Stand-Alone Titles

BITTERSWEET SIXTEEN
Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman
HarperCollins
ISBN-10: 006077844X
ISBN-13: 9780060778446
Ages 12-up
240 pages

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A brand-new wardrobe from Saks. A private jet to Holland to select the perfect tulip. A guest list that rivals red-carpet after-parties. And a birthday bash that blows all others completely out of the water.

Okay, this isn't your average birthday wish list, but Whitney Blake and Sophie Mitchum are anything but average. Although Laura Finnegan --- thrift-store junkie and scholarship student at a posh all-girls high school in Manhattan --- isn't gorgeous, popular and super-wealthy like Whitney and Sophie are, she's still best friends with them. But considering their obvious differences, can this unique friendship last?

BLIND FAITH
Ellen Wittlinger
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 1416902732
ISBN-13: 9781416902737
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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After Liz Scattergood's grandmother, Bunny, dies, Liz's mother spirals into a deep depression. She starts attending a spiritualist church, where she believes she can communicate with Bunny through a medium. Liz thinks it's weird, though she agrees to go along. But for Liz's atheist dad, the spiritualist church has the opposite effect --- it drives him away from her mom and their family. Without anyone to talk to, Liz turns to her new neighbor, Nathan, who's dealing with his own mother's terminal cancer.

BREAKFAST AT SADIE'S
Lee Weatherly
David Fickling Books/Random House
ISBN-10: 0385750943
ISBN-13: 9780385750950
Ages 12-up
208 pages

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Thirteen-year-old Sadie lives alone with her mum in their seaside bed and breakfast. Her mum thinks Sadie doesn't try hard enough at anything she does, and her teachers think she's lazy. As for Sadie herself --- she can't believe that she's good at anything, even though she tries so hard.

Suddenly her mum becomes seriously ill and Sadie is left all on her own in charge of the B&B. There are guests arriving at any minute, and she has absolutely no idea how to make a bed, let alone cook them a fried breakfast. How will she cope?

I DON'T WANT TO BE CRAZY
Samantha Schutz
PUSH/Scholastic
ISBN: 043980518X
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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When Samantha Schutz first left home for college, she was excited by the possibilities --- freedom from parents, freedom from a boyfriend who was reckless with her affections, freedom from the person she was supposed to be. At first, she thoroughly enjoyed the independence. But as pressures increased, she began to suffer anxiety attacks that would leave her mentally shaken and physically incapacitated. Thus began a hard road of discovery and coping, powerfully rendered in this poetry memoir.

IN THE BREAK
Jack Lopez
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 0316008745
Ages 12-up
208 pages

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When Juan's best friend Jamie has a violent fight with his stepfather, they decide to leave town until things settle down. Juan, Jamie and Jamie's sister Amber head south to Mexico to help Jamie hide out. Along the way, they search for the perfect wave, find romance, experience tragedy, and their own sense of peace among the waves.

SLEEPER CODE
Tom Sniegoski
Razorbill/Penguin Young Readers Group
ISBN-10: 1595140522
ISBN-13: 9781595140524
Ages 12-up
240 pages

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SLEEPER AGENDA
Tom Sniegoski
Razorbill/Penguin Young Readers Group
ISBN-10: 1595140530
ISBN-13: 9781595140531
Ages 12-up
240 pages

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Teenager Tom Lovett suffers from a rare form of narcolepsy that can knock him out for days at a time. At least, this is what his parents and doctors have always told him. But Tom is about to make a shocking discovery: He's actually a sleeper assassin. His narcoleptic "fits" are cover for his horrific missions. In fact, his entire life has been a lie. The truth is, Tom shares a body with Tyler Garrett, a separate personality who has committed cold-blooded murder without a second thought. Now, Tom is on a mission to take down the evil agency that created him. But can he also fight the evil within himself?

In the tradition of THE BOURNE IDENTITY and THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, SLEEPER CODE and SLEEPER AGENDA are a two-part white-knuckle thrill ride that will keep readers riveted to the very last page.

SPARROW
Sherri L. Smith
Delacorte Press
ISBN-10: 0385733240
ISBN-13: 9780385733243
Ages 12-up
192 pages

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Family sticks with family. That's the golden rule G'ma taught Kendall. But when G'ma passes away, Kendall has no family left --- except for an aunt who G'ma asked for toward the end. Only Aunt Janet knows what G'ma had in mind, but she never even shows up at the funeral. With child services on Kendall's case and just 10 days to get her apartment lease renewed, Kendall sets out for Janet's home in New Orleans to get her life in order --- and her questions answered.

STREET PHARM
Allison Van Diepen
Simon Pulse
ISBN-10: 1416911545
ISBN-13: 9781416911548
Ages 14-up
304 pages

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Ty Johnson knows survival. Since inheriting his father's business at 16, Ty has developed smarts, skills and mad discipline. The supply game is in his blood, and life is good when you're on top. But one slip --- or one serious competitor --- and life turns ugly fast. Suddenly, Ty has to rethink his entire strategy. And for the #1 dealer on the streets, strategy is not just about staying ahead. It's about survival.

WHATCHA MEAN, WHAT'S A ZINE?
Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson
Graphia/Houghton Mifflin
ISBN-10: 0618563156
ISBN-13: 9780618563159
Ages 12-up
112 pages

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A zine is a handmade magazine or mini-comic about anything you can imagine: favorite bands, personal stories, subcultures, or collections. They contain diary entries, rants, interviews and stories. They can be by one person or many, found in stores, traded at comic conventions, exchanged with friends, or given away for free. This book is for anyone who wants to create their own zine. You'll pick up tips and tricks from contributors who have been at the fore front of the zine movement, and you'll learn how to design and print your own zine.

WHATCHA MEAN, WHAT'S A ZINE? will inspire you to put your thoughts and ideas down on paper.

Series Books/Sequels

Alias

NAMESAKES
Greg Cox
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN-10: 1416924426
ISBN-13: 9781416924425
Ages 12-up
352 pages

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A killer is targeting women in the Los Angeles area who share a name with Sydney Bristow's former aliases. Sydney wants the case, but she's already hot on the heels of a terrorist armed with a secret formula for a super-explosive. Jack and Vaughn quietly embark on their own investigation into the alias killings and begin to suspect that the murderer may be an ex-coworker resentful of Sydney for shutting down the shadow organization SD-6 years ago.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

GO ASK MALICE: A Slayer's Diary
Robert Joseph Levy
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN-10: 1416915877
ISBN-13: 9781416915874
Ages 16-up
256 pages

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Faith has always been a loner. Growing up in a broken home in South Boston, shuffled from relative to relative, her only companion was an imaginary friend named Alex, who helped her escape into a fantasy world of monsters and the supernatural. Now, taken away from her mother by social services and shipped off to a foster home, Faith learns that some nightmares are all too real.

Enter Diana Dormer, a Harvard professor and representative of the Watchers Council who has come to tell Faith of her destiny, to train her, to prepare her for what is to come: Faith is the Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. But then her childhood companion Alex returns in her dreams, warning Faith that someone else is coming for her --- a force so deadly and unforgiving that it has inspired fear in the underworld for a thousand generations. Its name is Malice.