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Side Effects
by Amy Goldman Koss  Publisher Comments As if it doesn’t suck enough to have cancer, practically every time you pick up books or see movies where characters get sick, you know they’ll be dead by the last scene. In reality, kids get all kinds of cancers, go through unspeakable...
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The King of Attolia
by Megan Whalen Turner Publisher Comments By scheming and theft, the Thief of Eddis has become King of Attolia. Eugenides wanted the queen, not the crown, but he finds himself trapped in a web of his own making. Attolia's barons seethe with resentment, the Mede emperor is returning to the attack,...
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Gothic Sports: Volume 1
by Anike Hage Publisher Comments Anya is a young girl who has to adjust to her new school. When she tries to fit in and join the various school sports teams, shes rejected by every one. With nowhere else to turn, she decides to form her very own soccer team. Thus begins the first Gothic-...
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Ask Me No Questions
by Marina Tamar Budhos Publisher Comments The author of "Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers" pens a moving story about two teenage sisters, originally from Bangladesh, whose family lives illegally in New York City. After 9/11, immigration regulations change, forcing the family to seek...
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A Song for Summer
by Eva Ibbotson Publisher Comments In a fragile world on the brink of World War II, a young Englishwoman takes a job as a housemother at an unconventional boarding school in Vienna. Soon everyone at the Hallendorf School relies on her for nurturing. What happens when the menace of Hitler...
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Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Art
by Scott (ilt) Hunt Publisher Comments For this intriguing collection, Hunt sent nine hauntingly surreal images to 18 authors and asked each one to write a story based on the image. Sometimes the same picture can tell two different stories, as this collection shows. Illustrations....
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Black Duck
by Janet Taylor Lisle Publisher Comments When Ruben and Jed find the dead body on the Rhode Island shore, they are certain it has something to do with smuggling liquor. It is the l920's, Prohibition is in full swing, and almost everyone in the shore community is involved. Suddenly, the boys...
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Saint Iggy
by K. L. Going Publisher Comments In this third novel from a Printz Honor winner, Iggy leaves public housing behind to make something of his life. It's not easy when you're 16, have no skills, and your only friend is mixed up with the dealer who got your mom hooked....
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Doppelganger
by David Stahler Publisher Comments Raised in a cabin in the middle of nowhere by a mother who despises him, the doppelganger has left home at last. He is making his way toward human society. He's coming to do what every member of his monster race must: find an unsuspecting human and make...
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Offroad
by Publisher Comments When three misfit friends from high school reunite after a string of bad luck in their personal lives, what is the first thing they do? Go off-roading, of course! Trent, the art school student's girlfriend has just broken up with him. Brad is a good guy,...
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Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
by Shyam Selvadurai Publisher Comments The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to...
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A True and Faithful Narrative
by Katherine Sturtevant Publisher Comments In Restoration London, 16-year-old Meg Moore spends long hours conversing with the famous authors and poets who visit her father's bookstore, and even writes her own stories. Without warning, however, Meg comes to learn exactly how powerful words can be....
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White Time
by Margo Lanagan Publisher Comments < p> Lose yourself in White Time < /p> < p> White Time is mind time, body time, soul time, heart time. < /p> < p> White Time is other worlds, other dimensions, other states of being. < /p> < p> White Time is out...
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Tyrell
by Coe Booth 
Publisher Comments The protagonist of this astonishing debut is a young, African-American teen who can't get a break. Tyrell is living (for now) with his spaced-out mother and little brother in a homeless shelter. He feels he needs to score some money to make things better....
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The Rules of Survival
by Nancy Werlin Publisher Comments It all starts when Matthew observes a heroic scene in a convenience store: A man named Murdoch puts himself between an abusive father and his son. Matt is determined to get to know this man. And when, amazingly, Murdoch begins dating Matt's mother, it...
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Kampung Boy
by Lat Publisher Comments "Kampung Boy "is a favorite of millions of readers in Southeast Asia. With masterful economy worthy of Charles Schultz, Lat recounts the life of Mat, a Muslim boy growing up in rural Malaysia in the 1950s: his adventures and mischief-making, fishing...
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
by Rick Yancey Publisher Comments Alfred Kropp was just trying to survive high school when his guardian uncle gets him roped into a suspicious get-rich-quick scheme that changes his life forever: stealing Excalibur — the legendary sword of King Arthur. But after Alfred unwittingly...
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Bad Kitty
by Michele Jaffe Publisher Comments <p> Meet Jasmine, <small><sup>1</sup></small> forensic supersleuth, <small><sup>2</sup></small> aspiring Model Daughter, <small><sup>3</sup></small> and friend to animals.<...
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Life as We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer Publisher Comments Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash...
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Just in Case
by Meg Rosoff
Powells.com Staff Pick Meg Rosoff's books are so unique, so crafted, and so utterly beautiful, I have a hard time coming up with apt descriptions — summaries always fall short. Like her first book, How I Live Now, this novel captures the essence of young adulthood while...
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