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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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Along for the Ride

Sarah Dessen

It’s been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents’ divorce—or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live.A job in a clothes boutique introduces Auden to the world of girls: their talk, their friendship, their crushes. She missed out on all that, too busy being the perfec

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So Not Happening

Jenny B. Jones

Forced to move from Manhattan to an Oklahoma farm when her mother remarries, sixteen-year-old Bella relies on her faith while investigating a deadly, secret organization for the school newspaper, as she slowly realizes how shallow and spoiled she has been.

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The Mystery of Hollow Places

Rebecca Podos · 305 pages

A mystery writer's daughter sets out to find her missing father and, along the way, begins to understand the loneliness that has gripped them both since her mother abandoned them years before.

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Oh. My. Gods.

Tera Lynn Childs

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Geek High

Piper Banks · 256 pages

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Unearthly

Cynthia Hand

Sixteen-year-old Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that danger and heartbreak come with her powers.

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Vampire Crush

A.M. Robinson

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Angelfall

Susan Ee

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Marked

P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast · 320 pages

The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampires have always existed. In this first book in the series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire--that is, if she makes it through the Change. Not all of those who are chosen do. It's tough to beg

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The Naturals

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 308 pages

Young Adult thriller book series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes about a classified FBI program that recruits teenagers with exceptional abilities to solve cold cases. The protagonist, Cassie Hobbes, joins other gifted teens, including a profiler and a statistician, in this program. The series combines suspenseful crime-solving with personal danger as the Naturals find themselves in a lethal game of cat a

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Cinnamon

V.C. Andrews · 202 pages

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Did I Mention I Need You?

Estelle Maskame

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Chanda's Secrets

Allan Stratton · 193 pages

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House of Marionne

J. Elle · 432 pages

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The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back

Sariah Wilson · 222 pages

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Wild Cards

Simone Elkeles · 344 pages

Told from two viewpoints, Derek Fitzpatrick, kicked out of boarding school, must move with his stepmother to her childhood home in Illinois, where he meets Ashtyn Parker, who may be able to achieve her dream of a football scholarship with bad boy Derek's help.

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My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century

Rachel Harris · 260 pages

About-to-be-sixteen Cat Crawford is expecting an extravagant party thrown by her soon-to-be stepmother and well-meaning father. However, her expectations take a backseat when she time travels to sixteenth-century Italy.

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Including Alice

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Nick Vaccaro · 277 pages

First semester of 10th Grade (Sylvia and Ben get married. Alice contemplates the value of social customs.)

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How to Build a House

Dana Reinhardt · 227 pages

HARPER'S DAD IS getting a divorce from her beloved stepmother, Jane. Even worse, Harper has lost her stepsister, Tess; the divorce divides them. Harper decides to escape by joining a volunteer program to build a house for a family in Tennessee who lost their home in a tornado. Not that she knows a thing about construction.Soon she's living in a funky motel and working long days in blazing heat wit

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Shadows

Robin McKinley · 368 pages

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The Case of the Missing Marquess

Nancy Springer · 216 pages

When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess, fleeing murderous villains, and trying to elude her shrewd older brothers—all while attempting to piece

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Ginny Moon

Benjamin Ludwig · 384 pages

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The Last Thing He Told Me

Laura Dave · 320 pages

**The "page-turning, exhilarating" (PopSugar) and "heartfelt thriller" (Real Simple) about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life—until he disappears.** Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, w

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