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Abbott, Tony
Firegirl
From the moment Jessica arrives, life is never quite the same for Tom and his seventh-grade classmates. They learn that Jessica was in a fire and was badly burned, and will be attending St. Catherines while getting medical treatments. [2007 Teens' Top Ten]
149 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
 Fabulous Reads for Middle Schoolers -- Fiction
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Aidinoff, Elsie V.
The Garden
Retells the tale of the Garden of Eden from Eve's point of view, as Serpent teaches her everything from her own name to why she should eat the forbidden fruit, and then leaves her with Adam and the knowledge that her choice has made mankind free.[2005 Teens' Top Ten]
403 p. 2004
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Amelia Bloomer Project
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Anderson, Laurie Halse
Twisted
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts. [2008 Teens Top Ten]
250 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
My So-Called Life
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Black, Holly
Tithe : a Modern Faerie Tale
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny. [2003 Teens' Top Ten]
310 p. 2002
Appears on the following book lists:
Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
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Brashares, Ann
Girls in Pants : the Third Summer of the Sisterhood
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school and spends their last summer before college learning about life and themselves.[2005 Teens' Top Ten]
338 p. 2005
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Brashares, Ann
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer. Bridget: Impulsively sets off for Alabama, wanting to both confront her demons about her family and avoid them all at once. Lena: Spends a blissful week with Kostos, making the unexplainable silence that follows his visit even more painful. Carmen: Is concerned that her mother is making a fool of herself over a man. When she discovers that her mother borrowed the Pants to wear on a date, she's certain of it. Tibby: Not about to spend another summer working at Wallman's, she takes a film course only to find it's what happens off-camera that teaches her the most. [2003 Teens' Top Ten]
373 p. 2004
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Bray, Libba
A Great and Terrible Beauty
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. [2004 Teens' Top Ten]
403 p. 2003
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Horrorific
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Bray, Libba
Rebel Angels
Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released. [2006 Teens' Top Ten][Sequel to A Strange and Terrible Beauty]
548 p. 2005
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Bray, Libba
The Sweet Far Thing
At Spence Academy, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle continues preparing for her London debut while struggling to determine how best to use magic to resolve a power struggle in the enchanted world of the realms, and to protect her own world and loved ones. [2008 Teens Top Ten] [Sequel to Rebel Angels]
819 p. 2007
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Brooks, Kevin
The Road of the Dead
Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London traveling to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister. [2007 Teens' Top Ten]
339 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
Mysteries for Teens
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Brooks, Martha
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl : a Novel
A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a small Manitoba town and find a way to a better future. [2003 Teens' Top Ten]
181 p. 2003
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Cabot, Meg
Princess in Pink
In a series of humorous diary entries, high school freshman (and Genovian Princess) Mia tries to get her reluctant boyfriend to take her to the prom. [Princess Diaries series, 2005 Teens' Top Ten]
256 p. 2004
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Cabot, Meg
Teen Idol
When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker shows up at a small-town Indiana high school to do research for a movie role, he persuades junior Jenny Greenley to use her considerable talents to try to change things at school for the better.[2005 Teens' Top Ten]
291 p. 2004
Appears on the following book lists:
Good Reads for Middle School
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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 another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. [2009 Teens' Top Ten]
471 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Best Books for Kids - February 2009
Book Trailers - Spring 2009
Ravenous Readers
Teens' Top Ten Nominees 2009
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Cast, P. C.
Untamed : a House of Night Novel
Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you. Just ask Zoey Redbird: she's become an expert on suckiness. In one week she 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, the only two Zoey has left are undead and unMarked. And Neferet has declared war on humans, which Zoey knows in her heart is wrong. But will anyone listen to her? [Book 4 of the House of Night series] [2009 Teens' Top Ten]
338 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Teens' Top Ten Nominees 2009
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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. [Series: Mortal Instruments, book 2][2009 Teens' Top Ten]
453 p. 2008
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Teens' Top Ten Nominees 2009
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Clare, Cassandra
City of Bones
Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. [2008 Teens Top Ten] [Series: Mortal Instruments, book 1]
485 p. 2007
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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. [2009 Teens' Top Ten]
374 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Book Trailers - Spring 2009
Teens' Top Ten Nominees 2009
Hot Titles- Teen
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Dessen, Sarah
Just Listen : a Novel
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life. [2007 Teens' Top Ten]
371 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Book Trailers Spring 2007
Body Angst
Girl Talk
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Dessen, Sarah
The Truth About Forever
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.[2005 Teens' Top Ten]
382 p. 2004
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