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February list by Rebekah Goodman

Irises
by Francisco X Stork
Published 2012 by Arthur A. Levine Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780545151351

Jacket Notes:
TWO SISTERS: Kate is bound for Stanford and an M.D. -- if her family will let her go. Mary wants only to stay home and paint. When their loving but repressive father dies, they must figure out how to support themselves and their mother, who is in a permanent vegetative state, and how to get along in all their uneasy sisterhood.... More...

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Queen of Kentucky
by Alecia Whitaker
Published 2012 by Poppy Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780316125062

Jacket Notes:
Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would preferred to be called Ericka, "thank you very much," is eager to shed her farmer's daughter roots and become part of the popular crowd at her small town high school. She trades her Bible for Seventeen magazine, buys new "sophisticated" clothes and somehow manages to secure a tenuous spot at the cool kids table.... More...

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Black Boy White School
by Brian F Walker
Published 2012 by Harper Teen

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780061914836

Jacket Notes:
When 14-year-old Anthony "Ant" Jones from the ghetto of East Cleveland, Ohio, gets a scholarship to a prep school in Maine, he finds that he must change his image and adapt to a world that never fully accepts him. But when he goes home he discovers that he no longer truly belongs there either.... More...

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Getting Over Garrett Delaney
by Abby McDonald
Published 2012 by Candlewick Press (MA)

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780763655075

Jacket Notes:
Seventeen-year-old Sadie is in love: epic, heartfelt, and utterly onesided. The object of her obsession - ahem, affection - is her best friend, Garrett Delaney, who has been oblivious to Sadie's... More...

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Dancergirl
by Carol M Tanzman
Published 2011 by Harlequin Teen

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780373210404

Jacket Notes:
Ali Ruffino loves to dance. When her friend posts videos of her online and they go viral, she thinks her unexpected fame might propel her straight to center stage. But along with some real admirers she gets some nasty detractors--and a stalker who isn't content to watch from afar.... More...

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Belle's Song. K.M. Grant
by K M Grant
Published 2011 by Quercus Books

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9781849164085

Jacket Notes:
When Belle meets Luke, son of an alchemist and Scribe to the famous poet Chaucer, she is determined to travel with him to Canterbury on a pilgrimage. She hopes for a miracle: that her father will walk again. She also hopes to atone for her own part in his accident...More...

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Uptown Dreams
by Kelli London
Published 2011 by K-Teen/Dafina

Mass Market Paperbound, English. ISBN: 9780758261281

Jacket Notes:
Four teens try to make their musical and romantic dreams come true at the Harlem Academy of Creative and Performing Arts. More...

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Dangerously Placed
by Nansi Kunze
Published 2011 by Random House (Au)

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9781864718829

Jacket Notes:
A fantastic romantic sci-fi thriller for teens featuring virtual reality, simulated environments, and just the right mix of mystery and first love... More...

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On the Fringe
by Courtney King Walker
Published 2011 by Lands Atlantic Publishing

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780982500552

Jacket Notes:
Claire is struggling to overcome the murder of her childhood friend and secret crush, Daniel. Everyone else seems to be moving on with their lives, but she's still trying to cope. The fact that she finds herself alone and drowning on her 16th birthday isn't helping.... More...

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Faking Faith
by Josie Bloss
Published 2011 by Flux

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780738727578

Jacket Notes:
After a humiliating incident involving some bad decisions on her part, seventeen-year-old Dylan discovers the blogs of fundamentalist Christian girls and starts passing herself off as one of them in her own blog, leading her to some unexpected insights about herself and her values.... More...

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Living Violet
(First book in the Cambion Chronicles series)

by Jaime Reed
Published 2012 by Dafina Books

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780758269249

Jacket Notes:
In the first book in a new muticultural paranormal series, Reed weaves a fascinating story about the mysterious Cambion mythology and a young woman drawn into a world of supernatural powers. More...

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Fangtastic
by Lucienne Diver
Published 2012 by Flux

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780738730394

Jacket Notes:
Gina and her boyfriend, both vampires working undercover for the government, are sent to investigate a group of humans who act like vampires and have been on a killing spree in Tampa, Florida... More...

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Fix Me
by Rune Michaels
Published 2011 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781416957720

Jacket Notes:
A sixteen-year-old girl endures a miserable life with her aunt and violent twin brother, but when memories of an even worse past resurface she runs away to a zoo, where she finds an unlikely sanctuary and allies... More...

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Illuminated
by Erica Orloff
Published 2011 by Speak

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780142413760

Jacket Notes:
Some loves are not made to last . . . Like Romeo and Juliet, Heloise and Abelard were doomed from the start, and their romance was destined to pass into history. Yet when sixteen-year-old Callie Martin discovers a diary hidden within an antique book, their story - and hers - takes on another life.... More...

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Love and Leftovers
by Sarah Tregay
Published 2011 by Katherine Tegen Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780062023582

Jacket Notes:
My wish is to fall cranium over Converse in dizzy daydream-worthy love. If only it were that easy. I've been dragged away from home for the summer--from Idaho to a family summerhouse in New Hampshire.... More...

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Probability of Miracles
by Wendy Wunder
Published 2011 by Razorbill

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781595143686

Jacket Notes:
Having spent several years in and out of hospitals for a life-threatening illness, pragmatic sixteen-year-old Cam is relocated by her miracle-seeking mother to a town in Maine known for its mystical healing qualities... More...

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Shattered Souls
by Mary Lindsey
Published 2011 by Philomel Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780399256226

Jacket Notes:
When a Texas high school student starts hearing voices, she assumes she is schizophrenic like her father, but instead she finds out that she is a "Speaker," who can communicate with the dead in order to help their troubled souls find resolution. A thrilling debut story of death, love, destiny and danger
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Pregnant Pause
by Han Nolan
Published 2011 by Harcourt Children's Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780152065706

Jacket Notes:
Nobody gets away with telling Eleanor Crowe what to do. But as a pregnant sixteenyear-old, her options are limited: move to Kenya with her missionary parents or marry the baby's father and work at his family's summer camp for overweight kids.... More...

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Just Your Average Princess
by Kristina Springer
Published 2011 by Farrar Straus Giroux

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780374361501

Jacket Notes:
Working in her family's pumpkin patch every year, seventeen-year-old Jamie has dreamed of two things--dating co-worker Danny and being crowned Pumpkin Princess--but her beautiful and famous cousin Milan's visit may squash all of her hopes... More...

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Saving June
by Hannah Harrington
Published 2011 by Harlequin

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780373210244

Jacket Notes:
Harper Scott's older sister, June, took her own life a week before high school graduation, leaving Harper devastated. So when her divorcing parents decide to split up June's ashes, Harper steals the urn and takes off cross-country with her best friend, Laney, to the one place June always dreamed of going--California.... More...

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