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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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Heavy Metal and You
Christopher Krovatin (PUSH/Scholastic, c2005)
FICTION/KRO Young Adult
Boy listens to lots of loud music and hangs with his friends. Boy meets girl. Boy falls dippy-happy-scared-as-hell in love with girl. Friends meet girl -- and aren't impressed. Girl meets friends -- and isn't impressed. Boy meets big dilemma. Boy plays music even louder. Big dilemma meets big, complicated resolution.
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Home of the Braves
David Klass (Farrar, c2002)
FICTION/KLA Young Adult
As Joe Brickman heads into his senior year, he's looking forward to soccer season and dating Kristine. But scary, unpredictable things start happening at Lawndale High, as past violence returns to haunt the present.
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Love, Football, and Other Contact Sports
Alden Carter (Holiday House, c2006)
FICTION/CAR Young Adult
Here are stories of students from one end of the social spectrum to the other. Jock to loner, academic snob to outcast, Carter explores and shatters the stereotypes behind the relationships, friends, rumors, peer pressure, sports, bullies, and other assorted forms of mental anguish that come with high school.
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Offsides: a Novel
Erik E. Esckilsen (Houghton Mifflin, c2004)
FICTION/ESC Young Adult
To Coach Dempsey, the Warriors teams and their Indian mascot symbolize the honor and glory of the Southwind High School athletic tradition. But soccer star Tom Gray sees little more than a denigrating cultural stereotype in the team"s mascot and the stern, war-painted Indian-head profile. As a Mohawk, Tom knows only too well the hardships Native Americans face in their struggle for respect. So when his father"s tragic death forces him and his mother to move to Southwind, Tom must make the decision of a lifetime: betray his family and heritage, or boycott Dempsey"s team and abandon the sport he loves.
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Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
David Lubar (Dutton/Penguin, c2005)
FICTION/LUB Young Adult
This hilarious novel chronicles Scott's freshman year, as he decides that high school would be a lot less overwhelming if it came with a survival manual. Here Scott records his first year of bullies, romance, honors, classes, and brotherhood. |
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