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Horowitz horror : stories you'll wish you'd never read
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
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2006; 217 p. ; 20 cm.
Nine horror stories set in England focus on everyday items that have sinister qualities.
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How it's done
MacLean, Christine Kole.
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2006; 332 p. ; 22 cm.
Brought up in a God-fearing home, eighteen-year-old Grace feels trapped in a ?suburban Alcatraz? by her hypocritical holy roller father and timid mother. And then he walks into her life . . . Michael Irving is a college professor, a man of the world, more likely to quote Shelley than scripture, and he's gorgeous. He is everything Grace has ever dreamed of?and he loves her. Freedom brings with it unanticipated complications, though, and Grace emerges from a cage only to find herself in a maze. She quickly discovers that being the lover?and then the fianc?e?of an older man is not all poetry and chardonnay. Told from Grace's perspective, How It's Done is an unflinching and insightful story of a young woman discovering who she wants to be.
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I am a taxi
Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
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2006; 205 p. ; 20 cm.
For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is the San Sebastian Women's Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government's war on drugs. Diego's adjusted to his new life. His parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother's hand-knitted goods, and to work as a "taxi," running errands for other prisoners. But then his little sister runs away, earning his mother a heavy fine. The debt and dawning realization of his hopeless situation make him vulnerable to his friend Mando's plan to make big money, fast. Soon, Diego is deep in the jungle, working as a virtual slave in an illegal cocaine operation. As his situation becomes more and more dangerous, he knows he must take a terrible risk if he ever wants to see his family again.
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The mediator : haunted
Cabot, Meg.
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2003; 263, 11 p. ; 28 cm.
Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who communicates with the dead, and she also happens to be in love with Jesse, a nineteenth-century ghost.
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The mediator : twilight
Cabot, Meg.
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2005; 312, 4 p. ; 18 cm.
Sixteen-year-old Carmel, California teenager Suze Simon is a typical high school student except for the fact that she is a "shifter" who can mediate between the living and the dead, and she is in love with a ghost from the nineteenth century.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne : a biography
Meltzer, Milton, 1915-
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2007; 160 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Learn about the life of the famous American author.
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Notes from the midnight driver
Sonnenblick, Jordan.
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2006; 265 p. ; 22 cm.
After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.
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Parent swap
Blacker, Terence.
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2006; 232 p. ; 22 cm.
Because his life is a bit of a mess, thirteen-year-old Danny Bell agrees to let ParentSwap(tm) try to match him with his ideal parents, but he soon realizes that the company is about more than giving adolescents a new start.
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Ranma 1/2. Volume 36
Takahashi, Rumiko, 1957-
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2006; 192 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
After sixteen years, the longest-running manga series in America has finally come to an incredible end! That's right -- this is the conclusion to one of the most outrageous, entertaining and endearing stories the world has ever know. The volume will answer all your questions (no peeking at the end)! Does Ranma break his gender-flipping curse? For that matter, does anybody find a way to reverse the effects of the legendary cursed spring? Does Mousse get Shampoo? Does Kuno finally get his little red-headed pig-tail girl? Does panty-stealing Happosai pilfer enough undergarments to complete his collection? An yes, the ultimate question will be answered: do Ranma and Akane get married?
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Stormbreaker
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
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2006; 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Soon to be the focus of a major motion picture, the "New York Times" bestselling Alex Rider series follows the adventures of a teenage secret agent. Now is the chance to see the story visualized in a new format with bold, edgy, manga-like illustrations that bring Alex to life.
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Street love
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-
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2006; 134 p. ; 19 cm.
This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.
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Tending to Grace
Fusco, Kimberly Newton.
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2004; 167 p. ; 22 cm.
When Cornelia's mother runs off with a boyfriend, leaving her with an eccentric aunt, Cornelia must finally confront the truth about herself and her mother.
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