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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Author: Louise Rennison
This is the absolutely hilarious diary of 14-year-old modern girl Georgia, who will keep you in stitches with stories about eyebrow plucking, bras, guys, and - snogging!
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Bucking the Sarge
Author: Curtis, Paul Christopher
Will Luther plans to win the science fair and go to college but first he has to cross "The Sarge" - his crooked, slum landlord Mother. Can this savvy, tough and street-smart kid prove that he can buck the Sarge?
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Catherine, Called Birdy
Author: Karen Cushman
Birdy, fourteen, tries to avoid her pre-arranged marriage to "Shaggy Beard", her father's choice. What's a medieval times maiden to do? Lively Birdy gives us laughs as well as curses in her tell-all diary.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Author: Mark Haddon
When his neighbour's poodle is killed, Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old autistic math genius and Sherlock Holmes fan, decides to solve the crime. You'll see how he copes with a world that often overwhelms him, in this funny, touching story.
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The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things
Author: Carolyn Mackler
Sometimes hilarious sometimes fragile, 15-year-old Virginia obsesses about her weight, doubts her social standing, and mistrusts the motives of her boyfriend. AND she's stuck with a thin, over-achieving family. It doesn't get any worse thant that.
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The First Part Last
Author: Angela Johnson
16-year-old Bobby is a single father whose college plans are on hold because his daughter comes first. Raising her alone scares him but she's counting on him and he won't let her down.
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Girl 15, Charming But Insane
Author: Sue Limb
Jess Jordan covets her best friend Flora's body, beauty and popularity. She has a crush on unattainable, gorgeous Ben, and is friends with Fred, the class clown. With a peacenik librarian mother, and an absent dad who emails amusing horoscopes, Jess is a funny, angst-filled 15 year old.
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A Great and Terrible Beauty
Author: Libba Bray
It's 1895, and after suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma is shipped from her home in India to a boarding school in England. Gemma's disturbring visions, a mysterious diary, and a secret about a fire that claimed 3 lives, lead her and 3 other girls into supernatural realms.
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Hatchet
Author: Gary Paulsen
The plane crashes into a lake in the Canadian wilderness. The pilot is dead. The supplies are lost. Alone, with only the hatchet attached to his belt, Brian, must learn to survive. Narrated by Peter Coyote, this is a gripping telling story!
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House of the Scorpion
Author: Nancy Farmer
In this futuristic coming of age novel, a powerful drug lord controls his farm workers through brain implants. This is a riveting must read for sci-fi fans.
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Ironman
Author: Chris Crutcher
While training to become trathlon champ, 17-year-old Bo is forced to attend anger management classes and in the process gains an understanding of his relationship with his father. Higly charged and intense.
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Keesha's House
Author: Helen Frost
Keesha has found a refuge for herself and for other teens who are the lost, the abused and the alienated. They come to keesha's house to find help, to hide and be safe.
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Looking for Alibrandi
Author: Melina Marchetta
17-year-old Josie is smart and funny and well balanced, but she's having trouble juggling her three male relationships and figuring out how to balance her traditional family values with her modern school life.
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The Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon is brutallly raped and murdered, and narrates this gripping novel from Heaven. Over the next ten years, she watches the devastating effects of her murder on her family and friends.
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Maximum Ride
Author: James Patterson
Follow a team of genetically altered teens (98% human, 2% bird) as they escape their caged lab life, only to face the terror of another engineered pack (half human, half wolf) bent on their destruction.
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The Rag and Bone Shop
Author: Robert Cormier
Shy, quiet Jason, almost 13 years old, is accused of the murder of the 7-year-old girl who lived next door. In this tense and terrifying story Jason crumbles under intense questioning from a police interrogator who is determined to find him guilty.
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Shabanu
Author: Suzanne Fisher Staples
Strong-willed and independent Shabanu, whose Pakistani cultural custom requires her betrothal to an older man, must decide to follow her family's tradition or face the consequences of defiance.
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Teen Idol
Author: Meg Cabot
Jenny Greenley has a knack for smoothing things over. But when teen idol Luke Striker arrives at her school, Jen finds herself in a situation that even she can't control. A fun read.
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The Wreckers
Author: Iain Lawrence
John, a fourteen-year-old shipwreck survivor, realizes he is still in terrible danger when he learns thata the rescuing villagers are actually "wreckers" - criminals who lure ships ashore in order to loot their remains.
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