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SOME OF THE NEWEST BOOKS
IN THE TEEN ZONE:
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Glitz
by Philana Marie Boles
Sixteen-year-old orphan Ann Michelle runs away from her grandmother's
house in Toledo, Ohio, with a new friend who is intent on seeking
her own fame while the teenagers follow a hip-hop musician to
New York City.
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Where
I Belong
by Gillian Cross
The story tells of three young people thrown together by circumstance.
It's a story of bravery, the love of a family, secrets, betrayal
and...fashion?
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Eona
by Alison Goodman
Once she was Eon, a girl disguised as a boy, risking her life
for the chance to become a Dragoneye apprentice. Now she is
Eona, the Mirror Dragoneye, her country's savior- but she has
an even more dangerous secret.
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FairyTail
10
by Hiro Mashina
"Erza Scarlet is the most kick-butt woman wizard in Fairy
Tail, but in the past this indomitable fighter was-- a slave?
Now she finds out that her old companions have completed the
evil device they were forced to build while held in slavery:
the Tower of Heaven. What's more, their wicked master requires
a sacrifice: Erza!" -- from publisher's web site.
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Shine
by Lauren Myracle
When
Patrick is found near death, strung to the pump of the local
gas station, sixteen-year-old Cat emerges from her self-imposed
exile to avenge the horrors inflicted on her former best friends.
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All
You Get Is Me
by Yvonne Prinz
Things
were complicated enough for Roar, even before her father decided
to yank her out of the city and go organic.
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Boyfriends
with Girlfriends
by Alex Sanchez
When
Lance begins to date Sergio, who is bisexual, he is not sure
that it will work out, and when his best friend Allie, who
has a boyfriend, meets Sergio's lesbian friend, she has unexpected
feelings which she struggles to understand.
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Mad
Love
by Suzanne Selfors
Writing
her own love story could drive a girl insane!
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Small
Acts of Amazing Courage
by Gloria Whelan
In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives
in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has
fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government,
she is sent "home" to London, where she has never
been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her
two aunts.
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Women
Heroes of World War II
by Kathryn J. Atwood
26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue.
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Defining
Moments Workers Unite! The American Labor Movement
by Kevin Hillstrom
Explains the history of the American labor movement from its
earliest origins through 19th-century industrialization, the
growth of the labor movement, the current declining influence
of labor, and efforts to revitalize American unions.
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Chasing
Romeo
by A.J. Byrd
Best Friends Forever - that's Anjenai, Kierra and Tyler. Growing
up together in an Atlanta housing project, the girls have always
been there for each other. But high school is a whole new world,
and the drama is just beginning…
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Can
I See Your I.D.?
by Chris Barton
These fascinating stories of ten imposters - many of them teenagers
- push questions of identity, deception, and gullibility to
the extreme. Sometimes, reality truly does defy belief!
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please call Catherine Overton at (516) 223-6228.
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Last updated:
6/16/11
©2011 Baldwin Public Library
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