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Perfected By Girls is about a sophomore named Melinda who is on the wrestling team. Some people judge her for being the only girl on the team, but she doesn't care, she just wants to wrestle. Soon the papers, starting with the school paper all the way up to the local paper, have articles that piss Melinda off by misquoting her. Melinda has ups and downs with her brother, boyfriend, and best friend, put pulls through. Her grandmother wants her to work in her office for the summer, but Melinda and her best friend want differently.

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Natalie Shelton is in for the ride of her life. She lives in a tiny Minnesota town where her mom is the pastor at their local church. Then out of the blue her mom landed a fantastic job as the new pastor in the Church of Beverly Hills. Natalie is dragged along to California leaving her boyfriend, Sean, behind. Soon Natalie forgets all about her old town and old boyfriend. She's living in a huge mansion, making friends with celebrities, and going to real L.A. parties. But is Natalie adjusting to the Hollywood life too fast? Do her morals even exist anymore?

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This non-fiction ebook is a sober read with a girly twist. Major obstacles that teen girls may encounter are juxtaposed with feminine fonts. While not every girl faces the problems of pregnancy, cutting, eating disorders, sexting, and low self-esteem, the book is still interesting. Most young readers will find teenage problems enticing and exotic to the literary eye, regardless of whether or not they can actually use said advice.

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Follow the lives of three morbidly obese teens trying to find themselves in this coming-of-age story. Marcie, East, and Bobby meet when they sign up for a clinical trial for a lap band for teenagers. Romance, deception, and every day life collide when they join the trial with a group of teens and form Teenage Waistland. Even more problems form when a long buried secret surfaces that threatens to destroy the bonds formed between the group.

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Meg Murray, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. He claims to have been blown off course, and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a "tesseract," which, if you didn't know, is a wrinkle in time. 

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Prince Sameth and Lirael must stop the Destroyer from being unleashed. Hedge, a servant of the Destroyer, plans to use the influence Nick Sayre, a friend of Prince Sameth from across the Wall, to join the two parts that the Destroyer has been halved into. Once the Destroyer is whole he will wreak havoc on everyone and everything, demolishing the world. Lirael must seek a way to bind the Destroyer back into its to parts before it is too late.

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Dear Big V is about a young girl, Courtney, who is battling with her club, Donuts and Coffee, and her school's sexual activities. Donuts and Coffee is a club that Courtney founded to announce and protect girls' and boys' virginity. As the book progresses Courtney finds that she is slowly falling for the school's biggest hunk and player, Lance Lindsey, and is losing the one thing that matters to her, her virginity.

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As a junior in high school, and the best girl snowboarder, Hayden feels sparks from her ex-boyfriend Nick. They haven't dated since the seventh grade, but Nick, "a model perfect guy", wants Hayden back. Years ago, when Hayden moved from Tennessee, she went snowboarding and broke her leg. Now she is terribly afraid of heights. Even though she is afraid, she still competes in snowboarding, as long as there are no jumps. With help from her twerp brother, Josh, she wins the girls' division snowboarding competition.

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What if there was a school for the supernatural? Ginger High by Melissa Burmester is just that. Former Ginger High students Matthias and Amanta are called back to this mysterious school (from a parallel dimension called Animist) to find a killer at the school. However, the mysterious deaths happening at Ginger High don't concern new student Daisy Fisher who is more worried about discovering what her supernatural powers are. If Daisy doesn't find out her powers soon, the principal says he will kill her.

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Jill McTeague is your average high school girl. With the help of her best friends Ramie and Daria, she embarks on a mission to be Tommy Knutson's prom date. As she becomes more involved with Tommy, he opens up to her with a secret similar to her own. Can she tell him why she is really gone for four days each month, something she won't even tell Ramie?

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