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The Trouble with Half a Moon

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The Trouble with Half a Moon By Danette Vigilante Putnam • 2011 • 181 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN: 978-0-399-25159-7 Ages 9-12 Like most 13-year-olds, Dellie has a lot on her mind: school, parents, friends, and boys. But Dellie's…
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Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White

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Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White Written & Illustrated by Lila Quintero Weaver University of Alabama Press • 2012 • 264 pages Paperback ($24.95) ISBN: 9780817357146 Ages 14 and up Weaver's remarkable memoir of her youth…
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The Queen of Water

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The Queen of Water By Laura Resau & María Virginia Farinango Delarcorte /Random House • 2011 • 352 pages Paperback ($9.99) ISBN: 9780375859632 Ages 12 and up From a very young age, María Virginia Farinango experienced a heartbreaking…
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Guadalupe Garcia McCall Retells Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’

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Young adult novelist Guadalupe Garcia McCall’s latest book, Summer of the Mariposas (Tu Books), is a retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey with a decidedly Latino twist. We had a chance to chat with McCall, whose debut young adult novel, Under…
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz Simon & Schuster • 2012 • 359 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN: 978-1-4424-0892-0 Ages 12 and up It's summer 1987, and not quite sixteen-year-old Aristotle…
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Classic Teen Books: Must-Reads for the Modern Young Adult

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With blockbuster franchises like Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games, there is no shortage of books to get teens excited about reading. But so much media hype and fan frenzy over the movies and the actors who star in them makes it…
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Are Extended Wear Contact Lenses for You?

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Contact lens wearers have known for years that contacts in their eyes need to be removed before nodding off to sleep. It's just one of those accepted things in life—you don't sleep with contact lenses in. But times have changed as improvements…
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The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind

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The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind Meg Medina Candlewick Press • 2012 • 246 pages Hardcover ($17.99) ISBN: 978-0-7636-4602-8 Ages 13 and up Sonia Ocampo is not a typical small-town teenager. She was born during a terrible storm…
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Summer of the Mariposas

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Summer of the Mariposas Guadalupe Garcia McCall Tu Books • 2012 • 355 pages Hardcover ($19.95) ISBN 978-1-60060-900-8 Ages 12 and up Mothers and daughters. As our girls grow up, the relationship becomes more difficult to navigate;…