Tag Archives: Simon Pulse

Crank

Rating: (108 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina — she’s fearless. Through a boy, [...]

Night World No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate (Night World)

Author: L.J. Smith
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters — they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World.In Dark Angel, Gillian is saved from drowning by her guardian angel. [...]

Impulse

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

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Sometimes you don’t wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same.Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act — suicide.Vanessa is beautiful and [...]

Two-way Street

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Lauren Barnholdt
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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there are two sides toevery breakup.This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love. Sure, they were an unlikely high school couple. But they clicked; it worked. They’re even going to the same college, and driving cross-country together for orientation.Then Jordan dumps Courtney — for [...]

Burned

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 [...]

Legacy (Private)

Author: Kate Brian
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
The price of power…After Cheyenne Martin’s death, everyone at Easton Academy is struggling to recover from yet another tragedy–especially the girls of Billings Hall. With Cheyenne gone, they need to elect a new leader. And who better than Reed Brennan, the ultimate Billings Girls?As the new Billings president, [...]

The House of the Scorpion

Rating: (294 reviews)
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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Fields of white opium poppies stretch away over the hills, and uniformed workers bend over the rows, harvesting the juice. This is the empire of Matteo Alacran, a feudal drug lord in the country of Opium, which lies between the United States [...]

The Dark Is Rising (The Dark Is Rising Sequence)

Rating: (153 reviews)
Author: Susan Cooper
Publisher: Simon Pulse
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“When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone; Five will return, and one go alone.”
With these mysterious words, Will Stanton discovers on his 11th [...]

Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1)

Rating: (205 reviews)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
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Playing on every teen’s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The “New [...]

Specials (Uglies)

Rating: (59 reviews)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
“Special Circumstances”:The words have sent chills down Tally’s spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor — frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally’s [...]

Pretties (Uglies Trilogy, Book 2)

Rating: (81 reviews)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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Gorgeous. Popular.Perfect. Perfectly wrong.Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she’s completely popular. It’s everything she’s ever wanted.But beneath all the fun — the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the [...]

Uglies (Boxed Set): Uglies, Pretties, Specials (Uglies)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
This arc of Scott Westerfeld’s UGLIES trilogy follows the high-tech adventures of Tally Youngblood. As an ugly, then a pretty, and finally a special, Tally works to take down a society created to function with perfect-looking people who never have a chance to think [...]

I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust

Rating: (159 reviews)
Author: Livia Bitton-Jackson
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie

Rating: (54 reviews)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she’s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system.But there’s something eerily beguiling [...]

Inner Circle (Private)

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Kate Brian, Julian Peploe
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
Reed Brennan arrived at Easton Academy expecting to find an idyllic private school experience — challenging classes, adorably preppy boys, and a chance to create a new life for herself. Instead, she discovered lies, deception, blackmail, and…murder. But, thankfully, the killers were [...]

Extras (Uglies)

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
FameIt’s a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules, the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. “Tech-heads” flaunt their latest gadgets, “kickers” spread gossip and trends, and “surge monkeys” are hooked on extreme [...]

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale

Rating: (164 reviews)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon Pulse
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Sixteen-year-old Kaye Fierch is not human, but she doesn’t know it. Sure, she knows she’s interacted with faeries since she was little–but she never imagined she was one of them, her blond Asian human appearance only a magically crafted cover-up for her [...]

The First Part Last

Rating: (80 reviews)
Author: Angela Johnson
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
Bobby’s a classic urban teenager. He’s restless. He’s impulsive. But the thing that makes him different is this: He’s going to be a father. His girlfriend, Nia, is pregnant, and their lives are about to change forever. Instead of spending time with friends, they’ll [...]

The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness)

Rating: (114 reviews)
Author: Tamora Pierce
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
“Let her prove herself worthy as a man.”Newly knighted, Alanna of Trebond seeks adventure in the vast desert of Tortall. Captured by fierce desert dwellers, she is forced to prove herself in a duel to the death — either she will be killed or [...]

Go Ask Alice

Rating: (65 reviews)
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
January 24thAfter you’ve had it, there isn’t even life without drugs….It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and [...]