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"Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains: nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and have long been presumed...
2) Standoff
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An ambitious female television reporter is driving through New Mexico when she hears that a Texas millionaire's teenage daughter has been kidnapped. Knowing the girl's father lives nearby, she quickly lines up an interview.
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An absolutely essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media.
"What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about...
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A heavily-armed group of teenage survivors, accompanied by a former UN weapons inspector, sets out from Africa one month after a global disaster that has turned most of humanity into zombies in an attempt to get desperately needed medical supplies from Manhattan Island.
5) Feral youth
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Follows ten teens who are left alone in the wilderness amid a three-day survival test.
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From the files of Madison Finn volume 4
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Forget ghosts-this Halloween, seventh grade is frightening enough For Madison and her friends, the Halloween season is full of activity. There are ghost stories in English class, a big costume dance, and a scary-story contest on Madison's favorite website. No wonder everyone has Halloween fever! But Madison still needs to find a costume to wear that doesn't seem too babyish. And what if she looks stupid dancing in front of everyone? No matter what,...
9) At the Ready
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In the Texas borderlands, teens at Horizon High begin training early to become cops and Border Patrol agents. They soon discover that the realities of their dream jobs may be at odds with the truths and people they hold most dear.
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Becky Esh has lots of spunk. Never mind that she's Amish, she regularly confronts authority figures. Her beautiful singing touches those who hear her so deeply that even men cry. In Becky Meets Her Match, Linda Byler crafts an unforgettable character who is quick-witted, good-humored, and thrives on independence–but inwardly struggles with her own self-consciousness. Overweight at sixteen, Becky is frustrated by her inability to lose weight and...
12) The usual rules
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A novel about a thirteen-year-old girl who finds herself living with her father, across the country from her native Brooklyn, coping with her mother's violent death in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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"For fans of Miriam Toews, an absorbing, darkly funny story of family, addiction, and survival The summer Bria Powers turns 16 is sinister. Waves of insects plague her hometown of Beauchamp, where fentanyl has recently infiltrated the drug stream. Forest fires muddy the normally wide-open skies, and everything smells like a barbecue all the time. It's also the summer Bria goes from having saved a life to ruining her own. Since her drug-dealing father...
14) In utero
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"Twelve years after a disastrous explosion, young Hailey is dropped off by her mum at a holiday camp in a dilapidated shopping mall. Alienated from the other kids, she connects with an eerie older teen named Jen...but soon dark horrors awaken, and the two new friends are caught up in a cataclysmic battle between two terrifying creatures who have been lying dormant all this time"--
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"In this prequel to The Hunger Games, a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) is the last hope for the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Snow reluctantly takes an assignment to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray's charm captivates Panem's audience, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil,...
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En la vida moderna el plástico ha constituido un fenómeno de indudable trascendencia. Hoy en día el hombre vive rodeado de objetos plásticos que en siglos anteriores no eran necesarios para la vida cotidiana. Los plásticos se han fabricado para satisfacer las demandas de una gran variedad de usos, dando lugar a una vasta industria donde la civilización debería llamarse "la civilización del plástico", debido al papel determinante que ha desempeñado...
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Oscar Wilde es recordado, sobre todo, por sus historias para niños, que presentamos en esta bella edición que recoge sus relatos más destacados, en los que siempre se encuentra no solo un texto muy bien cuidado, sino una valiosa lección para la vida: El ruiseñor y la rosa, El príncipe feliz, El gigante egoísta, El cohete extraordinario, El niño estelar. Esta hermosa traducción es del poeta y escritor cubano David Chericián. Además, esta...
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There is a Great Teenage Myth alive in this world! This Myth is alive in the hearts and minds of many preteens and teens walking around this planet. Although most myths are harmless, this one is destructive. Young people are not only living The Great Teenage Myth, they are perpetuating it each and every day, keeping its destructive power alive by sharing it with their friends and classmates. What is this Great Teenage Myth? Give yourself the opportunity...
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¿Conoces al coco o al viejito del costal? ¿Te asustan los monstruos? ¿Alguna vez te has inventado un monstruo bien terrible para que te defienda y asuste a tus enemigos?
En este libro encontrarás más de un monstruo y vivirás las aventuras de unos niños que se atrevieron a crear un monstruo muy monstruoso para que los defendiera. También aprenderás el truco para escapar del miedo: solo vencerás al mal con el bien, piensa en algo hermoso,...
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Una historia basada en las aventuras de dos niños que por una serie de equívocos "construyen" toda una trama de terror y de muerte, Un niño aficionado a los cuentos de terror, se obsesiona con palabras que no entiende, pero que están relacionadas con la muerte, a quien teme por encima de todas las cosas. Crea un enredo lleno de humor e inocencia, en el cual involucra a su enigmática vecina.
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