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	Title:	Thirteen Reasons Why
	Author:	Jay Asher
	Description:	When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
	Genre:	Fiction
	Submitted by:	David Foster, Circulation Assistant from Fairbanks

	Title:	The arrival
	Author:	Shaun Tan
	Description:	In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.
	Genre:	Graphic Novel
	Submitted by:	Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita

	Title:	Twilight
	Author:	Stephenie Meyer
	Description:	When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
	Genre:	Fantasy
	Submitted by:	Darla Pruitt, Circulation Assistant from Atascocita

	Title:	Wicked Lovely
	Author:	Melissa Marr
	Description:	Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
	Genre:	Fantasy
	Submitted by:	Kimberly, Young Adult Librarian from Tomball

	Title:	Book of a Thousand Days
	Author:	Shannon Hale
	Description:	Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.
	Genre:	Fantasy
	Submitted by:	Kimberly, Young Adult Librarian from Tomball

	Title:	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
	Author:	Sherman Alexie
	Description:	Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
	Genre:	Fiction
	Submitted by:	Kathleen, Assistant Library for Children's Services from the eBranch
	Other staff that like this book:	Christine Turner

	Title:	In Search of Mockingbird
	Author:	Loretta Ellsworth
	Description:	On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother's diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama, to visit the reclusive author.
	Genre:	Fiction
	Submitted by:	Kathleen, Assistant Librarian for Children's Services from the eBranch

	Title:	Secrets of My Hollywood Life
	Author:	Jen Calonita
	Description:	Life is good for Hollywood princess Kaitlin Burke, ready to star in a movie by her favorite director, but an old love and a scheming new publicist complicate her already hectic existence.
	Genre:	Fiction
	Submitted by:	Kathleen, Assistant Librarian for Children's Services from the eBranch

	Title:	Bad Kitty
	Author:	Michele Jaffe
	Description:	While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her friends, recently arrived from California.
	Genre:	Mystery
	Submitted by:	Kathleen, Assistant Librarian for Children's Services from the eBranch

	Title:	Pretty Little Liars
	Author:	Sara Shepard
	Description:	When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.
	Genre:	Mystery
	Submitted by:	Kathleen, Assistant Librarian for Children's Services from the eBranch

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