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Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she
doesn't think she's the prettiest of her friends by a long shot.
She's also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and
slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And
when he nicknames her "the Duff," she throws her Coke in his face.
But things aren't so great at home right now, and Bianca is
desperate for a distraction. She ends up kissing Wesley. Worse, she
likes it. Eager for escape, Bianca throws herself into a closeted
enemies-with-benefits relationship with him.
Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out Wesley isn't such a
bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly
Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she's falling for the guy
she thought she hated more than anyone. And eventually, through
this realization, Bianca begins to see how harmful her unhealthy
way of dealing with her problems has been, and finds a way to
confront them head on.
Six survived to tell the story, but who knows the truth? The next hotly anticipated YA novel from bestselling US sensation Kody Keplinger, author of THE DUFF and RUN
It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story - that she died proclaiming her faith.
But it's not true.
I know because I was with her when she died. I didn't say anything then, and people got hurt because of it. Now Sarah's parents are publishing a book about her, so this might be my last chance to set the record straight . . . but I'm not the only survivor with a story to tell about what did - and didn't - happen that day.
Except Sarah's martyrdom is important to a lot of people, people who don't take kindly to what I'm trying to do. And the more I learn, the less certain I am about what's right. I don't know what will be worse: the guilt of staying silent or the consequences of speaking up . . .
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Run (Paperback)
Kody Keplinger
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Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and
an alcoholic mom. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad
lot, but Bo doesn't care what anyone thinks. Agnes Atwood has never
stayed out past ten p.m., never gone on a date and never broken any
of her parents' overbearing rules. Rules that are meant to protect
their legally blind daughter - but Agnes isn't quite sure what they
are protecting her from. Despite everything, Bo and Agnes become
best friends. And it's the sort of friendship that runs truer and
deeper than anything else. So when Bo shows up in the middle of the
night, police sirens wailing in the distance, desperate to get out
of town, Agnes doesn't hesitate to take off with her. But running
away and not getting caught will require stealing a car, tracking
down Bo's dad, staying ahead of the authorities, and - worst of all
- confronting some ugly secrets. A story about the ferocity of
friendship and the risks we'll take to save our friends ... And
ourselves.
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The Duff (Paperback)
Kody Keplinger
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Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she
doesn't think she's the prettiest of her friends by a long shot.
She's also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and
slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And
when he nicknames her "the Duff," she throws her Coke in his face.
But things aren't so great at home right now, and Bianca is
desperate for a distraction. She ends up kissing Wesley. Worse, she
likes it. Eager for escape, Bianca throws herself into a closeted
enemies-with-benefits relationship with him.
Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out Wesley isn't such a
bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly
Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she's falling for the guy
she thought she hated more than anyone. And eventually, through
this realization, Bianca begins to see how harmful her unhealthy
way of dealing with her problems has been, and finds a way to
confront them head on.
Whitley Johnson's dream summer of shopping, partying and tanning on
the beach has just turned into a nightmare. Because Dad didn't tell
her he doesn't live by the beach anymore, or that he's no longer a
bachelor. He's picked up and moved to a tiny, lame town called
Hamilton and gotten himself a fiance. A fiance whose son just
happens to be what's-his-name from last week's drunken graduation
party one night stand. Just freakin' great. As if the summer
couldn't get worse, Dad seems to forget Whitley's even there. She
doesn't fit in with his perfect new country club family, and
Whitley does what any kid lucky enough to go all summer
unsupervised does: she parties. Hard. So hard that she doesn't even
notice the good things right under her nose: a younger future
step-sister who is just about the only person she's ever liked, a
best friend (even though Whitley swears she doesn't 'do friends')
and a smoking hot, sweet guy who isn't her step brother (yet) and
who actually seems to care for her. It will take all three of them
to convince her that they're not phoneys, and to get Whitley to get
through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family
together. From the author of The Duff - now a major film starring
Bella Thorne, Mae Whitman and Alison Janney, out in DVD in Summer
2015.
Whitley Johnson's dream summer with her divorce dad has turned into
a nightmare. She's just met his new fiancee and her kids. The
fiancee's son? Whitley's one-night stand from graduation night.
Just freakin' great.
Worse, she totally doesn't fit in with her dad's perfect new
country-club family. So Whitley acts out. She parties. Hard. So
hard she doesn't even notice the good things right under her nose:
a sweet little future stepsister who is just about the only person
she's ever liked, a best friend (even though Whitley swears she
doesn't "do" friends), and a smoking-hot guy who isn't her
stepbrother...at least, not yet. It will take all three of them to
help Whitley get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of
her family together.
Filled with authenticity and raw emotion, Whitley is Kody
Keplinger's most compelling character to date: a cynical Holden
Caulfield-esque girl you will wholly care about."
The battle of the sexes is on. Most high school sports teams have
rivalries with other schools. At Hamilton High, it's a civil war:
the football team versus the soccer team. And for her part, Lissa
is sick of it. Her quarterback boyfriend, Randy, is always ditching
her to go pick a fight with the soccer team or to prank their
locker room. And on three separate occasions Randy's car has been
egged while he and Lissa were inside, making out. She is done
competing with a bunch of sweaty boys for her own boyfriend's
attention. Lissa decides to end the rivalry once and for all: She
and the other players' girlfriends go on a hookup strike. The boys
won't get any action from them until the football and soccer teams
make peace. What they don't count on is a new sort of rivalry: an
impossible girls-against-boys showdown that hinges on who will cave
to their libidos first. And Lissa never sees her own sexual tension
with the leader of the boys, Cash Sterling, coming.
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