Posts Tagged ‘teen’
Touch
HarperTeen, 2009
Fiction
ISBN: 0061375179
272 pages
Synopsis
Something happened to fourteen-year-old Maisie Willard—something involving her three friends, all boys. But their stories don’t match, and the rumors spin out of control. Then other people get involved . . . the school, the parents, the lawyers. The incident at the back of the bus becomes the center of Maisie’s life and the talk of the school, and, horribly, it becomes news. With just a few words and a touch, the kids and their community are changed forever. …
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Story of a Girl
Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007
Fiction
ISBN: 0316014532
208 pages
National Book Award Nominee
Synopsis
Caught having sex with an older boy in the backseat of his car by her father, thirteen-year-old Deanna quickly becomes branded a slut. Three years later, Deanna is still dealing with her reputation, a father who can’t look her in the eye, and her personal struggle with her identity and self-perception. Through a series of seemingly mundane events, Deanna decides to begin pursuing a path that will ultimately lead her to become the person she wants to be. …
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The Hunger Games
Scholastic Press, 2008
Science Fiction
ISBN: 0439023483
384 pages
Awards
Synopsis
Katniss lives in the dystopian future, where America has been sectioned into 12 different districts. District 12, where she lives, is the mining district, and other than the difficulty of hunting outside the perimeter to catch food for her mother and sister her life is generally fine. However, the selection for the Hunger Games is about to begin, and when her sister is chosen to be a participant, Katniss steps in to take her place. Now she must fight to the death with 23 other tributes in a televised game, and even her hunting and tracking skills may not be enough to keep her alive. …
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The Sorceress
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2009
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 0385735294
512 pages
Synopsis
As the day of reckoning approaches where the Dark Elders are planning to bring their banished brethren into the world and end the world as we know it, Nicholas Flamel and the two recently awakened twins, Sophie and Josh Newman are in a race against time and all of the dark forces against them. The first book takes place in California and the second in Paris. This book, the third edition to the series so far, takes place in London and a new cast of characters is added to the mix including William Shakespearre, Billy the Kid, and Gilgamesh. …
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The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian
Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007
Fiction
ISBN-10: 0316013684
240 pages
National Book Award Winner
Synopsis
Told from the first person narrative of Arnold Spirit, aka Junior, the story chronicles a year in his life as a Spokan Indian from Wellpinit, WA, as he bravely decides to go to a high school outside of the reservation in a neighboring White town. Forced to overcome his insecurities as an ethnic outsider and his handicaps and speech impediments having been born with water on the brain, Junior discovers that choosing hope and pursuing his dreams will be the most difficult thing he’s ever done. …
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The Magician
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2008
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 0385733585
496 pages
Synopsis
Continuing on from their first adventure, the twins Josh and Sophie Newman have now been transported to Paris through a ley-line, a magical portal that connects major parts of the world and can bring people from place to place instantaneously. Sophie’s powers have been awakened and she has all of the powers and memories of the Witch. They’ve escaped John Dee for now, but another powerful enemy is hot on their trail, the infamous Niccoló Machiavelli, a powerful, cold, and calculating adversary who has control over all of the Parisian police forces in addition to having magical abilities. …
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The Alchemyst
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2007
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN:0385733577
400 pages
Synopsis
Josh and Sophie Newman are average twin 15-year-old siblings. They travel around with their archeologist parents, play football, shop, talk on their cell phones, browse the internet. However, there is more to these twins than meets the eye, and the immortal Nicholas Flamel has a suspicion that they are the twins of legend mentioned in the Book of Abraham the Mage, a prophetic Codex that contains untold wonders. …
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