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• Gatsby's Girl

  Preston, Caroline

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  Just as Jay Gatsby was haunted by Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald was haunted by his own great first love - a Chicago socialite named Ginevra. Caroline Preston evokes the entire sweep of Ginevra's life - from her first…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sundays at Tiffany's

  Patterson, James, 1947-

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  As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, the powerful head of a Broadway theater company, has no time for her. She does have one friend -- a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael -- but only she can see him. Decades later, Jane still…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unwind

  Shusterman, Neal,

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  In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.

• The Fault in Our Stars

  Green, John, 1977-

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  Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

• Sabriel

  Nix, Garth,

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  Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.

• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

  a Novel

  Lockhart, E.

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  Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.

• Red Scarf Girl

  a Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

  Jiang, Ji-li

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  In 1966 Ji-li Jian was 12 years old. And oustanding student and a leader of her class, she had everything: brains, ability, the admiration of her peers-- and a shining future in Chairman Mao's New China. But all that changed with the advent of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Girl Named Disaster

  Farmer, Nancy, 1941-

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  While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.

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