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• Clown in a Cornfield

  Cesare, Adam,

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  2025 movie adaptation. Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don't know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forever...

  Blume, Judy,

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  2025 Netflix Adaptation. Katherine and Michael meet at a New Year's Eve party. They're attracted to each other, they grow to love each other. And once they've decided their love is forever, they make love. It's the beginning of an intense and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Know What You Did Last Summer

  Duncan, Lois, 1934-2016,

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  1997 and 2025 Movie Adaptation. Four teens fight to outsmart a killer who intends to avenge a young boy's death in this suspenseful thriller that inspired the classic horror film. After a party, four teens are in a hit-and-run accident that results…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Were Liars

  Lockhart, E.,

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  2025 series adaptation on Amazon Prime. A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends -- the Liars -- whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Summer I Turned Pretty

  Han, Jenny,

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  Three seasons adapted on Amazon Prime. Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Life With the Walter Boys

  Novak, Ali,

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  2023 series adaptation on Netflix. Devastated when her parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year old Jackie moves from New York City to Colorado to live with her mother's best friend, who has twelve children, including two boys who start to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Uglies

  Westerfeld, Scott,

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  Netflix Movie Adaptation, sequel movie pending. Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In just a few weeks she'll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty. And as a pretty, she'll…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leviathan

  Westerfeld, Scott

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  Netflix animated adaptation. Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men. Deryn Sharp is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sky Is Everywhere

  Nelson, Jandy,

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  Adapted on Apple+ in 2022. Tucked among the magical redwood trees of Northern California and surrounded by her grandmother’s gargantuan roses, 17-year-old Lennie Walker, a radiant musical prodigy, struggles with overwhelming grief following the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heartstopper. Volume 1

  Oseman, Alice,

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  Series adaptation. Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• See You on Venus

  Vinuesa, Victoria,

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  2023 film adaptation. Mia has had a heart condition her whole life. She's not afraid of dying but something has always stopped her from her biggest fear: tracking down her biological mother in Spain...until now. Kyle has always been the life of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  Sáenz, Benjamin Alire,

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  Film adaptation. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Golden Compass

  Pullman, Philip, 1946-

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  Film and series adaptation. Accompanied by her shape-shifting daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

  Collins, Suzanne,

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  Film adaptation. In a prequel to "The Hunger Games," eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow prepares to mentor the female tribute from District 12 in the tenth Hunger Games, with the fate of his family hanging on the slim chance that he can help her win…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

  Jackson, Holly, 1992-

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  Netflix series adaptation. The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. Almost everyone. Having grown up in the small town that was consumed by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Loveboat, Taipei

  Wen, Abigail Hing,

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  Film adaptation. Ever Wong’s summer takes an unexpected turn: gone is Chien Tan, the strict educational program in Taiwan that Ever was expecting. In its place, she finds Loveboat: a summer-long free-for-all where hookups abound, adults turn a blind…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unpregnant

  Hendriks, Jenni,

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  Film adaptation. Finding herself unexpectedly pregnant, a 17-year-old girl from a conservative community teams up with her wild former friend to get an out-of-state abortion that is complicated by unexpected challenges, kind strangers and reckonings…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On the Come Up

  Thomas, Angie,

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  Film adaptation. Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.

• Five Feet Apart

  Lippincott, Rachael,

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  Film adaptation. Seventeen-year-olds Stella and Will, both suffering from cystic fibrosis, realize the only way to stay alive is to stay apart, but their love for each other is slowly pushing the boundaries of physical and emotional safety.

• Turtles All the Way Down

  Green, John, 1977-

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  Film adaptation. Aza Holmes, a high school student with obsessive-compulsive disorder, becomes focused on searching for a fugitive billionaire.