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Teen Zine January 1st, 2020 Happy New Year!
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Her Fearless Run : Kathrine Switzer's Historic Boston Marathon by Kim ChaffeeA narrative celebration of girl power shares the story of the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, from her early lap-running in her backyard through her barrier-breaking achievements, while sharing insights into the value of a running community.
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This Mortal Coil by Emily SuvadaIn a world where people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, gene-hacking genius Cat must decrypt her late father's message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague.
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Snowhook by Jo StormWhen a massive ice storm traps Hannah and her family in a remote cabin, she must take the four family dogs on a dogsled ride to find help before they all freeze to death in the wilderness.
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Smells Like Dog by Suzanne SelforsWhen farm boy Homer Pudding's explorer-uncle dies and leaves him a droopy dog with a mysterious coin hidden on its collar, it leads him to The City, where they meet Madame La Directeur, the conniving head of the Natural History Museum, who is trying to steal the coin and take Homer's place in a secret society of adventurers.
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Five Feet Apart by Rachael LippincottA teen on the waiting list for a lung transplant faces an impossible choice when her infection risks prevent her from getting within five feet of the boy she loves, a fellow patient who is determined to experience life outside the hospital.
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Hooper by Geoff HerbachFor Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.
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One of Us is Lying
by Karen M. McManus
When one of five students in detention is found dead, his high-profile classmates—including a brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation and an all-star athlete—are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip postings.
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Goodbye, Perfect by Sara BarnardWhen her best friend runs away with a teacher, Eden is forced to question her friendship and herself.
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Better than the Best Plan by Lauren MorrillPlanning a carefree summer with her friends in the aftermath of her mother's abandonment, 17-year-old Ritzy finds herself in foster care and forging promising new bonds before an unexpected reunion forces her to choose between her old life and her new one.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsAfter a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
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The Fault in our Starsby John GreenSixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
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The 5th Wave by Richard YanceyCassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.
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The Breadwinnerby Deborah EllisParvana, whose father was arrested by the Taliban, and whose family lives in one room of a bombed-out apartment building, must disguise herself as a boy to work and support her family.
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The Darkest Minds by Alexandra BrackenSixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run 'rehabilitation camp' for teens who acquired dangerous powers after surviving a virus that wiped out most American children.
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Avalon Highby Meg CabotHaving moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.
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If I Stay by Gayle FormanWhile in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
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The Book Thiefby Markus ZusakLiving 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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Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonJess Aarons gains the strength to cope with unexpected tragedy by going to a secret kingdom in the woods invented by Leslie Burke, a newcomer to his rural Virginia community.
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