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The perfect series for fans Getting the Girl: A Guide to Pri- captivating. A great gift for teens. of the supernatural. vate Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery, by Susan Juby. The Ask and The Answer, by Patrick The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by 9780060765255, $16.99. A fast-paced Ness. 9780763644901, $18.99. (Sequel to Jacqueline Kelly. 9780805088410, $16.99. school mystery for middle-schoolers. The Knife of Never Letting Go.) This sci-fi As 11-year-old Callie Tate explores Sherman wants to know who is ‘D-list- thriller will be a winner with teen boys. the natural world around her in 1899 ing’ girls - turning them into social out- Todd is on the edge of becoming a man Texas, she develops a close relation- casts. You’ll wish this funny, loveable when chaos breaks loose. Running for his ship with her grandfather, navigates detective went to your school! life, he encounters a girl who will unravel living with six brothers, and comes up everything he ever thought he knew. against just what it means to be a girl at Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, the turn of the century. by Wendy Mass. 9780316058292, $15.99. Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie, by Mag- For Jeremy and his best friend, Lizzy, it’s gie Stiefvater. (Sequel to Lament.) When The Faceless Ones, by Derek Landy. summer break - and Jeremy’s turning 13. music prodigy James Morgan and 9780061240911, $16.99. (Skulduggery However, his life is turned upside down his best friend, Deirdre, join a private Pleasant series, #3) If you’ve read the when he receives a mysterious delivery. conservatory for musicians, his talent other Skulduggery books, you’ve seen attracts Nuala, a faerie muse who feeds it all before: Some bad guy wants to Leviathan, by Scott West- on creative energies. 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Miranda begins to receive So when she cracks open a window strange notes that seem to predict the and climbs back into his life dressed future in this intriguing and original like a ninja and summoning him for book that adds a big surprise to a seem- an ingenious campaign of revenge, he ingly familiar everyday-life story. follows. Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Prada and Prejudice, by Amanda Hub- 9780670011100, $17.99. In a riveting bard. 978-1595142603, $8.99 (paper- page-turner, 18-year-old Lia comes to back). During a school trip to England, terms with her best friend’s death from fi fteen-year-old Callie buys a pair of anorexia as she struggles with the same Prada shoes in an effort to impress the disorder. popular girls - a scheme that backfi res and sends Callie back to 1815. Recommended by Connecticut Librarians

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