11/23/09

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

 

10/19/09

Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.

 

10/5/09

(Better late than never!)

Jinx

by Margaret Wild

With the help of her understanding mother and a close friend, Jen eventually outgrows her nickname, Jinx, and deals with the deaths of two boys with whom she had been involved.

 

Great summer reads

 

4/27/09

Britney Johnson, a high school student in Madison, Wisconsin, makes a transformation from ugly duckling to beautiful blond, but her newfound popularity comes at a price when it appears that a jealous classmate has decided to kill off everyone Britney loves.

 

 

4/20/09

 

 

At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.

 

 

4/13/09

Using news accounts and the diary she kept as a teenager, Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

 

 

4/6/09

Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.

 

3/30/09

Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon.

 

3/23/09

Miranda has finally become popular..she just had to die.  After being abducted and transformed into a vampire, she awakens to find that she is a princess, heir to the mantle of Dracul.  Meanwhile, Zachary, her former guardian angel, stripped of his wings and radiance due to his interference in what should have been her natural death, has been assigned to kill Radford, the new princess' father.  Their relationship is fully tested in this modern tale of star crossed lovers.  And, oh yeah, there are vampires...

 

3/9/09

On her eighteenth birthday Grace Kwon is visited by herself from three periods in her life and worries that her other selves will hurt her chances of saving the school play.

 

3/2/09

After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.

 

2/23/09

This novel is the hilarious and tragic portrait of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity. Flight follows this troubled foster teenager - a boy who is not a "legal" Indian because he was never claimed by his father - as he learns that violence is not the answer.

 

2/16/09

The author imagines life as experienced by the average dog, speaking in its voice and covering such themes as growth and discovery, friends and relations, food and drink, health and hygiene, and work and play.

 

2/9/09

A mysterious benefactor hand-picks a group of teen geniuses to follow a set of clues leading to the secrets of everlasting life, secrets which they must steal and for which they risk being killed.

 

1/19/09

Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.

 

1/12/09

Seventeen-year-old Frank Marder struggles to deal with the aftermath of an accident he had while driving drunk that killed two people, including his girlfriend, and left him paralyzed from the neck down.

 

 

1/5/09

Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.

 

12/8/08

 

The girl Dave Marshall's in love with doesn't know he exists, he hates his job, and ever since his boss turned him into a vampire, he can't go out in daylight without starting to charbroil.

 

 

11/24/08

Audrey Cuttler's life is turned upside down when her ex-boyfriend's song about their break up hits the top of the charts, making Audrey a prime target for the paparazzi, who are documenting her every move, hoping to catch her messing up, and causing her nothing but misery.

 

11/10/08

Charlie Nancy was leading a comfortable life until his father died and discovered that dear old dad was a human form of Anansi, the African trickster god, and that he had a brother, Spider, who inherited some of his father's godlike abilities.

 

 

11/3/08

 

Chris Crutcher, author of young adult novels such as "Ironman" and "Whale Talk," as well as short stories, tells of growing up in Cascade, Idaho, and becoming a writer.

 

 

 

10/27/08

 

 

 10/20/08

 

  Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London traveling to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister.

 

 

 

10/13/08

 

Provides suggestions on living environmentally friendly, arranged in such categories as home, school, work, entertainment, travel, communication and technology, shopping, health and beauty, and going carbon neutral; and contains comments by celebrities including Will Ferrell, Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Aniston, Ellen DeGeneres, and Tiki Barber.

 

 

10/6/08

 

 

    This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. Ishmael Beah, now 25 years old, tells how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.

 

 

 

 

9/29/08

 

 

    Chloe Sacks is a junior at Georgia O'Keeffe School for the Arts, nicknamed "Fashion High" for its trendy student body. Along with her best friends, Chloe is looking forward to a sparkling year of parties and romance. And it is an eventful year, but not quite what she expected.

 

 

 

 

9/22/08

 

       Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.