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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2008
PAPER TOWNS
by John Green
"Lighter than Looking for Alaska (2005), deeper than An Abundance of Katherines (2006) and reminiscent of Gregory Galloway's As Simple as Snow (2005)—a winning combination. (Mystery. 13 & up)"
Printz Medal Winner and Honoree Green knows what he does best and delivers once again with this satisfying, crowd-pleasing look at a complex, smart boy and the way he loves. Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2006
THE GREEN GLASS SEA
by Ellen Klages
"Unusual and thoughtful, but ultimately unsuccessful. (Fiction. 10-14)"
The author's acknowledgement at the end of this work reveals that the last chapter was originally a short story that subsequently inspired the rest. Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2005
BLACK JUICE
by Margo Lanagan

These ten new tales from Down Under take readers to worlds like, yet tantalizingly unlike, their own. Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 25, 2008
Kirkus Star THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU-BANKS
by E. Lockhart
"A funny feminist manifesto that will delight the anti–Gossip Girl gang. (Fiction. YA)"
This cerebral and offbeat comedy of manners will appeal to fans of John Green's An Abundance of Katherines (2006). Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Jan. 1, 2007
Kirkus Star THE WHITE DARKNESS
by Geraldine McCaughrean

A teenager's coming of age undergoes particularly harsh annealing in this intense, inwardly focused survival tale. Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2009
Kirkus Star MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD
by Francisco X. Stork
"Making good on the promise of his Way of the Jaguar (2000), Stork delivers a powerful tale populated by appealing (and decidedly unappealing) characters and rich in emotional nuance. (Fiction. YA)"
In what turns out to be considerably more than just another tale told by an intelligent narrator with a spectrum disorder, 17-year-old Marcelo Sandoval gets a life-changing taste of the "real world" when he's forced to take a summer job in his father's law firm. Read full book review >