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41) Way of the Wild
How far would you go to save the ones you love?
Jamie has lived with the memory of Artemis, the girl she helped save, for over a decade. Now in her final year at university, she discovers that the forest her childhood friend grew up in is under threat of deforestation. And only Jamie seems to care.
With her father, best friend, and frenemy at her side, she strikes out to the Swen Forest, determined to protect it. But things
Maybe Mab was real. Maybe not. Maybe Mab was the fury. Maybe she was the courage. Maybe later on she was the sex . . .
A tiny fairy winging her way through the jasmine-scented L.A. night. A little girl caught in a grown-up glitz-and-glitter world of superstars and supermodels. A too beautiful boy with a secret he can never share . . .
From the author of Weetzie Bat comes a magical, mesmerizing tale of transformation. This is the
...45) Violet & Claire
This is the story of two girls, racing through space like shadow and light. A photo negative, together they make the perfect image of a girl. Violet is the dark one, dressed in forever black, dreaming Technicolor dreams of spinning the world into her very own silver screen creation. Claire is like a real-life Tinker Bell, radiating love and light, dressing herself in wings of gauze and glitter, writing poems to keep away the darkness. The setting
...46) The Hanged Man
In a stunning departure from her enormously popular
...47) Witch Baby
Once upon a time in the city of Shangri-L.A., someone left a baby on a doorstep. She had wild, dark hair and purple eyes and looked at the world in a special way.
The family that took her in called her Witch Baby and raised her as their own. But even though she tried to fit in, Witch Baby never felt as though she truly belonged.
So one day she packed her bat-shaped backpack, put her black cowboy-boot roller skates, and went out into
...Lonely City
A tangly-haired, purple-eyed girl named Witch Baby lives in glitzy L.A. She loves a guy named Angel Juan. When he leaves for New York she knows she must find him.
Looking For Love
So she heads for the city of glittery buildings and garbage and Chinese food and drug dealers and subways and kids playing hip-hopscotch.
Finding Trouble
Her clues are an empty tree house in the park, a postcard on the street,
...Henry is up to his usual mischief: annoying his younger brother, ruining Moody Margaret's sleepover, and irritating his teacher, Mrs. Battleaxe—not to mention trying to manipulate his family into seeing his favorite band—the Killer Boy Rats.
"Kids will love reading the laugh-out-loud funny stories about someone whose behavior is even worse than their own." —School Library Journal
"Not since 'Nate the Great' has an early reader
...50) Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers: Gross but True Things You Don't Want to Know About Your Body
Itching to know what bugs live in your eyelashes, why you get goose bumps, or how ants can be used to heal a wound? Use this delightfully disgusting collection of kid-tastic facts to gross out friends and relatives.
In this abridged edition of the adult bestseller, readers will laugh, cringe and squirm over tons of bizarre facts about the human body. The...
Did you know there are spiders that look just like bird poop? Cockroaches that can be directed by remote control? And snakes that fart to scare away predators? These are just a few of the bizarrly engrossing, disgusting, and squirm-inducing facts about animals you can use to entertain and gross-out friends and parents.
Meet Tweetie Sweet Pea and Peachy Pie, Jacaranda and Rave and Desiree...
Meet Lady Ivory and Alabaster Dutchess, who interview their favorite rock star, Nick Agate, only to discover the magic and power in themselves. Meet Tuck Budd, who is happy living in Manhattan with her two moms, Izzy and Anastasia, until she begins to wonder who her father is. Meet La, who faces the loss of her mother with an imaginary androgynous blue friend who lives in
...53) Baby Be-Bop
Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother.
An evocative short story about lovers at a sensual crossroads (with supernatural overtones in a minor key).
After a vacation in Baja, Mark and Sarah decide to experiment with a little innocent ("tie me up") sensual play, and Mark, wanting their initiation to have the perfect beginning, brings Sarah a custom-made gift, wrapped in an unusual vintage box. It's not long before the two realize that they risk crossing a dangerous
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