Lauren Myracle, Author e. Dutton $16.99 (201p) ISBN 978-0-525-47165-3
Offering a month-by-month account of Winnie's 11th year, this lighthearted and well-observed novel is sure to strike a familiar chord with girls on the brink of adolescence. On her birthday, Winnie gets her first pet, a cat she names Sweetie-Pie,
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Lauren Myracle. Abrams/Amulet, $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0871-8
The girls from Myracle's Internet Girls series are starting college and an array of new adventures. Bubbly Angela is pledging a sorority at the University of Georgia, quiet Zoe is trying to keep long-distance love alive at Kenyon College in Ohio,...
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Lauren Myracle. Abrams/Amulet, $17.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0793-3
Myracle is no stranger to having her work challenged on the basis of “inappropriate” content, and this love story between two high school graduates may attract similar attention. But underlying some explicit and erotic scenes in which Wren Gray and...
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Lauren Myracle. Abrams/Amulet, $16.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-8109-8417-2
Cat has been distant from childhood best friend Patrick for three years (she began to "ignore the whole world" after an older friend of her brother's molested her). Even so, when a horrific and possible hate crime leaves openly gay Patrick comatose,
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Lauren Myracle, Author Amulet Books $16.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5859-3
When the uber-popular clique known as the Bitches asks freshman Jane to be their fourth, they assure her that her life will change forever. There's only one catch: each week Jane must steal something from another girl and put it on the desk of a...
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Lauren Myracle, Author Abrams/Amulet $15.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4211-0
Blending instant messaging and screenplay-styled text into the narrative, Myracle (ttyl
) begins a new series about the woes of being a tween, featuring four likable heroines all named after flowers. Katie Rose, Camilla (aka Milla), Yasaman and...
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Lauren Myracle, Author . Dutton $16.99 (292p) ISBN 978-0-525-47743-3
An honest narrator grounds this sweet story about two sisters learning to accept their differences—and help each other grow up. The sisters, who live in an exclusive Atlanta neighborhood, both attend “the most prestigious prep school in...
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Lauren Myracle, Author . Abrams/Amulet $16.95 (444p) ISBN 978-0-8109-7071-7
Catering to teens with a taste for horror, this carefully plotted occult thriller set in 1969–1970 combines genre staples with creepy period particulars. Raised on a commune, 14-year-old Bliss Inthemorningdew has been dumped by her hippie...
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Lauren Myracle, Author . Abrams/Amulet $15.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5971-2
Myracle returns to the trio of friends she introduced in ttyl
, again composing her novel entirely in instant messages among the three. In this installment, Angela is heartbroken when her father is laid off, forcing her to move from Georgia to...
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Lauren Myracle, Author . Puffin $5.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-240346-4
"Offering a month-by-month account of Winnie's 11th year, this lighthearted and well-observed novel is sure to strike a familiar chord with girls on the brink of adolescence," wrote PW
. Ages 8-up. (July)
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Lauren Myracle, Author . Dutton $15.99 (135p) ISBN 978-0-525-47222-3
Ever since a severe ear infection caused Alli to miss two months of sixth grade, she's felt like a "social nobody." Seventh grade looks like it may be a struggle, too: on the first day, static caused her mother's underwear to cling...
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Lauren Myracle, Author . Penguin/Speak $5.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-240241-2
A misfit teen drives a truck, shuns eyeliner and kisses her best friend, Kate, at a party. Is she gay? Or just in love with Kate? According to PW
, "The author takes a sophisticated, supportive and unusually candid approach to sexual orientation.
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Lauren Myracle, Author . Abrams/Amulet $15.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4821-1
Myracle's (Kissing Kate
) approach is creative, even if her newest novel is somewhat formulaic: three best friends hash out their lives—from new relationships to conflicts with one another—through instant messages. As they start 10th
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Lauren Myracle, Author . Dutton $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-525-46917-9
Myracle's promising but uneven first novel introduces a misfit teen struggling with her sexuality. Lissa, who has lived with her little sister and bachelor uncle since her parents' death years ago, feels different from other girls: she...
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Lauren Myracle, illus. by Jed Henry. Dutton, $12.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-525-42264-8
Skillfully blending comedy and poignancy, Myracle begins the Life of Ty series (a spinoff of her Winnie Years books), which spotlights Winnie’s seven-year-old brother, Ty, as he grapples with growing pains and change. His mother is preoccupied by...
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Lauren Myracle. HarperCollins/Tegen, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-234206-5
When budding writer Natasha turns 13 and makes three wishes under a willow tree, she feels a hint of magic in the air. Since her mother’s disappearance eight years ago, Natasha has been defined by her helpfulness, attending to her younger sisters,...
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E. Lockhart, Author, Sarah Mlynowski, Author, Lauren Myracle, Author . HarperTeen $16.99 (325p) ISBN 978-0-06-128422-9
Three deservedly popular YA authors take turns narrating this exuberant novel, which centers on a road trip. After working all summer in their small Florida town at the Waffle House (they call it the Awful Waffle), three girls strike out for the...
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Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, and Emily Jenkins. Scholastic Press, $14.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-545-80045-7
The writers behind How to Be Bad (2008) aim for a younger audience in this entertaining story about magical powers gone humorously awry. Ten-year-old Nory is mortified when she bungles her interview at the posh magical academy where her father is...
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Lauren Myracle. Walker Books US, $18.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0605-0
Divided into four sections, each representing one high-school year, this coming-of-age novel chronicles teenage Paul Walden’s progression from naive freshman to senior navigating crisis and addiction. During the first three sections, he comes across
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Lauren Myracle, illus. by Isaac Goodhart. DC Ink, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4012-8591-3
Ditching what few friends she has and leaving high school, Selina takes to life on the streets after her mother’s abusive boyfriend causes her kitten’s death, and she hones the skills she needs while forging her new identity as Catgirl. Soon, she...
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