Through the course of a summer internship at the fashion magazine Skirt, Kira experiences weird roommates, a not-so-perfect romance, an accusation of theft, and continual confrontation with a fellow intern who happens to be the owner's daughter.
Book of the Day: The Noah Confessions by Barbara Hall
Instead of a car for her sixteenth birthday, Lynnie receives a manuscript from her father in which her deceased mother writes about family secrets, helping Lynnie to understand more about her parents and the complexity of growing up.
Book of the Day: Kiss and Blog by Alyson Noel
Having made a pact to help each other not go unnoticed in their sophomore year, Winter, dismayed at how quickly her once, best friend Sloane forgets her promise when she is noticed by the "cool girls," vows to take revenge.
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Book of the Day: Evil Genius by Catherine Jinx
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
Book of the Day: Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell
In fifth-century Britain, nine years after the destruction of their home on the island of Shalott brings her to live with her father and brothers in the military encampments of Arthur's army, seventeen-year-old Elaine describes her changing perceptions of war and the people around her as she becomes increasingly involved in the bitter struggle against the invading Saxons.Book of the Day: Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot
Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.
Book of the Day: Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells
As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home and the only life she has ever known.
Book of the Day: Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
Book of the Day: Me and My Shadows: Living with the Legacy of Judy Garland by Lorna Luft
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Judy.
Happy Birthday to you!
Today is Judy Garland's birthday! She would have been 85 years old. This book is written by her youngest daughter, Lorna Luft. A great story about the greatest entertainer of all time.
Book of the Day: The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have by Dennis DiClaudio.
THIS is why your mom tells you to wash your hands!Book of the Day: Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer
After the tragic death of Sue Debny, the wife of the Elongated Man, the members of the Justice League of America and most of the DC superheroes are brought together to investigate. Sues murder is unsettling for a couple of reasons: she was a friend, and whoever committed the crime knew enough personal information to be able to sneak past security. Even more troubling are the letters that the family members of other heroes receive, indicating that they are the next targets. The superheroes split into teams to follow the leads that they are most suited to solve.
Book of the Day: Castle Waiting by Linda Medley
A collection of the author's award-winning comic book series. The setting for her graphic narrative is a classic semi-magical, medieval middle-European, fairy-tale land. The first three chapters tell of "The Curse of the Brambly Hedge", a riff on the "Sleeping Beauty" tale involving witches, a baby princess, and an entire castle enchanted into a century-long slumber.
Book of the Day: Chess: From First Moves to Checkmate by Daniel King
Introduces the rules and strategies of chess, as well as its history and some of the great players and matches.
Book of the Day: The Secret Sacrament by Sherryl Jordan
A disturbing incident when he is only seven years old foreshadows the role Gabriel will play in the relations between his Navorran people and the Shinali, a role which is solidified when he becomes an Elected One and trains to be a Healer.
Book of the Day: The Belly Gunner by Dale Aldrich
A remarkable first-person account of Dale Aldrich, a World War II B-17 ball turret (belly) gunner who flew missions over occupied-Europe and Germany, was shot down and captured, and ultimately interned in a Nazi POW camp for over a year.
Book of the Day: Say Yes by Audrey Couloumbis.
In her efforts to hang on following the disappearance of her stepmother, Casey resorts to anything including robbery.
Book of the Day: Cracker Jackson by Betsy Byars
After attempting to save his ex-babysitter from wife abuse, Cracker Jackson gains an adult insight into the sadness of failed heroics.
Book of the Day: The Heartbeat of Halftime by Stephen Wunderli.
Wing, 13, is being torn apart with emotions. He is angry at the cancer that is killing his father. And he is frustrated with the humiliation that Fat Ed and the other lunchroom bullies heap on his football team, the Titans, every time they lose. It seems that every member of the team is looking for an outlet for his own pain. One day during a particularly bad game, Coach asks Wing if he has something to prove. When he says he does, Coach writes two words on the boy's jersey that change the Titans forever - PROVE IT. So Wing and the rest of the Titans make their anger work in their favor, propelling the team to the championship.
Book of the Day: Over the Wall by John H. Ritter
Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life.
Book of the Day: Zazoo / Richard Mosher.
Amid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love.
Book of the Day: The Beetle and Me : a love story by Karen Romano Young.
Surrounded by her busy extended family and their many cars, fifteen-year-old Daisy pursues her goal of single-handedly restoring the car of her dreams, the old purple Volkswagen Beetle from her childhood.Book of the Day: Phone Calls by R.L. Stine
After being humiliated by her best friend Diane in front of a cute boy, Julie decides to get even and plays a telephone prank, launching an all-out telephone war that results in mismatched romances and worse.
Book of the Day: Three Clams and an Oyster by Randy Powell.
During their humorous search to find a fourth player for their flag football team, three high school juniors are forced to examine their long friendship, their individual flaws, and their inability to try new experiences.
Book of the Day: Moon White : Color Me Enchanted / Melody Carlson
When, at her stepmother's urging, Heather explores Wiccan spirituality, she not only becomes isolated from her Christian friends, she falls deeper and deeper into the occult and faces shocking betrayals and threats to her very life.
Book of the Day: Does my head look big in this? by Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.
Book of the Day: Beige by Cecil Castellucci.
Katy, a quiet French Canadian teenager, reluctantly leaves Montréal to spend time with her estranged father, an aging Los Angeles punk rock legend.
Book of the Day: Being a girl who loves : learning to love like Jesus by Shannon Kubiak Primicerio.
Ideal for a girl's personal quiet time or for use in small groups, this book offers practical insights into being a girl who loves as Jesus loves.
Book of the Day: God Allows U-Turns by Allison Bottke and Cheryll Hutchings
A book of faith in action for teens--these slice-of-life stories offer a confidence-building look at passionate faith changing, encouraging, inspiring, and healing lives.
Book of the Day: Wildwood Dancing by Juliette Marillier
Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.
Book of the Day: Trail of Blood: a Father, a Son and a Tell-Tale Crime Scene Investigation by Wanda Evans
When Jim Dunn got the heart stopping call every parent dreads: "Your son has disappeared" on a Sunday night, it set into motion a six year nightmarish odyssey of desperate searches. Frustrated, Dunn turned to Dr. Richard Walter, a forensic pathologist and criminal profiler, who consulted Scotland Yard, studied DNA evidence and blood spatter patterns and then pointed out who he deduced killed Scott Dunn and why.Book of the Day: Shadowland by Meg Cabot
Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator who can see and speak with ghosts. As a bridge between the living and the dead, she gets called on to help troubled ghosts take care of unfinished business. Soon after she and her mother move from New York City to sunny California, Suze meets the sexiest boy she's ever seen. But there are two problems: he's a ghost, and he's haunting her room.
Book of the Day: Second Sight by Gary Blackwood
In Washington, D.C., during the last days of the Civil War, a teenage boy who performs in a mind reading act befriends a clairvoyant girl whose frightening visions foreshadow an assassination plot.
Book of the Day: Restless: A Ghost's Story by Rich Wallace
Frank, a teenaged ghost who has not been able to move on to a higher realm in the afterlife, tries to connect with his younger brother Herbie, a high school senior who was eight years old when Frank died.Book of the Day: For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy by Kimberly Bradley
Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.
Book of the Day: Blue Girl by Charles DeLint
New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life.Book of the Day: Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.
Book of the Day: If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? by Melissa Kantor
When the father of high school sophomore, Lucy Norton, remarries, Lucy finds herself tormented by two bratty stepsisters and a wicked stepmother.
Book of the Day: Last chance in Texas : the redemption of criminal youth by John Hubner.
Looking at how we treat violent young offenders, a powerful study goes inside Texas's Giddings State School to detail their remarkably effective treatment program for young offenders.No, we aren't in time-travel mode! Going out of town, so wanted to post ahead!
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Book of the Day: Nickel and Dimed : on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
To find out what it was like to live on poverty-level wages, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered.Book of the Day: King of the Mild Frontier : an ill-advised autobiography by Chris Crutcher.
Chris Crutcher, author of young adult novels such as "Ironman" and "Whale Talk," as well as short stories, tells of growing up in Cascade, Idaho, and becoming a writer.Book of the Day: Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff
In small town, post-World War II Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
Book of the Day: Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts by Penny Colman
Death, the last stage of the human condition, has been underreported and mostly avoided in writing for young people. Colman takes on the task with just the right mix of unblinking realism and sensitivity to varieties of beliefs and practices.
Book of the Day: Wrestling Sturbridge by Rich Wallace.
Living in Sturbridge, Pennsylvania, where wrestling is king, high-school senior Benny must compete against his best friend for a spot on the team.
Book of the Day: Death's Door by Betsy Byars.
Super-sleuth Herculeah Jones's investigation of the attempted murder of Meat's uncle leads them to a mystery bookstore named Death's Door.
Book of the Day: How Far Would You Have Gotten If I Hadn't Called You Back? by M.E. Kerr
After moving with her family from New Jersey to California in the late 1950s, sixteen-year-old Bron discovers the world of drag racing.
Book of the Day: The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli
After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.Book of the Day: Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress.
Her mother, her foster guardian, and 14-year-old Rainbow comment on the state of things as she prepares to return to a foster home for yet another stay.
Book of the Day: Memory Boy : a novel by Will Weaver.
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.
Book of the Day: Too Soon for Jeff by Marilyn Reynolds.
High school senior Jeff Browning is upset when he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant and determined not to let a baby ruin his plans to go to college on a debate scholarship, but his feelings change after the baby is born.