Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

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Does Emily have a poltergeist?

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Someone’s killing them, one by one.

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Not your typical alphabet book.

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Home from Afghanistan, the conflicts continue.

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Get to know the likes, loves and dislikes of your favorite undead friends.

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Quarantined in a mall.  How do you survive?

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It all comes down to the last two seconds of the game.

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There is only room for one team of paranormalists in Portland.

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Being extinct is hard.

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Epic guide to keep you alive.

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When being human will get you hunted down, Gene has mastered the art being something he is not.

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Six teens are trapped inside a school during the zombie apocalypse.

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Just because your father a notorious serial killer, doesn’t mean you’re one too, does it?

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When Zach dies, the family falls apart.

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Is it suicide or supernatural?

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Jane’s suicide plan is ruined when her plane crashes.

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Everything there is to know about blood.

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Hartley finds a dead body in her boyfriend’s closet.

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A cardboard box is a terrible birthday present until it comes to life.

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Morris pledges to keep his friends safe in the war zone, but can he save himself?

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Laurel’s heartbreak triggers her downward spiral into destruction.

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You’re either dead, alive, or a cannibal.

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Hades and Kore can’t handle their personal problems.

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What were they thinking?

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Hartley stumbles onto another murder, this time it's the favorite to win Homecoming Queen.

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Born into a family of drug addicts, TJ finds himself struggling to stay alive.

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Ivan was made for war.

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Meet Jeffrey Dahmer before he became a serial killer.

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What happened to Anna?

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Cats aren’t the only ones with nine lives.  Daisy’s on her fifth.

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Everyone needs a bucket list.

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When Kayla is sent out to deliver the pizzas, she never returns.

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Zack wonders why the new kid on the team is getting special treatment.

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Rudi will never be the same.

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Family portraits are awkward. Family pet portraits are hilarious.

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Stranded on a raft in the Pacific Ocean with only a bag of Skittles.  How much worse can it get?

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In order to survive in a future world, Callie allows old people to inhabit her body.

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An A-Z guide to the HALO universe.

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Love has consequences.

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Nick has to decide what is important-his career or the team.

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The more Finn uncovers, the more questions he has.

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Angry Birds meet NASA.

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Johnny Delgado takes his first case as a private detective, but is he in over his head?

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Will Luca and Esme find Kevin in the waves of Panama?

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Weapons, soldiers, and technology.

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Taken from her foster family and placed back into a group home, Kate thinks she has found a champion in her boyfriend Percy.

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Playing ball with wooden bats causes Sammy to consider steroids.

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A bomb explodes in a high school.  Who is to blame?

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These are the dolls that nightmares are made of.

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The lighter side of Darth.

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They left Earth to colonize a new planet, but things have gone wrong.

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Memoir of a faked pregnancy.

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Whitley’s father is marrying is marrying the mother of a boy she hooked up with at a graduation party.

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Danny takes advantage of his newfound fame.

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A class held hostage by a gunman.

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When things go hilariously wrong.

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Girls. Fight club.  Girls.  Football. Girls.

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Wild child, Lisa, helps Danny come to terms with his love of men and cooking

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Inside juvie.

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Who will have a date for the dance, Greg or Rowley?

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Will Trip’s love of music hurt his baseball career?

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Meet Greg: an aspiring wallflower and part-time moviemaker. Meet Earl: Greg's best friend who will round kick you in the head if you mention his...

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Is Noah the boy to show Echo how to love again?

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Are they out there?

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What if being a Grim Reaper was suddenly your summer job?

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Who is the bigger monster-Dad or the zombies?

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The title says it all!

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Buried treasure, villains, cars, and conflict—what more does a story need?

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Seth’s surgery has unforeseen consequences.

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Todd’s family business will have to close if Jinx can’t solve the case.

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After being kidnapped years earlier, Ethan struggles to find his place.

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A guaranteed double-take!

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From the trailer park to the MMA cage.

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Are the pictures of his sister from a secret admirer or a stalker?

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When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six.

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14 kids, biological weapons, and a superstore.

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What happens when you accidently unleash a dark force?

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Members of the Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Committee are: Chair Gregory Lum, Jesuit High School, Portland, Ore.; Tamera DiBartolo, Rapides Parish Library...

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Imagine having your dead boyfriend “living” at your house.

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Skateboarding, trick by trick.

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Avatar or the real you?

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A survivor game, gone deadly.

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Depression, close to home.

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Problem parents and faeries.

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Who's using whom?

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Drama, drama, drama.

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Painful to the end.

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Adopting, keeping and leaping.

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When mom disappears, secrets are revealed.

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Cursed with your greatest fear.

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Sonia is everything to everyone except herself.

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Taboo, which twin has it worse?

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Love and jealousy collide.

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Wearing the face of serial killer is tough.

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Shocked into a gorgeous body.

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Foster kids forced to steal.

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Atlanta just got hotter.

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Life is rough; living with the knowledge  you killed a kid.

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Teens and an abandoned insane asylum take on a Blair Witch twist.

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Things you want sometimes costs you more than you want to pay.

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Real life battles, chess style.

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Group tattoos gone bad.

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Losing a friend—inheriting a friend’s to-do list.

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Bluford High kid desperate for money.

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When you are not where you are supposed to be…

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Roadtrip with gun.

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Two rotten aliens coming to a planet near you.

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Trapped without a door.

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It bites when your parents are vampires.

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New town, new identity, same danger.

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When rage is in your blood.

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Latest accessory: a mini-coffin.

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Bad days sometimes just get worse.

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Bluford boy has NBA dreams.

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They never thought the world would come to an end.

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Why be a human, when you can be a werewolf?

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One night can make a difference at the speedway.

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Facing life with death.

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Looking for love in all the wrong places.

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Sheree, pregnant, confused: helping everyone but herself.

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Real Teenagers: their faces, their words, their lives.

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Goth girl + foster family = new life.

 

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Starving themselves to death.

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L.A. tagged.

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Kristina, craving the drug that brings her alive.

 

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An interactive, intimate look at the rapper’s life.