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1) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 9
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nikki's diary is up to the month of April, and springtime is sure to bring more wacky adventures with Nikki and her friends Chloe, Zoey, and Brandon!
3) Just listen
Author
Language
English
Description
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
4) Glass sword
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mare's blood is red -- the colour of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by the Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red and Silver fighters...
5) The Testing
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn't that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one and the same? The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation's chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing -- their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career. Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as...
6) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Language
English
Description
The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious Ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor, frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary Pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary and now she's been turned into one of them. A superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the Uglies down and the Pretties stupid. The strength,...
7) Deenie
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old girl seeemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.
8) If I stay
Author
Series
If I stay volume 1
Language
English
Description
In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeenyear- old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...
A sophisticated, layered, and heartachingly beautiful story about the power of family and friends, the choices we all make - and the ultimate choice Mia commands.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Literature experience volume level 7
Animal behavior and communication theme book
Houghton Mifflin reading volume grade 7
Literature experience volume level 7
Animal behavior and communication theme book
Houghton Mifflin reading volume grade 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she comes to love them as though they were brothers. With their help, and drawing on her father's training, she struggles day by day to survive. In the process, she...
14) City of bones
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 1
Language
English
Description
When 15-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?...
15) Geek charming
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rich, spoiled, and popular high school senior Dylan is coerced into doing a documentary film with Josh, one of the school's geeks, who leads her to realize that the world does not revolve around her.
Author
Series
JoJo and BowBow volume 8
Publisher
Nickelodeon/Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"JoJo is on tour! Her suitcase is packed with glittery ensembles, BowBow is stowed in a bedazzled doggie bag, and JoJo's BFF, Miley, is next to her on the plane as they touch down in London. When they check into their star-studded hotel, JoJo and Miley get the royal treatment and BowBow gets a proper puppy pamper. But that night at JoJo's big show, disaster strikes when JoJo's costume goes missing from the dressing room! Who could have taken it? JoJo...
Author
Publisher
Namelos
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Delia's summer is getting off to a terrible start. First, an inspector shows up at the house and threatens to condemn it. Then lightning strikes, literally, and Mama ends up in the hospital. To make matters even worse, with no other family to speak of, Delia is forced to move in with her nemesis, Tommy 'as-dense-as-a-stump' Parker. Not one to sit around doing nothing, Delia huddles with her best friend, Mae, and reluctantly recruits Tommy, to help....
Author
Series
Jojo and Bowbow volume 7
Publisher
Nickelodeon/Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When JoJo introduces Kyra to her fashion designer idol, Goldie Chic, Kyra's starstruck. Kyra wants to be just like Goldie when she grows up! JoJo and Kyra quickly fall for Goldie's wild but adorable three-year-old daughter, Lacey. So when Goldie offers to give Kyra feedback on her own fashion designs in exchange for babysitting, Kyra agrees in an instant--feedback from a successful designer is invaluable, and Lacey is the cutest! After an initially...