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Summer I Turned Pretty
by Jenny Han
Belly has spent her summers at the beach house with Conrad and Jeremiah, who had never noticed her noticing them. Every summer Belly hoped it would be different. This time, it is. The summer that Belly turns pretty is the summer that changes everything--for better and for worse.
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Swindle
by Gordon Korman
After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's compound and recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way, but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's rightfully his.
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Ten miles past normal
by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
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The Reluctant Assassin
by Eoin Colfer
Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims' dwellings. On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP) Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day London, followed closely by Garrick.
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Hollyweird
by Terri Clark
Fallen angel Jameson's last chance of redemption is taking down movie star Dakota Danvers, Satan's son, but he is distracted by his attraction to sixteen-year-old Aly who won a contest to meet Dakota and is in Hollywood with her best friend, Desi, and prima donna sister, Missy.
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Harry Potty and the deathly boring
by Stefan Petrucha, writer ; Rick Parker, artist
Parody of all the Harry Potter books in 1 graphic novel.
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Dream
by Jeanine Le Ny
This first novel in the Once Upon a Prom trilogy introduces best friends Jordan, Tara, and Nisha, who are all psyched for their senior prom. All three are loving the dress and shoe shopping, but some serious, clock-ticking drama is bound to take place.
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Gorgeous
by Paul Rudnick
When eighteen-year-old Becky Randle's mother dies, she is whisked away from a trailer park to New York City, where fashion designer Tom Kelly offers to transform her into a glamorous Rebecca, a girl fit for a prince--but soon she begins to fear that she will lose touch with her real self.
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My super sweet sixteenth century
by Rachel Harris
On the precipice of her sixteenth birthday, the last thing lone wolf Cat Crawford wants is an extravagant gala thrown by her bubbly stepmother and well-meaning father. So even though Cat knows the family's trip to Florence, Italy, is a peace offering, she embraces the magical city and all it offers. But when her curiosity leads her to an unusual gypsy tent, she exits . . . right into Renaissance Firenze.
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The Always War
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
For as long as Tessa can remember, her country has been at war. When local golden boy Gideon Thrall is awarded a medal for courage, it’s a rare bright spot for everyone in Tessa’s town - until Gideon refuses the award, claims he was a coward, and runs away. Tessa is bewildered, and can’t help but follow Gideon to find out the truth. But Tessa is in for more than she bargained for. Before she knows it, she has stowed away on a rogue airplane and is headed for enemy territory. But all that pales when she discovers a shocking truth that rocks the foundation of everything she’s ever believed- a truth that will change the world. But is Tessa strong enough to bring it into the light?
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Magyk
by Angie Sage
Book 1 of the Septimus Heap series. After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier.
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Once a witch
by Carolyn MacCullough
Tamsin Greene comes from a long line of witches, but her Talent (magic) has never arrived. Now 17, Tamsin attends boarding school in Manhattan. When a professor mistakes her for her very Talented sister, Tamsin agrees to find a lost family heirloom for him.
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Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Miles "Pudge" Halter befriends some fellow boarding school students whose lives are everything but boring. Pudge falls in love with Alaska, the razor-sharp and self-destructive nucleus. But when tragedy strikes, Pudge then discovers the value of loving unconditionally. Young Adult.
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I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you
by Ally Carter.
Can Cammie, a teenage spy-in-training, fall in love with an ordinary boy, when she’s anything but ordinary?
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Food, girls, and other things I can't have
by Allen Zadoff
Fifteen-year-old Andrew Zansky, the second fattest student at his high school, joins the varsity football team to get the attention of a new girl on whom he has a crush.
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Perry's killer playlist
by written by Joe Schreiber
When Perry ends up in Venice on a European tour with his band, Inchworm, he can't resist a visit to Harry's Bar, where Gobi told him she'd meet him someday. The last time he saw Gobi, five people were assassinated one crazy night in New York City. Well . . . Gobi shows up, and once again Perry is roped into a wild, nonstop thrill ride with a body count. Double crossings, kidnappings, CIA agents, arms dealers, boat chases in Venetian canals, and a shootout in the middle of a Santa Claus convention ensue.
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Life after theft
by Aprilynne Pike
Jeff is the new guy in school and the only one who can see Kimberlee, a ghost with a lot of (stolen) baggage. To help her move on, Jeff must return everything she stole when she was alive. But being Kimberlee's accomplice turns into more than he bargained for when his crush and the cops get involved.
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When we wuz famous
by Greg Takoudes
Winning a full scholarship to an elite boarding school, straight-A student and gifted basketball athlete Francisco Vicioso is bombarded with questions about his barrio background by hostile classmates who assume the worst of him.
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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 smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth.
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Skulduggery Pleasant
by Derek Landy
Sidesplittingly funny, nail-bitingly spooky, and thrillingly original, this breakneck tale of magic and adventure marks the debut of a pair of heroes unlike any other before--a 12-year-old girl and an animated skeleton--who must save the world from an ancient evil.
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The dead of winter
by Chris Priestley
In Victorian England an orphaned boy goes to stay with his strange guardian in a desolate, moated manor house during a cold and snowy Christmas, where he soon realizes that the house and its grounds harbor many secrets, dead and alive.
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Redheaded Princess
by Ann Rinaldi
In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate near London, striving to get back into the good graces of her father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she faces his death and those of other close relatives until she finds herself next in line to ascend the throne of England in 1558.
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Dr. Bird's advice for sad poets
by Evan Roskos
A sixteen-year-old boy wrestling with depression and anxiety tries to cope by writing poems, reciting Walt Whitman, hugging trees, and figuring out why his sister has been kicked out of the house.
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Prophecy
by Ellen Oh
The greatest warrior in all of the Seven Kingdoms . . . is a girl with yellow eyes. A demon slayer, the only female warrior in the King's army, must battle demon soldiers, an evil shaman, and the Demon Lord to find the lost ruby of the Dragon King's prophecy and save her kingdom
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Mr. Death's blue-eyed girls
by Mary Downing Hahn
The brutal murder of two teenage girls on the last day of Nora Cunningham's junior year in high school throws Nora into turmoil. Her certainties--friendships, religion, her prudence, her resolve to find a boyfriend taller than she is--are shaken or cast off altogether. Most people in Elmgrove, Maryland, share the comforting conviction that Buddy Novak, who had every reason to want his ex-girlfriend dead, is responsible for the killings. Nora agrees at first, then begins to doubt Buddy's guilt, and finally comes to believe him innocent--the lone dissenting voice in Elmgrove.
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Faerie after
by Janni Lee Simner
In the conclusion to the Bones of Faerie trilogy that includes Bones of Faerie and Faerie Winter, Liza must journey to the Faerie realm in order to save both the fairy and human worlds from impending doom.
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Forbidden
by Syrie James & Ryan James
As 16-year-old Claire's newly-revealed psychic abilities bring unwelcome attention from Watchers, Alec, a Watcher grown tired of having to eliminate descendants of his angelic forefathers, has fallen in love with Claire while hiding out at her school, unaware that she is a Nephilim, a half-angel.
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen
Indy tries to outrace a brilliant and beautiful agent for the mystical, all-powerful Crystal Skull of Akator. Rated PG-13
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Project runway
Hosted by Heidi Klum
Watch as fashion designers battle it out in competition to see who will win money to start their own fashion line.
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