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High school sweethearts Clare and Aidan spend the night before they leave for college reminiscing about their relationship and deciding whether they should stay together or break up. Over the course of twelve hours they retrace the steps of their relationship, trying to find something in their past that might help them decide what their future should be. As the clock winds down and morning approaches, will it be goodbye for now or goodbye forever?...
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"If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. Whether you enjoy celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or New Year's, there's something...
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Three girls. Three high schools. Three gotta-read stories.
How To Be Down by Felicia Pride
When Nina Parker decides to straighten her Afro, lose her valley-girl accent and get a total makeover for her new school in the hood, the cutest guy notices -- yes! But so does the meanest girl, Vivica, queen bee of her crew, who wants Jeffrey for herself.
Double Act by Debbie Rigaud
In the hood, Mia Chambers is 'the smart girl,' but at her
...6) Lally's game
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"A forbidden artifact from her fiancé's past beckons to Selena. Jessica leads a double-life from her friends and coworkers in the children's wing of a hospital. Maya can't resist the temptation to explore an off-limits area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, everything comes with a price to pay"--
7) Fangirl
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Back to School: YA Books Set at College
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YA Contemporary Fiction Classics
Built-In Besties or Baddies: Siblings in YA Books
YA Contemporary Fiction Classics
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Cath is a Simon Snow super fan, who dresses up as characters in his movies with her sister, Wren, for every opening premier. It began as their way of coping with their mother leaving. However, now that the two girls are going to college, Wren has fallen away from the super-fandom the sisters have always bonded over, and Cath feels like she is adrift. College will force her to determine what she really wants in life, to deal with boys and possible...
9) The living
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After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
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"In an unassuming corner of Brooklyn, a young woman learns to be ladylike, to love context, and to speak her mind from a very curious sort of tutor. In a faraway land convulsed by war, a young soldier hears the desert's curious hum as he disarms bombs with the person he doesn't know how to love. In a place so shriveled by drought that any drowning is a curiosity, a young writer tries again and again to tread water beneath the surface of a vast and...
11) Culture clash
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Fed up with the way her school is handling Cultural Awareness Day, Jayd decides to form the first African Student Union.. At the same time, she can't deny her attraction for Emilio, the new Latino sophmore at South Bay High.
12) India
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India feels out of place in the up-and-coming gospel singing group The Divas, and when she tries to deal with her lack of confidence by secretly binging and purging in order to lose weight, it takes a near disaster for her friends and family to realize how serious her problems really are.