New Materials - Young Adults

Dark Goddess (Devil's Kiss Novel) - by Sarwat Chadda

2011-03-22T12:53:00.001-07:00

Y/Fiction/Chadda, Sarwat
Billi SanGreal, a teenaged member of the Knights Templar, must prevent a young girl, who is being hunted by werewolves because of the dangerous powers she possesses, from falling into the hands of the ancient Russian witch, Baba Yaga. 376 Pages.

Unearthly - by Cynthia Hand

2011-03-22T12:30:00.001-07:00

Y/Fiction/Hand, Cynthia
Sixteen-year-old Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that danger and heartbreak come with her powers. 435 Pages.

Factotum - by D.M. Cornish

2011-03-18T11:01:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Cornish, D.M.
Accused of being a monster instead of human, Rossamünd Bookchild looks to monster-hunter Branden Rose for help, but powerful forces are after them both, believing that Rossamünd holds the secret to perpetual youth. 605 Pages.

Dust - by Joan Frances Turner

2011-03-18T10:52:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Turner, Joan Frances
Jessie and her gang of zombies have a wonderful life in "Hicksville", Indiana. But now new beings are in the woods; they aren't human nor are they zombes. But a new disease has come that makes the undead more alive and the living to exist on the brink of death. 374 Pages.

Behemoth - by Scott Westerfeld

2011-03-18T10:38:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Westerfeld, Scott
The sequel to Leviathan continues in an alternate 1914 Europe where Austrian Prince Alek and Deryn, a girl disguised as a male in the British Air Service, are attempting to deliver a secret package and, still hiding respective truths about their identities, land in a hostile, politically-charged Constantinople, where they must forfeit their airship, The Leviathan, in order to survive. 481 Pages.

Crave - by Laura J. Burns

2011-03-18T10:36:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Burns, Laura J.
Seventeen-year-old Shay, having suffered from a rare blood disorder her entire life, starts receiving blood transfusion from her step-father who is a physician, and, when she begins to see visions through the eyes of a vampire she decides to investigate, discovering a teenage vampire locked up in the doctor's office who she becomes attached to and set free, only to be kidnapped my the creature who wants revenge. 278 Pages.

Troy High - by Shana Norris

2011-03-18T10:30:00.001-07:00

Y/Fiction/Norris, Shana

Narrated by Cassie, a shy outsider at Troy High, the story follows the Trojans and Spartans as they declare war on the football field. After the beautiful Elena—who used to be the captain of the Spartan cheerleaders—transfers to Troy High and falls madly in love with Cassie’s brother Perry, the Spartans vow that the annual homecoming game will never be forgotten. Off the football field, an escalating prank war fuels tensions between the schools. The stakes are raised when Cassie is forced to choose between the boy she loves (a Spartan) and loyalty to her family and school. 259 Pages.

Fat Vampire - by Adam Rex

2011-03-18T10:20:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Rex, Adam
After being bitten by a vampire, not only is fifteen-year-old Doug doomed eternally to be fat, but now he must also save himself from the desperate host of a public-access-cable vampire-hunting television show that is on the verge of cancellation. 324 Pages.

The Boneshaker - by Cherie Priest

2011-03-18T10:06:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Priest, Cherie
Inventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's widow, lives in the poor neighborhood outside the wall that's been built around the uninhabitable city. Life is tough with a ruined reputation, but she and her teenage son Ezekiel are surviving--until Zeke impetuously decides that he must reclaim his father's name from the clutches of history. 414 Pages.

Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead - by Nancy Kilpatrick

2011-03-18T10:02:00.001-07:00

Y/Fiction/Kilpatrick, Nancy
New Vampires have evolved, and they are coming for you!

Kelly Armstrong, Tanya Huff and twenty-two other dark fantasy and horror writers come together to re-imagine the future of vampires in this new collection of all-original short fiction – one of the most unusual and original vampire anthologies ever assembled. 273 Pages.

Wicked Girls - by Stephanie Hemphill

2011-03-18T09:55:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Hemphill, Stephanie

Ann Putnam Jr. plays the queen bee. When her father suggests that a spate of illnesses within the village is the result of witchcraft, Ann grasps her opportunity. She puts in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of the people around her forever.

Mercy Lewis, the beautiful servant in Ann's house, inspires adulation in some and envy in others. With a troubled past, she seizes her only chance at safety.

Margaret Walcott, Ann's cousin, is desperately in love and consumed with fiery jealousy. She is torn between staying loyal to her friends and pursuing the life she dreams of with her betrothed.

With new accusations mounting daily against the men and women of the community, the girls will have to decide: Is it too late to tell the truth? 402 Pages.

Whisper - by Phoebe Kitanidis

2011-03-18T09:51:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Kitanidis, Phoebe
Although fifteen-year-old Joy, who uses her mind-reading ability to grant wishes for people, and her older sister Jessica, who uses the same ability to bring misery into the lives of others, do not get along, Joy tries to find and protect Jessica when she goes missing. 281 Pages.

Betrayal - by Gillian Shields

2011-03-18T09:17:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Shields, Gillian
Prompted by her love for the seemingly-doomed Sebastian, sixteen-year-old Evie Johnson returns for another term at the strangely sinister Wyldcliffe Abbey School where she and two close friends try to develop and combine their newly-discovered powers to save Sebastian and themselves from the encroaching forces of evil. 359 Pages.

The Mosts - by Melissa Senate

2011-03-18T08:59:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Senate, Melissa
Madeline finished freshman year at Freeport Academy just as invisible as when she started. But after a summer in Italy with her sophisticated aunt, she returned as a sophomore with cool clothes, European attitude, and a hot new boyfriend, Thom.

Maddie's part of the in crowd . . . the Mosts. Her best friend, Caro? Most Beautiful. Her other friends, Fergie, Annie, and Selena? Most Stylish, Most Hilarious, and Most Hot, respectively. And Madeline? Most Popular. Her life is great.

While it lasted.

Now Thom's moved to California—so Maddie's no longer the girlfriend of a popular guy. The guy Caro likes only has eyes for Madeline—can you say social suicide? And a group of misfits at school are begging Madeline to help make them over.

Madeline knows there's a fine line between being a Most . . . and being a Not. She doesn't want her status to change . . . but what if she doesn't have a choice? 225 Pages.

The Ruby Notebook - by Laura Resau

2011-03-16T12:20:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Resau, Laura
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. 365 Pages.

The Mockingbirds - by Daisy Whitney

2011-03-16T12:18:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Whitney, Daisy
When Alex, a junior at an elite preparatory school, realizes that she may have been the victim of date rape, she confides in her roommates and sister who convince her to seek help from a secret society, the Mockingbirds. 335 Pages.

Forget You - Jennifer Echols

2011-03-16T12:16:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Echols, Jennifer
After her parents separate, seventeen-year-old Zoey has a car accident she cannot remember and starts asking her high school swim team friends what happened on that night at the beach on the Florida panhandle. 290 Pages.

13 to Life - by Shannon Delany

2011-03-16T12:13:00.000-07:00

Y/Fiction/Delaney, Shannon
After her mother's death, Jessie Gillmansen meets a new student at school, Pietr Rusakova, a Russian who has a mysterious past which poses a danger to her and everyone in her small town. 308 Pages.

The Complete History of Why I Hate Her - by Jennifer Richard Jacobson

2011-01-04T13:50:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Jacobson, Jennifer Richard
Wanting a break from being known only for her sister's cancer, seventeen-year-old Nola leaves Boston for a waitressing job at a summer resort in Maine, but soon feels as if her new best friend is taking over her life. 181 Pages.

Raven Summer - by David Almond

2011-01-04T13:40:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Almond, David
Discovering an abandoned baby, events unfold that lead Liam's family to seek her adoption, yet while visiting his soon-to-be sibling at her foster home, he meets Oliver, a young boy who relates stories of his dark past and fears he has for his future if he is ever forced to return to his native land. 198 Pages.

Home is Beyond the Mountains - Celia Barker Lottridge

2011-01-04T13:00:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Lottridge
Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, driving her family from its tiny village. They flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother survive. Beginning with a refugee camp run by the British Army, the children are shunted from one temporary home to another, finally ending up in an orphanage where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then the new orphanage director, Susan Shedd, decides that she will take the 300 refugee children back to their home villages — a journey of 300 miles — through the mountains, on foot. Samira embarks on the journey with wonder and fear. Even if they make it, will there be anyone in her old village to take her in? 221 Pages.

Out of My Mind - by Sharon M. Draper

2011-01-03T13:55:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Draper, Sharon M.
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time. 295 Pages.

What Momma Left Me - by Renee Watson

2011-01-03T12:26:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Watson, Renee
After the death of their mother, thirteen-year-old Serenity Evans and her younger brother go to live with their grandparents, who try to keep them safe from bad influences and help them come to terms with what has happened to their family. 224 Pages.

Cat O'Nine Tails (Cat Royal Adventures) - by Julia Golding

2011-01-03T10:50:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Golding, Julia
Kidnapped, torn away from her life of luxury, forced aboard a ship destined for the New World, and ordered to do hard labor by her captives, Cat is certain that her time is limited and so must devise a clever plan of escape before it's too late for her and her friends. 373 Pages.

Wormhole Pirates On Orbis 3 - by PJ Haarsma

2011-01-03T10:47:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Haarsma, PJ
At the start of their third rotation of service, Johnny Turnbull, his sister Ketheria, and friends face pirates who seem to know Johnny and want him to deliver a mysterious message. 378 Pages.

World of Warcraft: The Shattering - by Christie Golden

2011-01-03T10:43:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/World Shattering
A follow-up to Arthas is an official novelization based on the Cataclysm expansion of the multi-million-player online game and features an epic background story depicting key characters from the latest regions. Video game tie-in. 328 Pages.

This Book is Not Good For You - by Pseudonymous Bosch

2011-01-03T10:39:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Bosch, Pseudonymous
With an evil dessert chef, Senor Hugo, concocting a recipe for disaster in the form of a tempting chocolate bar, heroes Cass and Max-Ernest must research clues and unravel puzzles to stop an evil organization from carrying out its plot to gain immortality and wreak havoc on the world. 378 Pages.

Shooting Kabul - by N.H. Senzai

2011-01-03T10:28:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Senzai, N.H.
Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind. 253 Pages.

The Secret to Lying - by Todd Mitchell

2011-01-03T10:20:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Mitchell, Todd
James was the guy no one noticed — just another fifteen-year-old in a small town. So when he gets into an academy for gifted students, he decides to leave his boring past behind. In a boarding school full of nerds and geeks, being cool is easy. All it takes is a few harmless pranks to invent a new James: fighter, rebel, punk. Everyone’s impressed, except for the beautiful "Ice Queen" Ellie Frost and the mysterious ghost44, an IM presence who sees through his new identity. But James is riding high, playing pranks and hooking up with luscious Jessica Keen. There’s just one thing awry: he’s starting to have vivid dreams of being a demon-hunting warrior, a thrill that is spilling over into dangerous and self-destructive acts while he’s awake. As he’s drawn deeper into his real-life lies and his dream-world conquests, James begins to wonder: What’s the price for being the coolest guy around? 329 Pages.

The Gardener - by S.A. Bodeen

2011-01-03T10:06:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Bodeen, S.A.
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. 232 Pages.

The Girl Next Door - by Selene Castrovilla

2011-01-03T10:01:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Castrovilla, Selene
As seventeen-year-old Sam desperately tries to help her best friend and neighbor Jesse through aggressive treatments for a rare and usually fatal form of cancer, they find themselves falling deeply in love. 237 Pages.

Forgive My Fins - by Tera Lynn Childs

2011-01-03T09:34:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Childs, Tera Lynn
Seventeen-year-old Lily, half-mermaid and half-human, has been living on land and attending high school, where she develops a crush on a boy but is afraid to tell him of her true destiny as the ruler of the undersea kingdom of Thalassinia. 293 Pages.

Beautiful Malice - by Rebecca James

2011-01-03T09:31:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/James, Rebecca
Who is Katherine Patterson? It is a question she hopes no one can answer. To erase her past, Katherine has moved to a new city, enrolled in a new school, and even changed her name. She’s done the next best thing to disappearing altogether. Now, wary and alone, she seeks nothing more than anonymity. What she finds instead is the last thing she expected: a friend.

Even more unlikely, Katherine’s new friend is the most popular and magnetic girl in school. Extroverted, gorgeous, flirtatious, and unpredictable, she is everything that Katherine is not and doesn’t want to be: the center of attention. Yet Alice’s enthusiasm is infectious, her candor sometimes unsettling, and Katherine, in spite of her guarded caution, finds herself drawn into Alice’s private circle.

But Alice has secrets, too—darker than anyone can begin to imagine. And when she lets her guard down at last, Katherine discovers the darkest of them all. For there will be no escaping the past for Katherine Patterson—only a descent into a trap far more sinister . . . and infinitely more seductive. 256 Pages.

Stringz - by Michael Wenberg

2011-01-03T09:28:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Wenberg, Michael
Fourteen-year-old Jace Adams, a cellist who loves to surf, never fits in where his mother decides to move them, but after a difficult start in Seattle, he comes to realize that talent is not something to hide and that he has "family" in some unexpected places. 215 Pages.

Ship Breaker - by Paolo Bacigalupi

2011-01-03T09:18:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Bacigalupi
In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life. . . . 323 Pages

Addicted to Her - by Janet Nichols Lynch

2011-01-03T09:16:00.001-08:00

Y/Fiction/Lynch, Janet Nichols
After falling obsessively in love, high school wrestler Rafael Montoya must choose between a reckless young woman and responsibilities to his family and future. 220 Pages.

A Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - by Brenda Woods

2011-01-02T13:49:00.001-08:00

Y/Fiction/Woods, Brenda
Challenged by a 10th-grade creative writing assignment, a group of students pen journal entries about their respective struggles with such challenges as an interracial romance, an illegal immigrant status and a sexual assault.

The Winds of Heaven - by Judith Clarke

2011-01-02T13:46:00.001-08:00

Y/Fiction/Clarke, Judith
Clementine thinks her cousin Fan is everything that she could never be: beautiful, imaginative, wild. The girls promise to be best friends and sisters after the summer is over, but Clementine’s life in the city is different from Fan’s life in dusty Lake Conapaira. And Fan is looking for something, though neither she nor Clementine understands what it is. 277 Pages.

Princess of Glass - by Jessica Day George

2011-01-02T13:40:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/George, Jessica Day
Hoping to escape the troubles in her kingdom, Princess Poppy reluctantly agrees to take part in a royal exchange program, whereby young princes and princesses travel to each other’s countries in the name of better political alliances—and potential marriages. It’s got the makings of a fairy tale—until a hapless servant named Eleanor is tricked by a vengeful fairy godmother into competing with Poppy for the eligible prince. Ballgowns, cinders, and enchanted glass slippers fly in this romantic and action-packed happily-ever-after quest from an author with a flair for embroidering tales in her own delightful way. 266 Pages.

Brilliant - by Rachel Vail

2011-01-02T13:36:00.001-08:00

Y/Fiction/Vail, Rachel
A conclusion to the trilogy that includes Lucky and Gorgeous finds 16-year-old Quinn retaining her calm in the face of such challenges as her family's financial struggles and her sister's temperamental behavior, a situation that is complicated when Quinn mistakenly kisses her sister's boyfriend. 249 Pages.

A Little Wanting Song - by Cath Crowley

2011-01-02T13:27:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Crowley, Cath
CHARLIE DUSKIN loves music, and she knows she's good at it. But she only sings when she's alone, on the moonlit porch or in the back room at Old Gus's Secondhand Record and CD Store. Charlie's mom and grandmother have both died, and this summer she's visiting her grandpa in the country, surrounded by ghosts and grieving family, and serving burgers to the local kids at the milk bar. She's got her iPod, her guitar, and all her recording equipment, but she wants more: A friend. A dad who notices her. The chance to show Dave Robbie that she's not entirely unspectacular.

ROSE BUTLER lives next door to Charlie's grandfather and spends her days watching cars pass on the freeway and hanging out with her troublemaker boyfriend. She loves Luke but can't wait to leave their small country town. And she's figured out a way: she's won a scholarship to a science school in the city, and now she has to convince her parents to let her go. This is where Charlie comes in. Charlie, who lives in the city, and whom Rose has ignored for years. Charlie, who just might be Rose's ticket out. 262 Pages.

The Exile of Gigi Lane - by Adrienne Maria Vrettos

2011-01-02T13:24:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Vrettos, Adrienne Maria
Returning for her senior year at an exclusive private school and poised to become the new "Master of the Universe," a teenaged girl falls from social glory and must scrabble her way back to the top using strategic effort and the help of her best friend. 340 Pages.

Beautiful - by Amy Reed

2011-01-02T12:10:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Reed, Amy
Haunted by serious problems in her recent past, thirteen-year-old Cassie makes a fresh start at a Seattle school but is drawn by dangerous new friends into a world of sex, drugs, and violence, while her parents remain oblivious. 232 Pages.

The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin - by Josh Berk

2011-01-02T12:01:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Berk, Josh
When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a popular football player in his class. 248 Pages.

Party - by Tom Leveen

2011-01-02T11:56:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Leveen, Tom
It's saturday night in Santa Barbara and school is done for the year. Everyone is headed to the same party. Or at least it seems that way. The place is packed. The beer is flowing. Simple, right? But for 11 different people the motives are way more complicated. As each character takes a turn and tells his or her story, the eleven individuals intersect, and reconnect, collide, and combine in ways that none of them ever saw coming. 228 Pages.

Runaway Storm - by D.E. Knobbe

2011-01-02T11:43:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Knobbe, D.E.
Nate has made his kayaking dream come true as he goes to the sparsely populated islands off the coast of Vancouver. He doesn't care that his parents don't know where he is. But encounters with runaways, the police, a crazed drug smuggler and a Goth girl who tried to rescue him make Nate's options not look good. Will be be able to save himself and the Goth girl? 223 Pages.

The Half-Life of Planets - by Emily Franklin

2011-01-02T11:26:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Franklin, Emily
An unlikely romance develops between a science-minded girl who is determined to reclaim her reputation and a boy with Asperger's Syndrome. 247 Pages.

Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots - by Abby McDonald

2011-01-02T11:23:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/McDonald, Abby
Seventeen-year-old Jenna, an ardent vegetarian and environmentalist, is thrilled to be spending the summer communing with nature in rural Canada, until she discovers that not all of the rugged residents there share her beliefs. 293 Pages.

Freak Magnet - by Andrew Auseon

2010-12-28T17:43:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Auseon, Andrew
In a take on love, loss and lucky signs, two teenagers burdened by grief and loss--Charlie the freak and Gloria the freak magnet--find each other and gradually develop a strong connection to one another. 293 Pages.

Forget-Her-Nots - by Amy Brecount White

2010-12-28T14:11:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/White, Amy Brecount

Something—some power—is blooming inside Laurel. She can use flowers to do things. Like bringing back lost memories. Or helping her friends ace tests. Or making people fall in love.

Laurel suspects her newfound ability has something to do with an ancient family secret, one that her mother meant to share with Laurel when the time was right. But then time ran out.

Clues and signs and secret messages seem to be all around Laurel at Avondale School, where her mother had also boarded as a student. Can Laurel piece everything together quickly enough to control her power, which is growing more potent every day? Or will she set the stage for the most lovestruck, infamous prom in the history of the school? 365 Pages.

The Carbon Diaries 2017 - by Saci Lloyd

2010-12-28T14:06:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Lloyd, Saci
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. 321 Pages.

Center Field - by Robert Lipsyte

2010-12-28T14:04:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Lipsyte, Robert
Mike has his junior year well under control. He's got a solid group of friends. He's dating Lori, one of the hottest girls in school. And Coach Cody has all but given him the starting spot as the Ridgedale Rangers' varsity center fielder. And then Oscar Ramirez shows up. Oscar is an amazing ballplayer, as talented at the plate as he is in center field, and it's not long before Mike loses control. He's on the bench, he's getting into fights, and he finds himself in weekend detention with Katherine Herold, the most mysterious, abrasive, alluring girl in school. Mike is lost, confused, and looking to Coach Cody to help him get back on track. But the coach has his own set of rules for Mike to play by, and the decisions Mike makes are going to impact more than just the starting lineup. 280 Pages.

The Last Words of Will Wolfkin

2010-12-28T13:48:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Wolfkin, Will
It's funny. If you're born a certain way, you don't really understand how it is to be any other way.

So it has been for Toby Walsgrove—paralyzed since birth, unable to move or talk, with no known family, he has spent his entire life at a Carmelite convent in London. That is, until the day that his cat, Shipley, starts talking to him. Shipley has been watching over Toby his whole life and tells him they must go to Langjoskull, a city of exiles buried deep below the surface of Iceland. Because Toby is no ordinary boy—he's a descendant of the great king Will Wolfkin, and his kingdom needs him.

Toby has never wielded a sword that can stop time. He has never shifted into his kin creature. He has never even walked on his own two legs before. Ready or not, though, he has a destiny, a responsibility, even a family—and not all of them are happy to meet him. . . . 373 Pages.

The Carrie Diaries - by Candace Bushnell

2010-12-28T13:29:00.001-08:00

Y/Fiction/Bushnell, Candace
Tells the story of Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw's high school years, her relationships with her peers, and how she became a writer. 389 Pages.

Restoring Harmony - by Joelle Anthony

2010-12-28T13:27:00.001-08:00

Y/Fiction/Anthony, Joelle
Ten years after the Great Collapse of 2031, sixteen-year-old Molly McClure, with only her fiddle for company, leaves the safety of her family's island home to travel through a dangerous and desolate wasteland on her way to Oregon to find her grandparents and persuade them to return with her to Canada. 306 Pages.

Matched - by Ally Condie

2010-12-28T13:23:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Condie, Ally
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well? 366 Pages.

The Eternal Ones - by Kirsten Miller

2010-12-28T13:21:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Miller, Kirsten
Seventeen-year-old Haven Moore leaves East Tennessee to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she meets playboy Iain Morrow, whose fate may be tied to hers through a series of past lives. 411 Pages.

Unfamiliar Magic

2010-12-28T10:23:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Alexander, R.C.
Twelve-year-old witch Desi secretly uses her mother's spellbook with unexpected results, including meeting her warlock father for the first time and becoming like sisters with Cat, who was once her mother's familiar. 355 pages

Lifted - by Wendy Toliver

2010-12-20T13:51:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Toliver, Wendy
Poppy is in a new school and is making new friends. When the girls go to the mall to do some shopping Poppy's new friends talk her into shoplifting. She has never stolen anything before but finds that the thrill of shoplifting gives her a real high. She continues to shoplift until some of the girls in her clique find out and start turning on each other. Poppy must make some serious choices about her life and her loyalty to her friends. 309 Pages.

Star Academy: Flight of the Outcast - by Brad Strickland

2010-12-20T13:49:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Strickland, Brad
When thirteen-year-old Asteria's family is killed by space raiders, she leaves their farm on the fringe planet Theron and uses her desire for revenge as motivation at the Royal Military Academy, where she is treated as a second-class citizen because of her father's unfairly stained reputation. 212 Pages.

The Replacement - by Brenna Yovanoff

2010-12-20T13:46:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Yovanoff, Brenna
Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant, and when a friend's sister disappears he goes against his family's and town's deliberate denial of the problem to confront the beings that dwell under the town, tampering with human lives. 343 Pages.

A Sweet Disorder - by Jacqueline Kolosov

2010-12-20T13:15:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Kolosov, Jacqueline
Sixteen-year old Miranda has no idea how much her life is going to change upon hearing the news of her father's death. Left with little dowry to offer, Miranda faces a broken engagement, and is sent to live with her father's cousin, the Count John Hardwood, and his wife whose primary goal is to take her to Court and marry her off to the insufferable Lord Seagrave for their own profit. 418 Pages.

Seth Baumgartner's Love Manifesto - by Eric Luper

2010-12-20T13:12:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Luper, Eric
After his girlfriend breaks up with him and he sees his father out with another woman, high school senior Seth Baumgartner, who has a summer job at the country club and is preparing for a father-son golf tournament, launches a podcast in which he explores the mysteries of love. 293 Pages.

Vinyl Princess - by Yvonne Prinz

2010-12-20T12:21:00.000-08:00

Y/Fiction/Prinz, Yvonne
Allie, a sixteen-year-old who is obsessed with LPs, works at the used record store on Telegraph Ave. and deals with crushes--her own and her mother's--her increasingly popular blog and zine, and generally grows up over the course of one summer in her hometown of Berkeley, California. 313 Pages.

Sources of Light

2010-11-18T09:06:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / McMullan, Margaret

Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South. 233 pages

Lost for Words

2010-11-18T09:04:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Kuipers, Alice

Sixteen-year-old Sophie struggles to find normalcy after an incident she chooses not to remember took her sister's life, and by keeping a journal, making a new friend, and seeing a therapist she finally begins to recover. 210 pages

In a Heartbeat

2010-11-18T09:02:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Ellsworth, Loretta

Told in their separate voices, Eagan, who has died in a figure-skating accident, becomes a heart donor for Amelia, who then begins taking on some aspects of Eagan's personality. 216 pages

God is in the Pancakes

2010-11-18T09:00:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Epstein, Robin

Fifteen-year-old Grace, having turned her back on religion when her father left, now finds herself praying for help with her home and love life, and especially with whether she should help a beloved elderly friend die with dignity. 265 pages

Yes, I Know the Monkey Man

2010-11-18T08:58:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Butler, Dori Hillestad

Thirteen-year-old TJ tries to cope with the emotional upheaval in her life when the father who kidnapped her ten years earlier and raised her under a different identity is injured, and she goes to visit her recently-discovered twin sister, mother, and future stepfather. 196 pages (sequel to "Do You Know the Monkey Man?")

Things I Know About Love

2010-11-18T08:55:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Le Vann, Kate

Seventeen-year-old Livia Stowe travels from England to Princeton, New Jersey, to visit her brother who is studying there and to celebrate her recovery from a year-long struggle with leukemia, and while she is there she writes a blog about her experiences, which include falling in love. 153 pages

Is it Night or Day?

2010-11-18T08:53:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Chapman, Fern Schumer

In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II. 205 pages

The Life of Glass

2010-11-15T07:51:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Cantor, Jillian

Throughout her freshman year of high school, fourteen-year-old Melissa struggles to hold onto memories of her deceased father, cope with her mother's return to dating, get along with her sister, and sort out her feelings about her best friend, Ryan. 340 pages

Thirst #3: The Eternal Dawn

2010-11-15T07:50:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Pike, Christopher

Alisa's guilt grows when she becomes involved in a dangerous conspiracy. A top-secret group knows Alisa's secret and will stop at nothing to use her powers for their cause. As Alisa desperately tries to protect herself and Teri from the unknown enemy, she discovers a force more powerful and more lethal than anything she has ever seen. 478 pages

Folly

2010-11-15T07:48:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Jocelyn, Marthe

In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital. 249 pages

The Princess and the Snowbird

2010-11-15T07:47:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Harrison, Mette Ivie

A girl whose magic allows her to take animal form falls in love with a boy who has no magic at all, and together they join forces, trying to defeat an enemy who is out to eliminate all magic everywhere. 232 pages

The Beautiful Between

2010-11-15T07:45:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Sheinmel, Alyssa B.

Connelly Sternin feels like Rapunzel, locked away in her Upper East Side high-rise apartment studying for the SAT exams, until she develops an unlikely friendship with her high school's Prince Charming and begins to question some of the things that have always defined her life. 184 pages

Friend is not a Verb

2010-11-15T07:44:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Ehrenhaft, Daniel

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. 241 pages

Green Witch

2010-11-15T07:42:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Hoffman, Alice

A year after her world was nearly destroyed, sixteen-year-old Green has become the one villagers turn to for aid, especially to record their stories, but Green will need the help of other women who, like herself, are believed to be witches if she is to find her best friend and her one true love. 135 pages

Once

2010-11-15T07:41:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Gleitzman, Morris

After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents. 163 pages

Sorta Like a Rock Star

2010-11-10T07:48:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Quick, Matthew

Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression. 355 pages

Thirteen Days to Midnight

2010-11-10T07:46:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Carman, Patrick

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. 296 pages

Kisses from Hell

2010-11-10T07:44:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Kisses

This irresistible collection features stories of love amid vampires by five of today's hottest authors: Kristin Cast (Tempted), Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy), Alyson NoËl (Evermore), Kelley Armstrong (The Summoning), and Francesca Lia Block (Pretty Dead).

From a fugitive vampire forced to trust a boy who might work for the group bent on destroying her to the legendary romance of two immortals whose love compels them to risk everything, this heart-pounding collection brings new meaning to the words "love you forever." Whether you're into romances that are dark and moody or light and fun, these stories will quench that insatiable thirst for enchanting tales of the beautiful undead. 252 pages

Guardian of the Dead

2010-11-10T07:42:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Healey, Karen

Eighteen-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of creatures from Maori myth and legend that is plotting to kill millions of humans in order to regain their lost immortality. 345 pages

The Genius Wars

2010-11-10T07:40:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Jinks, Catherine

Fifteen-year-old genius Cadel Piggot Greenaus sets aside his new, crime-free life when his best friend Sonja is attacked, and he crosses oceans and continents trying to track down his nemesis Prosper English, breaking whatever rules he must. 378 pages

Rikers High

2010-11-10T07:38:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Volponi, Paul

Arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island, as he waits for his case to go to court. 216 pages

The Softwire #4: Awakening of Orbis 4

2010-11-10T07:35:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Haarsma, PJ

As the Scion's guardian, Johnny Turnbull is expected to begin training as a Space Jumper, a role he promised his girlfriend Max he would never take on, and which might not be enough to save his sister and friends when Orbis is threatened. 352 pages

The Best and Hardest Thing

2010-11-10T07:34:00.001-08:00

Y / Fiction / Brisson, Pat

When she is a sophomore in high school, Molly gets rid of her good-girl image but ends up becoming pregnant and having to make some difficult decisions. 243 pages

Sisters Red

2010-11-10T07:31:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Pearce, Jackson

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. 328 pages

The Girl with the Mermaid Hair

2010-11-10T07:30:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Ephron, Delia

A vain teenaged girl is obsessed with beauty and perfection until she uncovers a devastating family secret. 312 pages

Checkered Flag Cheater

2010-11-10T07:28:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Weaver, Will

Trace Bonham, a teenaged professional stock car racer, blows away the competition wherever he races, but with every victory Trace is increasingly aware that his winning is due to more than just his driving skills. 198 pages

The Cardturner

2010-11-10T07:26:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Sachar, Louis

When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge. 336 pages

Blood Feud

2010-11-10T07:24:00.000-08:00

Y / Fiction / Harvey, Alyxandra

As the clans gather for the coronation of the next vampire queen, new alliances are beginning to form and the power of the clan leaders is threatened by a would-be usurper. 258 pages

Mistwood

2010-10-22T14:44:00.000-07:00

Y / Fiction / Cypess, Leah

Brought back from the Mistwood to protect the royal family, a girl who has no memory of being a shape-shifter encounters political and magical intrigue as she struggles with her growing feelings for the prince. 304 pages

The Keepers' Tattoo

2010-10-22T14:42:00.000-07:00

Y / Fiction / Arbuthnott, Gill

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. 425 pages

Invisible Girl

2010-10-22T14:35:00.000-07:00

Y / Fiction / Stone, Mary Hanlon

Thirteen-year-old Stephanie, whisked from Boston to Encino, California, to stay with family friends after her abusive, alcoholic mother abandons her, tries desperately to fit in with her "cousin's" popular group even as she sees how much easier it would be to remain invisible. 279 pages

Finally

2010-10-22T14:27:00.000-07:00

Y / Fiction / Mass, Wendy

After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense. 296 pages

Paper Daughter

2010-10-22T14:23:00.000-07:00

Y / Fiction / Ingold, Jeanette

When her father, a respected journalist in Seattle, is killed in a hit-and-run accident, Maggie Chen, a high school intern at her father's newspaper, searches for clues to the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, an investigation that forces her to confront her ethnicity and a family she never knew. Includes historical notes on Chinese immigration to the United States, "paper"sons," and the Exclusion Era laws. 214 pages

Ashes

2010-10-22T14:21:00.000-07:00

Y / Fiction / Lasky, Kathryn

In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard. 318 pages

Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard

2010-10-22T09:32:00.000-07:00

Unbelievable
Y / Fiction / Shepard, Sara

Four girls living in a wealthy suburb discover the identity of a stalker who has been sending them shocking text messages, and uncover the mystery of who killed their childhood friend. 335 pages

Killer
Y / Fiction / Shepard, Sara

Former best friends Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer continue to live in fear as they struggle to keep hidden even more secrets and someone new begins stalking them via their cell phones. 321 pages

Clique series by Lisi Harrison

2010-10-22T09:26:00.000-07:00

My Little Phony
Y /Fiction / Harrison, Lisi

As the holidays approach, Massie, Alicia, Dylan, Kristen, and Claire deal with budget woes, boy friends and each other in the continuing adventures of the Clique. 198 pages

These Boots are Made for Stalking
Y / F iction / Harrison, Lisi

Now that the Pretty Committee is no longer boycotting boys, the eighth-grade friends cannot decide who has a crush on whom, putting the Clique in jeopardy again. 228 pages