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A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck Publisher Comments Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of a Vermont boyhood that is part... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Publisher Comments In this stunning sequel to The Golden Compass, the intrepid Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld—Cittagazze, where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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New Moon (Twilight Saga #2) by Stephenie Meyer Publisher Comments Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won't be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The star-crossed lovers theme continues... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $1.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Earth's Children #3: The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M Auel Publisher Comments Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and its... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry Publisher Comments To Anastasia Krupnik, being ten is very confusing. For one thing, she has this awful teacher who can't understand why Anastasia doesn't capitalize or punctuate her poems. Then, there's Washburn Cummings, a very interesting sixth-grade boy who doesn't... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Mass Market
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane Publisher Comments The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories by Francesca Lia Block Publisher Comments Welcome to Girl Goddess #9, a collection of nine stories about girls by the author of Weetzie Bat.Here in these pages are girl goddesses of every age and shape and size, wearing combat boots and spiky hair or dressed all in white.One girl has two moms... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Publisher Comments Chapter One Miyax pushed back the hood of her sealskin parka and looked at the Arctic sun. It was a yellow disc in a lime-green sky, the colors of six o'clock in the evening and the time when the wolves awoke. Quietly she put down her cooking pot and... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler Publisher Comments Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves is sure that she's the weakest link in her high-powered family until her handsome, athletic, star-student brother shockingly falls from grace. Young Adult.... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Publisher Comments Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Publisher Comments Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving. Then, an... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Publisher Comments January 24th After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs.... It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Forever... by Judy Blume Publisher Comments Katherine and Michael meet on New Year's Eve and their attraction is instantaneous. Completely involved with each other, filled with all the wonder of "the first time," they are blissfully unaware of the complications real love presents. When they are... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff Publisher Comments This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Fat Summer (91 Edition) by Robert Lipsyte Publisher Comments For Bobby Marks, summer does not equal fun. While most people are happy to take off their heavy jackets and long pants, Bobby can't even button his jeans or reach over his belly to touch his toes. Spending the summer at Rumson Lake is sheer torture. This... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr Publisher Comments Ellen loves Link and James. Her older brother and his best friend are the only company she ever wants. She knows they fight, but she makes it a policy never to take sides. She loves her brother, the math genius and track star. And she is totally, madly... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award,The Color Purpleis the moving story of a young womans endurance of shame and suffering to become whole and to know God. The novel became an instant classic and has been adapted into a film and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones Publisher Comments My name is Sophie. This book is about me. It tells the heart-stoppingly riveting story of my first love. And also of my second. And, okay, my third love too. It's not that I'm boy crazy. It's just that even though I'm almost fifteen it's like my mind and... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crazy Lady! by Jane Leslie Conly Publisher Comments Increasingly alienated from his widowed father, Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts'Maxine, an alcoholic prone to outrageous behavior, and Ronald, her retarded son. But when a social service agency tries to put Ronald into a... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Agony of Alice (Alice Books) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Publisher Comments Since Alice McKinney burst onto the scene in 1985, she has addressed the issues tween girls care about with humor and sensitivity. Now, the first two books in Naylors beloved series are reissued with a fresh new look.... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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