Best Books for Young Adults

To provide a general list of fiction and nonfiction titles selected from the year's publications that have significant appeal to the personal reading tastes of the young adult reader.

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October 31, 2009

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	Title	Year
	Stitches: A Memoir 2010 - Selection(s) In stunning graphic memoir format, Caldecott-winning artist David Small tells the story of his difficult childhood and his journey into adolescence and adulthood.	2010 - Selection(s)
	No More Us for You 2010 - Selection(s) Carlos has a cheating girlfriend, a mystery man urinating on the floor at work, and a friend in a coma. Can Isabel—still grieving her dead...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Creature of the Night 2010 - Selection(s) Juvenile delinquent Bobby resists his mother’s plan to move to the countryside, but his anger becomes fear as he learns about local history and the...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Fire 2010 - Selection(s) In a world full of monsters so beautiful they lure people into their doom, how can people protect themselves from human monsters?	2010 - Selection(s)
	Flash Burnout 2010 - Selection(s) Blake Hewson discovers there’s a big difference between lust and love, a tough lesson of a fifteen-year-old involved with a girlfriend and another girl as...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Once Was Lost 2010 - Selection(s) Samara’s faith is tested as struggles to uphold their perfect family image her father. a pastor, must portray while her mother drinks herself into rehab...	2010 - Selection(s)
	If I Stay 2010 - Selection(s) While in a coma after her family is killed in a car accident, Mia struggles to decide whether to live or die.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Surface Tension: A Novel in Four Summers 2010 - Selection(s) Every summer Luke spends two weeks vacationing at a lake, and every year things are just slightly different.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland 2010 - Selection(s) This book offers an incredible look at how ancient bones can reveal the details about the daily lives of colonial Americans.	2010 - Selection(s)
	When You Reach Me 2010 - Selection(s) The year they are twelve, Sal begins to ignore Miranda and breaks her heart. But Miranda's attention is diverted when she begins to receive urgent...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Reformed Vampire Support Group 2010 - Selection(s) Nina Harrison, now and forever a teenage vampire, leads her dysfunctional crew of bloodsuckers on a mission to halt vampire persecution and rescue a vicious...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Broken Soup 2010 - Selection(s) Since Rowan’s brother died, her mother’s been depressed, and she’s been caring for her sister alone. When a stranger insists that a photo negative belongs...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Because I Am Furniture 2010 - Selection(s) Anke watches her siblings and mother suffer at the hands of her abusive father until she finds enough strength, through involvement in volleyball, to demonstrate...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Rock and the River 2010 - Selection(s) In 1968 Chicago, Sam struggles to decide whether to support his father's nonviolent approach to civil rights or his brother, who has joined the Black...	2010 - Selection(s)
	An Off Year 2010 - Selection(s) Cecily decides to take a gap year before college and embarks on a journey of self-discovery with wry humor and professional help.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Crossing Stones 2010 - Selection(s) Muriel's itching for a life outside her family's Vermont farm, but bigger changes await her in 1917 as first her neighbor and then her brother...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Forest of Hands and Teeth 2010 - Selection(s) Mary’s village is protected by a fence keeping out the Unconsecrated-who are undead craving human flesh-until a massive breach launches the teenage girl into a...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Marcelo in the Real World 2010 - Selection(s) Marcelo—a teen who exhibits Asperger-like behaviors—is forced to leave his job caring for horses to work in his father’s law firm and experience “the real...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Muchacho 2010 - Selection(s) Eddie Corazon, an angry juvenile delinquent in an alternative school, is influenced by love, a special teacher, books, and a criminal cousin as he tries...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Same Difference 2010 - Selection(s) Emily commutes between a suburb where everyone tries to fit in and Philadelphia where everyone wants to be unique. Between these two "worlds" Emily tries...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Highway to Hell 2010 - Selection(s) Maggie and Lisa find their spring break road trip interrupted by a cow’s carcass which launches them into a hunt for an evil demon terrorizing...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Purple Heart 2010 - Selection(s) Private Matt Duffy receives the Purple Heart, but he cannot remember the incident that left him with a traumatic brain injury and an image of...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum 2010 - Selection(s) The AMAZING and THRILLING life of the GREAT P.T. Barnum is laid bare in this STUPENDOUS biography. Come one, come all and learn about this...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Say the Word 2010 - Selection(s) After her estranged mother dies, Shawna Gallagher refuses to accept her dysfunctional home life and attempts to make peace with her mother’s lesbian lover.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Love You, Hate You, Miss You 2010 - Selection(s) Seventy-five days after the car crash that killed her best friend Julia, Amy leaves rehab and begins writing a series of letters to her in...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Lips Touch: Three Times 2010 - Selection(s) Three novellas explore the power of a kiss, and its possible hazards or thrills, especially if the kiss pulls humans and demons together in a...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Almost Perfect 2010 - Selection(s) An intriguing new student gets Logan out of his post-breakup slump, but as Sage reveals her past, Logan isn’t sure he’s confident enough to handle...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Breathless 2010 - Selection(s) When her schizophrenic brother’s behavior grows violent, Katie parents send her off to boarding school, where she quickly becomes part of the in crowd while...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Catching Fire 2010 - Selection(s) After winning the Hunger Games, Katniss is preoccupied with the government’s expectations for her romantic life. She soon has more important worries—including revolts in the...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Devil's Paintbox 2010 - Selection(s) Orphaned siblings Aiden and Maddy have survived Kansas, barely, setting out on the Oregon Trail just to have regular meals. But the trip is more...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe 2010 - Selection(s) The 118 elements of the periodic table are photographed and described with humor, style and authority.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Princess of the Midnight Ball 2010 - Selection(s) When the decade long war ends, professional solider Galen finds work as a gardener in the king’s garden, only to help solve the puzzle involving...	2010 - Selection(s)
	In the Path of Falling Objects 2010 - Selection(s) When their mother abandons them, brothers Jonah and Simon hit the road and make one fatal mistake: they accept a ride from a pretty girl...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Wintergirls 2010 - Selection(s) Lia is haunted by her best friend's death from anorexia, as she struggles with the same eating disorder.	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2010 - Selection(s) In 1899, eleven-year-old Calpurnia bonds over science and nature with her grandfather even as she becomes increasingly aware that she may not be able to...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Leviathan 2010 - Selection(s) Steampunk novel that is a strange mixture of Victorian times with mechanical inventions. Bio-society countries are at war with mechanical countries in this extremely fresh...	2010 - Selection(s)
	A Brief History of Montmaray 2010 - Selection(s) Not even a small island nation populated mostly by royalty can keep neutral in the events leading up to the Second World War.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits 2010 - Selection(s) Fire in different and subtle interpretations: a phoenix hatched from an egg forgotten in an old museum, a dragon that can't go into Firespace, a...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2010 - Selection(s) This lively biography of Charles Darwin focuses on the family life of one of the world’s most famous scientists, including the impact differing religious beliefs...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Soul Enchilada 2010 - Selection(s) When a repo demon comes for her Cadillac, Bug Smoot finds that her deceased grandfather pledged both her soul and her car as collateral on...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Flygirl 2010 - Selection(s) During WWII, Ida Mae Jones must go against her family and heritage to join the Army’s WASP program and fulfill her dream of being a...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Tales of the Madman Underground 2010 - Selection(s) In an attempt to distance himself from the rest of the students in the school's therapy group known as the Madman Underground, Karl launches his...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Dust of 100 Dogs 2010 - Selection(s) After being cursed to live the lives of 100 dogs before being reborn as a human, former pirate Emer Morrisey returns to Jamaica to reclaim...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Chosen One 2010 - Selection(s) When the Prophet commands thirteen-year-old Kyra to marry her aging uncle, her family is shaken. Desperate to escape, Kyra knows that running away puts them...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Stolen One 2010 - Selection(s) In searching for her identity, Spirit finds that she is the daughter of a former queen and realizes who she truly loves, at the court...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Gringolandia 2010 - Selection(s) After surviving years of torture as a political prisoner in Chile in the 1980s, Daniel's father rejoins his family in the United States, but his...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2010 - Selection(s) As a teen, Claudette Colvin sparked the protest that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and desegregation of public facilities by refusing to relinquish her...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Eon: Dragoneye Reborn 2010 - Selection(s) Sixteen-year-old Eon is the unlikeliest candidate for Dragoneye, but she holds great power and a dangerous secret that just might make her the greatest Dragoneye...	2010 - Selection(s)
	How to Say Goodbye in Robot 2010 - Selection(s) Fringe dwellers Jonas (Ghost Boy) and Beatrice (Robot Girl) use their adopted alter egos to help navigate the difficulties of fractured families and impending adulthood...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Unnameables 2010 - Selection(s) In a place where everything has a name and every name has a meaning, outsider Medford Runyuin struggles in vain to follow the rules of...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Jumping Off Swings 2010 - Selection(s) Ellie is pregnant after looking for love in the wrong places with one too many boys. Corrine, Caleb and Josh all deal with the emotions...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Jumped 2010 - Selection(s) When Trina unknowingly insults Dominique in the hallway, she’s in danger of being jumped after school. Leticia could warn her, but she’s reluctant to get...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Lost 2010 - Selection(s) Essie, 16, sews all day for pennies at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory to help feed her fatherless family and now to forget her little sister's...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Gentlemen 2010 - Selection(s) After one of four rough cut high school guys disappears, his friends become suspicious of their teacher Mr. Haberman, who refers to them as gentlemen...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 2010 - Selection(s) Well before the arrival of Columbus, there were highly advanced civilizations in the Americas. More native people died from their germs than at the hands...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Orange Houses 2010 - Selection(s) Despite poverty, gang violence, and lack of appropriate supports, three inner-city teens come together and try to beat the odds and succeed in life.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception 2010 - Selection(s) Shy and ordinary Deirdre finds herself caught up in an ancient struggle in the faerie world when she meets Luke, a sexy musician with a...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie 2010 - Selection(s) Flavia de Luce is delighted with the discovery of a dead snipe on her doorstep and considers it a bonus when a human body is...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Hold Still 2010 - Selection(s) Devastated by her best friend’s suicide, Caitlin tries to rebuild her own life and relationships while finding the courage to read the journal that Ingrid...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Funny How Things Change 2010 - Selection(s) In this coming-of-age novel, Remy must choose between the girl of his dreams and the mountain his family has called home for generations.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Mare's War 2010 - Selection(s) Sisters Octavia and Tali embarks on a road trip woth their grandmother over the summer. During this road trip, Octavia and Tali learn that there's...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Why I Fight 2010 - Selection(s) For five years, Wyatt travels the country with his drifter Uncle Spade, first as a companion, then as a money-making bare-fisted fighter, until realizing Spade...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting 2010 - Selection(s) Bored and miserable after months in the trenches along Europe’s Western Front during WWI, German and Allied soldiers brought fighting to a halt to celebrate...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Demon's Lexicon 2010 - Selection(s) Sixteen-year-old Nick and his older brother Alan are always on the run. Now, Alan has been marked by a demon and to save him, the...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Into the Wild Nerd Yonder 2010 - Selection(s) Feeling used by her two best friends, high school sophomore Jessie decides to go in search of new friends. But will she be able to...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Shiver 2010 - Selection(s) Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house. She has been particularly drawn to one – a yellow-eyed wolf who...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Going Bovine 2010 - Selection(s) Cameron knew there was something wrong when he started seeing pillars of fire and angels, but he never imagined he had mad cow disease.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Liar 2010 - Selection(s) For years Micah has been a liar, and after her boyfriend's brutal murder, will anyone...will you... believe what she has to say?	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Uninvited 2010 - Selection(s) When Mimi decides she has to get out of town, she retreats to her father’s cabin in the Canadian wilderness. Unease, mystery, and spookiness decide...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Along For the Ride 2010 - Selection(s) Auden’s summer becomes one of second chances, not just for her but for her family and friends as well. The more chances she takes, the...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Miles Between 2010 - Selection(s) October 19th never turns out well, but this year is different as Destiny takes off on a road trip with three classmates in a convertible...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary 2010 - Selection(s) In a tense, day-by-day account of the Freedom March of 1965, teen voices are crucial to the spirit and drive of the march.	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Great Wide Sea 2010 - Selection(s) His mother is dead and his father is missing at sea. With a horrific storm brewing, can sixteen-year-old Ben and his younger brothers survive?	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Summer I Turned Pretty 2010 - Selection(s) At the beach house where she has spent every summer since childhood, sixteen-year-old Belly finds that this is the summer of many changes.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Heroes of the Valley 2010 - Selection(s) Halli lives in the shadow of his brother and the ancient heroes of his homeland, but when his family is threatened, he is unafraid to...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Hate List 2010 - Selection(s) In the year following the devastating shootings at her high school orchestrated by her boyfriend Nick, Valerie must come to terms with grief and guilt...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had 2010 - Selection(s) 1917 Alabama, 12-year-old Dit’s life in rural Moundville becomes complicated and tragic by his friendship with Emma, the African American daughter of the new postman.	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Monstrumologist 2010 - Selection(s) Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a monstrumologist, races against time to save his town (and himself) from the anthropophagi, a pod of monstrous creatures...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Solace of the Road 2010 - Selection(s) Holly Hogan had had enough. She dons a blonde wig, hits the road, and becomes Solace, a street smart, tough teen ready to take on...	2010 - Selection(s)
	We Were Here 2010 - Selection(s) Miguel, sentenced to a group home for a horrible crime, must overcome his self-hatred while on the run with two other criminals.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream 2010 - Selection(s) The story of the “Mercury 13” women who paved the way for females in space and aeronautics by challenging the political and social culture behind...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Alligator Bayou 2010 - Selection(s) Fourteen-year-old Calogero emigrates to Louisiana in 1899, where his tiny Sicilian community faces discrimination and worse in a small town where they’re considered neither black...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Lost Conspiracy 2010 - Selection(s) Hathin is unremarkable compared to her mind wandering sister, but when push comes to shove, Hathin must save herself, her sister, and her whole island.	2010 - Selection(s)
	Tales from Outer Suburbia 2010 - Selection(s) Giant floating poetry balls, living stick figures, strange creatures from the sea and an all-knowing water buffalo are some of the wonders found in this...	2010 - Selection(s)
	All the Broken Pieces 2010 - Selection(s) 12-year-old Matt struggles to cope with his memories of family left behind in war-torn Vietnam with the help of his adoptive parents, his music teacher...	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch--And Me, Ruby Oliver 2010 - Selection(s) Ruby Oliver’s neurotic mind continues to struggle with having boys as friends while being backstabbed by her female classmates at Seattle’s Tate Prep School.	2010 - Selection(s)
	The Eternal Smile 2010 - Selection(s) Three tales in one graphic novel show the paper-thin margin that separates fantasy from reality for a warrior, a frog and a girl.	2010 - Selection(s)
	After 2010 - Selection(s) Soccer star Devon never admitted to herself that she was pregnant. Now she’s in detention, facing charges of attempted murder after delivering a baby and...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Punkzilla 2010 - Selection(s) Jamie has run away from his family, military school, and his troubled past. He sets out via bus to visit his dying brother, writing letters...	2010 - Selection(s)
	Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2010 - Selection(s) Much more than just Lincoln’s killing went on that night of the Ford Theater assassination, this book will inform and entertain you with the gory...	2010 - Selection(s)

	Title	Year
	Debbie Harry Sings in French 2009 - Selection(s) After Johnny’s dad dies in a car accident and an unintentional drug overdose lands him in the hospital, he moves in with an uncle, gets...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Host 2009 - Selection(s) Set in a believable futuristic time when Earth and other worlds have been taken over by the "souls”, this is a story of love, betrayal...	2009 - Selection(s)
	I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee 2009 - Selection(s) Curious about Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird? Finally her story is told; her childhood, success, seclusion and rejection of fame.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow 2009 - Selection(s) A woodcutter's daughter agrees to live with a great white bear after he promises her impoverished family fabulous wealth. When he disappears, she begins an...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Stealing Heaven 2009 - Selection(s) Living by burglarizing expensive homes with her mother, Dani’s friendship with another girl stalls when it becomes clear she lives in the house they are...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Bog Child 2009 - Selection(s) When Fergus and his uncle find the body of a girl buried in the peat bog near their home, all sorts of troubles comes to...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Tender Morsels 2009 - Selection(s) Liga has suffered unspeakable assaults and creates a magic, safe haven for herself and her two daughters, but the real world intrudes and they cope...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Sweethearts 2009 - Selection(s) High school senior Jenna has successfully remade her life, but has to confront long-suppressed memories of a traumatic childhood when her only friend from childhood...	2009 - Selection(s)
	A Curse Dark as Gold 2009 - Selection(s) When young Charlotte Miller takes over the family's woolen mill after her father's death, she is faced with unexpected debts, catastrophes, and a hidden curse...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Wild Girls 2009 - Selection(s) Twelve year old Joan hates her new life in California until she meets the Queen of the Foxes and becomes one of the Wild Girls.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Becoming Billie Holiday 2009 - Selection(s)	2009 - Selection(s)
	Looks 2009 - Selection(s) Meghan, the invisible fat girl, and Aimee, overlooked and anorexic, form an uneasy alliance to get revenge on a mutual enemy.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Keeping Corner 2009 - Selection(s) In India during World War I, twelve-year-old Leela's husband dies, and she is forced to shave her head and keep corner, staying inside her family's...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Hunger Games 2009 - Selection(s) Katniss has been providing for her family since her father died, but is she strong enough to win the Hunger Games, a deadly competition that...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Savage 2009 - Selection(s) Blue Baker is writing a story about a wild savage living in the woods…at least he thinks it’s a story. When realities shift, the reader...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Guardian 2009 - Selection(s) Ansel’s world set in the 1946 deep South disintegrates from the hatred and injustice consuming his family and community following a brutal murder and an...	2009 - Selection(s)
	War Is...Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War 2009 - Selection(s) A balanced collection of contemporary and historical writings including interviews, stories, memoirs, and a miliblog addresses the experience of enlisting, serving, and surviving war from...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Fortunes of Indigo Skye 2009 - Selection(s) At 18, Indigo wants no more out of life than to be a waitress and give people food, until a customer gives her $2,500,000. Can...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale 2009 - Selection(s) Melkorka, a 10th century Irish princess, must adapt to a harsh new life after she is stolen from her home by Russian slavers.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in America 2009 - Selection(s) The rich history of Latino baseball players is presented along with a feel of growing up in Latino communities passionate for the game.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Paper Towns 2009 - Selection(s) Quentin idolizes next door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman. When she includes him in a wild night of revenge and then disappears, Q must follow the...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Antsy Does Time 2009 - Selection(s) One simple act – offering dying classmate Gunnar Umlaut a month of his life – takes hold with the entire student body and turns Anthony...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Ten Cents a Dance 2009 - Selection(s) Ruby wants to support her family, but when her taxi dancing causes problems she could not have anticipated, it will take all of her strength...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Chains 2009 - Selection(s) Slaves Isabel and younger sister Ruthie are sold to harsh Loyalists at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Isabel must decide to be loyal or...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Pretty Monsters 2009 - Selection(s) From straight fantasy to magic realism to horror, this collection includes tales of magic libraries, wizards,and dead girls getting tattoos.	2009 - Selection(s)
	What It Is 2009 - Selection(s) Questions, images, story, comic illustrations and workbook pages guide and push readers to break down barriers, experiment and grow through writing or drawing.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Graceling 2009 - Selection(s) Katsa was born with ability to kill men with her bare hands but can she find moral courage to stand up to evil rulers and...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking: Book One 2009 - Selection(s) Todd Hewitt is the last boy in a town of all men. In a town where everyone can hear each other’s thoughts what kind of...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Last Exit to Normal 2009 - Selection(s) To get him on the right track, Ben Campbell's dad and stepdad accompany him to Montana, where he encounters small town life, homophobia, an abused...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Ghost Medicine 2009 - Selection(s) The summer that cowboy Troy Stotts turns 17, he and his two best friends band together to fight the trouble that surrounds them by creating...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Baby 2009 - Selection(s) Fifteen-year-old Baby leaves the middle-aged Potters, her last chance at foster care, to be with her old boyfriend while she figures out her own needs...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Vol. II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009 - Selection(s) Having escaped from his captors, Octavian joins the Royal Ethiopian Regiment of the British Army in 1775 Boston when they promise freedom to any slave...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks 2009 - Selection(s) Frankie Landau-Banks has a chip on her shoulder and is determined to bring down the all-male Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds of Alabaster Preparatory...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West 2009 - Selection(s) Meet the young Samuel Clemens and the coast-to-coast experiences that molded America's most famed humorist and social commentator.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Airman 2009 - Selection(s) Conor Broekhart spends his days dreaming of flying hot air balloons and inventing flying machines until murder and court intrigue sends him to prison and...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Brett McCarthy: Work in Progress 2009 - Selection(s) Eighth-grader Brett McCarthy--once good student and best-friend-to-Diane, now suspended and friendless--faces school and family troubles as she grapples with her redefined life.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Suckerpunch 2009 - Selection(s) The guilt that Marcus feels because he couldn't keep his father from beating his brother Enrique compels him to go along when Enrique seeks answers...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Elephant Run 2009 - Selection(s) Thirteen-year-old Nick is trapped on his father's teak plantation during the Japanese invasion of Burma during 1941 and must find a way to save his...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Nation 2009 - Selection(s) Mau is caught in the tidal wave that destroyed his island and Daphne is the only survivor from her ship. Together on the devastated island...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Boy Who Dared 2009 - Selection(s) Told through flashbacks, this is a fictionalized biography of German teenager Helmuth Hubener, who was imprisoned and executed in 1942 for openly resisting the Nazis.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Jellicoe Road 2009 - Selection(s) Taylor Markham was abandoned by her mother when she was eleven and is finally ready to discover the reason why.	2009 - Selection(s)
	No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row 2009 - Selection(s) Inmates sentenced to death as teenagers give firsthand accounts of life on Death Row and relatives of both victims and prisoners share their experiences in...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Little Brother 2009 - Selection(s) There's been another major terrorist attack and the Department of Homeland Security has clamped down big time. It's up to Marcus, computer geek, to save...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2009 - Selection(s) Jenna Fox wakes from a year-long coma. As her memory begins to return, she has more questions than answers about who she was, and who...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Dark Dude 2009 - Selection(s) Tired of taking abuse for being a light-skinned Cuban in his drug-infested Harlem neighborhood, Rico follows a friend to rural Wisconsin, where he struggles with...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Spectacular Now 2009 - Selection(s) Sutter Keely glides through his senior year’s final days soaked with heavy amounts of booze but his joy ride is detracted by love issues and...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Skim 2009 - Selection(s) Friendship, love, identity, and a general feeling of isolation in an all-girls private school contribute to Kim Cameron (Skim)'s growing depression.	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Last Knight 2009 - Selection(s) An anachronistic knight errant takes a criminal as squire, mistakenly frees a woman charged with murdering her husband (brother to his father's liege), and becomes...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Cybele's Secret 2009 - Selection(s) Paula travels with her merchant father to Istanbul and discovers a world filled with eunuchs, pirates, dervishes, and an entrance into the Other Kingdom.	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom 2009 - Selection(s) Caves and hidden huts serve as secret hospitals for Rosa as she risks her life nursing the sick and wounded during three wars for Cuba’s...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The London Eye Mystery 2009 - Selection(s) When their cousin Salim disappears into thin air during a ride on the London Eye ferris wheel, Ted and his sister Kat try to solve.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Here Lies Arthur 2009 - Selection(s) A fresh look at the Arthur legend told through the eyes of a young girl who pretends to be a boy to survive.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Night Road 2009 - Selection(s) Eighteen-year-old Gordon, a heme or blood feeder, must learn the rules of his new life while on a road trip with Cole and Sandor.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Me, the Missing, and the Dead 2009 - Selection(s) Five years after his dad’s disappearance, Lucas senses that a dead woman is trying to communicate with him and he is driven to listen and...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Brothers Torres 2009 - Selection(s) Frankie Torres (or Towers depending which side his heritage is viewed) narrates his coming-of-age story of falling for a girl as his idolized brother runs...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Audrey, Wait! 2009 - Selection(s) Audrey's ex-boyfriend records a hit song about their breakup, and suddenly all eyes (and cameras) are on Audrey. Fans, Facebook, and tabloids - it's all...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Missing Girl 2009 - Selection(s) The five Herbert sisters find their innocent lives exploding in emotional turmoil when one of the sisters is abducted and held captive by a truly...	2009 - Selection(s)
	What the World Eats 2009 - Selection(s) This book examines the meals of 25 different families from all around the world using lush photographs and health statistics.	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Entertainer and the Dybbuk 2009 - Selection(s) The Great Freddie, a second-rate ventriloquist, is inhabited by the spirit of a 12-year-old Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust.	2009 - Selection(s)
	How to Build a House 2009 - Selection(s) Devastated by her parent's divorce Harper Evans spends the summer with 11 other students building a house for a family in Tennessee and finds herself...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Suite Scarlett 2009 - Selection(s) The keys to a hotel suite and the responsibility to care for the room and its occupant—the wealthy and eccentric Amy Amberson—turn Scarlett's summer into...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Climbing the Stairs 2009 - Selection(s) When Vidya’s father is seriously injured, her family moves from their progressive home to the household of her conservative relatives, where she must adjust to...	2009 - Selection(s)
	What I Saw and How I Lied 2009 - Selection(s) When Evie’s father returns from the war, she expects life to return to normal but a mysterious trip to Florida, secrets, deceptions, and a first...	2009 - Selection(s)
	When I Crossed No-Bob 2009 - Selection(s) Twelve-year-old Addy McDonnell struggles to come to terms with her family's unpleasant legacy and the events happening around her in post-Civil War Mississippi.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry 2009 - Selection(s) Historian Scott Reynolds Nelson chronicles his journeys, both on land and in historical records, to find the truth about the man behind the myth of...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Graveyard Book 2009 - Selection(s) This often chilling story describes the life of a boy growing up in a graveyard as he is looked after by ghosts and a mysterious...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Trouble 2009 - Selection(s) Henry’s father said Trouble would not find this family. But it did one horrific night, setting off tensions in Blythbury-by-the-Sea. Maybe it had it been...	2009 - Selection(s)
	It's Complicated: The American Teenager 2009 - Selection(s) This random collection of black and white photographs of teenagers from across the country includes short testimonials about their lives.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Another Kind of Cowboy 2009 - Selection(s) When horse-crazy Alex finally gets a chance to switch from western pleasure to dressage, he feels more in tune with both his riding and his...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Impossible 2009 - Selection(s) Lucy, 17, discovers the women of her family have been cursed with madness unless they complete three impossible tasks. All have failed. Will Zach's help...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Kendra 2009 - Selection(s) Kendra is thrilled her mom, Renee, has completed her Ph.D. program—now they can finally be a real family. But is Renee excited for their future...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Bonechiller 2009 - Selection(s) An ancient demon, intent on satisfying its hunger for human flesh, stalks Danny and his three friends in the brutal cold of backwoods Canada.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Before Their Time: The World of Child Labor 2009 - Selection(s) Presented are portraits of the world’s children who labor under harsh and dangerous conditions in factories and on farms as miners, garbage pickers, sex workers...	2009 - Selection(s)
	The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution 2009 - Selection(s) During the French Revolution, Yann a 14-year-old magician's assistant, witnesses the death of his employer and the evil that ensues.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Black Box 2009 - Selection(s) Fourteen-year-old Elena struggles to hold steady ground and help her sister Dora, who has been admitted to a psychiatric ward after swallowing an entire bottle...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Waiting for Normal 2009 - Selection(s) Left to live in an old trailer under the overhead train track with Mommers, Addie is the child that has to learn to take care...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Playing With Matches 2009 - Selection(s) Leon Sanders is a loser until an extremely disfigured girl makes him feel special. Should he stay with her or be lured away by the...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Into the Volcano 2009 - Selection(s) Duffy and Sumo set off on an adventure into the belly of an ancient volcano without knowing exactly what they’re looking for. Their discoveries shock...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Shift 2009 - Selection(s) Chris and Win take a bicycle trip across America after graduation, but only one returns and that person is pressured to reveal what happened.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Madapple 2009 - Selection(s) After growing up in almost total isolation believing she is was immaculately conceived, 15-year-old Aslaug's world begins to crumble when her mother dies.	2009 - Selection(s)
	Thoreau at Walden 2009 - Selection(s) Simply but beautifully illustrated, this adaptation of "Walden" introduces new readers to Thoreau's work while providing a fresh perspective for those already familiar with the...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Fancy White Trash 2009 - Selection(s) Abby Savage is determined not to be like her mother and sisters-each became pregnant as teens-but her only confidant is Cody who has his own...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Living Dead Girl 2009 - Selection(s) Abducted at the age of ten, Alice has lived as a live-in rape victim for Ray for 5 years until he informs her that she’s "too old"...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Mexican WhiteBoy 2009 - Selection(s) Half white, half Mexican and 100% confused, Danny struggles with baseball, his absent father and first love while spending the summer with his familia in...	2009 - Selection(s)
	Amulet: Book 1: The Stone Keeper 2009 - Selection(s) Emily and her brother Navin descend into a dark and dangerous world below their great grandfather's mansion hoping to save their mother, who's been kidnapped...	2009 - Selection(s)
	After Tupac and D Foster 2009 - Selection(s) The friendship of three girls from very different families fills the emptiness of uncertainty as they struggle with Tupac Shakur's troubles as well as their...	2009 - Selection(s)

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