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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 1979
Arthur Dent, a refugee from the late planet Earth, and
his pal Ford Prefect from the planet Betelgeuse, thumb
their way through comic misadventures throughout the
universe.
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Squashed
by Joan Bauer, 1992
As sixteen-year-old Ellie pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin
in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with
her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own. |
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Princess Diaries,
Princess in the Spotlight,
Princess in Love,
Princess in Waiting and
Princess in Pink by
Meg Cabot, 2001
14 year-old Mia, while trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New
York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, and
that she is a princess and the heir to the throne. |
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Atemis
Fowl,
The
Arctic Incident,
The
Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer, 2001
Artemis is the criminal mastermind determined to regain his family's fortune
by stealing the fairy-folk's gold in this crime caper comedy. |
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LBD:
It's a Girl Thing by Grace Dent,
2003
Having been barred from attending a rock festival by their parents, 3 girls known
as "Les Bambinos Dangereuses" connive to convince their classical loving
principal to let them stage their own music festival at Blackwell School. |
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A
Fate Totally Worse than Death by Paul Fleischman,
1995
In this horror novel parody, 3 self-centered members of the ruling clique, who
are beginning to age rapidly, become convinced that the beautiful new exchange
student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before. |
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Adventures
of Blue Avenger by Norma
Howe, 1999
In what other book can you get a super hero dressed in a fishing vest with a
blue towel wrapped around his head, a discussion of fate versus free will, a
girl named Omaha Nebraska Brown from Tulsa, Oklahoma and a recipe for a guaranteed
weepless lemon meringue pie? |
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Son
of the Mob by Gordon Korman, 2002
Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he
is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy
his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent. |
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Patiently
Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, 2003
The summer after 9th grade, Alice and 3 of her friends spend 3 weeks working
at a summer camp, meeting guys and having interesting adventures. |
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Behaving
Bradley by Perry Nodelman, 1998
Recruited by his best friend to gather student input for the proposed Code of
Conduct at his high school, Brad encounters obstinate faculty members, monstrous
bullies, spineless student leaders, and personal agendas. |
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The
Education of Robert Nifkin by Daniel Pinkwater,
1998
Set in the 1950s in Chicago, Robert Nifkin tells his highly unorthodox high school
experiences in the form of a college application essay. |
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Amazing
Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett,
2001
A talking cat named Maurice, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in
a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by
a deadly evil rat king who may put an end to their plans forever. |
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Angus,
Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging,
On
the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God,
Knocked
Out by my Nunga Nungas, &
Dancing
in my Nuddy Pants by Louise Rennison,
1999
14 year old Georgia Nicholson's moment by moment diary of boys, kissing, parents,
school and girlfriends! |
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God
Went to Beauty School by
Cynthia Rylant, 2003
What would happen if God got a desk job? Or bought a couch at Pottery Barn? Or
found some fudge in his mailbox? Find out in these thought provoking poems that
depict God exploring the wonders and pains of the world he has created. |
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Confessions
of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon, 1999
Mary Elizabeth, who calls herself "Lola," sets her sights on the lead
in the annual drama production and finds herself in conflict with the most popular
girl in school. |
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Girl
Gives Birth to Own Prom Date,
How I Created My Perfect
Prom Date by Todd
Strasser, 1996
When Brad asks someone else to the senior prom, Nicole resorts to a desperate
measure-she decides to make her next-door neighbor over into a dream date.
Non-Fiction |
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Amy's
Answering Machine: Messages from Mom by Amy Borkowsky,
2001
Borkowsky shares more than a decade's worth of phone messages from her overprotective
mom. |
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King
of the Mild Frontier by Chris
Crutcher, 2003
Chris Crutcher, author of young adult novels such as 'Ironman' and 'Whale Talk,'
as well as short stories, tells of growing up as an ultimate dweeb in Cascade,
Idaho, and becoming a writer. |
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Bart
Simpson's Guide to Life by Matt Groening, 1993
Bart Simpson shares his zany advice on how to handle every aspect of one's life,
including school, parents, religion, manners, sibling rivalry, romance, pets,
and work. |
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There's
a Hair in My Dirt by Gary
Larson, 1998
During dinner, when a young worm expresses disgust at finding a hair in his dirt
as well as at his lot in life as the "lowest of the low," his father
tells him a story about a beautiful human maiden, Harriet, who loves nature but
doesn't understand it. |
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The
Far Side by Gary Larson, 1982
Lumpy cows and dinosaurs, nerds wearing glasses and women with big hair abound
in Larsen's now classic comic. |
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Darwin
Awards: Evolution in Action by Wendy Northcutt, 2000
Awards dedicated to commemorating those who ensure the long term survival of
our species by eliminating themselves in a sublimely idiotic fashion from our
gene pool. |
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The
Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson,
1995
Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes have a lot to say about growing up and the
human condition! |
