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1) The perks of being a wallflower

Author

Chbosky, Steve

Notes

#1 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 25 week(s).

2) Looking for Alaska: a novel

Author

Green, John

Notes

#4 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 18 week(s).

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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

3) Middle school, the worst years of my life

Author

Patterson, James

Series

Middle school volume 1

Notes

#5 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

4) The book thief

Author

Zusak, Markus

Notes

#6 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 272 week(s).

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Book, Audio, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

5) Thirteen reasons why: a novel

Author

Asher, Jay

Notes

#7 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 72 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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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.

6) Out of my mind

Author

Draper, Sharon M

Notes

#10 on the Children’s Paperback Books list for 2012-12-09. It has been on the list for 24 week(s).

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A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, considered by many to be mentally retarded, discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.