Summary: At fifteen, a girl moves from a small town in Ohio to Panama while her father takes part in building the Panama Canal. Panama with its lush rainforests and myriad of people is the perfect place for her desires to be fulfilled. Then she meets Frederico, a Spanish aristocrat who is working as a digger, one of the masses who toils daily in the heat and the dust and the danger of the canal. They begin a romance and he awakens her body as well as her soul.
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Summary: Fifteen-year-old Blake has a girlfriend and a friend who’s a girl. One of them loves him; the other one needs him. When he snapped a picture of a street person for his photography homework, Blake never dreamed that the woman in the photo was his friend Marissa’s long-lost meth addicted mom. In a tangle of life and death, love and loyalty, Blake will emerge with a more sharply defined snapshot of himself.
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Summary: After five months of sheer absolute craziness I was going back to being plain old background D.J. In photographs of course I’m always in the background . . .But it turns out other folks have big plans for D.J. Like her coach. College scouts. All the town hoops fans. A certain Red Bend High School junior who’s keen for romance and karaoke. Not to mention Brian Nelson, who she should not be thinking about! Who she is done with, thank you very much. But who keeps showing up anyway . . .
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Summary: After six months in the Maryland Mental Health Unit, Kyra Sellers, a.k.a. Goth Girl, is going home. Unfortunately, she’s about to find out that while she was away, she lost track of more than time. Kyra is back in black, feeling good, and ready to make up with the only person who’s ever appreciated her for who she really is. But then she sees him. Fanboy. Transcended from everything he was into someone she barely recognizes. And the anger and memories come rushing back.
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Summary: When seventeen-year-old Leigh changes high schools his senior year to help his stepsister, he finds himself falling in love with her emotional disturbed friend, although he is still attached to a girl back home.
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Summary: Anax, a dedicated student historian, lives far in the future—the distant past events of the 21st century are taught in classrooms. The world of that era, was ravaged by plague. Only the island Republic remained stable and ordered, but at the cost of personal freedom. Anax, hoping her scholarly achievements will gain her entrance to the Academy, has extensively studied Adam Forde, a brilliant and rebellious citizen of the Republic who fought for human dignity. To join the Academy’s ranks, Anax undergoes a test and as the examination progresses, it becomes clear that there may be more to Adam—and the Academy—than she had imagined.
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Summary: In this contemporary retelling of “Beauty and the Beast,” a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a gorgeous girl whose mother has recently died form an instant connection when they meet on their first day as new students.
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Summary: Moving from Chicago to tiny Radisson, Georgia, awakens latent psychic powers in sixteen-year-old Kendall, who finds herself communicating with ghosts and forming a ragtag ghost hunting team to research and battle a belligerent spirit that is trying to harm her father. 352 p., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Summary: A girl is transformed, through instruction in life at court, determination, and magic, from sullen, pudgy, graceless Ben into Crown Princess Benevolence, a fit ruler of the kindgom of Montagne as it faces war with neighboring Drachensbett. 344 p., Houghton Mifflin.
