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Kit an American Girl (6 Book Set)

July 20, 2008 – 6:33 pm

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Valerie Tripp
Publisher: American Girl

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Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

June 13, 2008 – 9:32 am

Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: Leonard Sax
Publisher: Basic Books

Product Description
Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. As for young men, it turns out the film Failure to Launch is not far from the truth. [...]

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The Clique Summer Collection #3: Alicia (Clique Series)

June 2, 2008 – 10:05 am

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Publisher: Poppy

Product Description
Alicia takes on Mission Spalfa: Spanish Alpha! Back in Spain to visit her relatives, Alicia discovers that Spain’s newest pop sensation ¡Ignacio! is searching for a true Spanish beauty to star in his new hit-single video. She can’t believe her luck! If Alicia is cast as a true Spanish [...]

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Lock and Key

May 31, 2008 – 7:40 pm

Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

Product Description
Ruby, where is your mother?
Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, shes been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return.
Thats how she comes to live with Cora, [...]

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Clique, The: Invasion of the Boy Snatchers - Book #4 (Clique Series)

May 5, 2008 – 2:04 pm

Rating: (91 reviews)
Author: Lisi Harrison
Publisher: Poppy

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Clique Summer Collection #4:Kristen (Clique Series)

May 2, 2008 – 8:34 pm

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Publisher: Poppy

Product Description
Kristen sets sail on the Love Boat… With the rest of the Pretty Committee scattered across the globe, Kristen is stuck in summer school at OCD, making good on her scholarship commitments. No sleepover horse camp, no Hawaiian spa, no Spanish vacation, not even a trip to Orlando. But when [...]

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Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants)

April 21, 2008 – 5:45 am

Rating: (123 reviews)
Author: Ann Brashares
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Ann Brashares has created a wonderful, heartfelt series for teens (and adults) around a pair of pants. In her breakout bestseller, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Brashares introduced readers to four girls, Lena, Bridget, Carmen, and Tibby, and to the magical [...]

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Burned

April 18, 2008 – 4:46 pm

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
Raised in a religious — yet abusive — family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions — about God, a woman’s role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of [...]

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The Big Book Of Help (American Girl Library)

April 15, 2008 – 3:21 am

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Nancy Holyoke
Publisher: American Girl

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Clique Summer Collection #1: Massie (Clique Series)

March 25, 2008 – 6:25 pm

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Publisher: Poppy

Book Description
Massie gets BE-yoo-tiful: After getting thrown out of horse camp, Massie’s parents force her to take on a summer job. Not one to walk strangers’ dogs or babysit, Massie stumbles upon the perfect position while flipping through Teen Vogue poolside-she’ll be a sales rep for be pretty, the high-end cosmetics [...]

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

February 12, 2008 – 4:00 am

Rating: (606 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Laurel Leaf

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The year is 1963, and self-important Byron Watson is the bane of his younger brother Kenny’s existence. Constantly in trouble for one thing or another, from straightening his hair into a “conk” to lighting fires to freezing his lips to the [...]

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Adolescence

February 11, 2008 – 11:30 pm

Author: Laurence Steinberg
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Book Description
Adolescence, 8th edition by Laurence Steinberg has been thoroughly updated to reflect current findings in the field of adolescent development. In this edition, the author continues to utilize the effective combination of a friendly writing style, thorough research and a contextual approach that emphasizes adolescence in contemporary [...]

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