BLOOD ON HIS HANDS
Willo Davis Roberts
Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
ISBN: 0689850743
Ages 12-up
192 pages
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It's been less than two years since Marc's family fell apart and he started running from his pain, despair and desperate loneliness. But this time, Marc is running for a different reason --- he's being pursued by cops. The only chance he has to make things right is to find his father, though Marc isn't sure where he could possibly be. With only a dog named Rat for companionship, Marc reflects on the last two tumultuous years and tries to come to grips with his life.

DATING DIARIES
Kristen Kemp
Push/Scholastic
ISBN: 0439622980
Ages 12-up
160 pages

Katie James has been dating Paul for the past five years, since the seventh grade. But as the prom approaches, he dumps her. Katie is about to see what life is like without Paul --- and what it's like to date. She makes a resolution --- she will date ten guys in five weeks, making up for all the time she wasted with Paul. But nothing goes quite the way she plans. Katie is about to find out what she's been missing --- and how to be herself without a guy.

HEART ON MY SLEEVE
Ellen Wittlinger
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0689849974
Ages 12-up
224 pages
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During a weekend at Cartwright College for prospective freshmen, Chloe meets Julian, and the two high school seniors hit it off. Chloe is thrilled that she'll have a boyfriend at college, although she doesn't know how to break the news to Eli, her best friend who she's currently dating (well, sort of).

In a novel told exclusively through e-mail, instant messages, letters, notes and postcards, award-winning author Ellen Wittlinger looks at how important communication is when it comes to friendships, love, and long-distance relationships.

THE LOST VOYAGE OF JOHN CABOT
Henry Garfield
Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
ISBN: 0689851731
Ages 12-up
320 pages
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The year is 1498, and fifteen-year-old Sebastian Cabot can only wait and wonder. His famous father has taken the boy's older and younger brothers, Ludovico and Sancio, on his second voyage in search of the Asian mainland.

On his first journey, sailing north across the Western Ocean in 1497, John Cabot had discovered the New Found Land and returned to England a hero. Five years earlier, Spain had given Christopher Columbus a similar welcome. He had found Asia, he claimed, by a southern route. Cabot was skeptical and set out to the north again to prove his old friend wrong. But silence followed.

What has become of Cabot's second endeavor? Letters to the boy from fourteen-year-old Sancio tell of a fearsome storm and its aftermath.

PREMONITIONS
Jude Watson
Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 043960995X
Ages 11-up
160 pages

Grace has premonitions that have haunted her since the death of her parents. She doesn't know how to deal with them, and frankly doesn't want to. She never knows whether she's seeing the past, the present, or the future. It just comes to her. Then Grace's best friend disappears. And suddenly the premonitions become the only way to solve the mystery of where her friend has gone --- and how she can be saved in time.

SKY
Roderick Townley
Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
ISBN: 0689857128
Ages 12-up
272 pages

Fifteen-year-old Sky is not the most talkative boy in the world. He instead speaks through his music, his jazz piano. Since his mother died, Sky and his father have had a number of fights about the future. Sky decides to leave home in order to embrace the world of Beat poetry and cool jazz. Along the way, he discovers an unexpected guide --- a blind musician who shows Sky how to see --- and learns what he has to lose to gain his own voice.

A WINTER NIGHT'S DREAM
Andrew Matthews
Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0385730977
Ages 12-up
160 pages

"Go out and fall in love with somebody! It'll do your understanding of literature the world of good."

For Casey and Stew, this advice from their English teacher is just the beginning. How exactly do they fall in love?

Casey meets Dean at a party. Dean is gorgeous, he rides a motorcycle, and he's dancing with her. But Casey soon discovers that Dean's rebel-without-a-cause act can only go so far.

Stew meets Lucy at the school dance concert. He's doing the lighting, and she's the star. Everything is going well, until Stew realizes that Lucy's dancing will always come first.

Literature is one thing, but what happens if the person you fall in love with doesn't fall back?

Series Books

Buffy/Angel

HEAT
Nancy Holder
Simon Spotlight
ISBN: 068986017X
Ages 14-up
464 pages

There exists a hell dimension that is very much like the Ninth Circle of Hell that Dante Alighieri described in THE INFERNO. It is a frozen, desolate place, and the souls of the damned are buried in vast sheets of ice.

Banished to this hellish place, the demon Lir learned that he was able to send out his consciousness to inhabit the bodies of others. Soon though, Lir discovers that he is freezing his host body to death and needs the heat of passion to slow down the process.

Observing her burning touch, Lir approaches the huntress Jhiera with a deal: Help him thaw his army and he will in turn send them to support her war. But the arrival of a vicious army of demons does not go unnoticed, even to a Slayer who recently returned from the dead. And Jhiera's presence all over L.A. can't help but draw Angel's attention…

Charmed

THE BREWING STORM
Paul Ruditis
Simon Spotlight
ISBN: 0689868510
Ages 12-up
240 pages

Despite stormy weather threatening the San Francisco area, life for the Charmed Ones is as normal as ever --- until eleven-year-old Tyler Michaels shows up at their door. Tyler, a Firestarter, is on the run from demons. Though the Halliwell sisters have dealt with Tyler before, a glance at the Book of Shadows turns up new, unexpected information about the boy --- and the forces for which his magic can be harnessed.

Fearless

FAKE (Fearless #34)
Francine Pascal
Simon Pulse
ISBN: 0689869177
Ages 16-up
240 pages

I like staying with Skyler.
It feels safe. Secure. Worry free.
The perfect situation, really.
Now he's forbidden me to leave the house.
I like that, too.
Because Skyler always has my best interests in mind.

This is the description that Simon & Schuster has provided for FAKE, the 34th installment in the Fearless series. Apparently, Gaia remains "normal" for the time being and is actually experiencing fear.