Showing 1–31 of 31 books
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13 Little Blue Envelopes
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2006
- ISBN: 9780060541415
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After
In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2003
- ISBN: 9780060080815
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Along for the Ride
Dessen has given teens a safe haven highlighting the many complexities teens face today. Her voice is authentic and assumes the reader is as intelligent and multi-faceted as her characters. Notably, each of the honored selections is engaging and accessib
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Before I Die
Tessa enlists her best friend's help in accomplishing her bucket list when she learns she only has months to live.
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Before I Fall
Sam's seemingly perfect life has ended in a terrible crash. But, it turns out she has to relive the last day of her life seven times to get it right.
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Butter
Butter is a morbidly obese teenager who is sick of being invisible but who doesn't really want to make a splash either. One day, he's finally pushed over the edge, and he posts a blog about his last meal, the one that he plans will kill him. This blog post brings him instant popularity, making Butter happy for once in his life. But Butter knows that his life is still far from perfect, and he must struggle with himself to determine who he will be and what course his life will take.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2013
- ISBN: 9781599907802
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Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady
In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2008
- ISBN: 9780810993136
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.
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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
When thirteen-year-old Steven's little brother is diagnosed with leukemia, Steven's world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with Jeffrey's illness and his parents' attempts to keep the family in one piece. This story takes the reader on a journey through a year in the life of a family in crisis.
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The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her. -
Firegirl
A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2007
- ISBN: 9780316011716
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The First Part Last
Johnson's novel is an extraordinary work in which the realities of fatherhood come slowly but surely to 16 year-old Bobby after the birth of his daughter.- Realistic Fiction
- Michael L. Printz Award 2004, Teens' Top Ten 2003
- ISBN: 9780689849220
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The Gangsta Rap
When teenage Ray and his two friends, Prem and Tyronne, form a successful rap band in the London's East End where they live, they soon find themselves embroiled in increasingly violent gang warfare.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2005
- ISBN: 9781582348865
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Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
The members of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduate from high school and spend their last summer before college learning about life and themselves.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2005
- ISBN: 9780385729352
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How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater
In 1983 Wallingford, New Jersey, feckless teenager Edward Zanni is enjoying a carefree summer, until his father remarries and refuses to pay for him to study acting at Juilliard, and joins forces with his loyal misfit friends to assist him in stealing the tuition money from his father while practicing for a high school production of Grease.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2005
- ISBN: 9780767918411
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How to Ruin a Summer Vacation
When sixteen-year-old Amy, a spoiled American, goes to Israel for a three-month summer vacation with a father she barely knows, she is not prepared for his Jewish family and the changes they bring about in her life.
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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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If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
When the father of high school sophomore, Lucy Norton, remarries, Lucy finds herself tormented by two bratty stepsisters and a wicked stepmother.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2006
- ISBN: 9780786809608
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Just Listen
Dessen has given teens a safe haven highlighting the many complexities teens face today. Her voice is authentic and assumes the reader is as intelligent and multi-faceted as her characters. Notably, each of the honored selections is engaging and accessib- Realistic Fiction
- Margaret A. Edwards Award 2017, Teens' Top Ten 2007
- ISBN: 9780670061051
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Looking for Alaska
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. -
My Sister's Keeper
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2005, Teens' Top Ten 2005
- ISBN: 9780743454520
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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.
- Realistic Fiction
- Get Your Geek On
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2012, Teens' Top Ten 2009
- ISBN: 9780525478188
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Pirates!
In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2004
- ISBN: 9781582348162
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Pushing the Limits
Echo is a high school girl with “freaky” scars on her arms and no memory of how it happened. Noah is the high school stoner who uses girls and has no future. Over the course of their senior year, their lives will intersect in a way they never could have imagined, going through a journey that will prove to thems and each other that they are more than what their reputations demand.- Realistic Fiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2013, Teens' Top Ten 2013
- ISBN: 9780373210862
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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.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2003
- ISBN: 9780385908528
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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.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2005
- ISBN: 9780060096168
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The Truth About Forever
Dessen has given teens a safe haven highlighting the many complexities teens face today. Her voice is authentic and assumes the reader is as intelligent and multi-faceted as her characters. Notably, each of the honored selections is engaging and accessib
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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.- Realistic Fiction
- Teens' Top Ten 2008
- ISBN: 9780670061013
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Where She Went
Three years after Mia left for New York, Adam is still reeling from her virtual disappearance when an accidental meeting brings them back together.
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Wintergirls
Lia and Cassie have been friends and competitors over who can be the skinniest. Cassie wins the contest, but now Lia has to find her way without losing her own life.