Stand-Alone Titles

BLOOD ROSES
Francesca Lia Block
Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060763848
Ages 14-up
144 pages

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In these vivid tales of transformation, changelings abound as characters manifest their emotions, literally. In “My Boyfriend Is an Alien,” he really is one. When a girl feels awkward in her own skin, she actually becomes a giant. And when another girl falls deeply, madly, truly in love, tattoos appear all over her body. Margaret A. Edwards Award winner Francesca Lia Block blurs the line between what’s real and what’s imagined in this collection of magic realist stories.

THE BOXER AND THE SPY
Robert B. Parker
Philomel Books
ISBN: 9780399247750
Ages 14-up
224 pages

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When a shy high school student’s body is found washed up on the shore of a quiet New England beach town --- an apparent suicide --- 15-year-old Terry Novak doesn’t know what to think. Something just doesn’t add up, so he decides to do some investigating of his own with the help of his best friend, Abby. It doesn’t take long before they learn that asking questions puts them in grave danger, and surviving is going to be a fight. Fortunately, Terry has been learning a thing or two about fighting, thanks to a retired boxer named George, who teaches the boy to use his head and always keep his feet set beneath him --- lessons Terry takes to heart in more ways than one.

CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL KISSER
Wendelin van Draanen
Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375842481
Ages 12-up
304 pages

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Evangeline Logan wants a kiss --- a spectacular, heart-stopping, life-changing kiss. Somehow THE CRIMSON KISS (a romance novel she’s become obsessed with) and FOUR STEPS TO LIVING YOUR FANTASY(a self-help book she’s reading) have fused in Evangeline’s mind and sent her on a quest for a kiss. But the path to perfection is paved with many bad kisses. The phrase “I don’t kiss and tell” means nothing to the boys in her school. And worse: someone starts writing her name and number on bathroom walls. And worst of all: the boy she has just kissed turns out to be her best friend’s new crush.

THE DAY I KILLED JAMES
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375841583
Ages 12-up
224 pages

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When Theresa brings James to a party as her date, it’s just for the night --- and he knows that. But when everything goes horribly wrong, James drives his motorcycle off a cliff --- and Theresa knows she’s responsible for his death. Theresa tries to run away from the pain, becoming a new young woman with a whole new life. She meets people, of course, but she never really makes connections --- she’s too scared she’ll hurt them, too. What Theresa discovers, however, is that you can try to run away from the pain, but you can never really run away from yourself.

GENERATION DEAD
Daniel Waters
Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN: 9781423109211
Ages 12-up
400 pages

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All over the country, a strange phenomenon is happening. Some teenagers who die aren't staying dead. They’re coming back to life, but they’re no longer the same --– they stutter, and their reactions to everything are slower. Termed "living impaired" or "differently biotic," they’re doing their best to fit into a society that doesn't want them. Fitting in is hard enough when you don't have the look or attitude, but when almost everyone else is alive and you're not, it's close to impossible. With her pale skin and Goth wardrobe, Phoebe has never run with the popular crowd. But no one can believe it when she falls for Tommy Williams, the leader of the dead kids.

GIRLWOOD
Claire Dean
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
ISBN: 9780618883905
Ages 12-up
256 pages

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When Polly Greene’s older sister, Bree, vanishes into the woods, Polly begins to leave food for Bree and finds a hidden grove she names Girlwood, where she believes Bree is burning a fire each night. Along with an odd but endearing group of friends, Polly clings to the hope that she can see her sister through the harsh, snowy winter. And, in the process, she discovers the cruelty, bounty and magic of the woods. Will Polly save her sister? And even if she does, will Girlwood survive?

HOW TO BE BAD
E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myracle
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780061284229
Ages 14-up
336 pages

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Three girls who couldn't be more different have one goal in mind: to get out of Niceville, Florida. Vicks is the wild-child fry cook whose boyfriend left for college and isn't returning any of her calls; Mel, the good girl in expensive jeans who just wants everyone to like her; and Jesse, the trailer-dwelling human morality meter who has discovered a life-altering secret.
 
From three critically acclaimed and bestselling authors comes one story ---- equal parts charming, hilarious and emotional --- of a road trip that proves that sometimes it doesn't matter where you're going, since getting there is half the fun.

MADAPPLE
Christina Meldrum
Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375851766
Ages 14-up
416 pages

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Aslaug is an unusual young woman. Her mother has brought her up in near isolation, teaching her about plants and nature and language --- but not about life. Especially not how she came to have her own life, and who her father might be.

When Aslaug’s mother dies unexpectedly, everything changes. For Aslaug is a suspect in her mother’s death. And the more her story unravels, the more questions unfold. About the nature of Aslaug’s birth. About what she should do next. About whether divine miracles have truly happened. And whether, when all other explanations are impossible, they might still happen this very day.

NICK OF TIME: An Adventure Through Time
Ted Bell
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN: 9780312380687
Ages 12-up
448 pages

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The setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war. Nick and his younger sister, Kate, live in a lighthouse on the smallest of the Channel Islands. Nick and Kate come to the aid of their father who is engaged in a desperate war of espionage with German U-boat wolf packs that are circling the islands. The information they provide to Winston Churchill is vital as he tries to warn England of the imminent Nazi invasion.

One day Nick discovers an old sea chest, left for him by his ancestor, Captain Nicholas McIver of the Royal Navy. Inside, he finds a time machine and a desperate plea for help from the captain. He uses the machine to return to the year 1805. Captain McIver and, indeed, Admiral Nelson’s entire fleet are threatened by the treachery of the French and the mutinous Captain Billy Blood. Nick must reach deep inside, using his wits, courage and daring to rescue the imperiled British sailors.

THE RED NECKLACE
Sally Gardner
Dial Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780803731004
Ages 12-up
384 pages

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Clever and head-turningly attractive, 14-year-old Yann is an orphan who has been raised in Paris by Têtu, a dwarf with secrets he has yet to reveal to the gypsy boy. It’s the winter of 1789, and the duo have been working for a vain magician named Topolain. On the night when Topolain’s vanity brings his own death, Yann’s life truly begins. That’s the night he meets shy Sido, an heiress with an ice-cold father, a young girl who has only known loneliness until now. Though they have the shortest of conversations, an attachment is born that will influence both their paths.

SHIFT
Jennifer Bradbury
Atheneum/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781416947325
Ages 12-up
256 pages

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Imagine you and your best friend head off on a cross-country bike trek. Imagine that the two of you get into a fight. Imagine you stop riding together. Imagine you reach Seattle, then come home alone. Imagine the FBI is now at your college dorm. Imagine finding out your former best friend never made it home. Imagine also finding out he’d actually been carrying more than $20,000 on him. Imagine your world shifting… 

Series Books/Sequels

Airhead

AIRHEAD
Meg Cabot
Point/Scholastic
ISBN: 9780545040525
Ages 12-up
352 pages

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Emerson Watts didn’t even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening. But someone needed to look out for her sister Frida, whose crush, British heartthrob Gabriel Luna, would be singing and signing autographs there --- along with the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard.

How was Em to know that disaster would strike, changing her --- and life as she’d known it --- forever? One devastating accident later, and Em Watts, always the tomboy, never the party princess, is no longer herself. Literally. Now getting her best friend Christopher to notice that she’s actually a girl is the least of Em’s problems.

The Clique Summer Collection

DYLAN: The Clique Summer Collection #2
Lisi Harrison
Poppy/Little, Brown for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316035651
Ages 12-up
144 pages

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Dylan and her TV-host mom are off to Hawaii's Aloha Tennis Open. While Merri-Lee interviews tennis's wild child Svetlana "Tennis the Menace" Slootskyia, Dylan lets the tropical sun melt away the memory of getting dumped by two guys at the end of seventh grade. But between avocado mud masks and poolside naps, she falls in love with a preppy, tennis-obsessed hawtie. Dylan soon realizes the only way to score a date with him is to master the game. Can she convince moody Svetlana to spill the secrets of her tennis success, or will she end up oh-for-three in summer love?

Demonata

DEMON APOCALYPSE: The Demonata, Book 6
Darren Shan
Little, Brown for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316003797
Ages 15-up
208 pages

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One boy's life ripped to shreds before his eyes...

One wrathful demon master hell-bent on revenge...

An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage...

It's the end of the world as we know it.

The sixth novel in the chilling Demonata series by Darren Shan, author of the New York Times bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, will terrify readers long after the last page.

Gossip Girl

GOSSIP GIRL: THE CARLYLES
Cecily von Ziegesar
Poppy/Little, Brown for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316020640
Ages 15-up
256 pages

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Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen were the reigning princesses of the Upper East Side.

Until now.

In GOSSIP GIRL: THE CARLYLES, the inimitable Gossip Girl introduces the most fabulous 16-year-old triplets to ever inhabit the Upper East Side. When the Waldorfs move from their apartment at the end of DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME, the Carlyle triplets of Nantucket, Massachusetts --- Owen, Baby and Peyton --- move in.

In the new titles of the Gossip Girl series, readers will follow the Carlyles, plus three other teenagers living in gorgeous apartments, attending the most exclusive private schools --- the familiar Constance Billard School for Girls and St. Jude's School for Boys --- and treating New York's Upper East Side as their personal playground.

Sequel to CATHY’S BOOK

CATHY’S KEY: If Found Call (650) 266-8202
Running Press
ISBN: 9780762430857
Ages 12-up
144 pages

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Cathy was your average high school student --- doodling in the margins of her journal, crushing on a cute boy, and hanging out with her best friend Emma. As this story begins, she’s trying to keep a job, her journal is stolen, the cute boy is not who he seems to be, and even Emma’s side project/start-up company, Doubletalk Wireless, is about to get caught up in the mystery surrounding Cathy and her search for the truth about her father. Her presumed-dead father.

Sequel to EVIL GENIUS

GENIUS SQUAD
Catherine Jinks
Harcourt Children’s Books
ISBN: 9780152059859
Ages 12-up
448 pages

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Now that the Axis Institute for World Domination has been blown up; the founder, Dr. Phineas Darkkon has died; and Prosper English (who enrolled Cadel in the first place) is in jail for myriad offenses, Cadel Piggott has round-the-clock surveillance so he'll be safe until he testifies against Prosper English. But nobody seems to want Cadel.

When he is approached by the head of Genius Squad --- a group formed to investigate GenoME, one of Darkkon's pet projects --- Cadel is dubious. Genius Squad can offer him a real home and all the technology his heart desires. But why can't he bring himself to tell Saul what the group is really up to? And how can Genius Squad protect Cadel once Prosper English breaks out of jail?