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  Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff: Stories of Tough Times and Lessons Learned (Chicken Soup for the Soul)

  by Jack Canfield, Kimberly Kirberger

  This latest offering in the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul series explores a host of challenges faced by today's teens. Within its pages teens will find portraits of life's complexities expressed from the viewpoint of their peers. Teen contributors share their thoughts and feelings on difficult issues, ranging from poor self-image to thoughts of suicide, from family discord to coping with the loss,... (more)
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  The Last Time They Met

  by Anita Shreve

  The Last Time They Met opens with two old lovers, both poets, running into each other at a writer's conference. Well, Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes aren't old, actually--just middle-aged, with a lifetime's worth of history between them. In the first section, Anita Shreve only suggests what that history contains: there was adultery, we gather, and a car accident, plus some illicit encounters under a pitiless Kenyan... (more)
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  Septimus Heap: Book 4

  Queste

  by Angie Sage

  There's trouble at the Castle, and it's all because Merrin Meredith has returned with Darke plans for Septimus. More trouble awaits Septimus and Jenna in the form of Tertius Fume, the ghost of the very first Chief Hermetic Scribe, who is determined to send Septimus on a deadly Queste. But Septimus and Jenna have other plans—they are headed for the mysterious House of Foryx, a place where all Time meets and the... (more)
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  Septimus Heap: Book 3

  Physik

  by Angie Sage

  When Silas Heap unSeals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she's still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to give herself everlasting life requires Jenna's compliance, Septimus's disappearance, and the talents of her son, Marcellus Pye, a famous Alchemist and Physician. And if Queen... (more)
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  Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love & Friendship (Chicken Soup for the Soul)

  by Kimberly Kirberger

  In Love & Friendship teens expose their true thoughts and feelings about relationships. This latest serving from the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul series explores the topics nearest and dearest to your hearts: love and friendship. The adolescent years are challenging-our relationships with our family and friends are constantly being redefined and we start facing tough choices about the... (more)
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  The STEPSISTER 2 (FEAR STREET ) : THE STEPSISTER 2

  by R. L. Stine

  Declared sane by her doctors, Nancy reunites with Emily one year after trying to kill her, but subsequent attempts on Emily's life make the frightened teen suspect that Nancy is not really cured.
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  Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

  by Billy Collins

  Sailing Alone Around the Room , by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris , Questions About Angels , The Art of Drowning , and Picnic, Lightning . These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may... (more)
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  I Spy Super Challenger

  by Walter Wick

  This stunning new book was created as a super challenge for I Spy's biggest fans. Explore all-new riddles within favorite spreads from the series' hot bestsellers--more challenging, more clever, more fun! Full color.
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  Spike: After The Fall HC

  by Brian Lynch, Franco Urru

  Poet, vampire, murderer, lover, hero, prisoner, slave - Spike has been called a lot of things. But, by the time this fight is over, he'll have one more name: Lord! Or "dust"... maybe we'll just call him dust, considering how it seems things are going in his immediate future. But after enjoying this collection of the four-issue Spike: After the fall series you'll be looking at the events of Angel: After the Fall in... (more)
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  Night Trilogy: Book 1

  Night

  by Elie Wiesel

  In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night , a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers... (more)
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  Othello

  by David Bevington, William Shakespeare

  Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. This book contains information on the source from which Shakespeare derived "Othello"--selections from Giraldi Cinthio's "Hecatommithi". Special introduction by Alvin Kernan,... (more)
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  Stay Out of the Basement (Goosebumps #2)

  by R. L. Stine

  Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, he says. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they...meet...some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice that their father is developing plant like tendencies. In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy-and seedy. Is it just part of Dr. Brewer's 'harmless'... (more)
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  Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!

  by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

  Oh, why won't Marvin K. Mooney just please go now? In this 1972 classic for "beginning beginners," Dr. Seuss devotes his rhymes to budging the reluctant young Marvin K.: "The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. GO! I don't care how." But despite his impatience, our narrator certainly isn't short of ideas on how Marvin could make an exit. "You can go on stilts. You can go by fish. You can go in a... (more)
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  The Glass Castle

  A Memoir

  by Jeannette Walls

  Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle , Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing... (more)
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  Hop on Pop

  by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

  Illus. in color. "Combines phonics and word recognition, making sounds and letters recognizable. Highly recommended."--(starred) School Library Journal.
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  The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library

  The Cat in the Hat

  by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

  Poor Dick and Sally. It's cold and wet and they're stuck in the house with nothing to do . . . until a giant cat in a hat shows up, transforming the dull day into a madcap adventure and almost wrecking the place in the process! Written by Dr. Seuss in 1957 in response to the concern that "pallid primers <with> abnormally courteous, unnaturally clean boys and girls' were leading to growing illiteracy among... (more)
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  Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II (Chicken Soup for the Soul)

  by Kimberly Kirberger

  Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II offers more inspiring stories to help you master the game we call life. Today's teens have ever more issues and social pressures to juggle than young adults just 20 years ago. This book, like its predecessor, can be your guide - a beacon in the darkness, a safe haven in a storm, a warm hug in the cold and a respite from loneliness. There's no preaching as to what you should and... (more)
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  The Cuckoo Clock of Doom (Goosebumps Series)

  by Carol Matas, R. L. Stine

  When his father brings home an antique cuckoo clock, Michael is cautioned not to touch it, but he turns back the hands and suddenly he is getting younger by the minute--a year younger to be exact.
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  The Secret Life of Bees

  by Sue Monk Kidd

  Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, Lily Owens has shaped her entire life around one devastating, blurred memory--the afternoon her mother was killed, when Lily was four. Since then, her only real companion has been the fierce-hearted, and sometimes just fierce, black woman Rosaleen, who acts as her "stand-in mother."When Rosaleen insults three of the deepest racists in... (more)
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  Animorphs: Book 1

  The Invasion (Animorphs #1)

  by K. A. Applegate

  We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us...well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is in really big trouble. Yeah. Even you.When Jake and his friends hook up at the mall one night, they decide to go through the abandoned construction site on the way... (more)