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The sledding hill
by Chris Crutcher
After his father leaves and his mother becomes brainwashed by the reverend of a local church, Eddie’s only source for compassion and advice is Billy who, despite being deceased, is still his best friend.
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Getting the girl
by Markus Zusak
Tired of being the underdog, Cameron Wolfe hungers to become something worthwhile and finally finds a girl with whom he can share his words and feelings--his popular brother Rube's ex-girlfriend.
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
by John Green
Two award-winning authors present the tale of a pair of teens who meet by chance on a Chicago street corner and discover that they share a name and intertwining destinies involving an epic production of a high school musical. 75,000 first printing.
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Half brother
by Kenneth Oppel
Documents the childhood efforts of Ben Tomlin to protect a young chimpanzee raised in his home as a family member as part of a university science experiment that subsequently lost funding. By the Printz Honor-winning author of Airborn. 15,000 first printing.
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Stuck in neutral
by Terry Trueman
Part mystery, part miracle, Shawn McDaniel seemingly leads a normal life, but no one knows who he really is, not even those closest to him, in a dramatic novel that shows readers how to look beyond the obvious to discover an extraordinary character who has a powerful story to tell.
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Echo
by Francesca Lia Block
Jealous of her perfect mother and ignored by her artist father, Echo seeks attention and healing from a variety of people living in beautiful Los Angeles.
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All our pretty songs
by Sarah McCarry
A first entry in a planned trilogy by a debut author is set in the Pacific Northwest and finds a lifelong best friendship tested by an enigmatic musician whose talents have awakened a not-so-mythological force. Simultaneous.
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Boy meets boy
by David Levithan
When Paul falls hard for Noah, he thinks he has found his one true love, but when things take a turn for the worse and Noah walks out of his life, Paul has to find a way to get him back and make everything right once more, in a tale about the ups, downs, and dramas of teen relationships. Reprint.
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Ask the passengers : a novel
by A. S. King
Imagining that she is sending love to passengers in airplanes flying overhead, Astrid Jones, a teen from a small town torn by gossip and narrow-mindedness, struggles with her family's dysfunction and hides her secret love for another girl. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Please Ignore Vera Dietz. 25,000 first printing.
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Before I fall
by Lauren Oliver
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha Kingston relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself. 75,000 first printing.
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One day
by David Nicholls
Falling in love on the eve of their 1988 college graduations, Dexter and Emma embark on a heady relationship marked throughout subsequent decades by their disparate personalities, conflicts and misconceptions, in a tale told on the anniversaries of the day they met. Original.
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Th1rteen r3asons why : a novel
by Jay Asher
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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The host : a novel
by Stephenie Meyer
A member of a species that takes over the minds of human bodies, Wanderer is unable to disregard his host's love for a man in hiding, a situation that forces both possessor and host to become unwilling allies. A first adult novel by the author of Eclipse.
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If I stay
by Gayle Forman
With no memory of the car accident itself, 17-year-old Mia must come to terms with never really knowing what happened one horrific winter's day that changed her life forever. Reprint.
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Elsewhere
by Gabrielle Zevin
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live." An ALA Notable Children's Book. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
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The lover's dictionary
by David Levithan
A modern love story told through a series of dictionary-style entries is a sequence of intimate windows into the large and small events that shape the course of a romantic relationship
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