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The Running Dream
Running was everything for Jessica. It was her life. In Wendelin Van Draanen’s The Running Dream, sixteen-year-old Jessica Carlisle is in a tragic accident and she loses one of her legs. Just as...
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Jump
Brinkley Harper is a beautiful, powerful, shallow and mean junior in high school. She is the reason that four teen girls have abruptly left the school. In Ginger Rue’s latest, Jumped, Brinkley’s life...
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Everything I Was
Everything Irene has ever known is gone. Her Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan. Her exclusive school and friends are no more. In Corinne Demas’ Everything I Was, Irene learns to start over when...
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Reasons to be Happy
In Katrina Kittle’s Reasons to be Happy, Hannah Carlisle has a hard time fitting in. Her parents are Hollywood celebrities. She’s just started attending a posh Beverly Hills school. If that wasn’t...
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All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky
Jack Catcher is surrounded by death and dust. In Joe R. Lansdale’s All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky, it’s the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma and with both of his parents dead, Jack doesn’t have much but dust....
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The Cupid War
Fallon didn’t mean to die, he just did. His death, however, is just the beginning of his story in Timothy Carter’s The Cupid War. After he dies, Fallon becomes a Cupid and his job is to help other...
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Under the Mesquite
When you’re the oldest of eight children and your mother is battling cancer, when does a teenager have time for herself? In Guadalupe Garcia McCall’s first novel, Under the Mesquite, Lupita is in high...
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Eve & Adam
In Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate’s, Eve and Adam, Evening (E.V.) Spiker is in a horrible car accident. She’s not at a hospital long before she is whisked away by her mother to her...
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What You Can Do in Eighteen Hours Write a term paper Cram for a final Fly across the ocean Drive cross-country Scale a mountain Run a marathon Deliver a baby Read War and Peace Fall in love Fall out of...
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Pizza, Love and Other Stuff That Made Me Famous
Are you a teen chef? Would you have what it takes to be on a reality TV cooking contest? In Kathryn Williams’ Pizza, Love and Other Stuff That Made Me Famous, Sophie Nicolaides challenges her cooking...
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