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1. QUICK PICKS! Great Reads for High School Students

2. 145th Street Ten stories portray life on a block in Harlem.

3. All-American Girl Meg Cabot, bestselling author of The Princess Diaries, shoots off literary fireworks in this capital romance about an artistic alterna-girl, whose world is rocked when she saves the life of the U.S. president and gets chummy with his son.

4. Amazing Facts About Ancient Egypt Did you know that in ancient Egypt ritual false beards were worn by queens as well as kings? Or that the Egyptians were the first people to hatch eggs artificially? These, with hundreds of other curious, zany, and extraordinary facts fill this unique and wittily illustrated book. Full color.

5. America: A Novel Teenage America, a not-black, not-white, not-anything boy who has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece his life together.

6. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

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8. Arctic & Antarctic Here is an exciting and informative guide to the vast, icy wastes at the ends of the earth. Color photographs of snowy mountains and frozen seas, rare animals and plants, and the teeming life on and under the ice offer a unique view of our planet's polar wildernesses.

9. Basketball’s Best Shots Relive spectacular moments from the history of basketball that illustrates the grace, speed, and power of the game.

10. Behind the Wheel: Poems About Driving Thirty-six poems look at various aspects of driving, including passing the written driver's test, being pulled over by a cop, and having an accident, and treat them as metaphors for life.

11. Between Boardslides and Burnout:My Notes from the Road With this all-access pass, Tony Hawk shares the joy, the exhaustion, the adrenaline, and the pain of life on the road. Between Boardslides and Burnout puts you right on the edge of the ramp and on the road with him — from competitions to demos, to store openings, to autograph signings, to movie sets, and back home.

12. Blackwater When a boy and girl are drowned in the Blackwater River, thirteen-year-old Brodie must decide whether to confess that he may have caused the accident.

13. Blood and Chocolate Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.

14. Breathing Underwater Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.

15. Brian’s Return After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs

16. Bronx Masquerade While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.

17. Bull Catcher Pete and Jeff continue their friendship and love of baseball as they progress from ninth grade through high school in their small Wisconsin town.

18. Buried Onions When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.

19. Burning Up: A Novel When a girl she had met at an innercity church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.

20. Celebrity Skin:Tatoos, Brands, and Body Adornments of the Stars What did Johnny Depp do with his “Winona Forever” tattoo after she dumped him? What is the ritual surrounding the Dixie Chicks and the little birdies on their feet? How many times does Angelina Jolie have “Billy Bob” tattooed on her body and where? Celebrity Skin has the answers and much more in this ultimate photo collection of the tattoos and body art of celebrities—from Drew Barrymore, and Sean Connery to Dennis Rodman, the Backstreet Boys, and Eminem. With over 100 pages of full-color photographs, Celebrity Skin gets the inside story (and inside look) at the beauty marks of the beautiful people.

21. The Century for Young People

22. Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

23. Classic American Cars Celebrate the exuberance and eccentricity of America in the twentieth century with Classic American Cars. You'll find every dream machine here, from the 1949 Cadillac Sedanette to the 1969 Corvette, from the 1955 Thunderbird to the 1976 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible. This book is truly a car show full of the greats in automobile history.

24. Close to a Killer Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.

25. Companions of the Night When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices.

26. The Complete Book of Hairstyling There are easy-to-follow instructions for more than 100 hairstyles in this glossy and very user-friendly book

27. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Mary Elizabeth Cep (or Lola, as she prefers to be called) longs to be in the spotlight. But when she moves to New Jersey with her family and becomes a student at Dellwood "Deadwood" High, Lola finds the role of resident drama queen already filled, by the Born-to-Win, Born-to-Run-Everything Carla Santini. Carla has always gotten everything she wants -- until Lola comes along and snags the lead in the school play. Can Lola survive Carla's attempts at retaliation? Once the curtain goes up on the school play, which drama queen will take center stage?

28. Crush A series of nine romantic episodes in the lives of B.J. and other students at Cutter's Forge High as they plan for the Valentine's Day Sweetheart Stomp.

29. Cut While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.

30. Define “Normal”: A Novel When she agrees to meet with Jasmine as a peer counselor at their middle school, Antonia never dreams that this girl with the black lipstick and pierced eyebrow will end up helping her deal with the serious problems she faces at home and become a good friend.

31. Devastation!:The World’s Worst Natural Disasters Our understanding of the natural phenomena that cause these tragedies has made huge strides in the last 30 years. Devastation! Provides riveting accounts of what happened during the world's most spectacular natural disasters accompanied by stunning you-are-there photography. More than 400 color illustrations .Gazetteer of dates and details of more than 500 major natural disasters.

32. Doing Time:Notes from the Underground Each of these ten short stories focuses on a high school student's mandatory 200 hours of community service and the youth's response to the required project.

33. Dreamland: A Novel After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.

34. Ella Enchanted In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.

35. The Facts Speak for Themselves At the request of her social worker, thirteen-year-old Linda gradually reveals how her life with her unstable mother and her younger brother led to her rape and the murder she witnessed.

36. The Fairies:Photographic Evidence of the Existence of Another World After mysteriously receiving a copy of an old manuscript, an archeologist sets off around the world to photograph and document the existence of a variety of fairies.

37. Flash Fire As fire sweeps through a canyon near Los Angeles, teenagers Danna and Hall Press and other children whose parents are not around must work together to save themselves.

38. Forged By Fire Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.

39. Funny Cars

40. Gallows Hill When seventeen-year-old Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a school carnival, she finds that sometimes she can really see the future in the crystal ball, a talent that disturbs some of the other students and makes them suspect her of being a witch.

41. The Girl Death Left Behind Numb with grief when an accident kills her entire family, fourteen-year-old Beth suddenly finds herself living with her spoiled cousin Terri and trying to make friends at a new school.

42. The Girls Each of the girls in a middle-school clique reveals the strong, manipulative hold one of the group exerts on the others, causing hurt and self-doubt among the girls.

43. Gossip Girl: A Novel Presents a world of jealousy and betrayal at an exclusive private school in Manhattan.

44. Hanging on to Max When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone.

45. Hard Love After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.

46. Harlem: A Poem A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.

47. Harley, Like a Person Fourteen-year-old Harley, an artistic teenager living with her alcoholic father and angry mother, suspects that she is adopted and begins a search for her biological parents.

48. Hate You Nursing hatred for the father who choked her and damaged her voice as a child, seventeen-year-old Alice writes songs she feels she cannot sing and seeks to reconcile her feelings for herself and her father.

49. The Haunting When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, fifteen-year-old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it.

50. Heroes: A Novel After serving in the United States Army in World War II and having his face blown off by a grenade, Francis, a young soldier, returns home hoping to find--and kill--the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.