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The Boyfriend List (series) |
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Author: |
E. Lockhart | |
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A Seattle fifteen-year-old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance-artist mother and her father, and more. | |
Genre: |
Fiction | |
| Veronica Garza, Reference Librarian from Kingwood |
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Title: |
Lipstick Apology |
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Author: |
Jennifer Jabaley | |
Description: |
After her parents' sudden death, sixteen-year-old Emily leaves Pennsylvania for her aunt's New York City apartment, private school, and disconcerting new relationships, all the while puzzling over her mother's mysterious apology to her. | |
Genre: |
Fiction | |
| Kathleen, Assistant Librarian for Children's Services from the eBranch |
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Title: |
Evolution of Calpurnia Tate |
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Author: |
Jacqueline Kelly | |
Description: |
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery. | |
Genre: |
Historical Fiction | |
| Kathleen, Assistant Librarian for Children's Services from the eBranch |
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Title: |
Goddess Boot Camp |
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Author: |
Tera Lynn Childs | |
Description: |
When she is unable to control her inherited powers, Phoebe must attend summer camp with a group of ten-year-olds, while coping with her boyfriend's apparent betrayal and mysterious messages about her deceased father. | |
Genre: |
Adventure | |
| Kathleen, Assistant Librarian for Children's Services from the eBranch |
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Title: |
The Season |
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Author: |
Sarah MacLean | |
Description: |
Showing no interest in the sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties, and country weekends enjoyed by the rest of early nineteenth-century London society, seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford seeks adventure as she investigates the puzzling murder of the Earl of Blackmoor, father of devilishly handsome Gavin. | |
Genre: |
Mystery | |
| Kathleen, Assistant Librarian for Children's Services from the eBranch |
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Title: |
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks |
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Author: |
E. Lockhart | |
Description: |
Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks. | |
Genre: |
Fiction | |
| Kathleen, Assistant Librarian for Children's Services from the eBranch |
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Title: |
Cupcake Queen |
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Author: |
Heather Hepler | |
Description: |
When Penny moves to Hog’s Hollow from New York City, her life changes drastically. Penny’s mom now runs a cupcake bakery, and Penny is stuck helping out. But that isn’t the worst of it. Not only did she leave her friends back home, but her dad stayed behind too. And then there’s Charity, resident mean girl who’s out to get Penny. With all this, Penny still finds some things to like: Tally and Blake…and Marcus—the cute, quiet boy who runs on the beach every night. But just when Penny begins to accept her new life, she’s forced to make a choice that will change everything. | |
Genre: |
Fiction | |
| Kathleen, Assistant Librarian for Children's Services from Select your branch... |
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Title: |
Heist Society |
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Author: |
Ally Carter | |
Description: |
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector. | |
Genre: |
Adventure | |
| Kathleen, Assistant Librarian for Children's Services from the eBranch |
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Title: |
The Daughters |
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Author: |
Joanna Philbin | |
Description: |
In New York City, three fourteen-year-old best friends who are all daughters of celebrities watch out for each other as they try to strike a balance between ordinary high school events, such as finding a date for the homecoming dance, and family functions like walking the red carpet with their famous parents. | |
Genre: |
Fiction | |
| Kathleen, Assistant Librarian for Children's Services from the eBranch |
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Title: |
The adoration of Jenna Fox |
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Author: |
Mary E. Pearson. | |
Description: |
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence. | |
Genre: |
Science Fiction | |
| Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita |
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