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  Uglies: Book 1

  Uglies

  by Scott Westerfeld

  Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure... (more)
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  North

  by Donna Jo Napoli

  Chanelle laughed. "You'd never have the guts to get near a polar bear in real life. And you'd never travel that far. You the mamma's boy, I hear." But Chanelle is wrong. Alvin has more guts than even he realizes. And he isn't a mamma's boy. In fact, when his over protective mother goes too far, he leaves home. Where can Alvin go, though? He heads north. He will follow in the footsteps of his hero –... (more)
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  Free Baseball

  by Sue Corbett

  Felix knows his dad was a famous baseball player in Cuba—and that his father risked everything to send Felix to America. But his mom won’t reveal anything else. When a baseball team with Cuban players comes to town, Felix wonders if they knew his dad and sneaks into their locker room to ask. That’s when the players mistake him for their new batboy. Determined to uncover the truth about his mysterious father, Felix... (more)
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  Cookie

  by Jacqueline Wilson

  Cookie is plain and shy, not the confident, popular girl her father wanted when he named her Beauty Cookson. Her mother helps her cook up a clever scheme to change her image--but, as usual, Dad doesn't approve, and this time his anger reaches frightening new heights. Will Cookie find the strength to stand up for herself? Honest and emotionally resonant, COOKIE faces tough issues with the unflinching directness and... (more)
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  The Outsiders

  by S. E. Hinton

  The Outsiders shows how difficult life can be for regular people. This book is about two social classes in one town that have an extreme rivalry. On the West Side live the Socs, a.k.a. the upper class people who are filthy rich and can do whatever, but still have to live up to their parents' expectations. Everybody thinks that they are the lucky ones, with the expensive cars, big houses, and nice clothes. As you... (more)
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  The Pull of the Ocean

  by Jean-Claude Mourlevat

  On a stormy night, little Yann Doutreleau wakes up his six older brothers, all twins. He lets them know that they must flee their home--or risk being killed by their violent father. Without question, the siblings follow Yann into the wet darkness. And so begins their remarkable odyssey toward the ocean--as well as an unforgettable story of brotherhood. The social worker investigating the Doutreleau family, the... (more)
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  The Secret Life of Bees

  by Sue Monk Kidd

  Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past.... (more)
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  Camp Confidential: Book 15

  Reality Bites

  by Melissa J. Morgan

  Gaby’s had it with "The Chelsea Show." So she embarks on her own attention-seeking campaign, and claims the boy on a Survivor-type TV program for teens is her brother. At first this seems like the perfect getpopular- quick scheme. That is, until the boy wins the competition and is awarded the grand prize: a trip to Australia, leaving immediately, WITH HIS ENTIRE FAMILY!!! Forget popularity—unless Gaby figures... (more)
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  Two Girls of Gettysburg

  by Lisa M. Klein

  Lizzie and Rosanna are cousins. But when the Civil War breaks out, fifteen-year-old Lizzie finds herself committed to the cause of the Union, while Rosanna is swept up in the passions of the old south—and in her love for a young Confederate officer. Torn in their alliances, yet as devoted as sisters, each girl finds herself grappling with the senseless brutality of war, and the sacrifices that must be made in... (more)
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  The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove

  by Bodil Bredsdorff

  A timeless novel about the kindness of strangers Near a little cove where a brook runs out to the sea live a girl and her grandmother. All alone with no neighbors at all, the two lead a peaceful existence. They have a house, dine on sea kale and mussels and sand snails, and build fires from driftwood. But the grandmother is very old. When the time comes that the girl must bury the woman, she makes up a funeral... (more)
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  The E. L. Konigsburg Collection: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler; Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth; The View From Saturday

  by E. L. Konigsburg

  Three award-winning novels from beloved author E. L. Konigsburg, together for the fist time: "From the Mixed-up Files..." follows Claudia and her brother Jamie as they run away from home and seek refuge in the Metropolitan Museum of Art - and solve a mystery that is hundreds of years old. ~ ~ In "Jennifer, Hectate...," Elizabeth is new in town and feeling lonely until she meets Jennifer, a self-proclaimed witch.... (more)
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  Secrets

  by Jacqueline Wilson

  India lives in a large, luxurious house with a mom she can’t stand and a dad she adores, although he hasn’t had much time for her recently. She seeks solace in her journal, which she keeps in sincere imitation of her heroine, Anne Frank. Treasure lives on the low-income council estate with her loving and capable grandmother. She is devoted to her nan but lives in fear of having to go back to live with her mother... (more)
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  The Borrible Trilogy

  by Michael De Larrabeiti

  A small group of feral, street-wise Peter-Pan-type beings set out on three very different but related missions across the darker side of London. They are missions combining excitement, violence, low cunning, betrayal, loyalty, greed, generosity, cowardice and insane bravery. This is an epic fantasy adventure that is both thought-provoking and thrilling until the very last second, set against the backdrop of an all... (more)
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  My Abnormal Life

  by Lee McClain

  Fifteen-year-old Rose Graham has never been to school. She's never had a date. She certainly never knew she was gorgeous. She's been too busy shoplifting food, keeping Social Services off her family's case, and taking care of her little sister. Now, plunged into a foster family in affluent Linden Falls, she's supposed to act normal. But high school parties, first kisses, and writing for the school... (more)
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  The Wicked Years: Book 1

  Wicked

  The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  by Gregory Maguire

  When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where... (more)
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  The Rescue Josh Mcguire

  by Ben Mikaelsen

  A Daring Rescue...or a Deadly Risk? Ever since Josh's older brother died, his father has been drinking too much and taking his anger out on Josh. But when he orphans a bear cub on a hunting trip, it's more than Josh can stand. Josh insists on bringing the defenseless cub home-only to find out he must surrender it to game officials. Knowing the cub will be given to researchers, Josh makes a defiant choice. Taking... (more)
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  The London Eye Mystery

  by Siobhan Dowd

  Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off–except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London... (more)
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  My Side of the Mountain: Book 1

  My Side of the Mountain

  by Jean Craighead George

  Terribly unhappy in his family’s crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude, and danger of the mountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew.
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  Into the Wild

  by Jon Krakauer

  In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How... (more)
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  So Speaks the Heart

  by Johanna Lindsey

  HIS VALOR OFFERED REFUGE TO A HEART WHICH OFFERED LOVEShe was born a lady, heiress to rich French estates. But when Rowland of Montville captured her, he saw only a beautiful girl garbed in peasant's rags... a wench to serve his wants. Though betrayed into bondage, Brigitte de Louroux would never be any man's slave. Yet the fate of an unprotected woman could have been far more cruel than the... (more)