Theme: Guilt

You against Me

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

If someone hurts your sister and you’re any kind of man, you seek revenge.If your brother’s accused of a terrible crime but says he didn’t do it, you defend him.When Mikey’s sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie’s brother is charged with the offense, her world begins to [...]

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Blink & Caution

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.

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Departure Time

By Book Importer | Published: January 20, 2011

Departure Time is the amazing journey of a girl in two stories. The girl in the hotel with the fox and the rat, and the girl whose father travels a lot, who suggests they write a story together, a story about talking animals. She doe sn’t wan to. She is angry with him, because [...]

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The Gate In The Wall

By Kathy G. Short | Published: December 1, 2008

Pressed into service as a canal woman, ten-year-old Emma finds ways to utilize her artistic gifts. Although it is a better existence than her strenuous job in the English silk mill, she feels guilty over the sister she left behind. Authentic details make this an engaging story–one that reveals the hardships of the mid-1800s when [...]

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Let’s Get Lost

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

As she acts out the role of ” Mean Girl”- at school, with her father and brother, and even with her new boyfriend-sixteen-year-old Isabel comes to a dead end and finally confronts issues related to her mother’s death.

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