Light Years
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| Author | Tim Wynne-Jones |
| ISBN | 0374374783 |
Family secrets, forgotten memories, and the transforming power of truth
It's been six years since sixteen-year-old Dec's free-spirited mother, Lindy, disappeared. Dec feels so trapped in the present, he's avoided examining his past. But when an intruder dies in the museum-like family...
| Author | Christopher Krovatin |
| ISBN | 0439743990 |
If Nick Hornby had a metalhead little brother, he'd write a book as clever, music-drenched, and observationally direct as this, Christopher Krovatin's rock-solid PUSH debut, now in paperback.
Boy listens to lots of loud music and hangs with his friends. Boy meets girl. Boy falls dippy-happy-scared-as-hell...
| Author | Debra Garfinkle |
| ISBN | 0142407828 |
The journal of Michael "Storky" Pomerantz tells the tumultuous tale of life as a high-schooler—complete with the fact that the love of his life is dating a high school football player. As he chronicles the highs—and, of course, the most embarrassing lows—of his freshman year in high school,...
| Author | Hillary Frank |
| ISBN | 0618250735 |
Having left behind the melodrama of her solitary high school days—and the beheaded martyrs in her paintings—Ellie arrives at the New England College of Art and Design. Looking forward to the opportunity to recreate herself and her art, she begins her first day by dirty dancing with the Devil. Then...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0060541512 |
This is the only JCO novel that hooked me instantly and didn't let go. It's the story of 16-year-old Darren who excels on the swim team and has grown incredibly handsome. He becomes popular and begins receiving a number of special favors reserved for the young and beautiful. But being the shy type he doesn't...
| Author | Lara Deloza |
| ISBN | 0440237874 |
A fresh, honest look at the difficult choices and unexpected joys in a girl’s life under pressure.
Lucy Doyle is about to explode. She’s sure her name might as well be Loser because she‘s never, ever been kissed. To make matters worse, nearly all of her friends have left her behind for boys....
| Author | Mary E. Pearson |
| ISBN | 0805076670 |
Zoe's arms prickle. She turns, trying to take it all in. The ache inside returns. It is not for her. It is too much. A real room with real floors and walls. A room for sleeping, and reading and dancing and . . . in her imagination she has pictured the room, but she has never pictured herself in it.
Can...
| Author | Alfred C. Martino |
| ISBN | 0547564244 |
I AM SO FREAKING MAD RIGHT NOW!
Okay, enough all caps. But seriously, I am mad. I was gifted this audiobook by SYNC during the summer. It isn't a story subject I would normally find interesting nor would I choose to spend my time reading/listening to, but it was free and I did find it interesting....
| Author | Jennifer Richard Jacobson |
| ISBN | 1416913378 |
The Book I read Is called Stained written by Jennifer Richard Jacobson. Stained is a Fiction story with alot of suspence, you'll never know whats going to happen next! The main character in this book is Jocelyn, a young girl who lives the usual life but she's sometimes confused. The theme in this book is...
| Author | Valerie Hobbs |
| ISBN | 0374303746 |
From the moment their romance begins in eighth grade, Winifred and Bernie are individualists. They pride themselves on being different, and have each other for support through the tough years of high school. So when they consider college, they send off for the same catalogs, promising never to separate....
| Author | Dandi Daley Mackall |
| ISBN | 0152054626 |
The year 1978 has been a pretty good one for Eva Lott. She has a terrific best friend, she's dating the best-looking guy in school, and she just made the varsity swim team. So when her widowed dad says it's time for them to move, she's not exactly thrilled. And when he tells her that he intends to move to Communist...
| Author | Robin Friedman |
| ISBN | 0802796249 |
The Girlfriend Project was a quick read for an afternoon. I recently scoured the teen section looking for appropriate, imaginative reading that wasn't science fiction. This one fit the bill.
Written from a teenage-boy point of view, the insights are not earth-shattering. Nerdy Dork turned...
| Author | Jenny Moss |
| ISBN | 0802721931 |
Reimagining the days surrounding this unforgettable event in history, readers are brought back to 1986 as the astronauts prepare for the Challenger mission, and Christa McAullife trains to be the first teacher in space. When a teen named Annie meets Christa, she is fascinated by Christa's courage....
| Author | Melissa Lion |
| ISBN | 0375839542 |
Marty’s small town in Alaska is the most beautiful place in the world. There she and her beloved boyfriend, Steven, can walk through fields of fireweed, explore the wild, and tie pink floozy fishing lures to catch the salmon that swim upstream. But when she starts her senior year, Marty must return...
| Author | Shiho Sugiura |
| ISBN | 3551765367 |
Appearing as a projection through a flower field of light, the Ayame prince assembles his people for a new prophecy. He foretells of a world full of disasters, but that those who kneel down to him will escape this terrible future. Of course, Rakan, Chigusa, and the rest of their comrades refuse to kneel...at...
| Author | Kazurou Inoue |
| ISBN | 1591169062 |
The continuation of this unique romantic comedy in which our bickering couple become attached in more ways than one...
At heart, tough guy Seiji Sawamura is a softy, and all he wants is to end his romantic losing streak. Then one day, Seiji wakes up to discover his "devil's right hand" has turned...
| Author | Blake Nelson |
| ISBN | 0670036447 |
I had thought there was a lot of freedom being a good student, being trusted, being given special privileges, but that was nothing compared to the freedom I felt now. Once people gave up on you, once people wrote you off, now that was freedom.
Max Caldwell is tired. He's tired of having a "perfect"...
| Author | Justina Chen |
| ISBN | 0316011312 |
A half Asian and half white teen navigates a summer of woe and love in this utterly relatable novel that Meg Cabot calls "A funny, touching read that will leave you craving more." Half Asian and half white, Patty Ho has never felt completely home in her skin. Things get worse when a Chinese fortune-teller...
| Author | Aury Wallington |
| ISBN | 1595140921 |
Marit has decided: It's time to lose it. Being a virgin is getting in the way of holding on to a boyfriend. So who better to get it over with than her best guy friend, Jamie? They've known each other forever. It's pressure-free. But doing the deed changes everything. Jamie falls for Marit! Not only does he...
| Author | Andy Behrens |
| ISBN | 0142408336 |
The light at the end of nice boy Ian s boring summer is Danielle, someone he met online who might be really hot and who might have agreed to have sex with him. Ian is new to this sex thing and Danielle is nine hundred miles away, but Ian thinks Danielle mightbe the right girl, and if he can get himself and his two...
| Author | Léna Roy |
| ISBN | 0374350523 |
It is a story of love and grief, addiction and redemption, set in both NYC’s Upper West Side and in the red rock desert of Moab, Utah.
Seventeen-year-old Luke lives and works at the Moonflower Motel in Moab, having fled New York City where his father Frank drowns his sorrows after the death of...
Faeries' Landing, Volume 2
| Author | You Hyun |
| ISBN | 1591826101 |
Another good volume in the series. Fanta tries her best to stop Ryang looking into the eyes of girls just incase they become one of his doomed relationships. She fails but we only meet one evil affinity during the book. Seemed to go into more depth about this characters past.
The head of the Faerie...
| Author | Peach-Pit |
| ISBN | 1595323112 |
Meet Nia. Her trainer Xaki is teaching her to be a Biter. She looks up to her trainer, and will do anything for him, including tracking down some Zero Number named Ren! When word gets out that Ren escaped from Xaki when he tried to bring her back to the community, Nia sets out to avenge the dishonor done to her...
| Author | Koge-Donbo* |
| ISBN | 1595328491 |
This was my favourite volume yet!! (No longer true, Volume 05 has won the spot now.) Not for the main plot but for the little extra at the end. Well it's not really that little considering it takes up almost an entire quarter of the book really but still.
The young versions of the characters were...
| Author | Gloria Whelan |
| ISBN | 0060890282 |
Parade of Shadows
295 pp. "In 1907, sixteen-year-old Julia Hamilton, happy to accompany her diplomat father on a tour of the Ottoman-controlled cities of Istambul, Damascus, Palmyra, and Aleppo, soon finds the journey increasingly hazardous as she begins to uncover her father's true mission...
