PERKS OF BEING A READER, I
MEAN, WALLFLOWER
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pERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWERby Stephen Chbosky
Meet Charlie - not a geek, not cool, just a wallflower. Read the book, see the movie, do both - just do it! |
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Please ignore vera dietz
by A.S. King Eighteen-year-old Vera's spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she's kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. When Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—but will she emerge and clear his name? |
rats saw god
by Rob Thomas In order to pass English class and graduate, 18-year-old Steve York has to write a 100- page essay about his life. What sounds like a run-of-the-mill writing assignment, however, becomes an excuse for Steve to reflect on the last four years (from Texas freshman to California senior), and figure out where it all went wrong. |
FAT KID RULES THE WORLD
by K.L. Going Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band. |
the curious incident of the dog in the night timeby Mark Haddon Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. When he is falsely accused of killing a neighbors dog, he must investigate to find the truth. |
looking for alaska
by John Green Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words–and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. |
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catch: a novel
by Will Leitch
Tim Temples is the pride of his small Illinois town. The summer after graduation he meets Helena who makes him see the world in a way he never has before. Tim will have to choose: small town hero or searching for something bigger.
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hard love
John, untouchable since his parents' divorce six years ago, and Marisol, who's recently come out as a lesbian, meet through their interest in writing zines, personal homemade magazines into which they pour their life stories.
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king dork
Tom Henderson is a typical American high school loser until he discovers the book, The Catcher in the Rye, that will change the world as he knows it. When Tom discovers his deceased father’s copy of the Salinger classic, he finds himself in the middle of several interlocking conspiracies and some serious mysteries.
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meet the wolfe brothers
Before THE BOOK THIEF, Markus Zusak wrote a trilogy of novels about the Wolfe Brothers: THE UNDERDOG, FIGHTING RUBEN WOLFE, and GETTING THE GIRL. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are champions at getting into fights, coming up with half-baked schemes, and generally disappointing girls, their parents, and their much more motivated older siblings.
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it's kind of a funny storyby Ned Vizzini
It's never really a funny story, but this one kind of is. What’s a 16-year-old boy doing playing music and table tennis with adult psychiatric patients – on a school day? It’s kind of a funny story… |
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