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1. Pepere Eldridge says:

   January 13, 2013 at 2:34 am

   Shift – Jennifer Bradbury
   Two friends set out on a cross-country bike trip. Only one arrives in Seattle. What happened?
   Project 17 – Laurie Faria-Stolarz
   When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occuring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives.
   Story of a girl – Sara Zarr
   After she is caught with her brother’s friend in the back seat of his car, Deanna has to deal with a ruined reputation.
   Wait for me – An Na
   When Mina falls in love with a young coworker at her parents’ dry cleaners, she struggles between her mother’s dreams for her and true love.
   Someone like Summer – M.E. Kerr
   When Annabel, daughter of a contractor, and Esteban, a Latino immigrant, begin a relationship, they are at odds with many of the supercilious residents in the resort town of Seaview.
   More than friends – Katherine Spencer
   After her brother dies, Grace finds herself falling for his best friend Jackson, who has some serious problems of his own.
   Enthusiasm – Polly Shulman
   Fans of Jane Austen’s novels, Julie and Ashleigh decide to imitate their heroine and try to discover True Love in high school.
   Undercover – Beth Kephart
   A quiet girl writes love notes for the people in her school, but her feelings for one student may change her.
   The Market – J.M. Steele
   When Kate finds out that someone is rating all the girls in her class, she is determined to make sure her score rises, no matter what it takes.
   The It Chicks – Tia Williams
   Tangie and her friends juggle romance, classes, and the arts with their friendship as the “It Chicks”.
   Good enough – Paula Yoo
   Patti is trying to get into an Ivy League school to please her parents, but this Korean-American teen also wants to have fun.
   Divine Confidential – Jacquelin Thomas
   After she moves from Hollywood to Georgia, Divine still wants to live her life as a diva and find romance.
   A higher geometry – Sharelle Byars Moranville
   In the late 1950s, Anna feels she must choose between the traditional role her parents expect of her and her dream of going to college to study mathematics.
   Every crooked pot – Renee Rosen
   Nina uses makeup and different hairstyles to hide her birthmark over one eye, in hopes of fitting in.
   Maggie Bean stays afloat – Tricia Rayburn
   Maggie has changed, through Pound Patrollers diet and exercise, but can she attract Peter Applewood and still keep her old friends?
   Cures for heartbreak – Margo Rabb
   After her mother dies and her father becomes sick, Mia deals with growing up and finding love.
   Mistik Lake – Martha Brooks
   Odella yearns to know the answers to family secrets that have affected three generations of women in her family.
   Off-Color – Janet McDonald
   A white girl and her mother are suddenly forced into public housing, where she struggles for acceptance while also discovering she’s biracial.
   So not the drama – Paula Chase
   Mina is determined that she will be as popular in high school as she was in middle school.

2. Kim says:

   January 13, 2013 at 8:00 am

   A teen with a taste for classics? I love you!
   Okay, here are some great books that you may enjoy:
   More of Shakespeare’s work (my favorites are Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth)
   One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
   Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
   Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
   The World According to Garp by John Irving
   Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
   Orlando by Virginia Woolf
   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
   The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
   The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

3. Magpie™ says:

   January 13, 2013 at 12:27 pm

   Give Darren Shan a go.

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