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A list of creative reads for teens. We've got books about art, music, writing, and acting on this list because the summer reading theme this year is "Express Yourself." The library owns all these books; stop in and check one out today!
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13 Little Blue Envelopes (Little Blue Envelope, #1)
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Maureen Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 83,644 ratings
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Audrey, Wait!
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Robin Benway (Goodreads Author)
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Secrets of My Hollywood Life (Secrets of My Hollywood Life, #1)
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Jen Calonita (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 12,763 ratings
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Speak
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 625,262 ratings
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Teen Idol
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Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 24,622 ratings
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Suite Scarlett (Scarlett, #1)
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Maureen Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 12,610 ratings
score: 766,
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Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 132,737 ratings
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City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 1,006,973 ratings
score: 593,
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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
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3.69 avg rating — 85,361 ratings
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Cathy's Book (Cathy Vickers Trilogy, #1)
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Sean Stewart (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 5,498 ratings
score: 492,
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
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E. Lockhart (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 50,630 ratings
score: 490,
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Avalon High
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Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 47,407 ratings
score: 488,
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The Black Sheep
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3.57 avg rating — 1,337 ratings
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How to Build a House
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3.70 avg rating — 2,494 ratings
score: 387,
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Guitar Girl
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3.63 avg rating — 3,661 ratings
score: 380,
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Glass (Crank, #2)
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Ellen Hopkins (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 74,020 ratings
score: 378,
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 729,847 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 282,503 ratings
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You Don't Know Me
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3.90 avg rating — 9,248 ratings
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Lemonade Mouth
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Mark Peter Hughes (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 2,663 ratings
score: 278,
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Shark Girl (Shark Girl #1)
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The Diary of Pelly D
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Bollywood Babes (Bindi Babes, #2)
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3.40 avg rating — 282 ratings
score: 270,
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Wondrous Strange (Wondrous Strange, #1)
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Lesley Livingston (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 21,134 ratings
score: 199,
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Nevermore (Nevermore, #1)
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Kelly Creagh (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 30,447 ratings
score: 198,
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Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 422,296 ratings
score: 197,
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Chasing Vermeer (Chasing Vermeer, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 31,164 ratings
score: 192,
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Stargazer (Evernight, #2)
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Claudia Gray (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 57,355 ratings
score: 192,
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To Catch a Pirate
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3.77 avg rating — 7,438 ratings
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A Map of the Known World
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Lisa Ann Sandell (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 1,875 ratings
score: 191,
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Dramarama
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E. Lockhart (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 4,700 ratings
score: 173,
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Better Off Famous?
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3.41 avg rating — 153 ratings
score: 170,
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Saving Juliet
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Suzanne Selfors (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 5,323 ratings
score: 165,
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Patiently Alice (Alice, #15)
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3.93 avg rating — 1,468 ratings
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The Grooming of Alice (Alice, #12)
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3.98 avg rating — 1,333 ratings
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Populazzi
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Elise Allen (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 920 ratings
score: 98,
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The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl (The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, #1)
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Barry Lyga (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 6,753 ratings
score: 97,
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Drawing Lessons
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3.48 avg rating — 198 ratings
score: 96,
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Wish I Might (Wedding Planner's Daughter #5)
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4.06 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Down the Rabbit Hole (Echo Falls, #1)
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3.77 avg rating — 6,860 ratings
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Autobiography of My Dead Brother
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3.85 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
score: 95,
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Wolves, Boys and Other Things That Might Kill Me
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Kristen Chandler (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 2,415 ratings
score: 95,
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A Pearl Among Princes
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3.69 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Whirligig
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3.35 avg rating — 8,699 ratings
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A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
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3.74 avg rating — 1,702 ratings
score: 93,
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Fat Kid Rules the World
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K.L. Going (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 8,244 ratings
score: 90,
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Born to Rock
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3.67 avg rating — 2,579 ratings
score: 88,
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King Dork (King Dork, #1)
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Frank Portman (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 7,188 ratings
score: 86,
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The Last Days (Peeps, #2)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 9,740 ratings
score: 85,
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Street Love
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3.68 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
score: 82,
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62 voters ·
list created September 30th, 2009
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