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Benjamin Boche

Tom Harvey has always lived in a tough neighborhood. The local gangs, the Crows or the FGH, battle against one another over petty crimes and murder. Tom, though, has steered clear of that life until the fateful day when an iPhone collided with his skull and shattered into small fragments. He was on his way home to visit his neighbor and potential love interest, Lucy, when the iPhone was hurtled from the 30th floor and careened towards him. It wasn’t until he awoke from a coma several weeks later that he learned his life was never going to be the same. Read More

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After fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded into his brain during an attack, Tom Harvey suddenly knows, sees, and can do more than any normal boy ever could. But he must make life-altering decisions about how he will use his new power.

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After fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded into his brain during an attack, Tom Harvey suddenly knows, sees, and can do more than any normal boy ever could. But he must make life-altering decisions about how he will use his new power.

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What can he do with his new powers -- and what are they doing to him?

Before the attack, Tom Harvey was just an average teen. But a head-on collision with high technology has turned him into an actualized App. Fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded in his brain. And they're having an extraordinary effect on his every thought.

Because now Tom knows, sees, and can do more than any normal boy ever could. But with his new powers comes a choice: To avenge Lucy, the girl he loves, will he hunt down the vicious gangsters who hurt her? Will he take the law into his own electric hands and exterminate them from the South London housing projects where, by fear and violence, they rule?

Not even his mental search engine can predict the shocking outcome of iBoy's actions.

Editorial Content for The Daughters Join the Party

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Joy Held

Joanna Philbin adds a fourth and final book to her series, The Daughters, which was first released in the summer of 2010. While some authors may have difficulties holding a quick succession of stories together due to overlapping promotions and storylines, Philbin manages to maintain a solid foundation in her story about four young girls who happen to be friends and have been born into wealthy and famous families. “They didn’t ask for fame. They were born with it” goes the catchy subtitle phrase repeated for each of the four books. Read More

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Emma Conway has never fit into the sweater-set-wearing world of her political family, opting for purple hair and Chuck Taylors to keep herself out of countless photo ops. But when she accidentally lets her father's presidential plans slip on national television, Emma finds herself thrown into the spotlight.

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Emma Conway has never fit into the sweater-set-wearing world of her political family, opting for purple hair and Chuck Taylors to keep herself out of countless photo ops. But when she accidentally lets her father's presidential plans slip on national television, Emma finds herself thrown into the spotlight.

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In the third Daughters novel, THE DAUGHTERS TAKE THE STAGE, Hudson found her own place in "the family business," aka: show business. Now, for the first time, readers will meet Emma Conway, daughter of a powerful New York State Senator. 

Emma has never fit into the sweater-set-wearing world of her political family, opting for purple hair and Chuck Taylors to keep herself out of countless photo ops, but when she accidentally lets her father's presidential plans slip on national television, Emma finds herself thrown into the spotlight. Facing pressure to be the perfect First Daughter-in-training, Emma must learn to speak up for herself and for what she believes in. Thankfully, she has her new friends and fellow daughters --- Lizzie, Carina and Hudson --- to help her along the way.

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Amy Alessio

Mandy Kalinowski is 18 and pregnant. She discovers an online post from Robin, who wants to adopt a baby, and agrees to travel to Colorado to meet her and her daughter, Jill. Robin’s husband of 24 years died suddenly months ago, and she wants to move forward with the plan they had always talked about. Jill is totally against it, but babies have a way of changing everything --- for everyone involved. This positive and surprising story is told from both Mandy’s and Jill’s perspectives. Read More

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After her father’s death, Jill MacSweeny struggles with the news that her mother is adopting a baby. Meanwhile, Mandy Kalinowski accidentally becomes pregnant and knows she can’t give the baby the life it deserves.

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After her father’s death, Jill MacSweeny struggles with the news that her mother is adopting a baby. Meanwhile, Mandy Kalinowski accidentally becomes pregnant and knows she can’t give the baby the life it deserves.

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Jill MacSweeny just wishes everything could go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she's been isolating herself from her boyfriend, her best friends --- everyone who wants to support her. And when her mom decides to adopt a baby, it feels like she's somehow trying to replace a lost family member with a new one.

Mandy Kalinowski understands what it's like to grow up unwanted --- to be raised by a mother who never intended to have a child. So when Mandy becomes pregnant, one thing she's sure of is that she wants a better life for her baby. It's harder to be sure of herself. Will she ever find someone to care for her, too?

As their worlds change around them, Jill and Mandy must learn to both let go and hold on, and that nothing is as easy --- or as difficult --- as it seems.

Critically acclaimed author and National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr delivers a heart-wrenching story, told from dual perspectives, about the many roads that can lead us home.

John Connolly is the author of 16 international bestsellers, including his latest, THE BURNING SOUL and THE INFERNALS. He divides his time between Dublin, Ireland and Portland, Maine. Here he talks about some of the best and worst gifts he has ever received for Christmas.

Editorial Content for The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love

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Norah Piehl

It's back to school after Christmas vacation, and Sicilee (the queen of the popular kids) and Maya (the hipster princess) are sure that high school will be back to business as usual: irritating each other, gagging down the school lunches, and ruthlessly making fun of the Environmental Club. Even though going Green might be huge elsewhere, it ain't easy being Green in Clifton Springs, especially when the Environmental Club president is dorky Clemens Reis and its members include washed-out losers like Joy Marie Lutz. Read More

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Fashion-crazy Sicilee and hippie environmentalist Maya are pitted against each other when they both set their sights on gorgeous new student Cody Lightfoot, who’s planning a blowout Earth Day bash. 

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Fashion-crazy Sicilee and hippie environmentalist Maya are pitted against each other when they both set their sights on gorgeous new student Cody Lightfoot, who’s planning a blowout Earth Day bash. 

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Fashion-crazy Sicilee is a poster child for over-consumption. Her archrival, Maya, wears arty vintage clothes but hasn’t a clue what’s in the food she eats. So when drop-dead gorgeous new student Cody Lightfoot sets out to spread his eco-ways --- and spur the Environmental Club toward an all-out Earth Day bash --- Sicilee and Maya have their work cut out to attract his attention. What if Sicilee trades her fur boots for walking shoes (even if she can’t find the school when she’s not inside a car)? What if Maya dresses in plastic bottles and bags to preach in front of the supermarket (until security is called)? Or could it be that Cody isn’t all he’ s cracked up to be, and that saving the planet really is more important than impressing a boy?

With her trademark quick-fire wit, Dyan Sheldon shows just what girls will do for love --- and what earth-changing realizations they might have along the way.

edited by Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones - Nonfiction, Young Adult 13+

Today’s top authors for teens come together to share their stories about bullying --- as silent observers on the sidelines of high school, as victims, and as perpetrators --- in a collection at turns moving and self-effacing, but always deeply personal.