Tag Archives: Teens

The Dead Girls’ Dance (Morganville Vampires, Book 2)

Rating: (59 reviews)
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet

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Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting [...]

Flutter (My Blood Approves series)

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Amanda Hocking
Publisher:

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Flutter – the third book in the My Blood Approves series…
Being undead doesn’t make life any easier for Alice Bonham.
Her younger brother’s love life is heating up, while hers is… more complicated. Mae is falling apart, her best friend Jane is addicted to vampire bites, and if Alice doesn’t [...]

Summer Bridge Activities: 7th to 8th Grades

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Hobbs Ann Julia
Publisher: Rainbow Bridge Publishing (UT)

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NEW and Improved Summer Bridge Activities for 2006!
This year the bestselling summer workbook features new covers, new activities, new reading lists, updated bonus sections, and a whole lot more to give kids a summer learning experience they won’t forget! Designed to keep kids busy, [...]

Spells (Aprilynne Pike)

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Aprilynne Pike
Publisher: HarperTeen

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“I can’t just storm in and proclaim my intentions. I can’t ‘steal’ you away. I just have to wait and hope that, someday, you’ll ask,” Tamani said.
“And if I don’t?” Laurel said, her voice barely above a whisper.
“Then I guess I’ll be waiting forever.”

Although Laurel has come to [...]

Monster

Rating: (709 reviews)
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I’ll call it what the lady who is the [...]

American Popular Piano – Christmas (Level 3) (Girl Zone)

Author: Christopher Norton
Publisher: Novus Via Music Group

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Each volume, at progressive levels, has lyrical, rhythmic and ensemble arrangements of traditional carols.

Saint Nicholas: The Real Story of the Christmas Legend

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Julie Stiegemeyer
Publisher: Concordia Publishing House

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Many parents and teachers struggle with how to approach the Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus dilemma. Many deal with this by telling children that the legends surrounding Santa Claus are based on a real, hi

The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1)

Rating: (359 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it’s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the “flock”–Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel–are just like ordinary kids–only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like [...]

The Sorceress

Rating: (78 reviews)
Author: Michael Scott
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Book Three in the New York Times bestselling series.
Nicholas Flamel’s heart almost broke as he watched his beloved Paris crumble before him. The city was destroyed by Dee and Machiavelli, but Flamel played his own role in the destruction. Sophie and Josh Newman show [...]

Glass Houses (Morganville Vampires, Book 1)

Rating: (137 reviews)
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet

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From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas.
Just don’t stay out after dark.
College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school’s social scene: somewhere less [...]

The Magician

Rating: (93 reviews)
Author: Michael Scott
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenell is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with enemies. Nicollo Machiavelli, immortal author [...]

The Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, Book 1)

Author: Cassandra Clare
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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Magic is dangerous—but love is more dangerous still.
 
When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London’s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the [...]

The City of Ember (Books of Ember)

Rating: (498 reviews)
Author: Jeanne DuPrau
Publisher: Yearling

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NOW A MAJOR motion picture starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan, and Harry Treadaway! This tie-in edition of The City of Ember features a movie-art cover and an 8-page photo insert. Jeanne DuPrau’s instant classic tells the story of the great, underground city of Ember, [...]

Insatiable

Rating: (28 reviews)
Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: William Morrow

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Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper.
But her bosses are making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn’t believe in them.
Not that Meena isn’t familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you’re going to die. (Not that you’re going to believe [...]

Marvel Encyclopedia

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Tom DeFalco
Publisher: DK Publishing

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Celebrate 70 years of Marvel Comics with The Marvel Encyclopedia! Fully updated with new images and text, this one-volume encyclopedia contains more than 1,000 of Marvel’s greatest-from well-known characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk and Wolverine to lesser known heroes and villains.
An essential book both for new [...]

The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials

Rating: (915 reviews)
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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The Amber Spyglass brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume of His Dark Materials as the most powerful of the trilogy.
Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. [...]

Ghost Town (Morganville Vampires, Book 9)

Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: NAL Hardcover

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Get ready for “non-stop vampire action” (Darque Reviews) in the latest Morganville Vampire novel from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine.
While developing a new system to maintain Morganville’s defenses, student Claire Danvers discovers a way to amplify vampire mental powers. Through this, she’s able to re-establish the field around [...]

Stargirl

Rating: (918 reviews)
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don’t stand out–under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes–for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an [...]

Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, Book 6)

Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill

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The astonishing final novel in Richelle Mead’s epic series!
Murder. Love. Jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice. Now, with Rose on trial for her life and Lissa first in line for the Royal Throne, nothing will ever be the same between them.

Traveling Home for Christmas: Four Stories That Journey to the Heart of Christmas (Radio Theatre)

Rating: (1 reviews)
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Publisher: Tyndale Entertainment

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Celebrate the joy of the season with this collection of Christmas classics. Radio Theatre presents O. Henry’s “Christmas by Injunction” and everyone’s favorite “The Gift of the Magi.” Listen as Tolstoy’s Russian classic “Shoemaker Martin” and Anthony Trollope’s “Christmas at Kirkby Cottage” come alive! Radio Theatre is innovative audio [...]

The Fairy Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm, Book 1) (Bk. 1)

Rating: (81 reviews)
Author: Michael Buckley
Publisher: Amulet

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Nancy Drew meets Shrek in this funny, exciting new series of mysteries set in a community of fairy-tale characters. In the first book, The Sisters Grimm (Book One): The Fairy-Tale Detectives, we meet Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, two seeming orphans from New York City, who have been sent [...]

Identical

Rating: (90 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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Do twins begin in the womb?
Or in a better place?
Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family — on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own [...]

Bud, Not Buddy

Rating: (481 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father–the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. Amazon.com Review
“It’s funny how [...]

Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Ridley Pearson
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

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Featuring a new paperback cover to match hardcover of Kingdom Keepers II:
 

In this fantastical thriller, five young teens tapped as models for theme park “guides” find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of [...]

Perfect Chemistry

Rating: (89 reviews)
Author: Simone Elkeles
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers

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A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers.
When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created “perfect” life is about to unravel before her eyes. She’s forced to [...]

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 [...]

Declaring Spinsterhood

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Jamie Lynn Braziel
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing

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What can you do when your family harps on you to get married (already!), when your delicious and alluring ex-boyfriend—cheater to the core—believes that you’ve fallen for another guy and sets out to woo and conquer (again), and when you suddenly realize that you have fallen [...]

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 [...]

Madeline’s Christmas (Picture Puffins)

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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It’s the night before Christmas and everyone is sick in bed. All except brave Madeline, who is up and about and feeling just fine. Taking care of eleven little girls and Miss Clavel is hard work, but Madeline finds help from a magical merchant peddling flying carpets [...]

Merry Christmas, Stinky Face

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Lisa Mccourt
Publisher: Scholastic

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“What if Santa’s lips get chapped?” Stinky Face asks. “What if the sack of toys starts to rip?” As always, Mama lovingly addresses each and every one of her child’s concerns. Stinky Face leaves Santa lip balm and duct tape… just in case. This tender Christmas tale, now [...]

Merry Christmas, Laura! (Little House)

Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: HarperFestival

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Celebrating Christmas with a horde of visiting cousins, a delicious feast, and a brand-new doll, Laura and her family enjoy the spirit of the season, and young enthusiasts are invited to read while listening to the attached musical sound module. For children under three.

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 [...]

A Series of Unfortunate Events #10: The Slippery Slope

Rating: (236 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Like bad smells, uninvited weekend guests or very old eggs, there are some things that ought to be avoided.
Snicket’s saga about the charming, intelligent, and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to alarm its distressed and suspicious fans the world over. The 10th book in this outrageous publishing [...]

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 [...]

A Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto

Rating: (249 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Warning: Your day will become very dark – and possibly damp – if you read this book.
Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Lemony Snicket’s saga about the charming, [...]

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.
This is Manhattan, 1899.
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Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan’s social scene. Or so it appears. When the girls [...]

A Series of Unfortunate Events #9: The Carnivorous Carnival

Rating: (210 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks?
A carnival is a place for good family fun – as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at the carnival turns [...]

A Series of Unfortunate Events #13: The End

Rating: (320 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Dear Reader,
You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the [...]

A Series of Unfortunate Events #12: The Penultimate Peril

Rating: (221 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Lemony Snicket returns with the last book before the last book of his bestselling Series of Unfortunate Events. Scream and run away before the secrets of the series are revealed!
Very little is known about Lemony Snicket and A Series of Unfortunate Events. What we do know is [...]

The Little Engine That Could mini

Rating: (80 reviews)
Author: Watty Piper
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

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“A good example of pioneer feminist lore, with girl engine as ‘hero’”.–Publishers Weekly. The classic story of optimistic thinking that has delighted generations of children. Full-color illustrations. Amazon.com Review
The unknowing progenitor of a whole generation of self-help books, Wally Piper’s The Little Engine That Could is [...]

Sun-Kissed Christmas (Summer)

Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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