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2
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- Blaming herself for the car
accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother,
fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional
recovery.
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3
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- Gabrielle Des Chenes, gifted
Healer and one of the royal family of Verdeau, finds herself falling in
love with Feolan, an Elf who arrives at her castle seeking help for his
wounded friend and who warns of imminent danger from invaders who
threaten the freedom of all who live in the Krylian Basin.
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4
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- Teenager Tim Temples must
decide if he wants to leave his comfortable life in a small town and go
to college.
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5
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- Kristina Snow is the perfect
daughter, but she meets a boy who introduces her to drugs and becomes a
very different person, struggling to control her life and her mind.
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6
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- After spending her summer
running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school’s
rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the
sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
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7
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- “We’ve been called many
things: freaks, horrors, monsters, devils, witches, retards, wonders,
marvels. To most, we’re a curiosity. In small-town Leaford, where we
live and work, we’re just ‘The Girls.’”
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8
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- In a land that has been at war
so long that no one remembers the reason for fighting, the shape
shifters who rule the two factions agree to marry in the hope of
bringing peace, despite deep-seated fear and distrust of each other.
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9
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- After capturing a bank robber,
nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious
messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he
begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
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10
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- A humorous account of a New
York City teenager’s battle with depression and his time spent in a
psychiatric hospital.
- www.nedvizzini.com
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11
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- In a corporate-governed future
world where people take the last names of the companies they work for,
merchandising officer Hack Nike tries to get out of a contract that
requires him to shoot teenagers, a situation that results in this
unwitting involvement with an agent who is out to get Hack’s employer.
- www.maxbarry.com
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12
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- After learning that he is the
son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old
Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his
new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
- www.rickriordan.com
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13
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- Sixteen-year-old Miles’ first
year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends
and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life
and death after a fatal car crash.
- www.sparksflyup.com
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14
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- Sixteen-year-old Mattie,
determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her
father and boyfriend, takes a job at a hotel in 1906 where the death of
a guest renews her determination to live her own life.
- www.jenniferdonnelly.com
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15
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- Cal Thompson is a carrier of a
parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the
girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.
- www.scottwesterfeld.com
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16
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- Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his
high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he witnesses
the rape of the rookie player by teammates and grapples with this own
use of performance-enhancing drugs.
- www.robertlipsyte.com
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17
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- Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi
leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in
the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex
slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
- www.pattymccormick.com
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18
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- Haunted by flashbacks,
fifteen-year-old Meredith learns that three years in prison has not
changed the abusive father who molested her.
- www.lauraweiss.com
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19
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- In a terrible instant, Kate
Bickford’s young son vanishes. Racing home hoping to find her son, Kate
comes face-to-face with his abductor, who wants all the money she has.
If she doesn’t follow something he calls The Method, the consequences
will be gruesome.
- www.rodmanphilbrick.com
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20
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- Trixie Stone is only a
freshman in high school when Jason, the junior she thinks she loves,
dumps her. Then one night at a party, their paths cross again. A few
hours later, a visibly shaken Trixie comes home to tell her father that
Jason assaulted her. Daniel Stone has always done everything in his
power to keep his daughter safe. But he never imagined anything so
devastating could happen to Trixie—and now he’s not sure how to help
her.
- www.jodipicoult.com
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21
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- After a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer
called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished
Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. This is the story of one
man’s mission to promote peace, one school at a time, and its
extraordinary outcome.
- www.ikat.org
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22
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- After learning about his
magical ancestry and his won warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack
embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.
- www.cindahima.com
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23
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- After his younger brother
commits suicide, Kyle Kirby decides to exact revenge on the person he
holds responsible.
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Notes
