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Swede Dreams
By Apelqvist, Eva
2007/02 - Puffin Books
9780142407462 Find in the Library
Calista Swanson begins her study abroad in Stockholm and she couldn't be happier. There's finally some distance between her and her twin Suzanne. But the main reason Calista is in Sweden is Jonas, the Swedish boy who had been an exchange student at her school in Wisconsin.
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
By Brashares, Ann
2003/03 - Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
9780385730587 Find in the Library
Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn't look all that great; they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they're great. She'd "love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they're fabulous. Lena decides they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody knows why, but the pants fit everyone perfectly. Even Carmen (who never thinks she looks good in anything), thinks she looks good in the pants. Over a few bags of cheese puffs they decide to form a sisterhood, and take the vow of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . the next morning, they say good-bye. And now the journey of the pants-and the most memorable summer of their lives-begins.
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I Is Someone Else
By Cooper, Patrick
2006/04 - Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
9780385902861 Find in the Library
It is 1966, and the times, they are a-changin'. Fifteen-year-old Stephen is on his way to a summer program in France when he meets two glamorous new friends of his older brother, Rob, who has been missing for 18 months. They persuade Stephen to travel to Istanbul with them, to find his brother. And what a world opens up to him: a world of beautiful girls, drug busts, fascinating cultures, fast-moving friendships, and betrayals. As he travels further into Asia, the nature of Stephen's journey changes: The search for his brother is replaced by an inner exploration, in which he must confront his own past, and his own dark secret.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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Car Trouble
By DuPrau, Jeanne
2005/08 - Greenwillow Books
9780060736743 Find in the Library
Duff Pringle has bought his first car. (Used.) He's got six days to drive 3,000 miles cross-country to California and start a new hi-tech job that will make him wealthy. (Sort of.) Nothing can stop him. (Or can it?)
Uh-oh . . . CAR TROUBLE.
Duff's Ford Escort barely makes it a hundred miles from home before breaking down. What's he supposed to do? He's promised his new boss he'll be there by Monday. But he's also promised himself that he'll make this journey by car, so he can really see the country. Using his laptop and some quick thinking, he pieces together a way to continue his trip. What he doesn't plan on are the people he meets along the road. There's Stu, a hitchhiker with a secret; Bonnie, an aspiring singer with a con artist for a mother; two thugs looking for a trunkful of cash; and Moony, the terrier prone to carsicknes
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How to Ruin a Summer Vacation
By Elkeles, Simone
2006/10 - Llewellyn Publications
9780738709611 Find in the Library
2007 Teens’ Top Ten Winner
Amy is a spoiled American teenager with an attitude to match her Jimmy Choo slides. When her estranged father drags her to Israel to meet a family she's never known, one hilarious humiliation after another tests Amy's fierce spirit.
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Girl Overboard
By Ferris, Aimee
2007/05 - Puffin Books
9780142407998 Find in the Library
Marina has been waiting all her life to get out on the open sea. Now that she's studying abroad on a luxury yacht in the Caribbean, her dreams are finally coming true. But Marina's boyfriend wants her home in Vermont in this ninth title in the Students Across the Seven Seas series.
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The Finnish Line
By Gerber, Linda C.
2007/10 - Puffin Books
9780142409169 Find in the Library
When Nordic ski jumper Maureen Mo Clark sets foot in Finland, she escapes from her famous skier fathers shadow for a chance to jump in the renowned Lahti Ski Games. Mo quickly realizes that balancing practice and classes is more challenging than she expected.
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Pardon My French
By Hapka, Catherine
2005/11 - Puffin Books
9780142404591 Find in the Library
Seventeen-year-old Nicole studies abroad in Paris, a city filled with fast cars, edible snails, and a foreign language she doesn't speak. With the help of some new friends and a handsome Frenchman, Nicole may find Paris sweet after all.
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Long Gone Daddy
By Hemphill, Helen
2006/04 - Front Street
9781932425383 Find in the Library
BookPage Notable Title
When a young man’s grandfather dies, he and his minister father travel with up the body, and learn to understand each other along the way.
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An Abundance of Katherines
By Green, John
2006/10 - Dutton Books
9780525476887 Find in the Library
A BookPage Notable Title
In this new novel from the acclaimed author of "Looking for Alaska," Colin Singleton always falls for girls named Katherine--and he's been dumped 19 times, to be exact. Letting expectations go and allowing love are in the heart of his hilarious quest to find his missing piece and avenge dumpees everywhere.
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
By Johnson, Maureen
2005/09 - Harperteen
9780060541422 Find in the Library
Inside little blue envelope 1 are $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket.
In envelope 2 are directions to a specific London flat.
The note in envelope 3 tells Ginny: Find a starving artist.
Because of envelope 4, Ginny and her artist, a playwright/thief/bloke-about-town called Keith, go to Scotland together, with somewhat disastrous -- though utterly romantic -- results. Ginny isn't sure she'll see Keith again, and definitely doesn't know what to think about him.
Could the answer be in the envelopes?
Ginny doesn't know it, but adventures in Rome and Paris are in envelopes 6 and 8. The rules are that she has to open one at a time, in order, so perhaps it isn't surprising that she discovers things about her life and love one by one. Everything about Ginny will change this summer, and it's all because of the 13 Little B
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Girl at Sea
By Johnson, Maureen
2007/06 - Harperteen
9780060541446 Find in the Library
From the critically acclaimed author of "13 Little Blue Envelopes" comes the story of 16-year-old Clio's life-changing journey aboard her scientist father's ship, where she falls for an alluring researcher, stumbles upon an archaeological revelation, and finally makes amends with her dad.
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Are We There Yet?
By Levithan, David
2005/07 - Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
9780375828461 Find in the Library
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Sixteen-year-old Elijah is completely mellow and his 23-year-old brother Danny is completely not, so it's no wonder they can barely tolerate one another. So what better way to repair their broken relationship than to trick them into taking a trip to Italy together? Soon, though, their parents' perfect solution has become Danny and Elijah's nightmare as they're forced to spend countless hours "together. But then Elijah meets Julia, and soon the brothers aren't together nearly as much. And then Julia meets Danny and soon all three of them are in a mixed-up, turned-around, never-what-you-expect world of brothers, Italy, and love.
"Are We There Yet? isn't about a place on a map, it's about a place in the heart. David Levithan has written a magical story of a journey definitely worth taking.
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Heart and Salsa
By Nelson, Suzanne
2006/06 - Speak
9780142406472 Find in the Library
Cat Wilcox has left chilly Boston for sunny Mexico and a summer of girl bonding with her best friend Sabrina. But Sabrina has a surprise. She's accompanied by her boyfriend--a boyfriend Cat didn't know about.
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Westminster Abby
By Ostow, Micol
2005/05 - Puffin Books
9780142404133 Find in the Library
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Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America
By Sheldon, Dyan
2007/04 - Candlewick Press (MA)
9780763632953 Find in the Library
Things turn out rather different from what she expected when teenage Brit Sophie Pitt-Turnbull takes a trip across the pond in this droll new novel by the author of "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen."
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Getting the Boot
By Strauss, Peggy Guthart
2005/05 - Puffin Books
9780142404140 Find in the Library
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