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AUTHOR: Io Sakisaka
RELEASED: November 14, 2023 by VIZ Media LLC
SERIES: サクラ、サク。 [Sakura, Saku.] (#1)
GENRE: Contemporary, Slice of Life, Romance
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★★★☆
SYNOPSIS: A mysterious boy comes to Saku Fujigaya’s rescue when she falls ill on a train, but he leaves before she can thank him. After this experience, Saku never ignores strangers in need of help to emulate the boy who helped her.

Saku Fujigaya would like to thank the boy who helped her, but all she has is a note signed “Ryosuke Sakura.” She discovers that a boy at her high school, Haruki Sakura, has an older brother named Ryosuke. She asks Haruki to deliver her thank-you letter to Ryosuke, but why does he refuse?

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Current Mood: cheerful

AUTHOR: Hiro Mashima
RELEASED: August 28, 2012 by Kodansha Comics
SERIES: Fairy Tail [フェアリーテイル] (#1)
GENRE: Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: THE WICKED SIDE OF WIZARDRY

Cute girl wizard Lucy wants to join the Fairy Tail, a club for the most powerful wizards. But instead, her ambitions land her in the clutches of a gang of unsavory pirates le by a devious magician. Her only hope is Natsu, a strange boy she happens to meet on her travels. Natsu’s not your typical hero – he gets motion sickness, eats like a pig, and his best friend is a talking cat. With friends like this, is Lucy better off with her enemies?

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Current Mood: indescribable

AUTHOR: Hajime Isayama
RELEASED: June 19, 2012 by Kodansha Comics
SERIES: 進撃の巨人 [Shingeki no Kyojin] (#1)
GENRE: Action, Science Fiction, Horror
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: The Desperate Battle Begins!

For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming humankind, but the sudden appearance of an enormous Titan is about to change everything...

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Current Mood: indescribable

AUTHOR: Tatsuya Endo
RELEASED: June 2, 2020 by VIZ Media LLC
SERIES: Spy×Family (#1)
GENRE: Action, Comedy, Shonen
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★★★☆
SYNOPSIS: Master spy Twilight is the best at what he does when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions in the name of a better world. But when he receives the ultimate impossible assignment—get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head!

Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn’t know is that the wife he’s chosen is an assassin and the child he’s adopted is a telepath!

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Current Mood: content

AUTHOR: Diane Hoh
RELEASED: January 1, 1995 by Scholastic Paperbacks
SERIES: Nightmare Hall (#29)
GENRE: Horror, Fiction, Mystery
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Salem U. is buzzing with holiday activities. Annie loves the holidays, until two of her friends have horrible accidents—and she may be next.

What Annie doesn't know is that one of her friends has a dark past. He has murdered a girl and now his mind is split in two. One part that of a student, the other that of a guilty killer.

He listens to "the voice in the mirror" that tells him that each new girl he meets is actually a reincarnation of the girl he killed, returning to expose him. The voice tells him he has no chance, unless he can eliminate the problem...permanently.

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AUTHOR: Diane Hoh
RELEASED: January 1, 1994 by Scholastic, Inc.
SERIES: Nightmare Hall (#15)
GENRE: Horror, Fiction, Mystery
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: It begins as a game.

When first-year student Parrie Moore meets the other girls at a party, joining them in their harmless game of Truth or Dare sounds like fun.

And at first it is. The dares are silly pranks that make them all laugh.

But gradually the dares become stranger, more dangerous. The game is taking on a life of its own.

Parrie is frightened. But it's only a game...or is it?

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AUTHOR: R.L. Stine
RELEASED: January 1, 1994 by Thorndike Press
SERIES: Fear Street (#16)
GENRE: Horror, Fiction, Urban fiction
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★☆☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Dying for a Date

Chelsea Richards is shy, lonely, and looking for love. She would give anything to finally go on a date. Soon there are two new boys in town, and both ask her out.

Too bad, one of them is a crazed killer. Poor Chelsea. Will her first date also be her last?

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AUTHOR: Carolyn Keene
RELEASED: January 1, 1988 by Grey Castle Press
SERIES: Nancy Drew Files (#1)
GENRE: Mystery, Fiction
AGE RANGE: Juvenile
RATINGS: ★★★☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Nancy Drew goes back to high school - but this time, the curriculum is murder.

No one has been able to catch the elusive thief who is stalking the nighttime halls of Bedford High. So Nancy goes undercover as a transfer student When she meets her contact, Daryl Gray, a gorgeous senior with blueberry eyes, Nancy thinks this new case would turn out to be a lot of fun. But she is dead wrong.

Dangerous secrets, run deep at Bedford, and Nancy learns the hard way when she takes Daryl for a ride in her Mustang - and the car ends up exploding in a ball of fire. Though her suspect list is long, Nancy is almost certain she knows who the thief is - until her top candidate is found sprawled outside the video lab, very dead.

Suddenly it's a whole new game, a game called murder. And Nancy is the killer's next target.

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Diary of a Book Enthusiast

Entries tagged with genre: teen

[Manga Review] Sakura, Saku, Vol. 1

[Manga Review] Fairy Tail, Vol. 01

[Manga Review] Attack on Titan, Vol. 1

[Manga Review] Spy x Family, Vol. 1

[Book Review] The Voice in the Mirror

[Book Review] Truth or Die

[Book Reivew] First Date

[Book Review] Secrets Can Kill

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