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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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Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy
by Sharyn (edt) November Publisher Comments This star-studded follow-up to the acclaimed "Firebirds" contains riveting, original stories by some of today's masters of science fiction and fantasy, including Fancesca Lia Block, Alan Dean Foster, Diana Wynne Jones, and Tanith Lee....
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Grease Monkey
by Publisher Comments Caught in the crossfire of an interstellar war, our Earth was bombed to flinders--and then repaired. The mysterious alien Benefactors who healed the planet also offered “uplift” to our dolphins and gorillas. The dolphins turned them down. The...
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
by Ned Vizzini Publisher Comments The author of "Be More Chill" takes a poignant look at teenage depression in this remarkably moving and authentic picture of the physicality, the despair, and even the hilarity of depression. Hyperion Books for Children/Miramax...
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Incantation
by Alice Hoffman Publisher Comments From a New York Times bestselling author comes a journey of loss and rebirth with a startling premise inspired by historical fact. Estrella is a Marrano: one of the Spanish Jews living double lives when those who refused conversion risked everything....
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What Happened to Cass McBride?
by Gail Giles Publisher Comments In this gripping, psychological page turner, Cass McBride has only a walkie talkie to save her when she is buried alive....
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Dead Connection
by Charlie Price Publisher Comments Murray, a loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery, hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her. But who beleives him? He's a loser. Can he even beleive in himself?...
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Street Love
by Walter Dean Myers Publisher Comments A story of star-crossed urban love by two-time National Book Award finalist Walter Dean Myers. Have you ever loved someone from the wrong side of the tracks? Damien has everything going for him. His family wants him to date Roxanne. He falls for Junice,...
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
by Rachel Cohn Publisher Comments Told in alternating chapters, teeming with music references, humor, angst, and endearing side characters, this he said/she said romance is a sexy, funny roller coaster of a story about one date over one very long night, with two teenagers who are just...
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So Yesterday
by Scott Westerfeld Publisher Comments In this ultra-hip conspiracy thriller--a 2005 Book Sense Book of the Year nominee--a shadowy group dedicated to the downfall of consumerism draws a street savvy 17-year-old into its web of brand-name intrigue....
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Surrender
by Sonya Hartnett Publisher Comments I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and...
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The Trap
by John Smelcer Publisher Comments A gripping wilderness adventure and survival story "It was getting colder. Johnny pulled the fur-lined hood of his parka over his head and walked towards his own cabin with the sound of snow crunching beneath his boots."<BR>""He should be back...
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Samurai Shortstop
by Alan Gratz Publisher Comments At its heart a novel about a boy who loves baseball, this suspenseful tale is about a boy who must choose between two ways of life--but finds a way to bridge them....
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Wintersmith: A Tiffany Aching Adventure
by Terry Pratchett
Powells.com Staff Pick In Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett brings back young witch Tiffany Aching and the Feegles, the captivating heroes of The Wee Free Men and A Hat Full of Sky. Blending Celtic mythology, irresistible adventure, and his own peculiar Discworld hilarity...
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Rebound
by Bob Krech Publisher Comments Black kids play basketball. White kids wrestle. That's the way it is at Franklin High School and especially in Ray Wisniewski's neighborhood, the tight knit Polish-American town of Greenville, New Jersey. But Ray's got a passion for basketball, even...
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Kiki Strike
by Kirsten Miller Publisher Comments Life will never be the same for Ananka Fishbein after she ventures into an enormous sinkhole near her New York City apartment. A million rats, delinquent Girl Scouts out for revenge, and a secret city below the streets of Manhattan combine in this...
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Blind Faith
by Ellen Wittlinger Publisher Comments After Lizs grandma Bunny dies, Lizs mother falls into a deep depression. The only thing that cheers her is going to a special spiritualist church where she thinks she can communicate with Bunny from the grave. In this poignant novel, Wittlinger explores...
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Skin
by Adrienne Maria Vrettos Publisher Comments Told from teenage Donnies point of view, this brilliant debut novel shows how everything changes when Donnies less-than-perfect family realizes that his sister Karen has an eating disorder. McElderry Books....
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Dairy Queen
by Catherine G Murdock Publisher Comments When you don& #39; t talk, there& #39; s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.< BR> < BR> Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D. J. can& #39; t help admitting, maybe he& #39; s right.< BR>...
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