Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated… [He must] find a way to step out of his comfort zone… without alienating his friends, compromising himself or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met! All while being blackmailed by a classmate!
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FCF – Alex Rider: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle’s dangerous work for Britain’s intelligence agency, MI6.
FCF aka Big Kid Storytime – Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Do you believe in fairies, goblins, dwarfs and trolls? Artemis Fowl does. He’s thirteen and the greatest criminal genius to come along in centuries. He can outsmart the Russian Mafia, American Business men and the Lower Earth Police. Yup! That’s what I said Lower Earth Police!
First Chapter Friday – Pumpkin by Julie Murphy
Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. After graduation he plans to move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine, and finally live his truth. Throwing caution to the wind he creates an audition tape for his favorite TV drag show, Fiercest of Them All. What he doesn’t count on is the tape accidentally getting shared with the entire school– and being nominated for prom queen as a joke.
FCF – Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
For teens and lovers of teen literature.
Two murders, decades apart. Her final exam? Solve them.