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King Dork
by Frank Portman

How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff

The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak

A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
by Dana Reinhardt

Bras & Broomsticks
by Sarah Mylnowski

Tending to Grace
by Kimberly Newton Fusco

I Am the Messenger
by Marcus Zusak

Last Shot
by John Feinstein

The Boyfriend List
by E. Lockhart

Rebel Angels
by Libba Bray

Eldest
by Christopher Paolini

Falcondance
by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Colman
by Monica Furlong

Tears of the Salamander
by Peter Dickinson

Boy Meets Boy
by David Levithan

 

 


 

 


   
Books for every type of Situation
Heart-wrenching, heart-pounding, and heart-stopping, put these new titles at the top of your "To-Read" list!

What They Found: Love on 145th Street
by Walter Dean Myers
September 2007
| $15.99
Teen Series

Walter Dean Myers returns to the world of 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in the most unlikely places.

Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive in a war he doesn't want to fight, and Letha discovers her own beauty in the love of her child. There is the "good daughter" who realizes that there's only one way to help her brother and her family. Other stories center on the daily drama of the Curl-E-Que beauty shop, or capture the slapstick side of passion.

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The Promises of Dr. Sigmundus: The Hollow People
by Brian Keaney
September 2007 | $16.99

On the sinister island where strict obedience to the laws of the mysterious Dr. Sigmundus holds sway, dreaming will get you locked up and branded a lunatic, a danger to society and to all who know you.

In this doomed and repressive place, two teens that were never meant to meet or share their dreams, cross paths and set in motion that which rips them from the lives they were meant to lead. Together they join forces with a ragtag group of rebel forces bent on breaking the grip of lies and illusions their countrymen have accepted without question.

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Gender Blender
by Blake Nelson
September 2007 |
$8.99

Emma wants Jeff Matthews to notice her, hates sexist boys, and wonders when she’ll get her period.

Tom must avoid looking like a wuss, must deal with his blended family, must get a chance with Kelly A. Then something freaky happens: Emma and Tom switch bodies.

And until they can find a remedy:
Emma can’t believe she has a . . . thingie, hates mean girls and finds out secondhand that her period has arrived.
Tom must learn to put on a bra, must deal with an overachieving family and must not be alone with Jeff Matthews.

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