Teen Booklist

  • My most excellent year: a novel of love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park

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    By Kluger, Steve 

    Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.

  • Never Mind! a Twins Novel

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    By Avi 

    Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.

  • No more dead dogs

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    By Korman, Gordon 

    Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

  • Once upon a Marigold

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    By Ferris, Jean 

    A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.

  • Princess diaries

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    By Cabot, Meg 

    Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

  • Reformed vampire support group

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    By Jinks, Catherine 

    Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.

  • Schwa was here

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    By Shusterman, Neal 

    A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.

  • Secret blog of Raisin Rodriguez

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    By Goldschmidt, Judy 

    In a weblog she sends to her best friends back in Berkeley, seventh-grader Raisin Rodriguez chronicles her successes and her more frequent humiliating failures as she attempts to make friends at her new Philadelphia school.

  • Slam

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    By Hornby, Nick 

    At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.

  • Sleeping freshman never lie

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    By Lubar, David 

    While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.