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Need

Rating: (143 reviews)
Author: Carrie Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books

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Zara collects phobias the way other girls collect Facebook friends. Little wonder, since life’s been pretty rough so far. Her father left, her stepfather just died, and her mother’s pretty much checked out. Now Zara’s living with her grandmother in sleepy, cold Maine so that [...]

The Secret Circle: The Captive Part II and The Power (Secret Circle (Harper Teen))

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperTeen

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Caught in the struggle between good and evil . . .
Cassie has joined the most alluring—and deadly—in-crowd imaginable. But power comes with a price, and it’s more dangerous than she knows. Torn between the dueling desires of the two leaders of the Secret Grcle, she must ultimately [...]

Awakening (Sweep, No. 5)

Rating: (25 reviews)
Author: Cate Tiernan
Publisher: Puffin

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For now, Morgan is safe from the dark wave that has been attacking witches. Betrayed by her first love, she is trying to come to grips with her Woodbane heritage and with Wicca—its thorn and its rose.

Jack: Secret Circles (Repairman Jack)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: F. Paul Wilson
Publisher: Tor Teen

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When his five-year-old neighbor goes missing, Jack can’t help feeling responsible. He should have taken Cody home when he found him riding his bicycle near the Pine Barrens. And then a lost man wanders out of the woods after being chased all night by…something. Jack knows, better [...]

The Anger Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Deal With Anger and Frustration (Instant Help)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Raychelle Cassada Lohmann
Publisher: Instant Help Books

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Between family life and the pressures of school, there’s no doubt that it’s stressful being a teenager. But if you’ve noticed yourself beginning to take out your frustrations on the people you love most-your parents, brothers or sisters, and friends-it may be time to make [...]

The Con Artist of Catalina Island: A McAfee Twins Christmas Novel

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Jennifer Colt
Publisher: CreateSpace

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Spending Christmas on picturesque Catalina Island seems like the perfect idea for private investigators, Kerry and Terry McAfee. That is, until they learn that the hotel room they’ve checked into was recently occupied by a pair of feuding newlyweds, and that the bride and her rare green diamond [...]

A Crime for Christmas (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #2)

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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Nancy Drew teams up with the Hardy boys in New York to find a pair of big-time cat burglars who are expected to hit a museum next.

A Capeside Christmas (Dawson’s Creek)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: C.J. Anders
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment

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Stress Much?
Two days into rehearsal, the director of the Capeside Christmas Winter Follies drops out, so Dawson volunteers to direct the town show. But he’s finding out the hard way it’s easier to direct a small cast film than a giant Christmas pageant filled with friends, [...]

Eclipse (The Twilight Saga)

Rating: (1888 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour the paperback edition Eclipse, the third book in Stephenie Meyer’s riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, [...]

Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)

Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press

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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow [...]

Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 (The Twilight Saga)

Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Yen Press

Book Description
When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep [...]

Burned (House of Night Novels)

Author: P. C. Cast
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

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When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flames….
 
Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbird’s soul has shattered. With everything she’s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoey’s [...]

Hourglass (Evernight Novels)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Claudia Gray
Publisher: HarperTeen

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Bianca will risk everything to be with Lucas.
After escaping from Evernight Academy, the vampire boarding school where they met, Bianca and Lucas take refuge with Black Cross, a fanatical group of vampire hunters. Bianca must hide her supernatural heritage or risk certain death at their hands. But when [...]

Kiss of Death (Morganville Vampires, Book 8)

Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Dover Publications

Product Description
This illustrated edition of the Yuletide classic features 12 full-color plates plus 18 black-and-white drawings. The timeless appeal of Rackham’s evocative illustrations form the perfect complement to the master storyteller’s wise and witty prose. Dickens’s immortal tale still sends a message that strikes the reader’s heart and soul.

The Sorcerer of the North: Book Five (Ranger’s Apprentice)

Rating: (38 reviews)
Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Puffin

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Several years have passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, first met, and Will is finally a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepy—boring, even—until Lord Syron, master of a castle far in the north, is struck down by [...]

Ministry Ideas for Celebrating Advent and Christmas with Teens, Families, and Parishes

Author: Janet Claussen
Publisher: Saint Mary’s Press

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For many people, the secular preparation time for Christmas takes precedence over the spiritual meaning of the season. Once Christmas arrives, the spiritual significance is lost amid the boxes and ribbons. Most Catholics don’t realize that the season extends all the way through Epiphany to the Baptism of Our [...]

A Christmas Carol (Penguin Readers, Level 2)

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Pearson ESL

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Scrooge is a cold, mean man. He loves only money and is cruel to the people around him. Scrooge is visited by ghosts who show him his past, his life now and a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change?

A Christmas Memory

Rating: (86 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 Alphabet Cards

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Robert Sabuda
Publisher: Running Press

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With “Season’s Greetings” written on the inside of each card, and 26 of renowned pop-up artist Robert Sabuda’s intricate and eye-catching designs, there is a card in this beautiful set for every letter of the alphabet. Based on Sabuda’s best-selling children’s book The Christmas Alphabet, you’ll find [...]

Doomwyte (Redwall)

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Ace

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The 20th novel of Redwall-now in paperback.
The young mouse Bisky persuades his friends at Redwall Abbey to seek a fabled treasure-the jeweled eyes of the Great Doomwyte Idol-only to lead them into the realm of the fearsome Korvus Skurr, the black- feathered raven.

Season for Singing American Christmas Songs and Caro

Author: John M. Langstaff
Publisher: Doubleday

Linger

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Press

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In Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other.  Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring [...]

The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4)

Rating: (191 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

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“Three cheers! Max is one of the smartest, strongest, funniest heroines around.” – Diane Garrett, Diane’s Books
In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her-and maybe save the [...]

The Secret to Teen Power

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Paul Harrington
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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Since its original publication, The Secret has inspired millions to live extraordinary lives. The Secret to Teen Power makes the knowledge of the law of attraction accessible and relevant to today’s teens. It explains the law of attraction in relation to teen issues such as friends and [...]

Along for the Ride

Rating: (67 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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It’s been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents’ divorce—or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live.
A job in a clothes [...]

Evan Brain’s Christmas List and Other Shenanigans: Boy Warrior Fights Evil

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Eve Becker-Doyle
Publisher: Becker Doyle & Assoc Publishing

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Book 2 of the Evan Brain series has been named a 2009 DIY Hollywood Book Festival honoree and medal winner in the 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards! Sassy sequel Evan Brain s Christmas List and Other Shenanigans is flypaper for kids who hate to [...]

Boys, Girls and Other Hazardous Materials

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Rosalind Wiseman
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

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Looking for a new beginning after a terrible mean girl past, Charlie Healey realizes there’s no escaping high school drama.
Charlie Healey thinks Harmony Falls is the beginning of a whole new life. Middle school was brutal. But high school is Charlie’s big chance to start over and [...]

Vampire Academy Collection

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill

Product Description
Tear into the utterly addictive Vampire Academy series this holiday season!
Now you can have the first three novels in the New York Times Bestselling VAMPIRE ACADEMY series in a special edition box set! Find out where it all began for Guardian Rose Hathaway and her bloodthirsty best friend [...]

Sweet Little Lies: An L.A. Candy Novel

Author: Lauren Conrad
Publisher: HarperCollins

Tricks

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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“When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.”
Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives [...]

If I Stay

Rating: (63 reviews)
Author: Gayle Forman
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

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In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeenyear- old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she fi nds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck…
A [...]

The Soldiers of Halla (Pendragon)

Rating: (30 reviews)
Author: D.J. MacHale
Publisher: Aladdin

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The final showdown for Halla is here in The Soldiers of Halla, Book Ten in D.J. MacHale’s #1 New York Times bestselling Pendragon series. Amazon.com Review
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It has all been leading to this. Every victory. Every loss. All the thrills and sadness; the hope and despair. Bobby Pendragon’s [...]

A Christmas Memory (Tale Blazers)

Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Perfection Learning

The Twilight Saga: New Moon–The Official Illustrated Movie Companion

Rating: (59 reviews)
Author: Mark Cotta Vaz
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Explore the making of the film New Moon in this ultimate visual companion, lavishly illustrated with full-color photos of the cast, locations, and sets. This beautiful paperback edition celebrates the onscreen creation of Stephenie Meyer’s fascinating world, brought to life by Academy [...]

Crocodile Tears: An Alex Rider Novel

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Philomel

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It’s just another day in the life of an average kid. If you’re Alex Rider, that is. A con artist has realized there is big money in charity– the bigger the disaster, the greater the money flow! So that is what he will produce: the biggest disaster known [...]

Witch & Wizard

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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The world is changing: the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now, kids are disappearing. For 15-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside down when they are torn from their parents one night and slammed into [...]

Tempted (House of Night Novels)

Rating: (130 reviews)
Author: P. C. Cast
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

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So…you’d think after banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark’s life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and almost dying, Zoey Redbird would catch a break.  Sadly, a break is not in the House of Night school forecast for the [...]

House of Night, Books 1-4 (Marked / Betrayed / Chosen / Untamed)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: P. C. Cast
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

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The House of Night is a thrilling, New York Times bestselling book series that follows 16-year-old Zoey Redbird as she is “Marked” by a vampyre tracker and begins to undergo the “Change” into an actual vampyre. She has to leave her family in Broken Arrow, OK, [...]

Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Rating: (334 reviews)
Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press

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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and [...]

Ranger’s Apprentice: The Siege of Macindaw: Book 6

Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Philomel

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After years as a Ranger’s apprentice, Will is now the protector of his first fief. Not long into his service, everything that can go wrong does: Keren, a renegade knight, has taken over Castle Macindaw, a strategic gateway to the North—poisoning the royal family in the process—and is [...]

Hush, Hush

Rating: (130 reviews)
Author: Becca Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

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For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan. She’s never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how much her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch came along.
With his easy smile and eyes that [...]

Fallen

Rating: (57 reviews)
Author: Lauren Kate
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.
Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where [...]

The Maze Runner (Maze Runner Trilogy (Hardback))

Rating: (105 reviews)
Author: James Dashner
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open [...]

Fire (Graceling)

Rating: (74 reviews)
Author: Kristin Cashore
Publisher: Dial

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She is the last of her kind…
It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest [...]

Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion

Rating: (295 reviews)
Author: Mark Cotta Vaz
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Everything fans want to know about the hotly anticipated Twilight movie and much more!

Designed as a celebration of the film, this lavishly illustrated paperback edition is an exclusive behind-the-scenes guide featuring full-color photos of the cast, locations, and sets, as well as [...]

Angels and Other Strangers: Family Christmas Stories

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Katherine Paterson
Publisher: HarperCollins

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In unexpected and heartwarming ways, two–time Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson has written a collection of nine inspirational short stories that illuminate the true meaning of the Christmas story. Hope and celebration are the common threads in this exploration of the mysterious workings of the human heart.
Featuring a new [...]

Splendor: A Luxe Novel (The Luxe)

Rating: (28 reviews)
Author: Anna Godbersen
Publisher: HarperCollins

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New beginnings.
Shocking revelations.
Unexpected endings.

A spring turns into summer, Elizabeth relishes her new role as a young wife, while her sister, Diana, searches for adventure abroad. But when a surprising clue about their father’s death comes to light, the Holland girls wonder at what cost a life of splendor [...]

ArchEnemy: The Looking Glass Wars

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Frank Beddor
Publisher: Dial

Product Description
Discover the fate of Wonderland- and imagination itself- in this riveting conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy.
The Heart Crystal’s power has been depleted, and Imagination along with it. The people of Wonderland have all lost their creative drive, and most alarmingly, even Queen Alyss is without [...]

Max (Maximum Ride, Book 5)

Rating: (82 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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James Patterson’s bestselling Maximum Ride series is back, with Max and the gang as The Protectors. Someone–or something–is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii’s coast, and Max and her flock find themselves sucked into the Navy’s top-secret investigation of the catastrophe. Their [...]