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Chasing
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.
Cross
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.
Deadline
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."
Blackbringer
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.
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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Association.
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