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List created by McKenna (javagerty) - on Dec 4, 2011
List Votes: 2 Books: 61 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 2 List Type: Closed
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Ruthless (Pretty Little Liars, Bk 10) by Sara Shepard
  For years scandal has rocked Rosewood, Pennsylvania—and high school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have always been at the center of the drama. They’ve lost friends, been targeted by a ruthless stalker named A, and narrowly escaped death. And it’s not over...  more


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Matched (Matched, Bk 1) by Ally Condie
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before...  more


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Night by Stella Rodway (Translator) & Elie Wiesel
Night -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking...  more


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Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant...  more


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The Iron King. Julie Kagawa (Iron Fey) by Julie Kagawa
My name is Meghan Chase. In less than twenty-four hours I'll be sixteen. Countless stories, songs and poems have been written about this wonderful age, when a girl finds true love and the stars shine for her and the handsome prince carries her off into the sunset. I don't think it will be that...  more


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Beautiful by Amy Reed
When thirteen-year-old Cassie moves to a suburb of Seattle, she is determined to leave her boring, good-girl existence behind. She chooses some dangerous new friends and is quickly caught up in their fast-paced world of drugs, sex, secrets, and cruelty. Cassie's new existence both thrills and...  more


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The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
Some schools have honor codes.Others have handbooks.Themis Academy has the Mockingbirds.Themis Academy is a quiet boarding school with an exceptional student body that the administration trusts to always behave the honorable way--the Themis Way. So when Alex is date raped during her junior year,...  more


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Bunheads by Sophie Flack
As a dancer with the ultra-prestigious Manhattan Ballet Company, nineteen-year-old Hannah Ward juggles intense rehearsals, dazzling performances and complicated backstage relationships. Up until now, Hannah has happily devoted her entire life to ballet. But when she meets a handsome...  more


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Deadly Little Secret by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Some secrets shouldn't be kept... Up until three months ago, everything in sixteen-year-old Camelia's life had been fairly ordinary: decent grades; an okay relationship with her parents; and a pretty cool part-time job at the art studio downtown. But when Ben, the mysterious new guy, starts...  more


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Looking for Alaska by John Green
Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, boring-life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe...  more


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Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, Bk 1) by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Miranda'’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer...  more


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The Declaration by Gemma Malley
It?s the year 2140 and Longevity drugs have all but eradicated old age. A never-aging society can?t sustain population growth, however?which means Anna should never have been born. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. The facility is full of boys and girls whose parents...  more


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Birthmarked (Birthmarked, Bk 1) by Caragh M. O'Brien
After climate change, on the north shore of Unlake Superior, a dystopian world is divided between those who live inside the wall, and those, like sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone, who live outside. It’s Gaia’s job to “advance” a quota of infants from poverty into the...  more


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Sugar and Spice (L.A. Candy, Bk 3) by Lauren Conrad
In the final book of the hit series L.A. Candy, Jane Roberts is a bona fide celebrity -- she’s got the VIP treatment, couture clothes, and starlet looks. She also has the tabloid scandals, fake friends, and relentless paparazzi. Having learned a few things from her first season on the air,...  more


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Catching Jordan (Hundred Oaks, Bk 1) by Miranda Kenneally
What girl doesn’t want to be surrounded by gorgeous jocks day in and day out? Jordan Woods isn’t just surrounded by hot guys, though -- she leads them as the captain and quarterback on her high school football team. They all see her as one of the guys, and that’s just fine. As...  more


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Betrayed (House of Night, Bk 2) by Kristin Cast & P. C. Cast
Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night finishing school. She finally feels like she belongs, even gets chosen as the Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, she actually has a boyfriend...or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being...  more


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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus -- three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of...  more


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Genesis by Bernard Beckett
Set on a remote island in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ridden world, this electrifying novel is destined to become a modern classic. Anax thinks she knows her history. She'd better. She's now facing three Examiners, and her grueling all-day Examination has just begun. If she passes,...  more


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Kiss Me Kill Me by Lauren Henderson
When 16-year-old Scarlett Wakefield transfers from St. Tabby?s to Wakefield Hall Collegiate, she is relieved that no one knows her dark, haunting secret. A few months ago, Scarlett was invited to an elite party with a guest list full of the hottest names in British society, including Dan...  more


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Confessions of an Almost-Movie Star (Berkley Jam Books) by Mary Kennedy
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a movie star? Or visiting a movie set? Or meeting the Sexiest Teen Star in America? Well, now you can! It's all in the pages of Confesssions fo an Almost-Movie Star. What happens when a Hollywood film crew visits a small New England town to shoot a film called...  more


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Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Teen beauty queens.  A lost island.  Mysteries and dangers.  No access to email.  And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives deep in the heart of every girl, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. ...  more


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Summer Boys (Summer Boys, Bk 1) by Hailey Abbott
It's summer. It's hot. And it's time to hook up.Cousins Ella, Beth, and Jamie are at their family's beach house, and they're gearing up for the wildest time of their lives. Sassy Ella is majorly crushing on a cute older boy -- who just happens to be her sister's new...  more


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The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
Ginny Blackstone thought that the biggest adventure of her life was behind her. She spent last summer traveling around Europe, following the tasks her aunt Peg laid out in a series of letters before she died. When someone stole Ginny's backpack—and the last little blue envelope...  more


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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Re...
Angus: My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat. The size of a small Labrador, only mad. Likes to stalk Mr. and Mrs. Next Door's poodle. I used to drag him around on a lead, but, as I explained to Mrs. Next Door, he ate it. Thongs: Stupid underwear worn by old Swotty...  more


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Pretty Little Liars: Pretty Little Secrets by Sara Shepard
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The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner, Bk 2) by James Dashner
Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. Thomas was sure that escape would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn't done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch. There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die.  The Gladers have two weeks...  more


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Prized (Birthmarked, Bk 2) by Caragh M. O'Brien
Striking out into the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone survives only to be captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where women rule the men who drastically outnumber them, and a kiss is a...  more


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Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Bk 1) by Laini Taylor
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about...  more


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Uncommon Criminals (Heist Society, Bk 2) by Ally Carter
Katarina Bishop has worn a lot of labels in her short life. Friend. Niece. Daughter. Thief. But for the last two months she's simply been known as the girl who robbed the greatest museum in the world. That's why Kat isn't surprised when she's asked to steal the infamous Cleopatra...  more


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Pandemonium (Delirium, Bk 2) by Lauren Oliver
"I’m pushing aside the memory of my nightmare, pushing aside thoughts of Alex, pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school, push, push, push, like Raven taught me to do. The old life is dead. But the old Lena is dead too. I buried her. I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of...  more


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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, Bk 1) by Tahereh Mafi
Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy...  more


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Across the Universe (Across the Universe, Bk 1) by Beth Revis
A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.  Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would...  more


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The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith & Jennife...
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. She's stuck at JFK, late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon to be step-mother that Hadley's...  more


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The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
It starts with an itch you just can't shake.  Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat.  A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets and chatting with strangers like they're old friends.  Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick in. And then...  more


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A Million Suns by Beth Revis
January 10, 2012Godspeed was fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos.  It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. And everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed. But there may just be hope: Elder has assumed leadership...  more


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The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
Josh and Emma are about to discover themselves -- fifteen years in the future. It's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long -- at least, up until last November, when everything changed. Things have been awkward ever...  more


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Thumped (Bumped, Bk 2) by Megan McCafferty
It’s been thirty-five weeks since twin sisters Harmony and Melody went their separate ways. And now their story has become irresistible: twins separated at birth, each due to deliver twins…on the same day!   Married to Ram and living in Goodside, Harmony spends her time trying...  more


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Something Like Fate by Susane Colasanti
Best friends Lani and Erin couldn’t be more different. Lani’s reserved and thoughtful; Erin’s bubbly and outgoing. Lani likes to do her own thing; Erin prefers an entourage. There’s no possible way they could be interested in the same guy. So when Erin starts dating Jason, Lani can’t believe she...  more


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Fire by Kristin Cashore
She is the last of her kind... It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest are filled with spies and thieves. This is where...  more


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I've Got Your Number (Large Print) by Sophie Kinsella
I've lost it. :( The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus?s family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents are coming, I?ve lost it. The very same day! Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive :) !!  ...  more


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Seeds of Discovery (Dusk Gate Chronicles) by Breeana Puttroff
Curiosity can be a dangerous thing... Quinn Robbins is about to discover a secret that will change her life forever. On a winter evening, Quinn is driving home with her little sister when she nearly runs over a teenage boy crossing the highway in an odd location. When she discovers his...  more


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The Death Cure (Maze Runner, Bk 3) by James Dashner
It’s the end of the line.   WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends -- the Gladers. But it’s finally over. The trials are complete, after one final test.   Will anyone survive?   What WICKED doesn’t know is...  more


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Crossed (Matched, Bk 2) by Ally Condie
In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky -- taken by the Society to his certain death -- only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake. Cassia's quest...  more


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Legend (Legend, Bk 1) by Marie Lu
What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military...  more


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Whisper Walker (Volume 1) by London Cole
On his seventeenth birthday, orphan Drake Adair discovers he can see ghosts when he falls into a pit of human remains. What he didn't realize was that he'd stumbled onto his destiny. Drake unearths a plot to tear apart life as he knows it. A scheme that will use the very people closest to him...  more


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Insurgent (Divergent, Bk 2) by Veronica Roth
One choice can transform you -- or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves -- and herself -- while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and...  more


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Monument 14 (Monument 14, Bk 1) by Emmy Laybourne
Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not -- you hurdle down the stairs and make a run for the...  more


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Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen...  more


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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Standing on the fringes of life...offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being a...  more


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The Selection (Selection, Bk 1) by Kiera Cass
For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America...  more


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Queen of Babble Big Mouth, Big Heart, Big Problems / Queen of Babble in the Big City ...
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The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg
Penny is sick of boys and sick of dating. So she vows: no more. It's a personal choice. . .and, of course, soon everyone wants to know about it. And a few other girls are inspired. A movement is born: The Lonely Hearts Club (named after the band from Sgt. Pepper). Penny is suddenly known for...  more


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Unwind (Unwind, Bk 1) by Neal Shusterman
In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would "unwind" them Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's...  more


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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Bk 1...
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the...  more


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October Sky: A Memoir by Homer Hickam
The true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film.It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain future, Homer Hickam nurtured a dream: to send...  more


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My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
A gorgeous debut about family, friendship, first romance, and how to be true to one person you love without betraying another “One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time.” The Garretts are everything...  more


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Eve & Adam (Eve & Adam, Bk 1) by Katherine Applegate & Michael Grant
Sixteen-year-old Evening Spiker lives an affluent life in San Francisco with her mother, EmmaRose, a successful geneticist and owner of Spiker Biotech. Sure, Evening misses her father who died mysteriously, but she’s never really questioned it. Much like how she’s never stopped to...  more


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Incarnate by Jodi Meadows
NEWSOUL Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why. NOSOUL Even Ana's own mother thinks she's a...  more


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Breathe (Breathe, Bk 1) by Sarah Crossan
The world has no air. If you want to survive, you pay to breathe. But what if you can't? And what if you think everything could be different? Three teens will leave everything they know behind in Sarah Crossan's gripping and original dystopian teen novel of danger, longing, and...  more


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Nerve by Jeanne Ryan
A high-stakes online game of dares turns deadly When Vee is picked to be a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, she discovers that the game knows her. They tempt her with prizes taken from her ThisIsMe page and team her up with the perfect boy, sizzling-hot Ian. At...  more


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Roots of Insight by Breeana Puttroff
Quinn Robbins has just returned from spending ten days in Eirentheos, a world she had never known existed. Trying to settle back into her familiar life and establish a relationship with her new boyfriend, Zander, is more of a challenge than she ever dreamed it would be. Things are just beginning...  more


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Comment added 2/14/12 by Mary S. (mscottcgp) - , :
checked out your book list and put " The Declaration" on my wish list!