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Fourteen-year-old Casey dreads leaving her friends and boyfriend to spend a boring summer on a Caribbean island with her naturalist father, stepmother, and brothers, but she has some life-changing experiences that include learning to sail, helping with turtle conservation, surviving storms, and romance.
82) The silent storm
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Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since seeing her parents die in a hurricane, and now, three years later, another storm threatens the home she shares with her grandfather on Galveston Island.
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"Due to a rare brain tumor, Vera Garcia's soccer career is suddenly sidelined at the start of her senior year. When her single mother Eliza, terrified at the thought of losing her only daughter, clings too tightly, both Vera's identity and her freedom are in jeopardy. They make it to St. Petersburg, Florida for surgery, just as Hurricane Phoenix's trajectory turns directly toward them. As it churns closer and closer, past and present collide in a...
93) Traumatized
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(Shannon Ford).Port City High novel volume no. 7
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"A hurricane is heading for the Texas Gulf Coast. Brandi's parents make an early call: evacuate now. But Marisa's father decides to leave at the last minute. The Maldonados pay the price with crazy traffic and long gasoline lines. Shane's family decides to ride out the storm in Port City's biggest hotel. Will they live to regret it?"--Page [4] of cover.
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Teenager Maxine is determined to scatter her father's ashes at the lighthouse on Shackles Island, off the coast of Louisiana because that is where she has good memories of him; Eli, haunted by the ghost of his older sister, is determined to end his own life where she died, on the rocks under the lighthouse--but neither Max or Eli count on running into each other, or on Hurricane Celeste which is roaring toward the island.