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| Does My Head Look Big in This? |
Abdel-Fattah, Randa |
YA ABDEL |
| Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style. |
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| Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Adams, Douglas |
F ADAMS |
Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.
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| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part... |
Alexie, Sherman |
YA ALEXIE |
| Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. |
| The Ex Games |
Echols, Jennifer |
YA ECHOLS |
| When Hayden wins the girls' division of a local snowboarding competition, her ex-boyfriend Nick claims she wouldn't have a chance against a guy, prompting a battle of the sexes . |
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| The Princess Bride |
Goldman, William |
FIC GOLDMAN |
| Goldman introduces a brilliant cocktail of characters including the most beautiful woman in the world, the gentle giant, the avenging swordsman, the evil Sicilian, the torture-loving Count, and the King's ex-Miracle Man, to weave an adventure story made complete by its healthy portions of romance, wit, and heroism. |
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| Much Ado About Grubstake |
Ferris, Jean |
YA FERRIS |
| When two city folks arrive in the depressed mining town of Grubstake, Colorado, in 1888, sixteen-year-old orphaned Arley tries to discover why they want to buy the supposedly worthless mines in the area. |
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| The Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
Kinney, Jeff |
SERIES: DIARY |
| Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship. |
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| Son of the Mob |
Korman, Gordon |
YA KORMAN |
| Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent. |
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| King Dork |
Portman, Frank |
YA PORTMAN |
| High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life. |
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| Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal... |
Rennison, Louise |
YA RENNISON |
| Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie. |
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| The Doom Machine |
Teague, Mark |
YA TEAGUE |
| When a spaceship lands in the small town of Vern Hollow in 1956, juvenile delinquent Jack Creedle and prim, studious Isadora Shumway form an unexpected alliance as they try to keep a group of extraterrestrials from stealing eccentric Uncle Bud's space travel machine. |
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| Leaving the Bellweathers |
Venuti, Kristin Clark |
YA VENUTI |
| In Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay, put-upon butler Tristan Benway writes a memoir of his years spent working for the chaotic and eccentric Bellweather family in their lighthouse, as he prepares for his long-awaited departure from indentured servitude. |
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| Spanking Shakespeare |
Wizner, Jake |
YA CD WIZNER |
| Shakespeare Shapiro navigates a senior year fraught with feelings of insecurity while writing the memoir of his embarrassing life, worrying about his younger brother being cooler than he is, and having no prospects of ever getting a girlfriend. |
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