It’s Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini brings the reader into the life of Craig Gilner, age 15, as he is accepted into the prestigious New York City high school, Executive Pre Professional. Tormented by the stress brought on to him by the extreme amount of work required to achieve what he...
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Romance
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Outpost
Deuce is finally safe. Safe from the ravenous monsters she calls ‘Freaks’, safe from the horrors of betrayal, banishment, and constant danged. The question is; why is she so unhappy? Deuce no longer has to fight at all times simply too stay alive. She used to live underground in a small civilization known as...
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Thirteen Reasons Why
“Hello, boys and girls. Hannah Baker here. Live and in stereo. No return engagements. No encore. And this time, absolutely no requests.I hope you are ready, because I am about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you’re listening to these tapes, you’re one of...
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Everything for a Dog
Three story lines weave together in this story of love for one dog. Bone, narrates throughout the story, first telling of his faint memories of being a stray puppy. He grows up a stray mutt that lives with his mother in sister. One day his mother doesn’t return to him and his sister, and...
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Just the Way You Are
“I can’t die yet, honey. I haven’t finished counting the stars and don’t you know my darling girl, that you will never be alone, because there is always love, and love lives forever.” In the book, Just the Way You Are, by Barbara Freethy Sam and Ali has a life together that they share...
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requiem
“It’s time. The rifle shots explode simultaneously in the distance-a dozen of them at least-and just like that, we are moving as one.” Lena Tiddle has been in the Wilds for nearly a year now. Throughout that year she has made herself believe that the boy that she loved enough to cross over to...
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Diary Of A Vampeen
“I knew he was different from the moment I laid eyes on him. Not different in a paranormal or supernatural sense; just different. I could tell he wasn’t superficial like the majority of high school students. He had a fitter grasp on life than most of us get. I didn’t understand how or why.”...
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Homefront
Margaret Ann Motley’s sister is about to go away for college, so she will finally be able to get her own room. Margaret doesn’t pay much attention to what is happening around the world. Little does she know, Margaret’s cousin is living in the middle of the Blitz in London and she and her...
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The Sky is Everywhere
Lennie and Bailey are sisters but are complete opposites. Lennie is a quiet musical nerd who hides behind her sister’s greatness. Their mother, Paige, left and never came back when they were very young, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother and uncle. Bailey and Lennie have their own beliefs of why their...
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Great and Terrible Beauty
Book one in the Gemma-Doyal Trilogy. Gemma, 16, has had an unconventional upbringing in India, until the day she foresees her mother’s death in a black, swirling vision that turns out to be true. Sent back to England, she is enrolled at Spence, a girls’ academy with a mysterious burned-out East Wing. There Gemma...
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