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This #1 New York Times bestselling prequel to Sex and the City is now a CW TV series!
The Carrie Diaries is the coming-of-age story of Carrie Bradshaw, one of the most iconic characters of New York City and our generation.
Before Sex and the City, Carrie was a small-town girl who knew she wanted more. She's ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school.
Up until now, Carrie and her friends have been...
2) Give It Up
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Swoop List volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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When five girls at Jackson High School find themselves on a nasty list, they must join together and face the rest of their school. But will their struggles be too much to bear?
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Swoop List volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Between facing drama from haters, getting ready for their senior prom, and mentoring young girls, the swoop-list girls have a lot to tackle. But will giving back to their community lead them to new levels of happiness?
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Swoop List volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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When relationship, family, and friend problems make life rough, the swoop-list girls must examine their lives and make positive changes. But can they handle the challenge of confronting their own mistakes?
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Swoop List volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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When a gang shooting causes tensions to rise, the swoop-list girls must discover how to keep their cool and have faith in each other. Can they maintain their friendship under these stressful circumstances?
6) Purity
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A novel about love, loss, and sex -- but not necessarily in that order.
Before her mother died, Shelby promised three things: to listen to her father, to love as much as possible, and to live without restraint. Those Promises become harder to keep when Shelby's father joins the planning committee for the Princess Ball, an annual dance that ends with a ceremonial vow to live pure lives -- in other words, no "bad behavior," no breaking the rules, and...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Jordan Sterling has had a boring summer, unlike the other girls at her high school. When she hears story after story of fun summer romances, Jordan decides she has to come up with her own special boyfriend. She brags about Ryan, a gorgeous guy she met over the summer. But Ryan is a real person-a boy she's known all her life. Luckily, he...
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Eden Newman must mate before her 18th birthday in six months or she'll be left outside to die in a burning world. But who will pick up her mate-option when she's cursed with white skin and a tragically low mate-rate of 15%? In a post-apocalyptic, totalitarian, underground world where class and beauty are defined by resistance to an overheated environment, Eden's coloring brands her as a member of the lowest class, a weak and ugly Pearl. If only she...
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Sasha Anderson is on the edge….Everyone knows that she lied about who the father of her child was. Now, everyone is demanding the truth, her mother has kicked her out of the house and she's this close to losing custody of her baby. What's a girl to do when life is an overwhelming struggle and dying takes too much trouble and effort? A new beginning…College seems to be Sasha's savior. After enrolling in Michigan State University (with her baby...
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Relationships are like road trips. Sometimes they're an exciting adventure. But sometimes they're like a traffic jam going nowhere. Or even worse, they're a wrong turn that's taken you hundreds of miles off your course. With much-needed humor and honest advice, bestselling author and speaker Chad Eastham helps you think through tough but necessary relationship issues such as: · Why some people find happiness, while others find heartache · Why pain...
11) In Trouble
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IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Jamie and Elaine have been best friends forever, and now they're finally juniors in high school. Elaine has a steady boyfriend, and Jamie could have one-if she'd just open her eyes and see Paul. But Jamie has a bigger problem to worry about. Then Elaine gets "in trouble"-something they thought only happened to "other" girls. Are there any good choices for a girl in trouble? In Trouble is a novel born of author Ellen Levine's interviews with women...
12) Losing It
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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A travesty. A violation. An ecstasy. A disappointment. An instant. A lie. A theft. A rite of passage. Whatever you call it, there's only one first time. A.S. King, Melvin Burgess, Keith Gray, Patrick Ness, Anne Fine, Sophie McKenzie, Bali Rai, Jenny Valentine, Mary Hooper, and Andrew Smith. Some of today's leading international YA authors contributed to this hard-hitting collection of original short stories: some funny, some moving, some haunting,...
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In this updated and revised book, Joe White (founder of Kanakuk Kamps) helps teens figure out God's awesome plan for true love-and, for those who've made mistakes in the past, he walks them through the steps to reclaiming purity. More than just advice, Pure Excitement gets teens fired up to develop the courage and conviction required for accepting nothing but the best. Everybody talks about sex, but this author-one of the most captivating and respected...
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Navigating the dating scene is hard enough on its own-add in the concerns raised by the Me Too movement and it can seem completely overwhelming. This book will introduce you to key concepts like consent, provide advice about how to date safely, share information about what a healthy relationship is and how to build one, and offer counsel about getting out of relationships that are violent or toxic. Sexual violence and harassment are alarmingly widespread...
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Teen sex. STIs. Sexting. Rape. Sexual harassment. #MeToo and #YesAllWomen. Today's teens launch into their sexual lives facing challenging issues but with little if any formalized learning about sex and human reproduction. Many of them get their sex ed from online porn. Through this authoritative, inclusive, and teen-friendly overview, readers learn the basics about sex, sexuality, human reproduction and development, birth control, gender identity,...
16) The Lure
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From bestselling author Lynne Ewing comes a gritty, sexy novel perfect for fans of books like Perfect Chemistry-about a teen forced to become a "lure," a beautiful girl used by her street gang to seduce and entrap rival gang members. The Lure tells the story of fifteen-year-old Blaise Montgomery, who lives on the dangerous outskirts of Washington, DC, where a stray bullet can steal a life on the way to school and death lurks around every corner. Drugs...
17) Suite Dreams
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Hello, mate! (Practicing my Australian. * How am I doing?) I'm so glad the timing worked out for this couch exchange. I'll be crashing on yours by the time you get to mine. ** If you run into any problems, just find Alyssa. She'll help you out with whatever you need. *** Your couch-swapping mate, Rick * That's cute. Go have fun in Australia and leave ME-your girlfriend for an entire semester-to waste away on campus, alone. ** Um, think again. Your...
18) The Truth Is
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Named one of the best YA Latinx books of 2019 by Remezcla and HipLatina. A Bustle Book Club Selection A powerful exploration of love, identity, and self-worth through the eyes of a fierce, questioning Puerto Rican teen. Fifteen-year-old Verdad doesn't think she has time for love. She's still struggling to process the recent death of her best friend, Blanca; dealing with the high expectations of her hardworking Puerto Rican mother and the absence of...
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What's a geek girl to do when all's fair in love, war, and hacking ...
Stung by an epic betrayal, Camy Cavanaugh relies on the sure things: her best friend, her job as peer tutor, and her safe spot on the sidelines of life. But when she hacks into a secret, trash-talking website, it ignites a war between the sexes that won't end until the whole school is turned upside down-and Camy's world is turned inside out.
Now the hottest girls in school refuse...
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The author of Awkward presents a holiday tale of one teenage girl who is about to go way out of her comfort zone—and into the arms of a rockstar . . .
Spending Christmas vacation on a cruise with her two cousins from hell isn't Holly Dayton's idea of a good time. And when in a moment of seasick-fueled desperation she lurches into an open suite—she's greeted with an eyeful of pepper spray. The culprit? A gorgeous...
Spending Christmas vacation on a cruise with her two cousins from hell isn't Holly Dayton's idea of a good time. And when in a moment of seasick-fueled desperation she lurches into an open suite—she's greeted with an eyeful of pepper spray. The culprit? A gorgeous...
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