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Applewhites volume 1
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English
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Will anyone take on Jake Semple?
Jake Semple is notorious. Rumor has it he burned down his old school and got kicked out of every school in his home state. Only one place will take him now, and that's a home school run by the Applewhites, a chaotic and hilarious family of artists. The only one who doesn't fit the Applewhite mold is E.D. -- a smart, sensible girl who immediately clashes with the unruly Jake. Jake thinks surviving this one will be...
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Jack Henry books volume 5
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English
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When his father rejoins the Navy and moves the family to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, ten-year-old Jack becomes confused by a crush on his teacher, contradictory advice from his parents, and a very strange neighbor.
4) Belles
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Belles volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Isabelle loves her impoverished North Carolina beach community, but when her grandmother must enter a nursing home, Izzie is placed with distant relatives she never knew--a state senator and his preppy wife and children.
6) One true way
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From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendship grows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.
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Maggie Valley series volume 1
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English
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In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.
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Applewhites volume 2
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English
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Great changes are in store for the highly creative and somewhat eccentric Applewhite family when money problems force them to open a summer camp for gifted children, who almost immediately begin to rebel, while a mysterious interloper watches from the woods.
9) Daughter
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Scarlet Murphy is shocked to learn that the father she never knew is a notorious serial killer, and now that he is dying, he will give the names of his remaining victims to his daughter--but only if she agrees to meet with him.
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Belles volume 3
Language
English
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Amid preparations for their preppy Southern town's Founders Day celebration and their own shared sweet sixteen, sisters Isabelle Scott and Mirabelle Monroe long to break free from the tight constraints that come with being the daughters of a prominent public figure.
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English
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"When Corrine Parker's girlfriend dies in a car accident Corrine struggles to come to terms with her grief and whether she is ready to come out as bisexual"--
Corinne Parker is a runner. She runs on her high school's cross-country team. She runs from her alcoholic mother and her clueless father. And she runs from the truth that she's bisexual. Then Maggie Bailey dies. Maggie, the captain of the rival high school's cross-country team and Corinne's...
13) Crow
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English
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In 1898, Moses Thomas's summer vacation does not go exactly as planned as he contends with family problems and the ever-changing alliances among his friends at the same time as he is exposed to the escalating tension between the African-American and white communities of Wilmington, North Carolina.
Author
Series
Maggie Valley series volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In late 1963, with her family in financial straits, twelve-year-old Olivia runs away to Nashville to sell some of her songs.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement. Based on true events. Includes author's note"--Provided by publisher.
20) Pretty is
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Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The summer before starting middle school, eleven-year-old Erin feels out of place, is being treated badly by her former best friend, and is embarrassed by her dorky older sister, but when she tries to get even she steps over the line.
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