Tag Archives: Teens

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 [...]

A Terrible Thing Happened – A story for children who have witnessed violence or trauma

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Margaret M. Holmes
Publisher: Magination Press

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Sherman Smith saw the most terrible thing happen. At first he tried to forget about it, but something inside him started to bother him. He felt nervous and had bad dreams. Then he met someone who helped him talk about the terrible thing, and made him [...]

Found (The Missing, Book 1)

Rating: (60 reviews)
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

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Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he’s never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who’s also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, “You are one of the missing.” The [...]

Maitland Maternity Christmas: A Heartbeat Away/The Ends of the Earth/Once in a Lifetime (Maitland Maternity Clinic Anthology)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Judy Christenberry
Publisher: Harlequin

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Hugh Blake, soon to become stepfather to the Maitland clan, has produced three high-performing offspring of his own. But at the rate they’re going, they’re never going to make him a grandpa!
There’s Suzanne, a work-obsessed CEO whose Christmas spirit could use a little topping up . . .
And [...]

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 [...]

The Help

Rating: (1716 reviews)
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam

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Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter [...]

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

Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Yen Press

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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 [...]

Mama Had to Work on Christmas

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Carolyn Marsden
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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Gloria always spends Christmas with Papi, Mama, and Nana. But this Christmas, Papi is away picking oranges and Mama has to work at the hotel where she is a maid. Gloria is miserable when Mama makes her go with her-until they get to the hotel with its [...]

Wild Christmas

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Joshua Hodge
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.

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There was no escape. He was trapped, just like he was when he was in detention. Life was an enormous prison for Dan. He always found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Never had he believed that he was in the right place in [...]

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

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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 [...]

The Bells of Christmas

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Sandpiper

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Twelve-year-old Jason Bell waits impatiently for Christmas 1890. Set against the carefully researched background life of a middle-class black family in Ohio a century ago, “Hamilton’s story moves along at an elegant pace, giving readers time to savor the holiday preparations.”–School Library Journal

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 Fairy Merry Christmas (Fairy School)

Author: Gail Herman
Publisher: Skylark

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It’s Christmas in Fairyland. What better time for a field trip to the North Pole? But bad news awaits the fairies–Santa isn’t planning to give out any toys on Earth-Below. He doesn’t think any Little Big People believe in him anymore. The fairies have to change his mind. With a little [...]

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?

Christmas in Mexico (Christmas Around the World) ((Christmas Around the World Ser.))

Rating: (1 reviews)
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Publisher: World Book

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Each 80-page Christmas Around the World book includes full narratives explaining the customs of the region covered, photography and illustrations, special sections of native songs, recipes, and fun-to-do crafts.

The Day Before Christmas

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Sandpiper

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Four years after the death of her mother, seven-year-old Allie goes to The Nutcracker with her grandfather who shares the memories of the special day he had when he took Allie’s mother to her first performance of the ballet.

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 [...]

Warriors: Ravenpaw’s Path #1: Shattered Peace

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Ravenpaw has settled into life on the farm, away from the forest and Tigerstar’s evil eye. He knows that leaving the warrior clans was the right choice, and he appreciates his quiet days and peaceful nights with his best friend, Barley. But when five rogue cats from Twolegplace [...]

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.

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Phillip M Hoose
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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“When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’” – Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the [...]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)

Rating: (2689 reviews)
Author: J. K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

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In one of the most hotly anticipated sequels in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left with Harry’s second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girl’s bathroom, [...]

Season for Singing American Christmas Songs and Caro

Author: John M. Langstaff
Publisher: Doubleday

Ivy & Bean (Book 1) (Bk. 1)

Rating: (72 reviews)
Author: Annie Barrows
Publisher: Chronicle Books

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The moment they saw each other, Bean and Ivy knew they wouldn’t be friends. But when Bean plays a joke on her sister, Nancy, and has to hide quick Ivy comes to the rescue, proving that sometimes the best of friends are people never meant to like [...]

A Pinata in a Pine Tree: A Latino Twelve Days of Christmas

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Pat Mora
Publisher: Clarion Books

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An award-winning author and a rising star artist have put a festive Latino twist on “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” populating it with piñatas in place of partridges, plus burritos bailando (dancing donkeys), lunitas cantando (singing moons), and much more, all displayed in the most vivid colors [...]

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 [...]

Ride Wit’ Me

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Deja King
Publisher: A King Production/Young Diamond Book

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Check out Mercedes and Dalvin, two beautiful young lovers in a modern day story that is destined to be a classic. Mercedes is truly a daddy s girl. She is his crown jewel and nothing in the world is more precious to him. Mercedes [...]

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 [...]

The Best Christmas Present in the World

Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Egmont UK

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A classic Christmas story in an irresistible format, from the best-selling author/illustrator team, Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman.

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 [...]

Nine Days to Christmas (Viking Kestrel picture books)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Marie Hall Ets
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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Published over 30 years ago, Nine Days to Christmas remains fresh and relevant. Ceci’s first Christmas posada party and pinata have made her Mexican town come alive for generations of readers. “The youngest child will be completely transported by this lovely story”.–The Atlantic. Three-color illustrations.

Fisherman’s Night Before Christmas, A (Night Before Christmas (Gibbs))

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Sue Carabine
Publisher: Gibbs Smith

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Santa doesn’t know lures from bait, so some fishermen gather to help him this Christmas Eve.

The Shine Man: A Christmas Story

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Mary Quattlebaum
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers

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During the hard times of 1932, a poor shoe shine man gives a child his cap, gloves, and an angel made from a spool, then receives a wonderful gift in return.

Cranberry Christmas

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Wende Devlin
Publisher: Aladdin

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Old Cyrus Grape doesn’t like children. And he insists that the skating pond is his. Mr. Whiskers knows this isn’t true, but since he can’t prove it, there’ll be no skating…not even on Christmas Day!
That is…unless cleaning Mr. Whiskers’ house uncovers some important information.

Care Bears Catch the Christmas Spirt!

Author: Katie Tait
Publisher: Scholastic

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The Care Bears try to help Grumpy Bear find his Christmas spirit.Children will love to read about these adorable bears and learn about their special caring mission as the Care Bears teach them the importance of caring for others and sharing their feelings.

The Night Before Christmas (board book)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Clement C. Moore
Publisher: Running Press Kids

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The New York Times bestseller! How many families have wanted to share this classic poem with even the tiniest children but have hesitated to let them touch a fragile heirloom edition? That’s no longer a concern with this sturdy board book. Let the smallest ones [...]