Stand-Alone Titles

ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN
Jacquelyn Mitchard
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780061345784
Ages 12-up
320 pages

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Bridget Flannery and Maureen O'Malley have been BFFs for as long as they can remember. But a brief moment of inattention on an icy road leaves one girl dead and the other in a coma, battered beyond recognition. Family and friends mourn one friend's loss and pray for the other's recovery. Then the doctors discover they have made a terrible mistake. The girl who lived is the one who everyone thought had died.

THE DEATH OF JAYSON PORTER
Jaime Adoff
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN: 9781423106913
Ages 14-up
272 pages

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Sixteen-year-old Jayson Porter wants to believe things will get better. But the harsh realities of his life never seem to change. Living in the inland-Florida projects with his abusive mother, he tries unsuccessfully to fit in at his predominately white school while struggling to maintain even a thread of a relationship with his drug-addicted father. As the pressure mounts, there’s only one thing Jayson feels he has control over --- the choice of whether to live or die.

EXODUS
Julie Bertagna
Walker Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780802797452
Ages 12-up
352 pages

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Less than a hundred years from now, the world as we know it no longer exists. Cities have disappeared beneath the sea, technology no longer functions, and human civilization has reverted to a much more primitive state. On an isolated northern island, the people of Wing are trying to hold onto their way of life --- even as the sea continues to claim precious acres and threatens to claim their very lives. Only 15-year-old Mara has the vision and the will to lead her people in search of a new beginning in this harsh, unfamiliar world.

THE FOLD
An Na
Putnam Juvenile
ISBN: 9780399242762
Ages 12-up
192 pages

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Joyce never used to care that much about how she looked, but that was before she met John Ford Kang, the most gorgeous guy in school. And it doesn’t help that she’s constantly being compared to her beautiful older sister, Helen. Then her rich plastic-surgery-addict aunt offers Joyce a gift to “fix” a part of herself she’d never realized needed fixing --- her eyes. Joyce has heard of the fold surgery --- a common procedure meant to make Asian women’s eyes seem “prettier” and more “American” --- but she’s not sure she wants to go through with it. The plastic surgeon has shown Joyce that her new eyes will make her look just like Helen. But is that necessarily a good thing?

LOCK AND KEY
Sarah Dessen
Viking Juvenile
ISBN: 9780670010882
Ages 12-up
432 pages

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Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, she’s been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return. That’s how she comes to live with Cora, the sister she hasn’t seen in 10 years, and Cora’s husband Jamie, whose down-to-earth demeanor makes it hard for Ruby to believe he founded the most popular networking website around. A luxurious house, a fancy private school, a new wardrobe, the promise of college and a future --- it’s a dream come true. So why is Ruby wary and defensive? And why is Nate, the boy next door with some secrets of his own, unable to accept the help that Ruby is just learning to give?

THE MARKET
J. M. Steele
Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN: 9781423100133
Ages 12-up
336 pages

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When Kate Winthrop stumbles upon the Millbank Social Stock Market (the MSSM), she's horrified to discover that out of the 140 girls in her class, she’s ranked a bleak 71. Determined not to accept her fate as a "junk bond," she and her friends, Dev and Callie, set out to make her the fastest rising stock on the Market --- and their plan works. Kate is suddenly embraced by the most popular girl in school and attracts the attention of the hottest boy. But Kate's remarkable stock rise is coupled with a moral descent, until she is in danger of losing her friends and herself in her obsessive run to the top of the market.

THE PATRON SAINT OF BUTTERFLIES
Cecilia Galante
Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books
ISBN: 9781599902494
Ages 12-up
304 pages

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Agnes and Honey have always been best friends, but they haven’t always been so different. Agnes loves being a Believer. She knows the rules at the Mount Blessing religious commune are there to make her a better person. Honey hates Mount Blessing and the control that Emmanuel, their leader, has over her life. The only bright spot is the butterfly garden she’s helping to build, and the journal of butterflies that she keeps. When Agnes’s grandmother makes an unexpected visit to the commune, she discovers a violent secret that the Believers are desperate to keep quiet.

SUNRISE OVER FALLUJAH
Walter Dean Myers
Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9780439916240
Ages 12-up
304 pages

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In his new novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at the Iraq War with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam War in FALLEN ANGELS. His cast of memorable characters includes the book's narrator, Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who's questioning why he even enlisted; Marla, a blond, tough-talking, wisecracking gunner; and Jonesy, a guitar-playing bluesman who just wants to make it back to Georgia and open a club. They, and a whole unit of other young men and women, are supposed to help secure and stabilize Iraq and successfully interact with the Iraqi people.

UP ALL NIGHT
Peter Abrahams, Libba Bray, David Levithan, Patricia McCormick, Sarah Weeks and Gene Luen Yang
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780061370762
Ages 12-up
240 pages

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What keeps you up all night? A brush with the supernatural? A rock concert? A reunion? A poolside revelation? The need to know what's up? The confessions of a friend? The dream of escape? A sick pet? An English assignment? The rear-window view of a murder next door? The search for the mother you never met?

This remarkable collection of award-winning and bestselling authors is thought provoking, insightful, heartfelt and powerful.

Series Books/Sequels

A-List

CALIFORNIA DREAMING: A-List #10
Zoey Dean
Poppy/Little Brown for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316113533
Ages 15-up
304 pages

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Anna Percy is sick and tired of being the poster child for exceptional grades and prep school life. Not to mention white gloves and tea parties. So, in this 10th installment of Zoey Dean’s bestselling A-List series, Anna decides to leave Manhattan and move to Los Angeles to live with her father.

The Clique Summer Collection

MASSIE: The Clique Summer Collection #1
Lisi Harrison
Poppy/Little, Brown for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316027519
Ages 12-up
144 pages

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After Massie Block gets kicked off her high horse and out of her ultra exclusive Westchester riding camp, her parents force her to do the unthinkable --- find a summer job. Not one for dog-walking or brat-sitting, Massie comes up with the obvious solution: She'll be a sales rep for the cosmetics brand Be Pretty. Massie loves her new role as fairy godmother of makeup --- until she discovers that transforming LBRs into glam-girls takes more than a swish of her royal purple mascara wand.

Hotlanta

HOTLANTA
Denene Millner and Mitzi Miller
Point/Scholastic
ISBN: 9780545003087
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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Twins Sydney and Lauren Duke attend the fanciest school in Atlanta, live in Buckhead, the most exclusive neighborhood, and only date the hottest guys. And their secrets are the darkest of all. When their estranged father is released from prison and a murder is committed, their lives are plunged into a whirlwind of tabloid scrutiny, vicious gossip and shocking revelation. Lauren, always such a party girl, and Sydney, bent on perfection by way of the Ivy League, can't trust anyone. Not their mother, not their rich stepfather. Maybe not even each other.

Lily Dale

LILY DALE: BELIEVING
Wendy Corsi Staub
Walker Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780802796561
Ages 12-up
256 pages

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After her tumultuous summer in Lily Dale, Calla has decided to stay, hoping to unearth more about her mother’s untimely death. As she starts school at Lily Dale High and begins to explore her relationships with Jacy and Blue, her visions begin to occur with greater urgency. There may be a killer on the loose, and he may be after Calla for her role in solving his first victim’s disappearance. Now that Calla believes in her ability, can she learn to use it properly before it leads her into more danger?

Rachel Vail’s trilogy

LUCKY
Rachel Vail
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780060890438
Ages 14-up
240 pages

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Rachel Vail explores the lives of three sisters whose privileged world is shaken by a family scandal. Phoebe is the youngest, and this is her story --- combining love, friendship and sisterhood, poignantly mixed with humor and tears. With LUCKY, the acclaimed author of the Friendship Ring series begins a powerful sisterhood trilogy, comprised of one book for each of the three fascinating Avery sisters, with all their secrets laid bare during the year that completely changes their lives.

Truesight Trilogy

OTHERSPACE: Book Three of the Truesight Trilogy
David Stahler Jr.
Eos/HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060522919
Ages 12-up
352 pages

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Danger is closing in. The stars are calling. And young Jacob Manford is restless. He has tried settling into life as a Seer, but he hasn't forgotten the ghostly boy who told him about a new colony --- a colony for those who were once blind but can now see. A place for people like Jacob. Soon Jacob buys passage on a cargo ship hurtling toward distant planets. But strange events along the way worry him. Is he moving toward a new life and a new sense of peace, or is he simply bringing trouble with him?

Follow-up to WICKED LOVELY

INK EXCHANGE
Melissa Marr
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780061214684
Ages 12-up
336 pages

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Seventeen-year-old Leslie knows nothing of faeries or their intrigues. When she’s attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo of eyes and wings, all she knows is that she has to have it, convinced it’s a tangible symbol of changes she desperately craves for her own life. The tattoo does bring changes --- not the kind Leslie has dreamed of, but sinister, compelling changes that are more than symbolic. Those changes will bind Leslie and Irial together, drawing Leslie deeper and deeper into the faery world, unable to resist its allures and helpless to withstand its perils.