 Rachel
Cohn & David Levithan
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
High school
student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound
Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes
in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
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 Neil
Gaiman
Coraline
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door
into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her
own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save
herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
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 Anthony Horowitz
Stormbreaker
After the death of
the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is
coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's
intelligence agency, MI6.
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 Barbara
Kingsolver
The Secret Life of Bees
Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an
African-American woman who has cared for Lily since her mother's
death, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police
officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina.
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 Stephenie
Meyer
Twilight
When
seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in
Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school
for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to
realize is not wholly human.
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 Aya
Nakahara
Love*Com
Risa Koizumi is the tallest girl in class, and the last thing she
wants is the humiliation of standing next to Atsushi Otoni, the
shortest guy. Fate and the whole school have other ideas, and the
two find themselves cast as the unwilling stars of a bizarre
romantic comedy duo.
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 Tsugumi
Ohba
Death Note
A battle between the world's 2 greatest minds begins when Light
Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and
decides to rid the world of criminals.
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Death Note 1 and
Death Note 2! |
 Louise
Rennison
Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging
The
humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old
British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad
cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of
handsome hunk Robbie.
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 J.K.
Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
As
classes continue for sixth-year students at Hogwarts, Harry Potter
searches for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord
Voldemort, thereby finding what may be his only vulnerability.
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 Eric
Schlosser
Fast Food Nation
In
this book, the author investigates and comments on the cultural
history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it
eats.
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