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TITLE: Twilight
AUTHOR: Stephanie Meyer
GENRE: Fantasy, Romance
ABOUT: teenagers, vampires, romance, acceptance
RECOMMENDED FOR: romantics, vampire-lovers, females


TITLE: New Moon, sequel to Twilight
AUTHOR: Stephanie Meyer
GENRE: Fantasy, Romance
ABOUT: teenagers, vampires, romance, acceptance
RECOMMENDED FOR: anyone who enjoyed the prequel


TITLE: Running with Scissors
AUTHOR: Augusten Burroughs
GENRE: Memoir
ABOUT: dysfunctional family, VERY strange life
RECOMMENDED FOR: almost anyone, someone who's bored


TITLE: The Vampire Armand
AUTHOR: Anne Rice
GENRE: Fantasy
ABOUT: the life of the vampire Armand
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anne Rice fans, vampire-lovers, mature readers, not-homophobic readers


TITLE: Lirael sequel to Sabriel and prequel to Abhorsen (all very good books)
AUTHOR: Garth Nix
GENRE: Fantasy
ABOUT: Lirael, a female and her adventures in an ice kingdom with magic
RECOMMENDED FOR: fantasy lovers, adventure lovers


TITLE: i can't tell you
AUTHOR: Hillary Frank
GENRE: Fiction
ABOUT: Jake, a guy who decides to stop talking. the book is all 'written' by him and the people he communicates with.

Through notes scribbled on napkins and in notebooks, on upside-down calculators, and on walls with pudding-covered fingers, Jake explores new ways to express himself.

RECOMMENDED FOR: almost anyone


TITLE: Ender's Game
AUTHOR: Orson Scott Card
GENRE: Sci-Fi
ABOUT: only a child, Ender is sent up to space for rough training to be the military genius of the world against 'Buggers' (alien enemies)

Andrew "Ender" Wiggen isn't just playing games at Battle School; he and the other children are being tested and trained for war. Ender is the most talented result of Earth's desperate quest to create the military genius that the planet needs in its strugle against an alien enemy... Ender Wiggen is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.

RECOMMENDED FOR: sci-fi / fantasy lovers

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Title: Rx
Author:Tracy Lynn
Genre: Teens> Social Issues> Drug Use
About: Thyme, 17, is stressed. She is trying to keep her grades up and maintain her status in The Twenty, a nickname for a group of overachieving, good-school-bound juniors. She steals a bottle of Ritalin from her friend Will, thinking it will improve her study habits. An A on a history exam confirms it. Soon, she becomes adept at stealing pills from purses and medicine cabinets, and begins to deal with other students. She even keeps a spreadsheet of classmates problems and pill preferences and who has merchandise she can buy or trade. At the same time, she begins a relationship with Will, continues in the National Honor Society, studies for her SATs, and applies to college. Following the overdose/suicide of a fellow honor student, Thyme finally decides to quit. Her recovery is a little too easy, but the descriptions of addiction and the stresses that cause it are accurate. Thyme observes the emptiness and materialism of the adults lives around her and their abuse of prescription medication, including her father. Given the situations and characters, the abundant use of graphic language is realistic. This quick read may warn some teens of the dangers of drugs.
Recommended For: people who love books about drug use





Title: Perks of being a wallflower
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Genre: Teens> Social Issues
About:What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable first novel from Stephen Chbosky is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood. Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but he must also deal with his best friend's recent suicide. Charlie's letters take on the intimate feel of a journal as he shares his day-to-day thoughts and feelings:

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.

With the help of a teacher who recognizes his wisdom and intuition, and his two friends, seniors Samantha and Patrick, Charlie mostly manages to avoid the depression he feels creeping up like kudzu. When it all becomes too much, after a shocking realization about his beloved late Aunt Helen, Charlie retreats from reality for awhile. But he makes it back in due time, ready to face his sophomore year and all that it may bring. Charlie, sincerely searching for that feeling of "being infinite," is a kindred spirit to the generation that's been slapped with the label X.
Recommended For: Everyone