Stand-Alone Titles

EMILY GOLDBERG LEARNS TO SALSA
Micol Ostow
Razorbill/Penguin Young Readers Group
ISBN-10: 1595140816
ISBN-13: 9781595140814
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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Emily is a Jewish girl from the suburbs of New York. Her mother has family in Puerto Rico, but Emily has never had any contact with them --- not until she is forced to go to the Caribbean for her grandmother's funeral. Pampered Emily wants nothing to do with her Puerto Rican heritage --- until a very special person shows her that uncovering her roots is like discovering a secret part of her own heart.

LUSH
Natasha Friend
Scholastic Press
ISBN-10: 043985346X
ISBN-13: 9780439853460
Ages 12-up
192 pages

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It's not easy being a 13-year-old girl. But it's even more difficult when your father is an alcoholic. It adds an extra layer to everything --- your family's reactions to things, the people you're willing to bring home, the way you see yourself and the world. For Samantha, it's something that's been going on for so long she's almost used to it. Only, you never get used to it. Especially when it starts to get worse...

THE NIGHT MY SISTER WENT MISSING
Carol Plum-Ucci
Harcourt Children's Books
ISBN-10: 0152047581
ISBN-13: 9780152047580
Ages 12-up
208 pages

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A tiny pistol, passed from friend to friend at a party on an abandoned pier, suddenly fires, and Casey Carmody falls into the water below. Kurt, Casey's older brother, spends what seems like an endless night at the police station while the coast guard searches for his sister and his friends are questioned. Who was foolish enough to pull the trigger? Was the gunfire accidental or deliberate? Or was the whole drama one of Casey's practical jokes? And where is Casey now?

OPHELIA
Lisa Klein
Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
ISBN-10: 1582348014
ISBN-13: 9781582348018
Ages 12-up
336 pages

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Ophelia is falling in love with a prince named Hamlet who cannot return her affections without arousing suspicion. And so they meet in secret. If you think you know this story, think again. Because when bloody deeds turn the court of Elsinore into a place of treachery and madness, Ophelia alone will find the means to escape, with nothing more than the clothes on her back...and one very dangerous secret.

SET IN STONE
Linda Newbery
David Fickling Books/Random House
ISBN-10: 0385751028
ISBN-13: 9780385751025
Ages 14-up
368 pages

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When Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the Farrow family at their majestic home, little does he expect to come across a place containing such secrets and lies. Helped by the family's governess, Charlotte Agnew, Samuel begins to understand why his student, Marianne, is so emotionally fragile, and in doing so uncovers a web of intrigue. But his discoveries lead to revenge and betrayal --- and lives all around are turned upside down.

STREET LOVE
Walter Dean Myers
Amistad/HarperTeen
ISBN-10: 0060280794
ISBN-13: 9780060280796
Ages 12-up
144 pages

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Seventeen-year-old Damian is a basketball star and an excellent student who appears to have a bright future ahead of him. His family wants him to date a middle-class girl named Roxanne, though he falls in love with 16-year-old Junice, whose life is totally messed up. But Junice tells him that he is the one who needs the reality check. Michael L. Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers reminds us (through free-verse) that before we can be true to someone else, we first must be true to ourselves.

WHAT HAPPENED TO CASS McBRIDE?
Gail Giles
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316166383
ISBN-13: 9780316166386
Ages 15-up
224 pages

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Kyle Kirby has planned a cruel and unspeakable revenge on Cass McBride, the most popular girl in school, for the death of his brother David. He digs a hole, drugs Cass, kidnaps her, puts her in a box underground and buries her alive. But Kyle makes a fatal error: Cass knows the power of words. She uses fear as her weapon to keep her nemesis talking --- and to keep herself breathing during the most harrowing 48 hours of her life.

Series Books/Sequels

Alias

THE GHOST
created by J. J. Abrams
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN-10: 1416924442
ISBN-13: 9781416924449
Ages 12-up
368 pages

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The Ghost, a legendary figure who has gone by so many aliases his real identity is a mystery, has created a double-edged hallucinogen that can ignite mass hysteria. When the mad scientist is double-crossed by one of his own minions, Agent Sydney Bristow must accompany him to his undercover clinic in Switzerland and help him learn which of his protégés stole the drug and sold it to a chemical weapons dealer. However, this plan doesn't sit well with Jack Bristow, who shares a past with the Ghost...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

PORTAL THROUGH TIME
Alice Henderson
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN-10: 141691918X
ISBN-13: 9781416919186
Ages 16-up
352 pages

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The Master may be dead, but he is not forgotten. One of the vampire lord's devotees sets out to alter the past so that he can resurrect the Master without Buffy's meddling. When he conjures up a portal to transport his minions through time, the vampires are poised to murder the most powerful slayers in history! It is up to the Scoobies to stop the Master's followers before they break the chain of slayers. Giles, Xander, Willow and Buffy pursue the vamps back in time through the portal to save the slayers of the past.

Charmed

HOUSE OF SHARDS
Micol Ostow
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN-10: 1416925317
ISBN-13: 9781416925316
Ages 16-up
192 pages

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The one thing any Halliwell witch always has been able to count on is Halliwell Manor, the ancestral home of the Charmed Ones. The grand old house has sheltered generations of women, and bits of Charmed history are practically built into the walls. So when the Manor appears to have turned against its inhabitants, the Halliwell sisters start to worry. Soon, the Manor seems to be messing with the girls, Leo and Wyatt in increasingly malicious ways. Can they find out what's turned their safe haven into an evil lair before it's too late?

The Demonata

SLAWTER: The Demonata, Book 3
Darren Shan
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316013870
ISBN-13: 9780316013871
Ages 12-up
240 pages

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Grubbs Grady and his half-brother Bill-E are thrilled to join their uncle Dervish as onset consultants for the newest movie by cult horror producer David A Haym. Shot in a deserted town renamed Slawter, the demon-themed movie is to be Haym's masterpiece. But as strange incidents disrupt the set, Grubbs begins to wonder whether more than just filming is taking place.

The It Girl

RECKLESS: The It Girl #3
created by Cecily von Ziegesar
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316011878
ISBN-13: 9780316011877
Ages 15-up
256 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 where glamorous rich kids don't let the rules get in the way of a fabulous time. It's less than a semester into school, but Jenny already has become notorious, just like Tinsley Carmichael --- who won't give up her Waverly "it girl" crown without a fight.