The Jade Notebook
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This timely, heartrending novel tells the moving story of a friendship between two girls: one an American teen, one a victim of the crisis in Darfur.
Know that there are many words behind the few on this paper...
Fifteen-year-old Nawra lives in Darfur, Sudan, in a camp for refugees...
| Author | Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond |
| ISBN | 1439149119 |
To protect her daughter from the fast life and bad influences of London, her mother sent her to school in rural Ghana. The move was for the girl’s own good, in her mother’s mind, but for the daughter, the reality of being the new girl, the foreigner-among-your-own-people, was even worse than the idea....
Desi Bascomb is a princess substitute prodigy--she's the fastest employee ever to advance to level three in the Facade Agency, and the youngest to ever be a full-time sub. But now with all eyes on Desi, the only thing she wants is a moment alone to talk to Reed, who's a Facade legacy and secretly a sub for...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0553494805 |
Imagine changing centuries - and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time.
Imagine being involved in two love triangles in two different centuries.
Imagine discovering that, no matter which direction you travel in time, you must abandon someone you love.
Meet...
| Author | Cat Weatherill |
| ISBN | 0141321148 |
Dark, magical and exciting, Cat Weatherill's new fantasy takes the legend of the Pied Piper and gives it an unexpected twist.
Mari and her brother Jakob have followed the enchanted music and are now trapped in a world of wild magic. A world as cruel as it is beautiful. And all the time, they are...
| Author | Coleen Murtagh Paratore |
| ISBN | 0803733011 |
Welcome to the island where princes learn to be charming.
Gracepearl Coal is the cook's daughter on Miramore, the island all princes visit for their summer program in the Charming Arts. Each year, the princes-in-training arrive on gallant seacraft, guided by captains trained to navigate...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0061239054 |
The country is at war, terrorists strike at random, widespread rationing is in effect, and the power grid is down. But thirteen-year-old Sky Brightman is remarkably untouched by it all. She lives off the grid on sixty acres of rural New Mexico ranch land with chores to do and horses to ride and no television...
| Author | Ted Michael |
| ISBN | 0385735790 |
At Long Islands’s private Bennington School, the Diamonds rule supreme. They’re the girls all the boys want to date and all the girls want to be. And fortunately for Marni, she’s right in the middle of them. Best friends with the ringleader, Clarissa, Marni enjoys all the spoils of the ultrapopular:...
| Author | Maria Testa |
| ISBN | 0763633666 |
"Rapt readers don’t need to know anything about Vietnam to understand love, loss, fear, and waiting. A tour de force." — KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)
When the six-year-old narrator of this lyric novel watches her father march off to serve a year in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, a year...
Genres for this novelette series: fantasy/young adult/adventure/sci-fi.
The dream vacation that might just turn deadly...
Seventeen-year-old Casey Smith can't wait to embark on her summer vacation, not least because she's finally shed her tomboy image, and now heartthrob...
Isabelle Lawson loves her job. Driven, dedicated, there's no room in her high-pressure life to look for love outside the pages of the books she edits. Can a fun-loving, handsome stranger change her mind?
A novelette of approximately 10k words.
"Meet cute" is a term used to describe...
| Author | Megan Kelley Hall |
| ISBN | 0758226799 |
There are some girls who have everything... She has the right clothes, the right friends, and the right last name, but fifteen-year-old Maddie Crane sometimes feels like an outsider in her clique in the wealthy, seaside town of Hawthorne, Massachusetts. And when her gorgeous, eccentric cousin Cordelia...
When Trusting God Is the Only Way Out On an average day, God jump-started her missions in her sculpting studio, revealing the face of the person she would soon meet at the grocery store, bank, or playground. The goal was always the same. Reach the lost, bring someone back to God, restore hope. But then came...
The final book in C.H. Admirand's sexy Texas cowboy romance trilogy featuring three brothers who will do anything to save their family ranch.
Loneliness Will Take a Man Places
Jesse Garahan has plenty of Irish charm, but having had his heart demolished twice, he's sworn off women...
| Author | D. Anne Love |
| ISBN | 0689873905 |
So far, life for fourteen-year-old Phoebe Trask has been picture perfect. Her parents are successful; her older sister, Shyla, is on track to becoming the youngest lawyer in Texas; and her sixteen-year-old brother, Zane, the all-American best brother ever, is a star on the high school swim team. Then...
| Author | Beth Kephart |
| ISBN | 0061470481 |
Georgia knows what it means to keep secrets. She knows how to ignore things. She knows that some things are better left unsaid. ...Or are they? When Georgia and her best friend, Riley, travel along with nine other suburban Pennsylvania kids to Anapra, a squatters' village in the heat-flattened border...
A Charity Series Novella, or a Stand-alone
For almost four years, Kitty Langley has been part of a ‘mean girls’ group called the Bee Hives, the most hated and feared girls at West Windrake High. That is until she witnesses their relentless attack on her former childhood friend. Making a...
College baseball pitcher Doan Riley was always a good guy until things in his life started to change him. Now he’s reckless, angry and has a penchant for getting himself into trouble, though he’s always been able to find his way out. Until now.
Holly Shaw’s back in town for the first time...
| Author | Melanie Gideon |
| ISBN | 1595140557 |
Thomas Quicksilver, known to his classmates as "Pucker," has always been an outsider. His crazy mother, the secret of his family's strange origins, and above all, the terrible scars on his face from a childhood fire these things have kept Thomas isolated and lonely. But now, at seventeen, Thomas is...
| Author | Martine Murray |
| ISBN | 0439669510 |
It's dawn, on an empty road in the countryside. Empty, except for the girl in the long, red evening gown, standing next to a bicycle, and looking back at the home she's about to leave. Mannie's ready to start a new life and forget the terrible things that have happened here, but there are questions that need...
| Author | Jacquelyn Mitchard |
| ISBN | 1595142770 |
Mallory and Meredith Brynn are no ordinary twins: born on either side of midnight, one has the power to see into the future, the other into the past.
But supernatural visions can’t keep Merry from falling for the new boy in town, even if the relationship is doomed from the start. The reason?...
I have never been useless in my life.
Rescued from a life of servitude by the boy she loves, Susanna Marsh escapes across two centuries, only to be plunged into a world she's ill-prepared to face. Unable to work or go to school, Susanna finds herself dependent on others to survive.
Immersed...
| Author | Alex McAulay |
| ISBN | 1416548068 |
Five stranded teenagers must battle for their lives against a group of escaped convicts, and each other, in this shocking survival thriller from the author of Bad Girls and Lost Summer.
Courtney Stanton thinks she's on just another ski trip with her friends -- until a horrific car accident...
