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XTreme Picks for January

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book jacketChasing Tail Lights by Patrick Jones.  Seventeen-year-old Christy wants only to finish high school and escape her Flint, Michigan, home, where she cooks, cleans, cares for her niece, and tries to fend off her half-brother, a drug dealer who has been abusing her since she was eleven.

book jacketCross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter.  When the Gallagher Academy, a secret spy school for girls, hosts male guests from Knowlton-Hale, Cammie is blamed for a series of security breaches that forces her to clear her name while trying to deny her attraction to an incorrigible hottie named Zach.

book jacketDeadline by Chris Crutcher.  Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
 

book jacketBlackbringer by Laini Taylor.  Magpie Windwitch, faerie, devil hunter, and granddaughter of the West Wind, must defeat an ancient evil creature, the Blackbringer, who has escaped from his bottle and threatens to unmake all of creation.

 
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Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle-School  Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail by Danica McKellar.  Dubbed a “math superstar” by the New York Times, Danica McKellar is on a mission to let girls know that they can “do” Math.  McKellar includes sections with step-by-step instructions on those Math concepts that middle-schoolers find most difficult as well as Math Horoscopes and Personality Quizzes. 


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