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The Body Institute

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Carol Snow

Claire Martin has some serious body issues.Not much happens in Claire's sleepy beach town, but that's okay. All she wants is to hang out with her best friend, make the high school swim team, and convince Nate, the guy of her dreams, to stop calling her "Dude." And, ohβ€”she'd really, really like to stay in her own skin.Ever since Claire hit her teens, electrical storms have been making her switch bo

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Extras

Scott Westerfeld Β· 417 pages

Now that the world is in a complete cultural renaissance, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but Aya knows that would propel her into celebrity--a status she's not prepared for.

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Runaway

Meg Cabot Β· 310 pages

Sometimes what we ask for isn't what we really need and ends up being far from what we actually want. Emerson Watts is the right-hand girl to big star Nikki, but it seems that there aren't enough positive points about this job to make it truly worthwhile, no matter how it looks to outsiders. Emerson Watts is on the run: from school, from work, from her family, from her friends, from herself. As

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The Rule of Mirrors

Caragh M. O'Brien Β· 418 pages

"Rosie has escaped Forge School but finds herself trapped in the body of another girl"--

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3:59

Gretchen McNeil Β· 359 pages

Betrayed by the two persons she trusts the most, Josie jumps at the chance to trade places with her twin in a parallel universe until Josie becomes trapped in a dangerous world where shadowy creatures feed on human flesh.

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Cycler

Lauren McLaughlin Β· 250 pages

AS FAR AS anyone at her high school knows, Jill McTeague is an average smart girl trying to get her dream date to ask her to the prom.What no one knows, except for Jill's mom and dad, is that for the four days Jill is out of school each month, she is not Jill at all. She is Jack, a genuine boy--complete with all the parts. Jack lives his four days per month in the solitude of Jill's room. But his

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Dead Girl Dancing

Linda Joy Singleton

High-schooler Amber's second assignment as a "Temp Lifer" takes her into the body of her boyfriend's twenty-one-year-old sister Shari, who has shut herself off from family and friends and gotten involved with a "Dark Lifer."

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The Memory Key

Liana Liu Β· 370 pages

"In the not-so-distant future, everyone is implanted with a memory key to stave off a virulent form of Alzeimer's. Lora Mint fears her memories of her deceased mother are fading, but when her Memory Key is damaged she has perfect recall--of everything-- which brings her mother's memory vividly back, but may also drive Lora mad"--

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The Host

Stephenie Meyer Β· 648 pages

The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.Wanderer, the invadi

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I Will Fear No Evil

Robert A. Heinlein Β· 414 pages

Ideas about our identity. Rich old man who is dying has his mind transplanted into a young woman's body. Both have to learn to live together.

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7 Souls

Barnabas Miller, Jordan Orlando

Inexplicable things have been happening to Manhattan socialite Mary since she awoke on her seventeenth birthday, and by the end of the day she has been killed, inhabited the bodies of seven people close to her, and faced some ugly truths about herself.

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Another Day

David Levithan Β· 336 pages

"Rhiannon is disappointed that her neglectful boyfriend Justin doesn't remember the one perfect day they shared, until a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person... wasn't Justin at all"--

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Switched

R.L. Stine Β· 160 pages

Nicole and her best friend Lucy decide to switch bodies at the Changing Wall in the woods, but when Lucy's parents are murdered, Nicole finds herself trapped as Lucy--and the primary suspect.

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I Am Not Jessica Chen

Ann Liang Β· 320 pages

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Pretty Face

Mary Hogan Β· 224 pages

When an overweight high school student from Santa Monica spends the summer in Italy, she learns to relish life and understand the true meaning of beauty.

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Girls Like Me

Lola St.Vil Β· 320 pages

Fifteen-year-old Shay is trying to cope with being overweight and getting bullied in school, but when she falls in love with mysterious Blake, insecure Shay needs the help of her two best friends to make love prevail.

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Only Ever Yours

Louise O'Neill Β· 403 pages

Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Every Yours women are no longer born naturally, girls (called "eves") are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions--

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My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters

Sydney Salter

In Reno, Nevada, seventeen-year-old Jory Michaels is self-conscious because she does not fit in with her "beautiful" family, so while her two best friends plan on a summer spent discovering their passions before their senior year of high school, she gets a job and saves money for plastic surgery.

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Skinny: She was starving to fit in...

Laura L. Smith

When the pressures of having good grades, good friends, a position on the dance team, and the perfect boyfriend become too much for Melissa, she turns to strict dieting to regain control.

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You and Me and Him

Kris Dinnison Β· 288 pages

Maggie Bowers thinks she knows what to expect her junior year of high school--yeah, it would be nice if her mother didn't care so much about her weight, but at least she has Nash, her out-of-the-closet best friend and a cool afterschool job at the local record store. But when Tom moves to town at the start of the school year they have something unexpected in common--feelings for the same guy. Up u

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson Β· 272 pages

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Future Perfect

Jen Larsen Β· 320 pages

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Mindwalker

A.J. Steiger Β· 397 pages

At seventeen, Lain Fisher has already aced the Institute's elite training program for Mindwalkers, therapists who use a direct neural link to erase a patient's traumatic memories. A prodigy and the daughter of a renowned scientist-whose unexplained death left her alone in the world-Lain is driven by the need to save others. When Steven, a troubled classmate, asks her to wipe a horrific childhood e

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Shade, the Changing Girl, Volume 1: Earth Girl Made Easy

Cecil Castellucci

"From writer Cecil Castellucci and artist Marley Zarcone, SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL VOL. 1: EARTH GIRL MADE EASY--a bold new reimagining of one of comics' maddest and most memorable characters and part of the DC's Young Animal imprint led by rock-star Gerard Way. Loma Shade may be from another planet, but she's still like every other twentysomething who feels that their life is going nowhere fast.

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