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Alanna: The First Adventure

Tamora Pierce · 241 pages

"From now on, I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight. And so yound Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magin. So one day they decide to switch places. Disguised as a girl, Thom heads for the convent to learn magic; Alanna, pr

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Here Lies Arthur

Philip Reeve · 304 pages

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Eona: The Last Dragoneye

Alison Goodman · 637 pages

Eon has been revealed as Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years. Along with fellow rebels Ryko and Lady Dela, she is on the run from High Lord Sethon's army. The renegades are on a quest for the black folio, stolen by the drug-riddled Dillon; they must also find Kygo, the young Pearl Emperor, who needs Eona's power and the black folio if he is to wrest back his throne from the selfs

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The Art of Being Normal

Lisa Williamson · 348 pages

Two boys. Two secrets. David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he’s gay. The school bully thinks he’s a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth – David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal – to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in year 11 is definitely not part of that plan. When Leo stands up

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Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 1

Bisco Hatori · 184 pages

A female scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School ends up working for the school's swankiest club after she stumbles upon the all-male Host Club--who mistake her for a boy--and accidentally destroys a valuable vase. While working off her debt, she learns how the other half really lives.

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The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

Nadia Hashimi · 464 pages

In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.

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Every Day

David Levithan · 330 pages

Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.

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The Dream-Maker's Magic

Sharon Shinn · 266 pages

Kellen's mother has always insisted that her only child was born male, not female—so Kellen has been raised as a boy. At school, she meets Gryffin, whose mind is as strong as his legs are damaged, and the two become friends and allies. A few years later, the two get jobs working at an inn nearby. When it is discovered that Gryffin is the kingdom's new Dream-Maker—someone whose mere presence can he

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Guy in Real Life

Steve Brezenoff

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None of the Above

I.W. Gregorio · 340 pages

A groundbreaking story about a teenage girl who discovers she was born intersex... and what happens when her secret is revealed to the entire school. Incredibly compelling and sensitively told, None of the Above is a thought-provoking novel that explores what it means to be a boy, a girl, or something in between. What if everything you knew about yourself changed in an instant? When Kristin

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Beastly

Alex Flinn · 320 pages

A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright — a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever — ruined — unless I can break the spell.Yes, the spell, the one the wit

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Freakboy

Kristin Elizabeth Clark · 437 pages

Brendan Chase is an athlete, a star student, and boyfriend to the perfect girlfriend, Vanessa. She has silky brown hair, soft skin, and gentle curves -- everything that Brendan could ever want. Except that Brendan wants much more. He doesn't just want to be with her; he wants to be like her. At least sometimes he does. Is there a name for people like him? Guys who maybe sometimes want to be girls?

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What Happened to Lani Garver

Carol Plum-Ucci · 336 pages

Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.

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Noteworthy

Riley Redgate · 384 pages

After learning that her deep voice is keeping her from being cast in plays at her exclusive performing arts school, Jordan Sun, junior, auditions for an all-male octet hoping for a chance to perform internationally.

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The Kiss of Deception

Mary E. Pearson · 493 pages

"On the morning of her wedding, Princess Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive--and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets--even as she finds herself falling in love"-- On the morning of

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The Power of Six

Pittacus Lore · 406 pages

(source: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-power-of-six/#gsc.tab=0) **The Power of Six** by Pittacus Lore is the second volume in a series that began with the book "I Am Number Four." It is a saga that pits good against evil on an interplanetary scale. Nine children and their guardians (*Cepans*) have been sent to Earth from the planet Lorien which is under siege. The Mogadorians have used

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Being Emily

Rachel Gold · 264 pages

They say whoever you are it's okay, you were born that way. Those words don't comfort Emily because she was born Christopher and her insides know that her outsides are all wrong.

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Being Sloane Jacobs

Lauren Morrill · 330 pages

Sloane Emily Jacobs and Sloane Devon Jacobs, from very different worlds but both with problem families, meet in Montreal where they will stay in the same hotel while attending camp, one for figure skating, the other for ice hockey.

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Powerless

Lauren Roberts · 528 pages

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites. The powers these Elites have possessed for decades were graciously gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that—ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished in order to pr

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The Crimson Crown

Cinda Williams Chima · 598 pages

"In the fourth and final novel in the Seven Realms series, Queen Raisa 'ana Marianna and Han Alister join forces to right a thousand-year-old wrong"--

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What We Left Behind

Robin Talley · 384 pages

Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school. They've been together forever. They never fight. They're deeply, hopelessly in love. When they separate for their first year at college--Toni to Harvard and Gretchen to NYU--they're sure they'll be fine. The reality of being apart, though, is very different than they expected.

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Tandem

Anna Jarzab · 443 pages

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Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 336 pages

Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty — especially if they learn of her Sight — and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring

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