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Barnes, Jennifer Lynn. The Squad- Killer Spirit. YA/ BAR
As if it were not bad enough that sophomore computer hacker Toby Klein has to be a cheerleader to be part of the elite group of government operatives called the Squad, now she is part of the Homecoming court and has agreed to attend the dance with the most popular boy in school.

Barnes, Jennifer Lynn. The Squad- Perfect Cover. YA/ BAR
High school sophomore Toby Klein enjoys computer hacking and wearing combat boots, so she thinks it is a joke when she is invited to join the cheerleading squad, but soon learns cheering is just a cover for an elite group of government operatives known as the squad.

Benway, Robin. Audrey, Wait! YA/ BEN
While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts.

Brooks, Kevin. Black Rabbit Summer. YA/ BRO
When two of sixteen-year-old Pete's childhood classmates disappear from a carnival the same night, he is a suspect, but his own investigation implicates other old friends he was with that evening--and a tough, knife-wielding enemy determined to keep him quiet.

Davis, Tanita. A La Carte. YA/ DAV
Lainey, a high school senior and aspiring celebrity chef, is forced to question her priorities after her best friend (and secret crush) runs away from home.

De La Pena, Matt. Mexican White Boy. YA/ DEL
Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San Diego County, California.

Finn, Mary. Anila’s Journey. YA/ FIN
In late eighteenth-century Calcutta, half-Indian half-Irish Anila Tandy finds herself alone with nothing but her artistic talent to rely on, searching for her father who is presumed dead.

Muchamore, Robert. The Recruit. Mission 1 YA/ MUC
James is recruited into CHERUB, a secret division of MI5 which consists of teenage spies. He successfully completes his training and goes on his first mission. If you like Alex Rider, you'll love CHERUB!

Muchamore, Robert. The Dealer. Mission 2 YA/ MUC
Teenage CHERUB agent James is sent on a mission against the world's most powerful drug dealer. If you like Alex Rider, you'll love CHERUB!

Muchamore, Robert. The Killing. Mission 4 YA/ MUC
CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack into computers, bug entire houses, and download crucial documents. It is a highly dangerous job. For their safety, these agents DO NOT EXIST. James is the latest CHERUB recruit. He and his sister were recently orphaned, and James has been in a lot of trouble. But he is brilliant in math. And CHERUB needs him. After one hundred days, the grueling training period is over. But the adventure has just begun.

Muchamore, Robert. Man VS. Beast. Mission 6 YA/ MUC
In a new mission, James and the other CHERUB agents must go up against the most radical animal protection group yet in a daring and violent attempt to save hundreds of lives... including their own.

Na, An. The Fold. YA/ NA
Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for the better.

Vande Velde, Vivian. Stolen. YA/ VAN
A girl finds herself running through the forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything, even her own name, and later learns that she might be twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch six years before.

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Armstrong, J. The Fire-Us Trilogy. YA/ ARM
In 2007, a small band of children have joined together in a Florida town, trying to survive in a world where it seems that all the adults have been killed off by a catastrophic virus.

Asimov, I. (ed.) Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. YA/ FIF
Collection of fifty short science fiction stories by a variety of authors, written between 1941 and 1962.

Bradbury, R. Fahrenheit 451. YA/ BRA
Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he meets a girl who tells him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who tells him of a future where people can think.

Card, O.S. Ender’s Game. YA/ CAR
After being sent to Battle School, Ender quickly becomes Earth's best hope to defeat the alien invaders who nearly destroyed the planet. But can Ender withstand the pressures of training to be the world's hero?

Dickinson, P. Eva. YA/ DIC
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.

Ferman, E. (ed.) The Best From Fantasy and
Science Fiction. YA/ BES
Contains twenty-one short stories published between 1993 and 1998 in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction."

Fox, H. Eager. YA/ FOX
Unlike Grumps, their old-fashioned robot, the Bell family's new robot, Eager, is programmed to not merely obey but to question, reason, and exercise free will.

Halam, A. Dr. Franklin’s Island. YA/ HAL
When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.

Hautman, P. Hole in the Sky. YA/ HAU
In 2028 a deadly flu virus ravages the earth. Ceej must find out what happened to his uncle and save his sister from a half-mad band of Survivors if he is to join Bella, a Hopi girl, in her quest to find a mysterious portal to a safe world.

Lowry, L. The Giver. YA/ LOW
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

Malley, Gemma. The Declaration. YA/ MAL
In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live
forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an
obedient “surplus” training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.

Mark, J. Useful Idiots. YA/ MAR
In 2255, a graduate student named Merrick unwittingly finds himself thrown into an extraordinary adventure in the Reserve where the Aboriginals live after a violent storm across the North Sea reveals a human skull.

Martin, S. R. The Swampland Trilogy. YA/ MAR
It all started with Marvin's innocent crush on the girl next door...but it ends with a battle. What's going on in the swamp will change everything and everyone.

Mieville, C. Un Lun Dun. YA/ MEL
Part ALICE IN WONDERLAND and part PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH, this novel takes readers into the life of a 12-year-old London girl, Deeba, who finds her way into a funhouse version of her home city--a place of animated umbrellas, milk cartons, and trash monsters, as well as killer giraffes, ghost children, talking books, and flying double-decker buses.

O’Brien, R. Z for Zachariah. YA/ OBR
Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.

Patterson, J. Maximum Ride Series. YA/ PAT
This sci-fi fantasy series from master of suspense Patterson follows the adventures and trials of a remarkable group of young people who are 98% human and 2% bird.

Paulsen, G. The Transall Saga. YA/PAU
On his first solo backpacking trip, Mark Harrison discovers a mysterious blue light. He falls through it and lands in a strange land where he must learn to survive with little more than a pocketknife and a few broken matches.

Pfeffer, S. Life As We Knew It. YA/ PFE
Through journal entries, 16-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

Philbrick, R. The Last Book in the Universe. YA/ PHI
Because his epilepsy prevents him from using mind probes, which are rotting everyone else's minds, Spaz still has his memory. He doesn't realize what a gift this is until he meets a man who is writing down his own memories in a book.

Pullman, P. His Dark Materials Trilogy. YA/ PUL
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

Reeve, P. The Hungry City Chronicles. YA/ REE
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country.

Shusterman, N. The Dark Side of Nowhere. YA/ SHU
Fourteen-year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens who stayed on earth following a botched invasion mission.

Sleator, W. The Last Universe. YA/ SLE
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.

Thompson, K. Switchers. YA/ THO
Kate can switch to any animal form she chooses. She joins Kevin, another Switcher, to save the Northern Hemisphere.

Weaver, W. Memory Boy. YA/ WEA
When worldwide disaster strikes early in the new millenium, Miles and his family must flee their home in Minneapolis before the disaster affects them. They leave behind all they've ever known and flee to the wilderness.

Westerfield, S. Midnighters Series. YA/ WES
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities. These abilities help the group fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight.

Weyn, Suzanne. The Bar Code Tattoo. YA/ WEY
It's the near future. When you turn seventeen, you get a barcode tattoo. It's a rite of passage. It's the be-all and end-all of identity. Everybody does it. But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code?

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Cast, P.C. Marked and Betrayed. YA/ CAS
Sixteen-year-old Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampyre. If she can survive the Change, she then must deal with her special powers.

Conrad, Lisa. High School Bites: the Lucy Chronicles. YA/ CON
As if high school isn't already hard enough, Lucy has just discovered that she's a descendent of the Lucy in Dracula and that vampires really exist. Now she has to accessorize with garlic and learn to drive without becoming their next victim.

Cooney, Caroline. Fatal Bargain. YA/ COO
Lacey and her friends just want some fun. And what could be more fun than spending the night in a creepy old house with a strange circular tower? It's all just harmless fun, except the vampire who lives there wants one of them to stay.

De La Cruz, Melissa. Blue Bloods. YA/ DEL
Schuyler Van Alen is a sophomore at a prestigious private school steeped in vampire legend and lore. Upon her 15th birthday, she is alarmed to find herself having strange flashbacks to ancient times.

Gray, Claudia. Evernight. YA/ GRA
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.

Hautman, Pete. Sweetblood. YA/ HAU
Lucy considers her diabetes a form of vampirism and her interest in the occult is growing. Her grades are slipping, and her blood sugar is way too high. When she meets someone who claims to be a real vampire, things get really dangerous.

King, Stephen. ‘Salem’s Lot. FIC/ KIN
A stranger with an evil secret harms the lives of many inhabitants of a small New England town.

Klause, Annette Curtis. The Silver Kiss. YA/ KLA
Feeling alienated from everyone during her mother's terminal illness, Zoe comes under the spell of Simon, a vampire doomed to live until he avenges the death of his mother 300 years earlier.

Marillier, Juliet. Wildwood Dancing. YA/ MAR
A young adult fairy tale, this tale set in the Transylvanian woods at the castle of Piscul Draculi will leave readers breathless and amazed.

Mead, Richelle. Vampire Academy. YA/ MEA
Rose and her best friend, Lissa, become enmeshed in a forbidden romance and a ruthless social scene after they are dragged to a boarding school where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them.

Meehl, Brian. Suck it Up. YA/ MEE
After graduating from the International Vampire League, a scrawny, teenaged vampire named Morning is given the chance to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a superhero when he embarks on a League mission to become the first vampire to reveal his identity to humans and to demonstrate how peacefully-evolved, blood-substitute-drinking vampires can use their powers to help humanity.

Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight series (4 vols.). YA/ MEY
When 17-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

Rees, Douglas. Vampire High. YA/ REE
When his family moves to New Sodom, Massachusetts, and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the supernaturally strong students, to Charon, to the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.

Rice, Anne. Interview with the Vampire. FIC/ RIC
Presents the confessions of Louis, a vampire, and tells of his relationship with the vampire Lestat.

Schreiber, Ellen. Vampire Kisses (4 vols.). YA/ SCH
Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.

Sedgwick, Martin. My Swordhand is Singing. YA/ SED
In the dangerous dark of winter in an Eastern European village during the early seventeenth century, Peter learns from a gypsy girl that the Shadow Queen is behind the recent murders and reanimations, and his father's secret past may hold the key to stopping her.

Shan, Darren. Cirque du Freak (12 vols.). YA/ SHA
Darren and his friend Steve attend the fantastic and disturbing Cirque Du Freak but get caught up in a deadly trap. To save his friend, Darren must make a deal with the only one who can help...but it isn't human and it deals only in blood.

Smith, L.J. The Vampire Diaries. YA/ SMI
Contains volumes one and two of the "Vampire Diaries" in which two vampire brothers, Damon and Stefan, find their bond torn apart by the woman they both love and the tragedies of their past.

Stoker, Bram. Dracula. FIC/ STO
Having deduced the double identity of Count Dracula, a wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.

Taylor, Drew Hayden. The Night Wanderer. YA/ TAY
Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reserve. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her father is renting out her room, she's deeply upset. Sure, their guest is polite and keeps to himself, but he's also a little creepy. Little do Tiffany, her father, or even her insightful Granny Ruth know, the mysterious Pierre L'Errant is actually a vampire, returning to his tribal home after centuries spent in Europe.

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Gorillaz -- D-Sides
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist -- Music from the original motion picture soundtrack
Alkaline Trio -- From Here to Infirmary

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Conrad, Hy. Almost Perfect Crimes. YA/ 793.7/ CON
Study evidence, look for clues, and use your powers of deduction to solve more than a dozen dastardly crimes. Following each short story puzzle are five pieces of evidence—including things like witness testimony, autopsy and crime scene reports, background checks, car and house searches, and personal effects—which you can investigate by turning to different pages of the book.

Fredericks, Carrie, editor. Autism: Perspectives On Diseases & Disorders. YA/ 616.85/ AUT
Presents essays on autism, discussing its causes, diagnosis, and treatment methods, and contains profiles of autistic individuals and parents with autistic children.

Larson, Gary. The Curse of Madame “C”. YA/ 741.5/ LAR
More than 150 cartoons explore a world of bee-hived women, talking bugs, and bespectacled animals.

Amend, Bill. Foxtrot. YA/ 741.5/ AME
A collection of comic strips shows the day-to-day lives of the Fox family.

Feaver, Peter; Wasiolek, Sue; and Crossman, Anne. Getting the Best out of College. YA/ 378.1/ FEA
A guide to optimizing all aspects of the undergraduate college experience, written for students by a professor, a dean, and a recent college graduate.

Balaban, Naomi and Bobick, James. The Handy Anatomy Answer Book. YA/ 611/ BAL
From basic biology and the lymphatic system to human growth and development, this comprehensive reference—organized by systems of the body—makes the sometimes perplexing nature of anatomy understandable through an engaging question-and-answer format. In addition to the science itself, the people and history behind anatomy are discussed.

Penner, Marv. Hope and Healing For Kids Who Cut. YA/ 616.8/ PEN
Cutting. It's become a buzzword lately, but very few books address it from the perspective of a youth worker or concerned friend. Marv Penner has lived in this world for the past few years, talking with teenagers online and meeting with them to understand what drives them and why they self-injure. In this timely and helpful book, youth workers, coaches, teachers, and others will get the information they need to begin to understand and help (or point to help) kids who cut.

Hart, Christopher. Manga for the Beginner. YA/ 741.5/ HAR
A comprehensive tutorial for the aspiring manga artist uses a step-by-step format to take readers through the entire drawing process, from basic head and figure work to dynamic action poses, fashion, special effects, lighting and shading, perspective, and popular manga types and characters.

Larson, Gary. The PreHistory of The Far Side. YA/ 741.5/ LAR
The off-the-wall cartoonist recounts his early efforts and his cartooning outtakes, offering insights into the creative process, letters from readers, and never-before published cartoons.

Canfield, Jack. The Success Principles. YA/ 155.5/ CAN
A fun and engaging teen-friendly guide offers timeless information and inspiration to help teens get to where they want to be in life, providing a road map for those who want to become better students or athletes, start a business, make millions of dollars, or simply find guidance and direction.

Bozza, Anthony. Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem. YA/ B/ EMI
On assignment for his first cover story for Rolling Stone, the very first national cover story on Eminem, Anthony Bozza met a young blond kid, a rapper who would soon take the country by storm. But back in 1999, Eminem was just beginning to make waves among suburban white teenagers as his first single, “My Name Is,” went into heavy rotation on MTV.

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Hapka, Cathy. French Kissmas (Students Across the Seven Seas). YA/ SAS
While spending the winter holidays in Paris participating in a promotional video for the S.A.S.S. program, Nicole Larson is unnerved to discover that her feelings for Luc, the boy she met during her semester abroad the year before, are more than just casual friendship.

Rinaldi, Ann. The Last Silk Dress. YA/ RIN
During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets. High-spirited, beautiful Susan Chilmark, fourteen, vows to do something meaningful to support the Confederacy during the Civil War. Despite the wishes of her mother, Susan and her best friend, Connie, collect silk dresses from all the ladies of Richmond to make a balloon that will be used to spy on the Yankees. But the issues behind the war aren't as obvious as Susan thinks. When she meets her dashing, scandalous older brother and discovers why he was banished from the family, Susan unlocks a Pandora's box of secrets that forces her to rethink and challenge the very system she was born into. Does she have the courage to do what is right even though it may hurt the ones she loves?

Carlson, Melody. Diary of a Teenage Girl: Becoming Me, by Caitlin O'Conner. YA/ CAR
Sixteen-year-old Caitlin O'Conner keeps a six-month diary in which she records the day-to-day events of her life as well as her struggles to understand herself and God's plan for her future.

McNab, Andy. Traitor. YA/ McN
A boy who believes his grandfather to be a traitor, a spy who turned against England and then disappeared, tracks down his grandfather and finds out the truth.

Dowd, Siobhan. Bog Child. YA/ DOW
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.

Mikaelsen, Ben. Ghost of Spirit Bear. YA/ MIK
After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.

Hearn, Julie. Ivy. YA/ HEA
In mid-nineteenth-century London, young, mistreated, and destitute Ivy, whose main asset is her beautiful red hair, comes to the attention of an aspiring painter of the pre-Raphaelite school of artists who, with the connivance of Ivy's unsavory family, is determined to make her his model and muse.

Uehashi, Nahoko. Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit. YA/ UEH
The wandering warrior Balsa is hired to protect Prince Chagum from both a mysterious monster and the prince's father, the Mikado.

Bauer, Joan. Peeled. YA/ BAU
In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.

Ruby, Laura. Play Me. YA/ RUB
With his online TV show a success, Eddy, who knows how to play the game, meets his match in the unapproachable Lucinda Dulka and discovers that he is not in control--and that the rules can change at any time.

Weyn, Suzanne. Reincarnation. YA/ WEY
When a young couple dies in prehistoric times, their love--and link to various green stones--endures through the ages as they are reborn into new bodies and somehow find a way to connect.

Strahan, Jonathan. The Starry Rift. YA/ STA
Truly successful science fiction does two things: it gives credible glimpses into the future while entertaining the reader. With this in mind, anthologist Jonathan Strahan asked sixteen of today's most inventive, compelling writers to look past the horizon of the present day and to the future of science fiction.

Meehl, Brian. Suck it Up. YA/ MEE
After graduating from the International Vampire League, a scrawny, teenaged vampire named Morning is given the chance to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a superhero when he embarks on a League mission to become the first vampire to reveal his identity to humans and to demonstrate how peacefully-evolved, blood-substitute-drinking vampires can use their powers to help humanity.

Fletcher, Christine. Ten Cents A Dance. YA/ FLE
In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult.

Cooke, Bev. Feral. YA/ COO
Living in the subway, Little Cat fears everything around her until she meets Candlewax, a street kid exiled from the subway tunnels, and Katherine, a student photographer, and from these two she learns that trust can banish fear.

Gould, Steven. Jumper: Griffin’s Story. YA/ GOU
Blessed with the ability to "jump"--to teleport himself to any place on Earth that he has been to before--Davy is determined to locate others like himself, but interference from the government could prevent him from doing so.

Hijuelos, Oscar. Dark Dude. YA/ HIJ
In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.

Jimenez, Francisco. Reaching Out. YA/ JIM
From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education. During his college years, the very family solidarity that allowed Francisco to survive as a child is tested. Not only must he leave his family behind when he goes to Santa Clara University, but while Francisco is there, his father abandons the family and returns to Mexico. This is the story of how Francisco coped with poverty, with his guilt over leaving his family financially strapped, with his self-doubt about succeeding academically, and with separation. Once again his telling is honest, true, and inspiring.

Lynch, Chris. The Big Game of Everything. YA/ LYN
Jock and his eccentric family spend the summer working at Grampus's golf complex, where they end up learning the rules of "The Big Game of Everything."

Sebestyen, Ouida. The Girl in the Box. YA/ SEB
Kidnapped and left in an underground room, Jackie explores her psychological strengths and limitations as she tries to make contact with the outside world by writing messages and sending them through a slit in the door.

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Ballet Shoes
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
Creepshow
Da Ali G Show: Da Compleet First Seazon
Da Ali G Show: Da Compleet First Seazon
Ladyhawke
Love and Basketball
Matrix Reloaded
Stand and Deliver
What a Girl Wants

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