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JY Fiction

JY fiction collection

Death Cloud

Author: 
Andrew Lane
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Reading Level: Grades 6-9

14-year-old Sherlock Holmes is thrust into a deadly adventure when he is sent to live with eccentric relatives during the school holidays

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The Things a Brother Knows

Author: 
Dana Reinhardt
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Reading Level: Grade 7-9

After Ever After

Author: 
Jordan Sonnenblick
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Reading Level: Grades 6-8

The Ring of Solomon

Author: 
Jonathan Stroud
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Reading Level: Grades 6-8

The Bartimeaus trilogy chronicled the demon's misadventures while under the control of an 11-year-old magician. In this prequel Stroud shares one of the djinni's earlier adventures as the very reluctant slave of the evil Khaba, an ambitions magician in the court of King Solomon who rules Jerusalem with the help of the powerful slave of the ring.

The Gardener

Author: 
S.A. Bodeen
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Reading Level: Grades 7-10

High school sophomore Mason has a fairly normal life, if you discount the ugly scar marring half of his hulky face; if you discount the disappearance of his father and his mother's drinking habit and tendency to require Mason to be her parent and not vice versa. 

Gorgeous

Author: 
Rachel Vail
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Reading Level: Grades 7-9

14-year-old Allison feels like the boring filling in a beauty sandwich. Her blonde, perfect, talented older sister can do no wrong while in their parents eyes and Allison's younger sister is everybody's darling. Allison only gets her parents' attention when she is in trouble (which usually isn't her fault).

iDrakula

Author: 
Bekka Black
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Reading Level: Grades 8+

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The Twin's Daughter

Author: 
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
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Reading Level: Grades 7+

When the doorbell rings one day at the Sexton household, thirteen year old Lucy answers it herself, grumbling that her household servants never do much around the house. Standing on the doorstep is her mother, dirty, disheveled, and looking wholly not herself. But the woman is not her mother.

The Running Dream

Author: 
Wendlin Van Draanen
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Reading Level: Grades 7-9

16-year-old Jessica was a gifted runner on course to win a track scholarship to a prestigious university. That was before the truck hit the team bus. One girl is killed and Jessica loses her lower right leg. Jessica sometimes wishes she had been killed in the accident since it seems she has very little left to live for.

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