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SPOTLIGHT ON........For Guys (and girls who want to understand them)
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Learn more about the Battle of the Sexes with titles selected for YA guys and gals.
All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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Are We There Yet?
David Levithan (Knopf, c2005)
FICTION/LEV Young Adult
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.
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Ball Don't Lie
Matt de la Pena (Delacorte, c2005)
FICTION/PEN Young Adult
Sticky, a beat-around-the-head foster kid, discovers that basketball may be his way out in this novel that takes place where the street and the court meet and where a boy can be anything if he puts his mind to it.
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Black and White
Paul Volponi (Viking, c2005)
FICTION/VOL Young Adult
Marcus (black) and Eddie (white) are basketball players with realistic dreams of scholarships and pro careers. Then they're caught for a string of burglaries, one that results in Eddie's shooting a man and Marcus's taking the rap.
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Claws: a Novel
Will Weaver (HarperTempest/HarperCollins, c2003)
FICTION/WEA Young Adult
For sixteen -year-old Jed Berg, life couldn't be sweeter. He's gotten his driver's license, landed a major girlfriend, and made number one singles in varsity tennis. His dad has even begun to let him drive his 1969 Chevy Camaro -- he's the envy of every guy at school. Then Jed meets his nemesis, a strange punk chick who seems to know everything about Jed -- and about his family. She has a secret to share, a secret so unsettling it triggers a chain of dreadful events.
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Crackback
John Coy (Scholastic Press, c2005)
FICTION/COY Young Adult
In this vibrant, powerful debut, Coy pens the gripping story of a young man who discovers that the hits he takes on the football field don't compare with the ones he faces in life.
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Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie
Jordan Sonnenblick (Scholastic, c2004)
FICTION/SON Young Adult
Thirteen-year-old Steven plays drums in the all-star jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school, and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey. But when Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia, Steven's world is turned upside down.
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