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New Picks for Teens!
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 The
Fetch
by Chris Humphreys
Born with a caul over his face, possessing a distinctive unibrow,
and having a tendency to sleepwalk, Sky bears all of the marks that the
Norse associate with a person able to travel with his fetch, or spirit
double. But it isn't until the British 15-year-old discovers an old set of
runestones belonging to his Norwegian grandfather that he discovers his
bizarre destiny. Aided by Sigurd's spirit and his cousin Kristin, Sky
embarks on a wonderful and frightening spiritual journey–inhabiting the body
of a Viking ancestor, taking the form of a hunting hawk–all the while hunted
by a dark, hungry presence.
 Dairy
Queen by Catherine Murdock
Schwenk, while not really happy, never complains or questions her
life on the family's small dairy farm in Wisconsin. After her father injures
himself, the 15-year-old girl must do the farm work almost single-handedly,
including milking the cows. She never really noticed the similarities
between her life and the lives of the cows. D.J. is a jock, so on top of all
her farm chores, she takes on training Brian, the quarterback on a rival
school's football team. The summer they spend together changes everything as
D.J. discovers that she has lots to say about her life and what she wants
out of it.
 21
Proms by David Levithan and Daniel Ehrenhaft
Up–In a
collaboration that brings together an impressive array of 21 authors,
Levithan and Ehrenhaft have produced a collection worthy of exploration.
Ranging from sad to funny to truly disastrous, these memorable stories mark
that oh-so-important right of passage for many teenagers. Starting with
dress-hating, heel-hating, bra-hating Emilie in Elizabeth Craft's You Are a
Prom Queen, Dance Dance Dance; moving on to Daniel Ehrenhaft's Better Be
Good to Me, in which aging Zack remembers his prom and being in love with
his best friend's girlfriend; and ending with rebel chicks Maggie and Carly,
who throw the ultimate anti-prom party in John Green's The Great American
Morp, readers are drawn into a wide cross section of prom nights from both
male and female perspectives.
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