The Wackness. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Wackness
Dale Phillips, 2008
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Jonathan Levine, 2008

Set in New York in the sweltering summer of 1994, this is the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. However, things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctor’s daughter.


It Takes Two. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the 1949 book, Lottie and Lisa
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Lottie and Lisa
Erich Kästner, 1949
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Andy Tennant, 1995

Amanda Lemmon is a 9-year-old orphan, and she is about to be adopted by the Butkises, a family known to collect kids. While at summer camp, Amanda meets an identical girl named Alyssa Callaway, who has come home from boarding school, only to find that her wealthy father, Roger, the camp’s owner, is about to marry Clarice Kensington, an overbearing self-centered gold-digging socialite.


Beastly. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2007 book
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Beastly
Alex Flinn, 2007
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Daniel Barnz, 2011

Kyle Kingson is the arrogant and vain son of news anchor Rob Kingson. Kyle bullies Kendra Hilferty, not knowing she is a witch; she transforms him into a hairless, scarred, heavily tattooed shell of his former self. Both are comforts to Kyle when his father, unable to deal with his transformation, has abandoned him.