teenage girls

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teenage girls

Donorboy

a novel
2004
Rosalind, a fourteen-year-old orphan, becomes the ward of her biological father after the tragic death of her gay mother, and struggles with the adjustment of getting to know a father she never knew.

The heart is a lonely hunter

1993
A deaf-mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.

Dear Zoe

a novel
2006
Fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio attempts to work through her guilt and grief over the death of her three-year-old half-sister, Zoe--who was struck and killed by a car while Tess was supposed to be watching her--by writing letters to her.

Alligator

a novel
2005
Residents in a Newfoundland town--including teenage Colleen, an ecoterrorist drawn to alligators; Beverly, her grieving, widowed mother; Colleen's aunt Madeleine, a filmmaker trying to complete her greatest work before her death; and nineteen-year-old Frank, who has lost his mother to cancer and is being targeted by a sociopathic Russian sailor--wish for redemption while struggling with their obsessions.

How to win friends and influence people for teen girls

2005
The author provides helpful advice to teenage girls on topics relating to peer pressure, gossip, commitment, and friendships with both boys and girls.

Be healthy! it's a girl thing

food, fitness, and feeling great
2003
A guide for adolescent girls on how to stay healthy and fit, with information on nutrition and exercise.

My sister's keeper

a novel
2005
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.

Promise you won't freak out

a teenager tells her mother the truth about boys, booze, body piercing, and other touchy topics (and Mom responds)
2004
Sixteen-year-old Natalie Fuller, and her nineteen-year-old brother, Greg, share the adventures of their teenage years with their mother, Doris, and discuss issues such as homework, alcohol, and sex.

GirlSource

a book by and for young women about relationships, rights, futures, bodies, minds, and souls
2003
Offers teenage girls advice on dealing with the many issues they face, including stress, depression, menstruation, sex, pregnancy, rape, drugs, school, friendships, dating, and discrimination.

Wonder when you'll miss me

2003
Sixteen-year-old Faith Duckle embarks on a journey of discovery when she runs off with the circus after attacking one of the boys who raped her the year before.

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