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Your Letter by Hyeon A. Cho
Sori is a special young girl - kind, caring and principled well beyond her years. Unfortunately, these are NOT the personality traits generally celebrated in middle school – especially Sori’s, where she’s bullied mercilessly for defending the defenseless until she herself becomes a target...Categorized as:
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![電撃デイジー 6 by Kyousuke Motomi, 最富 キョウスケ]()
電撃デイジー 6 by Kyousuke Motomi, 最富 キョウスケ
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 35 ratings“No matter what happens, I’ll protect you. ”. Teru, a poor and kind girl, recently lost her older brother, her only remaining relative. Before he died he gave her a cell phone connecting her to a person he said would support her if ever he were unable to. As time passes she is cheered on by text messages sent from this enigmatic person, known only as DAISY... -
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![Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 2 by Kyousuke Motomi]()
Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 2 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsTeru, siswi SMA miskin yang harus menjalani hari-harinya sebagai pembantu Kurosaki, pengurus sekolah yang agak preman. Tapi sebenarnya Kurosaki adalah Daisy, sosok misterius yang telah menjadi penopang hidup Teru yang sebatang kara. Teru yang tidak mengetahui kebenaran itu, perlahan mulai menyukai Kurosaki. -
![電撃デイジー5 by Kyousuke Motomi, 最富 キョウスケ]()
電撃デイジー5 by Kyousuke Motomi, 最富 キョウスケ
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 35 ratings泣けて笑えてキュン♥となる! ! 激売れラブストーリー! ! 「何があっても君を守ってあげる――」. 天涯孤独な照（てる）の携帯に届く、謎の人“DAISY（デイジー）”からのメール。彼の正体は実は……! ? “DAISY（デイジー）”の名を騙（かた）ったウィルスメールが学校中にバラまかれ、偽DAISYの正体をつかもうと動き出した黒崎（クロサキ）。ところが、何者かに襲われそうになった照（てる）をかばってケガを負ってしまう。身を挺（てい）して守ってくれた黒崎のそばにいたいと、強く願う照。そして、2人きりの病室で、黒崎は照に――! ? 話題独占の超人気連載、緊迫展開！. -
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Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 3 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsHubungan Teru dan Kurosaki belakangan ini semakin dekat. Saat pergi liburan, Teru membelikan Daisy sebuah kotak musik sebagai oleh-oleh. Dan kotak musik itu akhirnya sampai ke tangan Daisy. .. alias Kurosaki. Tidak disangka kotak musik itulah yang membongkar semuanya. -
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Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 4 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTeru, a poor and kind girl, recently lost her older brother, her only remaining relative. Before he died, he gave her a cell phone connecting her to a person he said would support her if ever he were unable to. As time passes she is cheered on by text messages sent from this enigmatic person, known only as DAISY... -
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Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 07 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA New York Times’ bestseller with a romantic storyline that is unique, funny and touching. After orphan Teru Kurebayashi loses her beloved older brother, she finds solace in the messages she exchanges with DAISY, an enigmatic figure who can only be reached through the cell phone her brother left her... -
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Dengeki Daisy 09 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsReads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+. Can a mysterious DAISY protect her? After orphan Teru Kurebayashi loses her beloved older brother, she finds solace in the messages she exchanges with DAISY, an enigmatic figure who can only be reached through the cell phone her brother left her... -
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Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 08 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA New York Times’ bestseller with a romantic storyline that is unique, funny and touching. After orphan Teru Kurebayashi loses her beloved older brother, she finds solace in the messages she exchanges with DAISY, an enigmatic figure who can only be reached through the cell phone her brother left her... -
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Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 04 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAfter orphan Teru Kurebayashi loses her beloved older brother, she finds solace in the messages she exchanges with DAISY, an enigmatic figure who can only be reached through the cell phone her brother left her... -
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Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother’s murder, Cassie hopes she and the rest of the team can stick to solving cold cases from a distance... -
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Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 02 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsReads R to L (Japanese Style), for T+ audiences. When Teru’s home gets burglarized, she ends up staying at Kurosaki’s apartment. The close quarters lead to tension, but things get even more complicated when a woman named Riko Onizuka shows up, bringing up a past that involves Kurosaki…. -
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電撃デイジー10 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 31 ratings照を狙うアキラ！？新ステージ開幕！！. 暗号ウイルス・ＪＦ＜ジャック・フロスト＞を復活させようとしていた組織が壊滅し、ＪＦに関する事件は決着するかと見えていたが、アキラがあらたに黒崎に接近し照を狙うことを匂わせて…！？. 照の兄・奏一朗と黒崎の若き日の想い出や照の「女」力ＵＰ！？エピソードなど、雑誌掲載時話題沸騰の第45話～第４９話を収録。. -
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Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 16 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA huge explosion goes off on the uninhabited island that Kurosaki, Teru and Akira are on! What is the fate of these three, and what does their future hold? The Dengeki Daisy series comes to a conclusion, followed by bonus material, two special chapters, and the author’s debut manga, “No-Good Cupid”!Categorized as:
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![Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 1 by Kyousuke Motomi]()
Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 1 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 61 ratings"Apapun yang terjadi, aku akan selalu melindungimu. ". Itu bunyi email yang dikirimkan sosok misterius bernama Daisy untuk Teru. Setelah kematian kakaknya, hanya email dari Daisy-lah yang menjadi pelipur hati Teru. Karena suatu kejadian, ia terpaksa harus bekerja dengan Kurosaki, pengurus sekolah yang agak preman. Siapa sih sebenarnya Kurosaki ini ? !Categorized as:
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![My Love Mix-Up!, Vol. 2 by Wataru Hinekure]()
My Love Mix-Up!, Vol. 2 by Wataru Hinekure
Aoki has a crush on Ida, a boy in his class. Hashimoto’s eraser, which caused so much confusion among friends when Aoki borrowed it, is also at fault for making him flunk a quiz! Aoki, Akkun, and Hashimoto meet up at Ida’s for a study session where Aoki and Ida talk about what they are to each other—if they can figure it out? ! -
![Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 3 by Aka Akasaka]()
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 3 by Aka Akasaka
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsTwo high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first. Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle... -
![Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 16 by Karuho Shiina, 椎名軽穂]()
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 16 by Karuho Shiina, 椎名軽穂
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhile their friends’ romantic relationships deepen, Sawako feels Kazehaya pulling away. Will a big Christmas party bring the troubled couple back together, or will Kazehaya continue to hide his pain from the person who most wants to help him? -
![Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 2 by Aka Akasaka]()
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 2 by Aka Akasaka
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTwo high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first. Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle... -
![Ima Koi: Now I'm in Love, Vol. 4 by Ayuko Hatta]()
Ima Koi: Now I'm in Love, Vol. 4 by Ayuko Hatta
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAfter missing out on love because she was too shy to confess her feelings, high school student Satomi blurts out how she feels the next time she gets a crush—and it’s to her impossibly handsome schoolmate Yagyu! To her surprise, he agrees to date her... -
![Ima Koi: Now I'm in Love, Vol. 3 by Ayuko Hatta]()
Ima Koi: Now I'm in Love, Vol. 3 by Ayuko Hatta
After missing out on love because she was too shy to confess her feelings, high school student Satomi blurts out how she feels the next time she gets a crush—and it’s to her impossibly handsome schoolmate Yagyu! To her surprise, he agrees to date her... -
![Classroom of the Elite Vol. 1 by Syougo Kinugasa]()
Classroom of the Elite Vol. 1 by Syougo Kinugasa
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe cutthroat school drama light novels that inspired an anime! Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom—if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks! Ayanokoji Kiyotaka has landed at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he meets Horikita Suzune, who’s determined to rise up the ladder to Class A... -
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W Juliet, Volume 12 by Emura
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsMakoto Amano wants to become an actor, but his stern father has decreed that the only way Makoto can pursue his dream is to spend the last two years of high school as a girl! He quickly makes friends with popular tomboy Ito Miura, another drama enthusiast at this new high school and the only student to find out his secret--but are they more than pals? It's time for the Cultural Festival--an event... -
![Ima Koi: Now I'm in Love, Vol. 2 by Ayuko Hatta]()
Ima Koi: Now I'm in Love, Vol. 2 by Ayuko Hatta
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAfter missing out on love because she was too shy to confess her feelings, high school student Satomi blurts out how she feels the next time she gets a crush—and it’s to her impossibly handsome schoolmate Yagyu! To her surprise, he agrees to date her... -
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![Unbelievable by Sara Shepard]()
Unbelievable by Sara Shepard
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 67 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling series The fourth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars. Four pretty little liars’ charmed lives have turned into living nightmares. Emily’s been shipped off to Iowa to live with her überconservative cousins. Aria’s boyfriend is behind bars—because of her... -
![And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle]()
And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsIn the late 1940s, Connecticut teenager Philippa "Flip" Hunter is sent to boarding school in Switzerland after recovering from a knee injury sustained in an automobile accident that also killed her mother...Categorized as:
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![The Merciless King of Moore High by Lily Sparks]()
The Merciless King of Moore High by Lily Sparks
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the adults of Brockton, Connecticut, morphed into gigantic, bloodthirsty monsters nine months ago, the students at Jefferson High barricaded themselves inside their school. Now eighteen-year-old Kay Kim is one of the Student Council members trying to keep her classmates from starving... -
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The Deceivers by Kristen Simmons, Soneela Nankani
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsWelcome to Vale Hall, the school for aspiring con artists. When Brynn Hilder is recruited to Vale, it seems like the elite academy is her chance to start over, away from her mom's loser boyfriend and her rundown neighborhood... -
![Shortcake Cake, Vol. 3 by Suu Morishita]()
Shortcake Cake, Vol. 3 by Suu Morishita
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAn unflappable girl and a cast of lovable male roommates at a boardinghouse create bonds of friendship and romance. When Ten moves out of her parents’ home in the mountains to live in a boardinghouse, she finds herself becoming fast friends with her male roommates... -
![They Call Me Alexandra Gastone by T.A. Maclagan]()
They Call Me Alexandra Gastone by T.A. Maclagan
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen your life is a lie, how do you know what’s real? Alexandra Gastone has a simple plan: graduate high school, get into Princeton, work for the CIA, and serve her great nation. She was told the plan back when her name was Milena Rokva, back before the real Alexandra and her family were killed in a car crash...Categorized as:
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![Shortcake Cake, Vol. 2 by Suu Morishita]()
Shortcake Cake, Vol. 2 by Suu Morishita
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn unflappable girl and a cast of lovable male roommates at a boardinghouse create bonds of friendship and romance. When Ten moves out of her parents’ home in the mountains to live in a boardinghouse, she finds herself becoming fast friends with her male roommates... -
![Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible, Vol. 1 by Nene Yukimori]()
Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible, Vol. 1 by Nene Yukimori
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsJunta Shiraishi blends into the background so much that even his classmates fail to spot him...Categorized as:
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![Hot Gimmick, Volume 7 by Miki Aihara]()
Hot Gimmick, Volume 7 by Miki Aihara
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsShe says he's just a friend. .. but that's not how Ryoki feels. His New Year's fete with our hapless heroine Hatsumi didn't go according to plan, so childhood bully/potential boyfriend Ryoki high tails it back home in a huff. Luckily, Hatsumi's heavenly older brother Shinogu is there to give her a lift back to civilization... -
![Hot Gimmick, Vol. 9 by Miki Aihara]()
Hot Gimmick, Vol. 9 by Miki Aihara
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsNeighbors in Love! In company-owned rabbit-hutch apartments live tenants who can't afford to live anywhere else, and the apartment complex in which high-school girl Hatsumi Narita lives is ruled over by the rumor mongering, self-righteous Mrs. Tachibana. Get on Tachibana's bad side, and life becomes hell. When Hatsumi has to buy a pregnancy test because her popular sister Akane is late, Mrs... -
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![A Darker Mischief by Derek Milman]()
A Darker Mischief by Derek Milman
The Honeys meets The Secret History in a work of dark academia like no other -- a boarding school thriller about a queer teen from Mississippi who finds himself swept into a world of old money, privilege, and the secret society at the heart of it all. When Cal Ware wins a scholarship to an elite New England boarding school, he's thrilled to leave his past behind... -
![Ink and Ashes by Valynne E. Maetani]()
Ink and Ashes by Valynne E. Maetani
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsClaire Takata has never known much about her father, who passed away ten years ago. But on the anniversary of his death, she finds a letter from her deceased father to her stepfather. Before now, Claire never had a reason to believe they even knew each other...Categorized as:
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![Defriended by Ruth Baron]()
Defriended by Ruth Baron
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA friend request from beyond the grave . . . Jason has met the perfect girl. OK, so maybe he hasn't actually MET Lacey yet, but they talk online all the time. Yet despite spending most nights chatting, Lacey refuses to meet up in person. Suspicious, Jason starts googling, and his cyberstalking leads to a shocking discovery: According to multiple newspapers, Lacey died a year earlier...Categorized as:
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![They're Watching You by Chelsea Ichaso]()
They're Watching You by Chelsea Ichaso
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen a secret society has you in their sights, it can lead to power, privilege. .. or death. It's been two weeks since Polly St. James went missing. The police, the headmistress of Torrey-Wells Academy, and even her parents have ruled her a runaway. But not Maren, her best friend and roommate... -
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The New Boy by R.L. Stine
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHe stole their hearts…Does he want their lives, too? What a hunk! When handsome, mysterious Ross Gabriel comes to Shadyside High, all the girls want to date him…even the ones who already have boyfriends! Janie, Eve and Faith go so far as to make a bet…which one of them will he go out with first? But then the murders begin, and it starts to look like dating Ross means flirting with a gruesome and... -
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The New Girl by R.L. Stine
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe new girl is as pale as a ghost, blond, and eerily beautiful -- and she seems to need him as much as he wants her. Cory Brooks hungers for Anna Corwin's kisses, drowns in her light blue eyes. He can't get her out of his mind. He has been loosing sleep, ditching his friends. .. and everyone has noticed. Then as suddenly as she came to Shadyside High, Anna disappears...Categorized as:
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![The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro]()
The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 52 ratingsWatson and Holmes: A match made in disaster. Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter-break reprieve after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But Charlotte isn’t the only Holmes with secrets, and the mood at her family’s Sussex estate is palpably tense...Categorized as:
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Such a Good Girl by Amanda K. Morgan
Rated: 3.23 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsPretty Little Liars meets Luckiest Girl Alive in this riveting novel about a practically perfect girl who is willing to do anything to make sure it stays that way. Absolutely anything. Things to know about Riley Stone:. Riley Stone is just about perfect. (Ask anyone. ). She has a crush on her French teacher, Alex Belrose. (And she suspects he likes her, too. )...Categorized as:
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