Kathe Koja
1) Buddha boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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The stress of finishing high school is compounded for Dana as she comes to realize that her best friend, Avra, is not the "queen bee" she has always seemed to be, and that Avra's boyfriend, Emil, might actually prefer a humble "worker bee" like herself.
4) Dark Park
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The only thing wilder than a night at the club is the morning after, in Paradise...DARK FACTORY opened the doors to a reality-bending dance club, an online immersive portal, and the feeling that the whole world is on the brink of something new. DARK PARK takes you there.DARK PARK follows documentary filmmaker Sergey Kendricks as he tracks Ari Regon and Felix the DJ through the fever and chaos of stardom and celebrity culture, while Max Caspar quests...
5) Dark Factory
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Welcome to Dark Factory! You may experience strobe effects, Y reality, DJ beats, love, sex, betrayal, triple shot espresso, broken bones, broken dreams, ecstasy, self-knowledge, and the void.
Dark Factory is a dance club: three floors of DJs, drinks, and customizable reality, everything you see and hear and feel. Ari Regon is the club's wild card floor manager, Max Caspar is a stubborn DIY artist, both chasing a vision of true reality. And rogue...
6) Talk
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Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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Hoping to escape from himself for awhile, Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting, struggles with coming out, and both he and his costar face crises in their view of themselves and in their close relationships. Told from two points of view.
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Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Seventeen-year-old loner Maggy Klass, who frequently seeks refuge from her alcoholic mother's apartment by sitting and drawing in a local cafe, becomes involved in a destructive relationship with a charismatic homeless youth named Cole.
8) Going under
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Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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Alternating passages that draw on the myths of Persephone and Narcissus juxtapose the differing viewpoints of a teenaged girl and her older brother as she tries to prevent a manipulative psychotherapist from using her journal as material in a book.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Awards, finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and named one of io9.com's "Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm." With a new afterword by Maryse Meijer, author of Heartbreaker and Rag. "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." When a strange hole materializes in a storage room, would-be...
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Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is an anthology from award-winning editor Ellen Datlow. Continuing to expand the boundaries of the concept of vampirism-as she did in her first collection, Blood Is Not Enough-Datlow has assembled eighteen fascinating stories that range from tales of literal vampires to what she calls "metaphorical bloodsuckers," who can drain another's life force...