Stand-Alone Titles

AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES
John Green
Dutton
ISBN-10: 0525476881
ISBN-13: 9780525476887
Ages 14-up
256 pages

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When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. He's also a washed-up child prodigy with $10,000 in his pocket, a passion for anagrams and an overweight best friend who's obsessed with Judge Judy. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which will predict the future of all relationships, transform him from a fading prodigy into a true genius, and finally win him the girl.

THE ASTONISHING ADVENTURES OF FANBOY AND GOTH GIRL
Barry Lyga
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN-10: 0618723927
ISBN-13: 9780618723928
Ages 12-up
320 pages

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Fanboy's sophomore year of high school has been a nightmare. He's being tortured by bullies, he seems to be losing his only friend to sports, and his mother and stepfather are eagerly awaiting the birth of Fanboy's new little brother or sister. Unbeknownst to anyone, Fanboy has been working on a graphic novel that he believes will bring him fame, which will allow him to leave town and all the people who make his life miserable. When Fanboy meets Kyra, a.k.a. Goth Girl, he becomes acquainted with an outrageous, cynical girl who shares his love of comics as well as his hatred for jocks and bullies. Fanboy soon finds himself willing to listen to her advice --- to ignore or crush anyone who stands in his way.

BRIANA'S GIFT
Lurlene McDaniel
Delacorte Press
ISBN-10: 0385731604
ISBN-13: 9780385731607
Ages 12-up
176 pages

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Thirteen-year-old Casey's mother always said that Casey's 16-year-old sister marched to the beat of a different drummer. But it isn't until Briana runs away with an older boy that Casey begins to understand what her mother meant. When Briana returns home alone and pregnant, Casey and her mother try to help Briana come to terms with her options. When Briana is in a serious accident, Casey's mother sees things one way. Although Casey understands her mother's reaction, she feels she must try to convince her mother to make a different decision.

CATHY'S BOOK: If Found Call 650-266-8233
Sean Stewart & Jordan Weisman
Running Press
ISBN-10: 076242656X
ISBN-13: 9780762426560
Ages 12-up
144 pages

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Things weren't so peachy in Cathy's life before Victor broke up with her. Her father died unexpectedly, she's failing school and her best friend is mad at her. But when Cathy decides to investigate Victor's reasons for ending their relationship, things suddenly go from bad to worse as her findings produce more questions than answers.

Through Cathy's unique and irresistible voice --- and lots of proof in the form of letters, photographs, date book entries, telephone numbers readers can call, websites they can access, as well as secrets only a careful reader will be able to decipher --- readers will enter a strange and fascinating world where things often aren't how they appear.

A FRIEND AT MIDNIGHT
Caroline B. Cooney
Delacorte Press
ISBN-10: 0385733267
ISBN-13: 9780385733267
Ages 12-up
192 pages

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Lily has settled into life in Connecticut after her parents' divorce, but it's been tougher for her eight-year-old brother Michael. After their mother remarries, Michael chooses to go live with his father in Washington, D.C., until the day he calls home from the Baltimore-Washington Airport where his father has abandoned him. Will Lily be able to rescue herself from the bitterness and anger she feels?

INCANTATION
Alice Hoffman
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316010197
ISBN-13: 9780316010191
Ages 12-up
176 pages

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Estrella is a Marrano, one of the Spanish Jews living double lives when those who refused conversion risked everything. Estrella's discovery that her family secretly practices the ancient way of wisdom known as kabbalah leads her to her true self and true love --- but also to a devastating confrontation with unimaginable evil, unleashed by the betrayal of a friend.

LEAPHOLES
James Grippando
American Bar Association
ISBN-10: 1590316665
ISBN-13: 9781590316665
Ages 12-up
320 pages

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James Grippando's first novel for young adults is the fascinating story of Ryan Coolidge, a boy who is in trouble with the law. The one person who can help Ryan is a mysterious old African-American lawyer named Hezekiah. Hezekiah may have magical powers, or he may have the most elaborate computerized law library ever conceived. Either way, together, Ryan and Hezekiah do their legal research by zooming through "leapholes," physically entering the law books and coming face-to-face with actual people from some of our nation's most famous cases --- like Rosa Parks and Dred Scott --- who will help Ryan defend himself in court.

LEONARDO'S SHADOW: Or, My Astonishing Life As Leonardo Da Vinci's Servant
Christopher Grey
Atheneum
ISBN-10: 141690543X
ISBN-13: 9781416905431
Ages 12-up
400 pages

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Milan, 1497. The height of the Renaissance. And for Giacomo, servant of the famous painter Leonardo da Vinci, it's the most difficult time of all. His Master has been working on the Last Supper, his greatest painting ever, for nearly two years. But he's barely started! The all-powerful Duke of Milan is demanding that it be completed by the time the Pope visits at Easter. And Giacomo knows that if Leonardo doesn't pick up his pace, the Duke may invite a young genius --- Michelangelo --- to finish the painting instead. If that happens, then Leonardo won't be paid, which means that Milan's shopkeepers (to whom he owes massive amounts) will take drastic measures against him. It's all up to Giacomo to try to come up with a brilliant solution. And if he does, will his Master go for it?

LET'S GET LOST
Sarra Manning
Dutton Children's Books
ISBN-10: 0525476660
ISBN-13: 9780525476665
Ages 14-up
352 pages

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Isabel's friends are terrified of her, her teachers can't get through to her, her family doesn't understand her, and that's just the way she likes it. Nothing seems to affect Isabel --- not even her mother's sudden death. When she meets an enigmatic guy named Smith, Isabel fights hard to keep hold of her cool, snarky image, but she soon finds herself coming apart at the seams, feeling the pain and missing her mom.

LONDON CALLING
Edward Bloor
Knopf
ISBN-10: 0375836357
ISBN-13: 9780375836350
Ages 12-up
304 pages

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Martin Conway is sleeping his life away, aimless and unhappy, until a long-dead English boy appears in his room with an urgent question to ask: Will you help? Martin hopes and prays that this is just a dream, but he sees Jimmy Harker multiples times and his meetings are startingly vivid. As he follows the boy through the blitz-ravaged streets of London in 1940, that city's fiery dreamscape thrills and frightens him more than any place in his own drab world. Each times Martin wakes, he discovers that he has met real people and has learned dark personal secrets that no one could have possibly known. Can Martin help Jimmy after all?

THE MURDER OF BINDY MACKENZIE
Jaclyn Moriarty
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
ISBN-10: 0439740517
ISBN-13: 9780439740517
Ages 12-up
352 pages

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Bindy Mackenzie believes herself to be the smartest, kindest girl at Ashbury High. Unfortunately, she's the only one who thinks so. To prove her likability, Bindy decides to document her life in transcripts, essays and emails. What this reveals is a girl who's funny, passionate, hilariously self-righteous...and in danger. Someone wants to kill Bindy Mackenzie. The clues are in the documents. The detectives are the very students who hate her most. And time is running out.

SOMETHING REMAINS
Inge Barth-Grozinger
Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN-10: 0786838809
ISBN-13: 9780786838806
Ages 10-14
400 pages

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Erich Levi doesn't quite understand why his father is so gloomy when the Nazis are elected to power. He's too concerned with keeping his grades up, finding time to hang out by the river with his friends, and studying for his bar mitzvah to worry much about politics. But slowly, things begin to change for Erich. Some of the teachers begin to grade him harshly and unfairly --- because he's Jewish. They humiliate him and exclude him from sports events and celebrations. Most painfully, his best friend, Kurt, shuns him entirely. Not everyone is so cruel, though, and many of the Levis' friends and neighbors remain fiercely loyal at great risk to themselves.

Series Books/Sequels

Gossip Girl

WOULD I LIE TO YOU: Gossip Girl #10
Cecily von Ziegesar
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316011835
ISBN-13: 9780316011839
Ages 15-up
208 pages

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WOULD I LIE TO YOU continues the #1 New York Times bestselling series about the provocative lives of New York City's most prestigious private school young adults. In this tenth installment, Blair, Serena and the gang question who they are and what they really want out of their lives. Sharp wit, intriguing characters and high-stakes melodrama drive the action of this addictive series that have made Gossip Girl the lit world's coveted "it" girl.

Discworld

WINTERSMITH
Terry Pratchett
HarperTeen
ISBN-10: 0060890312
ISBN-13: 9780060890315
Ages 12-up
336 pages

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In the third adventure of Tiffany Aching and the Wee Free Men, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. But the Wintersmith isn't exactly a boy --- he is winter itself. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world forever. Tiffany will need the help of the Wee Free Men --- the bravest, toughest, smelliest pictsies ever to be banished from Fairyland --- if she wants to survive until spring.

Alias

OLD FRIENDS
Steven Hanna
created by J. J. Abrams
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN-10: 1416924434
ISBN-13: 9781416924432
Ages 12-up
352 pages

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A terrorist cell based in China called Dark Cloud has devised a plan to release a deadly poison on entire nations using rocket technology. Agent Sydney Bristow's friend from graduate school, Keiko Terajima, happens to be the daughter of a prominent Japanese physicist, and Dark Cloud needs his top-secret knowledge to carry out its devious plan. What's more, Keiko is married to Franklin, the son of an old colleague Jack Bristow killed years ago to protect Sydney. When APO learns that Franklin is part of an elite group of agents who marry women to gain access to information, Sydney begins to question his true intentions with Keiko.