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Teen Gift Recommendations: Give the Gift of Reading! Shopping just got easier! Share the joy of reading! We recommend the following books for teens on your "gift" lists!
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Title: Infernal Devices #1: Clockwork Angel
Author: Clare, Cassandra
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (c2010)
ISBN: 9781416975861
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Notes: When sixteen year old orphan Tessa Fell’s older brother suddenly vanished, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London’s dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother

 
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Title: Annexed
Author: Dogar, Sharon
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (c2010)
ISBN: 9780547501956
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Notes: Everyone know about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex – but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter’s point of view.

 
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Title: Five Flavors of Dum
Author: John, Antony
Publisher: Dial Books (c2010)
ISBN: 9780803734333
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Notes: The Challenge: Piper has one month to get the rock band Dumb a paying gig. The Deal: If she does it, Piper will become the band’s manager and get her share of the profits. The Catch: How can she do it all when she’s deaf?

 
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Title: Dash and Lilly's Book of Dares
Author: Levithan, David, and Rachel Cohn
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (c2010)
ISBN: 9780375866593
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Notes: Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what, or who, they will find

 
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Title: Witch and Wizard #2: The Gift
Author: Patterson, James
ISBN: 9780316036252
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Notes: After escaping from the New Order, Whit and Wisty have found sanctuary with a secret group of teens who have formed the Resistance, While they plan to rescue those who are still imprisoned, the One has hatched a diabolical plan to recapture Wisty and use her gifts for his own design.

 
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Title: Three Quarters Dead
Author: Peck, Richard
Publisher: Dial Books (c2010)
ISBN: 9780803734548
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Notes: Sophomore loner Kerry is overjoyed when three popular senior girls pick her to be in their clique, until a shocking accident sets off a string of supernatural occurrences that become more and more threatening

 
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Title: The Grimm Legacy
Author: Shulman, Polly
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons (c2010)
ISBN: 9780399250965
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Notes: New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the New York Circulating Material Repository, and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of .magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods

 
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Title: Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love
Author: Telep, Tricia
Publisher: R.P. Teens (c2010)
ISBN: 9780762439492
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Notes: A collection of short stories combining dark seduction and modern romance presents a variety of tales featuring the romantic lives of humans and werewolves, ghosts, fallen angels, zombies and shape-shifters

 
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Title: Stringz
Author: Wenberg, Michael
Publisher: WestSide Books (c2010)
ISBN: 9781934813331
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Notes: Life hasn’t been easy for Jace Adams, a mixed-race teen whose mom moves them from one place to another so often that sometimes he’s been in four schools in a single year. To cope with all that instability, Jace has vowed to never let himself get attached to anyone or anything other than his beloved cello. Because money is tight, Jace plays his cello on the street. One evening, someone throws a folded $100 bill with a business card attached into Jace’s open cello case while he’s serenading. That card changes everything.

 
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Title: Maxine Banks Is Getting Married
Author: Williams, Laurie Aurelia
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press (c2010)
ISBN: 9781596435131
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Notes: From the author of When Kambia Elaine Flew In from Neptune comes an endearing novel about what happens when a 17-year-old girl convinces her boyfriend to marry her, and then finds out that marriage isn’t what she thought.