Fiction
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| Title: |
Airhead
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| Author: |
Meg Cabot |
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After a TV crashes down on her, geeky, plain sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts wakes up in the hospital inside the body of celebrity supermodel Nikki Howard |
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| Title: |
Al Capone Does My Shirts
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| Author: |
Gennifer Choldenko |
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Moose Flanagan and his family move to Alcatraz Island, where danger comes not from the inmates, but from Piper, the prison warden's daughter, who has a knack for getting Moose into trouble. |
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| Title: |
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
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| Author: |
Brandon Sanderson |
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Thirteen-year-old Alcatraz, known for his clumsiness, must save the world from evil librarians bent on dominating civilization. |
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An Abundance of Katherines
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| Author: |
John Green |
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Child math prodigy Colin, faced with post-graduation blues and a breakup with his 19th girlfriend (all of whom were named Katherine), reluctantly goes on a roadtrip with his best friend Hassan and begins to learn that life doesn't always fit into a formula. |
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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
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| Author: |
Louise Rennison |
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Experience 14-year-old Georgia Nicholson's life through her journal, as she tries to make her nose smaller, keep her cat from terrorizing the neighborhood, and catch the attention of Robbie, hunk extraordinaire. |
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| Title: |
Beauty Queens
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| Author: |
Libba Bray |
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A plane crash strands a bunch of teen beauty queen contestants on an island, forcing them to draw upon their survival instincts and still learn their dance numbers. |
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| Title: |
Dairy Queen
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| Author: |
Catherine Gilbert Murdock |
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D.J., fifteen, runs her family's dairy farm while training the rival high school's quarterback, who tells her she's acting "like a cow headed unquestioningly down the cattle shoot of life." |
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| Title: |
Does My head Look Big in This
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| Author: |
Randa Abdel-Fattah |
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Australian-Muslim-Palestinian ("That means I was born an Aussie and whacked with some seriously confusing identity hyphens") 16-year-old Amal decides over winter break that it's time to start wearing the hijab, or Muslim head scarf, all the time, and creates quite stir. |
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| Title: |
Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
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| Author: |
Carolyn Mackler |
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Fifteen-year-old Virginia is the fat freak in a family of perfect people, or so she is convinced, until her older brother does something terrible that makes her realize physical perfection isn't the only thing that matters. |
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| Title: |
Flipped
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| Author: |
Wendelin Van Draanen |
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Juli Baker has been in love with Bryce Loski since 2nd grade but by the time Bryce gets around to seeing what's so great about Juli in the 8th grade, she's discovered a few things about Bryce that don't look so good. |
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| Title: |
Freak Show
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| Author: |
James St. James |
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"Tease hair, not homos" declares Billy Bloom in his bid for homecoming queen at straight-laced elite Dwight D. Eisenhower Academy. |
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Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
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| Author: |
Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci |
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Sci-fi, dragon loving, and/ or academic geeks of all stripes and sizes can find a laugh in this hodge-podge collection of stories from young adult writers who are self-declared geeks. |
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| Title: |
How to Ditch Your Fairy
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| Author: |
Justine Larbalestier |
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In New Avalon everyone has a fairy to assist them with something in life, but Charlie's Parking Fairy is nearly useless to her since she's 14. What she'd really like is the Shopping Fairy or maybe All-the-Boys-Like-You-Fairy, but exchanging fairies might be trickier than she thought. |
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| Title: |
Into the Wild Nerd Younder
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| Author: |
Julie Halpern |
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When Jess's close friends turn poseur-punk she distances herself from them and dares to join the nerdy Dungeon and Dragon's group even though it might be social suicide. |
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| Title: |
Life Sucks
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| Author: |
Jessica AbelGabe Soria, and Warren Pleece |
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Dave Miller is a bit of a failure as a vampire because he only steals blood from blood banks rather than kill the innocent. However, the girl he likes has her eyes on the healthier, more "successful" vampire Wes. |
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| Title: |
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
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| Author: |
James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts |
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Six-grader Rafe makes a pact to break all the rules of Hills Village Middle School in his six grade year and of course ends up in a lot of trouble which may eventually cause him to be expelled. |
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| Title: |
Scat
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| Author: |
Carl Hiaasen |
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Nick and Marta are initially delighted when their awful teacher, Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears during a field trip to Black Vine Swamp, but when the facts just don't add up they begin investigating what they suspect is foul play. |
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| Title: |
Schwa Was Here
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| Author: |
Neal Shusterman |
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Antsy makes friends with Calvin Schwa, a boy who is so ordinary he's just about invisible, and together they decide to scientifically explore the "Schwa Effect." |
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| Title: |
Son of the Mob
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| Author: |
Gordon Korman |
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Vince would like to live just a normal 17-year-old's life, but his father is a Mafia boss and his girlfriend's father is the FBI agent trying to bring Vince's father down. |
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| Title: |
Spanking Shakespeare
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| Author: |
Jake Wizner |
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In one last desperate attempt to overcome his loser status, the unfortunately named Shakespeare Shapiro tries to write a prize-winning memoir about his terrible life. |
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| Title: |
Swim the Fly
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| Author: |
Don Calame |
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Matt & his two best friends set a summertime goal to see a real-live naked girl - in the flesh. Meanwhile Matt struggles to swim the 100-yard butterfly in order to impress the new girl on the swim team. |
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Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance 1973
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| Author: |
John Barnes |
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A normal senior year is all Karl Shoemaker wants. Since fourth grade, Karl has been part of the Madman Underground, a school therapy group for screwed-up kids. He and his eccentric friends navigate their troubled lives with gallows humor. |
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| Title: |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
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| Author: |
Sherman Alexie |
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Junior leaves the Spokane Indian reservation for the opportunity of a better education at an all-white school in a nearby town, but finds he doesn't fit in there any better than on the rez. |
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| Title: |
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
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| Author: |
Catherine Jinks |
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Could anything be worse than spending 51 years in a boring support group for the undead? Fifteen-year-old Nina didn't think so, until one of the group turns up murdered. |
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| Title: |
Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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| Author: |
Douglas Adams |
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Arthur Dent is (nearly) the last human alive after the Earth is destroyed and the universe turns out to be stranger than he ever knew possible. |
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| Title: |
Wee Free Men
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| Author: |
Terry Pratchett |
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Tiffany, an aspiring witch, must rescue her brother (stolen by the Queen of the Elves) with the help of the Wee Free Men- stealin' and fightin' tiny blue men with big senses of humor. |
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