ARE WE THERE YET?
David Levithan
Knopf
ISBN: 037582846X
Ages 14-up
224 pages

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Elijah and his older brother Danny can barely tolerate each other. So their parents come up with a solution: they trick their sons into taking a trip to Italy together, which means they will be forced to spend countless hours together. But when Elijah meets Julia, they aren't together nearly as much. And then Julia meets Danny. Will these two young men be able to put aside their differences and remember the affection they once had for each other?

CONFESSIONS OF A TEEN NANNY
Victoria Ashton
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0060731737
Ages 13-up
208 pages

Sixteen-year-old Adrienne Lewis is in charge of eight-year-old Emma Warner, who has gotten all five previous nannies fired. But then there's Emma's seventeen-year-old half-sister, Cameron, a wild child who's a liar and a user. Unfortunately, Adrienne isn't aware of Cameron's true colors. Her best friend Liz tries to warn her, but Adrienne thinks that it's Liz who doesn't know the real Cameron. Together, Adrienne and Cameron indulge in shopping sprees, bar hopping, and crazy, drunken parties. Does Cameron actually want Adrienne to become her new best friend?

MERMAID PARK
Beth Mayall
Razorbill/Penguin Young Readers Group
ISBN: 1595140298
Ages 12-up
288 pages

Amy dreads her family vacation, especially with her new stepfather in the picture. Life feels like one big disappointment --- until Amy discovers Mermaid Park, an old tourist spot where girls dressed in fabulous costumes perform underwater shows. When Amy sees "mermaids" gliding through the water, she's utterly captivated, convinced that if she could become one of them, the rest of her life could be just as beautiful.

THE ORPHEUS OBSESSION
Dakota Lane
HarperTempest
ISBN: 0060741732
Teen Fiction
288 pages

Life at home isn't so easy for Anooshka Stargirl, who has an absent father and a depressed mother who often won't get out of bed. Fortunately there's Zoetrope Zallulah Moon, her older sister who lives only a bus ride away in New York City.

Visiting Moon one summer weekend, Anooshka hears rock singer Orpheus's music and immediately becomes entranced by his sound, and his lyrics seem to echo her mood. After meeting the shy rocker, Anooshka can't shake him from her head. Soon Orpheus expresses an interest in her. When the two share a brief romantic encounter, Anooshka is elated --- until the fantasy shatters and an unspoken piece of her past finally makes itself heard.

SLEEPING FRESHMEN NEVER LIE
David Lubar
Dutton Children's Books
ISBN: 0525473114
Ages 12-up
160 pages

Starting high school is never easy. Some Seniors don't treat you with any respect. You start paying closer attention to girls, but many are unattainable. The guys you grew up with are drifting away. And you can never get enough sleep. Could there be a worse time for Scott's mother to announce her pregnancy? Scott decides high school would be a lot less overwhelming if it came with a survival manual, so he begins to write down tips for his new sibling.

UNDERWORLD
Catherine MacPhail
Bloomsbury USA
ISBN: 1582349975
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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A school trip goes disastrously wrong when five troubled high school students find themselves trapped in an underground cave. Their best chance of escape is to stay together. But when a member of the group disappears, their hope of finding a way out starts to fade. Does one of the remaining four know more than he or she is letting on, or is there something evil lurking in the caves?

Series Books

Alias

COLLATERAL DAMAGE
An original novel based on the hit TV series created by J. J. Abrams
Pierce Askegren
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN: 1416902473
Ages 12-up
304 pages

What begins as a routine assignment --- infiltrate a public building and retrieve monitoring equipment set up by APO --- goes horribly wrong. With the mission suddenly compromised, the true question becomes "Who's monitoring whom and why?" As a highly resourceful agent Sydney Bristow manages to complete the objective, but a split-second miscalculation during her escape endangers a civilian caught in the crossfire.

When haunting details of the victim emerge and the lead suspect is murdered, Sydney's carefully compartmentalized life threatens to unravel. Vaughn and Jack are understandably concerned. For a field agent, even the tiniest loss of focus can prove deadly.

Fear Street Nights Trilogy

MIDNIGHT GAMES: Book Two
R. L. Stine
Simon Pulse
ISBN: 0689878656
Ages 12-up
160 pages

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Dana Fear isn't thrilled about spending her senior year at Shadyside High. The Fear family history goes way back in this town, and the last thing she wants to do is carry around all that baggage. But then she meets the Night People and starts spending a great deal of time with them. When her new best friends start mysteriously disappearing one by one, though, the fun officially ends. Dana swears she has absolutely nothing to do with this, yet all fingers point in her direction.