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	Dark of the Moon Featured Books » Young Adult Fiction 1 Author(s) Tracy Barrett Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) Mythology & Folklore Ariadne is destined to become a goddess of the moon. She leads a lonely life, filled with hours of rigorous training by stern priestesses. Her former friends no longer dare to look at her, much less speak to her. All that she has left are her mother and her beloved,... Read more Read reviews Write review	4.0 3.7 (1)
	Wherever You Go Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Heather Davis Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) Paranormal Romance Seventeen-year-old Holly Mullen has felt lost and lonely ever since her boyfriend, Rob, died in a tragic accident. The fact that she has to spend most of her free time caring for her little sister and Alzheimer’s-stricken grandfather doesn’t help. But Holly has no idea that as she goes about... Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.5 (1)
	Pregnant Pause Books » Young Adult Fiction 1 Author(s) Han Nolan Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) Teen Fiction Nobody gets away with telling Eleanor Crowe what to do. But as a pregnant sixteen-year-old, her options are limited: move to Kenya with her missionary parents or marry the baby’s father and work at his family’s summer camp for overweight kids. Despite her initial reluctance to help out, Elly is... Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 5.0 (1)
	Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #1) Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Patricia C. Wrede Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) Fantasy Cimorene should have been a proper princess. After all, she is the youngest daughter of a proper king and queen, and their first six daughters are all perfectly proper as well. But Cimorene is not. Oh she has a lovely face, but she is too tall, too stubborn—and she... Read more Read reviews Write review	5.0 4.9 (7)
	Court Duel (Crown & Court #2) Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Sherwood Smith Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) Fantasy The stirring sequel to Crown Duel finds young Meliara at the center of a deadly court intrigue. Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.6 (10)
	Crown Duel (Crown & Court #1) Books » Young Adult Fiction 1 Author(s) Sherwood Smith Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) Fantasy A deathbed promise to their father sends a daring girl and her brother off to war. Filled with intrigue, romance, and magic, this spellbinding novel is a dramatic coming-of-age story about a girl who rises from impoverished beginnings to take command of her own fate. “Smith tells a fast-moving tale... Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.5 (12)
	Deep Wizardry (Young Wizards #2) Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Diane Duane Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) Fantasy Something stopped Nita's hand as it ran along the bookshelf. She looked and found that one of the books had a loose thread at the top of its spine. It was one of those So You Want to Be a . . . books, a series on careers. So You... Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 5.0 (4)
	Dragon's Blood (The Pit Dragon Chronicles #1) Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Jane Yolen Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) Fantasy Training a dragon to be a fighting champion is the only way to freedom for fifteen-year-old Jakkin. “An original and engrossing fantasy.”--The Horn Book Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.0 (2)
	The Heavenward Path (Mitsuko #2) Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Kara Dalkey Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) Fantasy Mitsuko is being haunted by ghosts and bad luck. An angry spirit commands her to keep a forgotten promise and assigns her a series of impossible tasks. She turns to the mischievous shape-shifter Goranu for help. Together they journey through a landscape of Japanese myths and legends made real. This... Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 3.0 (1)
	The Last Life Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Claire Messud Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) General Fiction Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.0 (1)
	Tangerine Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Edward Bloor Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) General Fiction Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.1 (22)
	The Window Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Jeanette Ingold Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) General Fiction Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 5.0 (1)
	Mary, Bloody Mary (Young Royals #1) Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Carolyn Meyer Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) General Fiction The story of Mary Tudor's childhood is a classic fairy tale: A princess who is to inherit the throne of England is separated from her mother; abused by an evil stepmother who has enchanted her father; stripped of her title; and forced to care for her baby stepsister, who inherits... Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.4 (5)
	Beware, Princess Elizabeth (Young Royals #2) Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Carolyn Meyer Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) General Fiction Elizabeth Tudor's teenage years are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. Her father has beheaded her mother; her jealous half sister has her locked away in the Tower of London; and her only love has betrayed her in his own quest for the throne. Told in the voice of... Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.3 (8)
	Counterfeit Son Books » Young Adult Fiction 0 Author(s) Elaine Marie Alphin Publisher Harcourt Genre(s) General Fiction Cameron Miller is pretending to be someone he isn't. When he began presenting himself as Neil Lacey, it was the only way he could think of to distance himself from what Pop had done, to finally climb out of his nightmarish existence. He thought it would be easy--playing the rich... Read more Read reviews Write review	0.0 4.0 (4)

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