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Anderson, Laurie Halse
Speak
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect of Melinda's freshman year in high school.
197 p. 1999
Teen Fiction Book
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Barton, Chris
Can I See Your I.D.? : True Stories of False Identities
Stories of ten impostors -- many of them teenagers-- push questions of identity, deception, and gullibility to the extreme.
121 p. 2011
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451
Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....
179 p. 1996
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Cohn, Rachel
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
183 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book
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Flake, Sharon
Money Hungry
All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
187 p. 2001
Teen Fiction Book
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Fleischman, John
Phineas Gage : a Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. A railroad construction foreman, Phineas was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived another eleven years and became a textbook case in brain science.
86 p. 2002
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Gaiman, Neil
Coraline
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
162 p. 2002
Children's Fiction Book
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Giles, Gail
Dead Girls Don't Write Letters
Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died out of town in a fire months earlier.
136 p. 2003
Teen Fiction Book
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Giles, Gail
Shattering Glass
When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.
152 p. 2002
Teen Fiction Book
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Going, K. L.
Fat Kid Rules the World
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
187 p. 2003
Teen Fiction Book
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Grimes, Nikki
Bronx Masquerade
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
167 p. 2003
Teen Fiction Book
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Among the Hidden
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
153 p. 1998
Children's Fiction Book
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Hautman, Pete
Invisible
Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever- almost nothing. They talk about everything-except what happened a few years ago, a something they thought was buried.
149 p. 2005
Teen Fiction Book
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Hinton, S. E.
That Was Then, This Is Now
Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
159 p. 1971
Teen Fiction Book
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Hoffman, Alice
Green Witch
A year after her world was nearly destroyed, sixteen-year-old Green has become the one villagers turn to for aid, especially to record their stories, but Green will need the help of other women who, like herself, are believed to be witches if she is to find her best friend and her one true love.
135 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Horowitz, Anthony
Stormbreaker
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
192 p. 2001
Teen Fiction Book
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Johnson, Angela
The First Part Last
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
131 p. 2003
Teen Fiction Book
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Martin, Ann M.
A Corner of the Universe
The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.
189 p. 2002
Teen Fiction Book
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Mazer, Harry
A Boy at War : a Novel of Pearl Harbor
While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
104 p. 2001
Teen Fiction Book
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Myers, Walter Dean
Beast
A visit to his Harlem neighborhood and the discovery that the girl he loves is using drugs gives sixteen-year-old Anthony Witherspoon a new perspective both on his home and on his life at a Connecticut prep school.
170 p. 2003
Teen Fiction Book
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