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Between

Between by Jessica Warman Elizabeth Valchar looks down off of her parents’ yacht and spots a body in the water. She remembers drinking with her friends on the yacht to celebrate her eighteenth birthday. The body looks familiar…wait that’s her! How can she be in the water and on the boat? This page turner will [...]

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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

  The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart Frankie Landau-Banks just wants people to take her seriously. She didn’t start her sophomore year at an uber-elite boarding school in New England planning to infiltrate its exclusive, guys-only secret society by assuming an undercover identity. But everyone around her – from her parents to [...]

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Y’s Choice Favorite Teen Book

The Library’s Teen Advisory Board (TAB) has selected this list of their favorite books. They are listed in no particular order. Divergent by Veronica Roth In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she [...]

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Support Teen Literature Day

Come celebrate Support Teen Literature day by stopping by the Decatur Library this Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. Three Georgia authors will share their stories, writing, experiences and knowledge! Amazing adventures, supernatural forces, memorable characters and all from the minds of authors living in our own backyard. Come and be inspired to write your own [...]

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Stealing Heaven

    Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott What would you do if the life you always knew was not the one you wanted to live?  That is what Dani faces in this tale of struggling between the person you currently are and the person you would like to be in the future. Dani’s earliest memory [...]

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Georgia Peach Awards for Teen Readers Nominees 2012-2013

For those of you who voted for this year’s Peach Award the winner is Maze Runner by James Dasher. The nominees for this year (2012-2013) are listed below.   Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins When Anna’s romance-novelist father sends her to an elite Parisian boarding school she meets an amazing boy.  Between [...]

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Georgia Peach Award March Madness: The Final Battle

The final battle is here!  (Remember you can vote online by leaving your choice for each battle in the comment section or you can stop by the Stonecrest branch to pick up a paper copy and vote.) Check back here next Monday to see who the winner was. Week 3 Beautiful Creaturesby Kami Garcia   VS. Hate [...]

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Georgia Peach Award March Madness: Semi-Finals

Our battles continue here. The semi-final winners will compete in the final competition next week so check back here next Monday and see if your choice has made it to the next round. (Remember you can vote online by leaving your choice for each battle in the comment section or you can stop by the Stonecrest [...]

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