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A Day with the Animal Doctors Rentta, Sharon 9781606843536 Pub Date: 7/24/12 (US, Can.) $16.99 32 pages Juvenile Fiction / Health & Daily Living Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: Terence is going to be a doctor for the day, just like his mommy. Lots of patients need his help, including a dog that’s swallowed a clock and a leopard that’s lost his spots. Doctor Terence is going to be very busy!

Author Bio: Sharon Rentta has had a passion for art for as long as she can remember, and used to draw scenes and characters as her mother read aloud to her. She lives in Cambridge, England, with her husband. You can visit her online at www.sharon-rentta.co.uk.

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Guitar Notes Amato, Mary 9781606841242 Pub Date: 7/24/12 (US, Can.) $16.99 272 pages Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: A heartwarming story about an unlikely friendship forged between a straight-A, classical musician and a bad-boy guitar player told through notes, lyrics, texts, and narration.

Author Bio: Mary Amato has made a name for herself as the author of quirky books that kids just love. Her debut novel, The Word Eater, appeared on many state lists, and The Naked Mole-Rat Letters followed suit, gathering even more fans. She is also the author of a chapter book series starring the Riot Brothers, which began with Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and The Secret of Life: The Riot Brothers Tell All. Her first novel with Egmont USA was the well-reviewed Invisible Lines. You can visit her on...

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The Hyperlink: The CyberSkunk Files Joel Naftali 9781606841198 Pub Date: 2/12/13 (US, Can.) Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 $15.99 304 pages Hardback Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: Doug, Jamie, and the CyberSkunks continue to battle Dr. Roach and his evil army in this non-stop, action-packed sequel to The Rendering.

Author Bio: Joel Naftali is the author of The Rendering and the adult WWII thrillers—Double Cross Blind and White Flag Down—both published by Doubleday under the pen name Joel N. Ross. He lives with his wife and son in Yarmouth, Maine. You can visit him online at www.cyberskunks.com.

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The Rendering: The CyberSkunk Files Joel Naftali 9781606843109 Pub Date: 5/22/12 (US, Can.) Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 $6.99 304 pages Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure Ctn Qty: 48

Summary: Two kids must plug into a virtual world in order to stop a mad scientist from turning all humans into his digitized minions.

Author Bio: Joel Naftali is the author of The Hyperlink and two adult WWII thrillers, Double Cross Blind and White Flag Down. The Rendering was his first children’s book. He lives with his wife and son in Yarmouth, Maine. You can visit him online at www.cyberskunks.com.

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Undercurrent: A Siren Novel Tricia Rayburn 9781606843352 Pub Date: 5/22/12 (US, Can.) Ages 14 And Up, Grades 9 And Up $8.99 368 pages Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) Ctn Qty: 24

Summary: The sirens are back, but Vanessa, herself, may be the biggest threat of all….

Author Bio: Tricia Rayburn is the author of Siren, Ruby’s Slippers, and the Maggie Bean trilogy. She lives with her husband and shih-tzu on Long Island, New York. You can visit her online at www.triciarayburn.com.

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One Moment Kristina McBride 9781606840863 Pub Date: 6/26/12 (US, Can.) Ages 14 And Up, Grades 9 And Up $16.99 272 pages Hardback Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: A teen girl struggles to remember what happened in the instant before the cliff-diving accident that left her boyfriend in a coma, but as she pieces together events, she’ll uncover secrets that shatter everything she believed about her perfect life.

Author Bio: Kristina McBride is the author of One Moment and The Tension of Opposites. A former high-school English teacher and yearbook advisor, she lives in Ohio with her husband and two young children. Visit her online at www.kristinamcbride.com.

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Timepiece: An Hourglass Novel Myra McEntire 9781606841457 Pub Date: 6/12/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $17.99 336 pages Hardback Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: When vital research about the time gene is stolen, Kaleb must put flirting with anything in a skirt on hold and join Emerson and the Hourglass team to find the criminal (who could be anywhere, in any time). And even if they succeed, it may be too late….

Author Bio: Myra McEntire has had her nose in a book since she could hold one. She was once caught reading in the shower (true story) and only stopped when her father disconnected the hot water heater. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and two boys. Hourglass was her first novel. You can visit her online at www.myramcentire.com.

Author Residence: Nashville, TN

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Hourglass Myra McEntire 9781606843840 Pub Date: 5/8/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $9.99 416 pages Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) Juvenile Fiction / Love & Romance Ctn Qty: 24

Summary: When a dark stranger reveals that the ghosts seventeen-year-old Emerson’s been seeing most of her life are, in fact, a symptom of her ability to time travel, she’s drawn into a quest to prevent a murder that happened in the recent past, and swept up in a forbidden, tempestuous romance that will change her life forever.

Author Bio: Myra McEntire has had her nose in a book since she could hold one. She was once caught reading in the shower (true story) and only stopped when her father disconnected the hot water heater. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and two boys. Hourglass is her first novel. You can visit her online at www.myramcentire.com.

Author Residence: Nashville, TN

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Taken by Storm: A Raised by Wolves Novel Jennifer Lynn Barnes 9781606843192 Pub Date: 5/22/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $17.99 Hardback Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: It’s increasingly difficult for human Bryn, fragile and weak compared with any werewolf, to keep her position and protect her Pack. She barely made it out of Trial by Fire alive—and now she has to face the other Packs and a Rabid who might bring them all down.

Author Bio: Jennifer Lynn Barnes has been writing for as long as she can remember and published her first novel, Golden, when she was nineteen. Eight more titles have followed it.

Jen graduated from Yale with a degree in cognitive science in 2006 and received a Fulbright to do autism research at the University of Cambridge in England. She is currently completing her Ph.D in developmental psychology at Yale.

You can visit Jen online at www.jenlynnbarnes.com.

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Trial by Fire: A Raised by Wolves Novel Jennifer Lynn Barnes 9781606843338 Pub Date: 4/24/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $9.99 400 pages Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) Ctn Qty: 24

Summary: Picking up where the thrilling paranormal romance Raised by Wolves left off, Bryn’s role as alpha of her own pack is tested when a wounded werewolf shows up on her doorstep, followed by a coven of psychic humans who will stop at nothing, even destroying her Pack, to reclaim him.

Author Bio: Jennifer Lynn Barnes has been writing for as long as she can remember and published her first novel, Golden, when she was nineteen. Eight more titles have followed it.

Jen graduated from Yale with a degree in cognitive science in 2006 and received a Fulbright to do autism research at the University of Cambridge in England. She is currently completing her Ph.D in developmental psychology at Yale.

You can visit Jen online at www.jenlynnbarnes.com.

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Human.4 Mike A. Lancaster 9781606843093 Pub Date: 5/22/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $8.99 240 pages Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure Ctn Qty: 0

Summary: I Am Legend meets The Blair Witch Project in this creepy story, narrated exclusively on found cassette tapes, of what happens when humanity is upgraded, and you’re left behind.

Author Bio: Mike A. Lancaster lives in Cambridge, England, with his wife and children. Human.4 is his first novel for children. You can visit him online at www.mikelancaster.com.

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Shift Em Bailey 9781606843581 Pub Date: 5/22/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $16.99 320 pages Hardback Ctn Qty: 0

Summary: Single White Female for teenagers. What if the new girl started stealing your friends, and then your clothes, and then your life?

Author Bio: Em Bailey is originally from Australia, but now lives with her family in Frankfurt, Germany. Shift is her first novel for teens. Visit her at Em-Bailey.com.

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Horse Camp Nicole Helget, Nate Leboutillier 9781606843512 Pub Date: 5/8/12 (US, Can.) Ages 9 to 12, Grades 4 to 7 $15.99 304 pages Hardback Juvenile Fiction / Family Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: In the tradition of A Year Down Yonder, Jack Gantos’s Joey Pigza books, and Gary Schmidt’s The Wednesday Wars, this brilliant debut novel is realistic fiction at its finest—and a story so funny that kids will eat it up.

Author Bio: Nicole Helget and Nate Laboutillier are husband and wife. They live in Minnesota.

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Write On, Callie Jones Zucker, Naomi 9781606843345 Pub Date: 7/24/12 (US, Can.) $6.99 192 pages Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories Ctn Qty: 48

Summary: The irrepressible Callie Jones is back, using the middle-school paper to stand up for what she believes in.

Author Bio: Naomi Zucker is the author of Callie’s Rules and Benno’s Bear. She lives with her husband in Kingston, Rhode Island. You can visit her online at www.naomizucker.net.

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The Demon Catchers of Milan Kat Beyer 9781606843147 Pub Date: 8/28/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $16.99 288 pages Hardback Juvenile Fiction / Family Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: We fell in love with this astonishing debut novel—so different from the paranormals on the market now—about an American teenager whose life is changed when she learns she’s a member of an ancient Italian family of demon hunters.

Author Bio: Kat Beyer is a fine artist who lives is Madison, Wisconsin. She has a M.A. in medieval history and has loved all things Italian for as long as she can remember. The Demon Catchers of Milan, her first novel, is also the first of a planned trilogy.

You can visit her online at www.katspaw.com.

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Invasion of the Dognappers Patrick Jennings 9781606842874 Pub Date: 4/24/12 (US, Can.) Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 $15.99 208 pages Hardback Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: Dogs are disappearing and it’s up to one boy and his friends to investigate the mystery. Only they discover that aliens from a dog-empty planet are the culprits.

Author Bio: Patrick Jennings blasted onto the children’s book scene with his critically acclaimed Faith and the Electric Dogs, which received numerous starred reviews and is now in film development. The author of many titles, including Lucky Cap and Guinea Dog, which was called “a very funny book [that]…would be particularly great for fifth-grade boys” by wired.com, Jennings has turned his focus to writing funny, easily accessible stories that will appeal to middle-schoolers. A former resident o...

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Lucky Cap Patrick Jennings 9781606843062 Pub Date: 4/24/12 (US, Can.) Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 $6.99 224 pages Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories Ctn Qty: 48

Summary: Middle school is starting off almost too perfectly-Enzo makes the basketball team as a starter; is nominated for class president and wins. He decides it’s all due to his lucky cap, but what will he do when someone steals the cap? Answer: He’ll do anything.

Author Bio: Patrick Jennings blasted onto the children’s book scene with his critically acclaimed Faith and the Electric Dogs, which received numerous starred reviews and is now in film development. Guinea Dog was called “a very funny book…would be particularly great for fifth-grade boys” by wired.com. He has turned his focus to writing funny, easily accessible stories that will appeal to middle-schoolers. A former resident of Bisbee, Arizona, Jennings now lives in Washington State. Visit him o...

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The Paradise Trap Catherine Jinks 9781606842737 Pub Date: 4/24/12 (US, Can.) Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7 $16.99 352 pages Hardback Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: Resigned to a boring vacation with NO video games, Marcus is psyched about the magical world he discovers—until he learns he might never escape.

Author Bio: Catherine Jinks is the Australian author of more than 30 book. Her many awards include the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, and the Aurealis Award for Science Fiction. Her work has been published in over a dozen countries and includes Evil Genius and its sequels Genius Squad and The Genius Wars, as well as The Reformed Vampire Support Group. Visit her website at www.catherinejinks.com.

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Quaranteen Lex Thomas 9781606843291 Pub Date: 4/24/12 (US, Can.) Ages 14 And Up, Grades 9 And Up $17.99 416 pages Hardback Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: Lord of the Flies - in a 21st-century high school setting.

Author Bio: Lex Thomas is the author team made up of Lex Hrabe and Thomas Voorhies

Lex Hrabe was a Drama Geek in high school as well as student body president, but in spite of his affiliations, he probably wouldn’t have lasted a week if his school had been quarantined. Lex received a BA in Drama and English from the University of Virginia and has worn hats as an actor, director, and writer. In addition to working as a screenwriter, he heads development at Cinespire Entertainment, a boutique produ...

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Beyond Shadow : Book 1 in the Merlin's Immortals series Sigmund Brouwer 9781400071548 Pub Date: 5/8/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $7.99 224 pages Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure Ctn Qty: 24

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  Zigzag Kids Collection: Books 5 and 6 : #5: Bears Beware; #6: Super Surprise Giff, Patricia Reilly 9780307745590 Pub Date: 8/14/12 (US, Can.) $15.00 Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories Ctn Qty: 24

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  Magic Tree House #48: A Perfect Time for Pandas Osborne, Mary Pope 9780307746665 Pub Date: 7/24/12 (US, Can.) $15.00 Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure Ctn Qty: 24

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  Seraphina Rachel Hartman 9780307968920 Pub Date: 7/10/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $50.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / Animals Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.

Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered-i...

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  On the Day I Died Candace Fleming 9780307991010 Pub Date: 7/10/12 (US, Can.) Ages 11 And Up, Grades 6 And Up $30.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / Historical Ctn Qty: 24

Summary: The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author, Candace Fleming, gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860's to the present, and ends with the narrator's death. Some teens die heroically, others ironically, but all due to supernatural causes. Readers will meet walking corpses and witness demonic posession, all a...

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  A Dog's Way Home Bobbie Pyron 9780449013861 Pub Date: 6/26/12 (US, Can.) $39.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / Animals Ctn Qty: 24

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  Diva Jillian Larkin 9780307746993 Pub Date: 7/10/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $44.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / Historical Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: Parties, bad boys, speakeasies-life in Manhattan has become a woozy blur for Clara Knowles. If Marcus Eastman truly loved her, how could he have fallen for another girl so quickly? Their romance mustn't have been as magical as Clara thought. And if she has to be unhappy, she's going to drag everyone else down to the depths of despair right along with her.

Being a Barnard girl is the stuff of Lorraine Dyer's dreams. Finding out that Marcus is marrying a gold digger who may or may not be...

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  Summer at Forsaken Lake Michael D. Beil 9780449010211 Pub Date: 6/12/12 (US, Can.) Ages 10 And Up, Grades 5 And Up $37.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: With their father en route to Africa for Doctors Without Borders, city-kids Nicholas and younger twin sisters Haley and Hetty are off to spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at his house on Forsaken Lake. Despite some initial doubts, Nicholas is right at home in the country: he learns to sail, learns about his father as a boy, and makes fast friends with a local-girl, the tomboy Charlie.

The summer takes a turn toward the mysterious, though, when Nicholas discovers an old movie...

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  Rapture Lauren Kate 9780307706553 Pub Date: 6/12/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $40.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / Love & Romance Ctn Qty: 12

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  Lies Beneath Anne Greenwood Brown 9780449010303 Pub Date: 6/12/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $37.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / Love & Romance Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: Calder White lives in the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of murderous mermaids. To survive, Calder and his sisters prey on humans, killing them to absorb their energy. But this summer the underwater clan targets Jason Hancock out of pure revenge. They blame Hancock for their mother's death and have been waiting a long time for him to return to his family's homestead on the lake. Hancock has a fear of water, so to lure him in, Calder sets out to seduce ...

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  Island of Thieves Josh Lacey 9780449010495 Pub Date: 6/12/12 (US, Can.) $35.00 CD-Audio Ctn Qty: 24

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  Ballpark Mysteries Collection: Books 1-5 : #1 The Fenway Foul-up; #2 The Pinstripe Ghost; #3 The L.A. Dodger; #4 The Astro Outlaw; #5 The All-Star Joker David A. Kelly 9780449010754 Pub Date: 6/12/12 (US, Can.) Ages 6 And Up, Grades 1 And Up $34.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories Ctn Qty: 24

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  A to Z Mysteries: Books H-J Ron Roy, David Pittu 9780449010488 Pub Date: 6/12/12 (US, Can.) Ages 7 And Up, Grades 2 And Up $14.99 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / General Ctn Qty: 24

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  The Enchantress Michael Scott 9780307990952 Pub Date: 5/22/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $44.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / Visionary & Metaphysical Ctn Qty: 12

Summary: The twins of prophecy have been split. Nicholas Flamel is near death. John Dee has the swords of power. And Danu Talis has yet to fall. The future of the human race lies in the balance-how will the legend end?

From the Hardcover edition.

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  Revived Cat Patrick 9780307711182 Pub Date: 5/8/12 (US, Can.) Ages 12 And Up, Grades 7 And Up $34.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / General Ctn Qty: 24

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  The Paradise Trap Catherine Jinks 9780307968067 Pub Date: 5/8/12 (US, Can.) Ages 8 And Up, Grades 3 And Up $34.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic Ctn Qty: 24

Summary: The trailer Marcus's mom has rented for their beach holiday smells like dirty gym shorts, and the beach, it turns out, is nowhere nearby. Mom doesn't mind so much because she's run into an old friend from years ago, but Marcus is kind of steamed—until he finds there's a whole magical world underneath the trailer. As a matter of fact, it may be the kind of place where your most wished-for dream comes true or, (uh-oh) your worst nightmare. And what does Hansel and Gretel have to do with...

Author Bio: CATHERINE JINKS is the Australian author of more than 30 books. Her many awards include the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, and the Aurealis Award for Science Fiction. Her work has been published in over a dozen countries and includes Evil Genius and its sequels Genius Squad and The Genius Wars, as well as The Reformed Vampire Support Group and The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group. Visit her website at www.catherinejinks.com.

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  Ghost Knight Cornelia Funke 9780307583345 Pub Date: 5/8/12 (US, Can.) Ages 8 And Up, Grades 3 And Up $35.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / General Ctn Qty: 12

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  Jersey Angel Beth Ann Bauman 9780307968883 Pub Date: 5/8/12 (US, Can.) Ages 14 And Up, Grades 9 And Up $30.00 CD-Audio Juvenile Fiction / Girls & Women Ctn Qty: 24

Summary: It's the summer before senior year and the alluring Angel is ready to have fun. She's not like her best friend, Inggy, who has a steady boyfriend, good grades, and college plans. Angel isn't sure what she wants to do yet, but she has confidence and experience beyond her years. Still, her summer doesn't start out as planned. Her good friend Joey doesn't want to fool around anymore, he wants to be her boyfriend, while Angel doesn't want to be tied down. As Joey pulls away, and Inggy tours...

 

 

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