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Fallout

Gwenda Bond · Switch Press, a Capstone imprint
Pages: 303
Format: Print book

Lois Lane is starting a new life in Metropolis. An Army brat, Lois has lived all over--and seen all kinds of things. (Some of them defy explanation, like the near-disaster she witnessed in Kansas in the middle of one night.) But now her family is putting down roots in the big city, and Lois...
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Charlie, Presumed Dead

Anne Heltzel · Harcourt Brace and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In Paris, family and friends gather to mourn the tragic passing of Charlie Price - young, handsome, charming, a world-traveler - who is presumed dead after an explosion. Authorities find only a bloodied jacket, ID'd as Charlie's. At the funeral, two teens who are perfect strangers,...
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The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door

Karen Finneyfrock · Viking
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover

That's the day the trouble started. The trouble that nearly ruined my life. The trouble that turned me Dark. The trouble that begs me for revenge.Celia Door enters her freshman year of high school with giant boots, dark eyeliner, and a thirst for revenge against Sandy Firestone, the girl...
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Of Jenny and the Aliens

RYAN GEBHART · Candlewick
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

When boy meets girl meets alien, the angst of first love gets an extraterrestrial intervention in a tale both outrageously funny and full of heart.Ten years after Earth sent messages out into deep space, there has been an answer. Music from distant planet Pud 5 has reached the world's...
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Deenie

Judy Blume · Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover

Scoliosis twists Deenie's plans for seventh grade in this classic Judy Blume novel with a fresh new look.Deenie's mother wants her to be a model, with her face on magazine covers - maybe even in the movies - but Deenie wants to spend Saturdays with her friends Janet and Midge, tracking...
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Understanding your rights in the information age

Suzanne Weinick · Rosen Pub.
Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats

Technology has had a great influence on the legal system, particularly the right to privacy. This book explains how individual rights are being challenged in cyberspace, through digital media, and the pursuit of national security. Readers are introduced to topics such as what rights the Constitution...
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Cloudwish

Fiona Wood · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Award-winning author Fiona Wood delivers a thought-provoking story of self-discovery and first love-one that will resonate with anyone who has ever realized that the things that make you different are the things that make you...you. For Vn Uoc, fantasies fall into two categories: nourishing...
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Girl

BLAKE NELSON · Simon Pulse
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Blake Nelson's cult favorite novel Girl captures the moment when everything changes for one girl when her first love, first time, and first step outside of her comfort zone happen all at once.Meet Andrea Marr: straight-A high school student, thrift-store addict, and princess of the downtown...
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The Life of Marian Anderson: Diva and Humanitarian

Andrea Broadwater · Enslow Publishers
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

At a time in history when many doors were closed to African Americans, Marian Anderson, with the power of her magnificent voice, triumphed over racial barriers. Andrea Broadwater's spirited profile breathes new life into Anderson's inspiring story. During a career that spanned four...
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Lies My Girlfriend Told Me

Julie Anne Peters · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover

When Alix's charismatic girlfriend, Swanee, dies from sudden cardiac arrest, Alix is overcome with despair. As she searches Swanee's room for mementos of their relationship, she finds Swanee's cell phone, pinging with dozens of texts sent from a mysterious contact, L.T. The most recent...
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Love and First Sight

Josh Sundquist · Little
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In his debut novel, YouTube personality and author of We Should Hang Out Sometime Josh Sundquist explores the nature of love, trust, and romantic attraction. On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student...
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Dear Killer

Katherine Ewell · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 359
Format: Print book

Full of "can't look away" moments, Dear Killer is a psychological thriller perfect for fans of gritty realistic fiction such as Dan Wells's I Am Not a Serial Killer and Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why, as well as television's Dexter. Rule One - Nothing is right, nothing is wrong....
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Aftermath

Sandy Goldsworthy · Clean Teen Publishing
Format: Print book

After losing her father, Emma Bennett moves to her aunt's small town of Westport to finish out her senior year of high school. Emma wants to forget the pain and loss of the past few weeks, finding relief in the company of Ben Parker - a local boy who she has an instant attraction and uncanny...
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Either the Beginning or the End of the World

Terry Farish · Carolrhoda Books
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

For sixteen years, it's been just Sofie and her father, living on the New Hampshire coast. Her Cambodian immigrant mother has floated in and out of her life, leaving Sofie with a fierce bitterness toward her and a longing she wishes she could outgrow. To me she is as unreliable as the wind....
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Of Beast and Beauty

Stacey Jay · Delacorte Press
Pages: 391
Format: Hardcover

In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret... In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city's vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant...
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