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Cashore, Kristin
Graceling
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with Prince Po, another young fighter, to save their land from a corrupt king.
471 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
 Best Books for Kids - February 2009
Book Trailers - Spring 2009
Ravenous Readers
Teens' Top Ten Winners
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Cast, P. C.
Untamed : a House of Night Novel
"In one week she [Zoey] has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a close group of friends who trusted and supported her to being an outcast. Speaking of friends, of the two Zoey has left, one is undead and one is unMarked. And Neferet has declared war on humans, which Zoey knows in her heart is wrong. But will anyone listen to her? Zoey's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested, shocking true intentions come to light, and an ancient evil is awakened"
338 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Teens' Top Ten Winners
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Clare, Cassandra
City of Ashes
Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon.
453 p. 2008
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Teens' Top Ten Winners
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Collins, Suzanne
The Hunger Games
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
374 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Book Trailers - Spring 2009
Teens' Top Ten Winners
Hot Titles- Teen
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Fukui, Isamu
Truancy
In the City, where an iron-fisted Mayor's goal is perfect control through education, fifteen-year-old Tack is torn between a growing sympathy for the Truancy, an underground movement determined to bring down the system at any cost, and the desire to avenge a death caused by a Truant.
431 p. 2008
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Gaiman, Neil
The Graveyard Book
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
312 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Best Books for Kids - October 2008
Book Trailers Autumn 2008
Newbery Medal and Honor Books to 1960
Science Fiction & Fantasy Award Winners
Teens' Top Ten Winners
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Green, John
Paper Towns
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin Q Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
305 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Mysteries for Teens
Teens' Top Ten Winners
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Harris, Joanne
Runemarks
Maddy Smith, who bears the mysterious mark of a rune on her hand, learns that she is destined to join the gods of Norse mythology and play a role in the fate of the world.
526 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Fairy Tales with New Twists - chapter books
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Hopkins, Ellen
Identical
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
565 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
A Child Called It
Teens' Top Ten Winners
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Lockhart, E.
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks : a Novel
Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14: Debate Club. Her father's bunny rabbit. A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school. Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15: A knockout figure. A sharp tongue. A chip on her shoulder. And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston. Frankie Landau-Banks. No longer the kind of girl to take no for an answer. Especially when no means she's excluded from her boyfriend's all-male secret society. Not when her ex-boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places. Not when she knows she's smarter than any of them. When she knows Matthew's lying to her. And when there are so many, many pranks to be done. Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16: Possibly a criminal mastermind. This is the story of how she got that way--Jacket.
345 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Printz Honor Books
Book Trailers - Spring 2009
Teens' Top Ten Winners
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Marriott, Zoe
Daughter of the Flames
After learning that she is the sole heir to the Ruan throne, orphaned Zira, trained in weaponry and martial arts as a warrior priestess, must unravel the secrets of her identity, decide her people's fate, and accept her feelings for a man who should be her enemy.
342 p. 2009
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McMann, Lisa
Wake
Ever since she was eight years old, high school student Janie Hannagan has been uncontrollably drawn into other people's dreams, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power.
210 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Mysteries for Teens
Teens' Top Ten Winners
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Meyer, Stephenie
Breaking Dawn
In the fourth and final book in the Twilight Saga, questions will be answered and the fate of Bella and Edward will be revealed.
756 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Teens' Top Ten Winners
Hot Titles- Teen
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Moran, Katy
Bloodline
While traveling through early seventh-century Britain trying to stop an impending war, Essa, who bears the blood of native British tribes and of the invading Anglish, discovers that his mother is alive and he, himself, is a prince of the northern kingdom, but he has loyalties and loved ones in the south to whom he is compelled to return.
297 p. 2009
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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
Appears on the following book lists:
Good Reads for Guys
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Noel, Alyson
Evermore
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.
306 p. 2009
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Palmer, Robin
Geek Charming
Rich, spoiled, and popular high school senior Dylan is coerced into doing a documentary film with Josh, one of the school's geeks, who leads her to realize that the world does not revolve around her.
338 p. 2009
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Pierce, Tamora
Melting Stones
Residents of the island of Starns send for help from Winding Circle temple, and when prickly green mage Rosethorn and young stone mage trainee Evvy respond, Evvy finds that the problem is with a long-dormant volcano and tries to use her talents to avert the looming destruction.
312 p. 2008
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Scott, Elizabeth
Living Dead Girl
Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends: her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her. This is Alice's story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget.--Book flap.
170 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
A Child Called It
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Smith, Cynthia Leitich
Eternal
When Miranda's guardian angel Zachary recklessly saves her from falling into an open grave and dying, the result is that she turns into a vampire and he is left to try to reinstate his reputation by finally doing the right thing.
307 p. 2009
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