New in March

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

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

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

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

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.