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Judi BarrettCall Number: E BARRETT
Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.
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Shauna CrossCall Number: YA or YAPB CROSS
When sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, who is miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.
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Charles DickensCall Number: J DICKENS
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miser who learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past, his present and foretell his future.
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Larry DoyleCall Number: DOYLE
A side-splittingly funny debut novel which follows the graduation night coming-of-age of a high school valedictorian who--instead of giving the usual speech--publicly confesses his eternal love for the most popular girl in school.
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Lois DuncanCall Number: JPB
Andi, unable to adopt an adorable stray dog because of her aunt's allergies, enlists her brother Bruce in a plan to care for the dog and its puppies in an abandoned house down the street, but when the siblings give in the urge to take in more canine guests, the secret becomes too large to keep.
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Cornelia Caroline FunkeCall Number: J or JPB FUNKE
Meggie lives a quiet life and bonds with her father Mo over their mutual passion for books. But her world is about to be filled with things she’d only ever read about when her father starts sharing his secrets.
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Neil GaimanCall Number: J GAIMAN or JPB
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
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Alexander KeyCall Number: J KEY
When a mysterious man claims to be their uncle and acquires court custody, Tia and Tony, aware of his evil intent, run away to prevent him from enslaving their unusual powers and to try to find someone who may know something about them.
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Sophie KinsellaCall Number: KINSELL or PB
In this all-too-true debut novel, Kinsella chronicles one woman's hilarious efforts to overcome her expensive--if stylish--addiction to shopping. The author has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a tale of our times and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens.
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Stephenie MeyerCall Number: YA MEYER
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
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Alan MooreCall Number: MOORE
A group of super heroes plagued by all too human failings fall from grace while the concept of the super hero is dissected and inverted as strangely realistic characters are stalked by an unknown assassin.
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Audrey NiffeneggerCall Number: NIFFENE
On the surface, Henry and Clare Detamble are a normal couple living in Chicago. Henry works at the Newberry Library and Clare creates abstract paper art, but the cruel reality is that Henry has a disease that makes him a prisoner of time. It sweeps him back and forth at its leisure, from the present to the past, with no regard for where he is or what he is doing.
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C Douglas Payne
Youth in revolt brings us the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity result in his transformation from an unassuming fourteen-year-old to a modern youth in open revolt.
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Matt de la PenaCall Number: YAPB
Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream.
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Jodi Picoult
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.
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Julie PowellCall Number: 641.5092 Powell
The story of Julie Powell's attempt to revitalize her marriage, restore her ambition, and save her soul by cooking all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I, in a period of 365 days. The result is a masterful medley of Bridget Jones' Diary meets Like Water for Chocolate, mixed with a healthy dose of original wit, warmth, and inspiration that sets this memoir apart from most tales of personal redemption...
Inspired and encouraging, Julie and Julia is a unique opportunity to join one woman's attempt to change her life, and have a laugh, or ten, along the way. --Gisele Toueg (Amazon)
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Louise RennisonCall Number: YA RENNIS
The hilarious everyday life of British girl, Georgia Nicolson. 247 p.
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J K RowlingCall Number: YA PB or YA ROWLING J
Sixth- year Hogwarts student Harry Potter gains valuable insights into the boy Voldemort once was, even as his own world is transformed by maturing friendships, schoolwork assistance from an unexpected source, and devastating looses.
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Maurice SendakCall Number: E SENDAK
A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.
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Darren ShanCall Number: YA SHAN
Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.
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