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		<title>Not That Kind of Girl by Siobhan Vivian</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Natalie Sterling wants to be in control. She wants her friends to be loyal. She wants her classmates to elect her student council president. She wants to find the right guy, not the usual jerk her school has to offer. She wants a good reputation, because she believes that will lead to good things. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss-her life-and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend&#8217;s memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her. In her most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Piper’s Son – Melina Marchetta</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Mackee wants oblivion. Wants to forget parents who leave and friends he used to care about and a string of one-night stands, and favorite uncles being blown to smithereens on their way to work on the other side of the world. But when his flatmates turn him out of the house, Tom moves in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author Interview with Stephanie Kuehnert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephanie Kuehnert&#8217;s new book, Ballads of Suburbia, is our Book of the Month here at yaReads. We think Stephanie is a pretty amazing story teller and is a breath of fresh air in the world of Young Adult fiction. She deviates from the regular YA formula and her books are confronting, edgy, and real. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballads of Suburbia &#8211; Stephanie Kuehnert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kara hasn&#8217;t been back to Oak Park since the end of junior year, when a heroin overdose nearly killed her and sirens heralded her exit. Four years later, she returns to face the music. Her life changed forever back in high school: her family disintegrated, she ran around with a whole new crowd of friends, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Ecstasy &#8211; Kate McCaffrey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ecstasy. I’d always thought I might try it one day. I’d heard kids at school talking about getting wasted on the weekends. They made it sound awesome. I pictured the roughly made tablets with their tiny butterflies. An amazing experience inside a tiny pill. My body ached and my face was sore – I guess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halfway to Good &#8211; Kristen Murphy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the first day of Term One, and Luke and Anna are on opposite sides of the student-teacher divide. School is the last thing Luke feels like &#8211; how can he feel halfway to good when his father is sick, his mother is sad and his older brother is painfully present? Anna&#8217;s life still revolves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty Boy Summer &#8211; Sarah Ockler</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the love of Anna’s life and recently acquired boyfriend dies tragically in a car accident, she isn’t sure how she’s supposed to go on with her life. The only problem is, she can’t really grieve the way she wants to because no one knows that they were an item, especially not her best friend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beatle Meets Destiny &#8211; Gabrielle Williams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of interesting things about Beatle. His name isn’t really Beatle, for one, but the name ‘Beatle’ is a pretty fitting nickname, since his real name is actually John Lennon – for real. Beatle’s eccentric, astrological crazed mother is a huge fan of the pop group, The Beatles, and I reckon that’s all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choices &#8211; Dianne Wolfer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elisabeth&#8217;s hand trembled as she lifted the jar of warm liquid. She wanted to run away and scream that it was all a mistake, but instead, she took a deep breath and poured her urine over the plastic pregnancy tester. A few drops spilt on the bathroom tiles. She shivered, it was so unfair. They&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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