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  Speak

  by Laurie Halse Anderson

  Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to... (more)
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  Keeping the Moon

  by Sarah Dessen

  Also published as Last Chance, Keeping the Moon is the story of fifteen-year-old Colie is spending the summer with her eccentric Aunt Mira while her mother travels. Formerly chubby and still insecure, Colie has built a shell around herself.It is Sarah Dessen's third novel and was first published in 1999.
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  Crank: Book 3

  Fallout

  by Ellen Hopkins

  FALLOUT is the highly anticipated final chapter in the CRANK trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins.
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  Big Fat Manifesto

  by Susan Vaught

  Jamie is a senior in high school and, like so many kids in that year, doing too much—including trying to change the world—and fighting for her rights as a very fat girl. And not quietly: she's writing a column every week in the paper with her thoughts and fears and gripes. As her column raises all kinds of questions, so too, must she find her own private way in her world, with love popping up in an unexpected... (more)
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  Cruise Control

  by Terry Trueman

  How sick is this: I'm the major jock-stud in high school, but my brother has the brain of a badminton birdie and a body to match. I've got everything and he's got nothing. I'm a three-year, three-sport letterman and Shawn can't even stand up! Like I said, sick, huh? It's hard to be a brother to someone who doesn't even know you're there. How can you talk to him when he can't understand a thing you say? How... (more)
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  No Promises in the Wind

  by Irene Hunt

  In 1932, America was in the depths of a deep depression. A job, food to fill you, a place to sleep, and shoes without holes--for millions of people, these simple needs were nothing more than dreams. At 15 years of age, Josh had to make his own way through a country of angry, frightened people. This is the story of a young man's struggle to find a life for himself in the turbulent 1930s.
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  Joey Pigza: Book 2

  Joey Pigza Loses Control

  by Jack Gantos

  "He was wired. No dought about it...Now I know what Mom meant when she said he was like me, only bigger." Joey Pigza really wants his six-week visit with his dad to count, to show him he's not as wired as he used to be, to show his dad how much he loves him. But Carter Pigza's not an easy guy to love. He's eager to make it up to Joey for past wrongs and to show him how to be a winner, to take control of his life.... (more)
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  The Orphan Of Ellis Island

  by Elvira Woodruff

  On a class trip to Ellis Island, orphan Dominic Cantori is mysteriously transported back to 1908 Italy, where he unlocks the door to his heritage and learns what it feels like to be loved by his own family."
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  The Mighty Miss Malone

  by Christopher Paul Curtis

  "We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But the Great Depression hit Gary hard, and there are no jobs for black men. When her beloved father leaves to find work, Deza, Mother, and her older brother Jimmie go in search of him, and end up in a... (more)
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  The Notorious Benedict Arnold

  A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery

  by Steve Sheinkin

  Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America’s first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle scenes, and surprising twists, this is a gripping and true adventure tale.
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  Lorsque j'étais une œuvre d'art

  by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

  "Un jeune homme, au-dessus de la falaise de Palomba Sol, est en train de manquer son énième suicide. S' il le rate cette fois, c'est à cause d'un intrus qui l'invite à le suivre, Zeus-Peter Lama. Ne pas connaître Zeus-Peter Lama, c'est avoir " de l'avoine à la place du cerveau ! " Il est l'artiste mondialement connu qui fait fureur dans le monde des arts et qui sait faire le bruit qu'il faut pour que la fureur... (more)
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  Ball Don't Lie

  by Matt de la Peña

  Sticky is a beat-around-the-head foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. He started out life so far behind the pack that the finish line seems nearly unreachable. He’s a white boy living and playing in a world where he doesn’t seem to belong. But Sticky can ball. And basketball might just be his ticket out . . . if he can only realize that he... (more)
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  Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 4

  The Battle of the Labyrinth

  by Rick Riordan

  Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.In this book, time is running out and war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more impatient by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to... (more)
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  Burned

  by Ellen Hopkins

  Raised in a religious -- yet abusive -- family, a simple dream may not exactly be a sin, but it could be the first step toward hell and eternal damnation. This dream is the first step for Pattyn. But is it to hell, or to a better life? For the first time, Pattyn starts asking questions. Questions seemingly without answers -- about God, a woman's role, sex, and love -- mostly love. What is it? Where is it? Will she... (more)
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  Weasel

  by Cynthia C. DeFelice

  The name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember.Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know Weasel is real: a man, an Indian fighter the government sent to drive off the Indians -- to "remove them." Weasel has his own ideas about removal... Now that the Shawnees are dead or have left, Weasel has turned on the settlers.... (more)
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  Nory Ryan's Song: Book 1

  Nory Ryan's Song

  by Patricia Reilly Giff

  Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for... (more)
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  They Cage the Animals at Night

  The True Story of a Child Who Learned to Survive

  by Jennings Michael Burch

  One rainy day in Brooklyn, Jennings Michael Burch's mother, too sick to care for him, left him at an orphanage, saying only, "I'll be right back." She never returned. Shuttled through a series of bleak foster homes and institutions, he never remained in any of them long enough to make a friend. Instead, Jennings clung to a tattered stuffed animal, his sole source of warmth in a frightening world. This is the... (more)
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  Divergent: Book 1

  Divergent

  by Veronica Roth

  In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the... (more)
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  Mexican WhiteBoy

  by Matt de la Peña

  DANNY’S TALL AND skinny. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. A 95 mph fastball, but the boy’s not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it. But at his private school, they don’t expect much else from him. Danny’s brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border... (more)
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  Vampire Academy: Book 4

  Blood Promise

  by Richelle Mead

  Rose goes to Russia to hunt down Dimitri. When she's there she meets Dimitri's family, an alchemist named Sydney, a guy named Abe, and she finds the un-promised vampires. When she finally finds Dimitri, he ends up taking her by surprise and kidnapping her. He takes her to an estate where he keeps her prisoner. He tells her that he is going to make her a Strigoi. But will she let him?