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Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Every twenty- or thirty-something woman knows these books. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you reading for your entire adolescence. Spurred by the commercial success of Sweet Valley High and The Babysitters Club, these were not the serious-issue YA novels of the 1970s, nor were they the blockbuster books of the Harry Potter and Twilight ilk. They were cheap, short, and utterly beloved. Paperback crush...
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Whether laughing to tears or clamoring for more unmistakable "me too!" moments, girls all over the world have been touched by Judy Blume's poignant coming-of-age stories. Now, in this anthology of essays, 24 notable female authors write straight from the heart about the unforgettable novels that left an indelible mark on their childhoods and still influence them today. After growing up from Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing into Smart Women, these writers...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Stories of recent Mexican, Venezuelan, Kazakh, Chinese, Romanian, Palestinian, Swedish, Korean, Haitian, and Cambodian immigrants reveal what it is like to face prejudice, language barriers, and homesickness along with common teenage feelings and needs.
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of essays about the triology "Hunger Games" by author Suzanne Collins, discussing the major themes, characters, and social and political commentary contained in the works.
7) Somniphobia
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"What are you running from? . . . Sam is afraid of just about anything and everything that's unhealthy ever since his father died. Something about the Springtrap costume in the role-playing area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex chills Luca to the core. And Grady's fear of being trapped in small spaces makes working as a Pizzaplex technician extremely challenging. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, our deepest fears have a way of chasing...
9) Twilight
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
10) Step closer
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Isolation can open up a void. Pete lashes out at his younger brother in the wake of his parents' divorce, falling prey to a gruesome curse. Kasey struggles with the lengths she'll go to survive on the streets after stealing a pair of unusual novelty glasses. Samantha and her sister, Susie, struggle to exist side by side, desperate to connect after a horrific tragedy. But in the grim world of Five Nights at Freddy's, empty feelings often attract hungry...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Painter Basil Hallward has done a portrait of a strange subject-youthful Dorian Gray, a man with a mysterious and tangled history. The young man broods on how unfair it is that he will age and his portrait will remain ever young. He wishes with all his might that it were otherwise-and in some bizarre, magical way-it is!" -- from publisher's web site.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"In an unassuming corner of Brooklyn, a young woman learns to be ladylike, to love context, and to speak her mind from a very curious sort of tutor. In a faraway land convulsed by war, a young soldier hears the desert's curious hum as he disarms bombs with the person he doesn't know how to love. In a place so shriveled by drought that any drowning is a curiosity, a young writer tries again and again to tread water beneath the surface of a vast and...
14) Anna Begins
Author
Publisher
Black Heron Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Presents a pair of novellas, each about a girl and a boy, sixteen to seventeen years old. In the title story, Melissa has an eating disorder, an absent best friend, a disconnected mother, her first experience with intimacy, and is writing a story about all of it. The second story is an upside-down account of teenage love in which Scott and Elly are trying to navigate their junior year in high school. Scott wants to be famous and takes up celebrity-scale...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins, Harpekids
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
¿Dónde buscas a alguien que en realidad nunca está? Siempre en una escalinata pero nunca en la escalera Los sugerentes acertijos que se ocultan tras los asesinatos del internado Ellingham siguen esperando a que alguien los resuelva, y Stevie sabe que está muy muy cerca. Sin embargo, el camino hacia la verdad tiene más obstáculos de los que se imagina..., y continuar avanzando implica hacer daño a alguien que quiere.
The Truly Devious case--an...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rogue Kite Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
"Centuries after the Forgotten Wars ravaged the world and turned it to ash, the Houses of Pilar, Darakai, Boreal, and Bastiion forged an accord with the royal line of Thoarne, founding a Quadren of advisory to the throne of Orynthia. Every generation, a single Haidren from each of the four Houses is appointed to this coveted chair. Upon her Ascension to adulthood, Luscia Tiergan takes her seat at court as al'Haidren to the House of Boreal and is quickly...
19) Lally's game
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"A forbidden artifact from her fiancé's past beckons to Selena. Jessica leads a double-life from her friends and coworkers in the children's wing of a hospital. Maya can't resist the temptation to explore an off-limits area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, everything comes with a price to pay"--
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