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Books with author Marlene Perez

  • The Comeback

    Marlene Perez

    Paperback (Point, Aug. 1, 2009)
    A novel about ruling high school, being exiled, and fighting your way back to your rightful throne.Sophie Donnelly is one half of the most popular and powerful couple in school, until new girl Angie Vogel shows up and compromises everything. Angie steals Sophie's starring role in the school play, and, worse, her super-popular boyfriend. Sophie has been quickly dispatched to social Siberia, but not for long--she'll do anything it takes to make a triumphant comeback.
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  • Unexpected Development

    Marlene Perez

    Hardcover (Roaring Brook Press, Sept. 2, 2004)
    "I'm not sure you really want to get into what I did this summer, Mrs. Westland. Sex. Sex is how I spent my summer vacation."Megan knows twenty different words for "breasts," and can recite them alphabetically-but she can't remember the last time a guy looked her in the eye first, not the chestSize matters, as Megan found out in the 5 th grade, when she developed the largest breasts in the class. Now she's 17 and wearing her twin brothers' baggy sweatshirts can't hide the fact-two facts, really. When her summer job at Pancake Palace puts her in close touch with Jake , who smells like "temptation and Ivory soap," Megan wonders if he can like her for herself, not just her body. Can lusty, busty Megan learn to trust Jake -and herself? Megan tells about her summer of sex in somewhat poignant and very funny journal entries to her favorite teacher.
  • Dead is a Killer Tune

    Marlene Perez

    Paperback (Graphia, Sept. 4, 2012)
    High school freshman Jessica Walsh is a Virago—a woman warrior who must protect her hometown from danger. And in Nightshade, California, trouble is always lurking. At the town’s Battle of the Bands, Jess’s boyfriend, Dominic, and his band, Side Effects May Vary, are up against Hamlin, a band so popular, their fans follow them everywhere. Soon, the competing musicians are doing risky, illegal, and even fatal things—and claiming that they heard strange music that compelled them to do it. Can Jess and her friends track down the tuneful tyrant before it’s too late?
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  • Dead Is Not An Option

    Marlene Perez

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, May 2, 2011)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In the spring of her senior year, psychic sleuth Daisy Giordano worries about getting into a college near her boyfriend Ryan, but must also investigate and try to resolve a conflict between vampires and shapeshifters that threatens to cancel prom.
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  • Dead is a Battle Field

    Marlene Perez

    Library Binding
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  • Dead Is A Killer Tune

    Marlene Perez

    Library Binding (Turtleback, Sept. 4, 2012)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jessica and the other viragos must find who is responsible for the haunting music that is compelling Nightshade residents to commit crimes.
  • Dead Is Just A Rumor

    Marlene Perez

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 23, 2010)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Psychic teen Daisy Giordano has her hands full trying to find out who is behind the blackmail letters being sent to paranormal residents of Nightshade, while also worrying about her werewolf boyfriend going away to college and the possibly lethal cooking.
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  • Dead Is So Last Year

    Marlene Perez

    Library Binding (Paw Prints, May 4, 2009)
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  • Honoring Our Ancestors

    Marlene Perez

    Staple Bound (McGraw Hill, March 15, 2008)
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  • Dead Is So Last Year

    Marlene Perez

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, May 4, 2009)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. From the dog's point of view, follows the adventures of the dog sent into space by the Soviet Union.
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  • Marlene Perez Dead Is, series SET: Books 1-8:

    marlene Perez

    Paperback (harcourt various publication dates (2005), March 15, 1900)
    Dead series First 8 books included in this collection: Dead is new Black Dead is a state of mind, Dead Is So Last Year, Dead Is Just a Rumor, Dead Is Not An Option, Dead Is a Battlefield, Dead is a Killer Tune, Dead Is Just a Dream
  • Dead Is A Battlefield

    Marlene Perez

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, March 6, 2012)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Nightshade High freshman Jessica Walsh's hope of finding normalcy in high school is crushed when fellow students develop zombie-like crushes on a new boy, and she learns that she is a Virago, a woman warrior who fights when her city is in trouble.
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