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Pride and Prejudice
=by Jane Austen=

==Elizebeth Bennet was the eldest of her sisters and her father's favorite. Though, not equal in her sister, Jane's, beauty, Elizebeth was a very charming girl. When a wealthy gentleman moves into their neighborhood all of the sisters are anxious to meet the new family. But, it is Jane who finds herself fond of the gentleman. After a ball that was hosted in the gentleman's honor, Elizebeth and pretty much the whole country has a very bad impression of the gentleman's friend, Mr. Darcy. He carries himself in a highly superior fashion and - to everyone's belief - acts .......snobby. Elizebeth in particular considers him vile and bothersome and quite rude. It isn't until later after their aquaintance that Mr. Darcy starts to notice Elizebeth's hidden depths. And Elizebeth is quite suprised when he asks for her hand. And imagine his suprise when she refused. Who would not want to wed a extremely wealthy gentleman?! But, that was why, she later explained to him, she didn't want to marry him. Because of his arrogant behavior and and "stuck upness" she couldn't love him. It is later when they meet again while Elizebeth is visiting her aunt and uncle. She is shocked by Mr. Darcy's chang in behavior. He was a perfect gentleman And kind to her common uncle and aunt, and showed compassion for her family when they found out that one of Elizebeth's sisters had eloped. It was then that Elizebeth saw other sides to Mr. Darcy. Finally she could accept his offer and marry.==

=﻿The Host= by Stephanie Meyer

==﻿After Melanie Stryder - one of the last remaining humans- is caught by the Seekers, Wonderer, a soul, is inserted into her to gain information about one of the last patches of humans. When Wonderer notices that her host is not functioning right hence all the strange feelings she is experiencing and the longing for a life that she has never known, but in a strange way....she has.When Wonderer's host, Melanie, shows her a dream of her family, no longer able to repress her longing for them, Wonderer makes a decision that had been lumbering on the edbe of her conscious. She leaves her too peaceful home in search for Melanie's little brother and her friend Jared. What Wonderer/Melanie isn't prepared for is the hostility she is going to face in the desert and even more so by the humans shye will encounter. Can Wonderer start a new life among these violent humans? Can she reunite Melanie with her family? Most importantly, will all her efforts go up in flames?==

=﻿Romeo and Juliet= by William Shakespeare

==﻿This story of a tragic love has made a name for itself in the world of classic literature. It has inspired many authors and playwrights through the centuries. When Romeo meets Juliet after breaking up with Rosaline, the world seems dull next to her. He even goes as far as to say her beauty outshines the very moon. Everything seems to want to tear them apart, though. Even thier own parents who have outlasted thier very own fued. When Romeo is outcasted and Juliet is about to be forced to mary Paris only one thing can end it all and that is THE END. Everyone knows of the star-crossed lovers and thier inevitable deaths, but this book really sets the bar as one of the greatest the world has ever seen.==

=﻿Valiant= by Holly Black

==﻿Val has always had a temper. She was always the hot head on her team. Well, that is until she got kicked off her lacross team. Her life seems to be at the all time low. What an understatement. When Val comes home early and is met with a heartbreaking surprise she completely loses it. She leaves home and wanders around New York until she meets two ecentric teens who take her in. Val will soon mingle her life with those of the supernatural. In the end is that world better than her own? Can she really find a place among misfits?==

=﻿Iornside= =by Holly Black=

==﻿Kaye always knew she didn't belong, but that was conformined when she found out she was a fey. A pixie to be more exact. When Roiben is fully crowned Kaye can't help making the oath of loyalty to him wich means he will have to send her on a quest. That quest will be impossible. She must find a farie that can tell an untruth. How will she do that? Faries can't lie. How do you think she got so good at //__streching__// the truth until it wasn't really a lie, but no one questioned it. But when Kaye goes back to Iornside she is instantly dragged into the middle of the raging war between the Bright Court, ruled by Roiben's former Queen, and the Dark Court, which Roiben ruld over. How can Kaye save him when she can't even see him until she finishes his stupid quest, which will be //NEVER//! Geez,when had being a pixie in love with the Dark Lord who may or not die at war and wondering if she should tell her mom that she really wasn't her daughter and that her real daughter had been stolen as an infant become so hard?==

=﻿Anne Frank= by Albert Hackett

==﻿Anne Frank was a teen born right before the Holocaust. During this time Jews were forced to concentration camps. Adolf Hitler was the German dictator who ordered the deaths of over 6,000 Jews. Anne Frank was among this vast number. Her diary was published years after her death by her father, but her legacy still lives, and her story touches even the hardest of hearts.==

=﻿Twilight= by Stephanie Meyer

==﻿Bella Swan moves to the cold, rainy town of Forks, Washington. Population: 400; Forks is not the ideal vacation place. That is until Bella meets the mysterious Edward Cullen, who she is immeadiately attracted to. The thing is, can that attraction get her killed. When facts come up hinting at the impossible will Bella follow heer heart or her brain? If you like epic stories of star-crossed romances than you will love this book.==

=﻿New Moon= by Stephanie Meyer

==﻿Edward is gone. For her own safety, the Cullens have left the small town of Forks and now Bella can't cope. Suddenly, Bella finds sanctuary in her best friend Jacob Black. But Jake seems to be more than her friend despite the two year age difference.Would Bella be betrying Edward if she loved Jacob back? Can she really forget him like Jacob suggests? Will the whole in her chest ever close?==

=﻿Eclipse= by Stephanie Meyer

==﻿Now that the Cullens are back, Bella thinks things can get back to normal again. Well, as normal as things can be without her best friend, Jacob Black. But things suddenly start to get worse when Victoria returns intent on getting revenge. With her it's mate for a mate. Since Edward took her mate, James, who was trying to kill Bella, Victoria thinks it would be judicial to take his mate. Bella. Now the murder rates sre going up for Seattle because of the army Victoria has built to take out the Cullens. So much for making things okay with Jake and graduation. Will she even live that long?==

=﻿Breaking Dawn= by Stephanie Meyer

==﻿The end. That's what it feels like for Bella. But a new beginning can rise out of ashes. Everyone seemes to be getting exactly what they wanted. Edward has gotten his bride in Bella. Bella FINALLY gets to become a Cullen in all the ways possible. But Jake. Jake doesn't know if he will ever be able to go on after his best friend is taken from him and has become his number one enemy. And to make matters worse the Volturi are coming to Forks to eliminate the competion. The Cullens.==

=﻿Pendragon: The Merchant of Death= by D.J. McHale

==﻿Bobby Pendragon couldn't be any more normal. He was your typical fourteen-year-old guy who loved to play a nice game of basketball, wondered if Courtney liked him, and if she noticed the zit on his forehead. But that all changed when his Uncle Press came one night and explained- well halfway explained -that he was the Lead Traveler, who would lead a force of young Travelers in the epic fight against Sain Dane, a vile Traveler bent on destroying Halla preferably through murders and genocides. KInd of makes the whole zit-on-forehead-thing seem kind iof fickle, doesn't it? Can Bobby step up to the plate as the Lead Traveler?==

=﻿Hex Hall= author forgotten

==﻿Sophie has always had trouble fitting in at school and would always move from place to place with her mom. Trouble for her was inevitable. That may have been because Sophie wasn't your average teen girl who loved to shop and talk about who's hot and who's not. She was half human and half witch. When she is ordered to go to Hex Hall, where she will "be surrounded by her own kind", shape shifters, and fey. But thing quickly go south when two girls are attacked and her room mate and only friend is blamed for murder. It's unstoppable. Trouble will always find her. Sophie knows her friend is innocent, but trying to reason with the school's predjuduces has proven futile. And even worse, she finds herself infatuated with her enemy's boyfriend, Alan. Finally, Sophie has always thought herself to be a witch, but - due to resent events - she starts finding clues that hint at the unimaginable. If it's true, can she really be a .......demon?==

=﻿Pendragon: Cloral= by D.J McHale

==﻿Uncle Press takes Bobby to a srange, marine world where cities literally float on massive garge-like structures. As Saint Dane leads them on a dangerous trail through this new territory, Bobby struggles with the loss of his family and the burdens of being the Lead Traveler. Disaster after disaster seems to find Press, Bobby, and Spader, a fellow Traveler, as they battle the diabolical Saint Dane, but why he calls himself a "Saint" is a mystery because he is anything but. It seems that the more Bobby learns about being a Traveler the more he doesn't know. Whatr happened to his family? His dog? What is a Traveler? Are they even human?==

=﻿Hunger Games= by Suzane Collins

==﻿Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in District twelve. Her world is place din the ruins of what was once North America. Every year two tributes from each district- a boy and a girl- are picked for the Hunger Games, where they must fight each other to the death. To win is to live the life of a king. To lose is to face a certain death. When Katniss's little sister's name is drawn for the Games Katniss steps forward and takes her place. Now Katniss must fight. Fight for her sister, Prim. Fight for love. Fight for her life.==

=﻿Clay Marble= by Ming Fong Ho

==﻿Dara and her family live in Thailand during the war in Vietnam. They and other families are forced to become refugees. At the camp that Dara, Suran, her brother, and her mother live at they meet another family. Dara is immediately befriended by Jantu, a girl about her age. Dara and Jantu work to block out all of their horrific memories and losses from the war by making their own world where they determine what happens. But it's not long before tragity hits them again.==

=﻿Hush, hush= by Becca Fitzpatrick

==﻿When Nora is seated next to Patch her world suddenly changed. How does he know things about her that no else could possibly know? How does he know exactly what to say to repulse and attract her? When a series of mysterious events occur Nora doesn't know who to trust. She is suddenly suspicous of Patch. But in the end is he the one who will harm her or protect her?==

=﻿Sense and Sensibility= by Jane Austen

==﻿Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile, Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to coher own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her.==

=﻿Pendragon: The Rivers of Zadaa= by D.J. McHale

==When Bobby goes to visit his friend Loor on the territory of Zadaa, he is met with a huge drought. War is about the break out between the two tribes there, the Rakador and the Batu, because of water shortage. When Bobby takes an unexpected beating from Saint Dane, he askes Loor to teach him how to fight, tired of other people protecting him at their expense. As Bobby battles in another seemingly endless and futile fight against evil (aka. Saint Dane) his friends Mark and Courtney try to get along without him.==

=﻿Outsiders= by S.E Hinton

==﻿Ponyboy is a Greaser in the city where Socs and Greasers don't get along. To Ponyboy it is all he can do not to get jumped by Socs like his friend Johnny. When he and Johnny are jumped by a vicious gang of Socs and Johnny accidently kills one of the attackers, tension rises like never before between the two gangs. Ponyboy is scared, angry, and worried, but through it all Ponyboy is determined to stay golden.==

=﻿Catching Fire= by Suzane Collins

==﻿When Katniss Everdeen gets back to District twelve after the Hunger Games, she doesn't know what to do. About Peeta. About Gale. About the Capital who wants to punish her for managing to get two people through the game ( her and Peeta ) when only one should have lived. Now Katniss has to sort through all her feelings. It's the only way she will live. Can Katniss win the Games and not become just a piece in them herself.==

=﻿Girl in the Arena= by Lise Haines

==﻿Lyn has just turned eighteen. She has always grown up in the public's eyes because her father is the most famous gladiator in the GSA ( gladiator sport association ). But when her father is killed in the arena she is forcced to marry his killer. Now for Lyn it's either become a Glad wife or lose everything. But for Lyn she has one more option. Fight in the arena. She will fight for her own rights. She will fight for her own choices. She will fight for her life.==

=﻿Mockingjay= by Suzane Collins

==﻿Katniss has been rescued from the Games. She thinks. Now that her home has been destroyed she and her sister, Prim, and her mother have moved to District thirteen, which everyone thought had been destroyed, too. When Katniss becomes the Mockingjay she becomes the face of the rebellion against the capital. But there is one thing thing the capital has against her. Peeta. Wanting to rescue Peeta, Katniss trains with her best friend Gale. One by one she and her unit takes down the districts. But when Peeta is rescued and he's not the same, everything for Katniss changes. As long as the president of the capitol dies she will do anythying. Even if that means dying herself.==

=﻿Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire= by J.K. Rowling

==﻿When it is announced that the Triwizard Tournement will be held at Hogwarts everyone is eager to see who the Hogwarts champion will be. When Harry's name is pulled along with another Hogwarts champion everything goes downhill. There is a spy in Hogwarts. Harry must compete in three tasks to win, but now it's looking like Harry won't even live that long. Harry has to face that where ever he goes he will be in danger. He just hopes he will ever get a chance to go anywhere again. That will mean he survives the tournement.==

=﻿Percy Jackson and the Lightening Theif= by Rick Roirdan

==﻿Percy thought he was just a regular boy with dyslexia and ADHD, but when he learns that he is the son of Poesidon, the Greek sea god, he must attend Camp Half-blood. There he is trained to live the life of a ahalf-blood, but when he is balimed for stealing Zues's lightening bolt he must joyurney to the Underworld to get it back from Hades. On his journey he battles many ancient craetures and gods. Percy knows he mustn't fail. If he does he not only dies, but so does ghis mother.==