Johnson, Maureen

13 Little Blue Envelopes

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Bard, Mitchell

48 Hours of Kristallnacht: Night of Destruction/Dawn of Holocaust: An Oral History

Presents an oral history of the destruction, murder, and chaos of November 9 and 10, 1938, when Nazis and members of Hitler's "Brownshirts" destroyed Jewish businesses and homes as well as schools and synagogues, and either arrested or murdered thousands of Jews across Germany.

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In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

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MWHS:  I really enjoyed this book.  It was well written and entertaining.

MWHS: It was very interesting to read about how medicine could eventually make saving people near death possible.

Woodson, Jacqueline

After Tupac and D Foster

In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of  Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.

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Colfer, Eoin

Airman

In the 1890s on an island off the Irish coast, Conor Broekhart is falsely imprisoned and passes the solitary months by scratching designs of flying machines into the walls, including one for a glider with which he dreams of escape.

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Yancey, Richard

Alfred Kropp:  Seal of Solomon  (Alfred Kropp Series #2)

The last descendant of Sir Lancelot, teenage misfit Alfred Kropp is drawn back into the OIPEP to battle a group of demons bent on freeing themselves from the confines of an ancient relic.

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Yancey, Richard

Alfred Kropp:  Thirteenth Skull  (Alfred Kropp Series #3)

Alfred Kropp faces an unknown enemy that is causing him to question who he can trust and whether or not he will escape this latest adventure with his life.

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Baskin, Nora Raleigh

All We Know of Love

Four years after her mother walked out, Natalie Gordon travels to Florida in the hopes of finding her mother, herself, and the truth about what love really is.

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Ferguson, Alane

Angel of Death:  A Forensic Mystery  (Forensic Mystery Series #2)

While investigating the murder of her English teacher, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, who works as assistant coroner for her father, begins a romance with the most popular guy in school, awaits the arrival of her long-missing mother, and puts her life in danger.

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Shusterman, Neal

Antsy Does Time  (Sequel to the Schwa )

Fourteen-year-old Anthony “Antsy” Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.

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Stein, Garth

Art of Racing in the Rain

Enzo, the dog of professional race car driver Denny Swift, recalls the memories of his life and shares his insight into the human condition that he learned from observing his owner.

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Delaney, Joseph

Attack of the Fiend  (Last Apprentice Series )

When witches steal Tom’s inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness.

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Grealy, Lucy

Autobiography of a Face

Lucy Grealy describes her journey to find physical beauty after surgery left her face disfigured.

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Jeffe, Michele

Bad Kitty

While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her friends, recently arrived from California.

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Flanagan, John

Battle for Skandia (Ranger’s Apprentice Series #4)

After escaping slavery, Evanlyn is taken captive by a Temujai warrior, leaving Will to use his Ranger training to find her, despite being outnumbered by an enemy scouting party and the entire Temujai army.

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Riordan, Rick

Battle of Labyrinth  (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #4)

When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half Blood, from whence he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while the war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near.

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Shan, Daren

Bec (Demonata Series #4)

The demonic Fomorii ravages the land, forcing Bec and her warrior companions to leave the devastated area to search for the secrets of Bec's past.

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Staub, Wendy Corsi

Believing  (Lily Dale Series #2)

After realizing that she shares her grandmother's psychic abilities, Calla decides to stay with her in Lily Dale, the spiritualist community where her mother grew up, even though her visions seem to be leading her toward danger.

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Lynch, Chris

Big Game of Everything 

Jock looks forward to spending two months of the summer working at his grandfather's golf complex, but when the rest of his eccentric family go with him they all learn a lesson about the bond of family.

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George, Rose

Big Necessity

Describes ways that societies all over the world deal--and do not deal--with human waste, and covers the sewers of Paris, London, and New York City; examines the public toilets in India, China's biogas digesters, third world sanitation movements, the U.S. military laser elimination methods, and more.

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Brooks, Kevin

Black Rabbit  Summer

When two of sixteen-year-old Pete's childhood classmates disappear from a carnival the same night, he is a suspect, but his own investigation implicates other old friends he was with that evening--and a tough, knife-wielding enemy determined to keep him quiet.

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Doud, Siobhan

Bog Child

In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.

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Mackal, Kathy

Boost

Thirteen-year-old Savvy is the girls basketball team's star player, but, despite her height and skills, Savvy struggles with her self-confidence and searches for some way to boost her performance, but when steroids are found in her bag, Savvy denies they are hers and the rumors start to fly.

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Coy, John

Box Out

High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing teamwide participation.

Parker, Robert

Boxer and the Spy

Fifteen-year-old Terry, an aspiring boxer, uncovers the mystery behind the unexpected death of a classmate.

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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Boy Who Dared

In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.

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Breathe My Name

Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her mentally ill birth mother, who has just been released after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters and still wants to kill Frances.

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Nelson, R.A.

Breathing Underwater

Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.

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Phillips, Suzanne

Burn:  A Novel

Bullied constantly during his freshman year in high school, Cameron's anger and isolation grows, leading to deadly consequences.

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Hopkins, EllenH

Burned

Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.

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Flanagan, John

Burning Bridge, The  (Ranger’s Apprentice Series #2

Will is forced to overcome his fear of Wargals, the foot soldiers of rebel warlord Morgarath, as Araluen's army prepares to battle Morgarath's forces.

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Cornwell, Autumn

Carpe Diem

Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.

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Collins, Suzanne

Catching Fire (Hunger Games Trilogy #2)

By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

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Hyde, Catherine

 Chasing Windmills

Seventeen-year-old Sebastian, whose father has been overly protective since the death of his mother, meets mother of two Maria, who is in an abusive relationship, and the two decide to run away and start anew, not knowing the truth about each other's lives or what it would take to leave everything behind.

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Ferguson, Alane

Christopher Killer: a Forensic Mystery, The (Forensic Mystery Series #1)

On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.

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Ferguson, Alane

Circle of Blood: a Forensic Mystery, The (Forensic Mystery Series #3)

As she uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to investigate the death of a young runaway, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, an assistant to her coroner father, worries that her secretive mother may be involved.

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Clare, Cassandra

City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments Series #2)

Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon.

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City of Bones (The Mortal Instrument Series #1)

Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

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City of Glass (The Mortal Instrument Series #3)

Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her family's past that will not only help save her mother but all those that she holds most dear.

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Clash of the Demons (The Last Apprentice Series #6)

Tom is reunited with his mother and must return to Greece to face a new and terrible threat from must be made, causing a serious rift between Tom and the Spook that threatens to separate them forever.

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Van Draanan, Wendelin

Confessions of a Serial Kisser

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Kinsella, Sophie

Confessions of a Shopaholic

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Hopkins, Ellen

Crank

Kristina Georgia Snow's life is turned upside-down, when she visits her absentee father, gets turned on to the drug "crank", becomes addicted, and is led down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and her life.

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Carter, Ally

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls Series #2)

After being forced to give up her first boyfriend, Josh, Cammie Morgan longs for a quiet semester at the CIA school for spies. But in spite of her new determination danger seems to follow Cammie everywhere she goes, and the mysterious name of Blackthorne is behind it all.

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MWHS: I like how Cammie and her friens overcame the hardships that they faced.

MWHS:  I really liked this book because I like mystery books.

Delaney, Joseph

Curse of the Bane (The Last Apprentice Series #2)

The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, have been successful in ridding the county of witches, ghosts, and boggarts, but they face a much more formidable task when they travel to Priestown to confront the Bane and the Quisitor.

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Patterson, James

Dangerous Days of Daniel X, The

Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.

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Draper, Sharon

Darkness Before Dawn (Hazelwood High Trilogy #3)

Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.

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Singleton, Linda Joy

Dead Girl Walking (1^st in a series)

When Amber, a smart, middle-class, high school student, is hit by a truck, she meets her deceased grandmother in a dreamlike place, then takes a wrong turn and awakens in the body of a wealthy, beautiful, popular classmate with serious problems.

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Perez, Marlene

Dead is a State of Mind (Dead is the New Black Series #2)

When a new student's prediction that a teacher will be murdered comes true, seventeen-year-old Daisy is determined to solve the crime. When Daisy uncovers evidence that the killer is a werewolf, she fears she is in over her head.

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Perez, Marlene

Dead is So Last Year (Dead is the New Black Series #3)

In the beach town of Nightshade, California, home to both human and supernatural beings, the Giordano sisters find summer employment and uncover mysteries involving doppelgangers and oversized football players.

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Perez, Marlene

Dead is the New Black (Dead is the New Black Series #1)

While dealing with her first boyfriend and suddenly being pressed into service as a substitute cheerleader, seventeen-year-old Daisy Giordano, daughter and sister of psychics but herself a "normal," attempts to help her mother discover who is behind a series of bizarre attacks on teenage girls in their little town of Nightshade, California.

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Shan, Daren

Death’s Shadow (Demonata Series #7)

As Bec's relationship with Dervish improves, werewolves and demons attack and she sends Shark and Meera through a window to another universe to seek Beranabus, and soon all must face an even greater force of evil, the Shadow.

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Shan, Daren

Demon Apocalypse (Demonata Series #6)

Grubbs Grady tries to resist his werewolf urges and evade the eight-armed grasp of the demonic Lord Loss.

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Shan, Daren

Demon Thief (Demonata Series #2)

With the opening of a window into a demon world, a boy discovers his powers as a Disciple and his mission to hunt the viciously powerful Demonata to the death.

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Myron, Vicki

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Tells the story of Dewey Readmore Books, the resident cat at Spencer Public Library in Spencer, Iowa, who was found in the book return in December 1988, adopted by the library staff, and immediately became a loving member of the community.

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Lockhart, E.

Disreputable History of Frankie-Landau Banks, The

Frankie Landau-Banks attempts to take over a secret, all-male society at her exclusive prep school, and her antics with the group soon draw some unlikely attention and have unexpected consequences that could change her life forever.

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Carter, Ally

Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Gallagher Girls Series #3)

Cammie Morgan visits her roommate Macey in Boston and the two escape a kidnappers' plot using their espionage skills, and when Macey goes on the campaign trail with her father, the vice-presidential nominee, Cammie and other friends use their spy training as part of the security team.

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Hautman, Pete

Doppelganger (Bloodwater Mysteries #3)

High school newspaper reporter Roni Delicata finds an age-progressed photo of a missing child that looks just like her sidekick, Brian, throwing the pair into an investigation of Brian's past and family heritage.

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Chima, Cinda Williams

Dragon Heir (Heir Trilogy #3)

Jason Haley, who feels left out of the action as the Trinity prepares for the attack of the wizards, runs across a powerful talisman made of opal-the Dragonheart-and the guardians take the potential weapon away while Madison Moss, who is slowly losing her power, feels the pull of the stone as well.

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The author reminisces about his family's hotel in Soda Springs, focusing on how the business affected his childhood and the people who lived there.

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Kostick, Conor

Epic

On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik persuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.

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Flanagan, John

Erak’s Ransom (Ranger’s Apprentice Series #7)

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Shusterman, Neal

Everlost

When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.

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Jinks, Catherine

Evil Genius

Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

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Joyce, Graham

Exchange, The

When her mother arranges to host one of the young people coming to Earth from Chela, Daria is both pleased and intrigued by the keen interest shown by the Chelan in her work breeding endangered species.

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MWHS: I almost didn't finish it because I got bored in the middle.  If you push through it's really good.

Yancey, Richard

Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, The (Alfred Kropp Series #1)

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Kasischke, Laura

Feathered

While on Spring Break in Cancun, Mexico, high-school seniors and best friends Anne and Michelle accept the wrong ride and Michelle is lost--seemingly forever.

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Klass, David

Firestorm (Caretaker Trilogy #1)

After learning that he has been sent from the future for a special purpose, eighteen-year-old Jack receives help from an unusual dog and a shape-shifting female fighter.

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Johnson, Angela

First Part Last

Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.

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Shepard, Sara

Flawless (Pretty Little Liars #2)

After their friend Alison, missing for more than three years, turns up dead, four former best friends, each of whom had a secret known only by Alison, begin receiving frightening messages from someone identified by the letter "A."

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Draper, Sharon

Forged by Fire (Hazelwood High Trilogy #2)

Gerald, a teenager who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, must face the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.

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Caletti, Deb

Fortunes of Indigo Skye

Eighteen-year-old Indigo is looking  forward to becoming a full-time waitress after high school graduation, but her life is turned upside down by a large check given to her by a customer who appreciates that she cares enough to scold him about smoking.

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Haddix, Margaret Peterson

Found (Missing Series #1)

When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.

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Marr, Melissa

Fragile Eternity (Wicked Lovely Series #3)

Seth, who never thought he would want to settle down, changes his mind when he meets Aislinn, who is everything he has dreamed of, and also happens to be an immortal fairy queen; the couple try to remain true to themselves amid a world of shifting rules and dangerous alliances.

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Ayarbe, Heidi

Freeze Frame

Fifteen-year-old Kyle believes he does not deserve to live after accidentally shooting and killing his best friend.

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MWHS: This book was great and I would recommend this to anyone who wants a good book to read.

Bowler, Tim

Frozen Fire

Fifteen-year-old Dusty gets a mysterious call from a boy who says he is going to kill himself, and while he claims to have called her randomly, he seems to know her intimately

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MWHS:  This book drew me in from the first page and I finished it in one night.  Kept me thinking.

After the Axis Institute is blown up, fifteen-year-old Cadell Piggot is unhappily stuck in foster care with constant police surveillance to protect him from the evil Prosper English until he gets an offer to join a mysterious group called Genius Squad.

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Mikaelsen, Ben

Ghost of Spirit Bear (Sequel to Touching Spirit Bear)

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Hurley, Tonya

Ghostgirl

Charlotte Usher has always struggled to fit in at her high school, and when Charlotte finds herself living in a parallel spiritual world after choking to death on a gummy bear, she tries to reconnect with the physical world while making new friends at her new school for the dead.

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Hurley, Tonya

Ghostgirl Homecoming

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Evans,Richard Paul

Gift, The

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Turgeon, Carolyn

Godmother

Lillian, a former fairy godmother who cheated Cinderella out of her life with Prince Charming, is cast out from the world of fairies and into the human world; but she has one chance for redemption if she can find a soul mate for Veronica, a young girl she meets one day.

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Grant, Michael

Gone

In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.

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Cashore, Kristin

Graceling

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Volponi, Paul

When seventeen-year-old Huck's vindictive math teacher wins the town poker tournament and takes the winner's watch away from Huck's father while he is in a coma, Huck vows to get even with him no matter what it takes.

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Heart of a Champion

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Johnson, Angela

Heaven (First Part Last #2)

Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.

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Reeve, Philip

Here Lies Arthur

Gwyna is forced to flee her village, but when she is discovered hiding in the woods by Myrddin, a bard, he swears to protect her as long as she agrees to bind herself to his service while he transforms young Arthur into a heroic king.

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Kent, Kathleen

Heretic’s Daughter, The

Ten-year-old Sarah Chapman, recovering from smallpox in 1752, becomes caught up in another life and death battle when her mother, Martha, is accused of witchcraft by her uncle who wants the plot of land on which the Chapman family is living, and the rest of the community, looking for a scapegoat for their own troubles, joins the campaign to have Martha hanged.

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Meyer, Stephanie

Host

When Melanie, one of the last "wild" humans left on Earth, is captured, she is assigned to become the host of a spirit called Wanderer. As Wanderer probes Melanie's memories to reveal the location of the human resistance, Melanie shows the spirit visions of the man she loves, and soon, Wanderer can't help but fall in love with him too. The pair eventually becomes unwilling allies and they set off in search of the man they both love.

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Kephart, Beth

House of Dance

During one of her daily visits across town to visit her dying grandfather, fifteen-year-old Rosie discovers a dance studio that helps her find a way to bring her family members together.

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Farmer, Nancy

House of the Scorpion, The

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 140-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

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Sontag, Rachel

House Rules: A Memoir

The author reflects on her father's control and abusiveness and discusses how she broke free from his rules.

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Grant, Michael

Hunger

 Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.

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Collins, Suzanne

Hunger Games, The (Hunger Games Trilogy #1)