Tag Archives: Adolescentes

Dragonflight

Rating: (191 reviews)
Author: Anne Mccaffrey
Publisher: Del Rey

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HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?
To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has [...]

Evernight

Rating: (162 reviews)
Author: Claudia Gray
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Bianca wants to escape.
She’s been uprooted from her small hometown and enrolled at Evernight Academy, an eerie Gothic boarding school where the students are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn’t fit in.
Then she meets Lucas. He’s not the “Evernight type” either, [...]

The Season

Rating: (47 reviews)
Author: Sarah Maclean
Publisher: Scholastic Press

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Seventeen year old Lady Alexandra is strong-willed and sharp-tongued — in a house full of older brothers and their friends, she had to learn to hold her own. Not the best makings for an aristocratic lady in Regency London. Yet her mother still dreams of marrying Alex [...]

The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening (rack)

Rating: (150 reviews)
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperCollins

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A deadly love triangle
Elena: beautiful and popular, the girl who can have any guy she wants.
Stefan: brooding and mysterious, desperately trying to resist his desire for Elena . . . for her own good.
Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother [...]

Along for the Ride

Rating: (76 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Children’s

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Unabridged CDs • 8 CDs, 10 hours
In her signature pitch- perfect style, Sarah Dessen explores the hearts of two lonely people learning to connect.

Pretty Little Liars Box Set

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Sara Shepard
Publisher: HarperTeen

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Among the mega mansions and perfectly manicured hedges of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, everyone has something to hide—especially four very pretty little liars.
High school juniors Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily have been keeping secrets ever since their best friend, Alison DiLaurentis, disappeared three years ago. But when the girls begin [...]

When Christmas Comes

Author: Elizabeth Starr Hill
Publisher: Puffin

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With Christmas approaching, Callie is drawn into a confrontation about the meaning of family when her father decides to remarry.

Runaway (Airhead)

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

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Emerson Watts is on the run: from school, from work, from her family, from her friends, from herself.
With everyone she loves furious with her for something she can’t explain, and nothing but the live Stark Angel fashion show on New Year’s Eve to look forward to, Em’s [...]

L.A. Candy

Rating: (126 reviews)
Author: Lauren Conrad
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer . . . everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can’t wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has [...]

Fade Out

Rating: (45 reviews)
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet

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Withoutthe evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville,the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again…
Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins [...]

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Rating: (184 reviews)
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where [...]

My Soul to Take

Rating: (98 reviews)
Author: Rachel Vincent
Publisher: Harlequin

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She doesn’t see dead people, but…
She senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally.
Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest guy in school. But a normal [...]

New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)

Rating: (2231 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won’t be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The “star-crossed” lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves [...]

The Luxe

Rating: (113 reviews)
Author: Anna Godbersen
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn.
Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions.
White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.
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Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan’s social scene. Or so it appears. When the girls [...]

Sun-Kissed Christmas (Summer)

Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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More summer fun in the series that includes Beach Blondes and Tan Lines by Katherine Applegate.

The Usborne Book of Christmas Stories

Author: M. Larkin
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Criss Cross

Rating: (79 reviews)
Author: Lynne Rae Perkins
Publisher: Greenwillow Books

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She wished something would happen.
Something good. To her. Checking her wish for loopholes, she found one. Hoping it wasn’t too late, she thought the word soon.
Meanwhile, in another part of town, he felt as if the world was opening. Life was rearranging itself; bulging in places, [...]

A Wrinkle in Time

Rating: (964 reviews)
Author: Madeleine L’Engle
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the [...]

A Christmas Memory

Rating: (87 reviews)
Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote’s rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. We are proud to be reprinting this warm and delicately illustrated edition of A Christmas Memory–”a tiny gem of a holiday story” (School Library [...]

Christmas in Canaan

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Kenny Rogers
Publisher:

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“I reckon there’s nuthin’ worth learnin’ from the coloreds,” DJ answered, again turning to the window.
“That right?” his father asked ‘Nuthin’ worth learning from them folks?”
“Yeah,” DJ said. “Nuthin’. Completely nuthin’.”
In the quiet, rural town of Canaan, Texas, a clash between two classmates — one, a tough farm boy, [...]

Beautiful Creatures

Rating: (345 reviews)
Author: Kami Garcia
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of [...]

Classy: Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Derek Blasberg
Publisher: Razorbill

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If you’ve ever wondered how to climb the social ladder with grace, how to feel confident in every situation, or even how to make a lasting impression (but not the kind that lands you on the latest “Worst Dressed List”)—Derek Blasberg is here, with quotes and secrets from [...]

Incarceron (Incarceron, Book 1)

Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: Catherine Fisher
Publisher: Dial

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A thrilling, high-concept fantasy for fans of Garth Nix and Nancy Farmer.
Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came [...]

Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, Book 5)

Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill

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Dimitri gave Rose the ultimate choice. But she chose wrong…
After a long and heartbreaking journey to Dimitri’s birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s-and to her best friend, Lissa. It is nearly graduation, and the girls can’t wait for their real lives beyond the Academy’s iron gates [...]

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: John Green
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

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One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s [...]

The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, Book 3)

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Publisher: HarperCollins

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My name is Chloe Saunders. I’m fifteen, and I would love to be normal.
But normal is one thing I’m not.
For one thing, I’m having these feelings for a certain antisocial werewolf and his sweet-tempered brother—who just happens to be a sorcerer—but, between you and me, I’m leaning toward [...]

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

Rating: (152 reviews)
Author: Nic Sheff
Publisher: Atheneum

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Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his [...]

1,296 ACT Practice Questions (College Test Preparation)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

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The best way to prepare for standardized tests is to practice, and this resource offers you plenty of opportunities to do just that. 1,296 ACT Practice Questions includes:
*3 full-length practice tests
*648 additional practice questions
*detailed answer explanations for all practice questions
*a focused and informative overview of what’s on [...]

Cirque Du Freak #9: Killers of the Dawn: Book 9 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: the Saga of Darren Shan)

Rating: (35 reviews)
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Outnumbered, outsmarted and desperate, the hunters are on the run, pursued by the vampaneze, the police, and an angry mob. With their enemies clamoring for blood, the vampires prepare for a deadly battle. Is this the end for Darren and his allies?

Cirque Du Freak #10: The Lake of Souls: Book 10 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: the Saga of Darren Shan)

Rating: (30 reviews)
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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“If you step through after Harkat, you might never come back. Is your friend worth such an enormous risk?” Darren and Harkat face monstrous obstacles on their desperate quest to the Lake of Souls. Will they survive the savage journey? And what awaits [...]

Evernight (Evernight, Book 1)

Rating: (157 reviews)
Author: Claudia Gray
Publisher: HarperTeen

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Bianca wants to escape.

At the eerily Gothic Evernight Academy, the other students are sleek, smart, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn’t fit in.
When she meets handsome, brooding Lucas, he warns her to be careful—even when it comes to caring about him. But the connection between them can’t [...]

Looking for Alaska

Rating: (138 reviews)
Author: John Green
Publisher: Speak

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Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter’s whole life has been one big non-event. Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-butboring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, [...]

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Rating: (27 reviews)
Author: Cassandra Clare
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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In City of Bones, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is introduced to the world of the Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of warriors dedicated to driving demons out of our world. And she’s introduced with a vengeance, when Clary’s mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a [...]

Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Gallagher Girls)

Rating: (34 reviews)
Author: Ally Carter
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

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When Cammie “The Chameleon” Morgan visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she’s in for an exciting end to her summer break. After all, she’s there to watch Macey’s father accept the nomination for vice president of the United States. But when you go to [...]

Cirque Du Freak #6: The Vampire Prince: Book 6 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: the Saga of Darren Shan)

Rating: (34 reviews)
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Branded a traitor, betrayed by a friend, hunted by the vampire clan-Darren Shan, the Vampire’s Assistant, faces certain death. Can Darren reverse the odds and outwit a Vampire Prince? Darren’s initiation on Vampire Mountain draws to a stunning, bloody conclusion-but the Saga continues [...]

Woods Runner

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books

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Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.
But the [...]

Pretty Little Liars #7: Heartless

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Sara Shepard
Publisher: HarperTeen

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In picturesque Rosewood, Pennsylvania, neighbors gossip over picket fences, and gleaming SUVs sit in every crushed-granite driveway. But recently, friendly smiles have been replaced with suspicious glares and accusatory whispers—and it’s all because Hanna, Aria, Emily, and Spencer just can’t keep their mouths shut. . . .
First they [...]

The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall

Rating: (174 reviews)
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperTeen

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To save the two vampire brothers who love her, Elena Gilbert sacrificed her life.
Now that a supernatural force has brought Elena back from the dead, all handsome, brooding Stefan wants is to keep her safe. But when he is lured away from Fell’s Church, sleek, powerful Damon [...]

L.A. Candy

Rating: (121 reviews)
Author: Lauren Conrad
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer . . . everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can’t wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has enlisted [...]

Counterfeit Christmas (Nancy Drew Files #102)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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Counterfeit twenties are circulating and Nancy’s prime suspect is a gorgeous guy who is attracted to her, but another suspect is found dead and Nancy is drawn into a world where greed rules and life is worthless.

This World We Live In (The Last Survivors, Book 3)

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books

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It’s been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth’s climate. For Miranda Evans, life as she knew it no longer exists. Her friends and neighbors are dead, the landscape is frozen, and food is increasingly scarce.
 
The struggle to survive [...]

Fade Out (Morganville Vampires, Book 7)

Rating: (42 reviews)
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet

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Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again…
Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend [...]

City of Glass (Mortal Instruments)

Rating: (156 reviews)
Author: Cassandra Clare
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters — never mind that enter-ing the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that [...]

Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, Book 4)

Rating: (176 reviews)
Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill

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How far will Rose go to keep her promise?
The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir’s Academy was the deadliest ever in the school’s history, claiming the lives of Moroi students, teachers, and guardians alike. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them. . . including [...]

Before I Fall

Rating: (47 reviews)
Author: Lauren Oliver
Publisher: HarperCollins

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What if you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?
Samantha Kingston has it all: the world’s most crush-worthy boyfriend, three amazing best friends, and first pick of everything at Thomas [...]

Christmas Killer (Point)

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Patricia Windsor
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

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Nancy is missing, but not for Rose, who, each night, sees the missing girl in her dreams and begins to dread going to sleep at night. Reprint. C. AB. K.

The Twelve Dates of Christmas (Simon Romantic Comedies)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Catherine Hapka
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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Lexi’s feeling a little holidazed this winter….
Lexi’s been going out with Cameron for way too long. Sure, he’s a nice guy, but there’s a spark missing between them. So she comes up with the perfect plan: get him to fall for another girl so she’ll be free [...]

Pride and Prejudice

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: HarperTeen

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“Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.”

With all the forces of the world conspiring to keep Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet apart, how will fate manage to bring them together? It certainly won’t be easy if they’re fighting it every step [...]

Wintergirls

Rating: (84 reviews)
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Speak

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Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss—her life—and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend’s memory and feeling guilty for not being able [...]

Dark Magick (Sweep, No. 4)

Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Cate Tiernan
Publisher: Puffin

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Evil forces are after Morgan, forces connected with a dark wave of magick. And she knows something is wrong with the way Cal is acting, although she can’t put her finger on it. Cal is definitely hiding something, but is he out to hurt her, as Hunter says?