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They call me Zits

As I fire my gun during the bank robbery, I’m pulled back through time.

First I’m an FBI agent, then I’m at the battle of Little Big Horn, next I ride with an Indian tracker, then I’m an airline pilot—before I return to my real life.

Did I pull off the robbery? Am I shot? Who will save me?

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ALE

•Molly has Candy.

Reena has Shanti.

Alice has “R”— The evil stepmothers!

•All three have weak fathers

who have given up their daughters

in favor of “the new wife.”

• When Molly, Reena, and Alice

arrive at boarding school, they seem

to have little in common.

•Once they realize their common

bond, they form “The Poison Apples.”

•Can the evil spell work in reverse?

Can the stepdaughters seek revenge

with a “poison apple” for the new

stepmothers?

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ARC

•Chloe sees ghosts.

•When she suffers a breakdown, she is sent to Lyle House for treatment.

•Does seeing ghosts equal schizophrenia?

•Are there others a Lyle House with unusual abilities?

•Is Lyle House a place for these people to develop those abilities or a place to lose them?

•How can Chloe really know whom to trust?

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ARM

Tapes, a map, a number

Clay receives all three .

He is one of the thirteen reasons why Hannah Baker committed suicide two weeks ago.

When he hears her voice on the tape, he follows her instructions.

Will those instructions make a difference?

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ASH

Imagine graduating from high school and leaving the next day on a cross-country bike trip with your best friend.

Imagine getting almost to the Pacific Ocean and being left behind with a flat tire as your former best friend rides away.

Imagine your surprise when he doesn’t return home and start college.

Imagine your world shifting…

FBRA

FBRA

Situation: Molly, a blue-haired loner, & Cassie, Miss All-American girl, clash in an all-out food fight.

Consequence: The girls must prepare the cafeteria meals every day until the student body approves their efforts, despite the fact that they can’t cook….

Unexpected results: Tasty recipes, hilarious original songs, romance, friendship, and laugh-out-loud humor!

Pete’s “slow” friend Raymond, who talks to his pet rabbit, disappears after a surreal night at the carnival.Their former friends are mixed up in drugs, drinking, and casual sex.A teen celeb friend also disappears that night, causing uproar in the press.Accusations, lies, and suspicions cloud the investigations as Pete’s police chief father begins to suspect murder.Could Raymond or another of the old gang be the killer?

FBRO

FCAL

When Indigo Skye receives a $2.5 million tip at the diner where she works, it’s hard to decide what to do:

Fly to Hawaii to return the money?Go on a manic mall shopping spree?Become a “California Girl” like Malibu Barbie?All of the above?

Indigo finds it more difficult than she expected to discover if money really does buy happiness.

Clary sees things that other people don’t.After seeing a murder where the victim disappears, she learns that she is a Shadowhunter and her mother has been hiding them away from the other world.Now that her mother has disappeared, she earns that her mother has hidden the “Mortal Cup” and now Clary must find it and keep it out of the hands of a renegade group of Shadowhunters.

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CLA

After the last world war destroyed our country, the Capital, our harsh government, divided the land into 12 districts.

From each district every year, two names are drawn to compete in the Hunger Games. Competition is a survival contest. The winner is the last one alive.

If Kat wins, her district will not go hungry like they usually do. She will be rich and comfortable.

The entire country is watching the live event.

Losing is not an option.

FCOL

At age 11, William Marie Standish has been invisible until her elderly neighbor, Miss Lydia, befriends Billie.

When Billie is raped by Miss Lydia’s son, Curtis, Miss Lydia takes matters into her own hands.

Before Billie returns to school, where she enjoys being “invisible,” Miss Lydia makes her promise to make one friend. To Billie’s surprise, that friend is Harlan Willits.

By the summer before their senior year, Billie & Harlan are more than friends, & Miss Lydia is in the hospital after suffering a stroke. With no other ‘family’ to care for her, Billie & Harlan insist that they can handle the job.

FCRO

FCRO

What do you do if Mom expects you to be a perfect lady and follow in her footsteps to win the Miss Bluebonnet crown?What if you don’t exactly fit in with the other All-American look-alikes at Bodeen High School?Well, you take your fish-net stockings and blue spiked hair to Austin and secretly join the Dixie Chicks Roller Derby.Bliss, a misfit at school and home, finds a special niche in the dashing derby, learning a few life lessons along the way.

AKA Whip It

Danny Lopez doesn’t fit in his mother’s Anglo world or his father’s Mexican world.

He chooses to spend a summer with his father’s family to try and find his “place,” a way to contact his father, and that perfect pitch that will get him on the team.

He finds an unlikely friend in Uno, to hone his pitching skills and find his place.

FDEL

Miguel has fallen for Lainey, the new girl in town with the “look-alike” dog.Town bully, Johnny Ward, has fallen for Emily.Are the girls the same person?Why are Miguel & Johnny having the same dream with the talking tree?

FDEL

Mick’s earliest memories are of playing football with his dad who played in the NFL.Mick to makes varsity his freshman year but is under pressure to out-perform the rest.First Dad shows Mick where he keeps his pistol for protection; then he signs Nick up for a trainer who encourages Mick to use steroids.Will it be a deadly combination?

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DEU

W1n5t0n and his techie friends just witnessed a terrorist attack and have been dragged off by military types who they thought were terrorists, but who were actually

HOMELAND SECURITY.

Now, Winston and friends fear for their safety and for their freedom. Can they outsmart Homeland Security?

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DOC

Ω Tessa is 16 and dying.Ω She has a list complete

before she dies:1. Sex

2. Drugs

3. Breaking the law

4. Driving

5. Bringing her parents back together

6. Fame

7. Love

Ω Can her friend, Zoey, help Tessa complete her list before leukemia claims Tess?

FDOW

--Hahp attends a school of magic where students who don’t learn to conjure up food will starve to death.

--Sadima keeps house for two outlaw magicians.

--The two teenagers lived generations apart.

What could they have in common?

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DUE

--Karina’s stepdad works long hours and is under lots of pressure. Sometimes he flies into angry rages.

--Sometimes Karina is so frightened of her stepdad that she passes out.

--If Karina asks for help will her whole family be deported back to Haiti?

Touching Snow – by M. Sindy Felin

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FEL

FFLE

¢ Forced by Mom’s illness to support her fatherless family, Ruby takes a job as a taxi dancer in 1940’s Chicago.

¢ A desperate existence involving the mob, shady dance partners, the jazz scene, and Chicago nightlife leads Ruby to make some dangerous decisions in this absorbing wartime-era drama.

Chloe, Erika, Isabel, and Mackenzie have been best friends at “Fashion High”, but is this the year that it all ends?McKenzie got a tattoo and is hanging out with Nicola.Erika is having second thoughts about boyfriend, Kyle.Isabel is looking for more adventure in her life.And Chloe is having a secret romance with Adam.

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FRI

“Joey Harker is the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house.

One day, Joey gets really lost.

He walks straight out of his own world and into another dimension…

…a dimension where Joey holds the key to thebalance of power betweenruthless armies of scienceand powerful armies of magic.”

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GAI

Alice & Jewel have been best friends since middle school, but being part of the “artsy” crowd at school has made Alice feel invisible to the in-crowd.. More than anything else, Alice wants a date with Simon Murphy.After an unexpected, passionate kiss from Jewel, Alice gets her date with Simon & becomes his “girl”. Her choice pushes Jewel into the arms of their friend, Vanessa. Although things go well with Simon, is he the one for Alice?

FGAL

• Revolution is coming to Paris…

• And Yann, the gypsy magician, falls for…

• Lonely young Sido, the pawn of…

• Count Kalliovski, whom some say is…

• The Devil himself…

• And Sido has memories as fragmented as the beads of an unstrung

red necklace

FGAR

Nine-year-old Kip is in a state institution for the criminally insane.

When he is 15, the state declares Kip fit for society, but he cannot return to the Alaskan community where he grew up.

With their new identities, his Dad, his new step-mom, and Kip, now called Wade, settle in Indiana. For a while, all is well, but Wade makes a mistake.

The family makes a last move to a beach house on the Texas coast. Here Wade must decide whether or not to ruin the rest of his life.

FGIL

When Quentin and Margo were kids, they found a dead man in the park. He committed suicide. Margo said, “All his strings must have broken.”

Last night, Margo snuck into Quentin’s room and talked him into driving her around on a mission of revenge against all the other popular kids who had done her wrong. Her boyfriend, who was having sex with her best friend, for example.

Afterwards, Margo said, “It was the last string I had left.” Quentin did not make the connection until Margo disappeared.

Can he find her in time to save her? And what did she mean about Paper Towns?

FGRE

Dashti is shut in a tower for seven years because Lady Saren refuses to marry the evil Lord Khasar.Later, two suitors come to the tower and Dashti learns that her mistress is in love with Khan Tegus.Lady Saren forces Dashti to pose as Lady Saren when talking through the tower walls to the suitors.When they escape the tower & all meet again, who will survive …and who will be lovers?

FHAL

F HAL

Nut house…Looney Bin…Psych ward—How many ways can Anna describe the mental hospital she enters to overcome depression, fears, her obesity, and panic?Her blow-by-blow description of the psychiatrists, other patients, and staff are rendered in amusing, diary-like letters to a friend. Can Anna overcome her problems and resume a “normal” teen life? Is there a life for her on the outside? Does she even want to leave? How about love?

F HAR

As a result of his dad’s coming out and his mom’s taking off, Ben rebels: truancy, pot-smoking, punking out, getting arrested!Solution: Dad and his partner Edward move Ben from the city to Rough Butte, Montana, population 463.Reality: Hick town is not heaven, but it holds some unexpected surprises.

Orphaned as an infant and left to live with relatives that want nothing to do with her…Kidnapped by con artists and forced into a life of thievery… Addicted to a dangerous drug since she was little…Muse to an promising young painter…Ivy wants nothing more than to sleep and day dream, to escape from her life. But how long can she live in this state and will she be able to save herself?

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HEA

When Scarlett finally gets to kiss her long-time crush, Dan, he falls dead at her feet.Although she’s not

charged with his death, she leaves the boarding school they attended and enrolls at her grandmother’s school.After receiving an

anonymous note, Scarlett begins her own investigation into the truth behind her deadly kiss.

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HEN

Silvano is accused of a murder he did not commit and is sent away to a friary until his name can be cleared.Chiara’s family has no money for a dowry, so she is sent, unwillingly, to a convent.When another murder occurs-this time at the friary-Silvano and Chiara are thrown together and must find a way to clear Silvano and free Chiara from the convent.

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HOF

Things are going great for Sam:

Mum ditched her rubbish boyfriend.

Teachers suddenly are talking to me about college.

I’ve learned two new skating tricks.

I have a gorgeous new girlfriend – Alicia.

So what can go wrong?—Alicia is pregnant.

Will Mum (who had me as a teenager) still talk to me?

Will I ever get to college?

Will skating be a thing of the past?

What kind of Dad will I be?

It helps if you have Tony Hawk to talk to & he helps you see the future!

FHOR

FJOC

Natalie and Claire are more than sisters—they’re best friends.

When Claire is struck by a car and becomes comatose, Natalie must cope with her personal grief and loss, as well as the anguish of her family and friends.

Would you rather…Know what will happen,Hope for a miracle, or Accept the worst?

Scarlett Martin’s family runs and lives in the Hopewell Hotel in New York City.

On her fifteenth birthday, Scarlett gets her own suite to maintain, a guest for the summer, and a summer job.

Can Ms. Amberson, Scarlett’s guest, get Spenser, the oldest Martin child, an acting job; solve Scarlett’s love life; and save the Hopewell Hotel?

Or will her high jinx cause the fall of everything Scarlett has built over the summer?

FJOH

FJOH When the classmate she

is tutoring in trigonometry admits she is pregnant, high school junior Rhonda must finally come to terms with the abortion her father insisted she undergo three years earlier.

Caught between two painful secrets, a budding romance, and parental pressures, Rhonda must make some tough choices.

--Alex : a teenage cowboy with a secret.

--Cleo: a spoiled teenager whose busy parents barely notice her.

-- “…sometimes the last person you'd ever think of as a friend ends up being the one you need the most...”

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JUB

Elisa is a loner and an aspiring writer.She uses her talent to ghost write love notes for guys to give to their girlfriends.After studying Cyrano de Bergerac in English class, Elisa begins to look at herself and wonder if there is more to life than worrying about her parents, writing love notes for other people, and hiding her talents.

FKEP

After her friends throw her a surprise 18th birthday party in the park, Grace returns later that night to retrieve a present that she left.

What she finds is herself—as a toddler, a 30-year-old, and “an old fart.”

High school life is hard enough without having to hide your alter egos and clean up their messes!

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KIM

TEENAGER, MURDERER, PRISONER—-DEATH ROW. “ARE YOU THE SUM TOTAL OF YOUR WORST ACT?” ASKS BRYAN STEVENSON.

16-YEAR-OLD ROY BURGESS JR. HELPED MURDER KEVIN GARDNER.

14-YEAR-OLD MARK HELPED HIS BROTHER MURDER A MAN AND WIFE.

17-YEAR-OLD NANON WILLIAMS COMMITTED A MURDER IN A DRUG DEAL GONE BAD.

17-YEAR-OLD NAPOLEON BEAZLEY KILLED A MAN IN A BOTCHED CARJACKING.

WILLIAM JENKINS WAS MURDERED IN AN ATTEMPTED ROBBERY. HIS FAMILY SPEAKS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF WILLIAM’S DEATH.

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KUK

Four generations of race car driversOlder brother Kris Hildebrand is bred to race.The family has a chance to make it in the big time again until Kris’ accident.Trumpet player, Kyle must decide if he wants to race or if music is his passion.

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LIP

LOCF LOC

The summer between freshman and sophomore years, Frankie goes from scrawny to curvy and becomes the girlfriend of gorgeous senior, Matthew.

She learns that Matthew is a member of a secret, all-male society at her boarding school, Alabaster Prep.

She also learns that her dad was once a member of the group, but because she is a girl, she cannot be a part.

She takes on a false identity and soon manipulates the all-male society into pulling pranks that she plans.

If you are born outside of the Declaration, you are Surplus.Surplus Anna is one of the many who is a worthless burden and must pay back society for her very existence.All of this is because of longevity drugs that keep people young forever.Until Peter comes to Grange Hall, Anna knows her place.Is her place being a servant to pay back society…or is it to be a rebel and fight against the Declaration?

FMAL

• Piscul Dracului sits on the edge of two worlds.

• every full moon, Jenna & her sisters travel through a portal to get to the dancing glade in the wildwood.

• Their idyllic lives begin to spin out of control when their father becomes ill, the night people appear at the glade, and their power hungry cousin, cezar, takes over their estate.

• Jena decides that the only way to save her sisters and piscul dracului is for her to find a husband who will become the master of the castle.

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MAR

"If The Man is lucky, in the morning on his way to work, he sees the girls."

Five Herbert Sisters:→Beauty, 17→Mim, 16→Stevie, 14→Fancy, 12→Autumn, 11

Which one will he choose to be his “guest”?

FMAZ

FMCC

The dilemmas of RoseAlienation from sisters and parentsParents’ divorceExcruciating road trip with Mom to Grandma’s deathbedBest friend hitting on her boyfriendHitchhiker : a threat or a promise?Flashback to trauma involving best friend’s father

Can she resolve all the conflicts bombarding her from every direction and still remain sane ???

Freya - saw her first angel when she was 8 and has just

been released from hospitalization because of her

“delusions”

Stephanie - strange new girl at school who believes in, but

doesn’t see angels

When Freya is chosen by the “it” girl at school to be part of

the “group,” she wants to steer clear of the strange new girl who believes

in angels.

The harder she tries to distance herself from

Stephanie, the more Freya must confront who she is and

what her actions must be.

Can she befriend the strange new girl and maintain her

new social status; or must she go deeper into the realm

of angels?

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MCC

Aslaug Hellig was raised in seclusion by a mother on the edge of sanity.Although she knows volumes about classical languages and native plants/herbs, Aslaug knows very little of the world around her.When her mother & later her aunt and cousin die with the poisonous ‘madapple’ herb in their blood, Aslaug is the key suspect.Is there someone with a tight grip on reality that can confirm Aslaug’s claim of innocence?

FMEL

Birdy Perry joined the Army after 9/11.Now Birdy finds himself in Iraq, assigned to a Civil Affairs Unit, trying to befriend the Iraqi people.Iraq in wartime can be both beautiful and deadly.

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MYE

Bliss, a happy teen raised in a commune by hippy parents, is dropped into a fancy private school which hides secrets of strange blood rituals and a long-ago suicide.

Which of her new friends-- the class pariah Sandy or Sarah Lynn, the icy beauty--is trying to draw Bliss into her demonic plan for revenge and death in this occult thriller set in 1969?

FMYR

“Hush” is one of the last things her mother tells Princess Melkorka. Little does she know that it is that word that will save her after she is captured by slave traders. Her silence makes her captors fear that she is “Aist’” the stork of Russian legend, come to life.The ship’s captain, intrigued by her lack of speech and care of her fellow captives, makes her his personal slave as they sail away from Ireland. Princess Melkorka fears that she will never again see her homeland or her family.

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NAP

Frances Robinson is living a lie.

Her real name is Francine Jelks and she’s alive only because a delivery man heard her screams.

Her mother tried to smother her as she had done to Francine’s three sisters.

Her mother has sent a message to Frances:

…”we need to finish.”

FNEL

FNES

In Todd’s New World, all the women are dead and the men and animals are surrounded with NOISE revealing their thoughts and memories.As danger erupts, Todd and his dog barely escape, and on the way to freedom, encounter a young female from a crashed space ship.Todd and Viola use desperate measures to evade the murdering army after them.Will they reach safety and a place of hope, or are their efforts dashed at the final encounter?

1613 – In a French chateau, a lonely wife is accused of murdering her jealous husband. But who can explain about the ghostly dogs?

1802 – A new heir to Kerfol has nightmares about his father and hallucinations about a pack of dogs.

1926 – An American party-girl with a dark secret, throws wild parties at the chateau and meets an untimely death.

1982 – A young couple sneaks back into the chateau after dark and find that they are not alone.

2006 – The life of a deaf gardener may be saved when a vision warns him to run from the ghostly dogs.

FNOY

∞ Jenna Fox can quote Thoreau, but can’t remember what her life was like before the accident that left her in a year-long coma.

∞ In fact, she can’t actually remember the accident.

∞ She’s moved to the West Coast, her mother is overprotective, & her once loving grandmother is distant.

∞ Brief memories begin to break through as strange events cause Jenna to question who she really is.

FPEA

Harper Evans leaves a broken home in L.A. to build a Habitat house in Bailey, TN.

She wants some distance between herself and

her “sometimes” boyfriend, Gabriel,

and her once best friend, step-sister, Tess.

New friendships and a new romance blossom, but can she find a way back to old relationships?

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REI

Jaiden was adopted as a baby by the corporation that was responsible for his parents’ deaths.As a freshman, he is finally allowed to go to public school where he is partnered with his new-found crush – a girl who doesn’t know anything about his “family” and whose own father has it in for Jaiden’s corporation.After a disastrous attempt to work on their project without corporate interference, Jaiden stumbles onto a corporate secret that changes everything.

FPET

Dani’s parents are thieves.

For years, Dani (aka Sydney, Rebecca, or whatever name her mother chooses) & her mother have survived by stealing silver from the “rich.”

In the seaside resort of Heaven, Dani finds friendship, romance, & herself.

Is the real Dani just another thief, or can she be something else?

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SCO

Gemma Stone’s life is out of control.Her sister has turned into Bridezilla.The future in-laws are obsessed with military life.She’s known for not being able to speak in public without throwing up, but she tries out for the school play.She’s torn between popular, perfect Nick & social outcast Raven.Along the way, she learns that “love is doves & dog poo”.

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SHA

In the future, teens whose behavior is not socially accepted can be “unwound.”Being unwound means that you never die, you just live in a different format.If all parts of your body are separated and redistributed to other bodies, are you still “you”?

FSHU

J.J. does not want to be a Liddy any longer. He wants his father’s last name.He doesn’t want to be related to a murderer.

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THO

FSIT

Sonia hopes to be the first in her family to graduate from high school. No problem, right????Wrong! She has to pass honors classes while dealing with babysitting all her siblings, cooking & cleaning for the family, waiting on her bedridden mom, and dodging her drunk uncle (“Drunkle”)…After a surprising summer in Mexico, she returns to almost certain failure, but an unexpected turn of events pits graduation and romance against Drunkle’s insane attack and unfounded accusations.

FVAL ME : Lucas Swain, 16

years old. I was fairly normal until I found Violet; then everything changed….THE MISSING : Dad, gone these five years with no trace, and no one cares but me….THE DEAD : Violet—in the urn. I know she is trying to tell me something…and I think it’s about my dad.

•Not overweight, not big-boned, not chunky, just plain F-A-T, fat are the words Jamie Carcaterra uses to describe herself in the column she writes for her school newspaper.

•She hopes her “Fat Girl Manifesto” will get her a college scholarship and will enlighten the rest of the world about the plight of others who are “fat.”

•It’s her senior year and she has much to accomplish.

• “Fat Boy” aka Burke (& Jamie’s boyfriend), decides to have his stomach stapled to lose weight before graduation, but doesn’t tell Jamie until the last minute.

•The surgery turns Jamie’s world upside down & her life seems to fall apart.

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VAU

How do you grieve for your parents when they suddenly die in a car wreck?

How does the oldest sister take care of a high schooler and three- year- old brother without losing her self- control?

How do you stand it when your older sister yells at you all the time and your brother looks to you for help all the time?

What will you eat?

Why has everyone forgotten you?

Do you have the power to transform your life?

155.9 VIN

Frankie Torres Towers helps his family run their small restaurant while his older brother, Steve, becomes the soccer star.

As a freshman, Frankie wants two things: to be included in Steve’s life & to take Rebecca Sanchez to homecoming.

Frankie soon learns that being part of Steve’s life might include accepting the new “friends” that are changing Steve (beginning with the tattoo).

He also misses his chance with Rebecca the day before she agrees to go to homecoming with Dalton—rich white boy whose family runs the “Tortilla Emporium.”

After Frankie is ambushed by Dalton and his friends, Frankie has to decide if he can take revenge with the help of Steve’s new gang-member friends.

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VOR

FWER

When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she learns that she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to break the curse and to save them both.

This modern fairy tale of magic, dating violence, romance, family madness, and impossible tasks will keep readers riveted.

FWIZ

Shakespeare Shapiro hates his name and the other catastrophes in his life: he’s never kissed a girl…he has only two friends…he’s the butt of senior jokes…his parents are off-the-wall wacko…etc., etc., etc.

In his senior memoir, Shakespeare takes a hilarious look at his unique experiences that are sure to evoke a belly laugh or two.

♥ As children, Jennifer and Cameron were each other’s only friend.

♥ Then in fifth grade, Cameron disappeared, and Jennifer thought she would never see him again.

♥ She transferred to a new school in ninth grade, made new friends, and reinvented herself as jenna.

♥ but on her seventeenth birthday, cameron found her again.

♥ Cameron’s return turns jenna’s life upside down as they confront their shared past together.

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ZAR

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