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  • Tangerine

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    By Bloor, Edward  Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

  • Teen Ansgt? Naaah...A Quasi-Autobiography

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    By Vizzini, Ned  A collection of essays wrtten by the author from age fifteen to seventeen in which he shares impressions of school, sports, cool people, boring people, friends, family, money, music, and obsessions.

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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    By Alexie, Sherman  Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

  • The Notebook Girls: Four Friends, One Diary, Real Life

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    By Multiple Authors  During the second half of their freshman year at Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, four girls kept a shared notebook that served as a joint diary and a compendium of letters to one another.

  • The Skin I'm In

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    By Flake, Sharon  Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

  • Things I know about love

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    By Le Vann, Kate 

    Livia Stowe's past experiences with love have been nothing but disappointing, but all that is about to change.  After years of illness, she's boarding a plane for the first time to spend the summer in Princeton, New Jersey, with her brother who's studying abroad.  This Brit is determined to make the most of her American summer and to record every moment of it in her private blog.

  • TTYL

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    By Myracle, Lauren  Chronicles, in "instant message" format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they begin tenth grade. (Sequel: TTFN)

  • Undercover

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    By Kephart, Beth  High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing while going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parent's marital problems draw her out of herself.

  • Vampire Diaries

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    By Smith, L.J. 

    Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants. Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt his past. Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him. Determined to have Elena, he'd kill to possess her. Collected here in one volume for the first time, volumes one and two of The Vampire Diaries, the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.

  • Vlad the Undead

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    By Lutzen, Hannah  The story of Vlad Dracula as related by the captain of a 19th-century sailing ship, and what happens to a young woman reading that account in the late 20th century. As Lucia reads the account of the voyage, she becomes increasingly obsessed with the character of Vlad. Written as a series of manuscripts, letters, and diary entries.