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Openly Straight

Bill Konigsberg · 328 pages

Rafe has been out since eighth grade, and he's fine with it, and so is everyone else. But sometimes he just wants to be a regular guy, not the gay guy. So when he transfers to an all-boys' boarding school in New England, he decides to become "openly straight" instead. The transformation works: Rafe revels in a new group of straight guy friends and the freedom of living without a label. But then he

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Stupid Fast

Geoff Herbach

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Swim the Fly

Don Calame

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Dream a Little Dream

Kerstin Gier · 337 pages

Liv Silver, fifteen, has lived in six countries in eight years and she and her sister yearn for a real home and normalcy, but soon after moving in with her mother's boyfriend in London, Liv's dreams turn bizarre, filled with talking stone statues, mysterious corridors, and strange rituals conducted by four boys who happen to be her new classmates.

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Manners & Mutiny

Gail Carriger · 326 pages

In an alternate England of 1851, Sophronia Temminnick is the only hope for her friends, her school, and all of London when she must put her espionage training to the test to thwart an evil Picklemen plot.

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Hex Hall

Rachel Hawkins · 336 pages

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The Madness Underneath

Maureen Johnson

After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Deveaux has been living in Bristol under the close watch of her parents. So when her therapist suddenly suggests she return to Wexford, Rory jumps at the chance to get back to her friends. But Rory’s brush with the Ripper touched her more than she thought possible: she’s become a human terminus, with the power to eliminate ghost

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A Study in Charlotte

Brittany Cavallaro · 336 pages

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.

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Hana-Kimi, Vol. 2

Hisaya Nakajo · 195 pages

High jump champion Izumi Sano has realized that his slender new roommate Miyuki is a girl, but he's agreed to help keep her secret so she doesn't get kicked out of their all-boys' high school. Now they're becoming good friends, without worrying about "guy" or "girl" stuff-or so Miyuki thought until Izumi kissed her one night! Before Miyuki has time to freak out, in steps a bigger problem: her Amer

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One False Move

Harlan Coben · 352 pages

5th Myron Bolitar Novel She’s smart, beautiful, and she doesn’t need a man to look after. But sports agent Myron Bolitar has come into her life big-time. Now Myron’s next move may be his last…

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Looking for Alaska

John Green · 262 pages

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Ala

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Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead · 352 pages

St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school-it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St. Vladimir's-the very place where they're most in danger...Rose and Lissa b

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Anna and the French Kiss

Stephanie Perkins · 372 pages

Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris--until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have a wa

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Sloppy Firsts

Megan McCafferty · 297 pages

When her best friend moves away, sixteen-year-old Jessica is devastated and finds it difficult to deal with the girls at school, her obsessive parents, and her lack of a love life.

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Touch of Frost

Jennifer Estep · 350 pages

My name is Gwen Frost, and I go to Mythos Academy — a school of myths, magic and warrior whiz kids, where even the lowliest geek knows how to chop off somebody’s head with a sword and Logan Quinn, the hottest Spartan guy in school, also happens to be the deadliest. But lately, things have been weird, even for Mythos. First, mean girl Jasmine Ashton was murdered in the Library of Antiquities. Then

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Babe in Boyland

Jody Gehrman

Natalie, a seventeen-year-old former drama club member who now writes a relationship column for her school newspaper, decides to go undercover as a student at an all-boys boarding school so that she can figure out what guys are really like.

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Carry On

Rainbow Rowell · 519 pages

Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen. That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right. Half the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he sets something on fire. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around wearing

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Play With Me

Anna Katmore, Piper Shelly · 316 pages

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The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot, megu kiyabotsuto · 301 pages

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The Art of Lainey

Paula Stokes · 377 pages

"When Lainey gets dumped, she employs an ancient Chinese warlord's tactics to get her ex-boyfriend back"-- Soccer star Lainey Mitchell is gearing up to spend an epic summer with her amazing boyfriend, Jason, when he suddenly breaks up with her-- no reasons, no warnings, and in public no less! With help from her friend Bianca-- and a copy of The Art of War-- she resolves to do whatever it takes to

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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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Shadowland

Meg Cabot · 287 pages

After moving from New York to California with her newly married mother, 16-year-old Susannah has to cope not only with her new stepbrothers, but also with the handsome ghost sitting in her new bedroom and the angry girl ghost haunting her new school. Suze is a mediator, a liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead people. And they won't leave her alone until she helps t

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