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1) The perks of being a wallflower

Author

Chbosky, Stephen

Notes

#1 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 25 week(s).

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A coming of age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide of his best friend.

2) Looking for Alaska

Author

Green, John

Series

Playaway bookpacks

Notes

#4 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 18 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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Sixteen-year-old 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.

3) Middle school, the worst years of my life

Author

Patterson, James

Series

Middle school (James Patterson) volume 1

Notes

#5 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

4) The book thief

Author

Zusak, Markus

Notes

#6 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 272 week(s).

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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.

5) Thirteen reasons why

Author

Asher, Jay

Notes

#7 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 72 week(s).

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When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

6) The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Notes

#8 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 152 week(s).

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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.

7) Out of my mind

Author

Draper, Sharon M

Series

Out of my mind volume 1

Notes

#10 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 24 week(s).

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Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.