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Dr. James Incandenza, scientist turned filmmaker, creates a movie so entertaining viewers cannot quit watching and literally die laughing. After he commits suicide, his sons hustle to keep the film away from a revolutionary who hopes to destroy the society of the Organization of North American Nations, a union of Canada and the U.S.

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. --Amazon.com

A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in an alternate universe where romance and technology reign and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.

Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.

Sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack causes fragments of an iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power, but using that power against the gang that attacked him and a friend could have deadly consequences.

Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.

Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like her. Features "augmented reality" pages, in which readers with a webcam can access additional information about Eva Nine's world.

Charlie Joe Jackson may be the most reluctant reader ever born. And so far, he’s managed to get through life without ever reading an entire book from cover to cover. But now that he’s in middle school, avoiding reading isn’t as easy as it used to be. And when his friend Timmy McGibney decides that he’s tired of covering for him, Charlie Joe finds himself resorting to desperate measures to keep his perfect record intact. --Amazon.com

Years after Darra Monson's father stole a minivan with Wren Abbott hiding in the back, the girls come face to face at summer camp and together they try to work through what happened to them and the impact it had on their lives.

In 1854, newly orphaned Maria Merryweather, her governess, and dog arrive at Moonacre Manor, the home of Maria's new guardian, and while she feels welcome and comforted right away, she senses an underlying sadness in the people around her and determines to set things right.

Follows the adventures of Teen Boat!, a teenage boy who can transform into a small yacht, as he navigates the waters of adolesence.

A wordless comic tale in which a stone giant, spit from a volcano, becomes a demanding despot intent on conquering the world--but he meets with resistance that ultimately leads to his demise.

After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and three older brothers, Maggie enrolls in public high school, where interacting with her peers is complicated by the melancholy ghost that has followed her throughout her entire life.

An anthology of short graphic works by such artists as Kazu Kibuishi, Dave Roman, and Raina Telgemeier, all on the theme of a mysterious box and the marvels, or mayhem, inside.

Tintin accompanies an eccentric Egyptologist, Dr. Sarcophagus, as he searches for the lost tomb of the Pharaoh Kih-Oskh. When Dr. Sarcophagus disappears, Tintin finds a clue that leads him to India in an attempt to help his new friend before it is too late.