Teenscape LaGrange

Brashares, Ann. 3 Willows. The Sisterhood Grows. YA/ F/ BRA/ CD BOOK
Ama, Jo, and Polly, three close friends from Bethesda, Maryland, spend the summer before ninth grade learning about themselves, their families, and the changing nature of their friendship.

Card, Orson Scott. A War of Gifts. YA/ F/CAR/ CD BOOK
In a short novel set during Ender Wiggins's first years at Battle School, where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays, chaos erupts when older student Dink Meeker places a gift in another student's shoe on Sinterklaaus Day, a small act of rebellion that ignites a struggle between the students and staff and forces everyone to make a choice during the War over Santa Claus.

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Anderson, Laurie Halse. Twisted. YA/ AND/ CD BOOK
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.

Cabot, Meg. Jinx. YA/ CAB/ CD BOOK
Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.

Lyga, Barry. The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. YA/ LYG/ CD BOOK
A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.

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Colfer, Eoin. Airman. YA/ F/ COL/ CD BOOK
In the 1890s on an island off the Irish coast, Conor Broekhart is falsely imprisoned and passes the solitary months by scratching designs of flying machines into the walls, including one for a glider with which he dreams of escape.

Scott, Michael. The Magician. YA/ F/ SCO/ CD BOOK
With their magic becoming weaker as a result of not being near the Book of Abraham the Mage, Nicholas and Perenell struggle to keep Nicollo Machiavelli at bay while Nicholas deals with an unhappy homecoming in Paris in the company of his friends, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty.

Kadohata, Cynthia. Outside Beauty. YA/ F/ KAD/ CD BOOK
Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face.

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