The Taker
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| Author | Jake Wizner |
| ISBN | 0375852158 |
Did you know that in imperial China, eunuchs had their testicles, penis and scrotum removed?
Olivia does. She's done the research--after walking in on her dad fooling around with one of his grad students. On her way to an arts summer camp at Yale University, she's decided to write a musical called...
| Author | Suzanne Supplee |
| ISBN | 0525479023 |
Blubber meets Steel Magnolias in this funny and honest story about body image and family. Rosemary Goode is smart and funny and loyal and the best eyebrow waxer in Spring Hill, Tennessee. But only one thing seems to matter to anyone, including Rosemary: her weight. And when your mom runs the most successful...
Scrambled Eggs at Midnight
| Author | Brad Barkley |
| ISBN | 0525477608 |
Calliope (or Cal as she calls herself ) wants nothing more than to stay put, to stop traveling cross-country with her mother, sleeping in a tent, abandoning all belongings whenever they pull up stakes. Eliot misses the happy times he left behind when his father decided to open a camp for kids looking to...
| Author | Laura McNeal |
| ISBN | 0375830987 |
Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Children's Literature
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
Winner of the 2004 Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List
When fifteen-year-old Mick Nichols discovers a secret about his stepmother, he comes obsessed with uncovering...
| Author | Michael Harmon |
| ISBN | 0375940995 |
With her martyr-doctor mother gone to save lives in some South American country, Poe Holly suddenly finds herself on the suburban doorstep of the father she never knew, who also happens to be a counselor at her new high school. She misses Los Angeles. She misses the guys in her punk band. Weirdly, she even...
| Author | Nikol Hasler |
| ISBN | 0981973329 |
The co-creator of the popular online Midwest Teen Sex Show brings us a hilarious, honest, and in-depth look at every teen's favorite subject: sex. This isn't your mother's sex book: It's punchy and unapologetic. At the same time, it teaches teens the practical ins and outs of being sexually active and,...
| Author | Sarah Miller |
| ISBN | 0312333757 |
What if you could see inside the head of the guy you love? Know his every thought? Feel his every dream and fantasy? The mystery girl who's Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn can. She tells us the intoxicating story of her beloved Gideon, an adorably clueless boy who flukes his way into New England's...
| Author | Katherine Sturtevant |
| ISBN | 0374378096 |
In Restoration London, sixteen-year-old Meg Moore is something of an anomaly. Unlike other girls her age, Meg pores over books. She spends long hours conversing with the famous authors and poets who visit her father's bookstore, and even writes her own stories, laboring over every word until her hand...
| Author | Jennifer Ziegler |
| ISBN | 0385732856 |
Seventeen-year old Katie isn’t used to being in control. Her mother drives her crazy with her constant criticism and advice, and her boyfriend of two years just destroyed her whole world by dumping her on her birthday. It’s just as well that Katie’s headed to a summer program at the University...
| Author | Andrew Auseon |
| ISBN | 0061139262 |
A novel about freaks, geeks, crushes, and friends—and how sometimes you can be all of them at once.
Charlie is the freak. Gloria is the freak magnet. They're pretty much destined to meet. And when they do, sparks fly . . . for Charlie. Gloria, well, she just thinks he's like every other freak...
| Author | Vicki Grant |
| ISBN | 1551435667 |
Frances works the night shift at a local convenience store, dividing her time between restocking shelves and working on her art. Her routine is broken one night when Devin comes into the store. He claims to be the son of a famous local artist and offers her advice on her drawings. Although he seems to know...
| 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...
| Author | Debbie Reed Fischer |
| ISBN | 0525479546 |
Allee Rosen is a lot of things: high school senior, overachiever, brain. The one thing Allee is not is supermodel material—at least that’s what she thinks until modeling scouts spot her and she moves to Miami to work with an elite modeling agency. Suddenly Allee is swept up in a whirlwind of designer...
JENNY FITZGERALD HAS been outside the huddle, trying to fit in to her sports-obsessed family. The only time she knows the score is when she's holding an egg-carton palette and painting on a canvas, but even then she feels as though something is missing.
Unlike her three younger siblings, Jenny...
A knee injury has left football star Kyle Winthrop sitting on the sidelines of high school life. Bolita Vine has vowedto change her image. She loses weight and works on becoming more assertive. She even lands the job of stage managing the school play. When Kyle tries out for the play, he and Bo become friends....
| Author | Mark Peter Hughes |
| ISBN | 0440420466 |
This book has the generic feel of one written by someone who has never read a young adult novel and thinks: well, i'm writing about a thirteen year old girl, so there should be a diary, an embarassing incident involving a bra, a crush, a fight with her best friend, etc...
But more troubling is how...
| 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 | Amy Goldman Koss |
| ISBN | 1596431180 |
"IwithVY: I told Ms. Gold about how The Evil Three have been after me, feeding off me since fourth grade.
MARCO: It isn't a very pretty story, so if you're looking for 'nice,' you better ask someone else.
ANN: We just have to come up wiht some witnesses for our side. Think! Does anyone owe you any...
| Author | Claire Zulkey |
| ISBN | 0525421599 |
Cecily has always done everything as she was supposed to: taken the right classes, gotten the right grades, applied to the right colleges. But after a lifetime of following the rules, she surprises everyone by arriving for her freshman year of college . . . and turning around. There are infinite possibilities...
6X: Loud, Fast, & Out of Control
| Author | Nina Malkin |
| ISBN | 0439724228 |
6X has sky-rocketed to the top of the charts--and to the front page of the tabloids. When you're that high up, it's a long fall down...
THE VOICE: Kendall knows exactly what--and who--she wants...and nothing is going to stand in her way.
THE BOY: A/B has fallen hard for the perfect girl. Will...
| Author | Christine Fletcher |
| ISBN | 1599900955 |
When Tallulah Addy sets out on an impulsive cross-country trip to rescue her best friend, she doesn't anticipate getting stranded in rural Tennessee without a dime. Nor does she guess that rescuing a dog will land her a job in the local veterinarian's office. But there, under the wary eye of ornery Dr....
| Author | Jenny Markas |
| ISBN | 0439753783 |
Holly doesn’t believe in love, but her mom Jean is a helpless romantic searching for the perfect man. Whenever Jean gets dumped, she picks up her family and moves to a new town. Holly never used to mind the moves, but after arriving in Brooklyn and meeting the boy of her dreams, she decides she wants to...
Breaking the Arm, Healing the Heart
I could write soooo much about this book.
I'll start with the positive: the story concept.
Yup, that's it. That was everything that is good about this book.
The bad is too much to list. I mean look at the title of the book. How asinine.
And then there are the conversations that...
| Author | Natalie Standiford |
| ISBN | 0316115304 |
Speed Dating,Little, Brown & Company, June 2006,212pp,$9.99
Natalie Standiford ISBN-13: 9780316115308
" I never saw it coming. I thought everything was fine. I thought we were in love". Holly a teenage girl at a school call Rosewood School for Alternative Gifted just broke up with...
| Author | William Sleator |
| ISBN | 0810993562 |
Pass, and have it made—fail, and suffer the consequences.
A master of teen thrillers tests readers’ courage in an edge-of-your-seat novel that echoes the fears of exam-takers everywhere.
Ann, a teenage girl living in the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the very near future,...
