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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001

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  It's an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent... until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announced that he's an alien. After…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grasshopper Jungle

  a History

  Smith, Andrew (Andrew Anselmo), 1959-

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  Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment gone terribly wrong

• The Field Guide to the North American Teenager

  Philippe, Ben,

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  16-year-old black French-Canadian Norris Kaplan must navigate life and love in Austin, Texas after he and his mother move there for her new teaching job. At Anderson High, he plans to keep his head down and draw as little attention as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

  Pratchett, Terry

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  A talking cat, 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.

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

  Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

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  Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

• Simone Breaks All the Rules

  Rigaud, Debbie,

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  Simone Thibodeaux's strict Haitian immigrant parents enforce no-dating rules and curfews and send Simone to an all-girls school. As for prom? Simone is allowed to go on one condition: her parents will select her date (a boy from a nice…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

  [a Novel]

  O'Neal, Kristen, 1993-

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  Forced to leave Stanford's pre-med program after contracting Lyme disease, Priya finds solace in an online chronic-illness support group and with best friend Brigid, whose own illness may be more unique than Priya suspected.

• Shakespeare for Squirrels

  a Novel

  Moore, Christopher, 1957-

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  A hilarious and irreverent reimagining of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream where King Lear's former fool Pocket of Dog Snogging washes up sun-bleached shores of Greece caught in the middle of political turmoil.

• Boys Don't Knit

  (in Public)

  Easton, Tom (Children's fiction writer),

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  After a brush with the law, Ben, a dyed-in-the-wool worrier, must take up a new hobby and chooses knitting, an activity at which he excels but must try to keep secret from his friends, enemies, and sports-obsessed father.

• Not My Problem

  Smyth, Ciara (Young adult author),

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  Aideen has plenty of problems she can’t fix, but when Aideen stumbles on her nemesis, overachiever Meabh Kowalski, in the midst of a full-blown meltdown, she sees a problem that—unlike her own disaster of a life—seems refreshingly easy to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Will Be Funny Someday

  Henry, Katie,

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  Sixteen-year-old Isabel Vance isn't the wallflower everyone assumes her to be. While avoiding her overbearing boyfriend one afternoon, she unwittingly walks into a Chicago comedy club, where she ends up performing at an open mic. Isabel's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heretics Anonymous

  Henry, Katie,

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  When nonbeliever Michael transfers to a Catholic school in eleventh grade, he quickly connects with a secret support group intent on exposing the school's hypocrisies one stunt at a time.

• My Lady Jane

  Hand, Cynthia, 1978-

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  Edward is the King of England. He's also dying, which is inconvenient. Jane, Edward's cousin, is far more interested in books than romance. Unfortunately, Edward has arranged to marry her off to Gifford secure the line of succession. And…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sunny G's Series of Rash Decisions

  Dhillon, Navdeep Singh,

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  Left with just a notebook of his brother's after he died, Sunny Gill has decided to fill it with rash decisions -- starting with upturning all of his prom plans in favor of a more traditional American teen experience. He shows up without a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe

  Norton, Preston, 1985-

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  Cliff Hubbard aka Neanderthal, a 250-pound and super tall kid, is the target of bullies and crippling self-doubt until the day school football hero Aaron, newly surfaced from a coma, claims that in a near-death experience, God told him…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Princess Diaries

  Cabot, Meg

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  Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is 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, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crying Laughing

  Rubin, Lance, 1981-

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  While a very traumatic bat mitzvah stand-up routine has prevented Winnie from sharing her gift of comedy in the past, Evan, a cute and funny boy, convinces her to join the school's improv troupe. Winnie is excited to share the news with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Be More Chill

  the Graphic Novel

  Vizzini, Ned, 1981-2013,

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  Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized supercomputer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.

• Well, That Was Unexpected

  Sutanto, Jesse Q,

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  Sharlot Citra is whisked from Los Angeles to her mother's native Indonesia, where she finds herself fake dating the son of one of the wealthiest families in Indonesia, and she is surprised when she actually starts to fall in love with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation