Anne E Schraff
1) Bad blood
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Naomi's trouble-making, seventeen-year-old cousin Carlotta is coming to live with the Martinez family and she is a handful, a spoiled brat with a chip on her shoulder who likes to lie and flirt.
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Raised in rural Alabama, Rosa Parks had never known a time when racial segregation was not the law. Then, one day, Parks decided that she had endured enough. Her soft-spoken defiance on a city bus was the spark-and civil rights activism, led by the young Martin Luther King, Jr., was the fire. The Montgomery bus boycott thrust parks into the spotlight, but it is only one part of her story.
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"Everyone's a little nervous after a drive-by in the barrio. But then comes news of another shooting, and it hits very close to home for Ernesto Sandoval. After Naomi's neighbor and fellow senior, Roxie Torres, is shot, a homeless drifter is arrested. But Ernesto thinks Roxie's story doesn't add up."--Page 4 of cover.
4) The lost
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"What is Paul Morales hiding? Pretty and popular Carmen Ibarra is excited when Paul asks her on a date. But she has to convince her family that Paul is respectable, a difficult task considering his gangbanger friends. Will bad-boy Paul break Carmen's heart or is he the real deal?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Urban underground volume 33
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Jaris and Marko are shocked to find Jaris's girlfriend, Sareeta, bruised and bound in an abandoned apartment with two terrified young girls.
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Jaris Spain has a hard time believing in himself. Between his pessimistic father, his falsely optimistic mother, his failure at sports, difficulty in the classroom, and inability to be noticed by the one girl that matters to him, Jaris struggles to find his own place in the world.
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"With the state of mind Trevor was in, Vanessa could talk him into anything. Would Vanessa get Trevor involved in crime again? It could happen, only this time Trevor might not be so lucky. But back then, Trevor had had enough brains to dump her. Now he was in deeper. The web Vanessa had woven around him was stickier and tighter"--Page 4 of cover.
9) Hurting time
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"Abel Ruiz is coming into his own. He's got plenty of friends. He's chosen a career path. And he's got a loving girlfriend. What more can he ask for? But when Claudia dumps him for somebody else, Abel is crushed and tries to keep his self esteem from imploding."--Page 4 of cover.
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"Lydell Nelson was a senior now, but hardly anyone in the class knew him. During lunch, he was always writing in a journal. Nobody ever bothered to ask him what he was writing, and he never volunteered any information. Lydell seemed to be a lonely person. But when people tried to be friends, he just turned them away"--Page 4 of cover.
11) Second chances
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Wanting desperately to get some money to help out his grandparents, high school senior Kevin considers getting mixed up with the wrong crowd.
12) If you were mine
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When another girl becomes attracted to him, Jaris begins to have doubts about his relationship with Sereeta.
13) Facing it
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While helping out two rocker friends by fronting for their band, high school senior Oliver Randall finds his new-found fame intoxicating.
15) Philippines
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Introduces the people, geography, language, customs, lifestyle, religion, and culture of the Philippines.
19) The experiment
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When Mr. Fruder offers Claudio a thousand dollars to take three classmates into a cave for a fear experiment, he finds out how Mr. Fruder really feels about them.
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Bluford volume 7
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This story continues the tale of the Wills family. Darcy learns that Hakeem, her first boyfriend, is moving out of the state. Then her grandmother's health declines and a mysterious new person comes into her life.