Thwonk, Joan Bauer: A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.
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Fortune and Glory, Brian Michael Bendis: Marvel at the stupidity of Hollywood producers, the vanity of stars and the enthralling ego nosedives of a little indie comic-book creator caught up in the maelstrom of the movie
industry.
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Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block: Follows the wild adventures of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles friends, Dirk, Duck, and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man.
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Story Time, Edward Bloor: George and Kate are promised the best education but instead face obsessed administrators, endless tests, and evil spirits when they are transferred to Whittaker Magnet School.
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, Ann Brashares: During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each.
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Electric Girl, Michael Brennan: Virginia, the electric girl, can release electricity from her body at will. That`s the good news. The bad news is that her friend is Oogleeoog, an invisible gremlin who is always making trouble!
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The Princess Diaries series, Meg Cabot: 14-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a
princess and the heir to the throne.
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I Love You I Hate You, Get Lost, Ellen Conford: A collection of seven humorous stories reflecting the ups and downs of teenage love and life.
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Ironman, Chris Crutcher: While training for a triathlon, 17-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.
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LBD: It's a Girl Thing, Grace Dent: Barred by their parents from attending a rock music festival, three friends decide to stage their own music festival at their school.
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Flipped, Wendelin Van Draanen: Jack and Juli have a bit of a complex relationship. Basically, he kind of wants her to go away. Until she does.
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Alias Madame Doubtfire, Anne Fine: Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed baby sitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother
discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her ex-husband.
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A Fate Totally Worse than Death, Paul Fleischman: Three self-centered members of Cliffside High School's ruling clique become convinced that the beautiful new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before.
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Neil Gaimain: According to the
Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter--the world's only totally reliable guide to the future--the
world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea.
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Enter Three Witches, Kate Gilmour: Bren lives in an unusual house.. His mother and grandmother are witches. The woman living in the basement apartment practices black magic. But the real trouble starts when Bren falls in love with Erica, who wants to meet his family!
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The Princess Bride, William Goldman: This classic fairy tale romance retells the tale of a drunken swordsman, a gentle giant, a man seeking revenge, and a princess in dire need of rescue.
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Simpsons Comics Extravaganza, Matt Groening: A no-holds-barred, all-out Simpsons pageant. Hilariously entertaining, these tales will pry a smile from the clenched teeth of even the most disgruntled comic book reader.
The Trouble with Lemons, Daniel Hayes: Tyler and Lymie, 8th grade misfits, discover a dead body in a quarry and work to uncover the mystery behind it.
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Adventures of Blue Avenger, Norma Howe: It is David Bruce Schumacher's 16th birthday, and in a sudden, unusual spurt of boldness, he has finally made up his mind to go ahead and do it, on this very day, he will officially change his name to The Blue Avenger.
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Alice I Think, Susan Juby: 15-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis."
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Little, Little, M.E. Kerr: Little Little is a beautiful, independent heiress, perfect in every way. Except she's only 3' 3" tall. And now that she is about to turn 18, her parents are conspiring to get her married to the
perfect young man. But Little Little has plans of her own.
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Goose Chase, Patrice Kindl: A young, and somewhat fiery princess, a young prince, a meanie king, and 12 geese. Can you think of a better recipe for laughs? The way I figured it, any book that starts out "The King killed my canary" just has to be funny. And in no way did it disappoint.
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The Harmony Arms, Ron Koertge: Mortified by his movie-studio father's inclination to speak through a hand puppet rather than directly, 14-year-old Gabriel is further surprised when the neighbors at their new Los
Angeles apartment are even more eccentric.
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Son of the Mob, Gordon Korman: 17-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI
agent.
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Looks Aren't Everything, James Kandis: Rosie suspends her heavy dating schedule to pursue her best friend's older brother and coach her inexperienced mother and best friend in the fine art of dating.
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Slot Machine, Chris Lynch: Elvin Bishop quickly learns that his summer camp is really a sports camp and has to choose a sport to play, but after bouncing unhappily from sport to sport, he realizes that strength is not always found in the obvious places and decides not to play the game.
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The Earth My Butt and Other Big Round Things, Carolyn Mackler: Mac Virginia's mother is an excercise fiend, her father a golfer and her siblings are gorgeous, clever and impossible to live up to. Virginia thinks the world of everyone, except herself, then a phone call changes everything.
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The Year of Secret Assignments, Jaclyn Moriarty: Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.
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The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner, Walter Dean Myers: 15-year-old Artemis journeys from New York City to Tombstone, Arizona to avenge the murder of his uncle.
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The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action, Wendy Notrhcutt: Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires without shutting off the current. Learn from the man who peers into a gasoline can using a cigarette lighter. These, and many more, contend for Darwin Awards when their choices culminate in magnificent misadventures.
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Schernoff Discoveries, Gary Paulsen: Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments, the attacks of the football team, and other dangers of junior high.
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Those Summer Girls I Never Met, Richard Peck: Drew and Steph, ages almost-16 and 14, reluctantly take a cruise with their heretofore unknown grandmother, a singing star of the 1940s, and have the experience of a lifetime.
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Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging series, Louise Rennison: The humorous journal of a year in the life of a 14-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.
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Lost in Place, Marc Salzman: Salzman tells the story of his life as a teenager trying to attain enlightenment before he's learned to drive.
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Dylan Sheldon: In her first year of high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself "Lola," sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school.
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The Eyes of Kid Midas, Neal Shusterman: Kevin is entranced when he finds a pair of sunglasses that turn his desires into reality, but then things start to get out of control.
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Bone series, Jeff Smith: Humor, mystery, and adventure are spun together in this action-packed, side-splitting saga.
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One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies, Sonya Sones: 15-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, boyfriend, aunt, and mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
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Gospel According to Larry, Janet Tashjian: 17-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a web site that is receiving national attention.
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Adrian Mole Diaries, Sue Townsend: In his secret diary, British teen Adrian Mole excruciatingly details every morsel of his average adolescence.
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Never Trust a Dead Man, Vivian Van Velde: Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb with the dead man, 17-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer.
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Teen Angst - Naah, Ned Vizzini: A collection of essays wrtten by the author from age 15 to 17 in which he shares impressions of school, sports, cool people, boring people, friends, family, money, music, and obsessions.
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Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Waterson: Calvin, the 6-year-old dirty trickmeister and master of indignation, and his warm, cuddly philosopher sidekick, Hobbes are back in this collection of comic strips.
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Dealing with Dragons, Patrica Wrede: Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom.
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