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In the shadow of blackbirds.
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In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their
toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to
seances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific
leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle,
returns.
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Going vintage.
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"When sixteen-year-old Mallory learns that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is
cheating on her with his cyber "wife," she rebels against technology by
following her grandmother's list of goals from 1962, with help from her younger
sister, Ginnie."--T.p. verso.
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The fake date.
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When Marnyke is dumped by Darnell before the prom, she tries to
develop a relationship with a college student to salvage her pride.
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Unhinged.
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There are unspoken societal rules that dictate who a person must be
in order to fit in, but what happens when someone can't follow those rules?
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Impostor.
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High school junior Vee Bell realizes that someone knows about and
shares her ability to slide into other people's minds when she suddenly finds
herself in strange and very dangerous situations but her sister Mattie, best
friend Rollins, and an aunt she never knew provide insights.
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Doomed.
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Pandora Walker unwittingly unleashes cyber Armageddon on her
seventeenth birthday and must play a virtual reality game in order to save the
world.
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Dualed.
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"West Grayer lives in a world where every person has a twin, or Alt.
Only one can survive to adulthood, and West has just received her notice to kill
her Alt"--Provided by publisher.
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Orleans.
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"Set in a futuristic, hostile Orleans landscape, Fen de la Guerre
must deliver her tribe leader's baby over the Wall into the Outer States before
her blood becomes tainted with Delta Fever."--Provided by publisher.
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If you find me.
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"There are some things you can't leave behind... A broken-down
camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey
can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one
bright spot being Carey's younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her
very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes
and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother
disappears for good, and two strangers arrive. Suddenly, the girls are taken
from the woods and thrust into a bright and perplexing new world of high school,
clothes and boys. Now, Carey must face the truth of why her mother abducted her
ten years ago, while haunted by a past that won't let her go... a dark past that
hides many a secret, including the reason Jenessa hasn't spoken a word in over a
year. Carey knows she must keep her sister close, and her secrets even closer,
or risk watching her new life come crashing down."-- Provided by publisher.
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Escape theory.
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Bound by her oath of confidentiality and tortured by unrequited love,
sixteen-year-old Devon, a peer counselor at a prestigious California boarding
school, finds herself on a solitary mission to get to the bottom of a popular
student's apparent suicide.
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Dr. Bird's advice for sad poets.
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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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Fat Angie.
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Angie overeats to cope with the taunts of the ultra-mean girls, her
attempted suicide in front of a packed gym, and the status of her captured war-
hero sister, until KC Romance comes to town and sees Angie for who she really
is.
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Someone like you.
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Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best
friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and
Halley's own first serious relationship.
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That summer.
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During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her
sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the
myths of the past.
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Keeping the moon.
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Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working
as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and
eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
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Along for the ride.
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Dessen has built a well-deserved reputation for delicately depicting
teen girls in turmoil. Her latest title showcases a socially awkward young woman
who seeks solace in the comforting rigidity of academic success. Auden is about
to start college in the fall, and decides to escape her control-freak professor
mom to spend the summer with her novelist father, his new young wife, and their
brand-new baby daughter, Thisbe. Over the course of the summer, Auden tackles
many new projects: learning to ride a bike, making real connections with peers,
facing the emotional fallout of her parents? divorce, distancing herself from
her mother, and falling in love with Eli, a fellow insomniac bicyclist
recovering from his own traumas. The cover may mislead readers, as despite the
body language of the girl in pink and the hunky blue-jeaned boy balanced on a
bike, this is no slight romance: there's real substance here. Dessen's many fans
will not be deterred by the length or that cover; they expect nuanced, subtle
writing, and they won't be disappointed. Grades 9-12.
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The princess of pop.
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Disappointed at not getting a part in the school's production of
"Grease," Becca takes a dare from Squidge to audition for Pop Princess,
determined to give it her best shot and rid herself of the reputation of being a
dreamer.
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Double dare.
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Mac has three secret wishes for his life, but soon learns that great
ambitions have great costs attached.
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Mates, dates, and designer divas.
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Nesta has met the perfect boy, but there are problems too. Simon is
from a rich, upper-class background - with a lifestyle to match - and it's
difficult for Nesta to keep up.
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The eternity cure.
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When Allie follows the call of blood to save her creator, Kanin,
from a psychotic vampire, she returns to her birthplace in New Covington and
what she finds there may change the world forever.
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Vampire kisses.
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Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes
to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town,
eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.
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Halo. First strike.
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The Covenant shows no mercy as they continue to assault every human
world they can find, but Spartan 117, the Master Chief, has discovered an
ancient secret that could alter the course of the war and save the Earth.
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Number the stars.
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In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old
Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her
Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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Leap day : a novel.
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On her fourth Leap birthday, when she turns sixteen, Josie has a
number of momentous experiences, including taking her driver's test, auditioning
for a school play, and celebrating with her family and friends.
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The princess diaries.
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Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a
teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince
of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the
heir to the throne.
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Message in a bottle.
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Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. Inside is a letter of love and longing to "Catherine," signed simply "Garrett." Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn't fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an encounter that embraces all our hopes for finding someone special, for having a love that is timeless and everlasting.... Nicholas Sparks exquisitely chronicles the human heart. In his first bestselling novel, The Notebook, he created a testament to romantic love that touched readers around the world. Now in this New York Times bestseller, he renews our faith in destiny, in the ability of lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when.
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Flipped.
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In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings
about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
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Heart of glass : an A-list novel.
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High school is officially over, but the graduation celebration is
cut short when Anna and Cammie are caught trespassing on a celeb's beach estate.
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Some like it hot : an A-list novel.
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As prom approaches, Anna, Cammie, Sam, and their friends try to deal
with their insecurities about their bodies and their relationships, and one of
them discovers a shocking secret about her mother's death.
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Tall cool one : an A-list novel.
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When she joins her sister on the West Coast at their father's, Anna
begins to understand that telling true love from true lust is far more easily
said than done.
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Blonde ambition : an A-list novel.
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While Anna's new job as intern on the hottest television show brings
her into contact with an interesting new man and helps her see how possessive
Ben has become, Cammie sets her sights on Adam.
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California dreaming : an A-list novel.
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With college just a week away, the private jets are booked, the
vintage Gucci steamer trunks packed, and it is time for the A-list crew to say
goodbye. Or is it? Sam is headed to USC film school, but when Eduardo offers
her a different ending, like moving to Paris as newlyweds, will she go? There
are only a few precious days left in LA, and then it is time for everyone to
choose what their futures will hold. Only one thing is certain: wherever they go,
they will always be on the A-List.
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Fall of night : the Morganville vampires.
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Accepted into a special study program at MIT with Professor Irene
Anderson, Claire Danvers works on developing a technology to block the mental
powers of vampires only to unleash unexpected forces when she tests the machine
on live subjects.
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