Stand-Alone Titles

AFTER THE WRECK, I PICKED MYSELF UP, SPREAD MY WINGS, AND FLEW AWAY
Joyce Carol Oates
HarperTeen
ISBN-10: 0060735252
ISBN-13: 9780060735258
Ages 14-up
304 pages

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Jenna Abbott separates her life into two categories: before the wreck and after the wreck. Before the wreck, she was leading a normal life with her mom in suburban New York. After the wreck, Jenna is alone, trying desperately to forget what happened that day on the bridge. She's determined not to let anyone get close to her --- she never wants to feel so broken and fragile again. Can Jenna bring herself to face the memories she's tried so hard to erase?

HOW TO BE POPULAR
Meg Cabot
HarperTeen
ISBN-10: 0060880120
ISBN-13: 9780060880125
Ages 12-up
304 pages

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Stephanie Landry has been the least popular girl in her class since a certain cherry Super Big Gulp catastrophe five years earlier. Popularity matters very much to Steph, which is why she has a plan this year to get in with the It Crowd. Her secret weapon is an old book called How to Be Popular. All Steph has to do is follow the instructions in The Book, and soon she'll be partying with some very cool people. What Steph doesn't realize is that it's easy to become popular, but staying that way is another matter.

IN THE COMPANY OF CRAZIES
Nora Raleigh Baskin
HarperCollins
ISBN-10: 0060596074
ISBN-13: 9780060596071
Ages 10-up
176 pages

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Thirteen-year-old Mia Singer thought that she had it all under control, even though her grades were slipping and she couldn't explain her occasional compulsion to shoplift. The sudden death of a classmate affects Mia in a way she can't quite define, but then she goes one step too far. Her mother and father place her in an "alternative" boarding school. Away from her parents and surrounded by trees, space and students whose problems she can't completely understand, Mia has no choice but to learn about herself.

JUST IN CASE
Meg Rosoff
Wendy Lamb Books/Random House
ISBN-10: 0385746784
ISBN-13: 9780385746786
Ages 12-up
256 pages

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After finding his younger brother teetering on the edge of his balcony, 15-year-old David Case realizes the fragility of life and senses impending doom. Without looking back, he changes his name to Justin and assumes a new identity, new clothing and new friends, and dares to fall in love with the seductive Agnes Day. With his imaginary dog in tow, Justin struggles to fit into his new role and to survive in a world where tragedy is around every corner. He has to be prepared, just in case.

THE UNRESOLVED
T. K. Welsh
Dutton Children's Books
ISBN-10: 0525477314
ISBN-13: 9780525477310
Ages 14-17
160 pages

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Mallory Meer has just turned 15 years old, and within an hour --- thanks to the only boy she's ever loved --- she'll be dead, a victim of the General Slocum steamship disaster. Bound by love to her grieving family and outraged by the multitude of senseless deaths, Mallory haunts those responsible for the tragedy, determined to see that justice is served.

VANISHING ACT: Mystery at the U.S. Open
John Feinstein
Knopf
ISBN-10: 037583592X
ISBN-13: 9780375835926
Ages 10-up
288 pages

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Aspiring sports reporters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson have kept in touch after their wild time at the Final Four. And when Susan Carol manages to score a press pass to cover the first week of the US Open Tennis Tournament in New York, Stevie works out a way to be there as well. But the disappearance of a young Russian phenom right before her second-round match overshadows all the fun and games. Was she kidnapped? Did she run? Is she even still alive? The rumors are growing wilder by the hour, though they don't even come close to the shocking truth.

THE WISH HOUSE
Celia Rees
Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763629510
Ages 14-up
272 pages

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It's the start of summer vacation, and 15-year-old Richard has discovered that a family has taken up residence in the usually deserted Wish House. The father, Jethro Dalton, is an internationally renowned painter, but it's daughter Clio, the inspiration for Jethro's paintings, who draws Richard utterly into the Daltons' world. Soon Richard becomes so captivated by Clio that he finds himself spending days and nights with her, all the while struggling to understand and fit in with her eccentric clan.

THE WRONG HANDS
Nigel Richardson
Knopf
ISBN-10: 0375834591
ISBN-13: 9780375834592
Ages 12-up
272 pages

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Fourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair was born with huge, strange hands --- and a secret. The only time he ever told someone his secret, it got him into big trouble. So he won't be telling anyone ever again --- or so he thinks. In this suspenseful and magical debut novel, Graham finds his life suddenly and thrillingly complicated --- and his secret harder and harder to conceal.

Series Books/Sequels

The Clique

DIAL L FOR LOSER: The Clique #6
Lisi Harrison
Little Brown for Young Readers
ISBN-10: 0316115045
ISBN-13: 9780316115049
Ages 12-up
272 pages

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The Clique is back!

Massie Block is the uncontested ruler of The Clique and the rest of the social scene at Octavian Country Day, an exclusive private school in Westchester County, New York.

Claire Lyons has finally arrived! But will she be able to stay in Massie's inner circle?

Alicia Rivera would love to take Massie's throne one day --- and she just might do it.

Dylan Marvil, Massie's second in command, divides her time between sucking up to Massie and imbibing Atkin's shakes.

Kristen Gregory will insult you to tears faster than you can say "scholarship kid."

Sequel to TWILIGHT

NEW MOON
Stephenie Meyer
Megan Tingley/Little Brown for Young Readers
ISBN-10: 0316160199
ISBN-13: 9780316160193
Ages 12-up
576 pages

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In Stephenie Meyer's sequel to her immensely popular fantasy TWILIGHT, Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy's reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi.

Charmed

LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Scott Ciencin
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN-10: 1416914706
ISBN-13: 9781416914709
Ages 16-up
256 pages

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The Charmed Ones couldn't be happier --- Phoebe and Piper's childhood friend Lyssa is getting married and has asked them to be bridesmaids! The ceremony will take place in Serenity Cove's beautiful old lighthouse, which is rumored to be haunted by the vengeful spirit of the lighthouse keeper who lost his true love at sea --- 100 years ago, on the date of Lyssa's wedding. The Halliwell sisters ignore the rumors --- until, that is, they notice the strange behavior of Lyssa's fiancé. He seems to have become obsessed with Lyssa's family heirloom, a strange and beautiful diamond called the Light of the World. Can the Charmed Ones disclose his true identity and intentions before their friend says "I do" to Mr. Wrong?