Teen Reads

New in January

2012-01-01T09:30:00.003-07:00

Ashfall
By Mike Mullin

After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.

Just Your Average Princess
By Kristina Springer

Working in her family's pumpkin patch every year, seventeen-year-old Jamie has dreamed of two things--dating co-worker Danny and being crowned Pumpkin Princess--but her beautiful and famous cousin Milan's visit may squash all of her hopes.

Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917
By Sally M. Walker

When two ships collided in Halifax Harbour, on December 6, 1917, one of them was full of munitions for World War I. The ensuing explosion, aftershocks, and tsunami wrecked unbelievable devastation. It was the largest explosion in the world until the atomic bomb was detonated in World War II in 1945.

A Sword in Her Hand
By Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem & Pat van Beirs

A disappointment to her father since the day she was born, Marguerite resists her father's will for her to marry a man she doesn't love, as well as other forces which threaten her home, such as the plague.

My Name Is Not Easy
By Debby Dahl Edwardson

Alaskans Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq relate their experiences in the early 1960s when they are forced to attend a Catholic boarding school where, despite different tribal affiliations, they come to find a sort of family and home.

Wherever You Go
By Heather Davis

Seventeen-year-old Holly Mullen, overwhelmed with responsibility at home, grieving over her boyfriend Rob's tragic death, and confused by the sudden attention of his best friend, Jason, is further upset when her Alzheimer's-stricken Papa Aldo claims to be having conversations with Rob's ghost.

Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
By Andrea Warren

Warren takes the reader on a journey into the workhouses, slums, factories, and schools of Victorian England, and into the world of Charles Dickens who used his pen to do battle on behalf of the poor.

Belle's Song
By K. M. Grant

In 1387, fifteen-year-old Belle joins Geoffrey Chaucer, his scribe Luke, squire Walter, and others on a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury to atone and pray for a cure for her father's crippling injury, but political intrigue threatens them all.

Deviant
By Adrian McKinty

Fourteen-year-old Danny Lopez reviews the path that led him from Las Vegas, Nevada, to an experimental school near Colorado Springs and then to his imminent death at the hands of a cat-killer ready for bigger prey.

What You Wish For: Stories and Poems for Darfur

Your favorite authors write to honor Darfur.

Signing Their Rights Away
By Denise Kiernan & Joseph D'Agnese

Presents the lives, deaths, and scandals involving the thirty-nine signers of the United States Constitution, including Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and James McHenry.

Sizzle
By Lee McClain

When the aunt she lives with becomes ill, orphaned Linda Delgado must leave Arizona for Philadelphia, where she struggles to adapt to a huge foster family, eating canned food, and finding an outlet for her love of cooking.

The Traitor's Smile
By Patricia Elliott

In 1793, Eugenie de Boncoeur arrives at the home of her English uncle and cousin, but the French Revolution has pursued her in the form of Guy Deschamps, who is determined to bring her back to Paris to marry the Pale Assassin.

New in December

2011-12-01T09:30:00.002-07:00

Ashes
By Ilsa J. Bick

Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.

iBoy
By Kevin Brooks

Sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack that caused fragments of an iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power, but using that power against the gang that attacked him and a friend could have deadly consequences.

Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World of Food: Brains, Bugs, and Blood Sausage
By Andrew Zimmern

Shares the author's adventures and experiences gained while traveling the world in search of highly unusual meals.

Little Women and Me
By Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Modern-day teen Emily March turns to Louisa May Alcott's famous book for a school assignment and finds herself mysteriously transported to the world of "Little Women," where she undergoes surprising changes.

Dark Inside
By Jeyn Roberts

After tremendous earthquakes destroy the Earth's major cities, an ancient evil emerges, turning ordinary people into hunters, killers, and insane monsters, but a small group of teens comes together in a fight for survival and safety.

You Are My Only
By Beth Kephart

Tells, in their separate voices and at a space of fourteen years, of Emmy, whose baby has been stolen, and Sophie, a teenager who defies her nomadic, controlling mother by making friends with a neighbor boy and his elderly aunts.

The Hunger Games Companion
By Lois H. Gresh

Go behind the scenes of the popular trilogy, examining characters, themes, and more.

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
Edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant

A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.

The Beginning of After
By Jennifer Castle

In the aftermath of a car accident that killed her family, sixteen-year-old Laurel must face a new world of guilt, painful memories, and the possibility of new relationships.

Saga of the Sioux
Adapted by Dwight Jon Zimmerman

Chronicles the tragic saga of the Sioux nation from 1860 to the 1890 massacre through the experiences of its chiefs and warriors, allowing their voices to be heard about what befell their people.

Misfit
By Jon Skovron

Seattle sixteen-year-old Jael must negotiate normal life in Catholic school while learning to control the abilities she inherited from her mother, a demon, and protect those she loves from Belial, the Duke of Hell.

Past Perfect
By Leila Sales

Sixteen-year-old Chelsea knows what to expect when she returns for a summer of historical reenactment at Colonial Essex Village until she learns that her ex-boyfriend is working there, too, and then meets the very attractive Dan who works at a rival historical village.

Unforgettable
By Loretta Ellsworth

When Baxter Green was three years old he developed a condition that causes him to remember absolutely everything, and now that he is fifteen, he and his mother have moved to Minnesota to escape her criminal boyfriend and, Baxter hopes, to reconnect with a girl he has been thinking about since kindergarten.

New in November

2011-11-01T09:30:00.003-06:00

Sign Language
By Amy Ackley

Teenaged Abby must deal with her feelings about her father's cancer and its aftermath while simultaneously navigating the difficult problems of growing up.

Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction 2: Build a Secret Agent Arsenal
By John Austin

This hilarious book provides instructions for building 30 miniature spy gear, such as a toothpaste periscope and a bionic ear. Also includes tips for how to conceal your gear.

Following Christopher Creed
By Carol Plum-Ucci

Legally-blind college reporter Mike Mavic hopes to get a story about a body found in Steepleton, believed to be that of long-missing teen Christopher Creed, but finds something odd about the town, including Justin Creed's obsessive drive to learn what really happened to his older brother.

Battle Fatigue
By Mark Kurlansky

Joel Bloom chronicles his life experiences during the 1960's which eventually lead him to oppose the war in Vietnam and to flee to Canada rather than be forced to kill Vietnamese.

The Siren's Cry
By Jennifer Anne Kogler

During a trouble-filled school field trip to Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Fern finds and tries to rescue fellow Unusual Miles Zapo, who is imprisoned at the National Zoological Park, using her abilities with teleportation and telekinesis.

The Name of the Star
By Maureen Johnson

Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.

Ghosts in the Fog
By Samantha Seiple

Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands during WWII from the point of view of American civilians, and American and Japanese soldiers.

Fostergirls
By Liane Shaw

Sadie has been in thirteen group homes, and wants to get out of the system. But it isn't easy to be invisible in a small town.

Frost
By Wendy Delsol

After her boyfriend Jack conjures up a record-breaking snow storm, sixteen-year-old Kat LeBlanc finds herself facing an unusual rival in the form of an environmental researcher from Greenland who is drawn to their small town of Norse Falls, Minnesota, by the storm.

Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!
By Glenn Murphy

Presents useful information and facts on some of the most common fears, from poisonous spiders and shark bites in the ocean to the probability of being struck by lightning or killed by a flesh-eating bacteria.

Crush Control
By Jennifer Jabaley

When Willow Grey was nine years old she hypnotized her best friend Max to ensure that they would remain best friends forever, but finds that she feels something different for Max now that she is seventeen.

New in October

2011-10-01T09:30:00.005-06:00

A Plague Year
By Edward Bloor

A ninth-grader who works with his father in the local supermarket describes the plague of meth addiction that consumes many people in his Pennsylvania coal mining town from 9/11 and the nearby crash of United Flight 93 in Shanksville to the Quecreek Mine disaster in Somerset the following summer.

All These Things I've Done
By Gabrielle Zevin

In a dystopian future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.

Top Secret: Shady Tales of Spies and Spying
By Dorling Kindersley

This entertaining look at spying throughout history covers gadgets and tools, techniques, famous spies, tips for aspiring secret agents, and more.

The Poisoned House
By Michael Ford

As the widowed master of an elegant house in Victorian-era London slips slowly into madness and his tyrannical housekeeper takes on more power, a ghostly presence distracts a teenaged maidservant with clues to a deadly secret.

Dark of the Moon
By Tracy Barrett

Retells the story of the minotaur through the eyes of his fifteen-year-old sister, Ariadne, a lonely girl destined to become a goddess of the moon, and her new friend, Theseus, the son of Athens' king who was sent to Crete as a sacrifice to her misshapen brother.

Every Thing on It
By Shel Silverstein

This poetry collection includes more than 130 never-before-seen poems and drawings selected by Silverstein's family from his archives.

The Only Ones
By Aaron Starmer

After setting off from the island where he has been leading a solitary existence, thirteen-year-old Martin discovers a village with other children who have been living similarly without any adults, since the grown-ups have all been spirited away.

Silhouetted by the Blue
By Traci L. Jones

After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the ead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.

First Kill
By Heather Brewer

The summer before ninth grade, when Joss sets off to meet his uncle and hunt down the beast that murdered his younger sister three years earlier, he learns he is destined to join the Slayer Society.

Alice in Time
By Penelope Bush

As her self-centered behavior spirals out of control, fourteen-year-old Alice gets an unusual chance to fix her whole disastrous life when she is mysteriously spirited back in time.

Children's Book of Mythical Beasts & Magical Monsters
By Dorling Kindersley

Shares tales of adventure, quests, magical creatures from around the world.

The Day Before
By Lisa Schroeder

Sixteen-year-old Amber, hoping to spend one perfect day alone at the beach before her world is turned upside down, meets and feels a strong connection to Cade, who is looking for his own escape, for a very different reason.

Wolf Mark
By Joseph Bruchac

When Lucas King's covert-ops father is kidnapped and his best friend Meena is put in danger, Luke's only chance to save them--a skin that will let him walk as a wolf--is hidden away in an abandoned mansion guarded by monsters.

New in September

2011-09-01T09:30:00.003-06:00

The Lost Crown
By Sarah Miller

In alternating chapters, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia tell how their privileged lives as the daughters of the tsar in early twentieth-century Russia are transformed by world war and revolution.

Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier
Edited by Jonathan Strahan

Presents thirteen short stories by various science fiction authors which center around the theme of life on the planet Mars.

Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto
By Paul B. Janeczko

Janeczko's powerful poems, accented with historic illustrations by actual inmates, convey the horrors of the Czech concentration camp Terezín.

How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend
By Gary Ghislain

Fourteen-year-old David, the son of a famous French psychologist, falls in love with Zelda, a new patient who believes she is from outer space, and soon they are tearing through Paris in search of her chosen one, Johnny Depp, so that she can take him to her home planet, Vahalal.

The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills
By Joanna Pearson

Aspiring anthropologist Janice Wills reports on the socio-cultural ordeals of being an almost-seventeen-year-old in Melva, North Carolina, including "Beautiful Rich Girls," parties, and the Miss Livermush pageant.

87 Ways to Throw a Killer Party
By Melissa Daly

Offers party planning advice with themes and suggestions for games, movies, and activities.

Daughter of Xanadu
By Dori Jones Yang

Emmajin, the sixteen-year-old eldest granddaughter of Khublai Khan, becomes a warrior and falls in love with explorer Marco Polo in thirteenth-century China.

Sidekicks
By Jack D. Ferraiolo

Scott Hutchinson has an alternate identity as Bright Boy, the sidekick of Phantom Justice, but with the help of his rival sidekick, Monkeywrench, Scott begins to question whether Phantom Justice is really a hero, which leads to a dangerous confrontation.

Corsets and Clockwork
Edited by Trisha Telep

Collects thirteen original stories set during the Victorian era, including tales of steam-powered machines, family secrets, and love.

Science: The Incredible Visual Guide
By Clive Gifford

Introducing the key aspects of science, this book covers all the crucial topics from atoms and evolution to explosive chemical reactions.

Putting Makeup on Dead People
By Jen Violi

Donna's discovery, that she wants to be a mortician, helps her come into her own and finally understand that moving forward doesn't mean forgetting someone you love.

The Absolute Value of Mike
By Kathryn Erskine

Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.

Displacement
By Thalia Chaltas

After tragedy strikes her family, Vera runs away to a small desert town where she tries unsuccessfully to forget her grief and sorrow.

New in August

2011-08-01T09:25:00.011-06:00

The Summer I Learned to Fly
By Dana Reinhardt

Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.

This Thing Called the Future
By J. L. Powers

Fourteen-year-old Khosi's mother wants her to get an education to break out of their South African shantytown, although she herself is wasting away from an untreated illness, while Khosi's grandmother, Gogo, seeks help from a traditional Zulu healer.

Americapedia
By Andisheh Nouraee, Daniel Ehrenhaft, & Jodi Lyn Anderson

This is a crash course in history, government, and more, with a satirical spin on what readers might normally find in a textbook.

Department 19
By Will Hill

After watching his father's brutal murder, sixteen-year-old Jamie Carpenter joins Department 19, a secret government agency, where he learns of the existence of vampires and the history that ties him to the team destined to stop them.

Akata Witch
By Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.

Withering Tights
By Louise Rennison

Self-conscious about her knobby knees but confident in her acting ability, fourteen-year-old Tallulah spends the summer at a Yorkshire performing arts camp that, she is surprised to learn, is for girls only.

What It's Like
By Jeff Belanger

Twelve ordinary people share their extraordinary experiences, from surviving a shark attack to exploring the North Pole to climbing Mt. Everest with no legs.

Will Work for Prom Dress
By Aimee Ferris

Seventeen-year-old Quigley and her best friend Anne have big plans to prepare for prom, including working to earn money for dresses, but both girls seem to have chosen their prospective dates badly as Anne's family crisis affects them all.

Illegal
By Bettina Restrepo

Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father.

The Grumpy Girl's Guide to Good Manners
By Rachel Aboukhair

The author describes proper behavior for girls, as learned during her stay at an "etiquette camp".

Voice of the Undead
By Jason Henderson

After a fire damages his boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex and his friends move to the girls' school across the lake, where supernatural happenings are disturbing the peace, and in the meantime, more Van Helsing family secrets are revealed.

When the Stars Go Blue
By Caridad Ferrer

Soledad Reyes decides to dance Carmen as part of a drum and bugle corps competition, not knowing if it will help or harm her chance of becoming a professional ballet dancer but eager to pursue new options, including a romance with the boy who invited her to audition.

White Crow
By Marcus Sedgwick

Sixteen-year-old Rebecca moves with her father from London to a small, seaside village, where she befriends another motherless girl and they spend the summer together exploring the village's sinister history.

New in July

2011-07-01T09:30:00.001-06:00

Ruby Red
By Kerstin Gier

Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust.

Rise of the Corpses
By Ty Drago

When the living dead invade Philadelphia, Will Ritter and a group of teenage resistance fighters, known as the Undertakers, are the only ones that can see them to stop the invasion.

Teeth: Vampire Tales
Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

A collection of nineteen short stories about vampires features tales from Cassandra Clare and Holly Black, Neil Gaiman, and Melissa Marr.

Ask Elizabeth
By Elizabeth Berkley

Written in the spirit of a group diary, Ask Elizabeth addresses the emotional lives of teen girls based on the most frequently asked questions from workshops presented by Elizabeth Berkley.

Never Sit Down in a Hoopskirt and Other Things I Learned in Southern Belle Hell
By Crickett Rumley

After being ousted from yet another elite boarding school, seventeen-year-old Jane returns to her Alabama hometown, where her grandmother persuades her to enter the Magnolia Maid pageant.

A Hare in the Elephant's Trunk
By Jan L. Coates

Inspired by the real life experiences of a Sudanese boy, follows Jacob Akech Deng's journey as he flees his home under the threat of war, and, guided by the memory of his mother, tries to survive in a refugee camp.

Jersey Tomatoes Are the Best
By Maria Padian

When fifteen-year-old best friends Henry and Eve leave New Jersey, one for tennis camp in Florida and one for ballet camp in New York, each faces challenges that put her long-cherished dreams of the future to the test.

Cleopatra Confesses
By Carolyn Meyer

Princess Cleopatra, the third (and favorite) daughter of King Ptolemy XII, comes of age in ancient Egypt, accumulating power and discovering love.

101 Great Bombers
Edited by Robert Jackson

The developmental history of legendary fighting aircraft, from WWI to the present day. Includes full technical specifications, photographs, and profile artwork for aviation's most impressive bombers.

The Healer's Apprentice
By Melanie Dickerson

In this story loosely based on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, seventeen-year-old Rose, a healer's apprentice, falls in love with the betrothed Lord Hamlin, who is seeking the sorcerer who cursed his future bride.

The Magnolia League
By Katie Crouch

After the death of her free-spirited mother, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Lee is forced to move from Northern California to Savannah, Georgia, to live with her wealthy grandmother, who expects Alex to join a long-standing debutante society, which, Alex learns, has made a pact with a legendary Hoodoo family.

What Guys Need to Know about Girls/What Girls Need to Know about Guys
By John Hilton III & Lani Hilton

This flip book (half dedicated to boys, half dedicated to girls) provides LDS teens with tips and advice for dealing with the opposite sex.

New Graphic Novels

2011-06-01T09:30:00.002-06:00

Thor: The Mighty Avenger
By Roger Langridge

Presents Thor's arrival on Earth and how he fights evil villains.

Usagi Yojimbo: The Brink of Life and Death
By Stan Sakai

While journeying over mountains, into valleys, through towns and farmlands, and along rugged coasts searching for harmony, rabbit ronin Usagi faces a unique cast of characters. More than once Usagi finds himself in great danger, but it's all in a day's work.

Excalibur: The Legend of King Arthur
By Tony Lee

Retells, in graphic novel form, the tale of Arthur Pendragon who, raised in obscurity, draws a legendary sword from a stone and begins the life he was born to lead, guided by the elusive wizard Merlin.

Bakuman
By Tsugumi Oba

Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world?

Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography
By Sid Jacobson & Ernie Colon

Drawing on the archives and expertise of the Anne Frank House, the best-selling authors of 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation cover the short-but-inspiring life of the famed Jewish teen memoirist, from the lives of her parents to Anne's years keeping her private diary while hidden from the Nazis to her untimely death in a concentration camp.

Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer and the Great Puppet Theater
By Van Jensen

Follows Pinocchio's continuing quest to find the vampire master and rid the world of vampires, as his fellow puppets join him on a journey across Italy.

The Odyssey
By Gareth Hinds

Retells, in graphic novel format, Homer's epic tale of Odysseus, the ancient Greek hero who encounters witches and other obstacles on his journey home after fighting in the Trojan War.

Mice Templar: Destiny
By Bryan J. L. Glass & Michael Avon Oeming

Karic might be the Chosen One--but what does such a title even mean for the young mouse who desires only to save his family from a monstrous fate? Under the training of exile Cassius, Karic learns what it truly is to be a Templar knight and warrior.

Return of the Dapper Men
By Jim McCann

When the Dapper men arrive in Anorev to restart time, Ayden, Zoe, and Dapper Man 41 seek to repair whatever made time stop.

Twin Spica
By Kou Yaginuma

Asumi is just one of many young people with ambitions to become a member of the first class admitted to the Tokyo Space School. Asumi is put to the test to determine if she has what it takes to get into this elite space academy. First Asumi has to convince herself and her father that she ultimately belongs amongst the stars.

New in May

2011-05-01T09:30:00.001-06:00

Okay for Now
By Gary D. Schmidt

While Doug struggles to be more than the thug that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds and unlikely ally in Lil Spicer, as they explore Audubon's art.

The Betrayal of Maggie Blair
By Elizabeth Laird

In seventeenth-century Scotland, sixteen-year-old Maggie Blair is sentenced to be hanged as a witch but escapes to the home of her uncle, placing him and his family in great danger as she risks her life to save them all from the King's men.

The Werewolf Handbook
By Robert Curran

An essential guide to werewolves and, more importantly, how to avoid them.

Ten Miles Past Normal
By Frances O'Roark Dowell

Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.

The Running Dream
By Wendelin Van Draanen

When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

The FitzOsbornes in Exile
By Michelle Cooper

In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social whirl of London parties and balls, they remain determined to free their island home from the occupying Germans despite growing rumors of a coming war that might doom their country forever.

The Teen's Guide to World Domination
By Josh Shipp

Teen advice guru and motivational speaker Shipp delivers a hilarious, inspirational guide for the millennial generation that covers everything from broken self-esteem to family crisis to what to do after high school.

Between Shades of Gray
By Rut Sepetys

In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family.

Then I Met My Sister
By Christine Hurley Deriso

Summer Stetson has always lived in the shadow of her dead sister, knowing she can never measure up in any way, but on her seventeenth birthday her aunt gives her Shannon's diary, which reveals painful but liberating truths about Summer's family and herself.

Start It Up: The Complete Teen Business Guide to Turning Your Passions into Pay
By Kenrya Rankin

Provides teens with advice on opening a business--including business types, plans, registering a business, finances, employees, marketing, customer service, doing good, and moving on--and profiles young entrepreneurs.

Benito Runs
By Justine Fontes

Benito's father, Xavier, returns from Iraq after more than a year suffering from PTSD--post-traumatic stress disorder--and yells constantly. He causes such a scene at a school function that Benny is embarrased to go back to Southside High. Benny can't handle seeing his dad so crazy, so he decides to run away. Will Benny find a new life, or will he learn how to deal with his dad--through good times and bad?

The Liar Society
By Lisa & Laura Roecker

When Kate receives a mysterious e-mail from her dead friend Grace, she must prove that Grace's death was not an accident, but finds that her elite private school holds secrets so big people are willing to kill to protect them.

New in April

2011-04-01T09:30:00.001-06:00

Trapped
By Michael Northrop

Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.

Delirium
By Lauren Oliver

Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.

Spies of Mississippi
By Rick Bowers

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.

Deadly
By Julie Chibbaro

In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.

Skin
By Rick Jasper

Nick Barry's bad problems with his complexion, combined with anger problems and rashes appearing in strange patterns, lead him in search of an answer to what might be lurking beneath his skin.

Strutting It! The Grit Behind the Glamour
By Jeanne Beker

Provides a glimpse into the real world of fashion models and modeling and includes profiles of many famous models.

Prom and Prejudice
By Elizabeth Eulberg

For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.

The Blending Time
By Michael Kinch

In the harsh world of 2069, ravaged by plagues and environmental disasters, friends Jaym, Reya, and D'Shay are chosen to help repopulate Africa as their mandatory Global Alliance work, but civil war and mercenaries opposed to the Blending Program separate them and threaten their very lives.

Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing
By Ann Angel

Introduces the life and career of the iconic music performer, commemorates the anniversary of her death, and draws on anecdotes from friends and bandmates that help examine her relationships, musical themes, and ongoing influence.

Sean Griswold's Head
By Lindsey Leavitt

After discovering that her father has multiple sclerosis, fifteen-year-old Payton begins counseling sessions at school, which lead her to become interested in a boy in her biology class, have a falling out with her best friend, develop an interest in bike riding, and eventually allow her to come to terms with life's uncertainties.

Warped
By Maurissa Guibord

When seventeen-year-old Tessa Brody comes into possession of an ancient unicorn tapestry, she is plummeted into sixteenth-century England, where her life is intertwined with that of a handsome nobleman who is desperately trying to escape a terrible fate.

New in March

2011-03-01T10:32:00.006-07:00

The Water Wars
By Cameron Stracher

In a world where water has become a precious resource, Vera and her brother befriend a boy who seems to have unlimited access to water and who suspiciously disappears, prompting a dangerous search challenged by pirates, a paramilitary group, and corporations.

Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
By Candace Fleming

Tells the story of Amelia Earhart's life - as a child, a woman, and a pilot - and describes the search for her missing plane.

The Doomsday Box
By Herbie Brennan

Working on a highly-classified espionage project, four English teenagers go back in time to the Cold War in 1962 to prevent a global outbreak of the bubonic plague in the twenty-first century.

Wishful Thinking
By Alexandra Bullen

Adopted as a baby, lonely eighteen-year-old Hazel Snow always yearned to know her origins, and with the help of a magical seamstress, Hazel wishes her way into an alternate life on Martha's Vineyard with the mother she never knew.

Mad Love
By Suzanne Selfors

When her famous romance-novelist mother is secretly hospitalized in an expensive mental facility, sixteen-year-old Alice tries to fulfill her mother's contract with her publisher by writing a love story--with the help of Cupid.

The Boy From Ilysies
By Pearl North

Cast out of the Libyrinth after being tricked into committing a crime, young Po may return only if he completes a dangerous mission to retrieve a legendary artifact that could either be the answer to all of the Libyrinth's problems, or could destroy the world.

See What I See
By Gloria Whelan

When eighteen-year-old Kate arrives on the Detroit doorstep of her long-estranged father, a famous painter, she is shocked to learn that he is dying and does not want to support her efforts to attend the local art school.

Camo Girl
By Kekla Magoon

A poignant novel about a biracial girl living in the suburbs of Las Vegas examines the friendships that grow out of, and despite, her race.

Rip the Page!
By Karen Benke

This guide to creative writing includes experiments, word lists, and letters from popular authors to inspire teen authors.

TimeRiders
By Alex Scarrow

Rescued from imminent death, teens Maddy, Liam, and Sal join forces in 2001 Manhattan to correct changes in history made by other time travelers, using a "time bubble" surrounding the attack on the Twin Towers to hide their journeys.

Jenna and Jonah's Fauxmance
By Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin

Two popular television stars who dislike each other intensely must pretend to be a couple for publicity purposes, and when the truth is discovered their relationship goes through many changes.

Justin Bieber: The Fever
By Marc Shapiro

Presents the life and accomplishments of the young popular music singer, from his childhood as the son of a single mother to his music career, superstar life, and the details of his next album.

New in February

2011-02-01T09:35:00.003-07:00

The Zodiac Killer: Terror and Mystery
By Brenda Haugen

Examines the details of the Zodiac Killer case in 1960s San Francisco, including the victims, the crimes, and speculations as to the identity of the Zodiac Killer.

Prisoners in the Palace
By Michaela MacColl

Recently orphaned and destitute, seventeen-year-old Liza Hastings earns a position as a lady's maid to sixteen-year-old Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace in 1836, the year before Victoria becomes Queen of England.

Hero
By Mike Lupica

Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.

Real Live Boyfriends
By E. Lockhart

Now a senior at her Seattle prep school, Ruby continues her angst-filled days coping with the dilemmas of boyfriends, college applications, her parents' squabbling, and realizing that her "deranged" persona may no longer apply.

The Crossing
By Jim Murphy

Presents an account of a landmark event in American history in which a future first U.S. president emerges as a military leader while working to transform a ragtag army into an effective fighting force.

A Good Long Way
By Rene Saldana, Jr.

Three Mexican American teenagers in a small-town in Texas struggle with difficulties at home and at school as they try to attain the elusive status of adulthood.

I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend
By Cora Harrison

In a series of journal entries, Jenny Cooper describes her stay with cousin Jane Austen in the 1790s, and her entrance into Jane's world of beautiful dresses, dances, secrets, gossip, and romance.

Around the World in 100 Days
By Gary Blackwood

When seventeen-year-old Harry Fogg undertakes a race against time to win a wager with a member of his famous father's club, he puts to good use the recklessness and fascination with all things mechanical that have caused him trouble in Victorian England.

The Real Alice in Wonderland
By C. M. Rubin

Explores the life of the girl who inspired Alice in Wonderland.

Fixing Delilah
By Sarah Ochler

When Delilah, her mother, and her aunt spend the summer in Vermont settling Delilah's estranged grandmother's estate, long-held family secrets are painfully brought to light and Delilah finally learns some difficult truths about her family's past.

New in January

2011-01-03T09:30:00.001-07:00

Rot and Ruin
By Jonathan Maberry

In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.

The Jumbee
By Pamela Keyes

Devastated by the death of her Shakespearean-actor father, Esti Legard moves to a tropical island for her senior year in high school, where she finds herself torn between a mysterious, masked mentor and a seductive island boy, as she tries to escape the overpowering shadow of her famous father.

Lincoln's Flying Spies: Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps
By Gail Jarrow

Describes the contributions made to the Union's efforts in the Civil War by Thaddeus Lowe and a corps of hot air balloonists who helped spy on the Confederate army, despite becoming targets in the war themselves.

King of Ithaka
By Tracy Barrett

When sixteen-year-old Telemachos and his two best friends, one a centaur, leave their life of privilege to undertake a quest to find Telemachos's father Odysseus, they learn much along the way about what it means to be a man and a king.

Threads and Flames
By Esther Friesner

After recovering from typhus, thirteen-year-old Raisa leaves her Polish shtetl for America to join her older sister, and goes to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.

Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan
By John Bul Dau

Chronicles the experiences of a husband and wife who as children fled the poverty and violence of southern Sudan, describing the devastating impact of famine and war on the region while sharing memories of their efforts to adapt to American life.

Z
By Michael Thomas Ford

In the year 2032, after a virus that turned people into zombies has been eradicated, Josh is invited to join an underground gaming society, where the gamers hunt zombies and the action is more dangerous than it seems.

When I Was Joe
By Keren David

After Ty and his mother are placed in a witness protection program because he can identify his friend's murderers, he finds himself adjusting, but when his grandmother is hurt in a deliberate attack designed to get him to return to London, he knows he must make a choice.

Enchanted Ivy
By Sarah Beth Durst

To achieve her dream of attending Princeton University, sixteen-year-old Lily Carter accepts the challenge of seeking the Ivy Key to a magical realm, where she finds herself caught in a power struggle between two worlds, with her family at its center.

Naked Eggs and Flying Potatoes: Unforgettable Experiments That Make Science Fun
By Steve Spangler

A collection of easy and entertaining home science experiments from the creator of the popular "Mentos soda geyser" viral video.

Soccerland
By Beth Choat

When Flora leaves her family and their Maine potato farm for a tryout at the International Sports Academy, she struggles to hold her own through injuries, learning new positions, and contempt from other players.

Nobel Genes
By Rune Michaels

A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prize-winning sperm donor, eventually finding a truth he must learn to accept.

New in December

2010-12-01T09:30:00.001-07:00

Pathfinder
By Orson Scott Card

Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him.

Somebody Everybody Listens To
By Suzanne Supplee

Upon graduating from high school in the tiny town of Starling, Tennessee, aspiring country singer Retta Lee Jones manages to get herself to Nashville, where, in spite of some bad luck and hard times, she tries to persevere in pursuing her dreams.

The Unidentified
By Rae Mariz

In a futuristic alternative school set in a shopping mall where video game-playing students are observed and used by corporate sponsors for market research, Katey "Kid" Dade struggles to figure out where she fits in and whether she even wants to.

The Julian Game
By Adele Griffin

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

Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School
By Adam Fortunate Eagle

An unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School, Adam Fortunate Eagle shares anecdotes of dormitory culture, student pranks, and warrior games, a time he describes as nothing less than "a little bit of heaven."

Dangerous Neighbors
By Beth Kephart

Set against the backdrop of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Katherine cannot forgive herself when her beloved twin sister dies, and she feels that her only course of action is to follow suit.

Trash
By Andy Mulligan

Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.

The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie
By Tanya Lee Stone

Explores the history of the Barbie doll and Barbie’s inventor, Ruth Handler, as well as the controversy surrounding the Barbie doll.

Crusade
By Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie

An international team of six teenaged vampire hunters, trained in Salamanca, Spain, goes to New Orleans seeking to rescue team-member Jenn's younger sister as the vampires escalate their efforts to take over the Earth.

The Ruby Notebook
By Laura Resau

When sixteen-year-old Zeeta and her itinerant mother move to Aix-en-Provence, France, Zeeta is haunted by a mysterious admirer who keeps leaving mementoes for her, and when her Ecuadorian boyfriend comes to visit, their relationship seems to have changed.

Rock What You've Got
By Katherine Schwarzenegger

Schwarzeneggar encourages girls to build a healthy self-esteem and embrace a new definition of beauty.

New in November

2010-11-01T09:30:00.001-06:00

The Ring of Solomon
By Jonathan Stroud

Wise-cracking djinni Bartimaeus finds himself at the court of King Solomon with an unpleasant master, a sinister servant, and King Solomon's magic ring.

The Dark Game: True Spy Stories
By Paul B. Janeczko

Describes the contributions and techniques of American spies over the course of the past two centuries, recounting dramatic missions while profiling such historical figures as anti-slavery spy Elizabeth Van Lew and the "Choctaw code talkers."

Star Crossed
By Elizabeth C. Bunce

In a kingdom dominated by religious intolerance, sixteen-year-old Digger, a street thief, has always avoided attention, but when she learns that her friends are plotting against the throne she must decide whether to join them or turn them in.

The 10 p. m. Question
By Kate De Goldi

Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has a quirky family, a wonderful best friend, and a head full of worrying questions that he shares with his mother each night, but when free-spirited Sydney arrives at school with questions of her own, Frankie is forced to face the ultimate ten p.m. question.

The Replacement
By Brenna Yovanoff

When the creatures under the hill want him back, Mackie Doyle must decide where he belongs and what he wants.

Lafayette and the American Revolution
By Russell Freedman

Presents a biography about the French nobleman who assisted the American colonists in their struggle for freedom from England during the Revolutionary War.

Cloaked in Red
By Vivian Vande Velde

Presents eight twists on the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood, exploring such issues as why most characters seem dim-witted and what, exactly, is the theme.

Three Black Swans
By Caroline B. Cooney

When sixteen-year-old Missy Vianello decides to try to convince her classmates that her cousin Claire is really her long-lost identical twin, she has no idea that the results of her prank will be so life-changing.

Digital Photo Madness! 50 Weird and Wacky Things to Do With Your Digital Camera
By Thom Gaines

Offers an introduction to digital photography and fifty inventive activities including instructions for creating pop art and a "trapped-in-the-computer" screen saver.

Tell Us We're Home
By Marina Budhos

Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.

New in October

2010-10-01T11:39:00.003-06:00

The House of Dead Maids
By Clare B. Dunkle

Eleven-year-old Tabby Aykroyd, who would later serve as housekeeper for thirty years to the Bronte sisters, is taken from an orphanage to a ghost-filled house, where she and a wild young boy are needed for a pagan ritual.

Payback Time
By Carl Deuker

Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field-- or to discuss his past.

Teen Cuisine
By Matthew Locricchio

This collection of easy recipes for teen cooks includes basics, comfort foods, and dishes with international flair.

Starlighter
By Bryan Davis

Jason Masters does not believe that dragons take people to another realm as slaves until his own brother is taken, but once through the portal he meets Koren, a slave struggling to destroy a black egg prophesied to doom all mankind.

Annexed
By Sharon Dogar

The story of the boy who loved Anne Frank.

Do Not Open: An Encyclopedia of the World's Best-Kept Secrets
By John Farndon

Covering nearly 100 topics, including the Bermuda Triangle, Air Force One, and haunted houses, Do Not Open explores oddities, mysteries, and the unexplained.

Saving Sky
By Diane Stanley

In an America that has suffered continual terrorist attacks since 9/11, seventh-grader Sky stands up for what is right and helps a classmate of Middle Eastern descent, although doing so places her and her family at great risk.

Heart of a Samurai
By Margi Preus

In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.

Frederick Douglass: A Noble Life
By David A. Adler

When, in 1879, a bust in his likeness was placed at the University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass wrote: "Incidents of this character do much amaze me. It is not, however, the height to which I have risen, but the depth from which I have come that amazes me." This biography tells the story of his ascent from slavery.

The Half-Life of Planets
By Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin

An unlikely romance develops between a science-minded girl who is determined to reclaim her reputation and a boy with Asperger's Syndrome.

Rose Sees Red
By Cecil Castellucci

In the 1980s, two teenaged ballet dancers--one American, one Russian--spend an unforgettable night in New York City, forming a lasting friendship despite their cultural and political differences.

New in September

2010-09-01T09:30:00.004-06:00

As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth
By Lynne Rae Perkins

A teenaged boy encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck.

They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
By Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Uses personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents, and diaries, to unveil the creation of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee, and its spread across the American South.

The Keeper's Tattoo
By Gill Arbuthnott

Months before her fifteenth birthday, Nyssa learns that she is a special member of a legendary clan, the Keepers of Knowledge, as she and her uncle try to escape from Alaric, the White Wolf, who wants to use lines tattooed on her to destroy the rest of her people.

The Sorcerer of Sainte Felice
By Ann Finnin

In fifteenth-century France, fifteen-year-old Michael de Lorraine is saved from execution by Abbot Francis and granted refuge at the Benedictine monastery of Sainte Felice, where he tries to use his powers to save his new friends and mentors from the Inquisition.

Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"
By Michael O. Tunnell

Presents the life of the American Air Force pilot responsible for setting up the airlift of candy to the children of Berlin in 1948 and 1949 after the end of World War II and describes the gratitude of the German people for his efforts.

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
By Emily Horner

As she tries to sort out her feelings of love, seventeen-year-old Cass, a spunky math genius with an introverted streak, finds a way to memorialize her dead best friend.

The Buccaneer's Apprentice
By V. Briceland

On his first sea voyage, seventeen-year-old Nic Dattore faces vicious pirates then, with a motley crew of castaways, decides to commandeer the pirate ship to return home, racing against time to save the magical city of Cassaforte from a diabolical plot.

The Paper Boomerang Book
By Mark Latno

Presents a guide to making, troubleshooting, and correctly throwing paper boomerangs, as well as information on the history of boomerangs and the principles of how they work.

Freak Magnet
By Andrew Auseon

Two teenagers, both burdened by grief and loss, find each other and gradually develop a strong connection to one another.

No Moon
By Irene N. Watts

Nursemaid Louisa Gardener still blames herself for the drowning of her two-year-old brother almost ten years earlier, and so she dreads having to accompany the family she works for as they travel to New York on the Titanic.

New in August

2010-08-01T10:00:00.007-06:00

Bruiser
By Neal Shusterman

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

Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns
By Elizabeth MacLeod

From monarchs murdered at the hands of their subjects to kings killed on the battlefield, the stories of ten royals are told through the blending of dramatic storytelling and historical fact and enhanced with fascinating photographs and artwork.

Ship Breaker
By Paolo Bacigalupi

In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs
By Ron Koertge

Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland, poet and first baseman, is torn between his cute girlfriend Mira and Amy, who is funny, plays Chopin on the piano, and is also a poet.

Trapped--Youth in the Nazi Ghettos
By Ann Byers

Examines the lives of Jewish children and teens in the ghettos during the Holocaust, including the formation of the ghettos, the miserable conditions, hard labor, and the deportations to camps.

Dark Life
By Kat Falls

When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.

Sisters Red
By Jackson Pearce

After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son.

Lawn Boy Returns
By Gary Paulsen

Having expanded his summer lawn mowing job into an ever-growing business conglomerate, a twelve-year-old boy gets involved in high finance thanks to his hippie stockbroker, takes on sponsorship of a boxer, and becomes a media sensation.

Bulu: African Wonder Dog
By Dick Houston

When Anna and Steve move from England to Zambia to found a wildlife education center, they adopt a dog named Bulu in spite of the dangers he would face, and come to value his company and his way with the animals at the center.

The Thin Executioner
By Darren Shan

In a nation of warriors where weakness is shunned and all crimes, no matter how minor, are punishable by beheading, young Jebel Rum, along with a slave who is fated to be sacrificed, sets forth on a quest to petition the Fire God for invincibility, but when the long and arduous journey is over, Jebel has learned much about fairness and the value of life.

New in July

2010-06-30T10:40:00.027-06:00

The Gardener
By S. A. Bodeen

When high school sophomore Mason finds a beautiful but catatonic girl in the nursing home where his mother works, the discovery leads him to revelations about a series of disturbing human experiments that have a connection to his own life.

The Mitochondrial Curiosities of Marcels 1 to 19
By Jocelyn Brown

Dree can't wait to leave Edmonton for the Renegade Craft Fair in Toronto, but when her father has a fatal heart attack her attention turns to investigating clues about her parents' past, while attempting to pass science class and grieve for her father.

You Can Do a Graphic Novel
By Barbara Slate

Graphic novelist Barbara Slate guides those who want to create graphic novels through the process of developing their own styles, creating engaging stories, and understanding the graphic novel industry.

Payback
By Rosemary Hayes

Halima, a teenaged Muslim girl living in London, discovers her father owes a favor to a distant relative in Pakistan and must repay the debt by forcing Halima into marriage.

The Line
By Teri Hall
Rachel thinks that she and her mother are safe working for Ms. Moore at her estate close to The Line, an invisible border of the Unified States, but when Rachel has an opportunity to Cross into the forbidden zone, she is both frightened and intrigued.

Choppy Socky Blues
By Ed Briant

In the South of England, fourteen-year-old Jay resumes contact with his father, a movie stuntman and karate instructor, after two years of estrangement to impress a girl who turns out to be the girlfriend of Jay's former best friend.

She Thief
By Daniel Finn

When Demi--a master pickpocket working for the gang leader Fay--steals a ring, his partner in crime, Baz, soon finds herself alone and betrayed as police and the Barrio's crime boss close in on Fay and her den of child thieves.

Bro-Jitsu: The Martial Art of Sibling Smackdown
By Daniel H. Wilson

Presents a humorous look into sibling rivalry while examining classic moves such as, noogies, wedgies, and the wet-towel snap.

Thief Eyes
By Janni Lee Simner

Haley's mother disappeared while on a trip to Iceland, and a year later, when her father takes her there to find out what happened, Haley finds herself deeply involved in an ancient saga that began with her Nordic ancestors.

Friend Is Not a Verb
By Daniel Ehrenhaft

While sixteen-year-old Hen's family and friends try to make his supposed dreams of becoming a rock star come true, he deals with the reality of being in a band with an ex-girlfriend, a friendship that may become love, and his older sister's mysterious disappearance and reappearance.

The Plague
By Joanne Dahme

Nell acts as a bodydouble for Princess Joan, but after Joan dies of the plague, her brother, the Black Prince, wants Nell to assume the princess' identity and marry a prince, while Nell tries to escape in order to tell the king the truth about his daughter.

New Nonfiction Additions

2010-05-31T09:41:00.008-06:00

World of the Weird
By Tracey Turner

Find out about weird real-life phenomena and mind-boggling scientific adventures and follow instructions for such activities as bringing a dead plant back to life, growing a bacteria colony, and making ectoplasm.

How to Be a Genius: Your Brain and How to Train It
By John Woodward

This bright and colorful guide to the brain describes how the brain works and how it makes people unique. It includes puzzles, games, quizzes, and optical illusions to sharpen the wit.

Illustrated Book of Myths: Tales and Legends of the World
Retold by Neil Philip

Every culture in history has had its own myths to help explain the world through the power of story. This engaging book offers a delightful, sweeping view of world mythology--not just the famous stories of the Greeks and Romans, but also the stories of Native Americans and legends from South America, Africa, Scandinavia, Asia, and Australia. Young readers will learn about Zeus and Pandora from Greece, King Arthur from England, Maui-of-a-Thousand-Tricks from Polynesia, the Rainbow Serpent from West Africa, and dozens of other colorful, larger-than-life characters from around the world. (Summary from Amazon.com)

Vampireology: The True History of the Fallen Ones
By Archibald Brooks

Explore the legends of vampires. This book, which purports to be written in 1900, shows letters between a researcher and a young woman who needs help. It sheds light on what happened to three historic vampire bloodlines, how the and that includes booklets, flaps, and letters between the young researcher who discovered it in the 1920s and an alluring woman who seeks his help.

Say What? The Weird and Mysterious Journey of the English Language
By Gena K. Gorrell

What makes English so weird? Why doesn’t it make sense? This book presents the history of the modern English language and how previous languages and civilizations influenced its development and shows how all those influences came together to make English its lovable, troublesome self.

Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation
Story by Michael Keller

A stunning graphic adaptation of one of the most famous, contested, and important books of all time: "On the Origin of Species." Includes sections about Darwin's pioneering research, the book's initial public reception, his correspondence with other leading scientists, as well as the most recent breakthroughs in evolutionary theory.

My Anxious Mind
By Michael A. Tomkins and Katherine A. Martinez

Learn how to deal with anxiety. The author offers ways for teens with anxiety to improve their inter-personal skills, whether it be with friends, family, or teachers; manage stress; handle panic attacks; use diet and exercise appropriately; and decide whether medication is right for them.

Learn to Speak Music: A Guide to Creating, Performing, & Promoting Your Songs
By John Crossingham

This guide to help teens learn music by revealing every nook and cranny of how it's made. It explores every aspect of the pop music world, from songwriting and artwork to promotion and setting up a practice space. Special features include: insider's advice on choosing and buying an instrument, finding the right bandmates, setting up gigs, overcoming stage fright, emulating high-priced studio techniques at home, and much more. Also featured is a guide to shooting a music video from MTVA-nominated director Christopher Mills.

Time You Let Me In

Twenty-five poets under age twenty-five share poems about life, family, friends, and more. This collection of raw, passionate poetry puts a new spin on daily life.

Snapshot: The Visual Almanac for Our World Today

"Snapshot" explains the facts behind today's big issues, while also spotting trends hiding beneath the surface. "Snapshot" explains not just how the world works today, but also how things might work tomorrow.

More about Boy: Roald Dahl’s Tales from Childhood
By Roald Dahl

Go behind the scenes in Roald Dahl’s life. The creator of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and other fabulous stories shares inspirations for his books, including tales of sweet shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plot.

New in May

2010-05-01T10:31:00.003-06:00

Thirteen Days to Midnight
By Patrick Carman

In the aftermath of the accident that killed his foster father, high school student Jacob Fielding discovers that he has acquired the power of indestructibility, and the more he learns about it the more he realizes that it is a heavy burden, if not a curse.

My Life with the Lincolns
By Gayle Brandeis

In 1966 Illinois, twelve-year-old Wilhelmina, convinced that she, her parents, and sisters are Abraham Lincoln's family reincarnated, determines to keep them from suffering the same fates, which is complicated when she and her father become involved in the Civil Rights Movement.

Happyface
By Stephen Edmond

After going through traumatic times, a troubled, socially awkward teenager moves to a new school where he tries to reinvent himself.

My Invisible Boyfriend
By Susie Day

In a British alternative high school, fifteen-year-old Heidi stands out in many ways, but when she invents a boyfriend--complete with online profile--her friends turn to him for advice and she must decide how far she is willing to go to find acceptance.

Borderline
By Allan Stratton

Despite the strained relationship between them, teenaged Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot.

The Unwritten Rule
By Elizabeth Scott

Petite and young-looking, seventeen-year-old Sarah has been best friends with the glamorous and seductive Brianna forever, but when she starts liking Brianna's boyfriend, their friendship becomes precarious.

Mac Slater Hunts the Cool
By Tristan Bancks

Mac, an Australian youth, has one week to prove that he can be a "coolhunter," identifying emerging trends and posting images on a website, but he is competing against a classmate on whom he has a crush and dealing with resistance from his best friend and his own confusion over what "cool" means.

Foiled
By Jane Yolen

Outcast Aliera Carstairs may not fit in at school, but she's always a star in her fencing class, so when Avery Castle walks into her first period biology class, she must find a way to be noticed by the possible Prince Charming.

Missing in Action
By Dean Hughes

While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

Little Miss Red
By Robin Palmer

Sixteen-year-old Sophie's dream of meeting her soul mate during spring break in Florida seems to have come true, but she must determine if Jack is really the romantic hero he seems to be, or if ex-boyfriend Michael could be.

New in April

2010-04-01T17:32:00.002-06:00

Finnikin of the Rock
By Melina Marchetta

Now on the cusp of manhood, Finnikin, who was a child when the royal family of Lumatere was brutally murdered and replaced by an imposter, reluctantly joins forces with an enigmatic young novice and fellow-exile, who claims that her dark dreams will lead them to a surviving royal child and a way to regain the throne of Lumatere.

A Spy in the House
By Y. S. Lee

Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.

Possessed
By Kate Cann

Sixteen-year-old Rayne escapes London, her mother, and boyfriend for a job in the country at Morton's Keep, where she is drawn to a mysterious clique and its leader, St. John, but puzzles over whether the growing evil she senses is from the manor house or her new friends.

Vintage Veronica
By Erica S. Perl

Taking a dream job in a vintage clothing store where she hopes to immerse herself in great fashion finds, lonely plus-sized teen Veronica is unexpectedly befriended by two salesgirls and urged to spy on an awkward stock boy who unexpectedly captures her heart.

Heist Society
By Ally Carter

A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.

The Carbon Diaries 2017
By Saci Lloyd

In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.

Poisoned Honey: A Story of Mary Magdalene
By Beatrice Gormley

Relates events from the life of a girl who would grow up to be a close follower of Jesus Christ, interspersed with stories of the Apostle Matthew. Includes author's note distinguishing what Scripture says of Mary Magdalene from later traditions.

All Unquiet Things
By Anna Jarzab

After the death of his ex-girlfriend Carly, northern California high school student Neily joins forces with Carly's cousin Audrey to try to solve her murder.

The Mark
By Jen Nadol

While in Kansas living with an aunt she never knew existed and taking a course in philosophy, sixteen-year-old Cass struggles to learn what, if anything, she should do with her ability to see people marked to die within a day's time.

New in March

2010-03-01T09:30:00.007-07:00

8th Grade Superzero
By Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

After half-heartedly joining his church youth group's project at a homeless shelter near his Brooklyn middle school, eighth-grade "loser" Reggie McKnight is inspired to run for school office on a platform of making a real difference in the community.

Struts and Frets
By Jon Skovron

Sammy wants to be a musician, as was his grandfather, but while the band he is in is self-destructing, Sammy is too distracted by his grandfather's decline and confused feelings about his best friend to fix it--and his mother stays too busy to help.

Darklight
By Lesley Livingston

After a dangerous encounter in Central Park, actress Kelley Winslow, who has only recently learned that she is a Faerie, journeys to the Otherworld and begins to untangle the strands of a magical conspiracy with far-reaching consequences.

Flightsend
By Linda Newbery

When Charlie's depressed mother decides to start over, they move to a ramshackle cottage in the country, where Charlie struggles to make friends and develop her artistic skills while her mother tries to launch a business.

The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
By Josh Berk

Feeling like an outcast in his new high school because of his hearing impairment and large-framed body, Will Halpin befriends a fellow misfit who may have solved the mystery behind the suspicious death of a star quarterback.

Just Another Girl
By Melody Carlson

Sixteen-year-old Aster, caught between a self-absorbed older sister and a mentally-disabled younger one, yearns for a normal life and, with her first boyfriend's encouragement and trust in God, she begins to make things better.

After Ever After
By Jordan Sonnenblick

Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.

Eli the Good
By Silas House

In the summer of 1976, ten-year-old Eli Book's excitement over Bicentennial celebrations is tempered by his father's flashbacks to the Vietnam War and other family problems, as well as concern about his tough but troubled best friend, Edie.

Broadway Lights
By Jen Calonita

Hollywood teen starlet Katilin Burke moves to New York for the summer to appear in a Broadway show, all the while worrying about her boyfriend back in Los Angeles, her handsome new co-star, and the offstage drama going on around her.

New in February

2010-02-01T10:30:00.002-07:00

Ice
By Sarah Beth Durst

A modern-day retelling of "East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon" in which eighteen-year-old Cassie learns that her grandmother's fairy tale is true when a Polar Bear King comes to claim her for his bride and she must decide whether to go with him and save her long-lost mother, or continue helping her father with his research.

Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales
By Ying Chang Compestine

Presents an eight-course banquet of ghost stories centering around Chinese cooking and culture. Each story is followed by a recipe and historical notes.

The Dark Divine
By Bree Despain

Grace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend--practically a brother--returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town.

The Long Way Home
By Andrew Klavan

As eighteen-year-old Charlie West continues to elude the law and the group of terrorists looking for him, he tries to remember what happened a year ago and find out who has framed him so he can clear his name.

The Indigo Notebook
By Laura Resau

Fifteen-year-old Zeeta comes to terms with her flighty mother and their itinerant life when, soon after moving to Ecuador, she helps an American teenager find his birth father in a nearby village.

Blood Ninja
By Nick Lake

After his father is murdered and a ninja saves his life, Taro discovers the connection between ninjas and vampires and finds himself being dragged into a bitter conflict between the rival lords ruling Japan.

Hazel
By Julie Hearn

Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents' sugar plantation where she discovers some shocking family secrets.

The Magician of Hoad
By Margaret Mahy

Heriot Tarbas, a twelve-year-old farm boy who possesses mysterious powers, is chosen by the King of Hoad to be the court's royal magician.

Running on the Cracks
By Julia Donaldson

After her parents are killed in an accident, English teenager Leonora Watts-Chan runs away to Glasgow, Scotland, to find her Chinese grandparents.

A Brief History of Montmaray
By Michelle Cooper

On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.

New in January

2010-01-04T10:30:00.014-07:00

The Hunchback Assignments
By Arthur Slade

In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.

Candor
By Pam Bachorz

For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new girl threatens to expose his subterfuge.

The Everafter
By Amy Huntley

After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.

Devil's Kiss
By Sarwat Chadda

Fifteen-year-old Billi SanGreal has grown up knowing that being a member of the Knights Templar puts her in danger, but if she is to save London from catastrophe she must make sacrifices greater than she imagined.

Salt
By Maurice Gee

Hari, one of the enslaved people from Blood Burrow, and Pearl, a member of the ruling families known as Company, forge an unusual alliance and become reluctant traveling companions, as they undertake a desperate pilgrimage to save the world from a terror beyond their greatest imaginings.

How to Say Goodbye in Robot
By Natalie Standiford

After moving to Baltimore and enrolling in a private school, high school senior Beatrice befriends a quiet loner with a troubled family history.

One of the Survivors
By Susan Shaw

When his classmates die in a school fire, fourteen-year-old Joey is haunted by their deaths and struggles to survive amidst suspicion and anger from the town.

Hold Still
By Nina LaCour

As she reads the journal left by her best friend, who committed suicide, Caitlin struggles with powerful feelings of loss, sadness, and guilt, but friends and a first love help her to cope with her negative emotions.

DupliKate
By Cherry Cheva

When she wakes up one morning to find her double in her room, seventeen-year-old Kate, already at wit's end with college applications, finals, and extracurricular activities, decides to put her to work.

New in December

2009-12-01T10:30:00.000-07:00

Dani Noir
By Nova Ren Suma

Imaginative thirteen-year-old Dani feels trapped in her small mountain town with only film noir at the local art theater and her depressed mother for company, but while trying to solve a real mystery she learns much about herself and life.

Wish You Were Dead
By Todd Strasser
Madison, a senior at a suburban New York high school, tries to uncover who is responsible for the disappearance of her friends, popular students mentioned in the posts of an anonymous blogger, while she, herself, is being stalked online and in-person.

The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival
By Dene Low

When guests begin to disappear at Petronella Arbuthnot's sixteenth birthday party, and strange ransom notes are found, it is up to her bug-eating guardian, Uncle Augustus, to figure out who is behind such dastardly deeds.

This Family Is Driving Me Crazy
Edited by M. Jerry Weiss and Helen S. Weiss

A collection of ten amusing tales from an ensemble of talented authors, including Mel Glenn and Dian Curtis Regan, about an array of wacky families and their wild ways.

Once a Witch
By Carolyn MacCullough

Born into a family of witches, seventeen-year-old Tamsin is raised believing that she alone lacks a magical "Talent," but when her beautiful and powerful sister is taken by an age-old rival of the family in an attempt to change the balance of power, Tamsin discovers her true destiny.

ArchEnemy
By Frank Beddor

Virtuous Queen Alyss, who has lost the power of imagination, and her murderous Aunt Redd battle for control of Wonderland.

Second Skin
By Jessica Wollman

Despite the consequences, sophomore Samantha Klein pursues her dream of becoming popular at Woodlawn High School.

The Book of the Maidservant
By Rebecca Barnhouse

In 1413, a young maidservant accompanies her deeply religious mistress, Dame Margery Kempe, on a pilgrimage to Rome. Includes author's note on Kempe, writer of "The Book of Margery Kempe," considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language.

I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President
By Josh Lieb

In Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.

Hate List
By Jennifer Brown

Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.

New in November

2009-11-02T10:35:00.000-07:00

The Monstrumologist
By Rick Yancey

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.

The Demon King
By Cinda Williams Chima

Relates the intertwining fates of former street gang leader Han Alister and headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court.

The Betraying Season
By Marissa Doyle

In 1838, Penelope Leland goes to Ireland to study magic and prove to herself that she is as good a witch as her twin sister Persy, but when Niall Keating begins to pay her court, she cannot help being distracted.

The Compound
By S. A. Bodeen

After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.

Doomraga's Revenge
By T. A. Barron

The dragon Basil, now grown mighty in strength, size, and courage, addresses and seeks the cause of a new series of crises that threaten the stability of Avalon, while his friend Merlin is distracted by problems with his son, Krystallus.

Rapture of the Deep
By L. A. Meyer

In 1806, star-crossed lovers Jacky Faber and Jaimy Fletcher are kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission--this time to search for sunken Spanish gold off the Florida coast.

Viola in Reel Life
By Adriana Trigiani

When fourteen-year-old Viola is sent from her beloved Brooklyn to boarding school in Indiana for ninth grade, she overcomes her initial reservations as she makes friends with her roommates, goes on a real date, and uses the unsettling ghost she keeps seeing as the subject of a short film--her first.

Riot
By Walter Dean Myers

In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.

New in October

2009-10-02T13:00:00.027-06:00

Ghostgirl: Homecoming
By Tonya Hurley

When Petula becomes deathly ill, her sister Scarlet seeks help from former classmate Charlotte, for whom the afterlife has become burdensome, leaving her just as insecure and isolated as she was while she was alive.

Killer Pizza
By Greg Taylor

While working as summer employees in a local pizza parlor, three teenagers are recruited by an underground organization of monster hunters.

My Life, the Musical
By Maryrose Wood

Sixteen-year-old Emily Pearl's obsession with Broadway shows, and one musical in particular, lands her in trouble in school and at home, but it might also allow her and her best friend, Phillip, to find a dramatic solution to the problems.

Eyes Like Stars
By Lisa Mantchev

Seventeen-year-old Bertie strives to save Theater Illuminata, the only home she has ever known, but is hindered by the Players who magically live on there, especially Ariel, who is willing to destroy the Book at the center of the magic in order to escape into the outside world.

Dull Boy
By Sarah Cross

Avery, a teenaged boy with frightening super powers that he is trying to hide, discovers other teenagers who also have strange powers and who are being sought by the icy and seductive Cherchette, but they do not know what she wants with them.

The Squad: Perfect Cover
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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.

Ghost Town
By Richard W. Jennings

Thirteen-year-old Spencer Honesty and his imaginary friend, an Indian called Chief Leopard Frog, improbably achieve fame and riches in the abandoned town of Paisley, Kansas, when Spencer begins taking photographs with his deceased father's ancient camera and Chief Leopard Frog has his poems published by a shady businessman in the Cayman Islands.

Libyrinth
By Pearl North

In a distant future where Libyrarians preserve and protect the ancient books that are housed in the fortress-like Libyrinth, Haly is imprisoned by Eradicants, who believe that the written word is evil, and she must try to mend the rift between the two groups before their war for knowledge destroys them all.

The Morgue and Me
By John C. Ford

Eighteen-year-old Christopher, who plans to be a spy, learns of a murder cover-up through his summer job as a morgue assistant and teams up with Tina, a gorgeous newspaper reporter, to investigate, despite great danger.

Recipe for Disaster
By Maureen Fergus

Francie's life is almost perfect before new girl Darlene shows up. She has her own business as a weekend baker, a best friend named Holly, and a crush on Tate Jarvis. But Darlene thinks Francie's obsession with baking is weird, she acts like Holly is her best friend, and she's somehow managed to steal Tate's attention away. Just as Francie's pastry-filled dreams are starting to slide, she gets a chance to meet celebrity baker Lorenzo LaRue....

Football Champ
By Tim Green

Twelve-year-old Troy's uncanny gift for predicting football plays proves a powerful secret weapon for the Atlanta Falcons, but a seedy reporter with a vendetta suspects something is going on and sets out to shred the reputations of Troy and star linebacker Seth Halloway.

Distant Waves
By Suzanne Weyn

In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.

New in July

2009-07-13T19:59:00.001-06:00

Wings
By Aprilynne Pike

When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.

Look Both Ways
By Jacquelyn Mitchard

When psychic twin Mallory Brynn starts seeing images of a white wildcat in her dreams, she tries to figure out the connection of her images to an injured cheerleader and her Native American friend Eden.

The Lighthouse Keepers
By Adrian McKinty

After teenage friends Jamie and Ramsay travel back to Altair to save the last citizens of that dying planet, the ancient race who built the mysterious, wormhole-seeking Salmon returns with a terrible proposition for Jamie.

Evermore
By Alyson Noel

Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.

The Demon's Lexicon
By Sarah Rees Brennan

Sixteen-year-old Nick and his family have battled magicians and demons for most of his life, but when his brother, Alan, is marked for death while helping new friends Jamie and Mae, Nick's determination to save Alan leads him to uncover a devastating secret.

Generation Dead
By Daniel Waters

When teenagers that die come back to life and are labeled "living impaired" or "differently biotic," they are integrated into the school population, but the living teens don't want them around.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth
By Carrie Ryan

Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.

Get Real!

2009-05-28T16:42:00.004-06:00

The Teen Summer Reading Program runs May 30-July 31. Register and be eligible to win a Wii and other great prizes!

Pick up a booklist of great nonfiction to read this summer. Or check out the Library's online booklists for reading suggestions.

New in May

2009-05-01T13:00:00.000-06:00

The Princess and the Bear
By Mette Ivie Harrison

In the follow-up to The Princess and the Hound, a hound who was once a princess and a bear who was once a king travel back in time to save a kingdom and find their human selves.

Vampire Kisses: The Beginning
By Ellen Schreiber

Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with newcomer Alexander Sterling, who turns out to be a vampire, and their relationship faces a variety of challenges.

The Sorceress
By Michael Scott

While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to continue their search for the Codex.

Being Nikki
By Meg Cabot

After a horrific accident that resulted in her brain being transplanted into the body of a teen supermodel, everything in the world changes for Emerson Watts as she struggles to come to terms with living a celebrity lifestyle, managing a crazy modeling schedule, and dealing with an entirely new clique of egocentric friends.

A Kiss in Time
By Alex Flinn

After a horrific accident that resulted in her brain being transplanted into the body of a teen supermodel, everything in the world changes for Emerson Watts as she struggles to come to terms with living a celebrity lifestyle, managing a crazy modeling schedule, and dealing with an entirely new clique of egocentric friends.

The Last Olympian
By Rick Riordan

The greatest monster of all, the storm giant Typhon, is on the loose, wreaking havoc and destruction across the US - while Kronos' army lays siege to Manhattan. Soon Percy Jackson must make the hardest choice of his life - a choice that will save or destroy the world.

The Secret Keeper
By Mitali Perkins

When Asha's father goes off to America and leaves his daughters behind in Calcutta, they feel constrained by their life with their traditional uncle and his family, but a friendship with a local boy helps to ease Asha's pain.

New in April

2009-04-01T09:00:00.000-06:00

Find You Style and Knit It Too: Sharon Turner: 165 pages
Provides advice, instructions, and patterns for knitting, from basic techniques to advanced stitchery, and introduces ideas for knitting such stylish items as ankle warmers, wristbands, scarves, and hats.

Necropolis: Anthony Horowitz: 400 pages
Journeying to the dark underworld that exists beneath the busy streets of Hong Kong, Matt and three other Gatekeepers go in search of the final Gatekeeper named Sarah in order to stop the evil corporation Nightrise from taking over the world with their devastating powers.

The Reformed Vampire Support Group: Catherine Jinks: 368 pages
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.

Firebirds Soaring: 574 pages
A collection of fantasy and science fiction stories includes contributions by such authors as Ellen Klages, Jane Yolen, and Nancy Farmer.

The Musician's Daughter: Susanne Emily Dunlap: 322 pages
In eighteenth-century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the murder of her father, a renowned violinist in Haydn's orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy, after his body is found near a gypsy camp.

The True Adventures of Charley Darwin: Carolyn Meyer: 321 pages
In nineteenth-century England, young Charles Darwin rejects the more traditional careers of physician and clergyman, choosing instead to embark on a dangerous five-year journey by ship to explore the natural world.

Extreme Balloon Tying: Shar Levine: 92 pages
Provides instructions and techniques for creating balloon sculptures, including animals, fruits, and holiday-themed objects.

New in March

2009-02-23T11:10:00.000-07:00

The City of Glass: Cassandra Clare: 560 pages
Knowing that their father, Valentine, will soon attack, Clary and Jace must venture to the city of glass to find the warlock that has the power to save their mother's life and then uncover the truth about their past in order to prepare for the greatest showdown they will ever face, in the final installment to The Mortal Instruments trilogy.

Eternal: Cynthia Leitich Smith: 307 pages
When Miranda's guardian angel Zachary recklessly saves her from falling into an open grave and dying, the result is that she turns into a vampire and he is left to try to reinstate his reputation by finally doing the right thing.

Storm: The Ghost Machine: E.L. Young: 297 pages
The fourteen-year-old geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, travel to Venice to investigate two "ghostly" burglaries and uncover a larger, more sinister plan involving teleportation, quantum computers, and a plot to assassinate the leading figures of international intelligence.

The Singing: The Fourth Book of Pellinor: Alison Croggon: 496 pages
The bard Maerad and her brother Hem hold the key to the mysterious Singing, and each of them must overcome terrible obstacles before they can unite and together unlock the Tree of Song, release the music of the Elidhu, and defeat the Nameless One.

Voss: How I Come to America and Am Hero, Mostly: David Ives: 200 pages
Having come into the country in a crate of black-market cheese puffs with his father Bogdown and uncle Shpoont, Voss steps out into his new world with great hopes for a bright future in this amusing tale of a stumbling and bumbling teen who becomes an unlikely hero through his kind deeds.

Just One Wish: Janette Rallison: 272 pages
Seventeen-year-old Annika tries to cheer up her little brother Jeremy before his surgery to remove a cancerous tumor by bringing home his favorite television actor, Steve Raleigh, the star of "Teen Robin Hood."

Wild Orchid: A Retelling of the Ballad of Mulan: Cameron Dokey: 199 pages
After disguising herself as a boy to join the Chinese army, Mulan returns home only to face an arena that frightens her more than any battlefield--the royal court where she must honor her family through marriage.

MAX: A Maximum Ride Novel: James Patterson: 320 pages
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to investigate the problem.

New in February

2009-01-30T11:10:00.000-07:00

Heroes of the Valley: Jonathan Stroud:496 pages
When young Halli Sveinsson takes one of his practical jokes too far, he is forced to leave the House of Svein and go on a hero's quest where he encounters highway robbers, terrifying monsters, and a girl who may be as fearless as he is.

This Full House: Virginia Euwer Wolff: 496 pages
As she readies for college to get herself out of the projects and into nursing school, high-school-senior LaVaughn’s perceptions and expectations of her life begin to change as she learns about the many unexpected connections between the people she loves best.

Ten Things I Hate about Me: Randa Abdel-Fattah: 297 pages
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.

Envy: Anna Godbersen: 448 pages
It's Manhattan, 1899, and all of society is eagerly watching the Hollands, the Hayeses, and the Schoonmakers to see what kind of drama the great families' sons and daughters will stir up next.

Damosel: Stephanie Spinner: 198 pages
Damosel, a rule-bound Lady of the Lake, and Twixt, a seventeen-year-old dwarf, relate their experiences as they strive to help King Arthur face Morgause, Morgan, and Mordred, one through her magic and the other through his humble loyalty.

The Switch: Anthony Horowitz
Living a privileged life where everything is at his disposal, greedy Tad Spencer begins to think it's not enough and wishes he was someone else, yet when he awakens to find that he has become Bob Snarby, a member of a dangerous carnival world filled with criminals, Tad must use his new identity to unravel a dark secret that only he can.

3Willows: The Sisterhood Grows: Ann Brashares: 318 pages
Ama, Jo, and Polly, three close friends from Bethesda, Maryland, spend the summer before ninth grade learning about themselves, their families, and the changing nature of their friendship.

Princess of the Midnight Ball: Jessica Day George: 280 pages
A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the king's gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse.

New in January

2009-01-06T13:23:00.007-07:00

Generation Green: Linda Sivertsen and Tosh Sivertsen: 248 pages
Provides information on issues such as global warming and overflowing landfills; offers tips on how to shop, dress, eat, and travel the green way; and shows that being environmentally conscious can be a natural part of life.

Death Run: Jack Higgins: 253 pages
A mafia banker with access to a large number of criminal accounts is willing to give evidence in exchange for help retiring from the mob, but when spy John Chase assists him, he puts his fifteen-year-old twins, Rich and Jade, in the line of fire.

Hollywood Bliss: My Life So Far: Chloe Rayban: 288 pages
Thirteen-year-old Holly moves to New York with her superstar mom but finds trouble in the form of her father, a new pet, and especially a boy named Shug.

More Than Friends: Poems from Him and Her: Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf: 64 pages
Presents poems in the voices of a teenage boy and girl in the throes of attraction as they experience love, awkwardness, insecurity, and distractions while trying to make their relationship work.

All We Know of Love: Nora Raleigh Baskin: 201 pages
Natalie, almost sixteen, sneaks away from her Connecticut home and takes the bus to Florida, looking for the mother who abandoned her father and her when she was ten years old.

The 290: Scott O'Dell: 121 pages
A shipyard apprentice finds high adventure aboard the S.S. Alabama, a Confederate ship which sails the Atlantic destroying Union vessels.

New in November

2008-10-29T13:48:00.006-06:00

Aurelie: Heather Tomlinson: 184 pages
When a broken promise tears three best friends apart, Princess Aurelie is saddened that she can't make them forgive one another, especially when a dangerous war threatens her beautiful fairyland and she now needs all the support she can get.

The Bone Magician: F.E. Higgins: 272 pages
While working as a body watcher for the local undertaker, Pin Carpue witnesses a bone magician bring a body back from the dead and becomes immediately suspicious of past events that left his mother dead and labeled his father a murderer.

Bogus to Bubbly: Scott Westerfeld: 196 pages
A behind-the-scenes guide to the world of the Uglies series discusses its history, geography, technology, cliques, names, and slang.

Blue Flame: K.M. Grant
When the Blue Flame becomes in danger of falling into the wrong hands and a new religious crusade begins, lifelong friends Raimon and Yolanda's budding romance is put on hold as they work to find the one person who can rightfully wield the Blue Flame's power and save the people of Occitan from pending doom.

More than Friends: Poems from Him and Her: Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf: 64 pages
Presents poems in the voices of a teenage boy and girl in the throes of attraction as they experience love, awkwardness, insecurity, and distractions while trying to make their relationship work.

Bewitching Season: Melissa Doyle: 346 pages
In 1837, as seventeen-year-old twins Persephone and Penelope are starting their first London Season, they find that their beloved governess, who has taught them everything they know about magic, has disappeared.

Santa Claus in Baghdad and Other Stories about Teens in the Arab World: Elsa Marston: 198 pages
Eight short stories offer provocative snapshots of Arab teenagers growing up in environments riddled with religious, historical and cultural dilemmas.

New in October

2008-10-04T11:45:00.006-06:00

Groosham Grange: Anthony Horowitz: 196 pages
Forced to attend Groosham Grange by his frustrated parents, thirteen-year-old David Eliot is shocked by the strange things he sees and quickly comes to understand the beastly nature of the people who attend and teach there after dark secrets are suddenly revealed.

Impossible: Nancy Werlin: 376 pages
When Lucy discovers that her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she also finds out that she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to break the curse save them both.

Shark Girl: Kelly Bingham: 276 pages
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.

Up All Night: A Short Story Collection: 227 pages
Six best-selling authors--Peter Abrahams, Libba Bray, David Levithan, Patricia McCormick, Sarah Weeks, and Gene Luen Yang--respond to the question: What keeps you up all night? with remarkable stories of revelations, confessions, murder, and mystery in each of the authors' powerful style.

Antsy Does Time: Neal Shusterman: 247 pages
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.

Brooklyn Bridge: Karen Hesse: 229 pages
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Beneath My Mother's Feet: Amjed Qamar: 198 pages
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.

Crossing to Paradise: Kevin Crossley-Holland: 339 pages
When fifteen-year-old Gatty, an illiterate field-girl who sings beautifully, is selected for a pilgrimage, she travels from her home on an English estate to London, Venice, and eventually Jerusalem, and experiences great changes in her circumstances and in herself.

Dead is the New Black: Marlene Perez: 190 pages
While dealing with her first boyfriend and suddenly being pressed into service as a substitute cheerleader, seventeen-year-old Daisy Giordano, daughter and sister of psychics but herself a "normal," attempts to help her mother discover who is behind a series of bizarre attacks on teenage girls in their little town of Nightshade, California.

New in September

2008-09-03T15:21:00.010-06:00

The Otherworldlies: Jennifer Anne Kogler: 385 pages
Eccentric and unusual looking, Fern, secure in her family's love and acceptance, has always been able to cope with the taunts and social ostracism of her schoolmates until a series of unnerving events reveal that she possesses supernatural powers that she barely understands and must learn to control if she is to escape being the pawn of two ancient enemies.

Jack: Secret Histories: F. Paul Wilson: 304 pages
Teenaged Jack, later to be known as Repairman Jack, begins to uncover some unsuspected talents in himself after he and his friends, the clever, imaginative Weezy and her brother Eddie, discover a corpse deep in the mysterious Pine Barrens near their New Jersey town.

Climbing the Stairs: Padma Venkatraman: 247 pages
In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.

Artichoke's Heart: Suzanne Supplee: 276 pages
While working in her mother's beauty shop where all the best town's gossip flies free, Rosemary Goode becomes determined to lose the weight that seems to be an all too common topic and starts keeping a journal to record the year-long experience in achieving her goals, her relationships with others, and her feelings about life in her tight-knit Southern community.

The Possibilities of Sainthood: Donna Freitas: 272 pages
While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.

The Ghost of Spirit Bear: Ben Mikaelsen: 154 pages
Completing his time in exile for assaulting a peer and having made peace with his victim, Cole looks forward to starting his life anew at the local high school, but when new troubles surface and tension mounts, Cole must find a way to manage his emotions in order to avoid another disaster. Sequel to Touching Spirit Bear.

For the Love of Classics

2008-07-14T10:02:00.000-06:00

Classic Books and Books Based on the Classics

Loving Will Shakespeare: Carolyn Meyer: 265 pages
In Stratford-upon-Avon, romance blossoms between childhood friends Anne Hathaway and Will Shakespeare, changing both of their lives forever, in this enthralling novel that details the turbulent relationship between the world's most famous playwright and the spirited farmer's daughter he married.

King Lear: Ian Pollock and William Shakespeare: 139 pages
Vivid drawings accompany Shakespeare's classic play portraying the tragic experiences of Lear after he gives up his position as king.

Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte: 578 pages
The classic novel traces the doomed love affair between an orphaned, independent-minded governess and her brooding employer, Mr. Rochester.

Enthusiasm: Polly Shulman: 198 pages
Julie and Ashleigh, high school sophomores and Jane Austen fans, seem to fall for the same Mr. Darcy-like boy and struggle to hide their true feelings from one another while rehearsing for a school musical.

The Book of Mordred: Vivian Vande Velde: 342 pages
As the peaceful King Arthur reigns, the five-year-old daughter of Lady Alayna is abducted by knights who leave their barn burning and their only servant dead.

Little Women: Louisa May Alcott: 562 pages
The four March sisters experience joys and sorrows as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

Wuthering High: Cara Lockwood: 257 pages
Fifteen-year-old Miranda is sent to a boarding school for delinquent teens in Maine, but she can't tell if it is the unhappy ghosts or the other students who will cause her the most trouble when their lives begin mirroring plots in classic literature.

The Three Musketeers: Alexandre Dumas: 663 pages
D'Artagnan, an impetuous young man determined to join the King's Musketeers, finds himself in an alliance with three of the group's finest swordsmen--Athos, Porthos, and Aramis--as they try to foil a plot by the scheming Cardinal Richelieu and his agent, the wicked Lady de Winter.

For more recommendations ask a librarian about the 111 Classic Books booklist and the Classics with a Twist booklist.

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For the Love of Award Winners

2008-06-23T08:30:00.000-06:00

Monster: Walter Dean Myers: 281 pages
While on trial as an accomplice to murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

The New Policeman: Kate Thompson: 442 pages
Irish teenager J.J. Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out about his family history.

Speak: Laurie Halse Anderson: 197 pages
A traumatic event in the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year of high school.

The Wednesday Wars: Gary D. Schmidt: 264 pages
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

Airborn: Kenneth Oppel: 355 pages
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above Earth’s surface.

The Amulet of Samarkand: Jonathan Stroud: 462 pages
Nathaniel, a magician’s apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.

Downsiders: Neal Shusterman: 246 pages
A fourteen-year-old boy who lives in the subterranean world beneath New York City meets a girl from above ground. When she visits him down below, she discovers his world is not what it appears to be.

The Hollow Kingdom: Clare Dunkle: 230 pages
In nineteenth century

England

, a powerful sorcerer and King of the Goblins, chooses Kate, the elder of two orphan girls recently arrived at Hallow Hill, to be his bride and queen.

The House of the Scorpion: Nancy Farmer: 380 pages
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire.

For more book suggestions, check out the Award-Winning Young Adult Books booklist in the Teen Corner.

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For the Love of Reading

2008-06-02T08:30:00.000-06:00

The Most Popular Teen Books in the Library

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Ann Brashares: 294 pages During summer break, longtime friends Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget each embark on adventures that they share with each other through a pair of jeans that they have decided will be worn by all and so will absorb all of their stories.

Stormbreaker: Anthony Horowitz: 192 pages
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

Twilight: Stephenie Meyer: 498 pages When seventeen-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.

Uglies: Scott Westerfeld: 425 pages Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.

Eragon: Christopher Paolini: 509 pages In Alagaèesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

Holes: Louis Sachar: 233 pages
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: J.K. Rowling: 435 pages
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.

The Luxe: Anna Godbersen: 433 pages
The revelation of a dark family secret exposes a great scandal that soon sends the lives of the beautiful Holland sisters into a tailspin with lies and betrayal jeopardizing their high-ranking positions in Manhattan society.

Shadowland: Meg Cabot: 245 pages
Sixteen-year-old Suze Simon can mediate between the living and the dead, and she hopes her move to California will be a fresh start, but a hot ghost named Jesse haunts her bedroom and another ghost is bent on vengeance at school.

For more popular reading selections, check out the Provo Teens' Favorites booklist in the Teen Corner.

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Summer Reading 2008

2008-05-30T20:11:00.003-06:00

Register for the Teen Summer Reading program Saturday, May 31 - Monday, June 30. For more information, ask at the Reference Desk or call 852-6661.

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New in May

2008-05-01T10:25:00.012-06:00

The Book of Jude: Kimberley Heuston: 217 pages
In 1989, when fifteen-year-old Jude's mother wins a Fulbright fellowship to study art in Czechoslovakia, the family postpones a planned move to Utah to join her, but the political situation and the move itself are too much for Jude, who is overwhelmed by a previously undiagnosed psychological disorder.

Wake: Lisa McMann: 210 pages
Ever since she was eight years old, high school student Janie Hannagan has been uncontrollably drawn into other people's dreams, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power.

The Truth about Las Mariposas: Ofelia Dumas Lachtman: 171 pages
When sixteen-year-old Caro Torres goes to help her Tia Matilda at her bed-and-breakfast in Two Sands, California, she ends up also helping her aunt fend off the attempts of her ex-husband to buy the property and steal the treasures that are hidden there.

Primavera: Mary Jane Beaufrand: 260 pages
Growing up in Renaissance Italy, Flora sees her family's fortunes ebb, but encounters with the artist Botticelli and the guidance of her nurse teach her to look past the material world to the beauty already in her life.

Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Manga Edition: Adam Sexton: 185 pages
In this fast-paced manga edition, you're instantly caught up in the conflicts and passions--the murder of the king, supernatural visitations, deception, plots, poisoned wine, revenge--that make this one of Shakespeare's most beloved tragedies.

Mythbusters: Don't Try This at Home: Mary Packard: 144 pages
Based on the popular TV show, this book presents various urban myths and legends, describes how the "Mythbusters" set out to prove the myths, explains the results, and provides instructions for how to do similar "mythbusting" at home.

Once Upon a Time in the North: Philip Pullman: 95 pages
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-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves right in the middle of a political powder keg.

New in April

2008-03-26T13:41:00.003-06:00

The Highwayman's Footsteps: Nicola Morgan: 354 pages
In eighteenth-century England, William runs away from his father, only to be captured by an armed highwayman who turns out to be a girl, and together they seek vengeance against William's cruel father and the soldiers who killed the girl's parents. Inspired by Alfred Noyes' poem "The Highwayman."

The Opposite of Invisible: Liz Gallagher: 153 pages
Artistic Seattle high school sophomore Alice decides to emerge from her cocoon and date a football player, which causes a rift between her and her best friend, a boy who wants to be more than just friends.

Omega Place: Graham Marks: 253 pages
After running away from home and joining a radical action group called Omega Place, Paul Hendry finds himself in the midst of something very serious when his new activist friends initiate their campaign to let the public know the type of spying the government is doing with their closed-circuit TV cameras.

Reincarnation: Suzanne Weyn: 293 pages
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.

Robot Dreams: Sara Varon: 205 pages
Tired of being alone, Dog orders a mail-order robot kit and makes himself a special friend who happily partakes in all of his new friend's adventures, in a wordless graphic novel.

Brothers, Boyfriends & Other Criminal Minds: April Lurie: 289 pages
While living on the same block as several members of the Mafia does have the advantage of a lower crime rate, fourteen-year-old April and her brother find there are times when it is also a major disadvantage.

Fight Game: Kate Wild: 279 pages
When he gets in trouble with the police, Freedom Smith, a rogue Gypsy boy, agrees to go undercover to expose a high-tech fight club that uses street children in drug-manipulated death-matches.

First Shot: Walter Sorrells: 279 pages
David Crandall, haunted by his mother's murder two years ago, uncovers a dark family secret that leads him to believe that his father, headmaster of the military school in which David is currently a senior, is the killer.

Good Enough: Paula Yoo: 322 pages
A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.

Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall: Wendy Mass: 251 pages
After getting knocked out during a game of dodge ball in gym class, unhappy teen Tessa believes she has floated away to heaven and, while on her mystical journey, finally comes to terms with her past while learning to appreciate the loved ones in her life in an entirely new way.

New in March

2008-02-27T20:00:00.010-07:00

Runemarks: Joanne Harris: 526 pages
Five hundred years after the end of the world and the destruction of gods, faeries, and goblins, Maddy is certain that some magic still exists based on the marking on her hand and so turns to the support of a mysterious traveler, One-Eye, to figure out her destiny in a world where she has been labeled an outcast.

Airman: Eoin Colfer: 412 pages
Falsely accused of murdering the king and sent off to an island prison, royal bodyguard Conor begins to plan his escape by building a glider so that he can fly to the mainland, clear his good name, and seek justifiable revenge on the real culprit, the evil Bonvilain.

Cindy Ella: Robin Palmer: 264 pages
Sophomore iconoclast Cindy's prom-bashing letter to her high school newspaper complicates her life when she develops a crush on her SAT tutor, added to the ones she has on a popular senior and a boy she has been instant messaging but has never met.

Bunker 10: J.A. Henderson: 253 pages
On a December night, a huge blast destroys a forest and remote valley where a hidden military base exists--a home to 185 people, including scientists, soldiers, and seven teenagers, who all try their best to survive what seems to be their inevitable demise.

I Heart You, You Haunt Me: Lisa Schroeder: 226 pages
When her recently deceased boyfriend, Jackson, reappears as a ghost, Ava is thrilled to have him in her life in any way she can, but when she finally begins to move on with her life, Jackson must find a way to let her go.

The London Eye Mystery: Siobhan Dowd: 322 pages
When Salim doesn't come back from his ride on the London Eye, his cousins Ted and Kat turn to the authorities for help, but when they offer no viable suggestions, the two use their sleuthing skills to figure out what actually happened.

New in February

2008-01-30T09:12:00.003-07:00

Open Court: Carol Clippinger: 262 pages
A tennis prodigy grapples with her seemingly incompatible desires to be an exceptional athlete and a normal teenager.

Faerie Lord: Herbie Brennan: 430 pages
When a terrible plague takes over the faerie realm and causes its inhabitants to age unnaturally quickly, Henry and Blue must find a cure in order to save the realm. Book 4 of the Faerie Wars Chronicles.

General Winston’s Daughter: Sharon Shinn: 342 pages
Seventeen-year-old heiress Averie Winston travels with her guardian to faraway Chiarrin, a country her father’s army has occupied, and once she arrives and is reunited with her fiancé, she discovers that her notions about politics, propriety, the military, and even her intended have changed.

The Luxe: Anna Godbersen: 433 pages
In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best-laid plans of parents and others.

Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow: Jessica Day George: 328 pages
A girl travels east of sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell.

Teen, Inc.: Stefan Petrucha: 244 pages
Fourteen-year-old Jaiden has been raised by NECorp. since his parents were killed when he was a baby, so when he discovers that the corporation has been lying about producing illegal levels of mercury emissions, he and his two friends decide to try to do something about it.

New in January

2007-12-22T16:12:00.001-07:00

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac: Gabrielle Zevin: 271 pages
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.

Hush: An Irish Princess’ Tale: Donna Jo Napoli: 308 pages
Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.

1212: Year of the Journey: Kathleen McDonnell: 288 pages
During the religious crusades that pit Muslim against Christian against Jew, a young shepherd has a vision that prompts him to gather children of all faiths and lead them on a crusade for peace.

Cover-Up: John Feinstein: 298 pages
Fledgling fourteen-year-old sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie investigate suspicious activities at the Super Bowl after Stevie gets fired from his co-anchor job on a ground-breaking teen sports show.

Redwall: The Graphic Novel: Brian Jacques: 143 pages
When the peaceful life of Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword which will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy. A graphic novel adaptation of the fiction series.

Cool Stuff 2.0 and How It Works: Chris Woodford and Jon Woodcock: 256 pages
Uses computer-generated images to explain how many devices and processes of modern technology work, covering such inventions as HDTV, game consoles, robot cars, helicopters, space probes, oil rigs, mass dampers, biometric id's, and tsunami alert systems.

Thirteen Reasons Why: Jay Asher: 288 pages
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

Transformers: The Movie Guide: Simon Furman: 69 pages
With breathtaking stills and in-depth character profiles, a guide to the new live-action Transformers movie starring Jon Voight and Bernie Mac lets readers get up close and personal with their favorite robots in disguise.