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Featured Books

Genre:	Adventure	Non-fiction
	Biography	Novels in verse
	General	Supernatural/Fantasy/Science Fiction
	Mystery/Suspense

Adventure Books:

Book title	Author	Description
The Recruit	Muchamore, Robert	CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists and international drug dealers.
The Thief Lord	Funke, Cornelia	A group of kids are living in an abandoned movie theater in Venice. The leader of this group is a boy, Scipio, who calls himself the "Thief Lord. "

Biographies:

Book title	Author	Description
The Glass Castle	Walls, Jeannette	Walls, who spent years trying to hide her childhood experiences, allows the story to spill out in this remarkable recollection of growing up.

General Books:

Book title	Author	Description
A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life	Reinhardt, Dana	Simone has always known she was adopted, but she never wanted to know anything about it. She’s happy with her family just as it is. Then she learns who her birth mother was–-a 16-year-old girl named Rivka.
Dairy Queen	Murdock, Catherine	When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. Welcome to the summer that fifteen-year-old D. J. Schwenk of Red Bend, Wisconsin, learns to talk, and ends up having an awful lot of stuff to say.
Gym Candy	Deuker, Carl	Having grown up in the shadow of his father's failed NFL career, high-school football player Mick Johnson is determined not to make the same mistakes. But when he's tackled just short of the goal in a pivotal game, he decides that vitamin supplements aren't enough and begins purchasing "gym candy," or steroids, from the trainer at his local gym.
Hit and run	McDaniel, Lurlene	It was an accident. But when the people involved don't come forward, doesn't it become a crime?
Inexcusable	Lynch, Chris	Keir Sarafian may not know much, but he knows himself. And the one thing he knows about himself is that he is a good guy. And maybe most important of all, a guy who understands that when a girl says no, she means it.
The Last Chance Texaco	Hartinger, Brent	Lucy Pitt is 15 when she is sent to Kindle Home, a group home and her last chance at a semi-normal life. If she makes any errors, she'll be sent to the high-security facility known as Eat-Their-Young Island.
nick & norah's infinite playlist	Cohn, Rachel	It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who’s just walked in to his band’s show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City—and smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date.
Playing in Traffic	Giles, Gail	I was the ghost of the school corridors. Skye was the devil - and I was doomed from the day she spoke to me.
Runner	Deuker, Carl	High-school senior Chance is a "ghost-walker" at school--barely talking, just passing, finding escape only in long, solitary, after-school runs.
Saint Iggy	Going, K.L.	Iggy Corso lives in the projects with a stoned father and an addict mother who is AWOL again, but, amazingly, he uses no drugs, has no self-pity, and lives on hope.
Samurai Shortstop	Gratz, Alan	It is 1890, and 16-year-old Toyo Shimada is uniquely poised to witness the clash of old and new ways in his native Tokyo.
Skin	Vrettos, Adrienne Maria	As Donnie's older sister, Karen, slowly slips away in the grip of an eating disorder, Donnie finds himself alone in facing the trauma of his parents' faltering marriage and his new life as an outcast at school.
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie	Lubar, David	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.
A Step From Heaven	Na, An	Young Ju emigrates from Korea with her parents when she is four.
13 Little Blue Envelopes	Johnson, Maureen	Because of envelope 4, Ginny and a playwright/thief/ bloke–about–town called Keith go to Scotland together, with somewhat disastrous–though utterly romantic–results. But will she ever see him again?
a Thousand Splendid Suns	Hosseini, Khaled	A devastating tragedy brings Laila to the house of Rasheed and Mariam, where she is forced to make a horrific choice to secure her future.

Non-fiction Books:

Book title	Author	Description
the burn journals	Runyon, Brent	For fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon, life has become a blur of small failures. There seems to be no choice but to do something that will make up for all the bad things he’s done. So, in a failed suicide attempt, he sets himself on fire.
Marley & Me	Grogan, John	John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.

Mystery/Suspense

Book title	Author	Description
The Killer's Cousin	Werlin, Nancy	How would you deal with life if you knew you had accidentally killed your girlfriend?
For Mike	Sykes, Shelley	Jeff is devastated when his best friend, Mike, disappears. Did he die? Did he run away? Was he kidnapped? So far, even the police haven't turned up any clues. Then Jeff begins to have eerie, vivid dreams in which Mike says, "Come get me."
Silent to the Bone	Konigsburg, E. L.	What if your best friend were to stop talking one day after a terrible accident?

Novels in verse:

Book title	Author	Description
The Braid	Frost, Helen	When their family is evicted from the Western Isles of Scotland in 1850, teenage sisters Jeannie and Sarah are torn apart. Jeannie goes with her parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada. Her older sister, Sarah, hides so she can stay behind with Grandma.
Shark Girl	Bingham, Kelly	On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything — absolutely everything — changed.

Supernatural/Fantasy Books/Science Fiction:

Book title	Author	Description
Eragon	Paolini, Christopher	When a dragon, Saphira, hatches from the blue stone, the beast and Eragon connect and face danger together.
the pack	Pow, Tom	Three children--Bradley, Victor, and Floris--and three dogs live a hardscrabble existence in the basement of an old warehouse, where the Old Woman tells them stories that can help them survive.
Maximum Ride, School's Out Forever	Patterson, James	Max's heart-stopping quest to protect her "family" and investigate the mystery continues in this scary, strange, and funny thriller.
Twilight	Meyer, Stephenie	Can vampires successfully go to school with regular kids?
Unwind	Shusterman, Neal	Brought together by chance, and kept together by desperation, these three unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance.

last updated 06/05/2008