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YA Stars 2007
August 19, 2008
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Stars 2007 - For
Teens & Older Others (Young Adult Literature)
The list includes both fiction and nonfiction books. Titles are arranged alphabetically by author. The edition listed is the trade book, library bindings are not listed unless that is the only available format. Titles received starred reviews from Booklist, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, School Library Journal, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Horn Book.
The theme information is derived from cataloging information and is not comprehensive. Books are suggested for ages 12 and older. Age and grade designations are approximate, parental judgement should be used.
Notable book information is added as time allows: BBYA= Best Books for Young Adults (ALA/YALSA)
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- Does My Head Look Big in This?
Author: Abdel-fattah, Randa
Publisher: Orchard $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780439919470 Date: 2007
Booklist BulletinKirkus
Sixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full- time and everyone has a reaction, from her parents and friends to strangers on the street. But she stands by her decision to embrace her Muslim faith and all that it is in this stunning debut novel.
Ages: 13-17 Category: Fiction - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Author: Alexie, Sherman
Publisher: Little Brown $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780316013680 Date: 2007
Horn Book Kirkus PW SLJ
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Updated 10.31.07
- Twisted
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
Publisher: VIking $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780670061013 Date: 2007
Bulletiin Kirkus
In her latest novel, "New York Times" bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson tackles a controversial subject: what it means to be a man today, as a string of events and changes has high school senior Tyler Miller questioning his place in school, in his family, and in the world.
Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction - Broken Moon
Author: Antieau, Kim
Publisher: Margaret K McElderry $ 15.99 ISBN: 9781416917670 Date: 2007
PW
Beaten for a crime that her older brother allegedly committed, Nadira is considered spoiled goods in her culture, except to her younger brother Umar, who sees beauty in her scars. When Umar disappears, Nadira disguises herself as a boy and searches out the men who took him.
Ages: 14-17 Category: Fiction - Rat Life
Author: Arnold, Tedd
Publisher: Dial $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780803730205 Date: 2007
Bulletin PW
Todd goes from making beds at his family's motel to working at the drive-in theater when he meets young Vietnam vet Rat. When a dead body is found in the Chemanga River, Rat seems to be a part of the puzzle.
Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction | Mystery - Robert F. Kennedy: A Twentieth-Century Life
Author: Aronson, Mark
Publisher: Viking $15.99 ISBN: 9780670060665 Date: 2007
Bulletin Kirkus
Before his short life was ended by assassination, Robert Kennedy was Attorney General of the United States, Senator from New York, and a charismatic Presidential candidate. But even more astonishing was Kennedys personal odyssey. Born into immense wealth and privilege, Kennedy came to embrace the cause of the poor and the disenfranchised, and to be seen by them as their champion. - Publisher Marketing
Ages: 12-17 Category: Nonfiction - Thirteen Reasons Why
Author: Asher, Jay
Publisher: Razorbill $ 16.99 ISBN: 9781595141712 Date: 2007
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- Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
Author: Barakat, Ibitsam
Publisher: FSG $ 16 ISBN: 9780374357337 Date: 2007
Booklist Kirkus SLJ
In this groundbreaking memoir set in Ramallah during the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, Ibtisam Barakat captures what it is like to be a child whose world is shattered by war. With candor and courage, she stitches together memories of her childhood: fear and confusion as bombs explode near her home and she is separated from her family; the harshness of life as a Palestinian refugee; her unexpected joy when she discovers Alef, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet. This is the beginning of her passionate connection to words, and as language becomes her refuge, allowing her to piece together the fragments of her world, it becomes her true home. Transcending the particulars of politics, this illuminating and timely book provides a telling glimpse into a little-known culture that has become an increasingly important part of the puzzle of world peace. - Publisher Marketing
Ages: 12+ Category: Nonfiction - Taken
Author: Bloor, Edward
Publisher: Knopf 16.99 $ ISBN: 9780375836367 Date: 2007
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- Letters from the Corrugated Castle: A Novel of Gold Rush California, 1850-1852
Author: Blos, Joan W.
Publisher: Ginne Seo $ 17.99 ISBN: 9780689870774 Date: 2007
Booklist
A Newbery Medalist (A Gathering of Days) turns her talents to a tale about the Gold Rush in this novel of a young girl who moves with her aunt and uncle from New England to start a new life in the young city of San Francisco.
Ages: 10-14 Category: Fiction | Historical - Beauty Shop for Rent:... Fully Equiped, Inquire Within
Author: Bowers, Laura L.
Publisher: Harcourt $ 17 ISBN:9780152057640 Date: 2007
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- Being
Author: Brooks, Kevin
Publisher: Chicken House $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780439899734 Date: 2007
Bulletin PW
It was just supposed to be a routine exam, but when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down Robert Smith's throat, what they discover doesn't make medical sense. Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, Robert embarks on a violent odyssey to find out exactly who--and what--he is.
Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction | Speculative - Mistik Lake
Author: Brooks, Martha
Publisher: FSG $ 16 ISBN: 9780374349851 Date: 2007
Horn Book Kirkus PW
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- Bearwalker
Author: Bruchac, Joseph
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780061123115 Date: 2007
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- Sara's Face
Author: Burgess, Melvin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 16.99 ISBN: 9781416936176 Date: 2007
Bulletin PW
Sara wants to be famous, and when legendary rock star Jonathon Heat offers to take her under his wing and pay for cosmetic surgery, it's like a dream come true. But beauty ultimately comes with a hidden price tag, as Sara soon discovers.
Ages: 14-17 Category: Fiction | Suspense - Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Author: Cameron, Peter
Publisher: FSG $ 16 ISBN: 9780374309893 Date: 2007
Booklist Kirkus
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- Dragon's Keep
Author: Carey, Janet Lee
Publisher: Harcourt $ 17 ISBN: 9780152059262 Date: 2007
Booklist SLJ
On Wilde Island, Princess Rosalind is born with a dragon claw where her ring finger should be. To hide the secret, the Queen forces her to wear gloves, but Rosalind's flaw cannot be separated from
Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction | Speculative - Re-Gifters
Author: Carey, Mike
Publisher: Minx $ 9.99 ISBN: 9781401203719 Date: 2007
Booklist
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- The Plain Janes
Author: Castellucci, Cecil
Publisher: Minx $ 9.99 ISBN: 9781401211158 Date: 2007
Booklist Horn BookKliatt PW
When transfer student Jane is forced to move from the confines of Metro City to Suburbia, she thinks her life is over. But there she finds her tribe: three other girls named Jane. The four girls form a secret art gang, but can art really save the hell that is high school? Young adult.
Ages: 12-17 Category: Graphic Novel - One Whole and Perfect Day
Author: Clarke, Judith
Publisher:Front Street $ 16.95 ISBN: 9781932425956 Date: 2007
Hornbook PW
Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction - Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
Author: Compestine, Ying Chang
Publisher: Holt $ 16.95 ISBN: 9780805082074 Date: 2007
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- Enter Three Witches: A Story of Macbeth
Author: Cooney, Caroline B.
Publisher: Scholastic $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780439711562 Date: 2007
PW
Lady Mary's life is forever changed when her father, Lord Cawdor, betrays the Scottish king and is hanged as a traitor. Now a ward of Lord and Lady Macbeth, she's trapped in a castle with a power-hungry couple who will do anything to get what they want in this retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy.
Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction | Historical - Ordinary Ghosts
Author: Corrigan, Eireann
Publisher: Scholastic $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780439832434 Date: 2007
Booklist Bulletin
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- Tough Boy Sonatas
Author: Crisler, Curtis
Publisher: Front Street $ 19.95 ISBN: 9781932425772 Date: 2007
Booklist Bulletin SLJ
Ages: 12-17 Category: Poetry - Deadline
Author: Crutcher, Chris
Publisher: Harperteen $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780060850890 Date: 2007
PW
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- I Am Rembrandt's Daughter
Author: Cullen, Lynn
Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 16.95 ISBN: 9781599900469 Date: 2007
Booklist
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- Not Like You
Author: Davis, Deborah
Publisher: Clarion $ 16 ISBN: 9780618720934 Date: 2007
Bulletin SLJ
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- Waves
Author: Dogar, Sharon
Publisher: Chicken House $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780439871808 Date: 2007
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- A Swift Pure Cry
Author: Dowd, Siobhan
Publisher: David Fickling $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780385751087 Date: 2007
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- Before I Die
Author: Downham, Jenny
Publisher: David Fickling $ 18.99 ISBN: 9780385751582 Date: 2007
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- Pure Spring
Author: Doyle, Brian
Publisher: Groundwood $ 16.95 ISBN: 9780888997746 Date: 2007
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- Corydon and the Fall of Atlantis
Author: Druitt, Tobias
Publisher: Knopf $ 18.99 ISBN: 9780375933837 Date: 2007
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- Ethan, Suspended
Author: Ehrenberg, Pamela
Publisher: Eerdmans $ 16 ISBN: 9780802853240 Date: 2007
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- This Is What I Did
Author: Ellis, Ann Dee
Publisher: Little Brown $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780316013635 Date: 2007
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- The Land of the Silver Apples
Author: Farmer, Nancy
Publisher: Atheneum $ 18.99 ISBN: 9781416907350 Date: 2007
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- An Inconvient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
Author: Gore, Albert
Publisher: Viking $ 16 ISBN: 9780670062720 Date: 2007
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- Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems
Author: Grandits, John
Publisher: Clarion $ 5.95 ISBN: 9780618851324 Date: 2007
Bulletin SLJ
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- Book of a Thousand Days
Author: Hale, Shannon
Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 17.95 ISBN: 9781599900513 Date: 2007
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- The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney
Author: Harper, Suzanne
Publisher: Harperteen $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780061131585 Date: 2007
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- Your Own, Sylvia: Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Author: Hemphill, Stephanie
Publisher: Knopf $ 15.99 ISBN: 978037537999Date: 2007
Booklist Bulletin Horn Book Kirkus VOYA Pure Poetry Picks
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- Wolf
Author: Herrick, Steven
Publisher: Front Street $ 17.95 ISBN: 9781932425758 Date: 2007
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- I'm Exploding Now
Author: Hite, Sid
Publisher: Hyperion $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780783837571 Date: 2007
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- The Falconer's Knot
Author: Hoffman, Mary
Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 16.95 ISBN: 978159900568 Date: 2007
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- Slam
Author: Hornby, Nick
Publisher: Putnam $ 19.99 ISBN: 9780399250484 Date: 2007
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- Evil Genius
Author: Jinks, Catherine
Publisher: Harcourt $17 ISBN: 9780152059880 Date: 2007
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- How It Happened in Peach Hill
Author: Jocelyn, Marthe
Publisher: Wendy Lamb $ 15.99 ISBN: 9780375837012 Date: 2007
Bulletin Horn Book SLJ
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- What Happened
Author: Johnson, Peter
Publisher: Front Street $ 16.95 ISBN: 9781932425673 Date: 2007
Booklist Bulletin
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- In the Name of God
Author: Jolin, Paula
Publisher: Roaring Brook $ 16.95 ISBN: 9781596432116 Date: 2007
Kirkus
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- The Game
Author: Jones, Diana Wynn
Publisher: Firebird $ 11.99 ISBN: 9780142407189 Date: 2007
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- Undercover
Author: Kephart, Beth
Publisher: Harperteen $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780061238932 Date: 2007
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- Someone Like Summer
Author: Kerr, M.E.
Publisher: Harperteen $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780061140990 Date: 2007
Booklist
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- Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet
Author: Knox, Elizabeth
Publisher: FSG $ 19 ISBN: 9780374318543 Date: 2007
Booklist
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- Kissing the Bee
Author: Koja, Kathe
Publisher: FSG $ 16 ISBN: 9780374399382 Date: 2007
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- Epic
Author: Kostick, Conor
Publisher: Viking $ 17.99 ISBN: 9780670061792 Date: 2007
Booklist PW SLJ
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- Skulduggery Pleasant
Author: Landy, Derek
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 18.89 ISBN: 9780061231162 Date: 2007
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- Powers
Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
Publisher: Harcourt $ 17 ISBN: 9780152057701 Date: 2007
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- Rachel Carson: A Twentieth Century Life
Author: Levine, Ellen
Publisher: Viking $ 15.99 ISBN: 9780670062201 Date: 2007
Booklist SLJ
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- 21 Proms
Author: Levithan, David
Publisher: Scholastic $ 8.99 ISBN: 97804398900298 Date: 2007
Bulletin SLJ
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- Strange Relations
Author: Levitin, Sonia
Publisher: Knopf $ 15.99 ISBN: 9780375837517 Date: 2007
Booklist
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- Dramarama
Author: Lockhart E.
Publisher: Hyperion $ 15.99 ISBN: 9780786838158 Date: 2007
Booklist Bulletin
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- Houdini: The Handcuff King
Author: Lutes, Jason
Publisher: Hyperion $16.99 ISBN: 9780786839025 Date: 2007
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- Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs
Author: Lyons, Mary E.
Publisher: Atheneum $ 15.99 ISBN: 9780689878671 Date: 2007
Booklist
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- Maddigan's Fantasia
Author: Mahy, Margaret
Publisher: Margaret K McElderry $ 17.99 ISBN: 9781416918127 Date: 2007
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- Wildwood Dancing
Author: Marillier, Juliet
Publisher: Knopf $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780375833649 Date: 2007
SLJ VOYA Best Speculative Fiction
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- Wicked Lovely
Author: Marr, Melissa
Publisher: Harperteen $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780061214653 Date: 2007
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- The White Duchess
Author: McCaughrean, Geraldine
Publisher: Harperteen $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780060890353 Date: 2007
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- Off Color
Author: McDonald, Janet
Publisher: FSG $ 16 ISBN: 9780374371968 Date: 2007
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- Dragonhaven
Author: McKinley, Robin
Publisher: Putnam $ 17.99 ISBN: 9780399246753Date: 2007
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- The Navigator
Author: McNamee, Eoin
Publisher: Wendy Lamb $ 15.99 ISBN: 9780375839108 Date: 2007
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- The Decoding of Lana Morris
Author: McNeal, Laura and Tom
Publisher: Knopf $ 15.99 ISBN: 97803375831065 Date: 2007
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- Un Lun Dun
Author: Mieville, China
Publisher: Del Rey $ 17.95 ISBN: 9780345495167 Date: 2007
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- Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
Author: Miller, Sarah
Publisher: Atheneum $ 16.99 ISBN: 9781416925422 Date: 2007
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- The Off Season
Author: Murdock, Catherine Gilbert
Publisher: Houghton $ 16 ISBN: 9780618686957 Date: 2007
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- What They Found: Love on 145th Street
Author: Myers, Walter Dean
Publisher: Wendy Lamb $ 15.99 ISBN:9780385321389 Date: 2007
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- I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
Author: Nye, Naomi Shihab
Publisher: Harperteen $ 15.99 ISBN: 9780060853921 Date: 2007
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- Bad Tickets
Author: O'Dell, Katherine
Publisher: Knopf $ 18.99 ISBN: 9780375938016 Date: 2007
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- The Secret Twin
Author: Orenstein, Denise Gosliner
Publisher: Harperteen $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780060786542 Date: 2007
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- Lawn Boy
Author: Paulsen, Gary
Publisher: Wendy Lamb $ 12.99 ISBN: 9780385746861 Date: 2007
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- The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood and Saved Civilization
Author: Pinkwater, Daniel
Publisher: Houghton $ 16 ISBN: 9780618594443 Date: 2007
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- Freak
Author: Pixley, Marcella
Publisher: FSG $ 16 ISBN: 97803743224537 Date: 2007
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- Captives
Author: Pow, Tom
Publisher: Roaring Brook $ 17.95 ISBN: 9781596432017 Date: 2007
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- The Confessional
Author: Powers, J.L.
Publisher: Knopf $ 19.99 ISBN: 9780375938726 Date: 2007
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- Bullyville
Author: Prose, Francine
Publisher: Harperteen $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780060574970 Date: 2007
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- Cures for Heartbreak
Author: Rabb, M.E.
Publisher: Delacorte $ 15.99 ISBN: 9780385734028 Date: 2007
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- In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers
Author: Reber, Deborah
Publisher: Simon $ 12.99 ISBN: 9781416925781 Date: 2007
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- A Darkling Plain
Author: Reeve, Philip
Publisher: Eos $ 18.99 ISBN: 9780060890551 Date: 2007
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- Red Glass
Author: Resau, Laura
Publisher: Delacorte $ 18.99 ISBN: 9780385904643 Date: 2007
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- The Titan's Curse
Author: Riordan, Rick
Publisher: Miramax $ 17.95 ISBN: 9781423101451 Date: 2007
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- Every Crooked Pot
Author: Rosen Renee
Publisher: Griffin $ 9.95 ISBN: 9780312365431 Date: 2007
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- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: Rowling, J.K.
Publisher: Arthur Levine $ 34.99 ISBN: 9780545010221 Date: 2007
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- Saints of Augustine
Author: Ryan, P.E.
Publisher: Harperteen $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780060858100 Date: 2007
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- The Whole Sky Full of Stars
Author: Saldana, Rene
Publisher: Wendy Lamb $ 18.99 ISBN: 9780385900782 Date: 2007
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- Song of the Sparrow
Author: Sandell, Lisa Ann
Publisher: Scholastic $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780439918480 Date: 2007
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- Useful Fools
Author: Schmidt, C.A.
Publisher: Dutton $ 18.99 ISBN: 9780525478140 Date: 2007
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- The Wednesday Wars
Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
Publisher: Clarion $ 16 ISBN: 9780618724833 Date: 2007
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- Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age
Author: Schrag, Ariel (edt)
Publisher: Viking $ 18.99 ISBN: 9780670062218 Date: 2007
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- The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Author: Scott, Michael
Publisher: Delacorte $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780385733571 Date: 2007
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- The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures
Author: Selznick, Brian
Publisher: Scholastic $ 22.95 ISBN: 9780439813785 Date: 2007
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- The Sweet, Terrible, Glorious Year I Truly, Completely Lost It
Author: Shanahan, Lisa
Publisher: Delacorte $ 15.99 ISBN: 9780387535162 Date: 2007
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- My Mother the Cheerleader
Author: Sharenow, Robert
Publisher: Harperteen $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780061148965 Date: 2007
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- The Pig Who Saved the World
Author: Shipton, Paul
Publisher: Candlewick $ 15.99 ISBN: 9780763634469 Date: 2007
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- Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder
Author: Shivack, Nadia
Publisher: Atheneum $ 17.99 ISBN: 9780689852169 Date: 2007
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- Peak
Author: Smith, Roland
Publisher: Harcourt $ 17 ISBN: 9780152024178 Date: 2007
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- What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
Author: Sones, Sonay
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780689876028 Date: 2007
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- First Shot
Author: Sorrels, Walter
Publisher: Dutton $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780525478010 Date: 2007
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- Love, Stargirl
Author: Spinelli, Jerry
Publisher: Knopf $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780375813757 Date: 2007
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- Eggs
Author: Spinelli, Jerry
Publisher: Little Brown $ 15.99 ISBN: 9780316166461 Date: 2007
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- Freak Show
Author: St, James, James
Publisher: Dutton $ 18.99 ISBN: 9780525477990 Date: 2007
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- The Mysterious Benedict Society
Author: Stewart, Trenton Lee
Publisher: Megan Tingley $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780316057776 Date: 2007
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- The New Policeman
Author: Thompson, Kate
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780061174278 Date: 2007
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- Lost It
Author: Tracy, Kristen
Publisher: Simon $ 6.99 ISBN: 9781416934752 Date: 2007
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- Robot Dreams
Author: Varon, Sara
Publisher: First Second $ 16.95 ISBN: 9781596431089 Date: 2007
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- The Lion Hunter
Author: Wein, Elizabeth E.
Publisher: Viking $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780670061631 Date: 2007
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- Red Moon at Sharpsburg
Author: Wells, Rosemary
Publisher: Viking $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780670036387 Date: 2007
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- Such a Pretty Girl
Author: Wiess, Laura
Publisher: MTV $ 12 ISBN: 9781416521839 Date: 2007
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- Flora Segunda
Author: Wilce, Ysabeu S.
Publisher: Harcourt $ 17 ISBN: 9780152054335 Date: 2007
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- Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People
Author: Wood, Angela Gluck
Publisher: DK $ 29.99 ISBN: 9780756625351 Date: 2007
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- Alfred Kropp: The Seal of Solomon
Author: Yancey, Rick
Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 16.95 ISBN: 9781599900452 Date: 2007
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- The Rogues
Author: Yolen, Jane
Publisher: Philomel $ 18.99 ISBN: 9780399238987 Date: 2007
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- Story of a Girl
Author: Zarr, Sara
Publisher: Little Brown $ 16.99 ISBN: 9780316041533 Date: 2007
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- Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Author: Zevin, Gabrielle
Publisher: FSG $ 17 ISBN: 9780374349462 Date: 2007
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- Reaching for the Sun
Author: Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn
Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 14.95 ISBN: 9781599900377 Date: 2007
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