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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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“What’s Happening to Me?” A guide to puberty

July 19, 2008 – 7:44 am

Rating: (30 reviews)
Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Lyle Stuart

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Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)

July 1, 2008 – 11:34 pm

Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Product Description
Twilight tempted the imagination. New Moon made readers thirsty for more. Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the book that everyone has been waiting for…. Breaking Dawn, the final book in the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga, will take your breath [...]

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The It Girl #6: Tempted (It Girl)

June 17, 2008 – 10:34 am

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Cecily von Ziegesar
Publisher: Poppy

Product Description
When Jenny Humphrey confessed to a crime she didn’t commit-starting the rampant fire that burned down Miller Farm-she thought her life at elite Waverly Academy was over. But her last-minute escape from expulsion made her the most talked-about girl in school. What nobody knows [...]

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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

Author:
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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Ink Exchange

May 15, 2008 – 3:46 am

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Melissa Marr
Publisher: HarperTeen

Product Description
Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey [...]

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Two-way Street

May 6, 2008 – 10:51 am

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

Product Description
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 [...]

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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

By admin | Posted in Teens | Also tagged Ages 9-12, Archive, Bargain Books, Being a Teen, Binding (feature_browse-bin), Children, Custom Stores, Dating & Intimacy, Death, Drug Use & Abuse, Family, Format (binding), Homosexuality, Lisi Harrison, Look Inside Teen Books, Mass Market, Paperback, Poppy, Pregnancy, Prejudice, Printed Books, Runaway & Homeless, Sexual Abuse, Social Issues, Specialty Stores, Suicide, Teens, Trade, Trip, Violence | Comments (5)

The Outsiders

May 4, 2008 – 1:26 pm

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: SE Hinton
Publisher: Puffin

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Pretty Little Liars #4: Unbelievable (Pretty Little Liars)

May 3, 2008 – 8:59 am

Author: Sara Shepard
Publisher: HarperTeen

Product Description
Behind Rosewood’s grand façades, where the air smells like apples and Chanel No. 5 and infinity pools sparkle in landscaped backyards, nothing is as it seems. It was here, back in seventh grade, that five best friends shared everything—Seven jeans, MAC makeup, and their deepest, darkest secrets. For [...]

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Clique Summer Collection #4:Kristen (Clique Series)

May 2, 2008 – 8:34 pm

Author:
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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Stargirl (Readers Circle)

April 14, 2008 – 5:39 pm

Rating: (852 reviews)
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Laurel Leaf

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“She was homeschooling gone amok.” “She was an alien.” “Her parents were circus acrobats.” These are only a few of the theories concocted to explain Stargirl Caraway, a new 10th grader at Arizona’s Mica Area High School who wears pioneer dresses and [...]

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Eclipse Special Edition (The Twilight Saga)

March 30, 2008 – 8:49 pm

Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Product Description
In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn’t want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn’t have kept from me…It was never going to end, was it?Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon [...]

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Clique Summer Collection #1: Massie (Clique Series)

March 25, 2008 – 6:25 pm

Author:
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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