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Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
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Now happily establshed with their grandfather, the 4 Aldens finish the school year looking forward to a promised surprise. Grandfather owns an island, and they are going to live in a house on it for the summer! But who is the mysterious young man staying with the fisherman, the only other resident on the island?
9) Sold
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When she is tricked by her stepfather and sold into prostitution, thirteen-year-old Lakshmi becomes submerged in a nightmare where her only comfort is the friendship she forms with the other girls, which helps her survive and eventually escape.
10) Barely floating
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"Natalia De La Cruz Rivera y Santiago, also known as Nat, was swimming neighborhood kids out of their money at the local Inglewood pool when her life changed. The LA Mermaids performed, emerging out of the water with matching sequined swimsuits, and it was then that synchronized swimming stole her heart. The problem? Her activist mom and professor dad think it's a sport with too much emphasis on looks -- on being thin and white. Nat grew up the youngest...
11) Mystery ranch
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Violet and Jessie begin an adventure when they journey to Centerville to keep Aunt Jane company on the family ranch.
12) The replacement
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Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant, and when a friend's sister disappears he goes against his family's and town's deliberate denial of the problem to confront the beings that dwell under the town, tampering with human lives.
15) Superfudge
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Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
19) Caboose mystery
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When the Aldens spend the summer riding on a train, they get to live in a train car once again- this time they're staying in Caboose Number 777. The number is hard to forget , and indeed, the children meet people at each stop who seem to know it well. It turns out Caboose Number 777 has an unusual past- one that comes with its very own mystery.
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