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50 Tools To Success and Personal Power- For The High School Student

By Matthew Forrest 64 pages pages Young Adult

Danny Says

New York’s #1 high school speaker presents a solid blueprint to help any teenager get on track to succeed in whatever he or she chooses. Great book for students to carry on them at all times!
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Baltimore Volume 1: The Plague Ships

Baltimore Volume 1: The Plague Ships

By Mike Mignola,Christopher Golden 144 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

When I saw a group of boys reading this series of graphic novels like a bunch of crazed cultists, I decided to grab a copy and was impressed with the artwork and fast-paced historical-horror-fiction (say that five times fast) storyline.
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Cold Hands, Warm Heart

Cold Hands, Warm Heart

By Jill Wolfson 256 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

Accidentally stumbled upon this book at the library (a common practice I highly encourage) and was treated to a sweet romance revolving around organ transplants. I have to confess that I truly enjoyed this, and the students I have handed copies to would agree.
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Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court

Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court

By Various 176 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

With March Madness ending and the NBA playoffs beginning, this collection of stories about playing basketball at “The Cage” in New York City from nine award-winning young adult authors is sure to draw a lot of interest from teenage boys.
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The Secret Ingredient

The Secret Ingredient

By Laura Schaefer 240 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

The sequel to Schaefer’s excellent Tea Shop Girls, this story provides tea history, romance and even a good recipe or two.
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Father Abraham: Lincoln and His Sons (Orbis Pictus Honor Books Outstanding Nonfiction for Children)

Father Abraham: Lincoln and His Sons (Orbis Pictus Honor Books Outstanding Nonfiction for Children)

By Harold Holzer 232 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

Harold Holzer served as chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and has written countless books on the 16th President. What I love about this book is its focus on his personal life, as his family endured its fair share of trials and heartaches. A wonderful and refreshing look at a man every American needs to examine closely, as they don’t make Presidents like Lincoln anymore.
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Pie

Pie

By Sarah Weeks 192 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

I must confess that I love just about everything Sarah Weeks writes, and I have had the pleasure of watching her perform her works in Readers’ Theatre presentations with other wonderful authors (e.g., Avi, Pam Muñoz Ryan and Richard Peck). You and your kids will get a kick out of the mysterious tale of Polly the pie maker and why – after she passed away – she left all of her wonderful pie recipes to her cat.
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How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous

How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous

By Georgia Bragg 192 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

With funny cartoons by Kevin O’Malley to lighten up the text, Bragg offers tidbits and trivia about 19 famous dead people that is sure to cause a reading frenzy among boys, in particular.
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Close to Famous

Close to Famous

By Joan Bauer 272 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

One of my most important requirements for young adult books is a happy ending, as I am sick of books about teenage suicide, drug abuse and neglect. While plenty of awful things happen in protagonist Foster’s life, she and her mother endure in this book filled with wonderfully quirky characters.
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Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck

Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck

By Margarita Engle 176 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

Powerful historical fiction that is sure to incite classroom conversations about slavery. Engle, a past Newbery honoree, is a terrific writer.
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Head Games: A PrettyTOUGH Novel

Head Games: A PrettyTOUGH Novel

By Nicole Leigh Shepherd 288 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

Trying to put her past behind her (a crazy basketball season and breaking up with her boyfriend), Kylie focuses on pursuing a softball scholarship to UCLA. Good book for teenage girls trying to manage lots of issues at once. Sound like anyone you know?
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Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber (25-Oct-2011) Hardcover

Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber (25-Oct-2011) Hardcover

By Joe Schreiber Young Adult

Danny Says

Between the title and the book jacket description (“Ferris Bueller” meets “La Femme Nikita”), this book had me hooked right away. If you have a teenage boy in need of a book, this is your winner, as it is fast-paced and filled with action and laughs. I’d be shocked if they don’t make this into a movie, as it reads like a screenplay.
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Your Friend in Fashion, Abby Shapiro

Your Friend in Fashion, Abby Shapiro

By Amy Axelrod 288 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

A great coming-of-age story set in the 1950s of an 11-year-old determined to be Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal fashion designer. It is such a pleasure to read a story with an optimistic and kind female protagonist as opposed to the typical narcissistic, suicidal ones that dominate teenage literature. Axelrod is a hoot, and this story also has a lot of heart.
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Moccasin Thunder: American Indian Stories for Today

Moccasin Thunder: American Indian Stories for Today

By Lori Marie Carlson 176 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

In this impressive anthology of ten short stories about American Indians (I’ve always used the term “Native Americans,” but the book prefers “American Indians”), amazing authors like Sherman Alexie and Cynthia Leitich Smith share stories of triumph and tribulation that make great book discussions for middle school classrooms.
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White Crow

White Crow

By Marcus Sedgwick 256 pages Young Adult

Danny Says

A few lazyreaders.com subscribers have asked me why I rarely include horror titles, and the simple reason is that I don’t like scary books. They give me nightmares. But, I am here to serve, and if you want a suspenseful, hide-under-your-sheets bedtime story, this book is a good place to start.
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