2012 reading

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A Game of Thrones

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Author:George R. R. Martin

Pages:835

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Date started:May 9, 2012

Date finished: Unread

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The Returners

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Author: Gemma Malley

Pages: 252

Summary: Will Hodge is being followed by people who insist they know him, though he does not remember them, and his terrifying dreams have begun spilling over from night-time into day. He is also a witness in a murder trial and is coping with the death of his mother. Life couldn't get much more difficult. Or could it?
Slowly, Will discovers that his past is not all that he thought it was, and the people following him aren't really strangers. They are Returners, and they have an important message about some truths Will has forgotten - terrible truths he may wish he had never known..

Date started:April 6, 2012

Date finished: May 8, 2012

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Mockingjay

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Author: Suzanne Collins

Pages: 390

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Date started:March 27, 2012

Date finished:April 6, 2012

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Catching Fire

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Author: Suzanne Collins

Pages: 391

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Date started: March 11th, 2012

Date finished: March 27th, 2012

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1984

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Author: George Orwell

Pages: 326

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Date started:January 29, 2012

Date finished: March 10, 2012

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The Halloween Tree

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Author: Ray Bradbury

Pages: 145

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Date started: January 24th

Date finished: Still reading

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The Hunger Games

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Author: Suzanne Collins

Pages: 374

Summary: In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Date started: January 11th, 2012

Date finished: January 24th, 2012

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The Silver Blade

Author: Sally Gardner

Pages: 304

Summary: The year is 1794. With his beloved Sido safely in England and the Reign of Terror at its height, mysterious Yann returns to revolutionary France to smuggle out aristocratic refugees who will otherwise face the guillotine. But while the two are apart, Yann's Gypsy origins prejudice Sido's guardian against their marriage, thwarting their longed-for reunion. When Sido is kidnapped under strange circumstances, however, Yann must use all his strength and courage to outwit the evil Count Kalliovski, rescue Sido, and help save all of France.

Date started: December 16th, 2011

Date finished: January 11th, 2012

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Ananzi Boys

Author: Neil Gaiman

Pages: 400

Summary: Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider's on his doorstep -- about to make Fat Charlie's life more interesting... and a lot more dangerous..

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Darkwing

Author: Kenneth Oppel

Pages: 336

Summary: As the sun sets on the time of the dinosaurs, a new world is left in its wake. . . .
Dusk
He alone can fly and see in the dark, in a colony where being different means being shunned—or worse. As the leader's son, he is protected, but does his future lie among his kin?
Carnassial
He has the true instincts of a predator, and he is determined that his kind will not only survive but will dominate the world of beasts.

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Dawn of the Dreadfuls

Author: Steve Hockensmith

Pages: 287

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The End of the World As We Know It

Author: Lesley Choyce

Pages: 224

Summary: "I hate the world and everything in it. And that includes me."
Asked to write something for English class that expresses who he really is, 16-year-old Carson takes pleasure in blistering the page with hate for everything in his life. Stuck in a private school for kids who have repeatedly flunked out elsewhere, Carson knows he's got nowhere lower to sink to. "Flunk Out Academy" is the last resort for Carson and his classmates, in a small town where its deeply troubled students are decidedly unwelcome.

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The Fifth Rule

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Author: Don Aker

Pages: 263

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The Gargoyle

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Author: Andrew Davidson

Pages: 465

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The Graveyard Book

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Author: Neil Gaiman

Pages: 320

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The Handmaid’s Tale

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Author: Margaret Atwood

Pages: 311

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It’s Kind of a Funny Story

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Author: Ned Vizzini

Pages: 448

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King Dork

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Author: Frank Portman

Pages: 352

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Lullabies for Little Criminals

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Author: Heather O'Neill

Pages: 352

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Neverwhere

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Author: Neil Gaiman

Pages: 370

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The Perfect Cut

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Author: Julie Burtinshaw

Pages: 308

Summary: After the death of his tough, guitar-playing, much-loved sister, Michelle, Brian finds it increasingly difficult to care about anything. He doesn’t care about his parents. He doesn’t care about his friends. He doesn’t care about school. He just doesn’t care anymore. The only time Brian comes alive is in the few seconds it takes for the razor to slice through his skin. But he never cuts deep enough to cause any real damage. At least, not yet...

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You Know Where to Find Me

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Author: Rachel Cohn

Pages: 224

Summary: Miles has spent almost her entire life in the shadow of her first cousin Laura. Laura is completely overprivileged--smart, gorgeous, and a student at a prep school outside of D.C. Miles is overweight, anti-social, and lives with her mom in the carriage house on her uncle's property. As far as Miles is concerned, Laura has the perfect life--until she commits suicide, leaving her dad Jim and Miles lost in the wake of the event. Miles already feels like she has no future--she was planning to drop out of school--and now she has no one. Her best friend, Jamal, is dating Bex, one of Laura's annoying friends, and Miles's mother jets off to London for the summer, leaving her with her virtual-stranger dad, Buddy. When Miles finds out that her mother isn't planning to return and Jamal tells Miles that he and Bex are planning to move to NYC, Miles hits rock bottom and overdoses on drugs. She almost dies--just like Laura did. But with the help of Jim, Buddy, Jamal, and even Bex, Miles gains the strength to face her situation and accept help. This is a forceful, emotional story about finding love and cobbling together a family.

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Divergent

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Author: Veronica Roth

Pages: 487

Summary: In a future Chicago, 16-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

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Uglies

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Author: Scott Westerfeld

Pages: 448

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