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If You Come Softly: Twentieth Anniversary Edition

JACQUELINE WOODSON - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover

Celebrating its twentieth anniversary, Jacqueline Woodson's beloved, lyrical story of star-crossed love is as timely as ever.Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan,...
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Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson
Format: Paperback

Laurie Halse Anderson's award-winning, highly acclaimed, and controversial novel about a teenager who chooses not to speak rather than to give voice to what really happened to her marks ten years in print with this special anniversary edition. Bonus material created for this edition includes...
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Finding My Voice

Marie Myung-Ok Lee - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Ellen Sung just wants to be like everyone else at her all-white school. But the racist bullies of Arkin, Minnesota, will never let her forget that she's different - the youngest member of the only Korean-American family in town. At the start of senior year, Ellen...
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky - MTV Books; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover

Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Now a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting...
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Sabriel (Abhorsen)

Garth Nix - HarperTeen; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter...
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The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition

S E Hinton - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

50 years of an iconic classic! The international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie--now with bonus content.This special edition of the groundbreaking novel contains:Never before seen photos and letters from the publisher's archivesOriginal review clippings and media coveragePhotos...
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The Chocolate War

Robert Cormier
Format: Paperback

One of the most controversial YA novels of all time, The Chocolate War is a modern masterpiece that speaks to fans of S. E. Hintons The Outsiders and John Knowless A Separate Peace. After suffering rejection from seven major publishers, The Chocolate War made its debut in 1974, and quickly...
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Forever . . .

Judy Blume - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Is there a difference between first love and true love? Judy Blume's groundbreaking novel about teen sexuality has a fresh new look.The bed is brass, covered with a patchwork quilt, and "nice and firm," Michael says, "in case you're interested." Katherine is interested....
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The Pigman

Paul Zindel - HarperTeen; Revised edition
Format: Paperback

Join the millions of readers who have discovered The Pigman, the beloved, groundbreaking young adult classic from Paul Zindel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. This new paperback edition is packed with bonus material, including...
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The Face on the Milk Carton

Caroline B. Cooney - Ember; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collara three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve...
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I Know What You Did Last Summer

Lois Duncan - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Revised edition
Format: Paperback

Some secrets just won't stay buried.They didn't mean it. They didn't mean to hit the boy. There was a party, and it was an accident...that wasn't who they were. They were pre-law, a football player, bound for New York. No one could know, so Barry, Julie, Helen, and Ray swore...
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I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth The Trip.: 40th Anniversary Edition

John Donovan - Flux; 40 Anv edition
Format: Paperback

The 40th anniversary edition of a groundbreaking teen classic When the grandmother who raised him dies, Davy Ross, a lonely thirteen-year-old boy, must move to Manhattan to live with his estranged mother. Between alcohol-infused lectures about her self-sacrifice and awkward visits...
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Seventeenth Summer

Maureen Daly - Simon Pulse; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

A summer to remember… Angie always thought high school romances were just silly infatuations that come and go. She certainly never thought she would fall in love over one short summer. But when she meets Jack, their connection is beyond any childish crush. Suddenly, Angie and Jack...
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Go Ask Alice

Anonymous - Simon Pulse; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Alice COULD BE ANYONE. Alice COULD BE SOMEONE YOU KNOW. Alice USES DRUGS. With over a million copies in print, Go Ask Alice has become a classic of our time. This powerful real-life diary of a teenagers struggle with the seductive -- often fatal -- world of drugs and addiction tells...
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Homecoming

Cynthia Voigt - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

The iconic start to the timeless, Newbery-winning series from Cynthia Voigt is repackaged with a fresh new look."It's still true." That's the first thing James Tillerman says to his older sister, Dicey, every morning. It's still true that their mother has abandoned the four Tillermans...
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Monster

Walter Dean Myers
Format: Paperback

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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Weetzie Bat

Francesca Lia Block

Fifteen years ago Francesca Lia Block made a dazzling entrance into the literary scene with what would become one of the most talked-about books of the decade: Weetzie Bat. This poetic roller coaster swoop has a sleek new design to match its new sister and brother books, Goat G
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Annie on My Mind

Nancy Garden - Square Fish; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.  Of the author and the book,...
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Fallen Angels

Walter Dean Myers - Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Mass Market Paperback

An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.A coming-of-age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, this is the story of Perry,...
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Lord of the Flies

William Golding - Penguin Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Golding's iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age. This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler.At the dawn of the next...
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Alanna: The First Adventure

Tamora Pierce - ‎Simon Pulse; 1st Simon Pulse Ed edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback

From Tamora Pierce, the first book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award."From now on Im Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. Ill be a knight." In a time when girls are forbidden to be warriors, Alanna of Trebond wants nothing more...
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Someone Like You

Sarah Dessen - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback

The world is a terrible place not to have a best friend. Scarlett was always the strong one. Halley was always content to follow in her wake. Then Scarlett's boyfriend died, and Scarlett learned that she was pregnant. Now Halley has to find the strength to take the lead and help Scarlett...
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The Last Mission

Harry Mazer - Laurel Leaf
Format: Mass Market Paperback

In 1944, as World War II is raging across Europe, fifteen-year-old Jack Raab dreams of being a hero. Leaving New York City, his family, and his boyhood behind, Jack uses a false I.D. and lies his way into the U.S. Air Force.From their base in England, he and his crew fly twenty-four...
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That Was Then, This Is Now

S. E. Hinton - Speak
Format: Paperback

Another Hinton classic available in a great new package. Companion to The Outsiders, That Was Then, This is Now is S. E. Hinton?s moving portrait of the bond between best friends Bryon and Mark and the tensions that develop between them as they begin to grow up and grow apart. Now, it too is available...
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Freak the Mighty

Rodman Philbrick
Format: Paperback

Two boys a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg braces forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force. (Made into the film, The Mighty.) Show more Show...
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The Contender

Robert Lipsyte - Paw Prints 2008-04-11
Format: Print book

Before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender.Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a highschool dropout and his grocery store job is leading nowhere. His best friend is sinking further and further into drug addiction. Some street kids are after him for something he didn't even...
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