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I've Updated My Wishlist: YA Reads!

NICK & NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST
by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Cohn and Levithan contribute alternating chapters in this high-energy romance that follows two high-school seniors through a single, music-fueled night in Manhattan. Nick, the "nonqueer bassist in a queercore band," is playing with The Fuck Offs, when he spots his ex-girlfriend, Tris. Once offstage, he propositions a girl he has never met, hoping to make Tris jealous: "Would you mind being my girlfriend for five minutes?" Norah, also heartbroken (and hoping Nick will drive her home), agrees. What begins as a spontaneous ploy turns into something surprising and real in the course of one night as Nick and Norah roam Manhattan, listen to bands, confront past hurts, and hurtle toward romance. - Booklist:





PROPHECY OF THE SISTERS
by Michelle Zink

An ancient prophecy divides two sisters-
One good...
One evil...
Who will prevail?
Twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe have just become orphans. They have also become enemies. As they discover their roles in a prophecy that has turned generations of sisters against each other, the girls find themselves entangled in a mystery that involves a tattoo-like mark, their parents' deaths, a boy, a book, and a lifetime of secrets.
Lia and Alice don't know whom they can trust.
They just know they can't trust each other. -Book Blurb



WINTERGIRLS
by Laurie Halse Anderson

Problem-novel fodder becomes a devastating portrait of the extremes of self-deception in this brutal and poetic deconstruction of how one girl stealthily vanishes into the depths of anorexia. Lia has been down this road before: her competitive relationship with her best friend, Cassie, once landed them both in the hospital, but now not even Cassie’s death can eradicate Lia’s disgust of the “fat cows” who scrutinize her body all day long... Struck-through sentences, incessant repetition, and even blank pages make Lia’s inner turmoil tactile, and gruesome details of her decomposition will test sensitive readers. But this is necessary reading for anyone caught in a feedback loop of weight loss as well as any parent unfamiliar with the scripts teens recite so easily to escape from such deadly situations. - Booklist
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  1. Maui (Suushh)10:18:00 PM

    Prophecy of the sisters looks interesting! What bookstores do you think carry it? :)

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  2. Anonymous7:27:00 PM

    I would love to read Prophecy of the Sisters too! I saw it a few days ago in National Bookstore. It was below P500. I was giving my boyfriend a knowing look and mentioned that I wanted that book so much. :))

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  3. Unknown9:30:00 AM

    Where did u buy that wintetgirls?? Is it still available?

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