Showing 1–50 of 50 books
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Behind the Door
Trapped without a door.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781897039267
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Black Box
Depression, close to home.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780385735421
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Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers
From fashion magazines to taboo Web sites, curious young women have access to tons of old wives' tales about and thousands of airbrushed and inaccurate images of the female bodymisinformation and harmful portrayals that can lead to low selfesteem, selfdestructive acts, or even disturbing plastic surgery procedures. -
Chess Rumble
Real life battles, chess style.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781584302797
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The Compound
Eli's billionaire father built the Compound to protect his family from nuclear devastation. Now, six years have passed and Eli finally begins to question his reality.
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Custom Kicks
Helps in creating customized shoes. This book includes contributions from 150 artists and illustrators. It also examines the trend and asks: how did it start?- Nonfiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781856695428
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Dead is the New Black
Cheerleaders are dropping like flies.
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Drama High: Cold as Ice
Drama, drama, drama.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780758231130
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Fakie
New town, new identity, same danger.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781897073797
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Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel
Love and jealousy collide.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781595141750
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Gamer Girl
What's a girl to do when her only reality is virtual?
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Ghosts Caught on Film: Photographs of the Paranormal
Accompanied by explanatory text, a collection of photographs from the archives of the Society for Psychical Research offers images of paranormal happenings and includes all of the most famous, and most arguable, ghost photographs.- Nonfiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780715327289
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Good Neighbors: Kin
Problem parents and faeries. -
Hot Girl
Kate, a fourteen-year-old Brooklyn girl and former gang member, risks losing her first good foster family when she adopts the risqué ways of her flirtatious new friend, Naleejah. -
Hotlanta
Atlanta just got hotter.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780545003087
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The Hunger Games
Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780439023481
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I Heart You, You Haunt Me
Ava can't see or touch him, unless she's dreaming. She can't hear his voice, except for the faint whispers in her mind. Most would think she's crazy, but she knows he's here. Jackson. The boy Ava thought she'd spend the rest of her life with. He's back from the dead, as proof that love truly knows no bounds- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781416955207
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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.
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Kaput and Zosky
Two rotten aliens coming to a planet near you.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781596431324
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Kendra
Looking for love in all the wrong places.
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Life Sucks
Vampire wageslave Dave works for an oldworld vampire as a night manager, has an unrequited crush on a goth girl and wants to be a vegetarian. Life for him seems pretty bleak until he realizes maybe he's not as powerless as he thinks. -
Living Dead Girl
Kidnapped five years ago while on a school field trip, fifteen-year-old “Alice” has grown too old to hold the interest of her abductor. When Ray orders her to find him a new little girl, Alice sees her chance for freedom. Kate Reinder's portrayal is distu -
Middle Row
When you are not where you are supposed to be…- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781551438993
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My Father's Son
Wearing the face of serial killer is tough.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781596433496
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No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
Teenagers on death row speak about their lives before and after being locked up.
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No Way Out
Bluford High kid desperate for money.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781491941767
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One Hundred Young Americans
Inside, you will read stories that will inspire, move, excite and even anger you. Along this journey, you will meet people who share your experiences, who remind your of others and who are unlike anyone you have ever met.- Nonfiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780061192005
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Outrage
Bad days sometimes just get worse.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781897039281
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Pain & Wastings
Facing life with death.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781551439044
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Permanence
Contains a collection of fullcolor portraits of various people and their tattoos, including Margaret Cho, Chris Garver, and Slash, with a handwritten statement accompanying each photograph, and includes interviews with tattoo artists.- Nonfiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780811861311
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Planet Pregnancy
Adopting, keeping and leaping.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781590785843
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Poison Ink
Group tattoos gone bad.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780385734837
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Prey
Told from their separate points of view, fifteen-year-old Ryan has a secret affair with his thirty-three-year-old history teacher at an Atlanta high school, and his best friend Honey becomes determined to uncover the reason he is increasingly distant.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780385734530
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Project 17
When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occuring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives.
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Retaliation
When a popular high school girl is badly beaten in a fight borne from jealousy, the girl, her family, and her DC community must choose whether to stay in the violent, dangerous status quo or rise above the violence and its deadly consequences that permeates every crevice of their community.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780971817432
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Right Behind You
Life is rough; living with the knowledge you killed a kid.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780316166362
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Saturday Night Dirt
One night can make a difference at the speedway.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780374350604
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Schooled
Bluford boy has NBA dreams.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781491941774
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The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez
Can Sonia stand up to her family without turning her back on her Mexican heritage?
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Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks
Skateboarding, trick by trick.- Nonfiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781884654305
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Skulls
On June 4th, 2007, artist Noah Scalin came up with an ingenious idea: he cut a skull out of orange paper and posted it online with the note, "I'm making a skull image every day for a year."- Nonfiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781600593758
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Suckerpunch
Roadtrip with gun.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780061173301
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Sucks to Be Me: The AllTrue Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (Maybe)
It bites when your parents are vampires.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780786950287
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Switch
Shocked into a gorgeous body.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780061452086
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Thief
Foster kids forced to steal.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780545034005
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Torn to Pieces
When mom disappears, secrets are revealed.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9780385735575
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Undone
Losing a friend—inheriting a friend's todo list.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9788027097636
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Unleashed
Why be a human, when you can be a werewolf?- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781416940074
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Venemous
When rage is in your blood.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009
- ISBN: 9781416924876
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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.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009, Teens' Top Ten 2009
- ISBN: 9781416953579