How would you feel if you were hated and considered an animalistic clone? Or how would you feel knowing that you weren’t born, but harvested in a lab? Or even knowing that the only reason you exist is to give organs. This is the life of Matteo, Matt as he’s called. At first this...
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The House of the Scorpion
Girl At Sea
Clio Ford has everything planned perfectly. She’s going to spend her summer working at Galaxy, an art store near her house. Not only will this satisfy her artsy obsession, she’s also become work partners with Ollie, her crush-at-first-sight when he’d been ringing up her purchases at Galaxy a while back. Now they were friends...
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Eclipse
Senior year in Forks is full of choices and fear for Bella. With graduation approaching, she is in the midst of danger due to the vampire with an obsession for revenge. There has also been linked murders near by, and is most likely related to Bella. There would be no hope for her if...
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Shadow Kiss
Her world will change forever. Rose Hathaway, Shadow-kissed guardian to Vasilisa Dragomir, is getting more than she’d bargained for. Lissa (Vasilisa) is a moroi—a full fledged vampire with an unusual power called spirit. Rose is a dhampir—a half human, half vampire. Ever since she was born, she’s been training to be a guardian—specifically her...
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Crank
Kristina is the perfect daughter, good grades, always does what she’s told until she meets the monster. When she is forced to visit her dad for three weeks in the summer, she is introduced to meth through a boy named Adam. She discovers that the way she feels on Crank is great, and decides...
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Glass
By eighteen, Khristina is already a single parent with no job, whose living at home with her mother. As far as anyone knows, Khristina is “attempting” to get her life back together. And for a while she is. That is, before the monster comes knocking at her door. Will she fight for her and...
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Runner
Chance Taylor worries about things kids his age don’t usually worry about. He worries about the mortgage fees, the food bills, the gas bills, the rent, and with a dad who’s a drunk and can’t hold a job for over a week these things just wont go away with wishful thinking. Chance’s dad also...
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Cut
For all humans, life is never perfect. Sometimes you may have a disorder, or a problem that just won’t go away, keeping you from reality. In the novel, Cut, by Patricia McCormick, Callie has a problem of her own. She likes to cut herself, keeping the scars on her wrists as memories. Once Callie...
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Touching Spirit Bear
Cole Matthew was given the choice of prison or the Native America Circle of Justice when he smashed Peter Driscal’s skull into the pavement. This was not the first time that Cole had been threatened with this punishment for his abusive behavior. He often got into fights and was always stealing from this place...
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The Lost Boy
Coming out of a life of violence and mistreatment, David, a young, sweet boy, looks for love as he tries to forget his rough past. In the previous book, A Child Called “It,” Dave explained his life threatening childhood, with events that are completely heart shattering. Now in The Lost Boy, his life has...
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