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Alexie, Sherman
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
229 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
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Choldenko, Gennifer
Al Capone Does My Shirts
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
228 p. 2004
Teen Fiction Book
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Yang, Gene Luen.
American Born Chinese
Three plotlines. Three characters: the determined efforts of the Monkey King to shed his humble roots and be revered as a god; the struggles faced by Jin Wang, a lonely Asian American middle school student who would do anything to fit in with his white classmates; and the sitcom plight of Danny, an All-American teen so shamed by his Chinese cousin Chin-Kee that he is forced to change schools. Can they ever be satisfied with their lives?
233 p. 2006
Teen Graphic Novel
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McNamee, Graham
Bonechiller
Four high school students face off against a soul-stealing beast that has been making young people disappear their small Ontario, Canada, town for centuries.
294 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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Green, John
An Abundance of Katherines
Having been recently dumped for the 19th time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
227 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book
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Salinger, J. D.
The Catcher in the Rye
After leaving prep school Holden Caulfield spends three days on his own in New York City.
277 p. 1951
Adult Fiction Book
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Swanson, James L.
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
A fast-paced account of the assassination of the sixteenth president and the gripping 12-day hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his fellow conspirators that followed.
194 p. 2009
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Cormier, Robert
The Chocolate War
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
253 p. 1997
Teen Fiction Book
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Higson, Charles
The Dead
When a plague turns anyone over the age of sixteen into flesh-craving monsters, a group of teenagers escape from their infested high school and head for London with the hopes of finding a safe haven there.
485 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Hiaasen, Carl
Flush
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
263 p. 2005
Teen Fiction Book
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Hautman, Pete
Godless
When 16-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own.
198 p. 2004
Teen Fiction Book
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Gaiman, Neil
The Graveyard Book
Nobody Owens (Bod) is a normal boy who has grown up in a graveyard, raised and educated by ghosts. While there are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy, if Bod leaves it for the city, he could come under attack from the man who has already killed Bod's entire family.
312 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book
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Farmer, Nancy
The House of the Scorpion
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
380 p. 2002
Teen Fiction Book
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Lore, Pittacus
I Am Number Four
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
440 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Zusak, Markus
I Am the Messenger
After capturing a bank robber, 19-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
357 p. 2005
Teen Fiction Book
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Kenyon, Sherrilyn
Infinity
When Nick's best friends try to kill him, he is saved by a mysterious warrior and sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. With his fellow students turning into flesh-eating zombies, how can he stop them without getting grounded by his mom?
464 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Korman, Gordon.
The Juvie Three
Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.
249 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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Ness, Patrick
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
479 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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Scieszka, Jon
Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka
How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers who had lots of great ideas, like peppering the nativity scene with army soldiers, peeing on the space heater, being required to write a list of bad words for his teacher (a nun), and creating explosions both small and large.
106 p. 2008
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Doctorow, Cory
Little Brother
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
380 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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