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Young Adult Books You Want to Read

As you may or may not know, our company, The Book Report Network, has a number of websites about books and authors in addition to Bookreporter.com. Throughout the year, Bookreporter.com features adult books on Teenreads.com, our site for young adult readers, that we think will have definite appeal to a teen audience. In the spirit of sharing, we are now spotlighting a selection of titles each month from Teenreads.com that we believe are great reads that you might enjoy.

Imaginary Girls by

July 2011

Chloe's adored older sister, Ruby, retrieves Chloe from Chloe's father's house, where she went to live after discovering a dead girl at the town reservoir. Back in her hometown two years later, Chloe is stunned to see that very same girl --- the one whose dead body once floated in the reservoir --- attending parties, dating boys, and hanging out with Ruby.

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Mercy by Rebecca Lim

July 2011

Mercy is a fallen angel haunted by her past. With skin "pale like milk," she never gets sunburned or feels cold, no matter whose body she occupies. When she wakes up in the body of 16-year-old Carmen, a talented singer unsure of her gift, Mercy must discover why she's been dispatched to her new host.

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Tighter by Adele Griffin

June 2011

When 17-year-old Jamie arrives on the New England island of Little Bly to work as a summer au pair, she's stunned to learn of the horror that precedes her. Seeking the truth surrounding a young couple's tragic deaths, Jamie discovers that she herself looks shockingly like the dead girl --- and that she has a disturbing ability to sense the two ghosts.

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Between Here and Forever by Elizabeth Scott

May 2011

Abby already accepted that she can't measure up to her beautiful sister Tess, and she knows exactly what she is: second best. Until the accident. Now Tess is in a coma --- it may have been hard living with Tess, but it's nothing compared to living without her. Abby is about to find out that truth isn't always as it seems, and life holds more than she ever thought it could.

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The Dark City: Relic Master, Book One by Catherine Fisher

May 2011

THE DARK CITY, the first book in a planned quartet to be released in four consecutive months this summer, is set in a world crumbling into disorder and darkness. The Order once guarded ancient relics with mysterious powers, but these relics --- and the Order itself --- are now outlawed by the Watch. A Relic Master and his apprentice set out on a journey to uncover a relic powerful enough to save their world.

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The Lost Heiress: Relic Master, Book Two by Catherine Fisher

May 2011

THE LOST HEIRESS is the second book in Catherine Fisher's Relic Master series, which is being released in four consecutive months this summer. Set in a world that meshes magic with ancient technology, Raffi and his master, Galen, are keepers of an ancient and forbidden faith, which reveres the relics left by their vanished makers. Their mighty empire may have fallen, but they seek the lost heiress, glimpsed in a prophetic vision, whose life is in danger from the brutal regime of the Watch.

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The Enemy by Charlie Higson

May 2011

In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone older than 16 is either dead or a decomposing, brainless creature with a ravenous appetite for flesh. The group of kids living at Waitrose supermarket is beginning to run out of options. When a mysterious traveler arrives and offers them safe haven at Buckingham Palace, they begin a harrowing journey across London.

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Divergent by Veronica Roth

May 2011

Sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior faces the biggest decision of her life when she must choose which of the five factions to join that make up their society. She has to decide whether to follow in her parents' footsteps or turn her back on her family and dare to be courageous. But unbeknownst to most, a mutiny is brewing beneath the surface, and their well-ordered society is about to implode.

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The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch

May 2011

After her mother dies, Alex Lee must leave her home on a Mendocino commune to live in her grandmother's Georgia mansion. Her culture shock is compounded by the supernatural shenanigans of the debutante society she's expected to join. Alex's story has it all: magic, atmosphere, romance, and laugh-out-loud, fish-out-of-water situations.

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Teeth: Vampire Tales by Ellen Datlow

April 2011

Fascinated by vampires? Then feast on 19 tantalizing, bite-sized tales exploring the intersections between the living, dead and undead. The vampires in these stories range from romantic to chilling to gleeful --- and touch on nearly every emotion in between. The one thing they have in common is their desire for blood!

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