 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $6.40 This book is my one of my all-time favorites. I love it.
A high school drama about a boy who is trying to fit in and find himself.
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 | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $7.14 A graphic novel about a young girl in Iran during radical changes to her country.
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 | Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) by Scott Westerfeld
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.42 A gripping sci-fi read. Sixteen year-olds are given an operation to make them universally "pretty." Before the operation, adolescents are known as uglies. Uglies can't wait until their operation day/sweet sixteen when their bones are stretched and more to become perfect. Or so they think.
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 | The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.86 One of the best stories I have ever read. Clones, clone-harvesting, friendship, and so much more are explored in this fast-paced book.
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 | Sold by Patricia Mccormick
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $2.99 A horrifying tale of being sold into the sex slave business.
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 | Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: $6.04 / Used from: $4.50 This book made me fall in love with Edward Cullen! A lovely vampire-high school tale.
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 | Pretties (Uglies Trilogy, Book 2) by Scott Westerfeld
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.66 I was thrilled with this sequel.
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 | Feed by M.T. Anderson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.80 Another wonderful sci-fi story. This book about a futuristic society predates Uglies but the two share a lot of similar ideas. Please read!!
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 | The Giver by Lois Lowry
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.65 Amazing. Read it.
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 | Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 A lonely girl who never feels accepted during her years at prep school
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 | His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $36.00 I LOVE this series. I happened to read Golden Compass a few years ago and quickly read the other two in the series. It has wonderful elements of fantasy with the quests and battles but the friendships forged are what drew me in even more. Try it if you haven't read it.
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 | Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) by Christopher Paolini
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $0.40 I am a fantasty lover so I don't mind if a book follows the classic hero-quest formula. This book may do that to an extent but it also offers plenty of fresh ideas.
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 | City of Bones (Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.99 Wonderful book! Demons,
demon-killers, drama... it's great!
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 | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Buy new: $9.59 / Used from: $7.01 An amazing book about a young girl in Nazi Germany who finds small moments of joy from stealing and reading books, especially the ones written by the Jew living in her basement.
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 | A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy) by Libba Bray
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.33 I just couldn't stand to put this book down.
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 | Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Buy used from: $1.50 |
 | Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Rebel Angels (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy) by Libba Bray
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.87 A wonderful sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty. I can't wait to read the third, Sweet Far Thing.
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 | The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Buy new: $9.99 Great tale!
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 | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Readers Circle) by Ann Brashares
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 I loved this touching story of 4 friends who share a pair of seemingly magical jeans one summer while they have to all be separated.
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 | Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $9.65 Intense. A set of cassette tapes are sent to thirteen people who were part of the reasons why Hannah killed herself.
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 | Abarat by Clive Barker
Buy used from: $60.70 Dark and interesting.
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 | I Was a Teenage Fairy (Ageless Books) by Francesca Lia Block
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $6.90 |
 | Specials (Uglies) by Scott Westerfeld
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.30 |
 | New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.95 Yay for good sequels!
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 | Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) by Christopher Paolini
Buy new: $10.39 / Used from: $4.47 A great sequel. I am waiting (impatiently) for the next installment!
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 | So B. It by Sarah Weeks
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.44 |
 | Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War (Abarat) by Clive Barker
Buy used from: $6.51 Good continuation to the Abarat story.
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 | Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $8.49 The third book in the series. I devoured this and can't believe Stephenie is publishing an unrelated book before she releases her fourth Bella book.
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 | Extras (Uglies) by Scott Westerfeld
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $4.25 I am not sure that I enjoyed this book as much as an extension of Uglies as I would have if this was a fresh story.
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 | The City of Ember by JeAnne DuPrau
Buy used from: $4.00 |
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