Stand-Alone Titles

CASSANDRA'S SISTER: Growing Up Jane Austen
Veronica Bennett
Candlewick Press
ISBN-10: 0763634646
ISBN-13: 9780763634643
Ages 12-up
240 pages

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Young Jane --- or Jenny, as she is called --- has many questions. Surrounded by her busy parents and brothers, she finds a place for her thoughts in the companionship of her older sister, Cassandra. But the arrival of their worldly-wise cousin disrupts Jenny’s world, bringing answers to some of her questions and providing a gem of an idea. Veronica Bennett invites readers into a society where propriety and marriage rule hand in hand, an environment in which Jenny finds inspiration to write the masterpieces PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and SENSE AND SENSIBILITY --- a world where a clever young girl will one day become the beloved Jane Austen.

COVER-UP: Mystery at the Super Bowl
John Feinstein
Knopf
ISBN-10: 0375842470
ISBN-13: 9780375842474
Ages 10-up
304 pages

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More than 95 million fans will be watching the Super Bowl, but Steve Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson know that what they'll be watching is a lie. They’re fully aware that the entire offensive line of the California Dreams have failed their doping tests and that the Dreams' owner is trying to cover up the test results. These two teens are sitting on the biggest sports scandal of the decade. What they don't know --- yet --- is how to prove it.

DISGUISED: A Wartime Memoir
Rita de Clercq Zubli
Candlewick Press
ISBN-10: 0763633291
ISBN-13: 9780763633295
Ages 14-up
384 pages

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With the Japanese army poised to invade their Indonesian island in 1942, Rita la Fontaine’s family knew that they and the other Dutch and Dutch-Indonesian residents would soon become prisoners of war. Fearing that 12-year-old Rita would be forced to act as a "comfort woman" for the Japanese soldiers, the family launched a desperate plan to turn Rita into "Rick," cutting her hair short and dressing her in boy’s clothes. Rita’s aptitude for languages earned her a position as translator for the commandant of the prisoner camp, and for the next three years she played a dangerous game of disguise while advocating against poor conditions, injustice and torture. Sixty-five years later, Rita describes a war experience like no other --- a remarkable tale of integrity, fortitude and honor.

A FIELD GUIDE TO HIGH SCHOOL
Marissa Walsh
Delacorte Press
ISBN-10: 0385734107
ISBN-13: 9780385734103
Ages 12-up
144 pages

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Andie has just finished eighth grade and will be starting high school in the fall. The good news: Andie’s super-popular valedictorian big sister, Claire, is graduating and won't be there to put Andie in the shadows. The bad news: Claire is graduating and won't be there to help Andie. For her little sister, Claire has put together a guide that covers everything a freshman needs to know but didn't even think to ask. Andie reads every word and even shares it with best friend Bess. But sometimes they wonder if Harvard-bound Claire got everything right!

JINX
Meg Cabot
HarperTeen
ISBN-10: 0060837640
ISBN-13: 9780060837648
Ages 12-up
272 pages

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The only thing Jean Honeychurch hates more than her boring name is her all-too-appropriate nickname, Jinx. Misfortune seems to follow her everywhere she goes --- which is why she's thrilled to be moving in with her aunt and uncle in New York City. But trouble has definitely followed Jinx to the Big Apple. And it's causing major problems for her cousin Tory, who is not happy to have the family black sheep around. Beautiful, glamorous Tory is hiding a dangerous secret and is certain that Jinx is going to reveal it. Jinx is beginning to realize it isn't just bad luck she's been running from. It's something far more sinister --- and the curse Jinx has lived under since the day she was born might be the only thing that can save her life.

MEMOIRS OF A TEENAGE AMNESIAC
Gabrielle Zevin
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-10: 0374349460
ISBN-13: 9780374349462
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn’t have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her “Chief.” She’d know about her mom’s new family and her dad’s fiancée. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn’t have wanted to kiss him back.

But Naomi picked heads.

NAOMI AND ELY'S NO KISS LIST
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Knopf
ISBN-10: 0375844406
ISBN-13: 9780375844409
Ages 14-up
240 pages

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Naomi and Ely are best friends. Naomi loves and is in love with Ely. Ely loves Naomi but prefers to be in love with boys. So they create their "No Kiss List" of people neither of them is allowed to kiss. And this works fine --- up to a point. Bruce is Naomi's boyfriend, so there's no reason to put him on the List. But Ely kissed Bruce even though he’s boring. The result is a rift of universal proportions and the potential end of "Naomi and Ely: the institution." Can these best friends come back together again?

THE PENALTY
Mal Peet
Candlewick Press
ISBN-10: 0763633992
ISBN-13: 9780763633998
Ages 14-up
272 pages

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As the city of San Juan pulses to summer’s sluggish beat, its teenage soccer prodigy, El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without a trace --- right after he misses a penalty kick and loses a big game for his team. Paul Faustino, South America’s top sports reporter, is reluctantly drawn into the mystery of the athlete’s disappearance. As a story of corruption and murder unfolds, Faustino is forced to confront the bitter history of slavery and the power of the occult.

Series Books

Follow-up to TWILIGHT and NEW MOON

ECLIPSE
Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown for Young Readers
ISBN-10: 0316160202
ISBN-13: 9780316160209
Ages 12-up
640 pages

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Readers captivated by TWILIGHT and NEW MOON will eagerly devour ECLIPSE, the much anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob --- knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

Follow-up to VEGAN VIRGIN VALENTINE

GUYAHOLIC
Carolyn Mackler
Candlewick Press
ISBN-10: 076362537X
ISBN-13: 9780763625375
Ages 12-up
192 pages

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V Valentine is the queen of meaningless hookups. Ever since her mom dumped her with her grandparents, she has bounced from guy to guy. But in the spring of senior year, a fateful hockey puck lands her in the lap of Sam Almond. Right from the start, things with Sam are different. V is terrified to admit it, but this might be meaningful after all. On the afternoon of graduation, V receives some shocking news. Later, at a party, she makes an irreversible mistake and risks losing Sam forever. When her mom invites her to Texas, V embarks on a cross-country road trip with the hopes of putting 2,000 miles between herself, Sam and the wreckage of that night.

Sequel to THE SEA OF TROLLS

THE LAND OF THE SILVER APPLES
Nancy Farmer
Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
ISBN-10: 1416907351
ISBN-13: 9781416907350
Ages 10-14
512 pages

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Thirteen-year-old Jack, only a bard-in-training, is amazed to have caused an earthquake. But his sister, Lucy, has been stolen by the Lady of the Lake. Caught between belief in the old gods and Christianity (this is 790 AD Britain), Jack calls upon his ash wood staff to subdue a passel of unruly monks, and, for his daring, ends up in a knucker hole. It’s unforgettable (for the boy and for readers), as are the magical reappearance of the berserker Thorgil from a burial by moss; new characters Pega, a slave girl from Jack's village, and the eager-to-marry-her Bugaboo (a hobgoblin king); kelpies; yarthkins; and elves (not the enchanted sprites one would expect but the fallen angels of legend).

Lily Dale

LILY DALE: AWAKENING
Wendy Corsi Staub
Walker Books for Young Readers
ISBN-10: 0802796540
ISBN-13: 9780802796547
Ages 12-up
240 pages

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Calla thought that her boyfriend breaking up with her in a text message was the worst thing that could ever happen to her. But just two weeks later, her mother died in a freak accident, and life as she knew it was completely over. With her father heading to California for a new job, they decide that Calla should spend a few weeks with the grandmother she barely knows while he gets them set up.

To Calla’s shock, her mother’s hometown of Lily Dale is full of psychics --- including her grandmother. Suddenly, the fact that her mother never talked about her past takes on more mysterious overtones. The longer she stays in town, the stranger things become, as Calla starts to experience unusual and unsettling events that lead her to wonder whether she has inherited her grandmother’s unique gift. Is it this gift that is making her suspect that her mother’s death was more than an accident, or is it just an overactive imagination?

The Looking Glass Wars Trilogy

SEEING REDD
Frank Beddor
Dial Books for Young Readers
ISBN-10: 0803731558
ISBN-13: 9780803731554
Ages 12-up
384 pages

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Alyss of Wonderland’s rule has only just begun and already those who prefer chaos to peace are threatening to destroy everything worth imagining. Trailed by newly appointed Royal Bodyguard Homburg Molly, Alyss does her best to keep pace with the spiraling, non-stop demands of being Queen while attempting to evade Molly for a few private moments with Dodge. Alyss’s life is already a challenging mix of duty, love and imagining when a series of phantom sightings set fire to an urban myth of her Imperial Viciousness’s return and have everyone…Seeing Redd.

Has Redd somehow freed herself and her chief assassin, the Cat, from the confines of the Heart Crystal to challenge her niece once again? If not, then who has resurrected Redd’s brutal footsoldiers, the Glass Eyes, and set them loose to attack Wonderland on all sides?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

DARK CONGRESS
Christopher Golden
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN-10: 1416936319
ISBN-13: 9781416936312
Ages 16-up
288 pages

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Since the beginning of time, the demonic races have gathered every century to resolve conflicts among them and to determine the course of their future. This centennial event was called the Dark Congress. In the second century BC, however, the Dark Congress failed to resolve their conflicts. Instead, the Congress ignited into a war that drove wedges between the various demon races from that time until now. And all of it began as a result of Kandida, the great North African river demon, being nearly killed by forces in the Congress and magically entombed in the riverbank.

But now, Kandida is free, and for the first time in centuries, the Dark Congress is being called again. All demon races and other varieties of supernatural creatures have been called to gather at the Hellmouth in Providence, Rhode Island. Some gather in hopes of resolution, some in favor of war, and Kandida is tasked to broker a treaty and guide the Congress to peace, wherein everyone might simply agree to disagree. And so the demons gather under a banner of a truce. But the demons still harbor many bitter disagreements with one another. The Congress must have an arbiter of these conflicts, and that someone is Buffy Summers.

Charmed

LEO RISING
Paul Ruditis
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN-10: 1416936696
ISBN-13: 9781416936695
Ages 16-up
224 pages

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While a newly mortal Leo is out for a walk with Wyatt and newborn Chris, demons trap the Charmed Ones in the house and take them to the Underworld, where they are imprisoned by demon scientist Dr. Gnivik, who plans to steal the Power of Three. When Leo returns to find the house empty and in even more disarray than when he had left, he tries to piece together what happened, but can't. Due to his recent fall from grace, the Elders ignore his calls. What is he to do? With no other options and no magic of his own, Leo becomes desperate.

Using a spell from the Book of Shadows, his sons' magic and a sliver of unicorn horn, he calls the future versions of Wyatt and Chris back to the present. Together, the Halliwell men go in search of The Charmed Ones. With Dr. Gnivik nearing success and the sisters powerless to stop him, it's up to Leo and the boys to save the day....