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Teens : Fiction

Read This Book: The Poker Diaries

14-year-old Lulu King is being raised in uptown NYC with her wealthy-trust-fund girlfriend-of-the-mayor museum-curator mother, and least during the week. Every other weekend and summers, she  is also being raised in downtown NYC with her poker-playing tattooed motor-cycle-riding father and her ex-convict bar-owner tough-guy grandfather.

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2007 White Award Book Winners Announced

The Report Card by Andrew Clements has been voted winner of the third-fifth grade and So B. It by Sarah Weeks winner of the sixth-eighth grade.

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Pirates!

Set in the 1800's, this adventure story features Nancy, a British teenage girl who is in love with a young sailor named William. Her wealthy sugar-importing father dies and her brothers try to take over the family planation in Jamaica by marrying Nancy off to the evil Brazilian next door.

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Teen Urban Fiction: Fights, Friends and Fine Looking Brothers

Jayd thinks her life is pretty ordinary but drama always seems to follow her.

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Check it out! Dairy Queen

Michelle: So, did you finish reading the book yet?

Lissa:Yup. Dairy Queen, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. I loved the title, because I am fond of the DQ, and the cover, because who isn’t drawn in by a cow wearing a tiara?

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