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Vinnie is a self-proclaimed misfit who asks "Why don't I ever fit in anywhere?" His search for the answer takes him across the country from New York to California. Vinnie hopes that the communal feeling that dropping acid and other drugs brings will help him connect with other people.  Through the thick haze of a drug-induced stupor, Vinnie experiences many 'firsts' that expose his faults and true inner thoughts.  In the end, it is up to him as to whether he wants to walk down the honest road of rehab, getting help and answers. 

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Natalie and Brooke are total opposites, but have been best friends for forever.  Natalie is quiet and prefers to spend her nights at home watching movies and drinking hot chocolate.  Brooke is the most popular girl in school, has the perfect boyfriend, and is the life of the party.  One night Brooke convinces Natalie to enjoy her senior year and go to a party – a party that changes everything.  Natalie can’t remember anything that happened, but Brooke’s boyfriend, Aiden, can’t seem to forget it.  The uncertainty about that night strain Brooke

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April is just starting 8th grade and is very excited. She has an amazing best friend and boyfriend. April's life is amazing, she also got a spot on the dance team with older girls. But when the cute neighbor boy next door does something she doesnt suspect, it changes her life. Everyone is turning their backs on April, and relationships fall. Will she be able to put her life back together?

 

 

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ReGuarding Grace by Karen A. Leppert is a unique story that compels you to keep turning the page and leaves you still craving for more when you’re done.  Jack Elliott is what they call an Amalgamate: a person that possesses three alters that have superhuman abilities.  Like other Amalgamates, he uses his unique gifts for carrying out orders as Guardians of the Delacroix Institute.  It would be because of his duty as a Guardian that he teaches Grace about her three alters, helping her to stop them from having control over her body.

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In Disneylanders by Bob Mclain and Kate Abbott, a teenage girl, Casey, and her family go on their yearly trip to Disneyland, which is the only place she finds familiarity… but this time, things have changed. Her best friend Kiley is no longer going with them due to a fight, Casey is tired of being seen as a little kid, and her parents aren’t listening to her. The trip isn’t as fun and magical as it usually is, but the tables turn when she meets Bert, a boy around her age.

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The book the Grave Winner was about a girl named Leigh whose mom had died. While she was at her funeral she thought she saw a ghost of her classmate come back from the dead. Leigh soon thought if she buried some of her mother's favorite things in her grave she wouldn't come back. While she was burying the "gifts," she was warned by someone named Tram to not give gifts to the dead.

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The book is about a kid named Jack who is going to the mountains on a vacation with his family. But Jack is a little worried about going; he has been having a dream about a man with an ax standing at a doorway before getting grabbed by him!  But Jack never sleeps on after that; he always wakes up, so he doesn't know were he is or what happened.  Jack just leaves it behind and tries not to think about it on the ride up to the mountains, until he starts to get a funny feeling in his stomach.

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Tallis hates her home with her uncle; he is always mean to her! She is excited to receive the news that she is going to move in with her Aunt Gabbie. Then things take a turn for the worse when she finds her Uncle Nories in the basement talking to ghosts.

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This book is about a girl named Katrina who had seen the headless horseman and survived. Katrina is eighteen, and and she saw the horseman about ten years ago.

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