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How’s everyone doing after Hurricane Sandy? To help you recharge and recover, here’s a selection of great November reads to help you escape – if only with a book and your imagination.

All these things I’ve done by Gabrielle Zevin. 2011. Anya is torn between accepting her birthright … and following her heart.

Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson. 2011. After her dad dies, everything Amy took for granted changes overnight.

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. 2006. Colin’s been dumped 19 times by girls named Katherine.

And then things fall apart by Arlaina Tibensky. 2011. Keek’s life was totally perfect. Now, it’s not.

Beatle Meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams. 2010. John “Beatle” Lennon meets Destiny McCartney. Their lives will never be the same.

Bloodthirsty by Flynn Meaney. 2010. If he pretends to be a vampire, maybe a girl will finally fall for pale, awkward and sun-allergic Finbar.

Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz. 2006. Fanged and fabulous in New York City.

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan. 2003. Paul meets Noah. Paul falls for Noah. Paul messes up and loses Noah. Will he get Noah back?

Chime by Franny Billingsley. 2011. Enter a magical world where paperclips are exotic, swamp creatures exist, Dark Muses drain young men of their lives, and a girl named Briony thinks she’s a witch.

Delirium by Lauren Oliver. 2011. What if everyone was inoculated against love?

The False Princess by Eilis O’Neal. 2011. Turns out she’s not going to inherit the throne…

Fat Cat by Robin Brande. 2009. Things are about to get primitive.

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. 2012. Hazel has known for years how her story will end. Then Augustus Waters sails into her life.

Graceling by Kristin Cashore. 2008. Katsa teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

The Half-Life of Planets by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin. 2010. Liana is a kissing addict. Hank obsesses over music. Will romance ever bloom?

I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle. 2007. Because admitting how you feel during your graduation speech is always a good idea.

If I Stay by Gayle Forman. 2009. What would you do if you had to choose?

I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan. 2011. Everyone whose path you cross in life has the power to change you.

Jenna & Jonah’s Fauxmance by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin. 2011. No one knows these two heart-throbs can’t stand one another.

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner. 2010. Totally Sweet Ninja Death Squad: the musical.

The Luxe by Anna Godbersen. 2007. We’re going to party and flirt like it’s 1899.

Playing Hurt by Holly Schindler. 2011. Will an unexpected romance cause Chelsea more pain – or finally heal her?

The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner. 2000. Can Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis, steal the Queen of Attolia?

Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman. 2002. His dad is in the mob. Her dad is assigned to get evidence on his dad. This can only end well.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith. 2012. Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler. 2004. Mara’s niece, only one year younger, turns her life upside down when she comes to live with Mara and her parents.

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler; art by Maira Kalman. 2011. Ed, I’m writing to you to say how everything went wrong. – Min

You Against Me by Jenny Downham. 2010. Modern-day Romeo & Juliet.

Need a good read about … bullying? Here are some books that might be of interest.

All summaries are from the county library catalog.

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.

When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah’s voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

Fifteen-year-old Kyle discovers the shattering ramifications of the decisions he makes, and does not make, about school, the girl he likes, and his future.

In a remote corner of Washington State where she and her father have gone to escape her obsessive boyfriend, Clara meets two brothers who captain a sailboat, a lighthouse keeper with a secret, and an old friend of her father who knows his secrets.

High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny.

Intellectually and athletically gifted, T.J., a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school’s less popular students.

Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.

When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.

In an effort to improve her social status, a new scholarship student at an exclusive girls’ school uses a fake online profile to help a popular girl get back at her ex-boyfriend, but the consequences are difficult to handle.

Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.

Sixteen-year-old Joey’s life takes a very strange turn when his mother’s tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.

Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he witnesses a vicious assault of a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs.

High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.

Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.

Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.

When thirteen-year-old Hunter, struggling to deal with a harsh, money-grubbing foster mother, three challenging foster sisters, and a school bully, returns to his childhood faith and prays to St. Gabriel, he instantly becomes aware that he does, indeed, have a guardian.

Story of a boy’s transformation from bullied ‘outsider’ to true manhood. Clinical social worker Zak Mucha offers an anchoring non-fiction essay, explaining in detail what the reader has just experienced.

When Alex, a junior at an elite preparatory school, realizes that she may have been the victim of date rape, she confides in her roommates and sister who convince her to seek help from a secret society, the Mockingbirds.

The lives of Leticia, Dominique, and Trina are irrevocably intertwined through the course of one day in an urban high school after Leticia overhears Dominique’s plans to beat up Trina and must decide whether or not to get involved.