Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

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Do you have an evil step-mother? Join the Poison Apples today!    

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Popular mean girl Kacey's life changes when she gets braces and glasses.

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Is Sami's dad a terrorist?

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Jason Weatherby learns the perils of privilege.

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Retta Lee Jones has big dreams of making it big in Nashville.

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Cliques like no other.

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Who's really in charge at this prestigious boarding school?

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In Alyssa's Russian-American family, alcohol is part of the culture.

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Running away from her past and her future.

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What will you give up to fit in?

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You don't have to hear the music to be a rock star.

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Kanako goes to Japan to figure out who she is supposed to be.

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Paranormal is the new normal.

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Shy geek by day, performance artist by night.

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No one is surprised when the dead start talking.

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All Glory wants to play anymore is Chopsticks....  

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True stories about students at the Brooklyn International High School.  

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DJ's on the journey of a lifetime.

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Even the terror is bigger in Texas.

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Rising stars at the Harlem Academy of Creative and Performing Arts.

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Zimbabwe on the brink of war.

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Kylie finds herself at the wrong kind of camp.

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More drama than one stage can handle.

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Life after a terrible tragedy.    

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They plan to rock the Battle of the Bands even if they don't know how to play.

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Caught between her Indian family and her American friends.

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Watch out world of glamor, here comes Carlos!

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Fire leaves home to learn more about her powers.

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Crushing on the competition.

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Jin Wang just wants to fit in.

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If Tsukune can survive the turf war between the werewolves and the vampires, he might just graduate.

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Amal's faith and cultural pride are much bigger than her hijab.

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Where do you go when home is no longer safe?

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Kaitlin's a TV star ...can she make it on Broadway?

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Discovering her Sikh heritage.

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Zoey enters House of Night where she will train to become an adult vampyre -- if she survives.

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Can this Brooklyn girl make it all the way to Hollywood?

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Kasey's dolls could give Chucky a run for his money.

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Jack the Ripper is back with a vengeance!

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Going to high school in a Texas border town involves a whole other set of bound

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Payton can't wait to get inside Sean's head.

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Hamlet Kennedy wants to blend in, not be an actress!    

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America is no paradise.

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Rossamund takes one wrong turn and the adventure begins.

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This book will help you nail the best audition of your life!

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Eli's family survived nuclear fallout, but can they survive his father's greatest lie?

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This summer camp is NOT for the faint of heart.   

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9/11 changes everything for Nadira and her family.

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Snow day gone wrong.

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Guilt, guitars, time travel, and insanity.   

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Jupiter crashes a party, hides his Russian accent, and leaves loserdom behind.

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Amy is sent to Israel: an ending or a beginning?

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Kung fu, rock and roll, clueless romantic angst, and sarcasm.

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Heisting priceless art and cute boys' hearts.

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Anything the boys can do, Frankie can do better.

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New Jersey is a different planet to three teens from Mexico, Trinidad, and Slovakia.

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How do you make a good first impression with goat poop on your shoes?

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Carmen plays out on and off the field.

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Differences don't matter on the soccer field.

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People aren't always what they seem

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Move over Brontë the wild English moors have a new star!

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Bright Boy isn't so boyish anymore.

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No amount of schooling can turn this pirate into a lady.

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Matt has two families -- one in America and one in Vietnam.

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There's a new demigod in town.

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Can Hannah survive the gritty and glamorous world of NYC ballet?

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Tehran is 2500 miles from Vienna but to Marjane it feels like 2500 light-years away.

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Natalie goes undercover at an all-boys school but soon falls for her roommate!

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that mishaps will ensue when two girls are cast in the boys' school musical.

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A skipped gene leads to time travel trouble.

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Can complete opposites April and Wil survive fat camp?

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Benny's life tuns upside down when his family moves to Africa.

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Surviving the slings and arrows of seventh grade.

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Three years later, two musicians, one night only!

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Almira is fasting -- no food, no boys, no popularity.

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Bianca bites off more than she can chew.

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Sammy struggles with his rock band, senile grandfather, and feelings for his best friend.

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Eternal love from the grave.

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Adventures, mishaps, and hijinks at an all-boys school.

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Too Mexican for his prep school and too American for his family.

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Prince Charming is a vampire!

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Magic feelings in the Magic Kingdom.

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Two Will Graysons and one Tiny Cooper create musical magic.

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Can Sonia stand up to her family without turning her back on her Mexican heritage?

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Miri: Small but mighty.

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Steven has a lot to deal with when his brother is diagnosed with leukemia.

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Jack to the rescue!

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You can take the girl out of the Upper East Side, but you can't take the Upper East Side out of the girl.

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Short stories from acclaimed authors.

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All she wants for high school is her two front teeth.

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Bullied into an arranged marriage.

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Witches can be bullied too!

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She has the ultimate power, the power to kill.

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Imaginary rock star.

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She continues to haunt her bullies from the grave.

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If you fall for a dragon you might get burned.

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Is their clique-crossing romance the cause of the zombie apocalypse?

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The stakes are high when you make a deal with a trickster god.

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In a society that offers no choices, Cassie must make one.

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Dominique’s out for blood.

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Laine's wish came true: Leah Greene is dead.

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The prison you can’t escape is closer than you think.

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What’s a girl to do when her only reality is virtual?

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A deaf sleuth investigates the mysterious death of the school bully.

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Jane Eyre gets a rock-and-roll make-over.

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Be your own science experiment.

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Wimpy American seeks butt-kicking enlightenment in China.

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Will Calla forsake her pack for love.

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Charlie can't escape the mean girls of her past.

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Given a second chance, can the mean girl make things right?

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Last chosen, first to succeed.

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From gamer to gastroenterologist.

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Hate list turned hit list.

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When the only one you want has a secret...he's a vampire..

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Short stories for all the geeks and nerds out there.

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A race to the top of the world.

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Bootleggers, babes, and the Big Apple.

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Branded forever by one mistake.

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Questions remain after a school shooting.s

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Rally the people! Break the curse! Restore the royal family?

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Fanboy finally meets his match in Goth Girl.

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Who does this ghost think she is, anyway?

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Forbidden liasons.

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Crafts for the geek in all of us.

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What if you could check out seven league boots from your local library?

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Latino gang member + Prim and proper cheerleader = TNT

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Choosing D&D over poser punks.

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he bully becomes the bullied.

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He must save a world to save his family.

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What better place for love than an anime convention?

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A lesson on evolution leads to a division between Mena and her church.

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Giving her teacher an education.

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When KJ starts fending off her geek admirers, she also starts to lose some of her best friends.

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Twins discover the secrets to alchemy and everlasting life.

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If Jayd is so fly then why is she kicking it with a white rich boy dealer?

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Is Q following the map to love, or the map to nowhere?

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They may have created a monster.

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Mapping the route to her soul.

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May the force be with you and your crafty self.    

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She's in love with her best friend's boyfriend.

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Trapped by a faith *  Embraced by a new found love *  Happiness shattered

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She's a feisty Latina; he's a shy nerd- they're a match made in geek heaven.

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The past drives the present in a future England.

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It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad, Mad Cow world.

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End of the world, hack no!

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It's a fight between the Cindys and the Wickeds to control the school.

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It takes a villain to defeat a villain.

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Do muscles make the man? 

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His mystery might be more than Bronte can handle.

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She's supposed to protect her classmates from the vampires, not fall in love with one.

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Why bothering living when life sucks…

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Sometimes bullying can be deadly.

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First you have to escape, then the struggle for survival begins.

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A cross-country road trip leads to unexpected adventures

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Can the geek get THE girl?

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Jock for a few months, geek for life.

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There’s more to surviving in the wilderness than starting a fire.

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With eyes that see everything, will Branden see the danger in loving Trey?

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Can a boy and his dragon save the world?

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She wants what he can’t give her.

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A life filled with bullying can make you snap.

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A bully walks around in her victims’ shoes.

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Following each other's clues around NYC and into each other's hearts.

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Is it really so wrong to have the hots for your dead sister's boyfriend?

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There is more to life than perfect grades.

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From girl to guy, with the help of a geek.

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Enemies with benefits.

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He's fine, he's popular, he's hot for you. But he’s not yours.

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In the closet, in more ways than one.

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A girl is only as good as the next bad boy.

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Poisoned by gossip.

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You are not alone.

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A thief and a princess share the same destiny.

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Troy trades suicide for rock stardom.

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Geeks in super short skirts.

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Mob prince seeks FBI princess. Must enjoy romantic walks on the beach, candlight dinners, and the occasional body in the trunk

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Can the geeky inventor be cool enough to land a job as a professional trend-spotter?

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Be nice to the old man next door, he may just be a super-hero in hiding.

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Is love strong enough to stop hell on earth?

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When your best friends turn out to be your enemies.

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Cyber revenge gets messy.

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When the superheroes fall and all hope is gone, who are you gonna call?

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Three gamers fight football jocks and a cat from Satan to save the day and win the girl.

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Jane's unlife as a nerdy vampire sucks.

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The girl of his dreams isn’t quite what she seems.

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It’s not all about academics.

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How long can she keep up her high seas masquerade?

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Life dealt the cards, now Ed must decide how to play them.

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Captive falls for her captor.

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2011 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

The list of 99 titles, drawn from 192 official nominations, is presented annually at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. This...