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Title: 10 Best Gifts for Your Teen: Raising Teens With Love and Understanding
Author: Patt Saso,  Steve Saso
10 Best Gifts For Your Teen -- which include respect, room, role-modeling, responsibility and reconciliation -- teaches parents how to relate when needed, and to relent when necessary, offering support without infringing on their teenagers' burgeoning sense of freedom.

Title: 500 Great Books for Teens
Author: Anita Silvey
500 Great Books for Teens is divided into twenty-one sections, including adventure and survival, horror, graphic novels, humor, mystery, and poetry, each with additional reading lists. Cogent descriptions of the plot and essential style of each book make it exceptionally easy for anyone to decide whether a book will appeal to a specific teen reader. The books are also grouped by geographic area and time period because teachers often assign book reports this way. Sixty of the best audio books are also listed.

Title: A Company of Swans
Author: Eva Ibbotson
A Company of Swans is a historical romance novel published in 1985 by Eva Ibbotson. The book is dedicated to Patricia Veryan. Critically well received the young adult novel is starting to be obliquely refereed to in review. The type where reviewer try to complement a new work by comparison to another better established work.

Title: A Figure in Hiding
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Book 16 in the Hardy Boys Mystery Stories. The book was originally published in 1937 and later rewritten. The original book was ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane and included dust jacket art by Paul Laune. This Applewood edition is a facsimile reproduction of the book as it was originally published in 1937.

Title: Captains Courageous
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Follows the adventures of fifteen year old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen on the Grand Banks, Harvey cannot persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince them of his wealth. However, the Captain of the We're Here, Disko Troop, offers him a job as part of the crew until they return to port. With no other choice, Harvey accepts.

Title: Danger on Vampire Trail
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Book 50 The Hardy boys and two friends take a camping trip to the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to locate a gang of credit-card counterfeiters.

Title: Dealing with the Stuff That Makes Life Tough: The 10 Things That Stress Teen Girls Out and How to Cope with Them
Author: Jill Zimmerman Rutledge
In Dealing with the Stuff That Makes Life Tough, Jill Zimmerman Rutledge puts forth a serious self-help guide for young girls entering into adulthood. Through real-life anecdotes, statistics, expert opinions, and common sense approaches, explanations, and solutions teenage girls can find the wisdom and inner strength to overcome stress in their lives.

Title: Eagle Strike
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider's adventure starts when he sees the Russian killer Yassen Gregorovich aboard a boat while vacationing in France. However, Yassen — working for villain Damian Cray — has been sent to blow up the house Sabina Pleasure's family is renting.

Title: Eragon
Author: Christopher Paolini
Eragon, a 15 year-old boy, lives with his uncle Garrow and cousin Roran on a farm on the outskirts of a small village, Carvahall. While hunting in The Spine, a large range of mountains running down the West side of Alagaësia, which is believed to have mysterious happenings, Eragon is surprised to see a polished blue stone appear in front of him. After failing to sell or trade the stone, Eragon witnesses a baby dragon hatch from the stone, which was in reality a dragon egg.

Title: Footprints Under the Window
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Book 12 Frank and Joe attempt to uncover a plot to smuggle refugees from Baredo in the Huellas (a fictional island nation off the coast of French Guiana) into the United States, and the involvement of local magnate Orrin North.

Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Author: J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling, is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It is the second book in a series of seven Harry Potter books. The book was published on 2 July 1998. A film was theatrically released in November 2002.

Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: J.K. Rowling
Harry has finally come of age, and finally started on his final journey to defeat Voldemort for good. The Durselys are forced to go into hiding so that Voldemort’s Death Eaters will not torture them for information, and Harry sets off with Ron and Hermione on a difficult quest to find and destroy the last of Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Only once those have been destroyed, Harry knows, can Voldemort truly be killed.

Title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author: J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth book in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Published on July 8, 2000, the release of this book was surrounded by more hype than any other book in recent times — outdone only by its successors, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It was fairly large for a children's book -- at 636 and 734 pages (hardback British and American editions respectively). The book attracted a lot of attention owing to a pre-publication warning from J.K. Rowling that one of the characters would be murdered in the book. This started a stream of rumour and speculation as to who the murdered character would be. The publication of Goblet of Fire caused unprecedented heights of Pottermania to be reached internationally.

Title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Author: J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
Harry spends another horrible summer at the Dursleys'. The Muggle news is filled with stories about escaped murderer Sirius Black. Harry accidentally uses his magical powers to inflate his Aunt Marge, and gets kicked out of the house. On a dark street, he is startled by a large black dog. He travels to The Leaky Cauldron in London on the Knight Bus and learns that Sirius Black is actually a wizard who escaped from the wizarding prison, Azkaban. Harry meets up with the Weasley family and Hermione Granger. Hermione buys an unusual cat, Crookshanks, who takes an immediate dislike to Ron Weasley's pet rat Scabbers. Just before boarding the Hogwarts Express, Mr. Weasley takes Harry aside and warns him that Sirius Black is after him, so he must not go looking for Sirius.

Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Author: J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
Lord Voldemort, an evil and powerful wizard, has just been defeated. When he tried to kill an infant boy, Harry Potter, the killing curse rebounded upon him. Harry is left an orphan. Shortly before Harry's eleventh birthday, he is invited to study magic at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry enters the wizarding world for the first time, learns that he is famous.

Title: Heat
Author: Mike Lupica
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.

Title: Hunting for Hidden Gold
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
The Hardy Boys head to Montana to find old gold near the village of Lucky Lode that two miners (Mike Onslow and Bart Dawson) both claim with different stories. Then they meet Mr.Burke who owns the general store in Lucky Lode and find out he is a spy called Slip Gun spying on them, and working for Big Al the villain.

Title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Author: Maya Angelou
Is a 1969 autobiographical novel about the early years of author Maya Angelou's life. The autobiography explores the isolation and loneliness faced by Angelou, and the attributes of her character that helped her cope with the prejudices of society. Quite graphic in nature, the text deals with issues including childhood, rape, racism, and sexism, some of which has generated controversy

Title: Inheritance Trilogy
Author: Christopher Paolini
Set in the fictional world of Alagaësia, the trilogy focuses on a 15-year-old boy named Eragon and his dragon Saphira as they try to bring back the legend of the Dragon Riders, a legendary group of people who governed the land upon mighty dragons. Along their way, they meet a whole cast of characters as they pass through Alagaësia, always on the run from the threat of King Galbatorix, who destroyed the Dragon Riders and claimed the crown.

Title: Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
A collection of twelve loosely-connected short stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series about the title character Tarzan. Chronologically, the events recounted in it actually occur between chapters 12 and 13 of the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes.

Title: Kidnapped
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges and Seamus Heaney.

Title: Life Strategies for Teens
Author: Jay McGraw
The first guide to teenage life that won't tell you what to do or who to be. Provides you with Ten Laws of Life, which make the journey to adulthood an easier and more fulfilling trip.

Title: Love and Mr. Lewisham
Author: H.G. Wells
Young, impoverished, and ambitious science student Mr. Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life, his strictly regimented existence is thrown into chaos by the resurgence of old passion; while she returns his love, she also hides a dark secret. For she is involved in a plot that goes against his firmest beliefs.

Title: Meet the Austins
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Meet the Austins is the title of a 1960 novel by Madeline L'Engle, the first of her books about the Austin family. It introduces the characters Vicky Austin and her three siblings, and Maggy Hamilton, an orphan. Vicky's noisy, loving, mostly-happy family is disrupted by the arrival of Maggy, a spoiled, troubled only child who had very little family life even before her father died in a plane crash. Maggy encourages Vicky's sister Suzy to misbehave, which in turn makes Vicky's life difficult as she tries to restore order. The book is largely episodic, with each chapter covering a specific incident such as Vicky's bicycle accident or a family vacation.

Title: Moon by Night
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
The Moon by Night is the title of a young adult novel by Madeleine L'Engle. Published in 1963, it is the second novel about Vicky Austin and her family, taking place between the events of Meet the Austins (1960) and The Young Unicorns (1968), and more or less concurrently with the O'Keefe family novel The Arm of the Starfish. The book marks the first appearance of the character Zachary Gray, who dates first Vicky and then (in later books) Polly O'Keefe.
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