Stand-Alone Fiction

DAIRY QUEEN
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN-10: 0618683070
ISBN-13: 9780618683079
Ages 12-up
278 pages

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With her dad injured, her mom always at work, and her football star brothers off at college and not speaking to the rest of the family, it's up to 15-year-old D.J. to run their struggling dairy farm as best she can. If this isn't enough to deal with, the Huge Family Fight over Christmas may mean she'll never see her brothers again. Dutiful D.J. takes it all in stride --- until she decides to try out for her high school football team, her best friend, Amber, starts acting strangely, and she falls in love with the opposing team's quarterback, whom she just happens to be training.

THE FORESHADOWING
Marcus Sedgwick
Wendy Lamb Books/Random House
ISBN-10: 0385746466
ISBN-13: 9780385746465
Ages 12-up
304 pages

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It is 1915 and World War I has only just begun. Seventeen-year-old Sasha is a well-to-do, sheltered-English girl. Just as her brother Thomas longs to be a doctor, she wants to nurse. As the war begins and the hospitals fill with young soldiers, she gets a chance to help. But working in the hospital confirms what Sasha has suspected --- she can see when someone is going to die. Her premonitions show her the brutal horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, and the faces of the soldiers who will die. And one of them is her brother Thomas.

NICK & NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Knopf
ISBN-10: 0375835318
ISBN-13: 9780375835315
Ages 12-up
192 pages

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It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs that long to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who has 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.

This he said/she said romance told by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is about one date over one very long night, with two teenagers, both recovering from broken hearts, who are just trying to figure out who they want to be --- and where the next great band is playing.

ROOFTOP
Paul Volponi
Viking Children's Books
ISBN-10: 0670060690
ISBN-13: 9780670060696
Ages 12-up
208 pages

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Clay is at a drug treatment facility, working towards getting his GED and kicking his drug habit. Then one day his estranged cousin, Addison, shows up at the program. Addison is a bigger, bolder version of Clay: he's older, he's into harder drugs, and he's in more trouble. That trouble comes to a head one tragic night on a rooftop when Addison is shot by the police as Clay stands just a few steps away. Addison wasn't armed and didn't deserve to die. But was he completely innocent? And what will prove more difficult for Clay --- living a lie, or facing the truth?

SECRETS OF MY HOLLYWOOD LIFE
Jen Calonita
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 0316154423
Ages 12-up
256 pages

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What if your picture was taped inside lockers across America, your closets were bursting with designer clothing, and the tabloids constantly asked whether you were losing your "good girl" status? It's a glamorous life, but Kaitlin Burke, co-star of one of the hottest shows on television, is exhausted from the pressures of her fame. So she decides to spend a few months undercover as an ordinary high school student. But could it be that real-life high school is just as harsh as cutthroat Hollywood?

TWILIGHT CHILD
Sally Warner
Viking
ISBN-10: 0670060763
ISBN-13: 9780670060764
Ages 12-up
304 pages

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Born on the longest day of the year in the northern country of Finland, Eleni can communicate with creatures unseen by others --- the tontuu of the sauna, the blue men of the Minch, and the brounies of the Scottish highlands. Part of her life is touched by magic, but the other is touched by sorrow. After losing her home, her family, and the boy she loves, Eleni finds comfort and friendship in the little town of Tobermorie. But as much as she wants to call it home, she feels the pull of someone, and something, stronger.

WAIT FOR ME
An Na
G. P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN-10: 0399242759
ISBN-13: 9780399242755
Ages 12-up
240 pages

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Mina is the perfect daughter. She's bound for Harvard, president of the honor society, and a straight-A student --- all while working at her family's dry cleaners and helping to care for her hearing-impaired little sister. On the outside, Mina does everything right. On the inside, she knows the truth. Her life is a lie.

At the height of a heat wave, the summer before her senior year, Mina meets the one person to whom she cannot lie. Ysrael, a young migrant worker who dreams of becoming a musician, comes to work at the dry cleaners and asks Mina the one question that scares her the most. What does she want?

Series Books / Sequels

Maximum Ride

MAXIMUM RIDE #2: School's Out - Forever
James Patterson
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 0316155594
Ages 12-up
416 pages

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Brave bird-kid Max and her flock fly south on a perilous quest to find their parents, after having rescued Angel and recovered secret documents about their origins. But just when they think they've finally escaped the hungry claws of evil Erasers, they're discovered by an FBI agent and forced to face perhaps an even worse nightmare: going to school. There's no such thing as an ordinary day when Max's "homework" includes decoding documents, deciphering when (and how) she's supposed to save the world, and learning to face what may be her greatest enemy: herself.

The Princess Diaries

SWEET SIXTEEN PRINCESS
Meg Cabot
HarperCollins
ISBN-10: 0060847166
ISBN-13: 9780060847166
Ages 12-up
96 pages

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Mia doesn't want a party for her sweet sixteenth birthday, but Grandmère has other ideas and thinks that a reality TV special is just the thing in order to celebrate royally. The whole scheme smacks of Lilly's doing -- Lilly, whose own TV show is still only limited to local cable viewers. Will Mia be able to stop Grandmère's plan? Will her friends ever forgive her if she succeeds in doing so? And why can't Mia get what she really wants: an evening alone with Michael?

The Au Pairs

SUN-KISSED: The Au Pairs #3
Melissa de la Cruz
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 1416917462
ISBN-13: 9781416917465
Ages 14-up
320 pages

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Eliza, Mara and Jacqui have graduated from high school and are looking for one last summer of fun before college. Eliza has her sights set on becoming a fashion designer and lands a job with Mikael Lappin. Mara plans to spend the summer with Ryan Perry on his family's yacht. And Jacqui is juggling three young dot.com millionaires living next door while doing her best to keep an eye on the Perry brood. The girls know how to get into the most trouble possible and have a blast doing it.

The Demonata

DEMON THIEF: The Demonata, Book 2
Darren Shan
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 0316012378
Ages 12-up
240 pages

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Kernel Fleck has always known he's weird. He sees lights. Strange, multi-colored patches of light, swirling through the air. But it's not until a window opens into a demon world, with horrific consequences, that Kernel discovers his powers. As a Disciple, his mission is to hunt vicious, powerful demons, to the death...

Fearless FBI

NAKED EYE
Francine Pascal
Simon Pulse
ISBN-10: 0689878249
ISBN-13: 9780689878244
Ages 16-up
240 pages

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Hot-shot recruit Gaia Moore has just managed to close one case --- and find her way back into the FBI's good graces --- when the Lollipop Murderer strikes again. Every minute that passes with the killer on the loose puts more innocent women in danger.

Gaia and Kim are closing in on the culprit. But when all leads point to the same suspect, Gaia is thrown off balance --- and into conflict with her partner. Because Kim's theories incriminate the one person she desperately wants to trust.

The It Girl

NOTORIOUS: The It Girl, #2
created by Cecily von Ziegesar
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 031601186X
Ages 15-up
224 pages

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Popular Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey is making a splash at Waverly Academy, an elite boarding school in New York horse country. It's less than a week into school, but Jenny has already been caught with her roommate's boyfriend (in bed!), flashed the whole school at a field hockey game, and gone up against the Disciplinary Committee. She's become notorious, just like Tinsley Carmichael, Waverly's former-it girl, who was expelled last year and is rumored to be jet-setting around the world. So what happens when Tinsley arrives back on campus and moves in with Jenny? After all, there can only be one It Girl...

Mates, Dates

MATES, DATES, AND SIZZLING SUMMERS
Cathy Hopkins
Simon Pulse
ISBN-10: 068987698X
ISBN-13: 9780689876981
Ages 12-up
224 pages

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Just when TJ decides that Ollie Axford could be that special someone for her, old flame Luke De Biasi tells her that he wants to rekindle their romance. TJ is torn between the boys, and unhappy that it makes her look like a two-timer. But it all seems unimportant when someone close to her is taken seriously ill. More than ever, TJ needs a clear head and the support of her friends as she faces the most important summer of her life.

Sequel to CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN

CONFESSIONS OF A HOLLYWOOD STAR
Dyan Sheldon
Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763630756
Ages 12-up
208 pages

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Lola is graduating from high school and finally getting out of Dellwood "Deadwood," New Jersey. She can't wait to move on to bigger and better things --- even if it means she'll be studying theater at Brooklyn College and not her dream school, London's prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. But destiny intervenes when Lola learns that a major Hollywood movie is being filmed right there in Dellwood that very summer! Lola wastes no time in telling everyone that she, of course, is going to be in the film. Now it's just a minor matter of convincing the director to give her a part.