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The Saint of Dragons
Jason Hightman
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After a lonely childhood at the Lighthouse School for Boys, thirteen-year-old Simon learns that he is descended from a medieval dragonslayer, and that his father needs his help to face the last of these evil monsters
2004; 291 p.; isbn:0060540117 More Information |
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Burned
Ellen Hopkins.
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Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
2007; 532 p.; isbn:1416903550 More Information |
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Glass
Ellen Hopkins.
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Kristina is determined to defeat her crystal-meth addiction in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
2007; 681 p.; isbn:141694091X More Information |
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The everafter
Amy Huntley.
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After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.
2009; 244 p.; isbn:0061776793 More Information |
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Fallen
Lauren Kate.
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Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.
2009; 452 p.; isbn:0385738935 More Information |
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Hold still
Nina LaCour, with illustrations by Mia Nolting.
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As she reads the journal left by her best friend, who committed suicide, Caitlin struggles with powerful feelings of loss, sadness, and guilt, but friends and a first love help her to cope with her negative emotions.
2009; 229 p.; isbn:0525421556 More Information |
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Liar
Justine Larbalestier.
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Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.
2009; 376 p.; isbn:1599903059 More Information |
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Flash burnout : a novel
by L.K. Madigan.
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After he takes a photograph of a woman who is living on the streets and discovers it to be the meth-addicted mother of his closest friend Marissa, Blake finds himself spending more time with Marissa than with his girlfriend.
2009; 332 p.; isbn:0547194897 More Information |
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Bad blood
Mari Mancusi.
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Sunny and her twin sister Rayne travel to Las Vegas, where Sunny's boyfriend Magnus, the leader of the Blood Coven, is attending a vampire convention where he will take a beautiful female as his blood mate.
2010; 230 p.; isbn:0425232646 More Information |
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Riot
Walter Dean Myers.
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In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
2009; 164 p.; isbn:1606840002 More Information |
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Faith, hope, and Ivy June
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
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During a student exchange program, seventh-graders Ivy June and Catherine share their lives, homes, and communities, and find that although their lifestyles are total opposites they have a lot in common.
2009; 280 p.; isbn:0385736150 More Information |
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By the time you read this, I'll be dead
Julie Anne Peters.
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High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.
2010; ; isbn:1423116186 More Information |
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