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Adult-YA Crossover
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Search results: The best new books - Books that are targeted at adults but are likely to be of interest/suitable for teens
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The Chosen One
by Carol Lynch Williams
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: 31 Aug 2010
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| Kyra has grown up in an isolated fundamentalist community never questioning that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle - who already has six wives - she must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever. |
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Mockingjay: The final book of The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
Hardcover: Aug 2010
Paperback: 1 Jan 2010
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| Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins’s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year. |
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Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 10 Aug 2010
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| It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. The Leviathan is a living airship, the most formidable airbeast in the skies of Europe. |
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 1 Aug 2010
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| The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is the immensely engaging and inspiring true account of an enterprising African teenager who constructed a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his entire community. |
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Everything Asian: A Novel
by Sung J. Woo
Hardcover: Apr 2009
Paperback: 20 Jul 2010
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| David King was twelve years old when he moved from Korea to New Jersey. In loosely-connected tales, we follow David as he adapts to his new country. |
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The Lord of Death
by Eliot Pattison
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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| A government bus filled with imprisoned illegal monks has overturned. Two women in an approaching sedan have been killed. Now Shan, an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator, must find the murderer. |
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If I Stay
by Gayle Forman
Hardcover: Apr 2009
Paperback: 6 Apr 2010
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| In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck... |
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Broken Glass Park
by Alina Bronsky
Paperback: 30 Mar 2010
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| An engrossing and thoroughly contemporary novel on what it means to be young, alive, and conscious in these first decades of the new century. |
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