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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional books for teens and young adults.
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The Possibilities of Sainthood
by Donna Freitas
Hardcover: Aug 2008
Paperback: 17 Aug 2010
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| Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia’s prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen... |
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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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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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Bird Lake Moon
by Kevin Henkes
Hardcover: Apr 2008
Paperback: 23 Mar 2010
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| When two boys come to spend the summer at Bird Lake, each is reeling from his own personal tragedy. Both boys arrive scarred and fragile, but as they become friends, the sharp edges of their lives smooth out and, slowly, they are able to start to heal. |
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Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution
by Moying Li
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 16 Mar 2010
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| This inspiring memoir following the Author from age twelve to twenty-two, illuminating a complex, dark time in China’s history as it tells the compelling story of one girl’s difficult but determined coming-of-age during the Cultural Revolution. |
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Wintergirls
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 9 Mar 2010
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| In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson explores a girl's descent into the powerful vortex of anorexia, and her painful path toward recovery. |
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Taken
by Edward Bloor
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 8 Dec 2009
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| By 2035 the rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and kidnapping has become a major growth industry in the United States. The children of privilege live in secure, gated communities and are escorted to and from school by armed guards. But the security around Charity Meyers has broken down... |
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Runemarks
by Joanne Harris
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 13 Oct 2009
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| Master storyteller Joanne Harris has created a magical and epic romp– a fresh, funny, and wonderfully irreverent new take on the old Norse tales, sure to be enjoyed by readers young and old. |
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