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  Sunrise Over Fallujah

  by Walter Dean Myers

  Operation Iraqi Freedom, that's the code name. But the young men and women in the military's Civil Affairs Battalion have a simpler name for it: WAR. In this new novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam war of his classic, FALLEN ANGELS. He creates memorable characters like the book's narrator, Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who's... (more)
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  Spirit Bear: Book 2

  Ghost of Spirit Bear

  by Ben Mikaelsen

  Alone in the wilderness, Cole found peace. But he's not alone anymore. Cole Matthews used to be a violent kid, but a year in exile on a remote Alaskan island has a way of changing your perspective. After being mauled by a Spirit Bear, Cole started to heal. He even invited his victim, Peter Driscal, to join him on the island and they became friends. But now their time in exile is over, and Cole and Peter are... (more)
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  My Most Excellent Year

  A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park

  by Steve Kluger

  Dear Anthony: I appreciate your recent interest, but I’m not accepting applications at this time. Your letter will be kept in our files and someone will get back to you if there is an opening. Thank you for thinking of me. Respectfully, Alejandra Perez P.S. It’s not “Allie.” It’s “Ale.” Meet T.C., who is valiantly attempting to get Alejandra to fall in love with him; Alejandra, who is playing hard to get and... (more)
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  Larry: Book 1

  The Gospel According to Larry

  by Janet Tashjian

  Josh Swensen is not your average 17-year-old. At the age of two, he was figuring out algebraic equations with colored magnetic numbers. He is a prodigy who only wants to make the world a better place. Josh’s wish comes true when his virtual alter ego, Larry, becomes a huge media sensation. Larry has his own Web site where he posts sermons on anti-consumerism and has a large following of adults and teens.... (more)
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  The Hunger Games: Book 1

  The Hunger Games

  by Suzanne Collins

  MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR.In the ruins of a place once known as the Rocky Mountains in North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. In the previous war the Capitol took over and now, the Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl from each district, between the ages of twelve... (more)
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  Spirit Bear: Book 1

  Touching Spirit Bear

  by Ben Mikaelsen

  Will the attack of the Spirit Bear destroy Cole's life or save his soul? Cole Matthews has been fighting stealing and raising hell for years. So his punishment for beating Peter Driscal senseless is harsh. Given a choice between prison and Native American Circle Justice, Cole chooses Circle Justice: He'll spend one year in complete isolation on a remote Alaskan island. In the first days of his banishment, Cole... (more)
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  Crackback

  by John Coy

  Miles manning, cornerback for his football team is going to be great. He can feel it. But when he finds out that his best friend, Zack and his friend Tank are using steroids, it's up to him to stand up to peer pressure and withstand the arrogance of his dad and his overaggresive coach
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  The Clique: Book 9

  Bratfest at Tiffany's

  by Lisi Harrison

  Massie Block: The Briarwood boys have invaded OCD and are taking over everything. Worse, the soccer boys have become so popular that the Pretty Committee's alpha status is in serious jeopardy. So Massie lays out a New Year-New Pretty Committee rule: Anyone caught crushing on a boy will be thrown out of the NPC- forever . But will she be able to follow her own decree when she sees that Derrington has ditched his... (more)
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  Tough Boy Sonatas

  by Curtis L. Crisler

  Starred Review. Grade 8 Up—In this collection of 38 poems, an unflinching narrative offers a view of the boys who run within the confines of the industrial town of Gary, IN. Their lives, unknown to the "groggy commuters" who flash by on the train, are harsh and difficult, bold and passionate. There's LaRoy, who sings, "i am not a failing flashlight. i am an inspired/inspiration….they know I have/hope, and hope... (more)
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  I Am Scout

  The Biography of Harper Lee

  by Charles J. Shields

  To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most widely read novels in American literature. It’s also a perennial favorite in highschool English classrooms across the nation. Yet onetime author Harper Lee is a mysterious figure who leads a very private life in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, refusing to give interviews or talk about the novel that made her a household name. Lee’s life is as rich as her fiction,... (more)
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  Feed

  by M. T. Anderson

  Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction,... (more)
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  The Pact

  by Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, George Jenkins

  They grew up on the streets of Newark, facing city life's temptations, pitfalls, even jail. But one day these three young men made a pact. They promised each other they would all become doctors, and stick it out together through the long, difficult journey to attain that dream. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt are not only friends to this day-they are all doctors. This is a story about the power... (more)
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  1 Dead in Attic

  After Katrina

  by Chris Rose

  "1 Dead in Attic" is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor -- in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are... (more)
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  The Last Exit to Normal

  by Michael B. Harmon

  It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his dad and Edward, The Boyfriend. As if it’s not painful enough living in a hick town with spiked hair, a... (more)
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  The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Book 2

  The Kingdom on the Waves

  by M. T. Anderson

  Volume II of the National Book Award Winner and NEW YORK TIMES bestseller — a stunning resolution to the epic tale that "fascinates, appalls, condemns, and enthralls." Fearing a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, escape through rising tides and pouring rain to find shelter in British-occupied Boston. Sundered from all he knows — the College of Lucidity, the rebel cause — Octavian hopes to find... (more)
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  Nation

  by Terry Pratchett

  The sea has taken everything. Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much is taken, something is returned, and somewhere in the jungle Daphne—a girl from the other side of the globe—is the sole survivor of a ship destroyed by the same wave. Together the two confront the aftermath of catastrophe. Drawn by the smoke of Mau and Daphne's sheltering fire, other refugees... (more)
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  Heaven Trilogy: Book 2

  The First Part Last

  by Angela Johnson

  The First Part Last is about a boy and girl at a young age. Nia is the girl that is pregnant. She has a baby that they name feather. Bobby is the dad of the child. Bobby goes through some difficult changes when the child comes. At the end of the book Nia gets eclampsia, which means (brain dead and will be kept in a coma for the rest of her life.) Bobby has to take care of Feather all by himself, which is a hard... (more)
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  Born on a Blue Day

  A Memoir of Asperger's and an Extraordinary Mind

  by Daniel Tammet

  One of the world's fifty living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story---and explain how his incredible mind works.
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  Copper Sun

  by Sharon M. Draper, Sharon Draper

  Amari lives in a small village with her family and is very happy until one day when "pale" faced people come and kill and capture many of her people and march them to the beach where they board a ship to a new world called America. Amari is sold away to a plantation owner in South Carolina and works on a rice plantation. She is treated terribly and is constantly afraid. Can Amari escape her bondage?
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  Hard Love

  by Ellen Wittlinger

  Since his parents' divorce, John's mother hasn't touched him, her new fiancé wants them to move away, and his father would rather be anywhere than at Friday night dinner with his son. It's no wonder John writes articles like "Interview with the Stepfather" and "Memoirs from Hell." The only release he finds is in homemade zines like the amazing Escape Velocity by Marisol, a self-proclaimed "Puerto Rican Cuban... (more)