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1) Posh
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in the private school world of Manhattan's Upper East Side, POSH tracks the lives of a group of teenagers and the adults who hope to control them. It's a world of over-the-top entitlement and tribal customs, a world of surface interactions and deep needs-a world of private schools and privilege.
Griffin is a preparatory school on Manhattan's Upper East Side with the best students, and the richest parent body, the city has to offer. In this eloquent...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Avis Muir is a brilliant pastry chef, Brian Muir a corporate real estate attorney. Their son, Stanley, is the proprietor of a trendy food market. Their beautiful daughter, Felice, is missing. A runaway at 13, Felice has spent five years modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach. She's about to turn 18. Soon all of the Muirs will be forced to confront their anguish, loss, and sense of betrayal. And Felice...
4) That night
Author
Language
English
Description
"A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It is high summer, the early 1960s. Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island teenagers, share an intense, all-consuming love. But Sheryl's widowed mother steps between them, and one moonlit night Rick and a gang of hoodlums descend upon her quiet neighborhood. That night, driven by Rick's determination to reclaim Sheryl, the young men provoke a violent confrontation, and as fathers step forward...
Author
Language
English
Description
"[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, A Children's Bible is loosely structured around events...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Is it asking too much to live a typical twelfth grade existence? Kelsey Kendler just wants to earn some money for university, hang out with friends, maybe even snag a boyfriend. But her pill-popping mom and distant dad scare off anybody she tries to bring home, making those last two things feel impossible. Her part-time ice cream shop job's a slog, but at least there she can escape her parents' constant fighting ... until the COVID-19 pandemic forces...
Author
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kendra Bishop quickly regrets her rash decision to write to a new reality television show when she finds herself in Monterey, California, living with a large family of activists rather than in a Manhattan apartment with her uptight, money-oriented parents.
10) Rocky road
Author
Series
Summer road trip volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
High school bandmates Shawna, Rev, and Cass are offered their very first gig. The only problem is, it's two states away and they can't get their parents on board. So they do what any rock-'n'-roll band would: sneak out! As they race against time--and the punishment that's sure to come after them--they find that life on the road is much stranger than they'd imagined.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Anna, a 17-year-old teenager discovers that she is pregnant. With the help of her boyfriend Nick and without telling her parents, she decides to go to a clandestine clinic to have an abortion. Unable to go through with it, she decides to tell her parents the whole truth, who don't support her and throw her out. Scared and not knowing where to go, Anna and her boyfriend embark on the difficult path of living on the streets. As time goes by and due...
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