CHAOS BLEEDS (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
James Moore
Simon Pulse
ISBN: 074342767X
Ages 16-up
336 pages

Arch-nemesis Ethan Rayne is back in Sunnydale, and this time he actually needs Buffy's help. Not surprisingly, he has become entangled with The First --- an ancient evil that predates humankind. And now The First has made Ethan a deal he can't refuse: ultimate power. All he has to do is lure Buffy into battle. With their sanity on the line, the gang is going to need all the help they can get.

DANGEROUS GIRLS
R.L. Stine
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0060530804
Ages 12-up
256 pages

Destiny Weller and her twin sister, Livvy, are beautiful, smart and popular. They look forward to a summer of fun (and romance) as junior counselors at Camp Blue Moon. However, Destiny and Livvy don't realize the evil that awaits them at camp --- an evil that will change their lives forever.

Summer ends, but the horror follows them home. The twins are overcome by an inhuman craving for blood and they prowl their town at night, eager to satisfy their hunger. How long can they keep their terrifying secret from their friends, and how much longer can they avoid the vampire hunters who are determined to destroy them?

THE FARTHER YOU RUN
Davida Wills Hurwin
Viking Children's Books
ISBN: 0670036277
Ages 12-up
256 pages

In this long-awaited sequel to the award winning A TIME FOR DANCING, Samantha has lost her best friend, Juliana, to cancer, and now feels completely alone in the world. But then Samantha meets Mona in summer school. Mona has challenges of her own --- her mother is bipolar, and she must always face the prospect of new schools, a changing roster of "friends" and neighbors who never understand.

The two of them form an immediate connection. By the end of the summer they have jobs, an apartment together in San Francisco, and the beginning of a brand new life. But just before the anniversary of Juliana's death, Samantha and Mona must face what they've been trying to ignore.

INSIDE OUT
Terry Trueman
HarperTempest
ISBN: 0066239621
Teen Fiction
128 pages

In a busy coffee shop, a robbery goes terribly wrong. Two gunmen hold nine hostages, including Zach Wahhsted, who appears to be an ordinary teenager. But what nobody realizes at first is that Zach is far from ordinary. True, he doesn't have a gun or a knife, but who cares? Zach has a weapon that is far more dangerous --- his mind.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: ATTACK ON NEW YORK CITY --- Interviews and Accounts
Wilborn Hampton
Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763619493
Ages 12-up
160 pages

A blind man and his dog struggling to escape from the burning North Tower, a company of firefighters risking their lives to help with the evacuation, an ordinary citizen turned rescue worker sifting through debris after the towers collapsed --- each of these individuals endured a personal nightmare, and each carries a separate memory.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: ATTACK ON NEW YORK CITY is a compelling book with interviews and accounts of survivors, heroes, and terrorists. A New Yorker who was close to Ground Zero, author Wilborn Hampton also tells his own story. By following several individuals through September 11th and its aftermath, Hampton has created an intimate portrait of life and loss, and a deeper understanding of the events of that tragic day.

TWISTS AND TURNS
Janet McDonald
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 0374399557
Ages 12-up
144 pages

It may have taken them an extra year or two to do it, but sisters Keeba and Teesha Washington have finally graduated from high school. This is a significant accomplishment, but the girls have no plans for the future. In fact, Keeba and Teesha are still hanging out on neighborhood benches as if nothing has changed.

Then an older friend convinces the sisters that they do indeed have a skill --- braiding hair --- and that they should make a business out of it. With a loan from their best friend Aisha, the Washingtons open TeeKee's Tresses in a rented storefront, and the future looks fairly bright --- until various outside forces turn the sisters' world upside down.

ZIGZAG
Ellen Wittlinger
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0689849966
Ages 12-up
272 pages

After learning the heartbreaking news that her boyfriend has been enrolled in a summer program that will take him to Rome, Robin agrees to join her aunt and cousins on a cross-country road trip --- though she has her doubts. Robin and her younger cousins have never really gotten along, and since their father's death they've become even more problematic than before.

Soon, however, the four of them are zigzagging through the West on an eye-opening journey. They explore parts of the country Robin never knew existed --- and she discovers inner resources she never imagined she had.