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Abel, Jessica
Life Sucks
Life sucks when you're a baby-faced kid in LA -- broke, girlfriendless, and stuck in a dead-end job as night manager at LA's finest vampire-owned convenience store, facing an eternity of restocking beef jerky and blood brew for your crappy boss and Vampire Master.
186 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
 Graphic Novels for Teens
Vampire Love
Graphic Novels: Literature
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Boos, Ben
Swords : an Artist's Devotion
A gallery of knives and swords for every type of user, including warriors, war maidens, samurai and ninjas, with every nick, notch, and gleaming highlight rendered in realistic detail.
81 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Best Books for Kids - October 2008
Book Trailers Autumn 2008
Nonfiction
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Booth, Coe
Kendra
High schooler Kendra longs to live with her mother who, unprepared for motherhood at age fourteen, left Kendra in the care of her grandmother.
292 p. 2008
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Cohn, Rachel
Nick Norah's Infinite Playlist
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
183 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Guys in Love
Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
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Cooney, Caroline B.
Hit the Road
Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her 80-year-old grandmother and three of her friends, going to what is supposedly their college reunion, on a long drive that involves lies, theft, and kidnappings.
183 p. 2006
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De la Cruz, Melissa
Blue Bloods
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.
302 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Vampire Love
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
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Divine, L.
The Fight
Jayd Jackson is nobody's fool. What she doesn't know is how to play the game at South Bay High, a.k.a. Drama High, a white school in Los Angeles where the kids keep looking at Jayd like she's going to steal one of their rides.
202 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
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Farndon, John
Do Not Open
Inside you'll find the incredible truths about secret stuff you're not supposed to know: weird history, strange science, mysterious places, random happenings, freaky facts of nature and more.
256 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
True Books - It's a Fact!
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Golden, Christopher
Poison Ink
Best friends Sammi, Caryn, T.Q., Letty, and Katsuko decide to get a tattoo as a sign of the special bond between them, but when Sammi nervously backs out, everything changes and the group's friendship is thrown into jeopardy.
279 p. 2008
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Grant, Vicki
I.D.
In trouble at home and at school, Chris is struggling to do the right thing, but when he finds a wallet and realizes that the owner looks a lot like him, he wonders what would happen if he became someone else.
101 p. 2007
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Halls, Kelly Milner, 1957-
Tales of the Cryptids : Mysterious Creatures That May or May Not Exist
Meet the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, the Marozi of Kenya, the Thylacine of Tasmania and more in this introduction to cryptozoology: the study of animals that may or may not be real.
72 p. 2006
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Halpern, Julie
Get Well Soon
When her parents confine her to a mental hospital, an overweight teenage girl, who suffers from panic attacks, describes her experiences in a series of letters to a friend.
193 p. 2007
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High, Linda Oatman
Planet Pregnancy
Sixteen-year-old Sahara struggles with an unplanned pregnancy and all its conflicting emotions in this novel told in free verse.
197 p. 2008
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Jacobs, Deborah Lynn
Choices
Overcome with guilt over her brother's death, a teenaged girl shifts between multiple universes in an attempt to find one in which he is alive.
189 p. 2007
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James, Brian
Thief
Elizabeth and her foster sister are forced into stealing by their foster mother, but Elizabeth is determined to help their new brother escape the same fate.
247 p. 2008
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Korman, Gordon
Schooled
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson--and his classmates--are completely unprepared for what lies ahead when he has to attend the local middle school.
208 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Laughing Out Loud
Realistic Fiction
Funny Stories
Maud Hart Lovelace Nominees 2009-2010: Division II
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Kuklin, Susan
No Choirboy : Murder Violence and Teenagers On Death Row
In their own voices inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there.
212 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Biographies for Teens
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Mancusi, Marianne
Gamer Girl
Struggling to fit in after her parents' divorce sends her from Boston to her grandmother's house in the country, Maddy forms a manga club at school and falls in love through an online fantasy game.
248 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
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McClintock, Norah
Marked
When Colin accepted the job to clean up the graffiti in an upscale neighborhood he worried that he might be targeted by gangs, but he didn't expect to become a suspect in a series of robberies and sets out to clear his name.
103 2008
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Meehl, Brian
Suck it Up
After graduating from the International Vampire League, a scrawny, teenaged vampire named Morning is given the chance to fulfill his dream of becoming a superhero when he embarks on an IV League mission to become the first vampire to live peacefully among humans.
323 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Book Trailers Autumn 2008
Vampire Love
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