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	<title>Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists! &#187; Nail Biters</title>
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		<title>Nail-Biters: Teen Psychological Thrillers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 22:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re thrilling, chilling and should not be started after dark. Otherwise, you&#8217;ll be up all night with these mysterious, murderous nail biters! There&#8217;s no monsters here, except the manipulative human kind. Even so, you may want to enjoy the stories below with the light on!

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		<title>The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nail Biters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Fifteen-year-old Isabel, aka “Belly” has spent almost every summer of her life with her mom, her older brother Steven, her mom’s best friend Susannah,  and Susannah’s two sons Conrad and Jeremiah. Susannah has always been like a second mom to Belly, and Conrad and Jeremiah like another set of brothers. Belly loves the weathered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reality Check by Peter Abrahams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 11:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>
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Seventeen-year-old football quarterback Cody Laredo never considered himself a good student. He maintained grades just high enough to keep his butt off the bench, hoping that a college football scholarship would be his ticket to the NFL. But now that he’s blown out his knee, lost his gorgeous upper-crust girlfriend Clea to boarding school and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liar by Justine Larbalestier</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/05/20/liar-by-justine-larbalestier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 10:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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Micah is a liar. That is a fact. And the only thing you can be absolutely sure of in this dark, sexy thriller from Aussie author Larbalestier. For Micah, lying has become second nature, a way to distract herself from her outsider status, her parents’ indifference, the tiny NYC apartment that feels too small for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dog On It by Spencer Quinn</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/05/15/dog-on-it-by-spencer-quinn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 09:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>
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Meet Bernie and Chet, the two hard-bitten P.I.’s  of the Little Detective Agency. Though one has two legs and the other four, both are tough, not easily fooled dudes with hearts of gold. Bernie Little is a down-on-his-luck detective with a big debt and small checking account. Chet “the Jet” is his loyal-to-the-bone mongrel sidekick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction for Hipsters]]></category>
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 It’s 1947 and fifteen-year-old Evie is in a big hurry to grow up. She’s sick of her gorgeous mom Bev always stuffing her into little-girl dresses and making her wipe off her lipstick. So when her stepfather Joe proposes a family holiday to swanky Palm Beach, Evie jumps at the chance to recreate herself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crazy School by Cornelia Read</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/06/01/the-crazy-school-by-cornelia-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarcastic, twenty-something amateur sleuth Madeline Dare, grown-up child of hippie parents, takes a job as a teacher at an elite, if fairly cult-ish private school for troubled teens. The head guru in charge, Santangelo, promises desperate parents results, no matter what technique he has to employ to get them, including isolation and humiliation. Madeline, who&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/12/04/such-a-pretty-girl-by-laura-wiess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen-year-old Meredith is trying to catch a criminal. This terrifying man abused the trust of his small community when he used his position as a school baseball coach to molest children. Sentenced to nine years in prison, he&#8217;s been paroled after only three years&#8211;and now he&#8217;s coming home. You see, Meredith knows him better than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harmless by Dana Reinhardt</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/07/25/harmless-by-dana-reinhardt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nail Biters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When is it okay to tell a lie? When a friend asks if she looks fat in that miniskirt and you shake your head no? When a stranger asks how old you are online and you write 18 when you’re only in eighth grade? How about telling your parents you’re at a sleepover at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/06/10/paranoid-park-by-blake-nelson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nail Biters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you saw someone die right in front of you, what would you do? Run? Scream? Pull out your cell and dial 911? Or would you go home and pray no one ever found out you were there? The terrified narrator of Paranoid Park does exactly that—see, he wasn’t supposed to be hanging out at [...]]]></description>
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