| To celebrate this year's
Teen Read Week the Library is pleased to recommend
a selection of books that appeal to the reader's inner “Ick". |
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(pdf) copy of highlighted titles below. |
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FEED
by M.T. Anderson, 2002 [YA And] |
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DEAD
GIRLS DON'T WRITE LETTERS by Gail Giles, 2003 [YA Gil] |
How does if feel to be "eaten" alive by
a computer?
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What would you do if you got a letter from your dead
sister announcing she's coming home? |
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THE
LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson, 1949 [F Jac]
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CARRIE
by Stephen King, 1974 [F Kin] |
| In the annual town lottery,
you DO NOT want to get the paper with the black spot. |
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High school can be murder, literally,
especially if you have a classmate with telekinetic powers. |
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BLOOD
AND CHOCOLATE by Annette Curtis Klause, 1997 [YA Kla] |
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ACCELERATION
by Graham McNamee, 2003 [YA McN] |
| Vivian Gandollin is your
typical teenager, new to town, dealing with fitting in and finding
her place, with just one difference: she's a werewolf. |
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Stuck in New York City
Subway's Lost and Found Department for a summer job, Duncan finds
the leather bound journal of a serial killer. |
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BONEYARD
by Richard Moore, 2002 [YA Moo] |
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THE
TELL TALE HEART by Edgar Allen Poe [F Poe] |
Michael Paris arrives
in Raven's Hollow to check out the property left to him by his grandfather
only to find the property is a haunted cemetery!
Volume 2
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Thump…thump…thump…how
can you not hear it beating! It's enough to drive you insane!
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CIRQUE
DU FREAK: THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN by Darren Shan, 2001
[J Sha & YA Sha] |
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BOY
WHO COULDN'T DIE by William Sleator, 2004 [J Sle] |
| If you
heard that an old-fashioned "freak show" was coming to
your town, showing in an old theater the middle of the night, would
you be brave enough to go? One in a series. |
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Ken is
in control when he's awake but when he falls asleep he dreams of
killing people - hmm, could it have anything to do with the fact
that he sold his soul so he would never die? |
| Titles
selected by San Mateo County Librarians, annotations composed by
Charlotte Bradshaw, Pacifica-Sanchez Library - 2004 |
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| Teen's
Top Ten Books, 2004 nominees selected by Teens |
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| Scary
books for Halloween and younger readers |
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