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  Crank: Book 1

  Crank

  by Ellen Hopkins

  Kristina Georgia Snow is an innocent, high school junior girl who is quiet and doesn't have a lot of friends. She goes to visit her father in a different state than where she and her mother live. While she stays with her dad, Kristina goes through a lot of stuff and develops an alter ego, named Bree. The new Kristina is the opposite of what she used to be like. She meets a guy that she eventually falls hard for.... (more)
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  Sharp Teeth

  by Toby Barlow

  An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing. Bent on dominance, rival factions are initiating the down-and-out of L.A. into their ranks. Caught in the middle are Anthony, a kindhearted, lovesick dogcatcher, and the object of his affection: a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack.
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  Hate That Cat

  by Sharon Creech

  Jack Room 204—Miss Stretchberry February 25 Today the fat black cat up in the tree by the bus stop dropped a nut on my head thunk and when I yelled at it that fat black cat said Murr-mee-urrr in a nasty spiteful way. I hate that cat. This is the story of Jack's words sounds.
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  The Golden Gate

  by Vikram Seth

  This novel in verse about a group of California yuppies was one of the most highly praised books of 1986 and a bestseller on both coasts.
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  Love That Dog

  by Sharon Creech

  Love That Dog is the story of Jack, his dog, his teacher, and words. The story develops through Jack's responses to his teacher, Miss Stretchberry, over the course of a school year. At first, his responses are short and cranky: "I don't want to" and "I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty." But as his teacher feeds him inspiration, Jack finds that he has a lot to say and he finds ways to say it.
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  What My Mother Doesn't Know

  by Sonya Sones

  My name is Sophie. This book is about me. It tells the heart-stoppingly riveting story of my first love. And also of my second. And, okay, my third love too. It's not that I'm boy crazy. It's just that even though I'm almost fifteen it's like my mind and my body and my heart just don't seem to be able to agree on anything.
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  I Heart You, You Haunt Me

  by Lisa Schroeder

  In I Heart You, You Haunt Me. We meet Ava, at almost 16 she is the perfect girl. She has best friends and the perfect boyfriend. She attends a “School’s Out” party with her friends and boyfriend; Jackson. When Jackson is dared by Ava to jump from a cliff into the water, he of course does it…. Only no one expected to be attending his funeral…. The book starts off with Ava at the funeral and moves on from... (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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  Crank: Book 2

  Glass

  by Ellen Hopkins

  Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she's determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one calling the shots. But the monster is too strong, and before she knows it, Kristina is back in its grips. She needs the monster to keep... (more)
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  One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

  by Sonya Sones

  My name is Ruby. This book is about me. It tells the deeply hideous story of what happens when my mother dies and I'm dragged three thousand miles away from my gorgeous boyfriend, Ray, to live in L.A. with my father, who I've never even met because he's such a scumbag that he divorced my mom before I was born. The only way I've ever even seen him is in the movies, since he's this megafamous actor who's been... (more)
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  All The Broken Pieces

  by Ann E. Burg

  Two years after being airlifted out of war-torn Vietnam, Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell like dead crows, by the family--and the terrible secret--he left behind. Now, inside a caring adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events force him to choose between silence and candor, blame and forgiveness, fear and freedom.By turns harrowing, dreamlike, sad, and triumphant, this searing... (more)
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  Beowulf

  by Anonymous

  Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language, reflecting a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory, life and death. Its beauty, power, and artistry have kept it alive for more than thirteen centuries.
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  Wicked Girls

  A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials

  by Stephanie Hemphill

  Wicked Girls is a fictionalized account of the Salem witch trials based on the real historical characters, told from the perspective of three young women living in Salem in 1692—Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam Jr. When Ann’s father suggests that a spate of illnesses within the village is the result of witchcraft, Ann sees an opportunity and starts manifesting the symptoms of affliction. Ann... (more)
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  Crossing Stones

  by Helen Frost

  Maybe you won’t rock a cradle, Muriel. Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat. Eighteen-year-old Muriel Jorgensen lives on one side of Crabapple Creek. Her family’s closest friends, the Normans, live on the other. For as long as Muriel can remember, the families’ lives have been intertwined, connected by the crossing stones that span the water. But now that Frank Norman—who Muriel is just beginning to... (more)
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  Shark Girl

  by Kelly L. Bingham

  One sunny day, at the beach with her mom and older brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood goes for a swim. And then everything absolutely everything changes. Now she's counting down the days until she returns to school with her fake arm, where she knows kids will whisper "That's her -- that's Shark Girl" as she passes. In the meantime there are only questions: Why did this happen? Why her? What about her art?... (more)
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  Make Lemonade Trilogy: Book 1

  Make Lemonade

  by Virginia Euwer Wolff

  An award-winning novel about growing up and making choices Viginia Euwer Wolff’s groundbreaking novel, written in free verse, tells the story of fourteen-year-old LaVaughn, who is determined to go to college—she just needs the money to get there. When she answers a babysitting ad, LaVaughn meets Jolly, a seventeen-year-old single mother with two kids by different fathers. As she helps Jolly make lemonade out of... (more)
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  The Rose That Grew From Concrete

  by 2Pac, Tupac Shakur

  His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic -- a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable -- remaining vibrant and alive. Here now, newly discovered, are Tupac's most honest and intimate thoughts conveyed through the pure art of poetry -- a mirror into his enigmatic life and its many contradictions. Written in his own hand at... (more)
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  Divine Comedy

  The Divine Comedy

  Inferno / Purgatorio / Paradiso

  by Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.
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  Divine Comedy: Book 1

  The Inferno

  by Dante Alighieri

  The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination.The new Hollander (Robert & Jean) translations are excellent.
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  Where I Live

  by Eileen Spinelli

  Diana loves where she lives. She loves the astronomy charts on her walls and the fact that she can wave to her best friend, Rose, from her very own window. And best of all, a wren has recently made its home right by her front door! When her family is forced to move, Diana wonders if she’ll ever find that same grounded and happy feeling again. This gentle and ultimately redeeming story in poems is about those... (more)