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Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains: Seeds of America. YA/ AND
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

Anderson, M.T. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing. Traitor to the Nation. Volume 2. The Kingdom on the Waves. YA/ AND
After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force. When he and his tutor escape to British-occupied Boston, Octavian learns of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces. Ultimately, this astonishing narrative escalates to a startling, deeply satisfying climax, while reexamining our national origins in a singularly provocative light.

Goldman, Steven. Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film About the Grapes of Wrath. YA/ GOL
Mitch, a shy and awkward high school junior, negotiates the difficult social situations he encounters, both with girls and with his best friend David, after David reveals to him that he is gay.

Green, John. Paper Towns. YA/GRE
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

Hogan, Mary. Pretty Face. YA/HOG
When an overweight high school student from Santa Monica spends the summer in Italy, she learns to relish life and understand the true meaning of beauty.

Link, Kelly. Pretty Monsters. YA/ LIN
Weirdly wonderful and a touch macabre, the nine short stories take readers into worlds with elements of reality but also supply a fantastic twist.

Ness, Patrick. The Knife of Never Letting Go. YA/ NES
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.

Reeve, Philip. Here Lies Arthur. YA/ REE
When her village is attacked and burned, Gwyna seeks protection from the bard Myrddin, who uses Gwyna in his plan to transform young Arthur into the heroic King Arthur.

Ryan, Amy Kathleen. Vibes. YA/ RYA
Kristi, a sophomore in an alternative high school, is aware that nearly everyone dislikes her--even those obsessed by her large breasts--but begins to doubt her psychic insights after learning long-held family secrets and some classmates' true feelings.

Schumacher, Julie. Black box. YA/ SCH
When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.

Mustashrik. Manga Shakespeare: Julius Caesar. YA/ 822.33/ SHA
Retells, in comic book format, Shakespeare's play about political intrigue, personal betrayal, and the aftermath of a brutal assassination.

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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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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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Apelqvist, Eva. Swede Dreams. YA/ SAS
Calista Swanson has begun her study-abroad semester in Stockholm, Sweden, and she couldn't be happier. She can't figure out why Jonas, who'd been an exchange student at her high school in Wisconsin, hasn't called.

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.

Horowitz, Anthony. Groosham Grange. YA/ HOR
After being expelled from school, thirteen-year-old David Eliot is sent to Groosham Grange, a spooky and sinister boarding school where nothing seems quite right.

Kirn, Walter. Thumbsucker. YA/ KIR
A fast-paced coming-of age-story about a sixteen-year-old. Justin Cobb has to escape his eccentric Midwestern family in order to overcome his childhood habit of sucking his thumb.

Stolarz, Laurie. Blue Is For Nightmares. YA/ STO
Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magick will be enough to protect Drea--unlike the last person whose death Stacey dreamed.

Stolarz, Laurie. White is for Magic. YA/ STO
Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown is having nightmares that predict death again, but this time the murderous stalker is after her.

Stolarz, Laurie. Silver is for Secrets. YA/ STO
During a summer vacation at the beach with friends, eighteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey has more nightmares which involve Clara, a new girl with a talent for causing trouble.

Stolarz, Laurie. Red is for Remembrance. YA/ STO
In the fourth installment of the series, Wiccan Stacey enters her first semester of college, devastated by the recent loss of her soul mate, Jacob.

Voigt, Cynthia. A Solitary Blue. YA/ VOI
Abandoned by his mother, Jeff is left to care for his absent-minded-professor father. When Jeff is stricken with pneumonia, his father realizes that he has deserted his son. Slowly, the two build a close relationship.

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Cabot, Meg. Twilight (Mediator Series Vol. 6). YA/ CAB
California teenager Suze Simon is a typical high school student except for the fact that she is a "shifter" who can mediate between the living and the dead. This is the final title in The Mediator series.

Davidson, Jenny. The Explosionist . YA/ DAV
In Scotland in the 1930s, fifteen-year-old Sophie, her friend Mikael, and her great-aunt Tabitha are caught up in a murder mystery involving terrorists and suicide-bombers whose plans have world-shaping consequences.

Hopkins, Ellen. Identical. YA/ HOP
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.

Hurley, Tonya. Ghostgirl. YA/ HUR
Charlotte Usher has always struggled to fit in at her high school, and when Charlotte finds herself living in a parallel spiritual world after choking to death on a gummy bear, she tries to reconnect with the physical world while making new friends at her new school for the dead.

Jocelyn, Marthe. Would You. YA/JOC
When her beloved sister, Claire, steps in front of a car and winds up in a coma, Nat's anticipated summer of working, hanging around with friends, and seeing Claire off to college is transformed into a nightmare of doctors, hospitals, and well-meaning neighbors.

Kuehnert, Stephanie. I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone. YA/ KUE
Emily Black, whose mother left her when she was an infant and went on tour, forms her own punk band with the hope that music will help her find her long lost parent.

Murdock, Catherine. Princess Ben. YA/ MUR
Princess Benevolence discovers an enchanted room while locked in the castle's highest tower by the conniving Queen Sophia and begins learning the magical arts, which may help her save her kingdom from a mortal threat.

Qamar, Amjed. Beneath My Mother's Feet. YA/ QAM
When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.

Shepard, Sara. Unbelievable (Pretty Little Liars - Book 4) YA/ SHE
Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily, friends since seventh grade at the exclusive Rosewood school in Pennsylvania, find their history of telling small, convenient little lies catching up with them when a mysterious person named A begins making threats, hinting that he or she knows what really happened to their murdered friend Alison.

Tanen, Sloane. Appetite for Detention. YA/ TAN
Text and photographs featuring pipe-cleaner chickens illustrate a cross-section of typical teenage experiences, including coping with out-of-control parents, stress pimples, weight problems, and trying to fit in.

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Beck, Nina. This book isn't fat, it's fabulous. YA/ BEC
Sixteen-year-old Riley Swain, pushed into spending Spring Break at an upstate New York “fat farm” by her father’s fiancée, is happy with her weight but finds she has a lot to learn about friendship and love.

Cabot, Meg. Airhead. YA/ CAB
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.

Harper, Suzanne. The Juliet Club. YA/ HAR
When high school junior Kate wins an essay contest that sends her to Verona, Italy, to study Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" over the summer, she meets both American and Italian students and learns not just about Shakespeare, but also about star-crossed lovers--and herself.

Hegamin, Tonya. Pemba’s Song. YA/ HEG
As fifteen-year-old Pemba adjusts to leaving her Brooklyn, NY home for small-town Connecticut, a Black history researcher helps her understand the paranormal experiences drawing her into the life of a mulatto girl who was once a slave in her house.

Jones, Frewin. The Faerie Path. YA/ JON
Anita's life was ordinary until she discovered she was Tania, the lost princess of Faerie.

Marsden, John. The Ellie Chronicles. YA/ MAR
Ellie Linton, an Australian teen who engaged in guerilla warfare with invading forces after returning home from a camping trip with friends to find her family and the entire town imprisoned, tries to adjust to life on the farm following theend of hostilities, but finds the peace uneasy both across the border and within herself.

McNish, Cliff. Angel. YA/ McN
An unlikely friendship develops between fourteen-year-olds Stephanie, an angel-obsessed social outcast, and Freya, a popular student whose visions of angels sent her to a mental institution and who is now seeing a dark angel at every turn.

Ostow, Micol. Popular Vote. YA/ OST
In an election year, sixteen-year-old Erin Bright sets aside her familiar supporting role as daughter of the mayor and girlfriend of the student body president to stand up for what she believes in and protect an historic park from being replaced by a gas station.

Pfeffer, Susan. The Dead and the Gone. YA/ PFE
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.

Reinhardt, Dana. How To Build A House :--A Novel. YA/ REI
Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.

Shepard, Sara. Flawless. YA/ SHE
In this second installment of the series, the girls face scrutiny from the police because their scandalous ways haven't changed.

Supplee, Suzanne. Artichoke’s Heart. YA/ SUP
When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.

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Averett, Edward. The Rhyming Season. YA/ AVE
The grace of basketball, the rhythm of poetry, and the eccentricities of small town life come together in this novel about the one season that changes everything.

Bodeen, S.A. The Compound. YA/ BOD
Fifteen-year-old Eli, locked inside a radiation-proof compound built by his father to keep them safe following a nuclear attack, begins to question his future, as well as his father's grip on sanity as the family's situation steadily disintegrates over the course of six years.

Calonita, Jen. Secrets Of My Hollywood Life :--On Location : A Novel. YA/ CAL
Life is good for Hollywood princess Kaitlin Burke, ready to star in a movie by her favorite director, but an old love and a scheming new publicist complicate her already hectic existence.

De La Cruz, Melissa. Masquerade. YA/ DEL
The story of the powerful New York "blue bloods" continues in this book, as the young vampire Schuyler Van Alen travels to Venice to find someone who can help her solve the recent rash of young blue blood deaths in New York.

Fehler, Gene. Beanball. YA/ FEH
Twenty-eight free-verse narrators relate the impact of a beanball on star center fielder Luke "Wizard" Wallace--a wild pitch that shatters his skull and destroys the vision in his left eye.

Gehrman, Jody. Confessions of a Triple-Shot Betty. YA/ GEH
Sixteen-year-olds Geena, Hero, and Amber spend the summer working at a Sonoma, California coffee shop, where they experience romance, identity crises, and newfound friendships.

Gemmell, David. Troy series. YA/ GEM
This trilogy, beginning with Fall of Kings, followed by Lord of the Silver Bow and finally Shield of Thunder, tells the story of Achilles, Agamemnon, Odysseus, and others fighting the Trojan War.

Gerber, Linda, and others. S.A.S.S. (Students Across the Seven Seas) series. YA/ SAS
This sassy book transports teen girls to enticing worlds of international travel, adventure, and even romance through the experiences of studying abroad.

Grant, Michael. Gone. YA/ GRA
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.

Green, Simon. The Unnatural Inquirer. YA/ GRE
John Taylor, a private investigator who specializes in working the Nightside, a hotbed of supernatural activity in London, is hired by the editor of the "Unnatural Inquirer" to find Pen Donavon who vanished shortly after announcing he has evidence of the Afterlife on DVD, and the nearly impossible task gets more complicated when Taylor realizes there is someone else even more determined to find Donavon first.

Halam, Ann. Snakehead. YA/ HAL
Compelled by his father Zeus to accept the evil king Polydectes's challenge to bring the head of the monstrous Medusa to the Aegean island of Serifos, Perseus, although questioning the gods' interference in human lives, sets out, accompanied by his beloved Andromeda, a princess with her own harsh destiny to fulfill.

Jinks, Catherine. The Genuis Squad. YA/ JIN
After the Axis Institute is blown up, fifteen-year-old Cadell Piggot is unhappily stuck in foster care with constant police surveillance to protect him from the evil Prosper English until he gets an offer to join a mysterious group called Genius Squad.

Jones, Frewin. The Faerie Path series. YA/ JON
Anita's life was ordinary until she discovered she was Tania, the lost princess of Faerie.

Jongman, Mariken. Rits. YA/ JON
When his father runs off with his girlfriend and his distraught mother is admitted to an institution, thirteen-year-old Rits goes to live with his uncle and tries to make the best of his unusual circumstances.

Kadohata, Cynthia. Outside Beauty. YA/ KAD
Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face.

L'Engle, Madeleine. The Joys of Love. YA/ LEN
Elizabeth Jerrold pursues her dream of becoming an actress after her high school graduation, and lands a position as an apprentice in a summer theater company where she falls in love with an aspiring director.

Marr, Melissa. Ink Exchange. YA/ MAR
Seventeen-year-old Leslie wants a tattoo as a way of reclaiming control of herself and her body, but the eerie image she selects pulls her into the dangerous Dark Court of the faeries, where she draws on inner strength to make a horrible choice.

Marriott, Zoë. The Swan Kingdom. YA/ MAR
When Alexa's mother is killed, her father marries a cunning and powerful woman and her brothers disappear, sending Alexa on a long, dangerous journey as she attempts to harness the mystical power she inherited from her mother and restore the kingdom to its proper balance.

McPhee, Peter. New Blood. YA/ McP
Callum's family moves from Glasgow to Winnipeg, Canada, after he is beaten nearly to death by bullies, hoping for a new start in a new country, but trouble seems to follow the teen who finally gets tired of running.

Mills, Sam. The Viper Within. YA/ MIL
Bitter and angry after his parents' divorce, Jon joins a cult, The Religion of Hebetheus, at his high school and soon becomes embroiled in a plot to kidnap a fellow student and suspected terrorist, but their plans go terribly wrong.

Nanji, Shenaaz. Child of Dandelions. YA/ NAN
In Uganda in 1972, fifteen-year-old Sabine and her family, wealthy citizens of Indian descent, try to preserve their normal life during the ninety days allowed by President Idi Amin for all foreign Indians to leave the country, while soldiers and others terrorize them and people disappear.

Patterson, James. Dangerous Days of Daniel X. YA/ PAT
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.

Pressler, Mirjam. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie. YA/ PRE
Johanna discovers that her grandfather acquired his clothing store by taking it from a family of Jews during the Nazi regime.

Richards, Justin. The Chaos Code. YA/ RIC
Fifteen-year-old Matt and his new friend Robin search the globe to retrieve an ancient code--rumored to have brought down the ancient civilization of Atlantis--from the hands of a madman who is bent on destroying the modern world.

Roe, Monica. Thaw. YA/ ROE
Talented athlete and high school senior Dane is admitted to a facility to undergo therapy for Guillain-Barre syndrome and is forced to reevaluate his life and attitude when the treatment doesn't seem to be working.

Shepard, Sara. Pretty Little Liars series. YA/ SHE
Best friends Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna find themselves under suspicion when the mysterious stranger named A tries to blame one of the girls for the death of their friend Alison and threatens to reveal the girls' darkest secrets.

Swoish, Tammy. Hot Scots, Castles, and Kilts. YA/ SWO
Sixteen-year-old Sami and her romance-writer mother spend a month in Scotland fixing up an old farm as a tourist destination, while Sami and her new friend Fiona hunt for the resident ghost and Sami helps resolve a centuries-old feud.

Taylor, Drew. The Night Wanderer. YA/ TAY
This unique blend of Gothic romance and modern coming-of-age story takes place on an Indian reservation. Sixteen-year-old Tiffany is surprised when her father rents out a spare room to a creepy stranger, Pierre L'Errant.

Volponi, Paul. Hurricane Song. YA/ VOL
Twelve-year-old Miles Shaw goes to live with his father, a jazz musician, in New Orleans, and together they survive the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in the Superdome, learning about each other and growing closer through their painful experiences.

Womack, Philip. The Other Book. YA/ WOM
Capable of elevating men to heroism or destroying them through malice and evil, The Other Book has laid dormant for four hundred years, waiting for someone to restore it to its original glory. Edward Pollock lives an ordinary life at his boarding school until he comes in contact with the book.

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Ferris, Aimee. Girl Overboard. YA/ FER
Marina is living her dream by studying maritime biology in the Caribbean on a luxury yacht. Her boyfriend wants her home, but her boatmate disagrees. She will have to make up her mind once and for all.

George, Madeleine. Looks. YA/ GEO
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.

Godbersen, Anna. Rumors :--A Luxe Novel. YA/ GOD
After the death of Elizabeth Holland, all of New York speculates about her unfortunate demise and wonder what role her mischievous sister, Diana, and notorious cad Henry Schoonmaker played in the events leading up to her death.

Kluger, Steve. My Most Excellent Year :--A Novel Of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park. YA/ KLU
Three high school juniors write of their most excellent ninth grade year in this epistolary novel.

Noël, Alyson. Cruel Summer. YA/ NOE
Colby Cavendish, having shed her dorky image along with her best friend, is looking forward to an exciting summer with the "in crowd," including handsome Levi Bonham, but she gains a new perspective on her life and priorities when she is shipped away to spend a summer in Greece.

Rennison, Louise. Stop In The Name Of Pants! : Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. YA/ REN
British teen Georgia Nicolson is confused about the return of the guy she likes, she turns to her friend Dave for advice, but soon wonders if Dave might be more than just a friend.

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Alegria, Malin. Sofi Mendoza's Guide To Getting Lost In Mexico. YA/ MAL
Seventeen-year-old, Mexican-American, Sofi Mendoza gets the shock of her life when she is refused re-admittance into the United States after a vacation in Tijuana.

Budhos, Marina. Ask Me No Questions. YA/ BUD
Nadira and her family leave Bangladesh to live illegally for years in New York City on expired visas. After 9/11, they flee to Canada to seek asylum, only to be turned away, resulting in hardship, struggle, and heartache for all of them.

Dean, Claire. Girlwood. YA/ DEA
Polly Greene and her grandmother believe younger sister, Bree, may be hiding in the neighboring Idaho woods; but when they discover a mysterious, hidden grove of larches, Polly and her friends build a shelter for Bree and try to save the grove from developers.

Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother. YA/ DOC
Interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state, and decides to use his expertise.

Ellsworth, Loretta. In Search Of Mockingbird. YA/ ELL
A tattered copy of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is all that connects Erin to her mother, who died when she was a baby. On the eve of her 16th birthday, Erin journeys from Minnesota to Alabama in search of author Harper Lee and answers to her quest.

Johnson, Maureen. Suite Scarlett. YA/ JOH
Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in New York City for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project.

Meldrum, Christina. Madapple. YA/ MEL
A girl who has been brought up in near isolation is thrown into a twisted web of family secrets and religious fundamentalism when her mother dies and she goes to live with relatives she never knew she had.

Myers, Walter. Sunrise Over Fallujah. YA/ MEY
Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.

Schmidt, Gary. Trouble. YA/ SCH
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog, but fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin—and reveals troubles that predate the accident.

Shan, Darren. Demon Apocalypse. YA/ SHA
Book 6 in the Demonata series.

Vail, Rachel. Lucky. YA/ VAI
As Phoebe and her clique of privileged girlfriends get ready to graduate from eighth grade, a financial scandal threatens her family's security--as well as Phoebe's social status--but ultimately it teaches her the real meaning of friendship

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Adlington, L. The Diary of Pelly D. YA/ ADL
When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.

Adlington, L. Cherry Heaven. YA/ ADL
Kat and Tanka J are starting over. The New Frontier is nothing like war-stricken City Five—no battle scars, no memories of their parents. It's a perfect society, where everyone lives in harmony. Or so they say. Sequel to The Diary of Pelly D.

Colfer, Eoin. Airman. YA/ COL
A swashbuckling tale set at the end of the 19th century in which Conor, who was imprisoned in the diamond mines when Bonvilain overthrew the monarchy, engineers an aerial excape that leads to a wild melee.

Cornish, D. Lamplighter. YA/ COR
As Rosamund starts his life as a lamplighter on the Wormway, he continues his fight against monsters, making friends and enemies along the way, but questions about his origins continue to plague him. Includes glossary. Sequel to Monster Blood Tattoo.

Geras, Adele. Ithaka. YA/ GER
This book captures the quiet strength and patience of a woman's enduring love for her husband and the ensuing chaos that threatens all as Penelope is pressured to remarry.

Love, D. Picture Perfect. YA/ LOV
When her mother leaves her family suddenly to take a new job, fourteen-year-old Phoebe tries to deal with her own confused feelings and, in the process, learns some things about love and the complicated ties that bind families together.

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.

Meyer, Carolyn. Duchessina :--A Novel Of Catherine De Medici. YA/ MEY
As the sole heiress to the Medici family wealth, young Catherine has spent her childhood in a convent. Now she finds herself in the household of the Pope, engaged to a boy who is cold and aloof. Can she survive the path to the throne?

Perkins, Mitali. First Daughter :--White House Rules. YA/ PER
Once sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton's father is elected president of the United States, the adopted Pakistani-American girl moves into the White House and makes some decisions about how she is going to live her life in the spotlight.

Pullman, Philip. Once Upon a Time in the North. YA/ PUL
In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armoured bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash their trading balloon onto a port in the Arctic North and find themselves in the middle of a political powder keg.

Valentine, Jenny. Me, The Missing, And The Dead. YA/ VAL
Sixteen-year-old Londoner Lucas Swain, left in possession of the ashes of Violet Park, becomes convinced that Violent is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father’s sudden disappearance.

Zindel, Paul. Rats. YA/ ZIN
When mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a huge landfill, fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure out how to stop them.

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Block, Francesca. I Was A Teenage Fairy. YA/ BLO
This is the story of Barbie Marks, Griffin Tyler, and Mab, a pinkie-sized, straight-talking fairy, who helps Barbie and Griffin uncover strength beneath their pain and teaches that love can heal even the deepest scars

Hite, Sid. I'm Exploding Now. YA/ HIT
The summer he turns seventeen, Max Whooten is feeling off his game with no job and nothing to do, but after spending a lot of time hanging out in Manhattan, thinking about life, writing down his thoughts, and visiting his aunt in Woodstock, he develops a personal philosophy called "coolism" which seems to help turn things around.

Rich, Jamie. Cut My Hair. YA/ RIC
Nineteen-year-old Mason, his best friend Jason, and girlfriend Jeane cope with life and growing up in this Gen-X graphic novel.

Abrahams, Peter. Up All Night :--A Short Story Collection. YA/ UP
A collection of five short stories, written by award-winning authors, about teens who stay up all night.

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Nelson, R. A. Breathe My Name. YA/ NEL
18 year-old Frances Robinson has a perfect life – adoptive parents who love her, a cute, compassionate boyfriend, and a rock-solid best friend. But her childhood was marred by a horrific tragedy: her mother killed her three younger sisters, one by one, and nearly killed Frances. A jury judged her mentally ill, but now she is out of prison and in a halfway house – and she wants to see Frances again. Very skillfully written, explores topics of mental illness, survivor’s guilt, and the need for answers when something terrible happens. Easy, absorbing read, 314 pp.

Compestine, Ying Chang. Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party. YA/ COM
Growing up during the last, frightening years of the Cultural Revolution in China (1972-1976), Ling witnesses the gradual breakdown of society in her small village. Her parents, both doctors, are under suspicion for being “enemies of the people,” and her neighbors and friends are taken away to be “re-educated.” As Chairman Mao’s re-education plans take over, people have less time to farm or work – so food, water, and electricity become scarce. Ling sees neighbors turn against each other, physically and mentally, in their fear and desperation. This is an intense story of a hard and tragic time in China’s recent history. Easy read, 243 pp.

Staub, Wendy Corsi. Believing. YA/ STA
Picking up the story where her last book (Awakening) ended, Staub continues the paranormal events that surround her heroine, Calla. Calla is living with her grandma, who is a registered medium, in the Spiritualist town of Lily Dale, NY. Calla is visited by the spirit of a dead girl who was abducted and murdered, and who pleads with Calla to help other girls targeted by the killer. So Calla, already struggling with the recent death of her mother, the separation from her father (who is living in California), a failed relationship with her college-age boyfriend, and her new talents as a psychic, is now trying to bring the killer to justice – before she becomes his next pretty victim. Easy, eerie read, 239 pp.

Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Gossip Girl: The Carlyles. YA/ VON

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Avi. Nothing But The Truth :--A Documentary Novel. YA/ AVI
Chronicling the results of a teacher's objections to a 9th grader's humming along with the Star Spangled Banner, it forces the reader to explore issues of perception, reality, bias, and expediency.

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.

Meyer, Stephenie. The Host. YA/ MEY

Black, Holly. Valiant. YA/ BLA
When teenage Valerie runs away to New York City, she takes up with a gang of squatters in the subway system. In that strange world, she becomes bound into service by a troll who is as hideous as he is honorable.

Coy, John. Box Out. YA/ COY

James, Brian. Thief. YA/ JAM

Malloy, Brian. Twelve Long Months. YA/ MAL

Staples, Suzanne. The House Of Djinn. YA/ STA

Taylor, Theodore. Sniper. YA/ TAY
Fifteen-year-old Ben must cope alone when a mysterious sniper begins shooting the big cats in his family's private zoological preserve.

Wright, Bil. When The Black Girl Sings. YA/ WRI
Lahni feels like an outcast; she is the only African-American student at her private, all-girls prep school, and her adoptive parents are both white. Her parents are getting a divorce, but she finds comfort by singing in the choir.

Adoff, Jaime. The Death of Jayson Porter. YA/ ADO

Bauer, Joan. Best Foot Forward. YA/ BAU
After a life-altering summer on the road, Jenna Boller is dripping with new found maturity. She's got a great job at a shoe store, a best friend who makes her laugh...and then a handsome hunk with a police record walks into her life.

Caletti, Deb. The Fortunes of Indigo Skye. YA/ CAL

Ferguson, Alane. The Circle Of Blood :--A Forensic Mystery. YA/ FER

Pearson, Mary. The Adoration of Jenna Fox. YA/ PEA

Stratton, Allan. Chanda's Wars. YA/ STR

Woodson, Jacqueline. After Tupac & D Foster. YA/ WOO

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Ferguson, Alane. The Angel Of Death. YA/ FER
High school senior Cameryn Mahoney uses skills learned as assistant to her coroner father to try to unravel the mystery of a local teacher's gruesome death, while also awaiting a possible reunion with her long-missing mother.

Jackson, Shirley. We Have Always Lived In The Castle. YA/ JAC
This macabre novel takes place at Blackwood House, scene of a much-talked-about multiple poisoning in the past.

Klause, Annette. Freaks: Alive, On The Inside! YA/ KLA
After leaving home in search of adventure, romance, and riches, seventeen-year-old Abel, the "normal" son of freak show entertainers, is haunted by a mysterious spirit.

Lubar, David. Hidden Talents. YA/ LUB
Martin has been expelled from every school except The Edgeview Alternative School, a warehouse for society's rejects. Martin finds friends in five misfits with psychic powers. He also finds his own power and faces his worst enemy--himself.

Rorby, Ginny. Hurt Go Happy. YA/ ROR
Joey Willis is deaf and feeling isolated. When she finds out that an elderly neighbor signs and has a sign-language-using chimpanzee, her life is changed forever.

Shoup, Barbara. Wish You Were Here. YA/ SHO
A high school senior tries to cope with the shifting patterns of his life while struggling to come to terms with his parents' divorce, his best friend's sudden departure, his mother's remarriage, and his father's nearly-fatal accident.

Vizzini, Ned. Be More Chill. YA/ VIZ
Jeremy Heere is an average high school dork, hopelessly in love with the beautiful Christine. His life changes when he gets a "squip": a supercomputer in pill form that communicates directly with the brain to make its user cool.

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Carey, Janet Lee. Dragon’s Keep. YA/ CAR
This medieval fantasy depicts the complex relationship between a princess born with a dragon claw where her ring finger should be, and her mother, who finds nothing but shame in her daughter's talon.

Dokey, Cameron. Before Midnight. YA/ DOK
Etienne de Brabant, brokenhearted after the loss of his wife in childbirth, remarries a woman, with two daughters of her own, to help him raise his daughter La Cendrillon.

Flanagan, John. Battle for Skandia. YA/ FLA
After Ranger's apprentice Will battles Temujai warriors to rescue Evanlyn, Will's kingdom of Skandia joins forces with rival kingdom Araluen to defeat a common enemy.

Gabel, Claudia. Loves Me, Loves Me Not. YA/ GAB
It's time for the homecoming dance and bitter rivals Marnie and Nola both have their eye on the same dream date.

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Asher, Jay. Thirteen Reasons Why: A Novel. YA/ ASH
Clay Jenkins returns home to from school to find a mysterious box lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier.

Brooks, Martha. Mistik Lake. YA/ BRO
After Odella's mother leaves her, her sisters, and their father in Manitoba and moves to Iceland with another man, she then dies there, and the family finally learns some of the many secrets that have haunted them for two generations.

Cabot, Meg. Princess Mia. YA/ CAB
While Mia tries to get over breaking up with her boyfriend, she discovers a diary kept by a former princess of Genovia from the 1600s, the contents of which could change the fate of her country forever.

Carter, Ally. Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy. YA/ CAR
The Gallagher Girls will need to use all their skills to investigate the Knowlton-Hale boys. Even though they're confident about their guy-spying skills, the playing field is level this time.

Cast, P.C. Betrayed. YA/ CAS
Fledgling vampyre Zoey has managed to settle in at the House of Night. Then the unthinkable happens: human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night.

Cast, P.C. Marked. 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.

Felin, M. Touching Snow. YA/ FEL
After her stepfather is arrested for child abuse, thirteen-year-old Karina's home life improves but while the severity of her older sister's injuries and the urging of her younger sister, their uncle, and a friend tempt her to testify against him, her mother and other well-meaning adults pursuade her to claim responsibility.

Gabel, Claudia. In Or Out. YA/ GAB
Marnie and Nola are as opposite as day and night, yet they've always managed to be best friends until they start the ninth grade and Marnie starts to eye the popular crowd.

Gallagher, Liz. The Opposite of Invisible. YA/ GAL
With a chance to be a football player's girlfriend, Alice can be part of the hot crowd - but does she really want to leave a true friend along with her old ways?

Hopkins, Ellen. Burned. YA/ HOP
Raised in a religious but abusive family, Pattyn is sent to live with an aunt in rural Nevada after being caught in a compromising position with a boy. She finds love and acceptance there, but her old demons won't let her go.

Hopkins, Ellen. Glass. YA/ HOP
In this sequel to "Crank", Kristina succumbs once again to her drug addiction, even though she is a new mother and has dreams of becoming a graphic artist.

Johnston, Tony. Bone By Bone By Bone. YA/ JOH
David's father is a doctor, and since he was born has hoped that David will become one too. But when David is studying bones he also secretly teaches his black friend Malcolm, who David's father forbids him to even play with.

Knox, Elizabeth. Dreamquake. YA/ KNO
In the sequel to DREAMHUNTER, Laura struggles to show others the truth about the Place and uncovers a mysterious government plot.

Koertge, Ronald. Strays. YA/ KOE
Sixteen-year-old Ted O’Connor’s parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he's stuck with a set of semi-psycho foster parents, two foster brothers, and an inner-city high school full of delinquents.

Manning, Sarra. Pretty Things. YA. MAN
During one hot summer, Brie, Charlie, Walker, and Daisy are four hip teens who fall in and out of love, and hate each other. This narrative is pop-culture cool that's brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny.

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.

Sharenow, Robert. My Mother the Cheerleader. YA/ SHA
Thirteen-year-old Louise uncovers secrets about her family and her neighborhood during the violent protests over school desegregation in 1960 New Orleans.

Vaught, Susan. Big Fat Manifesto. YA/ VAU
Jamie is a senior in high school and, like so many kids in that year, doing too much-including trying to change the world-and fighting for her rights as a very fat girl.

Zevin, Gabrielle. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. YA/ ZEV
After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.

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Antieau, Kim. Mercy, Unbound. YA/ ANT
A haunting, beautiful, and ultimately hopeful story of one girl's struggle with anorexia.

Burgess, Melvin. Smack. YA/ BUR
Runaways Tar and Gemma find themselves growing more and more dependent on drugs, whose strict mandates are even less forgiving than those of the parents they fled.

Caletti, Deb. The Nature Of Jade. YA/ CAL
Seattle high school senior Jade's life is defined by her anxiety disorder and dysfunctional family, until she spies a mysterious boy with a baby who seems to share her fascination with the elephants at a nearby zoo.

Christie, Agatha. The ABC Murders. YA/ CHR
Hercule Poirot is sent a series of letters by a murderer challenging him to try to stop a crime if he is clever enough.

Christie, Agatha. The Mystery of the Blue Train. YA/ CHR
When a night train to the Mediterranean stops, a mysterious woman is dead, a cursed jewel is missing, and Hercule Poirot has a mystery to solve.

Dean, Zoey. American Beauty. YA/ DEA
This wickedly funny and risque book takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati.

De Lint, Charles. The Blue Girl. YA/ DEL
After a young teen moves to a new town with her mother and brother, she tries to reinvent herself by making two friends--vastly different from one another. When one turns out to be a ghost, she realizes that reality is blurring.

Harrison, Lisy. Bratfest at Tiffany's: A Clique Novel. YA/ HAR
The Clique tells the story of an elite group of 13-year-old girls. Through the coolly observant eyes of their leader, enter a sophisticated world of ferocious put-downs, fabulous gossip, and fantastic haircuts.

Hood, Ann. How I Saved My Father's Life (And Ruined Everything Else). YA/ HOO
A twelve year old girl's quest for faith and understanding, in the face of ballet, her parents' divorce, and a move to a new town.

Manning, Sarra. Let's Get Lost. YA/ MAN
As she acts out the role of mean girl at school, with her father and brother, and even with her new boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Isabel comes to a dead end and finally confronts issues related to her mother's death.

Mlynowski, Sarah. Spells & Sleeping Bags. YA/ MLY
In the third and final title in Rachel's saga, her powers have finally arrived and she's a bona fide get-your-broom-ready witch!

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Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian. YA/ ALE
Junior, a budding cartoonist, leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white school.

Clarke, Judith. One Whole And Perfect Day. YA/ CLA
When her grandmother decides to throw party, Lily can't imagine how her "freakish" family will make it through the day.

Jenkins, A.M. Repossessed. YA/ JEN
Readers will relish this devilishly funny look at the complexities of being a teen in this unforgettable and endearing story of a demon's sojourn on earth, where he learns more than he ever expected about humans and himself.

Le Guin, Ursula K. Powers. YA/ LEG
In this third book in the Annals of the Wester Shore series, Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and inexplicably, he sometimes remembers things that are going to happen in the future.

Limb, Sue. Girl, Barely 15: Flirting For England. YA/ LIM
Jess Jordan is barely 15. Fred is her often-aggravating best guy friend; her father is a lonely bachelor; Flora is her gorgeous best friend, a constant liability; and Ben Jones is barely a twinkle in her eye.

Marks, Graham. Omega Place. YA/ MAR
Seventeen-year-old Paul Hendry runs away from home and joins Omega Place, a radical organization intent on upsetting England's country-wide closed-circuit surveillance system, but soon discovers that the other members of the group may not be entirely altruistic.

Mccaughrean, Geraldine. The White Darkness : A Novel. YA/ MCC
Taken by the man she thinks of as her uncle from England to Antarctica for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.

Peet, Mal. Tamar. YA/ PEE
When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box with a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland fifty years before.

Vrettos, Adrienne. Sight. YA/ VRE
Dylan has visions of the last moments in a child's life and helps the police by giving them clues, but she keeps the most personal information about the victims to herself until Cate moves to town, but is Cate all she seems to be?

Zarr, Sara. Sweethearts. YA/ ZAR
As children, Jennifer Harris and Cameron Quick were one another's only friend. So when Cameron disappears without warning, Jenna thinks she has lost her one true friend. When Cameron suddenly reappears, both confront their changed lives.

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Bray, Libba. The Sweet Far Thing. YA/ BRA
Pulled forward by fate, the destiny Gemma Doyle faces threatens to set chaos loose, not only in the realms, but also upon the rigid Victorian society whose rules Gemma has both defied and followed.

Pullman, Philip. The Ruby In The Smoke. YA/ PUL
In 19th-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

Pullman, Philip. Shadow In The North. YA/ PUL
In 1878 in London, Sally and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation called North Star.

Pullman, Philip. The Tiger In The Well. YA/ PUL
In 1881 London, Sally Lockhart has a career and a comfortable life with her two-year-old daughter. She uses all her intelligence and resources to combat the evil mastermind behind a plot to rob her of her child, career, and home.

Pullman, Philip. The Tin Princess. YA/ PUL
In 1882 sixteen-year-old Becky applies for a tutoring job in London and becomes embroiled in assassination, intrigue, and dangerous politics in the small European kingdom of Razkavia.

Wild, Margaret. Woolvs In The Sitee. YA/ WIL
In a mostly abandoned city, Ben lives in a musty basement room, terrified of the "woolvs" that dwell in the shadows outside, with only an upstairs neighbor, Mrs. Radinski, to help him cope with his fears.

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Brooks, Max. World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War. YA/ BRO
After the Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity, a man traveled across the planet to find and record the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the undead hell of that terrible time.

Cameron, Peter. Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You. YA/ CAM
Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.

Halpern, Julie. Get Well Soon. YA/ HAL
Depressed young Anna is sent to a mental hospital, where she meets an interesting variety of people. Based on the author's own experiences, this novel finds humor in unlikely places.

McCafferty, Megan. Charmed Thirds. YA/ MCC
Following a breakup with her high-school boyfriend, Jessica struggles to find her identity at college.

Sheth, Kashmira. Keeping Corner. YA/ SHE
Twelve-year-old Leela must be confined to her home for a year because her fiance, a boy she barely knew, passed away. A teacher hears of Leela's fate and offers to teach her at home in this novel set in Ghandi-era India.

Westerfeld, Scott. Extras. YA/ WES
The Specials are superamped fighting machines, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.

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Archer, Lily. The Poison Apples. YA/ ARC
Three girls at a posh boarding school plot revenge against their evil stepmothers.

Clement-Davies, David. Fell. YA/ CLE
When a message comes from his old friend Skart the eagle, Fell must accept his destiny to see into the minds of others so he can enter the world of humans and return a lost girl to her family.

Downham, Jenny. Before I Die. YA/ DOW
A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Uprising. YA/ HAD
In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.

Higgins, Jack. Sure Fire. YA/ HIG
Fifteen-year-old twins Rich and Jade lose their mother in a tragic car crash, and their long-lost father returns to retrieve them. Then their father disappears, and they realize they may be next.

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. The Off Season. YA/ MUR
In this follow-up to Dairy Queen, D.J. struggles to understand Amber, Schwenk Farm, her relationship to Brian, and her family.

Pierce, Tamora. First Test. YA/ PIE
Keladry is eager to become a knight, but she is accepted only on probation to the page training she'll need. Now she has to prove herself to a hostile training master and the mocking male pages.

Pullman, Philip. The Ruby in the Smoke. YA/ PUL
In 19th-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones. YA/ SEB
The heroine of this novel, fourteen-year-old Suzy Salmon, narrates from heaven because she's been murdered in the first chapter. She watches her family and friends struggle with their lives after her death, and misses them all terribly.

Smith, Roland. Peak. YA/ SMI
To avoid Juvenile Detention, Peak Marcello is sent to live with his father, whose renewed interest in him has strings attached. He wants Peak to be the youngest person to reach the Everest summit--a challenge that could cost him his life.

Smith, Tara Bray. Betwixt. YA/ SMI
For three seventeen-year-olds, dark mystery has always lurked at the corner of the eyes and the edge of sleep.

Staub, Wendy Corsi. Lily Dale: Awakening. YA/ STA
When seventeen-year-old Calla's mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in western New York, where she discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities.

Von Ziegesar, Cecily. It Had to Be You: The Gossip Girl prequel. YA/ VON
Taking place over their sophomore year, It Had to Be You unveils the secrets behind the hot and sultry summer that Blair, Serena, and Nate's love triangle begins--and there's a lot more to this story than anyone realizes.

Wallace, Rich. One Good Punch. YA/ WAL
Eighteen-year-old Michael Kerrigan, writer of obituaries for the Scranton Observer and captain of the track team, is ready for the most important season in his life – until the police find four joints in his school locker, and he is faced with a choice that could change everything.

Wilson, Jacqueline. Girls in Love. YA/ WIL
Ellie's starting ninth grade and she's got some goals. She'll stay best friends with Magda and Nadine. She'll get a glamorous hairstyle. And she'll get a boyfriend. Even if she has to settle for one who likes her more than she likes him.

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Bildner, Phil. Busted. YA/ BIL
This novel is a slice-of-high-school-life at its most daring where almost everyone gets "busted" somehow.

Brande, Robin. Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature. YA/ BRA
Following her conscience leads high school freshman Mena to clash with her parents and former friends from their conservative Christian church, but might result in better things when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include "Intelligent Design" in lessons on evolution.

Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones. YA/ CLA
In this first volume of a planned triology, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray finds herself running from a mysterious band of teenagers called the Shadowhunters, after she develops the ability to see demons and other supernatural creatures.

Draper, Sharon M. November Blues. YA/ DRA
In this sequel to The Battle Of Jericho a young girl finds herself pregnant two months after her boyfriend's death in a pledge stunt gone wrong. Follow her as she faces adoption decisions and problems coping with her boyfriend's death.

Draper, Sharon M. Fire From the Rock. YA/ DRA
Sylvia Patterson is shocked and confused when she is asked to be one of the first black students to attend Central High School, which is scheduled for integration in September 1957.

Gormley, Beatrice. Salome. YA/ GOR
This riveting novel of Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils is also her own story of strength, power, loyalty, and death.

Humphreys, Chris. The Fetch. YA/ HUM
After exploring a sea chest full of runes and a journal belonging to his deceased grandfather, fifteen-year-old Sky summons the old man's ghost, who teaches him how to travel through time and space.

Jinks, Catherine. Evil Genius. YA/ JIN
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

Kostick, Conor. Epic. YA/ KOS
Society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. Then Erik, seeking revenge for the unjust treatment of his parents, dares to subvert the rules and change the world forever.

Nicholson, William. Jango. YA/ NIC
Seeker, the Wildman, and Morning Star discover that the mysterious warrior sect they had been so desperate to join is not quite what it appears from the outside.

Noyes, Deborah, ed. The Restless Dead. YA/ RES
Enter the murky world of the undead. From a beyond-the-grave stalker to prankster devil worshippers, from a childish ghost of the future to a vampire lover, the characters of this stories will send shivers down your spine.

Sandell, Lisa Ann. Song of the Sparrow. YA/ SAN
A tale set in King Arthur's time of Elaine, the daughter of a soldier, who wishes that Lancelot would notice her. When a new girl named Gwynivere enters the scene, Elaine must discover whether she will be a friend or a rival.

Spinelli, Jerry. Love, Stargirl. YA/ SPI
Stargirl is back! The companion to the acclaimed bestseller allows us to see, at last, inside the mind of this mysterious girl.

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Crutcher, Chris. Deadline. YA/ CRU
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."

Hill, Stuart. Blade of Fire. YA/ HIL
Queen Thirrin succeeded in repelling an invasion, but now the dark forces are massing again. This time the problem may come from within. (Sequel to Cry of the Icemark.)

Jolin, Paula. In the Name of God. YA/ JOL
Nadia is a Syrian teenager coping with more than her share of conflict. When a cousin is arrested, she finds herself drawn into the world of Islamic fundamentalism.

Lyga, Barry. Boy Toy. YA/ LYG
A high school senior attempts to understand the meaning and aftermath of a very adult relationship he had with his teacher in the seventh grade.

Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Under the Persimmon Tree. YA/ STA
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.

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Cabot, Meg. Jinx. YA/ CAB
Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.

Hornby, Nick. Slam. YA/HOR
When 15-year-old Sam discovers his ex-girlfriend is pregnant with his child, he finds himself transported into the future to figure out how to make the right decisions.

Kerr, M. E. Someone Like Summer. YA/ KER
An upper-middle-class white girl from Long Island and an immigrant worker from Colombia fall in love despite objections from both their families and their community.

Kraft, Erik P. Miracle Wimp. YA/ KRA
Presents episodes from the high school life of Tom Mayo, a wisecracking misfit, who is trying to navigate his way through Wood Shop, dating, driving, and class tormentors.

Moranville, Sharelle Byars. The Snows. YA/ MOR
With the thread of family that connects them through the generations, Jim born in 1931, Cathy in 1942, Jill in 1969, and Mona in 2006 each find "sixteen" to be the pivotal age in their lives.

Napoli, Donna Jo. Hush: An Irish princesses’ tale. YA/ NAP
Melkorka is a princess in medieval Ireland, but everything changes when she is kidnapped and taken aboard a Viking slave ship. Melkorka is forced to learn to survive, takes a vow of silence, and learns that any power can make a difference.

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.

Van De Ruit, John. Spud. YA/ VAN
As apartheid crumbles and Nelson Mendela is released from prison, 13-year-old Spud Milton prepares to start his first year at an elite boys-only boarding school in South Africa.

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Bingham, Kelly. Shark Girl. YA/ BIN
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.

Cabot, Meg. Pants on Fire. YA/ CAB
Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.

Cabot, Meg. Princess on the Brink (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 8). YA/ CAB
Princess Mia finds herself facing life as a junior in high school, taking precalculus, and dealing with a long-distance romance.

Flanagan, John. The Icebound Land (Ranger’s Apprentice, Book 3). YA/ FLA
Kidnapped after the fierce battle with Lord Morgarath, Will and Evanlyn are bound for Skandia as captives aboard a fearsome wolfship. Halt has sworn to rescue Will, and he will do anything to keep his promise.

Friesner, Esther. Nobody’s Princess. YA/ FRI
Friesner deftly weaves together history and myth as she takes a new look at the girl who will become Helen of Troy.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Dangerously Alice. YA/ NAY
During fall semester of her junior year of high school, Alice decides to change her good girl image, while major remodeling begins at home and some important relationships begin to change.

O’Dell, Kathleen. Bad Tickets. YA/ ODE
Rebelling against her strict Catholic upbringing in 1967, teenager Mary Elizabeth sorts through her feelings about her parents and friends, and about sex, while making some decisions about the type of life she wants for herself.

Rennison, Louise. Love is a Many Trousered Thing (Book 8). YA/ REN
Georgia thought her life was hard when her only worry was whether or no Masimo would choose her over Lindsay. However, Dave the Laugh started acting weird, and Robbie the Sex God suddenly returned, so her troubles increased.

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Arnold, Tedd. Rat Life. YA/ ARN
When Rat offers Todd a gig at the drive-in theater, Todd takes jumps at the chance. But hanging out with Rat leads to a host of strange experiences and perplexing questions.

Bowers, Laura. Beauty Shop For Rent…Fully Equipped, Inquire Within. YA/ BOW
Raised by a great-grandmother and a bunch of beauty shop buddies, fourteen-year-old Abbey resolves to overcome her unhappy childhood and disillusionment with the mother who deserted her.

Cullen, Lynn. I Am Rembrandt’s Daughter. YA/ CUL
In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a wealthy suitor.

Erskine, Kathryn. Quaking. YA/ ERS
Everything changes for 14-year-old Matt when she moves in with peaceful Quakers Sam and Jessica Fox, who are active in the movement against the war in the Middle East. Soon conflict arises in the town due to the war, and no one is safe.

Jones, Carrie. Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend. YA/ JON
This book chronicles high school senior Belle's experiences and thoughts over the course of one week, after her longtime boyfriend Dylan breaks up with her and tells her that he is gay. Alternating between daily encounters with her classmates, flashbacks of her time together with Dylan, and Belle's list of tips on how to cope with the situation, each chapter is a step in Belle's progression-and that of her small Maine hometown-from shock to acceptance of Dylan's announcement, culminating with the school dance on Friday night, which she and Dylan both attend with new boyfriends. -- VOYA™ - 06-01-2007

Michaels, Rune. Genesis Alpha. YA/ MIC
Josh and Max are closer than most brothers because Josh's stem cells saved Max from cancer but when Max is arrested for the murder of a young girl, Josh has doubts about his brother and his place in the world.

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Burgess, Melvin. Sara’s Face. YA/ BUR
Seventeen-year-old Sara wants so much to be famous that when a legendary, plastic-surgery-addicted rock star offers to take her under his wing and pay for her to have surgery too, she jumps at the chance despite her misgivings.

Castellucci, Cecil. Beige. YA/ CAS
Even though Katy doesn't want to visit her father in Los Angeles, Katy won't make fuss. After all, she is polite and quiet. Or is she?

Dallas, Sandra. Tallgrass. YA/ DAL
Rennie has just turned thirteen but the foundations of her life in a small Colorado town during World War Ii are rocked when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in town and a local girl is murdered.

Halpin, Brendan. How Ya Like Me Now? YA/ HAL
After his father dies and his mother goes into rehab, Eddie moves from the suburbs into his cousin's Boston loft, where he gradually adjusts to being one of the few white kids in a progressive private school.

Hautman, Pete. All-In. YA/ HAU
Having won thousands of dollars playing high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Denn Doyle hits a losing streak after falling in love with a young casino card dealer named Cattie Hart.

Lupica, Mike. Summer Ball. YA/ LUP
Danny's leaving Middletown for the summer and heading to Right Way basketball camp, where he's out of his element and may be out of his league. The country's best ballers are in attendance, and Danny will need to raise his game to match up.

McNeal, Laura. The Decoding of Lana Morris. YA/ McN
Sixteen-year-old Lana wishes that her life was different, and when she stumbles into Miss Hekkity's mysterious shop, she begins to realize that she might actually have the power to change things.

Nix, Garth. Lady Friday. YA/ NIX
Four of the seven keys have been recovered, but Arthur’s friends are captive and Superior Saturday is still causing trouble, and Arthur is racing to find the secret of Middle House. [Book 5 of the Keys to the Kingdom series.]

Pausewang, Gudrun. The Dark Hours. YA/ PAU
Set in the closing days of WWII Germany this is the story of Gisel's 16th birthday. Separated from their pregnant mother while fleeing the Allies' advance Gisel and her younger siblings are trapped in an air raid shelter.

Reeve, Phillip. A Darkling Plain. YA/ REE
While dealing with people from their past and treachery from unexpected sources, Tom, Hester, and Wren return to save the world. [Vol. 4 of the Hungry City Chronicles]

Scott, Michael. The Alchemyst. YA/ SCO
Myth and fact meet here in this fictionalized account of the mysterious Nicholas Flamel, who is said to have discovered the secret of eternal life.

Sones, Sonya. What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know. YA/ SON
Fourteen-year-old Robin Murphy is so unpopular at high school that his name is slang for "loser," and so when he begins dating the beautiful and popular Sophie her reputation plummets, but he finds acceptance as a student in a drawing class at Harvard.

St. James, James. Freak Show. YA/ SAI
Having faced teasing that turned into a brutal attack, Christianity expressed as persecution, and the loss of his only real friend when he could no longer keep his crush under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen, decides the only to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Volponi, Paul. Rucker Park Setup. YA/ VOL
J.R. is fatally stabbed the day of the Rucker Park basketball tournament, and his best friend Mackey has to settle the score.

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Dowd, Siobhan.  <strong>A Swift Pure Cry.  </strong>YA/ DOW
Set in the Irish countryside, this story about a family whose mother has died and whose father descends into alcoholism leaving a teen girl to care for her younger brother and sister is further dramatized by romance and scandal.

Wells, Rosemary.  <strong>Red Moon at Sharpsburg. </strong> YA/ WEL
As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her intelligence and courage to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has ever known.

Clements, Bruce.  <strong>What Erika Wants. </strong> YA/ CLE
The bright spot in the life of fourteen-year-old Erika Nevski is her lawyer, who supports Erika as she faces a custody battle, deals with her shoplifting friend, and tries out for the school play.

Going, K.L.  <strong>Saint Iggy. </strong> YA/ GOI
Iggy Corso, who lives in public housing, is caught between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with some dangerous activity.

Myers, Walter Dean.  <strong>Street Love.</strong>  YA/ MYE
Harlem meets Shakespeare in this free-verse novel that features Damien, a young man who has everything going for him, and Junice, a girl whose life is in total shambles.

Abdel-Fattah, Randa.  <strong>Does My Head Look Big in This?</strong> YA/ ABD
Year eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.

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Anderson, Laurie Halse. Twisted. YA/ AND
Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background, but when he attracts the attention of queen bee Bethany Milbury, it sets of a string of events that leave him questioning his place in school, his family, and the world.

Birdsall, Olivia. Notes on a Near-Life Experience. YA/ BIR
As Mia's family life crumbles after her father just up and moves out, her love life starts coming together. She'd like to ignore her family and only spend time with her boyfriend, but creates another set of problems in the process.

Black, Holly. Ironside: A Modern Faery Tale. YA/ BLA
As the possessor of Roibin's true name, sixteen-year-old Kaye returns to Faeryland to try and complete a nearly-impossible quest that will release him from the spell of the faery queen who holds him in thrall.

Bondoux, Anne-Laure. Life As It Comes. YA/ BON
As a new life is thrust upon them by their parents' sudden death, two vastly different sisters discover the ties that bind.

Clement-Moore, Rosemary. Prom Dates From Hell. YA/ CLE
"The thing feeds on emotion, right? On grief and terror and angst and woe. Where can it find all that in one place?" Thus Maggie, wisecracking photographer for her high-school paper and reluctant heir to her grandmother's gift of "the Sight," deduces that the demon cursing the school's popular crowd will reach full power at...senior prom. Fans of TV shows like Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer will relish the unflappable, edgy humor Maggie brings to her fight against supernatural evil. – Horn Book Magazine 5/1/2007

Farmer, Nancy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. YA/ FAR
In a detective story set in 22nd century Zimbabwe that is interwoven with Africa's history and present day concerns, the ruling General's three children are kidnapped. (Newbery Honor 1995)

Grant, K.M. Blaze of Silver. YA/ GRA
Using principles of their shared Muslim faith to persuade him, an agent of the Old Man of the Mountain convinces Kamil to lead Will and Ellie into a trap. Kamil repents and seeks a way to save his friends and redeem himself though. [Book 3 of the DeGranville Trilogy]

Horowitz, Anthony. Nightrise. YA/ HOR
As fourteen-year-old telepathic twins struggle to escape the clutches of the Nightrise Corporation, one of them travels through dreams to a time when the evil Old Ones ruled and learns the role that he, his brother, and three other Gatekeepers must play to keep the world safe from the Old Ones' return. [Book 3 of The Gatekeepers]

Hughes, Mark Peter. Lemonade Mouth. YA/ HUG
Here is the inside story of how the legendary band Lemonade Mouth came to be. Told in each of the five band members voices, this anthology is their definitive history.

Jocelyn, Marthe. How it Happened in Peach Hill. YA/ JOC
Annie and her mother, who is a spiritual advisor, come to Peach Hill to live, the latest in a string of towns where Annie has to play dumb and gather information about people in order to make her mother's position work.

Jonsberg, Barry. Am I Right or am I Right? YA/ JON
Calma Harrison is in love. Not just with herself, but also with a handsome checkout guy at Crazi-Cheep. So stocking shelves at the store seems like a perfect job--until that annoying customer tries to hold up the store. . .[sequel to The Crimes and Punishments of Miss Payne]

Lockhart, E. Dramarama. YA/ LOC
Spending their summer at Wildewood Academy, an elite boarding school for the performing arts, tests the bond between teens Sadye and her best friend Demi.

Myracle, Lauren. L8R, G8R. YA/ MYR
Now it's their senior year, and Angela, Zoe, and Maddie, otherwise know as the winsome threesome, are feeling invincible. Too bad Jana, the Queen Bee who made their sophomore year a nightmare, is on the warpath again.

Shan, Darren. Demon Thief. YA/ SHA
With the opening of a window into a demon world, a boy discovers his powers as a Disciple and his mission to hunt the viciously powerful Demonata to the death. [Book 2 of the Demonata]

Shan, Darren. Bec. YA/ SHA
As the demonic Fomorii ravage their land, Bec and her warrior companions leave the devastated area not only to answer a call for help but also to find information that will enable Bec to unlock the secrets of her past. [Book 4 of the Demonata]

Sheth, Kashmira. Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet. YA/ SHE
Growing up with her family in Mumbai, India, sixteen-year-old Jeeta disagrees with much of her mother's traditional advice about how to live her life and tries to be more modern and independent.

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