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Catching Fire (Thorndike Press Large Print Literacy Bridge Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Suzanne Collins
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press (2009, Sep 2nd).
Pages: 499
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. more
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TTFN (Internet Girls)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Lauren Myracle
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (2006, Mar 1st).
Pages: 240
Sequel to the New York Times best-seller ttylThis sequel to the breakout bestseller, ttyl (a novel told entirely in instant messages), follows Maddie, Zoe, and Angela through their next year in high school, 11th grade. There's trouble and lots of IMs ahead for the Winsome Threesome. Angela has just found out that her family is moving to El Cerrito, California, and she seriously doesn't know how she'll survive without her best friends. Maddie makes some really bad moves with Clive, a pot-smoking hipster who wants to be "friends with benefits." And Zoe finds herself falling for Doug, the sweet poet who has had a crush on Angela forever, a crush that Angela has come to count on. Lauren Myracle has concocted another funny, touching look at the rocky road of real friendship--bumpy, nutty, and marshmallow-sweet. more
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l8r, g8r (Internet Girls)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Lauren Myracle
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Amulet (2007, Mar 1st).
Pages: 240
The third book in Lauren Myracle’s wildly popular IM series!The winsome threesome say “l8r” to high school in this sequel to the New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestsellers ttyl and ttfnThrough their instant messages, three inseparable friends have shared the ups and downs of high school. They’ve survived a flirtatious teacher, a witchy classmate, a pot-smoking smoocher, a Care Bear–toting stalker, and much, much more. Now it’s their senior year, and Angela, Zoe, and Maddie—otherwise know as the winsome threesome—are feeling invincible. Too bad Jana, the Queen Bee who made their sophomore year a nightmare, is on the warpath again. This time she has it out for good girl Zoe, and it’s up to Maddie and Angela to defend their friend. more
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The Truth About Forever
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Sarah Dessen
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Speak (2006, Apr 6th).
Pages: 400
Macy's summer stretches before her, carefully planned and outlined. She will spend her days sitting at the library information desk. She will spend her evenings studying for the SATs. Spare time will be used to help her obsessive mother prepare for the big opening of the townhouse section of her luxury development. But Macy's plans don't anticipate a surprising and chaotic job with Wish Catering, a motley crew of new friends, or…Wes. Tattooed, artistic, anything-but-expected Wes. He doesn't fit Macy's life at all—so why does she feel so comfortable with him? So…happy? What is it about him that makes her let down her guard and finally talk about how much she misses her father, who died before her eyes the year before? . more
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Night World No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: L.J. Smith
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse (2008, Nov 18th).
Pages: 688
Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World.In Dark Angel, Gillian is saved from drowning by her guardian angel. Only visible to Gillian, Angel will fulfill her heart’s every desire. But when Angel starts making strange and sinister requests, Gillian must question who he truly is and where he came from.Armed with a wooden stake, martial arts, and the will to resist a vampire’s mind control, Rashel struggles to avenge her mother’s death in The Chosen. Then she meets Quinn, her soulmate, who is part of the world she has vowed to destroy.Hannah receives notes warning her of incredible danger in Soulmate. more
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Night World No. 3: Huntress, Black Dawn, Witchlight
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: L.J. Smith
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse (2009, Apr 7th).
Pages: 752
Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World. The apocalypse is drawing near. But four Wild Powers can save the world from the impending doom. Circle Daybreak, an underground organization with both Night World and human members, is searching for the four who can stop the darkness.A vampire hunter -- who is half vampire -- stalks her own kind to protect humans in Huntress.In Black Dawn, Maggie stumbles upon an old Night World kingdom where the ruling vampire prince is both an enemy and an ally. And Circle Daybreak hires Keller, a shapeshifting panther, to guard a new Wild Power in Witchlight. more
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The Light (Morpheus Road)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: D.J. MacHale
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Aladdin; 1 edition (2010, Apr 20th).
Pages: 352
Marshall Seaver is being haunted. In the first installment of this chillingly compelling trilogy, Marshall discovers that something beyond our world is after him. He’s soon convinced that it has something to do with his best friend, Cooper, who’s been missing for more than a week. Together with Coop’s beautiful (but aloof) sister, Marsh searches for the truth about what happened to his friend—and what he uncovers reveals a disastrous collision between the worlds of the living and the dead. But for Marsh, the journey is just beginning…. more
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The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner Trilogy, Book 2)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: James Dashner
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (2010, Oct 12th).
Pages: 368
Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to.In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety . . . until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end was triggered long ago.Burned by sun flares and baked by a new, brutal climate, the earth is a wasteland. Government has disintegrated—and with it, order—and now Cranks, people covered in festering wounds and driven to murderous insanity by the infectious disease known as the Flare, roam the crumbling cities hunting for their next victim . more
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Steel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Carrie Vaughn
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperTeen (2011, Mar 15th).
Pages: 304
It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her. This was the tip of a rapier. Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure. The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. But a pirate's life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home—one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain. more
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Boy21
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Matthew Quick
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (2012, Mar 5th).
Pages: 256
You can lose yourself in repetition--quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in broken-down Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, his dad works nights, and Finley is left to take care of his disabled grandfather alone. He's always dreamed of getting out someday, but until he can, putting on that number 21 jersey makes everything seem okay.Russ has just moved to the neighborhood, and the life of this teen basketball phenom has been turned upside down by tragedy. Cut off from everyone he knows, he won't pick up a basketball, but answers only to the name Boy21--taken from his former jersey number. more
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