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Ten things I hate about me
Randa Abdel-Fattah.
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Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
2009; 297 p.; isbn:0545050553 More Information |
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David inside out
Lee Bantle.
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At a Minneapolis high school, a cross-country runner tries to deny his sexual feelings for a male teammate.
2009; 184 p.; isbn:0805081224 More Information |
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The last knight
Hilari Bell.
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In alternate chapters, eighteen-year-old Sir Michael Sevenson, an anachronistic knight errant, and seventeen-year-old Fisk, his street-wise squire, tell of their noble quest to bring Lady Ceciel to justice while trying to solve her husband's murder.
2007; 357 p.; isbn:0060825030 More Information |
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Zenith
Julie Bertagna.
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After finding that New Mungo is not the refuge they sought, Mara, leaving Fox behind, again sets out to sea with a ship full of refugees and, with the help of the "Gypsea" boy Tuck, tries to find land at the top of the world that will be safe from stormsand rising water.
2009; 340 p.; isbn:0802798039 More Information |
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Valiant : a modern tale of faerie
Holly Black.
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Seventeen-year-old Val runs away to New York City, where she falls in with a gang of squatters who live in the city's subway system and consort with faeries, trolls, and other strange creatures.
2005; 314 p.; isbn:0689868227 More Information |
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The compound
S.A. Bodeen.
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After spending six years with his parents and his two sisters in an underground compound built by his father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, Eli discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
2008; 248 p.; isbn:0312370156 More Information |
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Tyrell
Coe Booth.
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Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.
2006; 310 p.; isbn:0439838797 More Information |
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Being
Kevin Brooks.
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After having a routine exam that turns out to be anything but routine, Robert learns about the mechanical parts and plastic casings that make up his being, forcing him to flee the only world he has ever known and go on a dangerous search to find out who (and what) he is.
2007; 323 p.; isbn:0439899737 More Information |
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Peril on the sea
Michael Cadnum.
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In the tense summer of 1588, eighteen-year-old Sherwin Morris, after nearly perishing in a shipwreck, finds himself aboard the privateer Vixen, captained by the notorious and enigmatic Brandon Fletcher who offers him adventure and riches if Sherwin would write and disseminate a flattering account of the captain's exploits.
2009; 245 p.; isbn:0374358230 More Information |
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California holiday or, How the world's worst summer job gave me a great new life
Or, How the World's Worst Summer Job Gave Me a Great New Life Kate Cann.
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Rowan, just out of high school, leaves her boring English town to take a job as a nanny in Seattle, but when her new boss turns out to be a total nightmare, she escapes to California for a summer she'll never forget.
2003; 400 p.; isbn:0060561610 More Information |
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Don't judge a girl by her cover
Ally Carter.
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When Cammie Morgan visits her Gallagher Academy roommate Macey in Boston during summer break, the two girls soon find themselves trapped in a kidnapper's dangerous plot, with only their espionage skills to save them.
2009; 263 p.; isbn:1423116380 More Information |
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Bloodline : a novel
by Kate Cary.
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In this story told primarily through journal entries, a British soldier in World War I makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula.
2005; 324 p.; isbn:1595140786 More Information |
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