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I Can't Keep My Own Secrets : Six-word Memoirs By Teens Famous Obscure : from Smith Magazine
From cancer to creativity, prom dates to promiscuity, and breaking hearts to breaking laws, the memoirs in this collection reveal that often the youngest writers have the most fascinating stories to tell.Met online; love before first sight.Hair's pink to piss you off.I fulfilled my awkwardness quota today.I'm seventeen, engaged, and not pregnant.My mom had my boyfriend deported.Late for school every single day.According to Facebook, we broke up.
184 p. 2009
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Adina, Shelley
Tidings of Great Boys : an All About Us Novel
Lady Lindsay MacPhail, or Mac as her friends from the exclusive Spencer Academy in San Francisco call her, invites her classmates home to her castle in Scotland for an unforgettable Christmas.
240 p. 2009
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Alexander, Jill
The Sweetheart of Prosper County
In a small East Texas town largely ruled by prejudices and bullies, fourteen-year-old Austin sets out to win a ride in the next parade and, in the process, grows in her understanding of friendship and helps her widowed mother through her mourning.
212 p. 2009
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Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia
The Den of Shadows Quartet
In the forests of the night: Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.
595 p. 2009
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Bachorz, Pam
Candor
For a fee, model teen Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new girl threatens to expose his subterfuge.
249 p. 2009
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Banner, Catherine
Voices in the Dark
Sixteen-year-old Anselm Andros's world is turned upside-down when he learns the identity of his birth father, and this personal upheaval mirrors that of his country, Malonia, which is on the brink of another war after fifteen years of relative peace.
455 p. 2009
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Baratz-Logsted, Lauren
Crazy Beautiful
In this contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast, a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a gorgeous girl whose mother has recently died form an instant connection when they meet on their first day as new students.
191 p. 2009
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Bendis, Brian Michael
Dark Avengers. [Vol. 1] Assemble
The start of an explosive new era in the Avengers mythos! Who are the Dark Avengers? Who is the Iron Patriot? The answers will shock you! The dark reign has begun.
1 v. (unpaged) 2009
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Block, Francesca Lia
Pretty Dead
Beautiful vampire Charlotte finds herself slowly changing back into a human after the mysterious death of her best friend.
195 p. 2009
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Brian, Kate
Ex-mas
With her parents gone on vacation, seventeen-year-old Lila Beckwith is ready to throw a killer Christmas party until her little brother Cooper and his best friend Tyler run away on a mission to save Santa from global warming. The only person who can help Lila find them before her parents get home is Tyler's older brother Beau, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend.
216 p. 2009
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Brian, Kate
Suspicion : a Novel
Reed Brennan finds her life threatened once more while she tries to recover from the events of last term while vacationing with the Billings Girls during winter break.
211 p. 2009
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Brown, Jennifer
Hate List
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
408 p. 2009
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Brubaker, Ed
Gotham Central. Book Two Jokers and Madmen
This volume collects two separate cases of the Gotham Special Crimes Unit. As a cop in Gotham City, you not only have to face some of the most colorful and violent criminals in the world, but you also have to deal with the city's vigilante: The Batman! To make things worse, the Joker has begun terrorizing the city at Christmastime when he begins randomly executing people with a rifle, and no one from the Mayor on down is safe! A second story focuses on an old case and unfinished business for disgraced detective Harvey Bullock.
285 p. 2009
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Busiek, Kurt
Trinity. [Vol. 2]
The Big Three heroes of the DC Universe continue to ward off an invasion from a neighboring galaxy and come face-to-face with evil versions of themselves! Against Ultraman, Owlman, and Superwoman, can Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman stand a chance?
401 p. 2009
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Calloway, Cassidy
Confessions of a First Daughter
High school senior Morgan Abbott pretends to be her mother, the President of the United States, as a decoy, while she also tries to lead the life of a normal teenager.
214 p. 2009
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Carlson, Melody
What Matters Most : a Novel
Sixteen-year-old Maya's commitment to live her life for God wavers after she joins a Christian rock band.
244 p. 2009
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Chadda, Sarwat
Devil's Kiss
Fifteen-year-old Billi SanGreal has grown up knowing that being a member of the Knights Templar puts her in danger, but if she is to save London from catastrophe she must make sacrifices greater than she imagined.
327 p. 2009
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Chandler, Elizabeth
Legacy of Lies ; Don't Tell
In Legacy of Lies, Megan has to stay with the uptight grandmother she wants nothing to do with. She's determined to get through the visit without any drama, but when she falls into a twisted love triangle with potentially fatal consequences, Megan may be caught up in her family's legacy in more ways than she realizes. In Don't Tell, Lauren knows that by returning to the town where her mother drowned seven years ago, she'll be reliving one of her most haunting memories. When she arrives, she is propelled into a series of mysterious events that mimic the days leading up to her mother's death. Maybe her mother's drowning wasn't an accident after all...and maybe Lauren is next.--Author's website.
431 p. 2009
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Cross, Shauna
Whip it
When sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, who is miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name Babe Ruthless, her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.
234 p. 2009
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Daniels, Babygirl
Sister Sister
Feeling overshadowed by her popular identical twin sister Mya, Tara takes her sister's place after a painful tragedy and comes to realize that popularity may not be as glamorous as she imagined. By the author of Glitter.
168 p. 2009
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