What do young adults read next?

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K.W. Benton

Growing up in small town Louisiana as the only child of a single mother, G.J. led a sheltered life. Being a misfit didn't bother her until a prank, aimed at her, goes wrong causing her mother's death. Since then she has moved to the other side of the country to live with her Aunt Celia. What G.J. finds in her new hometown makes being a social outcast the least of her troubles. The most popular cheerleader wants her head and the hottest guy in school sends her to the hospital. In this bizarre world there is a new definition for normal. Along the way she will make friends, make enemies and discover she can't always trust she is in control of herself. She isn't the only one who can do the unusual.

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Clifton Fadiman

In print for almost 40 years, The Lifetime Reading Plan has long been a worthy addition to any serious reader's bookshelf, providing entertaining and informative introductions to the great works of Western civilization. Now, this "classic about classics" has been updated to reflect more diverse traditions. The New Lifetime Reading Plan recommends great literature from around the globe, including writers and works from Confucius to Chinua Achebe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez to the Koran. Also new is an appendix profiling books by 100 important 20th-century authors--or "temporary classics," as coauthor John S. Major calls them.