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1) The perks of being a wallflower

Author

Chbosky, Stephen

Notes

#1 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 25 week(s).

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Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie is navigating through the strange worlds of love, drugs, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," and dealing with the loss of a good friend and his favorite aunt.

2) Looking for Alaska

Author

Green, John

Notes

#4 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 18 week(s).

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-- The Anthropocene Reviewed -- Looking for Alaska Newly updated edition includes a brand-new Readers' Guide featuring a Q&A with author John Green

3) Middle school, the worst years of my life

Author

Patterson, Jame

Notes

#5 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, Leo the Silent, to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

4) The book thief

Author

Zusak, Markus

Notes

#6 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 272 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook

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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

5) The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Notes

#8 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 152 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

6) Wildwood

Author

Meloy, Colin

Notes

#9 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Prue's life shifts from ordinary to extraordinary when her baby brother is kidnapped by a murder of crows and she must embark into the Impassable Wilderness, a dense forest in the center of Portland, Oregon, with her friend Curtis in tow, where the pair will encounter warring creatures, peaceful mystics, and other dark-minded, powerful figures.

7) Out of my mind

Author

Draper, Sharon M

Notes

#10 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 24 week(s).

Formats:

Local Collection Book, Local Media

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A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, considered by many to be mentally retarded, discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.