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Wish You Were Here 10 reviews
Barbara Shoup
Flux, 2008
A Great Book for Young Adults and Not-so-Young Adults.
+ Courtesy of Teens Read Too
+ Moving on to adulthood is a tough enough endeavor as is - let alone when your world radically changes.
+ Wish You Were Here
+ Wish You Were Here
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The Fold5 reviews
An Na
Putnam Juvenile, 2008
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
+ Families, beauty, and self-acceptance
+ Provocative
+ Fantastic Teen Book Club REad
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The Spellman Files: A Novel 86 reviews
Lisa Lutz
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Fun and funny San Francisco-based novel
+ Great new Series for Evonovich Fanis
+ Lots of great story lines
+ the Spellman family
+ Genre bender
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Cindy Ella 16 reviews
Robin Palmer
Puffin, 2008
Should be 100 Stars
+ Enchanting YA Review: Cindy Ella
+ New Favorite!!!
+ Couldn't put it down
+ An adorable, ADORABLE book!
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Absolute Brightness5 reviews
James Lecesne
HarperTeen, 2008
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
+ This is such a lovely book!
+ endearing in a sweet manner
+ Very good young adult tale
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The Plain Janes (Minx)11 reviews
Cecil Castellucci
Minx, 2007
The best book I've read all year
+ So good!
+ Empowering
+ I stumbled upon this little gem quite by accident.
+ HERO OF THE DAY
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How Not to Be Popular7 reviews
Jennifer Ziegler
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2008
The Compulsive Reader's Reviews
+ Funny. funny
+ Wonderful
+ The truth about being a loser....
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Year My Sister Got Lucky8 reviews
Aimee Friedman
Point, 2008
Loved This Book
+ A Beautiful Story about Sisterhood
+ I loved this book!
Katya, a.k.a. Katie, and her sister Michaela Wilder are sisters and best friends that were born and raised in New York city. They study ballet and their best friends do the same. Katie is 14 and going to be a freshman in high school, Michaela is 17 and going to be a senior. Michaela is the great ...
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Get Well Soon7 reviews
Julie Halpern
Feiwel & Friends, 2007
Teens will love this
+ Crazy Fun!
+ Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern
+ A must read!
+ This book will definitely help anyone get well soon!
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Bleed10 reviews
Laurie Faria Stolarz
Hyperion, 2006
Really great book!
+ We All Do
+ A fascinating look into people's minds
+ Bleed
+ Intense tale
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Good Enough8 reviews
Paula Yoo
HarperTeen, 2008
Have I told you lately that I love Yoo?
+ Girlfriendology interview with PAULA YOO, author of the fabulous new book
+ Courtesy of Teens Read Too
+ Good Enough by Paula Yoo
+ Better than Good!
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Perfect You10 reviews
Elizabeth Scott
Simon Pulse, 2008
A great book, from a great author!
+ Charming, humorous, and utterly satisfying
+ Entertaining
+ An overall good book
+ The Story Siren Reviews:
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All About Vee3 reviews
C. Leigh Purtill
Razorbill, 2008
Vee for Victory
+ A plus-size girl takes on Hollywood
+ To be or not to be Vee - definitely to be VEE :)
Veronica likes her cozy little hometown in Arizona, but she likes the spotlight even more. After losing her mother in a car accident at a young age, she and her father developed a comfortable routine, and he started dating a nice, quiet lady named May whom he worked with at the library. Meanwhile, ...
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The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems8 reviews
Mel Glenn
Dutton Juvenile, 1997
Student Hostages
+ Psych evals: good for recreational reading, annoying for analyzing as required reading
+ The Taking of Room 114
+ The Taking of Room 114
+ itz okay
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Three Little Words: A Memoir28 reviews
Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Atheneum, 2008
required reading for social work students
+ A story that is changing America
+ disturbing yet hopeful
+ A wonderful book
+ A Must Read.
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After Tupac and D Foster3 reviews
Jacqueline Woodson
Putnam Young Adult, 2008
Friends . . . For Always
+ A tough but heartwarming story from an amazing, award-winning author
+ Courtesy of Teens Read Too
"Everyone's got a purpose and it's just that they gotta figure out what it is and then go have it."
That's what D says anyway.
D Foster is the girl who shows up on their block one day at the end of summer. She says she got off the bus in Queens because she liked the way the trees looked. ...
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Remembering Raquel3 reviews
Vivian Vande Velde
Harcourt Children's Books, 2007
short, moving piece about community
+ How Raquel Is Remembered After Death By Those Who Knew Her In Life Is A Powerful and Surprisingly Good Read
+ Courtesy of Teens Read Too
"How would you be remembered?" That's the tagline on the back of "Remembering Raquel" by Vivian Vande Velde.
In this short, quick novella, Velde paints a picture of 14-year-old Raquel Falcone, who dies in a car accident, from the eyes of her friends, family, classmates, and even the people ...
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Wake25 reviews
Lisa McMann
Simon Pulse, 2008
amazing. i loved this book.
+ Who knew a book about going to sleep could be so exciting?
+ WOW!!!!
+ Surprising!
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Truancy (Tom Doherty Associates Book)3 reviews
Isamu Fukui
Tor Teen, 2008
Mindful of Huxley's Big Brother and Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall"
+ I'm a teacher and I'd love to use this book in school
+ Very promising young writer.
The Mayor rules the city through the subtle use of the Bureaucracy starting with students whose minds and behavior are shaped to the mayor's ideal of perfection. Every pupil is brainwashed until as adults they do the same things to their offspring who are students. This has led to a totalitarian ...
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My Dead Girlfriend, Volume 11 review
Eric Wight
TokyoPop, 2007
A MONSTROUSLY BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY
Several of the blurbs on the back cover of My Dead Girlfriend #1 praise the book as whimsical. Too me, whimsical seems to sell this very unique title from Tokyopop woefully short. I think there is a very strong message in the book that speaks to kids who deal with loneliness and isolation in ...
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