young adult
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High
school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is
bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of
the football team, until an emotionally and physically
scarred new student joins the football team and forms an
unlikely friendship with Danny.
When
her mother suddenly decides to marry a near-stranger,
Phoebe, whose passion is running, soon finds herself
living on a remote Greek island, completing her senior
year at an ancient high school where the students and
teachers are all descended from gods or goddesses.
Rising
high school senior Kate has dreamed of the road trip
with best friends Alexis and Sierra from New Jersey to
Love, Wisconsin, that will reunite her with the boy she
kissed the previous summer, but Alexis' irritating
cousin Adam tags along, threatening to spoil everything.
For
Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at
Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy,
the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling
is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend
of her roommate's boyfriend.
First,
Ranma and his father work through some issues, then
Ranma's magic mochi may indicate some fortune-telling
abilities.
Chronicles
the adventures of Ranma, a martial arts student cursed
to turn into a girl every time he is splashed with cold
water.
Chronicles
the adventures of Ranma, a martial arts student cursed
to turn into a girl every time he is splashed with cold
water.
As
Kagome and her companions, half-demon Inu-Yashi,
orphaned fox-demon Shippô, and Buddhist priest Miroku,
search for the shards of the Shikon Jewel, they run
across the monstrous Peach Man.
When
Inu-Yasha, a half-demon hybrid, faces Sessho-Maru, his
demon half-brother, he enters a desperate struggle to
defeat his stronger brother for the second time.
Sixteen-year-old
Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to
manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes
and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that
danger and heartbreak come with her powers.
A
deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating
creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido
Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle
with doubts and uncertainties.
In
a faraway land, a young warrior must protect an emperor
from an uprising and train an inexperienced army, with
assistance from his Ranger friends.
As
mysterious murders threaten the new peace between
Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only Simon, the
Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together.
A
new and enigmatic student named Shayne appears at high
school one day, befriends the smallest boy in the
school, and takes on a notorious drug dealer before
turning himself in to the police for killing someone.
Seventeen-year-old
Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe
repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian
Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother
who was turned into a frog.
Fifteen-year-old
Tabitha and her four best friends all wear purity rings
to symbolize their pledge to remain virgins until they
marry, but when one admits that she has broken the
pledge each girl must reexamine her faith, friendships,
and what it means to be pure.
Fifteen-year-old
Abby Savage hopes that her five rules for falling in
love will keep her from making the same mistakes as her
mother and two older sisters--all unwed mothers who have
slept with the same man, among others--while she also
tries to help her best friend Cody admit that he is gay,
and decide how she really feels about Cody's older
brother, Jackson.
Eighteen-year-old
Robert tries to help his half-brother Xan, a
seventeen-year-old misfit, to make better choices as he
becomes increasingly attracted to a variety of
protesters, anarchists, and the like.
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Phone: 610.820.2400