ALONG FOR THE RIDE
Sarah Dessen
Viking Juvenile
ISBN: 9780670011940
Ages 12-up
383 pages

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It’s been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents’ divorce --- or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live.

A job in a clothes boutique introduces Auden to the world of girls: their talk, their friendship, their crushes. She missed out on all that, too busy being the perfect daughter to her demanding mother. Then she meets Eli, an intriguing loner and a fellow insomniac who becomes her guide to the nocturnal world of the town. Together they embark on parallel quests: for Auden, to experience the carefree teenage life she’s been denied; for Eli, to come to terms with the guilt he feels for the death of a friend.

ANGRY MANAGEMENT
Chris Crutcher
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780060502478
Ages 14-up
256 pages

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Mr. Nak's Angry Management group is a place for misfits. A place for stories.

There's Angus Bethune and Sarah Byrnes, who can hide from everyone but each other. Together, they will embark on a road trip full of haunting endings and glimmering beginnings.

And Montana West, who doesn't step down from a challenge. Not even when the challenge comes from her adoptive dad, who's leading the school board to censor the article she wrote for the school paper.

And straightlaced Matt Miller, who had never been friends with outspoken genius Marcus James. Until one tragic week --- a week they'd do anything to change --- brings them closer than Matt could have ever imagined.

BAIT
Alex Sanchez
Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
ISBN: 9781416937722
Ages 12-up
256 pages

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When a guy in his class looks at him funny, Diego punches him in the face, and ends up on probation. At first he wants nothing to do with his probation officer. But as Diego starts to open up, he begins to realize that Mr. Vidas is the first person in his life who ever really wanted to listen to him. With Vidas's help, Diego begins to make real progress in controlling his anger. He even opens up enough to tell Vidas about the shark tooth that his stepfather gave him that he uses to cut himself. But only if Diego can find the courage to trust Vidas with the darkest secrets from his past will he be able to heal completely.

THE MORGUE AND ME
John C. Ford
Viking Juvenile
ISBN: 9780670010967
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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Christopher just needed a job to kill time the summer after high school graduation. He didn’t expect it to be in the morgue. Or that he would accidentally discover a murder cover-up. Or that his discovery would lead him to a full-blown investigation involving bribery, kidnappings, more murders…and his best friend. And he certainly could never have predicted that Tina --- a loud, insanely hot, ambitious newspaper reporter --- would be his partner. But all of that did happen. And Christopher’s life will never be the same.

NOTHING BUT GHOSTS
Beth Kephart
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780061667961
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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Ever since her mother passed away, Katie has been alone in her too-big house with her genius dad, who restores old paintings for a living. Katie takes a summer job at a garden estate, where, with the help of two brothers and a glamorous librarian, she soon becomes embroiled in decoding a mystery. There are secrets and shadows at the heart of NOTHING BUT GHOSTS: symbols hidden in a time-darkened painting, and surprises behind a locked bedroom door. But most of all, this is a love story --- the story of a girl who learns about love while also learning to live with her own ghosts.

PRISM
Faye Kellerman and Aliza Kellerman
HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061687211
Ages 12-up
272 pages

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Prism takes us to a slightly alternate universe in which medicine and health care do not exist, and in which sick people are allowed to die without any care. Set in New Mexico and California, the novel features three teens who fall through a cave at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico while on a field trip. They are plunged into a frightening parallel universe --- seven weeks in the past, in which their "normal" worlds of family and high school remain the same…except for the fact that no medicine exists and when people die in the street they are picked up and disposed of.

SEA CHANGE
Aimee Friedman
Point/Scholastic
ISBN: 9780439922289
Ages 12-up
320 pages

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Sixteen-year-old Miranda is great at science --- and not so great with boys. After major drama at home, she’s happy to spend the summer on small Selkie Island. There Miranda finds new friends and an island with a mysterious history. She also meets Leo, who challenges everything she thought she knew about boys, friendship…and reality.

A SWEET DISORDER
Jacqueline Kolosov
Disney-Hyperion
ISBN: 9781423112457
Ages 12-up
432 pages

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Sixteen-year old Miranda has no idea how much her life is going to change upon hearing the news of her father's death. Left with little dowry to offer, Miranda faces a broken engagement, and is sent to live with her father's cousin, the Count John Hardwood, and his wife whose primary goal is to take her to Court and marry her off to the insufferable Lord Seagrave for their own profit.

All the maidens at Court dream of being one of Queen Elizabeth’s ladies in waiting. When Miranda distinguishes herself from the rest with her exquisite sewing and embroidery skills, she gets the attention of the Queen, much to the anger and jealousy of the courtiers, ladies in waiting, and even a trusted "friend." As Miranda begins to win the Queen’s favor, she is given the ultimate test --- to recreate Elizabeth’s mother’s (Ann Boleyn) coronation gown.

TALES OF THE MADMAN UNDERGROUND
John Barnes
Viking Juvenile
ISBN: 9780670060818
Ages 14-up
480 pages

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Wednesday, September 5, 1973: The first day of Karl Shoemaker’s senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio. For years, Karl has been part of what he calls “the Madman Underground” --- a group of kids forced (for no apparent reason) to attend group therapy during school hours. Karl has decided that senior year is going to be different. He is going to get out of the Madman Underground for good. He is going to act --- and be --- Normal. But Normal, of course, is relative. Karl has five after-school jobs, one dead father, one seriously unhinged drunk mother…and a huge attitude. Welcome to a gritty, uncensored rollercoaster ride, narrated by the singular Karl Shoemaker.

TOUCH
Francine Prose
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780061375170
Ages 14-up
272 pages

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Something happened to 14-year-old Maisie Willard --- something involving her three friends, all boys. But their stories don't match, and the rumors spin out of control. Then other people get involved: the school, the parents, the lawyers. The incident at the back of the bus becomes the center of Maisie's life and the talk of the school, and, horribly, it becomes news. With just a few words and a touch, the kids and their community are changed forever.

TWENTY BOY SUMMER
Sarah Ockler
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316051590
Ages 12-up
304 pages

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According to her best friend Frankie, 20 days in ZanzibarBay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy every day, there's a pretty good chance Anna will find her first summer romance. Anna lightheartedly agrees to the game, but there's something she hasn't told Frankie --- she has already had that kind of romance, and it was with Frankie's older brother, Matt, just before his tragic death one year ago.

THE WATERS & THE WILD
Francesca Lia Block
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780061452444
Ages 14-up
128 pages

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When Bee woke up, there was a girl standing in her room. "You are me," the girl said. Then she was gone.

I am a 13-year-old double Gemini. I get bad grades, write poetry with my left hand, dance in my room, surf the net. I Google images of the tattoos my mom won't let me get.

But my world belongs to someone else. Someone who lives below the concrete of Los Angeles, someone with wild eyes and twigs in her hair.

And I think she wants her life back.

THE DEMON’S LEXICON
Sarah Rees Brennan
Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781416963790
Ages 14-up
336 pages

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Nick and his brother, Alan, have spent their lives on the run from magic. Their father was murdered, and their mother was driven mad by magicians and the demons who give them power. The magicians are hunting the Ryves family for a charm that Nick's mother stole --- a charm that keeps her alive --- and they want it badly enough to kill again.

Danger draws even closer when a brother and sister come to the Ryves family for help. The boy wears a demon's mark, a sign of death that almost nothing can erase...and when Alan also gets marked by a demon, Nick is desperate to save him. The only way to do that is to kill one of the magicians they have been hiding from for so long.

Ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse, Nick starts to suspect that his brother is telling him lie after lie about their past. As the magicians' Circle closes in on their family, Nick uncovers the secret that could destroy them all.

GIRL STAYS IN THE PICTURE: A Girl Novel
Melissa de la Cruz
Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
ISBN: 9781416960966
Ages 14-up
448 pages

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Devon, the hottest chart-topping 16-year-old diva, has just landed in the south of France to film her Hollywood movie debut. With her French Carribean beauty and ethereal voice, she aims to secure her newest crown --- blockbuster box office --- but she discovers sometimes a girl can’t get by without a little help from her friends. So when she befriends Livia Romero, the producer’s insanely gorgeous and insanely spoiled daughter, whose slammin’ new body is thanks to dropping 200 pounds via stomach-stapling surgery; and Casey West, a personal assistant to the rival star, an entourage is born. And the paparazzi can’t get enough of them.

ASSASSIN’S APPRENTICE: Oathbreaker, Volume One
S.R. Vaught and J.B. Redmond
Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books
ISBN: 9781599901626
Ages 12-up
384 pages

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In a world where two moons barely light up the sky, we meet Aron, a farm boy with frighteningpowers. Apprenticed to Stormbreaker --- a trained assassin who steals Aron from his home --- the two soon find that the fragile peace in their land of Eyrie has begun to unravel, and violently.Stormbreaker and Aron are joined by Dari, a mysterious beauty with powers of her own,and Nic, a prince long given up for dead. As Eyrie enters a civil war, each character must makechoices that threaten to tear them from their own promises and fates.

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS #6: KILLER
Sara Shepard
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780061566110
Ages 14-up
336 pages

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In picture-perfect Rosewood, Pennsylvania, ash-blond highlights gleam in the winter sun and frozen lakes sparkle like Swarovski crystals. But pictures often lie --- and so do Rosewood's four prettiest girls. Hanna, Aria, Spencer and Emily thought that they were safe when Ali's killer was arrested and A's true identity was finally revealed. But now there's a new A in town turning up the heat. And this time Rosewood is going to burn.

JUST ANOTHER HERO
Sharon M. Draper
Atheneum/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781416907008
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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Suppose someone showed up in YOUR classroom carrying an AK-47. You have a split second: To think. To act. To be a hero. But what is a hero?

That question becomes all too real for Arielle, November, Jericho, and their friends. They've been through so much: the hazing ritual that left Joshua dead and hearts aching; November finding out that she was pregnant with Josh's baby. But senior year is going well, and when the fire alarm goes off in English class, everyone assumes that crazy Jack is trying to get out of another quiz. But the alarm was pulled for a very different reason. A potentially deadly reason. There's only a matter of seconds to stop a tragedy, and all eyes are searching for someone --- anyone --- to step up and do something.