Laurie Klein
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Language
English
Description
Cordelia Lu Hankins is the half Caucasian, half Chinese – and all albino. She has grown up in a remote lumber town with her distant father and a giant stepmother nicknamed Babe, convinced she is ugly. Then, in the summer of 1918, when she is fourteen, she falls in love with the dashing Squirl.
2) Honor Bright
Author
Language
English
Description
While much of the world is at war, 14-year-old Teddy wages her own war against herself, her brother, and her perfect, and perfectly despised, mother. Forced to spend the summer at the beach with a grandmother she'd never met, Teddy faces her enemies with arrogance and anger.