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Tonight the Streets Are Ours

Leila Sales · 344 pages

Seventeen-year-old Arden, of Cumberland, Maryland, finds solace in the blog of an aspiring writer who lives in New York City, but when she goes to meet him, she discovers that he is a very different person than she believes him to be.

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Girl Online

Zoe Sugg · 352 pages

"Penny has a secret. Under the alias GirlOnline, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her crazy family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love--and capturing every moment

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Very LeFreak

Rachel Cohn · 305 pages

Very LeFreak has a problem: she's a crazed technology addict. Very can't get enough of her iPhone, laptop, IMs, text messages, whatever. If there's any chance the incoming message, call, text, or photo might be from her supersecret online crush, she's going to answer, no matter what. Nothing is too important: sleep, friends in mid-conversation, class, a meeting with the dean about academic probati

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All of This Is True

Lygia Day Peñaflor · 432 pages

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Worthy

Donna Cooner · 274 pages

Linden Wilson, aspiring writer, is a junior at Sam Houston High School, and she has just started dating handsome Alex Garcia when a mysterious app called "Worthy", which ranks couples at the high school via user comments, turns her life upside down by labeling her as "unworthy" of Alex--and suddenly Linden is reevaluating herself and the people she thought of as friends.

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Night Owl

M. Pierce · 262 pages

Matt Sky has the perfect life. He has a beautiful girlfriend, a massive inheritance, and four national bestsellers all penned under his airtight alias, M. Pierce. Hannah Catalano is a train wreck. Her boyfriend is a deadbeat and her job is abysmal. When Matt and Hannah meet online, they forge a strong connection as writing partners, but Matt has rules: no last names, no pictures, no specifics. The

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Nerve

Jeanne Ryan · 312 pages

As a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, high-schooler Vee is unhappy to be watched constantly but finds it exhilarating to be paired with handsome Ian taking ever riskier dares--until the stakes become too high.

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The Manifesto on How to be Interesting

Holly Bourne · 464 pages

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Gossip Girl

Cecily von Ziegesar · 203 pages

Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep—sometimes with each other. S is back from boarding school, and if we aren’t careful, she’s going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn’t fit into, steal our boyfriends’ hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I’ll be watching closely . . . You know you love me,

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Faking Faith

Josie Bloss · 231 pages

After a humiliating incident involving some bad decisions on her part, seventeen-year-old Dylan discovers the blogs of fundamentalist Christian girls and starts passing herself off as one of them in her own blog, leading her to some unexpected insights about herself and her values.

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Cover Story

Susan Rigetti · 368 pages

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Social Suicide

Gemma Halliday

"Hartley Featherstone's first big story for the school paper takes an unexpected turn when she discovers the girl she's supposed to interview dead in her swimming pool"--

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All Four Stars

Tara Dairman · 273 pages

Eleven-year-old Gladys Gatsby loves food and cooking, so when she lands an assignment to write a restaurant review for a New York City newspaper, she will do anything to make it happen, even risk the wrath of her fast-food loving parents.

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Summer and the City

Candace Bushnell · 409 pages

Carrie Bradshaw beleeft haar eerste weken in New York en moet allerlei tegenslagen overwinnen om zich te verzekeren van haar plaats in de Big Apple. Prequel bij 'Sex and the City' en vervolg op 'The Carrie diaries'. Carrie Bradshaw beleeft haar eerste weken in New York en moet allerlei tegenslagen overwinnen om zich te verzekeren van haar plaats in de Big Apple. Prequel bij 'Sex and the City' e

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Goodbye Stranger

Rebecca Stead · 304 pages

As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvaceous Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?"

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Airhead

Meg Cabot · 352 pages

EM WATTS IS GONE. Emerson Watts didn’t even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening. But someone needed to look out for her sister, Frida, whose crush, British heartthrob Gabriel Luna, would be singing and signing autographs there—along with the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard. How was Em to know that disaster would strike, changing her

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Blue Bloods

Melissa de la Cruz · 319 pages

De la Cruz has revamped traditional vampire lore in this story featuring a group of attractive, privileged Manhattan teens who attend a prestigious private school. Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother. Schuyler, her friend Oliver, and their new friend Dylan are treated like outsiders by the clique of popula

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Food Whore: A Novel of Dining and Deceit

Jessica Tom · 344 pages

Food whore (n.): a person who will do anything for food fresh out of college, Tia Monroe has every intention of taking the New York City restaurant scene by storm. But after a coveted internship goes up in smoke, Tia's suddenly just another food lover in the big city. Everything changes when Michael Saltz, a legendary New York Times restaurant critic, lets Tia in on a career-ending secret: he's lo

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The Perfect Find

Tia Williams · 368 pages

Jenna Jones is broke and desperate for a second chance. When she's dumped by her longtime fiance and fired from Darling magazine, she begs for a job at StyleZine.com from her old arch nemesis, Darcy Vale. But Jenny soon realizes she's in over her head. She's working with digital-savvy millennials half her age, has never even "Twittered," and pretends to still be a Fashion Somebody while living a

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Love and Miss Communication

Elyssa Friedland

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Sweet Little Lies

Lauren Conrad · 309 pages

How Sweet it is?Jane Roberts was the average girl next door until she and her best friend, Scarlett Harp, landed their own reality show, L.A. Candy. Now the girls have an all-access pass to Hollywood's hottest everything. But there's more to life on camera than just parties and shopping...When racy photos of Jane are leaked to the press, she finds herself at the center of a tabloid scandal. She tu

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The Takedown

Corrie Wang · 384 pages

In this near-future mystery, Kyla Cheng, the smartest, hottest, most popular student at her Brooklyn high school, gets taken down a peg by a faked sex tape that goes viral.

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Darius Twig

Walter Dean Myers · 201 pages

"Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem"--

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The Knockoff

Lucy Sykes · 345 pages

A "novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor-in-chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twenty-something former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app"--Amazon.com.

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