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Forever In Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Unabridged)

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With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer.

Lena: Immerses herself in her painting and an intoxicating summer fling, fearing that the moment she forgets about Kostos will be the moment she sees him again.

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640L
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09:05
Forever In Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Unabridged)

Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Unabridged)

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The Pants first came to us at the perfect moment. That is, when we were splitting up for the first time. It was two summers ago when they first worked their magic, and last summer when they shook up our lives once again. You see, we don't wear the Pants year-round. We let them rest so they are extra powerful when summer comes.

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670L
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07:19
Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Unabridged)

Star Girl (Unabridged)

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She's as magical as the desert sky. As strange as her pet rat. As mysterious as her own name.

From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of "Stargirl, Stargirl." She captures Leo Borlock's heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted.

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590L
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08:49
Star Girl (Unabridged)

The House On Mango Street (Unabridged)

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The greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters.

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870L
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02:18
The House On Mango Street (Unabridged)

Go Ask Alice (Unabridged)

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Life at 15 isn't easy for a girl if she's shy and hates the way she looks. Each day is heaven or hell, depending on who talks to her, or who doesn't. So when she's finally accepted by a group, she doesn't refuse their party games, even if it means taking LSD. Soon she's taking little pills to wake up and others to go to sleep, and the days begin to blur.

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1010L
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10:15
Go Ask Alice (Unabridged)

The Kite Runner

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Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

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840L
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06:18
The Kite Runner

A Day No Pigs Would Die (Unabridged)

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Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir. The result is a moving coming-of-age story that still resonates with teens today.

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690L
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03:01
A Day No Pigs Would Die (Unabridged)

The Great Gilly Hopkins (Unabridged)

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At age 11, Gilly is nobody's real kid. If only she could find her beautiful mother, Courtney, and live with her instead of in the ugly foster home where she has just been placed! How could she, the great Gilly Hopkins, known throughout the county for her brilliance and unmanageability, be expected to tolerate Maime Trotter, the fat, nearly illiterate widow who is now her guardian?

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800L
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04:40
The Great Gilly Hopkins (Unabridged)

Flat Broke: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Greed (Unabridged)

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As a punishment for lying, Kevin has lost his allowance. He doesn't lie now, but he's broke. He's got to find a way to make money. Lots of it, so he can impress Tina Zabinski, the World's Most Beautiful Girl, and ask her on a date. So Kevin gets creative - and his life becomes a financial comedy of errors. Does he really have what it takes to get filthy rich at age fourteen?

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810L
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01:59
Flat Broke: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Greed (Unabridged)

Feathers (Unabridged)

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Frannie doesn't know what to make of the poem she's reading in school. She hasn't thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more "holy". There is a new boy in class everyone is calling the Jesus Boy. And although the new boy looks like a white kid, he says he's not white. Who is he?

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760L
Length: 
02:53
Feathers (Unabridged)

As Simple as It Seems

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Moving and funny, this heartwarming and memorable novel follows one girl's discovery that life is not always as simple as it seems.

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910L
As Simple as It Seems