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The poker diaries

2007
Fifteen-year-old Lulu finds herself in a high-stacks, very illegal poker game in an attempt to win back what her father lost, and hoping her mother, who is dating the tough-on-crime mayor, won't find out.

The clique

second collection
2005
Contains three novels set at a very exclusive private school in Westchester, New York, in which Massie, the leader of a middle-school clique, makes life miserable for the new girl, Claire Lyons.

Pride and prejudice

an annotated edition
2010
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes commentary on literary and historical context as well as allusion and language.

The House of Serendipity

At Serendipity House, a grand mansion in 1920s London, two girls, one living downstairs as a servant and the other living in wealth upstairs, combine their fashion designing and dressmaking talents to secretly make outfits for the debutante ball and help one attendee who wants to escape high-society life.

Everything that burns

Camille Durbonne lives for the rebellion in Paris, spending her time printing pamphlets advocating for magic practitioners, usually women, living on the margins of society. However, when her success becomes too great, she begins suspecting a dark magic is behind it all, a magic she can't control and his helping her for its own purposes. Then, Louis XVI makes a new law declaring magicians and magic are to be outlawed. Camille finds herself in a new, more dangerous Paris, where violence takes over the streets and Camille may lose both the boy she loves and her own life.

Vampire Academy

a graphic novel
After two years on the run, best friends Rose and Lissa are caught and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, a private high school for vampires and half-bloods.

The peasant's dream

2020
Frederick, a peasant farmer's son who dreams of earning a living using his God-given talent as a woodcarver, falls in love with Adela, a duke's daughter who yearns to prove herself as an artist. Includes discussion questions.

Jackpot

2020
"When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she and her popular and wildly rich classmate, Zan can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize"--Provided by publisher.

Orange for the sunsets

2020
In alternating voices, friends Asha and Yesofu, one Indian and one African, find their world turned upside-down when Idi Amin decides to expel Asian Indians from Uganda in 1972.

Beautiful wild

On the maiden voyage of the SS Princess of the Pacific, Vida Hazzard has a plan to save her reputation by wooing Fitzhugh Farrar, the heir to a vast shipping fortune, and getting him to propose. What she doesn't plan for is Fitz's best friend Sal or a hurricane that sinks the ship. Stranded on an island with Fitz and Sal, Vida must decide between the future she's always dreamed of and the one she never knew she wanted.

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