 | Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Buy new: $12.75 / Used from: $0.05 Great book about a Freshman girl who is cast out and refuses to speak because no one will listen.
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 | Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark (The Kingdom Keepers) by Ridley Pearson
Buy used from: $1.55 Cool sci-fi thriller - on the easy side - that is set in Orlando at Walt Disney world. The main characters work with Disney Imagineers to create holograms of themselves and then they float in and out of Disney at night trying to solve a mystery.
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 | Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $1.13 This book captures the experience of a young girl from Africa who finds herself the victim of the slave trade. Easy to read and follow this story line because it is filled with action and scenes of distress ...until the end.
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 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder) by L. Frank Baum
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.87 Wonderful classic that is "so much better than the movie" claims my students. If you would like, come see the "yellow brick road" they created in my classroom.
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 | Shadow Children Boxed Set: Among the Hidden, Among the Impostors, Among the Betrayed, and Among the Barons by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $12.87 I loved this entire series ... futuristic view about what our world could look like if we are not careful to protect the family and democratic government. EASY READ!
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 | Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.30 Book written in poetic form ... I haven't personally read this one because I can't keep it on my classroom bookshelf.
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 | Sold by Patricia Mccormick
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.67 Wonderful story based on the actual practice of selling girls into slavery. Set in India ... this practice still occurs to this day, and the author is taking a stand against it by exposing this practice to the world.
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 | A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Buy used from: $5.00 It is different from the movie and well worth the read.
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 | Uglies (Boxed Set): Uglies, Pretties, Specials (The Uglies) by Scott Westerfeld
Buy used from: $126.38 All three of these are great. They are a bit science fiction, and have the themes of classic Utopian novels like Brave New World, but in a totally teen way.
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