Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Now and Zen	Linda C. Gerber	Nori Tanaka is thrilled to be studying abroad in Tokyo, Japan, but it isn’t exactly what she had imagined. She expected tranquil gardens and swoopy-roofed houses, not concrete and neon. And everyone …	OL12026661W
L.A. Candy (L.A. Candy #1)	Lauren Conrad	Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer...everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can't wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane p…	OL13763444W
Squarehead	Harriet Ziefert	George only likes things that are square like himself until a dream reminds him of how nice round can be.	OL14969325W
Boy girl boy	Ronald Koertge	Three troubled high school seniors, who plan to run away together from Illinois to California after graduation, try to figure out who they are who they want to be.	OL15134790W
Raj, the bookstore tiger	Kathleen T. Pelley	When a new manager brings Snowball, a grouchy cat, to the shop where Raj and his owner live and work, Snowball informs Raj that he is not the tiger everyone believes him to be.	OL15615948W
When JFK was my father	Amy Gordon	Feeling neglected by her father in Brazil and her mother in Washington, D.C., Georgia Hughes tries to cope with life at a boarding school in Connecticut by imagining relationships with John Kennedy a…	OL15857433W
The DUFF	Kody Keplinger	This is about a girl named Bianca and she just learnt that she is the DUFF of her friend group.	OL16095089W
Keep holding on	Susane Colasanti	Bullied at school and neglected by her poor, self-absorbed, single mother at home, high school junior Noelle finally reaches the breaking point after a classmate commits suicide.	OL16167368W
Carter's unfocused, one-track mind	Brent Crawford	Fifteen-year-old WIll Carter's sophomore year at Merrian High presents new problems, from the return of Scary Terry to friends-with-benefits negotiations with Abby, but when Abby considers transferri…	OL16546833W
The Schwa was here	Neal Shusterman	A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.	OL17744283W
The league	Thatcher Heldring	Fourteen-year-old Wyatt, hoping to impress a girl and ward off a bully, decides to join his older brother's summer football league, "The League of Pain," against the advice of his parents, who think …	OL17869748W
The possibility of now	Kim A. Culbertson	After years of overachieving at her elite school, Mara James has a complete meltdown during her calculus exam and, embarrassed by the incident and the viral video evidence, goes to live with her ski …	OL17896286W
Saint Anything	Sarah Dessen	Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets…	OL20000214W
The hundred lies of Lizzie Lovett	Chelsea Sedoti	Hawthorn wasn't trying to insert herself into a missing person's investigation. Or maybe she was. But that's only because Lizzie Lovett's disappearance is the one fascinating mystery their sleepy tow…	OL20045226W
Follow the blue	Brigid Lowry	Fifteen-year-old Bec, living with her family in Perth, Australia, decides to stop being sensible and follow her wilder impulses during the summer that her parents are away on a long trip to help her …	OL2244245W
Safe harbors	Renée Roth-Hano	Having survived the Nazi occupation of France, teenaged Renée goes to live and work in New York and, while there, begins to come to terms with her Jewish identity and her war experiences.	OL3913602W
Indigo	Alice Hoffman	13 year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life. Her mother died, she grew 7 inches, and she has to put up with a woman who plys Martha's lonely father with food and opinio…	OL48946W
Isabel of the whales	Hester Velmans	Eleven-year-old Isabel is a "plain old" girl living in Provincetown, Massachusetts, who believes that she is destined to accomplish something special. When her fifth-grade class goes on a whale-watch…	OL5702005W
The queen of cool	Cecil Castellucci	Bored with her life, popular high school junior Libby signs up for an internship at the zoo and discovers that the "science nerds" she meets there may have a few things to teach her about friendship …	OL5730796W
Food, girls, and other things I can't have	Allen Zadoff	Fifteen-year-old Andrew Zansky, the second fattest student at his high school, joins the varsity football team to get the attention of a new girl on whom he has a crush.	OL9443065W