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2009-2010 Top Teen Reads. |
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Green, John, 1977-. Paper towns. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Books,
c2008.
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school,
Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life
until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and
classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously
disappears. |
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Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-. Breaking dawn. 1st ed. New York :
Little, Brown, c2008.
Continues the story of the human Bella and the vampire Edward whose love
is threatened by their difference, a werewolf named Jacob, and other
outside influences. |
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Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic
Press, c2008.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in
the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where
young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight
to the death. |
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Clare, Cassandra. City of ashes. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K.
McElderry Books, c2008.
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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Hopkins, Ellen. Identical. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K.
McElderry Books, c2008.
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and
a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and
Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already
torn them and their family apart. |
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Gaiman, Neil. The graveyard book. 1st ed. New York :
HarperCollins, c2008.
The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a
graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and
carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and
otherworldly creatures. |
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McMann, Lisa. Wake. New York : Simon Pulse, c2008.
Ever since she was eight years old, high school student Janie Hannagan
has been uncontrollably drawn into other people's dreams, but it is not
until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved
with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power. |
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Cast, P.
C. Untamed : a house of night novel. 1st ed. New York : St.
Martin's Griffin, c2008.
Zoey Redbird's life at the House of Night prep school for fledgling
vampyres gets a lot tougher when she loses all three of her boyfriends
and her group of friends turns against her, which makes it all the more
difficult to get anyone to listen when she discovers Neferet has
declared war on humans. |
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Lockhart, E. The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks : a
novel. New York : Disney/Hyperion, c2008.
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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Cashore, Kristin. Graceling. 1st ed. Orlando, FL : Harcourt,
c2008.
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared
skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own
horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to
save their land from a corrupt king. |
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