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October 12, 2005

Get Real @ Your Library Book List

The Get Real @ Your Library book list of nonfiction and realistic fictiontitles was created to go along with Teen Read Week 2005. The theme of the 2005 Teen Read Week is Get Real @ Your Library!

Kevin Brooks. Lucas
On an isolated English island, fifteen-year-old Caitlin McCann makes the painful journey from adolescence to adulthood through her experiences with a mysterious boy, whose presence has an unsettling effect on the island's inhabitants.

Rebecca Carroll. Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America
With raw candor, elicited by Rebecca Carroll's perceptive questioning, 15 black women between the ages of 11 and 18, from places as diverse as Brooklyn and Seattle, Alabama and Vermont, speak out about their inner and outer lives. What they say about identity, self-esteem, the role of race in their perceptions and treatment, personal values, and their hopes for the future is both enlightening and moving.