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    YOUNG ADULT    
          DEVIL ON MY HEELS     SHADES OF SIMON GRAY  
       

2005 (Dell Laurel-Leaf)
2004 (Delacorte)

Dove begins to question the privileged life she's always known and uncovers painful secrets and dangerous truths.

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2003 (Dell Laurel-Leaf)
2001 (Delacorte)

For two hundred years Bellehaven has harbored a sinister secret. Then one night Simon Gray crashes his Honda into . . .

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          SHADOW PEOPLE     SWALLOWING STONES  
       

2002 (Dell)
2000 (Delacorte)

Five voices combine to tell the chilling tale of what happens in a small town when teenage fury is unleashed.

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1999 (Dell Laurel-Leaf)
1997 (Delacorte)

Michael McKenzie fires
his new rifle into the air
on July Fourth, never
imagining that his bullet
will accidentally. . .

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 MIDDLE GRADE

 
          COMFORT CREEK       MAIL-ORDER KID  
       

1998 (Dell Yearling)
1996 (Delacorte)

Rough times lie ahead for the Ellerbees, but they have enough warmth, wit, and energy to face any challenge.

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1988 (G.P. Putnam)

When his parents adopt
a six-year-old boy from
Korea, Flip Doty doesn't
see any reason why he
can't adopt a red fox .


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 PICTURE BOOK

ANTHOLOGY (Young Adult)  
        HOMEBODY       DON'T CRAMP MY STYLE  
 

Illus. by Karl Swanson
1991 (Putnam)

The gray cat wasn't about to give up her home. Because home was home and . . .

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Edited by Lisa R. Fraustino 2001 (Simon & Schuster)

"Transfusion,"
a short story
by Joyce McDonald



 

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