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A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
TEEN J NES
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
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Bog Child
Siobhan Dowd
TEEN J DOW
In 1981, eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
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Creature of the Night
Kate Thompson
TEEN J THO
Bobby is a violent, binge-drinking, car-stealing teenager. In an attempt to save him, his mother moves the family to the countryside. But their cottage might not be as quaint as it seems. And spooky details of the history of their little cottage gradually turn Bobby into a detective of night creatures real and imagined.
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If I Stay
Gayle Forman
TEEN J FOR
In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...
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Jellicoe Road
Melina Marchetta
TEEN J MAR
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
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The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
TEEN J GRE
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.
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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
TEEN J GAI
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness
TEEN J NES
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
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What I Saw and How I Lied
Jenny Blundell
TEEN J BLU
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
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