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
by Jon Ripslinger
Language: English
Brookfield, Conn. : Roaring Brook Press, ©2003.
170 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0761327479 ; 9780761327479
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Danny Henderson, an indifferent basketball player, has his eye on Angel McPherson, star of the girls' team in their Iowa high school.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761318925/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Labels:
2003,
basketball,
english,
high schools,
USA
Sorta like a rock star
Sorta like a rock star : a novel
by Matthew Quick
Language: English
New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
355 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780316043526 ; 0316043524
Summary: Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Sorta-Like-Rock-Matthew-Quick/dp/0316043532/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431256509&sr=8-1&keywords=sorta+like+a+rock+star
by Matthew Quick
Language: English
New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
355 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780316043526 ; 0316043524
Summary: Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Sorta-Like-Rock-Matthew-Quick/dp/0316043532/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431256509&sr=8-1&keywords=sorta+like+a+rock+star
Labels:
2010,
english,
homeless persons,
mental depression,
optimism,
USA
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