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Someday this pain will be useful to you
Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life. Cameron, Peter, 1959- TEEN CAMERON |
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The perks of being a wallflower
Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie is navigating through the strange worlds of love, drugs, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", and dealing with the loss of a good friend and his favorite aunt. Chbosky, Stephen. FIC CHBOSKY |
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Fat kid rules the world
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band. Going, K. L. (Kelly L.) TEEN GOING |
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Looking for Alaska : a novel
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. Green, John, 1977- TEEN GREEN |
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The curious incident of the dog in the night-time : [a novel]
Haddon, Mark. FIC HADDON |
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Very far away from anywhere else
Owen Griffiths, a seventeen-year-old outsider, learns to find his own way to a future in science through a friendship with a girl whose life is dedicated to music. Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- TEEN LE GUIN |
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Boy meets boy
In "this" school, the gay kids and the straight kids all get along just fine, the quarterback is a cross-dresser, and the cheerleaders ride Harleys-- yet the road to true love is still a strange and winding path, as Paul discovers when he meets the boy of his dreams. Levithan, David. TEEN LEVITHA |
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King Dork
High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life. Portman, Frank. TEEN PORTMAN |
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The catcher in the rye.
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919- FIC SALINGE |
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Me talk pretty one day
A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including "Me Talk Pretty One Day, " about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. "You Can't Kill the Rooster" is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hiphop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors.-- And he's an NPR star. Sedaris's commentaries and observations are featured regularly on NPR, and he remains a top correspondent for Ira Glass's series "This American Life."-- Sedaris is an amazing reader whose appearances draw hundreds, and his performances -- including a jaw-dropping impression of Billie Holiday singing "I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner" -- are unforgettable.-- Sedaris's essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest he's ever written. At last, someone even meaner than the French! Sedaris, David. 814.54 SEDARIS |
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold,
that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.
that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.
- Barack Obama