In a small town in Texas called Odessa, the Permian Panthers football program is something to be extremely proud of. Everybody wants to be part of this legendary team, which has a chance of going to the state championships and bringing home a state title. In Booby (James) Miles case, it wasn’t just a...
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Friday Night Lights
Vampire Beach: Initiation
Even after months in Malibu, Jason is still having trouble excepting the fact that most his friends are vampires. He puts in all his effort to make it work, and it does for a while until all he’s worked for seems to come tumbling down because his best friend shows up at his house...
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TTYL
The “winsome threesome” have been the best of friends since seventh grade. Now that they’re in tenth grade, Angela, Zoe and Maddie are determined to have the best school experience of their lives until some unfortunate events. The guy of Angela’s dreams turns out to be the wrong one, Zoe’s relationship with her teacher...
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Bull Catcher
Neil, also known as Bull, tells us of his journey through baseball, and also high school. Bull’s best friend, Jeff, also loves baseball. They both live for the sport everyday of their lives, and also want to go pro. This book takes place in Shipley, Wisconsin. In the book, Bull lives with his grandfather,...
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Halo: Contact Harvest
Halo: Contact Harvest, written by Joseph Staten, takes place on the world Harvest, a farming colony on the edge of human controlled space. Harvest is a peaceful and prosperous colony that isn’t very densely populated to say the least. This undersized world is protected by a weak militia, men who believed that they would...
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Pet Sematary
Dr. Louis Creed and his wife and two kids, Ellie and Gage, move from Chicago to Maine for Dr. Creed’s new job at the university. They move into a nice house with plenty of space for their children. They also got new neighbors, the Crandalls. Judd Crandall, who later becomes a family friend, tells...
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Legacy
In Legacy, it’s Reed Brennan’s second year at Easton Academy. After almost transferring back to her old school, Reed decides to stay. Easton brought almost nothing she had hoped for, and was the complete opposite of what she had imagined. She came with hopes of new friends, an amazing education, and basically a new...
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Life in the Fat Lane
High school is supposed to be the best years of your life…Especially when it comes down to being in the wealthy, gorgeous, popular crowd. What else is there to ask for? When you’re perfect, you got everything. Not a problem in the world. right? In Life in the Fat Lane, by Cherie Bennett, Lara...
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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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Black Mirror
Frances is a sixteen year old girl who spends most of her time trying to hide herself from the rest of her world no matter where she is. She attends a boarding school where she has no friends, and at home she only has her dad and her mother. There is also her brother,...
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