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Lots of people can probably relate to ttyl. I know I can. If you need a good laugh then ttyl is the perfect

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Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard is about four girls: Aria, Spencer, Emily, and Hanna. In junior high they were all best friends with the same girl, Ali. What changed? Ali was

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The Demon Trapper's Daughter by Jana Oliver details the adventures of Riley Blackthorne in her quest to become demon trapper. In the book, demons are pests that destruction and

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Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is set in New York City during Christmastime. This tender and quirky novel shows two strangers who fall in love through a

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Watch the shelves at your local library this month for these titles new in August.

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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is one of Steinbeck's finest works. It is considered a literary classic and is used in many classrooms. The story begins with George and Lennie south of Salinas, California, in the 1930‘s. They are running away

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The Clearing by Heather Davis is an excellent book if you like romance. For me, romance is one of my favorite types of books to read. This book is about a girl who moves into a small town with her aunt. She finds herself wandering into a fog where she meets

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Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor is mostly about a girl whose mother and father are divorced. The girl has two sisters, from which she gets

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All-American Girl is about a girl named Samantha Madison, who is just your average sophomore girl living in D.C. When she gets caught selling celebrity pictures, she is forced to go

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In Banished by Sophie Littlefield, Hailey Tarbell has no memories her parents. All she knows is that

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Matched by Allie Condie is a futuristic science fiction book. When a girl turns seventeen, she is matched with a guy who is also seventeen. Society matches them based on

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Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver - What would it be like to relive the day you died seven times? In her debut novel, Lauren Oliver gives one girl a second chance, seven chances in fact, to find

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It's that time of year again...Teen Summer Library Program 2011!

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I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore is about John Smith who lives on the run from his hunters. He is from the planet Lorien that was destroyed when he was just four years old in a giant war with the Mogadorians. In the middle of the war, John and seventeen other people were snuck off the planet to Earth. Before they left,

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Fast Food Nation discusses the fast food industry, how each chain was created and what the chain is doing today. Something that I found particularly interesting was the ingredients that are put in fast food. It is very shocking to hear what we are eating when

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Cathy's Key by Sean Stewart is the second book in the trilogy that starts with Cathy in a bus going back San Francisco. She is still trying to help her immortal boyfriend

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In Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines, Lyn lives in a world where the biggest entertainment is watching the death match of

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Glee: The Beginning by Sophia Lowell and Ryan Murphy - Now I know what you'e thinking, a book written after the show? How can that be any good? I thought the same thing myself. But I

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The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding is a definite action mystery with just enough of a creepy romance feeling

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In The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, a hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins is an ordinary hobbit. He is approached by Gandalf, the powerful and wise wizard, to go on a quest;

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In Donut Days by Lara Zielin, Emma has a lot going on in her life. Her best friend, Nat, isn't talking to her. A boy, Jake, she's known her whole life, is suddenly smokin' hot and still

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In White Cat by Holly Black, when Cassel Sharpe wakes up teetering on the roof of his boarding school dorm room, he knows

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In the Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, the notorious evil genius, is slowly losing his mind. Fowl has been suffering from

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Watch the shelves at your local library this month for these titles new in April.

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The winners of the Teen Poetry Project have just been announced. To see if you might be among them, check out the poetry contest page. Congratulations!

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I picked up Unwind not expecting much from it. But from page one, I was hooked. It's about a world not too different from the one we live in now. The biggest difference is that from the time you are thirteen until eighteen you could be

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I'd have to say Dragon's Keep is one of my favorite books, and that's saying something considering how many books I've read. The book is about Princess Rosalind, a teenage girl who lives on Wilde Island. She has a big secret; instead of a ring finger, she has a

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Watch the shelves at your local library this month for these audio books new in March.

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The deadline for the Teen Poetry Project is this Thursday, March 17. Be sure to

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Dr. Franklin's Island is about two girls that get trapped on what appears to be a deserted island

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