Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies

Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies

by Erin Dionne

Celeste Harris does not have the greatest life, but that's never mattered to her. She's overweight, but ok with that. She does well in school, and she's ok with that. She has a best friend who makes annoying sounds when she sucks on Jolly Ranchers, and she's ok with that, too.

What she's not ok with is her aunt signing her up for the Miss HuskyPeach pageant, which is sponsored by the makers of clothes for plus-size girls. What she's not ok with is the most popular girl in school using her as her own personal insult target. And what she's really not ok with is when her best friend leaves her to go hang out with her worst enemy.

What's a girl to do?

Diet.

If she's not plus-sized anymore, she can't be in that embarrassing pageant. So the cookies have to go!

Schooled

Schooled

by Gordon Korman

Capricorn Anderson is not your normal teenager. He's never used a cell phone, never IM'd his friends, never tapped the keys on a computer, and never watched television. He wears tie-dye shirts and woven sandals. He believes in non-violence and the sacredness of all life. He is one of the last two people to live on a "hippie" commune run by his grandmother, Rain. The only person he's ever known is Rain and the only life he's ever known is there.

When Rain injures herself during one of her homeschooling lessons for Cap, his world turns upside-down. He's forced to live with a former member of the commune and her daughter (who makes him feel things he's never felt before). He's forced to attend middle school (where he's immediately elected class president). And he's forced to catch up to the world that left his little commune behind (whether he likes it or not).

Can Cap figure out where he fits in the world and still be true to himself? Or will he continue to be ridiculed, laughed at, and have water dumped on him while he does tai-chi on the front lawn?

The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney

The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney
by Suzanne Harper

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Sparrow's life has always been a little strange. As the seventh daughter of the seventh daughter in a family of psychics and mediums, it has always been believed that she will be the most powerful of her kind. But all Sparrow wants to be is normal.
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She doesn't want to hold seances. She doesn't want to talk to spirits. She doesn't want to help those who have passed on complete their unfinished business. She also doesn't want to live in a house with baboon skulls in the front yard, strange symbols painted everywhere, and the bodies of her grandmother's four dead husbands in the back.
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So all her life, Sparrow's been hiding the terrible truth: not only does she see, hear, and speak to ghosts every day, she also doesn't need any special tricks to do it. While her mother and sisters all have to focus hard to get a reading, Sparrow can just look over and see the dead any time, day or night.
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And now, all of her hiding may have to come to an end. There's a very cute boy in her class and he has a very dead boy haunting him.
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Will Sparrow have the strength to tell the truth and admit who she is? Or will she keep on hiding and force the ghost to remain in limbo forever?

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
by Kate DiCamillo

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Edward Tulane is the finest china rabbit that money can buy. He's perfect in every way. He's got the best clothes and a fine, gold watch.
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Edward Tulane is the best and he knows it.
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Unfortunately, just because you're the best, that doesn't mean that you can't become the worst.
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Follow Edward on the journey of a china rabbit's lifetime as he learns about what he really is and who he is really meant to be.
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Can he learn to love before it's too late?

Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery

Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery
by Susan Juby

Sherman Mack, lead detective of Mack Daddy Investigations (well, only detective if we're being honest), is on a mission.
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Girls at his high school are in danger. They are in danger of being D-listed.
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D for Defiled.
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If a girl's picture ends up on the school restroom mirrors with a "D" on it, then she's automatically blacklisted. She becomes a ghost. No one will talk to her. No one will look at her. No one will even acknowledge that she's there.
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And now Mack's friends have become targets.
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So, with a large imagination and very little cooking skill, Sherman Mack sets out to make the perfect meal and set the perfect trap.
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If he succeeds, he'll be a hero to all and the girls will love him (and he's always been a fan of the ladies).
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If he fails, he'll be the first boy in school ever D-listed.
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So, really... No pressure at all.