How to be Popular by Meg Cabot

Ever since Steph Landry spilled a Big Gulp on the most popular girl in school, her name has been synonymous with screwing up. But all of that is going to change now that she has found the secret to popularity.

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Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser

The story of a school shooting told by those who experienced it with lots of gun and school shooting footnotes.

I found it very didactic and boring.

The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank by David Plotz

When The Repository for Germinal Choice was started, it was meant to be a way to breed better humans by using sperm from Nobel Prize winners to impregnate MENSA women. What actually happened to the men who donated and the women who were impregnated is much more interesting than that.

An insightful look at what was intended to be an experiment in eugenics but became more of a study in nature vs. nurture.

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Dancing in the Void by Robert Edward Levin

Dr. Hubble Webster is an eccentric psychiatrist who gets caught up in a web of murder, sex and drugs that threatens his pursuit of happiness.


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King Dork by Frank Portman

Tom Henderson has varied interests: making up bands, listening to bubble-gum pop and investigating his father's life/death. In between all of this, and avoiding torture at the hands of his classmates, Tom discovers something unexpected.


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Bass Ackwards and Belly Up by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

When Harper lies to her friends about why she's not going to NYU it sets off four adventures that will change their lives forever.

Like a more grown-up Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

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Coraline by Neil Gaiman

While exploring one day, Coraline finds herself in an alternate, more exciting world but she decides to go home. Unfortunately her alternate mother is not letting go so easily and in order to go home, and save her real parents, Coraline must use all her skills.

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Whisper in the Dark by Joseph Bruchac

Maddy likes scary stories but she never expected to live one.

A fast-paced, scary thriller based on a Narragansett legend.

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Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You by Dorian Cirrone

When Kayla Callaway loses the lead in the senior ballet because of her non-balletic figure, she feels she must decide between her breasts and her passion.


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The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love by Rosie Bushton

Due to family tragedy, the Dashwood sisters are forced to move from their ancestral home in Sussex to the sleepy, little sailing village Norfolk. Fortunately there are cute boys there.

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Malpractice in Maggody by Joan Hess

The latest installment in the Maggody series brings a wanna-be detox retreat for the Stars to this rural Arkansas locale. Mayhem ensues.


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Insatiable: tales from a life of delicious excess by Gael Greene

An epic memoir of the sensuality of food and sex in New York, Europe and beyond as only the Insatiable Critic can tell it.


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Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot

Lizzie Nichols has big mouth that frequently gets her in trouble. After her latest slip-up almost lands her would-be boyfriend in jail, she knows she has to leave. Unfortunately she's visiting him in England. Luckily her best friend is just across the Channel in France. Hilarity ensues as she navigates falling for a taken man, helping save a wedding and finishing that pesky thesis on the history of fashion.

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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

When Isabella Swan AKA Bella moved from sunny Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington she never expected to be happy there. That is until she meets Edward. Edward is beautiful, charming and a vampire.


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Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson

When three totally different teenage girls get thrown together in Georgia peach orchard, anything can happen and it probably will.

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Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty

The latest installment of Jessica Darling's story takes us to Columbia while Marcus Flutie is off at Buddhist college in California. Jessica's trials and tribulations include: falling for a married man and trying to figure out how to fund college when her parents cut her off. Hilarious and real.

Highly Recommended

Sixteen: stories about that sweet and bitter birthday Edited by Megan McCafferty

17 stories by some of the best YA writers around, including Zoe Trope, Carolyn Mackler and Steve Almond. Includes a new Jessica Darling story.

Highly Recommended

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women looks like your typical girls' boarding school except for one thing, they train spies! Cammie Morgan (AKA The Chameleon) is not just a student, she's the headmistress' daughter and her sophomore year is about to bring her first and possibly most dangerous mission: falling in love.

Highly Recommended

Party Princess & Sweet Sixteen Princess by Meg Cabot

Volumes VII and VII 1/2 of the Princess Diaries

A musical about Genovia, student gov't debt, her boyfriend acting cold and her grandmother's bid to get her on My Super Sweet Sixteen are just some of Mia's adventures in these latest two installments.

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Confessions of a Super Mom by Melanie Lynne Hauser

A fun read about a divorced, stay-at-home mom who develops super powers after a horrible Swiffer accident.

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