 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.68 FANTASTIC journal - a new and funnier "Catcher in the Rye"
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 | Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: $6.59 / Used from: $2.37 the entire series, but especially the first and last books are the ones that our kids love the best.
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 | Ranger's Apprentice: The Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $2.63 The entire series - AGAIN...I can't keep these books in. They are hard to get, but so worth it! I wish Amazon had more of the boxed series available...
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 | Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.50 Along with Glass, Identical, and Crank...all 3 are must haves for any HS library.
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 | The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (No 1) by Art Spiegelman
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $13.44 if you only have money for one graphic novel, let this be the one. This one sets the gold standard!
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 | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $3.97 This is another fantastic graphic novel - and it works for global studies, too.
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 | A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer
Buy new: $8.60 / Used from: $0.01 I think our library has 4 copies of this, but they are always out. GET this book!
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 | Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3) by Christopher Paolini
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $4.45 I can't keep a copy of this on our shelves, either, it's a great read!
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 | The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.91 this is a little young for my HS kids, but it's one incredible book...a great one for budding writers, too!
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 | The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.65 all of Nancy Farmer's books are wonderful, but this is one that circulates, even among reluctant readers.
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 | Don't Take Love Lying Down by Brad Henning
Buy used from: $9.99 I lied - this is a nonfiction book, but it's one of the "hot" ones for circulation...Brad Henning is an amazing speaker, as well.
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 | One Child by Torey L. Hayden
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.73 all of Torey's books are wonderful!
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 | Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Buy new: $9.17 / Used from: $4.75 great book!!!
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 | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.35 great book, along with the Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven...
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 | Masquerade (Blue Bloods, Book 2) by Melissa De La Cruz
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.42 The entire Blue Bloods series is a must-have in any young adult collection!
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 | Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block
Buy used from: $4.09 wonderful book!
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 | Sold by Patricia Mccormick
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.93 shocking, but true and an important read!
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 | Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $0.01 this book is probably the hottest read we have for very reluctant male readers...I haven't found one yet who wasn't entralled with this!
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 | The Chicken Dance (Thorndike Press Large Print Literacy Bridge Series) by Jacques Couvillon
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $33.35 OK - this is MY favorite YA book, I can't get kids to be interested in it (cover?), but it's very well-written and a great read.
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 | Freak Show by James St. James
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.65 Hysterically funny book, but not a Mainstream Read....
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