Fiction
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| Title: |
24 Girls in 7 Days
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| Author: |
Alex Bradley |
| Summary: |
When Jack Grammar's best friends put a successful personal ad in the school's online newspaper for him, he has to date 24 girls in 7 days to find the right one to take to the prom. |
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| Title: |
A Long Way from Chicago
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| Author: |
Richard Peck |
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During the gangster era in Chicago, city dwellers Joey and Mary Alice visit Grandma Dowdel in her small Illinois town every summer, where the real action is with the old lady who has a knack for evening the score with various townsfolk. |
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| Title: |
Absolutely, Positively Not
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| Author: |
David LaRochelle |
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Steven isn't gay, no way, and he's determined to prove that he likes girls- with comically disastrous- results until he realizes that accepting himself might be less complicated after all. |
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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: |
Alice, I Think
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| Author: |
Susan Juby |
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When awkward Alice enters public school after many years of home schooling, she faces bullies, isolation, and attention from weird guys. |
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| Title: |
Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
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| Author: |
Terry Pratchett |
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Maurice the cat runs the best Pied Piper scam around: the rats plague the town, his piper chases them away, and they all share the profits- but they meet their match in a feisty mayor's daughter and a pair of mysterious rat-catchers. |
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| Title: |
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: |
Be More Chill
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| Author: |
Ned Vizzini |
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A supercomputer small enough to fit in a pill: it'll take more than that to turn Jeremy from dork to hunk. |
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| Title: |
Bindi Babes
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| Author: |
Narinder Dhami |
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Popular sisters Amber, Jazz, and Geena are spoiled by their father until Auntie from India arrives and meddles in their lives, compelling them to concoct a plan to marry her off. |
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| Title: |
Canning Season
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| Author: |
Polly Horvath |
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Rachet's name is the least of her problems now that she's living with her strange old aunts in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by man-eating bears--but at least she doesn't have to deal with her mom anymore. |
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| Title: |
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
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| Author: |
Dyan Sheldon |
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Lola is not going to let being stuck in a suburban wasteland stop her from becoming a star, even if she has to take on the most popular girl in school. |
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| Title: |
Dealing with Dragons
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| Author: |
Patricia Wrede |
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Bored with palace life, Princess Cimorene runs away to live with dragons and ends up fighting a group of nasty wizards bent on taking over the kingdom. |
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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 isnt the only thing that matters. |
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| Title: |
Education of Robert Nifkin
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| Author: |
Daniel Pinkwater |
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Robert Nifkin enjoys loose supervision and cavorting with his teachers when he transfers from Riverview High, where he didn't quite fit in, to a progressive school. |
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| Title: |
Feeling Sorry for Celia
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| Author: |
Jaclyn Moriarty |
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Elizabeth's best friend has run away again; she has to write to a pen pal for school; someone is passing her anonymous love letters on the bus and she's only communicating with her mom through notes on the fridge. |
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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: |
Gotta Get Some Bish Bash Bosh
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| Author: |
M. E. Allen |
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When an English boy's girlfriend dumps him because he doesn't have enough "Bish Bash Bosh," he experiments with new styles. |
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| Title: |
Hoot
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| Author: |
Carl Hiaasen |
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Roy Eberhart, the straight-arrow new kid in town, hooks up with teenage runaway Mullet Fingers, as they attempt to save a burrowing owl population inhabiting the next site of Mother Paula's All-American Pancake House. |
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| Title: |
I Am the Messenger
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| Author: |
Marcus Zusak |
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When 19-year-old cab-driver Ed Kennedy thwarts a bank-robbery, he begins to receive mysterious playing cards in the mail, and starts following the instructions written on the cards. |
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| Title: |
Norman Tuttle on the Last Frontier
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| Author: |
Tom Bodett |
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Alaskan teenager Norman Tuttle may live on the Last Frontier, but his life is full of firsts: his first job, first date, first hunt and first fight are just a few that make Norman's life a bumpy road. |
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| Title: |
Princess Diaries
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| Author: |
Meg Cabot |
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Every girl would like to be a princess, right? Mia Thermopolis from Manhattan is anything but thrilled when she finds out she is one and what's required of her. |
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| Title: |
Prom
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| Author: |
Laurie Halse Anderson |
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When the math teacher steals the money for senior prom and it might be cancelled, Ashley helps her best friend save the dance and make it a night no one will ever forget. |
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| Title: |
Rules of the Road
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| Author: |
Joan Bauer |
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Jenna chauffeurs the crabby Mrs. Gladstone, president of the shoe store chain she works for, from Chicago to Dallas to stop Elden Gladstone from taking over his mother's company. |
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| Title: |
Running with the Reservoir Pups
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| Author: |
Colin Bateman |
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Eddie has to make a truce with a kid gang to stop a kidnapping plot. Then things get crazy! |
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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: |
Scrib
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| Author: |
David Ives |
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Sixteen-year-old Billy Christmas, a.k.a. Scrib, narrates the "mellydrama" of his life as he supports himself in the old Wild West by writing and delivering letters for "ill-letterates". |
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| Title: |
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
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| Author: |
David Lubar |
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Scott's freshman year proves the nightmare he anticipated: he's bullied out of his lunch money, he has a crush on the quarterback's girlfriend, the gym teacher is out to exercise him to death, and his mother is expecting another baby. |
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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: |
Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl
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| Author: |
Debra Garfinkle |
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High school freshman Mike "Storky" Pomerantz has a father in mid-life crisis, a mother who is dating his dentist, and a crush on Gina, who only has eyes for her boyfriend, whose nickname is Hunk. |
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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: |
Vampire High
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| Author: |
Douglas Rees |
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When Cody starts to flunk out of the 9th grade in his new school in Massachusetts, he's enrolled in the Vlad Dracul Magnet School, where most of the students happen to be vampires. |
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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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| Title: |
Year of Secret Assignments
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| Author: |
Jaclyn Moriarty |
| Summary: |
When Ashbury High students Lydia, Emily, and Cassie write letters for their English class to students at rough Brookfield High, they make surprising connections. |
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Non-Fiction
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| Title: |
Gallery of Regrettable Food
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| Author: |
James Lileks |
| Summary: |
Radishes in Jell-O, creamed brains on toast&just a taste of the dishes highlighted in this amusing look at 1940s-70s American cookbooks. Meat and marshmallows will never be the same again! |
| Call Number: |
641.50207 LIL |
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| Title: |
King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-advised Biography
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| Author: |
Chris Crutcher |
| Summary: |
Author Chris Crutcher shares captivating stories from his childhood in Idaho, including the time his older brother convinced him that Jesus had an older brother, Esus. |
| Call Number: |
B CRUTCHER |
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| Title: |
Onion Presents: Our Dumb Century
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| Author: |
Scott Dikkers, editor |
| Summary: |
The Wisconsin newspaper known for its irreverent and satirical take on the news recaps the Twentieth Century. |
| Call Number: |
817.54 OUR |
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| Title: |
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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| Author: |
Mary Roach |
| Summary: |
You may not care what happens to your body after you're dead, but there's always someone who does! This is a lively, humorous look at 2,000 years of human-cadaver relationships. |
| Call Number: |
611 ROA |
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