Mia was living a normal life in New York City with her mom. Well, as normal as you can when your mother is dating your Algebra teacher and that happens to be a class you're failing and your best friend Lilly is constantly analyzing your life. Mia's life takes a turn when her dad comes to visit. He has some important news to tell her: she's a princess and next in line to the throne of Genovia! As if life as a high school freshman wasn't bad enough! One day you are just a freshman freak at Albert Einstein High School, the next a princess on the cover of the New York Post! Life will never be the same. To get a glimpse of life as a teenage princess, just read Mia's diary.

Reviewed by Angela A., Cornelius Branch

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Terrific series, I love them! They're addictive and the whole series is equally good.
-Lauren, Charlotte, North Carolina

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This is the humorous diary of a year in the life of a British fourteen-year-old, Georgia Nicholson, who has a rather wild cat, one eyebrow the length of her forehead, parents that are weird, and a crush on a handsome hunk. Although Georgia is a British teen, female readers will enjoy her wit and wisdom of typical teen concerns. Although her parents are odd, she adores her three-year-old sister, who pees in bed and wears a "nappy." She has a deep desire to be beautiful and older to impress a gorgeous "bloke," so she attempts to bleach her hair and reduce the size of her nose. The British glossary helps to understand the world of Georgia Nicolson.

Reviewed by Nancy S., Morrison Regional

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The honest and bold diary of Georgia Nicholson completely opened up the window to the life of a typical British teenager. It astounded me how, even though we share the same language, our vocabularies are wildly different! Georgia's glossary has a lot of good words to add to anyone's lexicon.
-Abby, Charlotte, NC

When I first brought this book home from the library my mother read the title and said that it might not be appropriate for me to read. But I told her that I was sure it didn't actually talk about the words that are on the title of the book. When I finally got a chance to sit down and read the the book I loved it. I enjoyed learning about words that people in England use that actually mean different things. I encourage young adults to read this book. I think they will enjoy it as much as I did.
-Shantella, Charlotte, N.C.

In this hilarious diary, British teenager Georgia shares her views about everything. She tells about her huge crush on a sex god named Robbie, her frustrations with her parents and her close friend Jas, all about her hate for Wet Lindsay, about her attempts to control her vicious cat Angus, and even about Libby, her three year old sister who poops in her bed. It is overall a fantastic book that makes a great and very humorous read!
-Mary, Charlotte, NC

Overall a fantastic book that makes a great and very humorous read.
-Mary, Charlotte, NC

I read this book, and the sequels, "It's OK, I'm wearing really big knickers", "Knocked out by my Nunga-Nungas" and "Dancing in my nuddy-pants". they were all hilarious. I found it amazing that I know so many American approximations of our words, but they don't even know what a nappy is. I know what a diaper is, so they should learn more English! I can't believe how many Americans think its offensive that Georgia talks about snogging and sex and stuff! This one review by an American girl was REALLY funny cos she just didn't like it at all. I'm glad u lot liked it, cos it shows not everyone is that narrow minded!
-Emily, London, England

This is the best book ever! Way 2 good 4 words!
-Ailish, Sunderland, England

This is the funniest book I have ever read! I was laughing out loud the entire time! Read it, you'll be glad you did!
-Carlie, Cincinnati, Ohio

I read this book, and it was soooo funny! You shouldn't let the title fool you because it really is a great book!
-Alex, Glenview, Illinois

I loved it! It is so funny! I want to be in the film! I'd be a great Jas OR Georgia.
-Charlotte, Yorkshire

This was an awesome book. It was funny and cute. I loved the entire series.
-Jaime, Nazareth, PA

The best book, ever!! It makes me laugh, and I have read it about 10,000,000,000 times!! I love it; amazing, everyone should read it. The glossary confused me at first because I understood all the words, but then I remembered America!!
-Danii, England

This series is my favorite! I've read them all multiple times. They're fast reads and incredibly funny! I find myself using the snogging scale, and adding "osity" to the end of words like Georgia. This is a must read for all teenage girls!
-Jessie, Charlotte, NC

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In this witty retelling of the Cinderella story, Ella has charmed Prince Charming and is living in the palace while being groomed in all the social graces. What’s a girl to do when that man of her dreams turns out to be shallow, vain and a not very bright bore? Will a true friendship with the interesting and smart Jed turn out to be true love? Ella faces both danger and the displeasure of those at the palace after she questions her feelings and her future relationship with Prince Charming. If you are looking for a fresh and fun twist on an old story then Just Ella is just perfect!

Reviewed by Beverly S., Davidson Branch

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I really loved this book! It was so good I read it three times! I love how there are challenges that the heroine must face and it made the story even better! This is an amazing book! I highly recommend it to anyone!
-Britni, Charlotte, NC

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When Macy Queen’s father dies suddenly of a heart attack, she simply shuts down. To cope with her overwhelming feelings of loss Macy tries to be perfect – look perfect, dress perfect, have the perfect boyfriend, get good grades, etc. But, when a chance encounter with a chaotic catering company offers her an unexpected job, everything turns around for Macy. She is finally having fun, making friends and really living life instead of trying to be perfect. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen follows Macy as she adjusts to her new friends, the loss of her father and her relationship with Wes, a guy who is not-so-perfect, but may be perfect for her.

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Hanna is facing a pretty dull winter. She just broke up with her boyfriend and has a boring job at the local mall. But, one night when she goes for a walk her life is turned upside down. Hanna is the last person to see two people alive before a tragic accident. She keeps this information a secret as she tries to sort through her feelings on what happened and how this affects her. While Hanna is trying to sort all this out in her head she goes through some major life changes – fighting with her two best friends and falling in love. Just when it seems like Hanna can do nothing right, she receives help from an unlikely source and is able to pull herself back together. Just Like That is an introspective novel that explores issues of family, love, fate and friendship.

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Imagine setting off on the ultimate scavenger hunt, becoming a world traveler with only a backpack, a thousand dollars, and a set of blue envelopes. When Ginny’s aunt dies, she leaves her a set of thirteen envelopes. Ginny must open each envelope one at a time and follow the instructions inside. She has no idea where she will be going at any given time or who she will meet along the way, but her adventures will change her forever. Awkward moments, new friends, laughter and tears, and a lot of love play a part in this touching story about a girl learning to stand on her own two feet.

Reviewed by Christine B., South County Regional

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This book was thrilling, romantic, funny and mysterious as Ginny tries to follow her deceased aunt's trip through Europe! I thouroghly enjoyed this book and I am waiting for a sequel! I give this book 5 stars and 2 thumbs up. It will keep readers hooked until the very end. If you have not read this book, please look into checking it out from your local library.
-Jenna, Georgia

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When Kelsey's mom decides to move the family from Boston to California, Kelsey is not happy. But, things start to turn around when Kelsey starts dating the star of East Bay High, C.J. Logan. Not only is C.J. hot, he is a pro-skater who has competed in the X-Games. After a year of dating C.J. and being in with the popular crowd at EBH, Kelsey starts to realize that being C.J. Logan's girlfriend is not all it's cracked up to be. But, when she breaks up with him things get ugly. Kelsey is now the brunt of some vicious rumors. Will she stand up for herself or just hope it all goes away? This witty novel explores high school romance and the effects of rumors. How Kelsey handles the situation will make the reader want to cheer her on!

Reviewed by Jessica B., University City Regional

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Have rumors about you ever circulated in your school? High school sophomore Ruby “Roo” Oliver has to make a list of every boy she has ever liked as her homework for therapy. When her former best friend finds a draft of the list in the trash, photocopies appear all around the school. Suddenly, Roo finds herself the center of attention and she’s not sure she likes it. This amusing, moving, and true-to-life book is a fun read that feels like reading a good friend’s journal.

Reviewed by Emily L., University City Regional

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This was a great book. I loved it! It only took me a few days to read! Creative and Cool!
-Phyllis, Akron, Ohio

I loved this book! I read it in one day, and I love the "Boy book" and the "Treasure map of boys" also!
-Zula, Charlotte, NC

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What do you do if you are a senior in High School, without a prom date? Well, if you are Jack Grammar your so-called friends secretly put an ad for your date on the High School classified web site. You see, Jack is kind of a dating geek; he just can’t get it right. Now Jack becomes the dating king, juggling one date after another trying to decide which girl to pick. Did his friends play fair in the advertisement, did he pick the right girl, and did he ever get to the prom? Read this fast-paced novel and find out the surprise ending.

Reviewed by Sherry J., Sugar Creek Branch

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The anonymous “Gossip Girl” runs a website where she posts information about the sinful activities of the rich, privileged, private school kids living in Manhattan. She’s always watching as they party and carry on their romantic escapades. When beautiful, popular Serena returns to New York after spending a year at boarding school, all the boys want to be with her. This makes all their girlfriends jealous, including Serena’s former best friend Blair. Following these spoiled, wild teens on their adventures makes for fun, guilty pleasure reading. Even better, this book is just the first of a bestselling, long-running series, so read it now and let the party begin!

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Amazing book!!!!! I can't what to see the show!!!
-Emily, Cincinnati, OH

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The “Pretty Little Liars” of Rosewood are back! Spencer, Aria, Emily and Hanna attend the elite Rosewood Day School; they wear only the hottest designer clothes and think nothing of flipping out their parents' charge cards on a regular basis. On the outside, it appears they lead perfect lives, except that they think their dead best friend, Allison, might be blackmailing them. The five girls were a tight group until Allison’s murder, and now they are stuck wondering who knows their secrets as they receive elusive messages from someone known only as A. Will their secrets come out? Is Allison really taunting them from beyond the grave? Shepard dishes out more teasing clues in the saga of the Pretty Little Liars series.

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Love this book!!!!! I can't what for the fourth one to come out...
-Lindsay, Cincinnati, OH

This is a very good book that has a lot of suspense and a plot that will keep you on edge.
-Taylor, Charlotte NC

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Jas is sitting by the pool at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas when her life takes it normal path toward chaos. Who knew that chasing after a cat, upon the request of a little boy, would lead to a murder mystery? When Jas’s friends arrive in Las Vegas to lend a hand, the fun and trouble really begin. All this excitement and Jas still needs to finish her summer Meaningful Reflection Journal assignment. So watch out as Jas and her friends solve the crime and Jas finally gets the guy, only to lose the guy and possible get him back again. This book was on the 2007 Teens’ Top Ten list.

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Being a CIA legacy with a genius IQ is a burden, especially when you are fourteen and boy crazy. Cammie had hoped to start the new semester off on the right track. Instead she gets summoned to CIA headquarters to debrief the final exam fiasco of last semester. This semester will be especially hard since not only will she have to study counter-surveillance, but surprises await her and her friends at Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women. That’s when the mysterious boys join their classes, supposedly to forge bonds that will carry them into their careers. But the girls start to wonder about the real reason the boys are there when strange things start to happen.

Reviewed by Sherry J., Sugar Creek

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Frankie Landau-Banks went home from her freshman year of high school as her family's "bunny rabbit"; sweet, scrawny and practically invisible to boys. She came back for her sophomore year at Alabaster Prep as a hottie with looks, brains and a desire to prove herself not only to the most popular senior at school, but the whole world in general. When exposed to her father's exclusively male secret society, Frankie decides it's time to prove that a girl can do just about anything a boy can if not more. Creative, funny and downright delicious you will find yourself transported into the highly inventive mind of girl genius Frankie Landau-Banks. But beware with genius like this trouble is sure to follow.

Reviewed by Courtney A., South County Regional

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Lydia, Cassie, and Emily are best friends.They get assigned into a pen pal project and everything goes wild! Lydia writes Sebastian. Cassie writes Matthew. Emily writes Charlie. Charlie and Sebastian seem nice but Matthew..... It turns into missions, date plans, mistaken identities, fights, love letters, lies, lock picking, false alarms, and lots and lots of trouble. In the middle of all this drama Emily and Lydia feel like they are losing Cassie. This book is about friendship, love, and teenage drama. From the moment I started reading it I felt I was a part of the story.. She made me feel their pain, joy, and anger. I was glued to this book until I read the last page.

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This re-telling of Beauty and the Beast keeps the important details from the familiar story-a transformation, a rose, the power of true love-but updates the tale for modern-day Manhattan. “Beast” Kyle joins an “Unexpected Changes” chat group and uses his magic mirror to see if the teenage girls he meets on MySpace are really teenage girls, and “Beauty” Lindy is handed over to Kyle by her deadbeat, drug-dealer father. While the fairy-tale plot and the support group transcripts give the book a playful feel, the pain that Kyle and Lindy experience because of their neglectful fathers is portrayed seriously, and it gives their relationship an authenticity that it might otherwise lack. Beastly is a charming and satisfying romance for teen readers.

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This book is just the kind of book for me and I loved it. If anyone needs a good book to read, this is it!!
-Emmily, Yoakum, Texas

A very refreshing tale of Beauty and the Beast from the Beast's point of view! You will LOVE it!
-Victoria, Charlotte, NC

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“This house is mine and I am its beating heart,” exclaims Cora when her once quiet run down house is overtaken by 17-year old Evan, his mother and his 5-year old sister Libby. Yet, Cora becomes fascinated with Evan as he reminds her of a past lover from when she used to live in the house nearly 100 years earlier. Cora is a ghost. She first appears in Evan’s dreams, causing him to question whether he truly loves his girlfriend Carrie, but then later reveals herself as shadows and moving objects throughout the house. Through an unusual combination of poetry and prose, author A.M. Jenkins creates an eerie and romantic coming of age tale of two teenagers—one dead and one alive.

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This is an awsome book. It only took me a day to read!
-Marley, Charlotte, NC

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When Ruby`s mother disappears Ruby figures she can hold things together for a few more months until she turns 18, after all she`s pretty much on her own even when her mother is around. But, then her landlords find out and call social services and that`s how Ruby ends up living with her sister Cora who she hasn`t seen in over 10 years. Even though Cora is married and living in a huge house with every luxury imaginable, Ruby just doesn`t feel comfortable. Ruby has learned not to let anyone get too close, but can she open herself up to people who truly care about her? Lock and Key explores the issue of what it means to be a family.

Reviewed by Jessica B., University City Regional

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If a genie granted you one wish, what would you use it for? Seventeen-year-old Annika tells her 6-year-old brother Jeremy that a genie gave her three wishes and she’s giving one to him. She expects him to wish for the new Teen Robin Hood action figure. Instead, he wishes for the real Teen Robin Hood, a character on a popular TV show, to come visit him before his surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. Desperate to do anything for her sick brother, Annika heads to Hollywood to find the very cute actor and convince him to come back with her. Will the power of positive thinking lead Teen Robin Hood to a young boy in trouble, or will it lead Annika straight into hot water?

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Have you ever felt like you’ve outgrown your friends? Polly, Jo, and Ama met on the first day of third grade, and have been close friends ever since. But now, the summer before they start high school, there doesn’t seem to be much keeping them together anymore. This book is set in the same town as the author’s Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, and fans of those books will spot glimpses of a few characters from those books. But the focus of this charming and engrossing read is on the three new girls, and whether their friendship can survive.

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We all have to make choices. Think about a difficult choice you’ve had to make. Did you have help making it? For Mia, some choices have been easy, like playing the cello, which always called to her, even though her family is more rock-and-roll than classical music. Others, like applying to Julliard, thousands of miles away from her family and her boyfriend Adam, have been more difficult. But then on one weekday morning, Mia’s life completely changes, and she realizes she has to make the biggest and most difficult decision imaginable. And she has to do it completely on her own.

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Auden was always the responsible, perfect child while her older brother Hollis was the wild and crazy one. But, the summer before college Auden impulsively decides to spend the summer at the beach with her Dad and his new family. At first Auden thinks she might have made a mistake, but slowly she starts to make friends and enjoy her time there. And when she meets Eli, a guarded and mysterious guy, Auden’s experiences really begin to open up. But, Auden is not used to opening up to anyone. Can she be open to new things – including Eli? Along for the Ride is a wonderful book about second chances and learning to live in the moment.

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How do you tell your best friend that you were, and maybe still are, in love with your other best friend who just happens to be that friend’s older brother? And can you really die of a broken heart? These questions torment Anna when she should be having the best summer ever. Anna and girlfriend Frankie are vacationing in Zanzibar Bay, California--3000 miles from last year’s freak accident that took Matt from them. Even though Anna tries to forget Matt, her first love, by agreeing to play ‘twenty boy summer,’ she just can’t let go. Then she meets Sam. Can Anna move past her feelings of guilt and loss? Ockler’s sensitive and lyrical storytelling, like constant moving ocean waves, reminds us that life and love move on eventually.

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Being the older sister can be a real pain. If you are like Carly, you are expected to take care of your younger sister all of the time. That is why she held off on taking gym her freshman year. But how much should you have to do for your little sister? Where do you draw the line? Especially when your little sister is hot because she got gorgeous while you were away over the summer? Can Carly protect her sister from everything? She would like a life of her own. When a new boy starts at school, every girl seems to be interested in him, especially Carly. He likes the same funky 60s music she does. It has to be fate or is it?

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It`s senior year. Sarah is a brain who is desperate to get away from the small town she`s grown up in, and Toby is a music obsessed slacker with a major crush on Sarah. He decides this is the year he will make Sarah fall in love with him, but she is more interested in Dave, a handsome and popular jock. However, once she gets to know Toby and finds out how much they have in common, she begins to rethink things. This year, Sarah and Toby will not only discover each other, but also find themselves along the way. When it Happens is a funny, sweet teen romance about what it means to find your soulmate.

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Secrets of My Hollywood Life is about Samantha Burke, star of the hit TV show, “Family Affair.” While the novel is somewhat unrealistic, sugar-coating the film industry, it is a fun look inside Hollywood. Kaitlyn decides she wants a little break from acting and goes undercover as a normal high school student. Of course, it becomes more and more difficult to hide behind her disguise, thanks to conniving costar Sky Mackenzie and a brewing love interest. This is the first in the series, and I loved every one of them!

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When your dad is one of the leading Shakespeare scholars in the world and your mom is a level headed attorney, views of romance can be different. After her boyfriend dumps her, Kate vows to stay sensible and never fall in love again. Until her father announces that she has won a trip to study Romeo and Juliet in Verona, Italy. She anticipates studying the words, rhymes, and rhythm of the play and is shocked to find out that she and five other students will be performing key sections of the play and answering letters people send to Juliet. With only a few weeks, will a certain Italian boy be able to convince her that love is not a lost cause? With a little help from Juliet.

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If you loved Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, well then Nightlight will not compare. But as a Twilight fan, you will definitely recognize and appreciate the familiar in this hilarious parody. Confident and klutzy Belle Goose arrives in Switchblade, Oregon, and meets the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen, a cute computer nerd who has no interest in girls. Belle is determined to make Edwart fall in love with her and change her into a vampire; however, Belle makes an unexpected discovery, disrupting both her plans and the book’s ending. Harvard Lampoon mocks everything about this popular vampire series from Meyer’s style of writing, her characters, the movies, to vampire lore. This is a quick and fun read but might be hard for non-Twilight readers to follow.

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Charlotte has learned a lot as a perfume salesperson at the mall, enough to write a thesis in college. First, don’t trust skinny people who work at Cinnabon, don’t they eat what they sell? Second, Local Prep school girls are easy to spot by where they shop and how much they buy. When she sees her best friend’s boyfriend flirting with another girl, Charlotte has to tell Brianna what she saw. How was Charlotte to know that Brianna would believe him over her? Charlotte has to find a way to prove she was right, but all of her efforts backfire along the way. Will she ever convince her friend that she saw more than just talk? How can she prove she isn’t making things up?

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Delilah Hannaford's life seems broken. Buried family secrets, an unknown father, and a detached workaholic mother are just a few of the missing pieces that Delilah must deal with this summer as she and her mom travel to Red Falls, Vermont. Nor did Delilah leave much behind in Pennsylvania, just her junior year of poor grades, uninteresting friends, and non-boyfriend Finn. In Red Falls, Delilah and her mom are forced to face family truths and ghosts, some dead and some very much alive like handsome and sweet Patrick who Delilah hasn't seen since she was eight years old. With a compelling account about finding oneself and finding love, author Sarah Ockler again satisfies readers with her own unique lyrical style of storytelling.

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All Kat wanted was a normal life. After Kat pulled off her biggest job, she was out of the family business. Or so she thought. When the headmaster’s car was found on the fountain, security cameras point to her as the culprit. Kat got kicked out of school. Her father is in trouble and they have a limited time to help. He is accused of stealing paintings from someone who is bad to the bone. Kat’s father didn’t do it; he was in another country. Kat and her friends can save him by stealing the paintings back. But the paintings are in the most secure building in the world. How can she and her friends pull off their biggest job in just a few short days?

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Steph Landry has been picked on by the popular kids since she spilled a red big gulp on Lauren in the fourth grade. This is the year everything changes for her. Since finding the book “How to be Popular” earlier this summer in the attic of her soon-to-be step-grandma, Steph has been planning her rise to popularity. Steph uses the steps in the book to win the popular crowd over or at least get them to notice her. The first week of eleventh grade changes her life, but is it for the better? Of course, Lauren, her worst tormentor, is resistant to her moves especially when her quarterback boyfriend, Mark Finley, is nice to Steph. What will happen now that Lauren is out for blood?

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It has been three years since the devastating accident, three years since Adam convinced Mia to stay behind, and three years since Mia walked out of Adam’s life. Now they are living in different worlds on opposite coasts, she a renowned cellist in New York City and he a high-profile rock musician in L.A. Then on the eve of Adam`s world tour, he finds himself at Carnegie Hall listening to Mia`s breakout performance. This chance encounter leads to shared confessions and bitter memories. Beautifully written through Adam`s voice and his musical lyrics, this sequel to If I Stay is a complex and emotional rollercoaster. A painful yet hopeful ride that is necessary as well as cathartic for Adam and Mia, and as much so for their fans.

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While on layover at the Bangkok airport, sixteen-year old Gemma stops for coffee. Her parents are waiting at the gate, but she's in no hurry to join them. She doesn't notice the handsome stranger watching until he buys her coffee, introducing himself as Ty. Gemma is flattered and intrigued; he looks vaguely familiar. Minutes later, she is drugged, taken without notice, only to awaken days later in the Australian Outback. As time passes, Gemma uncovers why Ty seems familiar, why he chose her, and that escape is impossible. Gemma struggles to understand and resist the beautiful yet dangerous landscape, much like Ty himself. Right and wrong become blurred as do love and obsession in this intense, conflicting and gritty narrative written as a letter from Gemma to Ty.

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Envision a world so scientifically advanced that it promises near immortality until technology goes terribly wrong and women can only live to be twenty and men to twenty five. Abducted and held against her will miles away from home, sixteen year old Rhine is forced into marriage. Chosen for her beauty along with two other women, Rhine is submitted to a multiple wedding ceremony where she becomes a “sister wife” to House Governor Linden. A first person narrative builds the story gradually and keeps our interest through introspective descriptions of Rhine’s feelings and observations. The first book in an anticipated trilogy, follow along as romance and suspense build toward the novel’s conclusion. Will Rhine’s determination be able to thwart her captors and enable her to escape to freedom?

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In this sequel to Airheads, Emerson is settling into supermodel Nikki Howard’s life, sort of. Because of her work schedule, she misses lots of classes. She hates posing for the pictures everyone wants to take, but she needs to keep up the charade to keep her family safe. The amnesia story is believable enough for most of Nikki’s friends, until Nikki’s brother arrives at her door and tells her that their mother is missing. The problem is Nikki’s brother does not believe she is Nikki, or the amnesia story, so now he thinks his sister is missing as well. Emerson feels like she has to help him; he is her family, kind of. How can Emerson help without angering her all-powerful employer, and her real family?

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Lizzie, Hudson and Carina have been friends since they were little. They have one major thing in common, they all have famous parents. Lizzie Summers is tired of her supermodel mother, Katia, making her stand for pictures. Doesn’t her mother know that she isn’t pretty and the photographers don’t want her picture? That is until a couple of journalists ask her what it feels like to have the hottest mom in the world. She forgets the rules for a moment and tells them what is really on her mind. Oops! When the video they took goes viral, things change. Lizzie is approached by a photographer who thinks she is the new face of pretty. Can Lizzie’s friends help her navigate the often dangerous media world?

Reviewed by Linda K., North County Regional

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Elena wakes up to an almost perfect world; her friends are safe, her beloved town in Virginia has been saved from evil and she still enjoys the love of one vampire, Stefan Salvatore. Readers were punched in the stomach when Damon Salvatore was killed in the last Vampire Diaries book and the love triangle shattered. The 6th installment of L.J. Smith`s popular young adult series The Vampire Diaries continues with new life in The Hunters: Phantom. But of course, they didn`t come back from the Dark Dimensions alone and it isn`t long before a new evil begins to harass the group and a new handsome visitor to town is the prime suspect.

Reviewed by Angel T., Beatties Ford Road Branch

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Anna Oliphant, a high school senior from Atlanta, has a potential boyfriend, a best friend, and a job at a movie theater. Her father is sending her to the School of America in Paris for her senior year. She speaks no French and feels abandoned. Anna shares her life as if she is confiding in you. You learn about her friends at her new school, her emails from home, and her movie review blog. Etienne St. Clair, a senior, shows her Paris and its movie theaters. When she goes home on break, she sees her family and friends have moved on. Etienne and Anna become best friends, but will it be more? Join Anna and her friends on their journey. It is worth the trip.

Reviewed by Megan M., Main Library

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How can Hadley watch her father marry another woman? Hadley is furious even though she agreed to be a bridesmaid. Hadley`s day worsens when she misses her flight to London for the wedding. Now she`s stuck in the airport for another three hours! Then she meets Oliver. It`s like they`ve always known one another. They sit together on the plane talking all night feeling cocooned in their own private world. The next day he kisses her. But then they part ways. Will Hadley ever see Oliver again? The probability of loving this story is very high! A well-written and introspective book, Smith focuses on the importance of family, fate and following your heart. Be prepared to fall in love with Hadley and Oliver’s story!

Reviewed by Carrie M., Myers Park Branch

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The Vampire Diaries series continues as the teenagers of Fell`s Church go off to Dalcrest College and as usual, danger surrounds them. The love triangle is renewed between the beautiful Elena Gilbert and the Italian brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore. Damon was resurrected in the last book and Elena continues to struggle through her love for both. Elena`s gal pals Meredith and Bonnie share a dorm room while their childhood buddy Matt discovers sports glory. Nefariously, students on campus start to go missing or are found dead, and a supernatural being is suspected. There are so many revelations and secrecy abounds; secret pasts, secret societies, and secret love.

Reviewed by Angel T., Beatties Ford Road Branch

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Lola Nolan, a senior at San Francisco’s Harvey Milk High, does things in a big way. She dresses in costume because “life is too short to be the same person every day.” She is dating Max, 22, who is a meter reader and lead singer in a punk band. She works at a movie theater with Anna and St. Clair, who are in Perkins’s first novel. If she could get the blessing of her two dads and go to the Winter Formal as Marie Antoinette, her life would be complete. Then she finds out Cricket Bell, the boy next door who broke her heart is back! What’s a girl to do? In her second novel, Stephanie Perkins chronicles emotional roller coaster that is first love.

Reviewed by Megan M., Main Library

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It’s not that Tara believes in bad luck, but turning 13 on the 13th just feels, well, a little . . . bad. And ok, it was a terrible idea to try and steal the principal’s goat out of his office, and accidentally using pepper spray on someone obviously made things worse. But payback and life turn even weirder when Tara is shipped off to stay with relatives she barely knows, and she discovers her soul is indebted to a stranger. Trying to save her soul with the help of some extreme new friends while figuring out the mysteries of this new small town universe makes for an excellent read in the third book of the Willow Falls series.

Reviewed by Amanda D., University City Regional

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Denim and Dre are the ideal picture of teenage puppy love. Growing up together as friends, it was just a matter of time until they fell in love. Denim`s parents are quite concerned about the relationship and when they voice their concerns, it only pushes them closer. These two headstrong teens take you on a ride throughout their early stages to the ultimate test of their love. When Dre mysteriously disappears, Denim is left feeling lost and confused. Unsure of how to handle it, she starts lashing out and not caring about the consequences. Young adults who enjoy the dramas of high school will enjoy this book and the entire series.

Reviewed by Candy H., Beatties Ford Road Branch

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