Tighter by Adele GriffinTeen Supernatural Mystery
When 17-year-old Jamie arrives on the idyllic New England island of Little Bly to work as a summer au pair, she is stunned to learn of the horror that precedes her. Seeking the truth surrounding a young couple's tragic deaths, Jamie discovers that she herself looks shockingly like the dead girl--and that she has a disturbing ability to sense the two ghosts. Why is Jamie's connection to the couple so intense? What really happened last summer at Little Bly? As the secrets of the house wrap tighter and tighter around her, Jamie must navigate the increasingly blurred divide between the worlds of the living and the dead.
Based on Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw."
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The Pull of Gravity by Gae PolisnerTeen Fiction
While Nick Gardner's family is falling apart, his best friend, Scooter, is dying from a freak disease. The Scoot's final wish is that Nick and their quirky classmate, Jaycee Amato, deliver a prized first-edition copy of "Of Mice and Men" to the Scoot's father. There's just one problem: the Scoot's father walked out years ago and hasn't been heard from since. So, guided by Steinbeck's life lessons, and with only the vaguest of plans, Nick and Jaycee set off to find him.
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The Summer Before Boys by Nora Raleigh BaskinTeen Fiction
Julia and Eliza are best friends, spending the summer together. Julia's mother is serving in the National Guard and Julia spends all of her time trying not to think about what could happen. So the girls lose themselves in their summer, hanging out at the resort where Eliza's father works. But when they meet a new boy, neither one of them is prepared for what it does to their friendship.
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My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies by Allen ZadoffTeen Fiction
High school sophomore Adam Zeigler, who lost his father to a sudden accident two years ago, thinks the best way to live life is behind the spotlight. As a member of the theater crew, he believes he's achieved it all when he wins the coveted job of spotlight operator. But that was before a young actress, Summer, appeared in his view. Instantly smitten, Adam is determined to win her over. But to do so, he'll have to defy his best friend and break the golden rule of his school: techies and actors don't mix.
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Juniper Berry by M.P. KozlowskiTeen Horror
Juniper Berry's parents are the most beloved actor and actress in the world--but Juniper can't help but feel they haven't been quite right lately. And she and her friend Giles are determined to find out why.
On a cold and rainy night, Juniper follows her parents as they sneak out of the house and enter the woods. What she discovers is an underworld filled with contradictions: one that is terrifying and enticing, lorded over by a creature both sinister and seductive, who can sell you all the world's secrets bound in a balloon. For the first time, Juniper and Giles have a choice to make. And it will be up to them to confront their own fears in order to save the ones who couldn't.
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In Front of God and Everybody by K.D. McCriteConfessions of April Grace series
Teen Inspirational Fiction
If God wanted April Grace to be kind to her neighbors, He should have made them nicer!
In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.
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Flawless by Lara ChapmanTeen Romance
Sarah Burke is just about perfect. She's got killer blue eyes, gorgeous blond hair, and impeccable grades. There's just one tiny--all right, enourmous--flaw: her nose.
On the first day of senior year, Rock Conway walks into her journalism class and, well, rocks her world. Problem is, her best friend, Kristen, falls for him too. So when Kristen begs Sarah to help her nab Rock, Sarah does the only thing a best friend can do--she agrees. For someone so smart, what was she thinking?
A hip retelling of "Cyrano de Bergerac."
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Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World of Food: Brains, Bugs, and Blood Sausage by Andrew ZimmernTeen Nonfiction
Readers are invited to eat their way around the world with Travel Channel's Zimmern as he tastes the grossest, most unique food, including raw camel kidneys and giant flying ants.
Come along on Andrew's amazing adventures and learn fun facts about the animals he encounters, the people he meets, and the places he explores. You'll also find cool recipes to try at home.
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