Theme: Interpersonal relations

Iboy

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

Sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack that caused fragments of an iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power, but using that power against the gang that attacked him and a friend could have deadly consequences.

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You against Me

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

If someone hurts your sister and you’re any kind of man, you seek revenge.If your brother’s accused of a terrible crime but says he didn’t do it, you defend him.When Mikey’s sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie’s brother is charged with the offense, her world begins to [...]

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Frost

By Book Importer | Published: December 5, 2011

After her boyfriend Jack conjures up a record-breaking snow storm, sixteen-year-old Kat LeBlanc finds herself facing an unusual rival in the form of an environmental researcher from Greenland who is drawn to their small town of Norse Falls, Minnesota, by the storm.

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Alice in Time

By Book Importer | Published: May 12, 2011

14-year-old Alice is spirited back in time and given the change to fix her whole disastrous life.

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Jasper Jones

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie’s help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night.Jasper takes him [...]

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The Beginner’s Guide to Living

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

Seven days after his mother dies in a sudden, senseless accident, seventeen-year-old Will embarks on a search for meaning that leads him to the great philosophers—Plato, Seneca, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche—and to Taryn, the beautiful girl he meets at his mother’s wake. Will is desperate to find, however he can, something authentic, something ultimate, something so true [...]

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Poor Little Witch Girl

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 2, 2007

Eleven-year-old Verbena thinks her hereditary witchcraft is a curse that will keep her from having a normal life and marriage one day, but her mother and grandmother, who help tell the story, are eager to start her training.

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The Boyfriend Rules Of Good Behavior

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 2, 2007

Millie and her artist mother move away from their best friends to a new town, where her mother gets a proper job and a boyfriend, and Millie learns to cope with all the changes.

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The Murder Of Bindy MacKenzie

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 29, 2007

Class brain Bindy Mackenzie has alienated her entire high school but when she realizes someone is trying to kill her, she has to make friends in order to get help.

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Let’s Get Lost

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

As she acts out the role of ” Mean Girl”- at school, with her father and brother, and even with her new boyfriend-sixteen-year-old Isabel comes to a dead end and finally confronts issues related to her mother’s death.

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