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Sarah's Favorite Teen Books
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Giant Days. Volume one
by John Allison
Three girls bond at university as they learn how to live away from home, battle the flu, and deal with obnoxious college boys.
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Three Dark Crowns
by Kendare Blake
Fiction - On the island of Fennbirn, triplet sisters who each wield a coveted magic skill and claim an equal right to the throne must fight to the death when they turn sixteen for the title of Queen Crowned.
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The Prince and the Dressmaker
by Jen Wang
Graphic Novel - The best-selling cartoonist of In Real Life presents a graphically illustrated fairy tale set in Paris at the dawn of the modern age, where a cross-dressing prince hides his identity as a popular fashion icon and falls for a brilliant dressmaker who knows his secret at the same time his royal parents begin searching for a traditional bride for him to marry.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Fiction - Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Boys Don't Knit (in public)
by Tom Easton
Fiction - Ordered to perform community service and take up a productive hobby after an incident involving alcohol, his boneheaded friends and a crossing guard, 17-year-old worrier Ben takes a knitting class that helps him deal with his anxieties in spite of his friends' attitudes.
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The Family Romanov : murder, rebellion & the fall of Imperial Russia
by Candace Fleming
Nonfiction - The award-winning author of The Lincolns traces the story of the Russian Revolution, the lives of the Romanov family and the story of their tragic deaths, in an account that draws on primary source materials and includes period photography.
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The Color of Earth
by Dong Hwa Kim
Graphic Novel - Set in Korea, Ehwa is disturbed by the comments she hears about the way her widowed mother lives her life and tries not let it affect her, but as they both get older and her mother finds a new love, Ehwa begins to realize that having an open heart isn't something one should feel ashamed about.
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Ink and Ashes
by Valynne E. Maetani
Fiction - When Japanese American Claire Takata finds out that her deceased father was once a member of the Yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, danger enters her life that could end up killing someone.
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I Am Princess X
by Cherie Priest
Fiction - Years after writing stories about a superheroine character she created with a best friend who died in a tragic car accident, 16-year-old Libby is shocked to see stickers, patches and graffiti images of the superheroine appearing all over town.
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Americus
by M. K. Reed
Graphic Novel - Oklahoma teen Neal Barton stands up for his favorite fantasy series, The Chronicles of Apathea Ravenchilde, when conservative Christians try to bully the town of Americus into banning it from the public library.
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Last Night I Sang to the Monster : a novel
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fiction - Eighteen-year-old Zach does not remember how he came to be in a treatment center for alcoholics, but through therapy and caring friends, his amnesia fades and he learns to face his past while working toward a better future.
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Fiction - Living with a foster family in Germany during World War II, a young girl struggles to survive her day-to-day trials through stealing anything she can get her hands on, but when she discovers the beauty of literature, she realizes that she has been blessed with a gift that must be shared with others, including the Jewish man hiding in the basement.
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