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• American Born Chinese

  Yang, Gene Luen,

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  This Printz Award-winning graphic novel features three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the culture around them as well as the culture in their homes.

• The Skin I'm in

  Flake, Sharon G.

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  Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Chbosky, Stephen,

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  A cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory as it follows observant "wallflower" Charlie's course through the strange world of first dates, family…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scott Pilgrim. Vol. 1, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

  O'Malley, Bryan Lee,

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  Scott Pilgrim is 23 years old, he's in a rock band, he's "between jobs," and he's dating a cute girl. His life is totally sweet, until a seriously mind-blowing girl named Ramona Flowers starts appearing in his dreams and at parties. Will Scott's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Alaska

  Green, John, 1977-,

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  Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

• Boy Meets Boy

  Levithan, David,

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  This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school where cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance was formed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sabriel

  Nix, Garth

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  Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.

• I Capture the Castle

  Smith, Dodie, 1896-1990

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  The tale of an eccentric and impoverished English family whose home is a ruined 14th century castle. The story is presented in the form of a diary by the family's teen daughter. By the author of The One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

• If You Come Softly

  Woodson, Jacqueline,

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  After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.

• The Princess Diaries

  Cabot, Meg

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  Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

• The Hunger Games

  Collins, Suzanne,

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  In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Mango-shaped Space

  Mass, Wendy, 1967-

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  Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the loss of something important to her.

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

  Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

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  Presented as the diary of hydrocephalic 14-year-old cartoonist and Spokane Indian, Junior's desperate hope of escaping the reservation fills his cartoons and the book's pages. He transfers to a public school 22 miles away in a rich farm town where…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book Thief

  Zusak, Markus,

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  Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

• Twilight

  Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-

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  When Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

• Weetzie Bat

  Block, Francesca Lia,

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  Weetzie, now 23, hated high school but loves her Hollywood home. She is the offbeat girl no one gets, until she meets Dirk, who embraces her quirks and his own identity as a gay man. When they each meet a partner, they all move in together, make…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Giver

  Lowry, Lois

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  Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the dystopian society in which he lives.

• Speak

  Anderson, Laurie Halse,

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  Melinda is just starting high school, already an outcast, marked as the girl who called the police to break up the big end-of-the-summer party. No one knows why she made the call, and even Melinda struggles to articulate that she was raped at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Outsiders

  Hinton, S. E.,

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  Hinton's first novel, written at the age of 16, has since introduced generations of readers to Ponyboy, a so-called Greaser from the wrong side of the tracks, who grapples with both the struggle to stay together with his brothers and the fierce…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forever

  Blume, Judy,

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  This ground-breaking Judy Blume novel is the story of two high school seniors who believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever. It was a more mature book for her, still taking on subjects of interest to young readers in her direct…Read moreRead more of this annotation