THE ANATOMY OF WINGS
Karen Foxlee
Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375856433
Ages 14-up
368 pages

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Ten-year-old Jennifer Day lives in a small mining town full of secrets. Trying to make sense of the sudden death of her teenage sister, Beth, she looks to the adult world around her for answers.

As she recounts the final months of Beth’s life, Jennifer sifts through the lies and the truth, but what she finds are mysteries, miracles and more questions. Was Beth’s death an accident? Why couldn’t Jennifer --- or anyone else --- save her?

Through Jennifer’s eyes, we see one girl’s failure to cross the threshold into adulthood as her family slowly falls apart.

DAUGHTER OF THE FLAMES
Zoe Marriott
Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763637491
Ages 12-up
368 pages

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Inside an ancient temple in the mountains, 15-year-old Zira trains in the martial arts to become a warrior priestess who can defend the faith of the Ruan people. Bearing a scar on her face from the fire that killed her parents, the orphaned Zira is taught to distrust the occupying Sedornes. Terror strikes when the forces of the tyrannical Sedorne king destroy the only home she knows. To survive, Zira must unravel the secrets of her identity, decide her people’s fate --- and accept her growing feelings for a man who should be her enemy.

DOPE SICK
Walter Dean Myers
Amistad/HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780061214776
Ages 14-up
192 pages

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The itch starts when things get too heavy for Lil J. Skin popping or stealing pain pills from his mom help him relax. But Lil J's focus is wandering because money is short, and his man Rico knows a way to make some quick cash. It's supposed to be an easy deal, but it isn't so simple when the buyer is an undercover cop.

With a gunshot wound to the arm, Rico in jail and a police officer clinging to life, Lil J is starting to get dope sick. He'd do anything to change the last 24 hours, and when he stumbles into an abandoned crack house, it actually might be possible.

THE FETCH
Laura Whitcomb
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618891313
Ages 12-up
384 pages

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Calder is a Fetch, a death escort, the first of his kind to step from Heaven back to Earth and the first to fall in love with a mortal girl. But when he climbs backwards out of that Death Scene, into the chaos of the Russian Revolution, he tears a wound in the ghost realm, where the spirits begin a revolution of their own.

GEEK CHARMING
Robin Palmer
Puffin/Penguin Young Readers Group
ISBN: 9780142411223
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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Dylan Shoenfield is the princess of L.A.’s posh Castle Heights High. She has the coolest boyfriend, the most popular friends, and a brand-new “it” bag that everyone covets. But when she accidentally tosses her bag into a fountain, this princess comes face to face with her own personal frog: self-professed film geek Josh Rosen.

In return for rescuing Dylan’s bag, Josh convinces Dylan to let him film her for his documentary on high school popularity. Reluctantly, she lets him into her A-list world and is shocked to realize that sometimes nerds can be pretty cool. But when Dylan’s so-called prince charming of a boyfriend dumps her flat, her life --- and her social status --- comes to a crashing halt.

IF I GROW UP
Todd Strasser
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
ISBN: 9781416925231
Ages 12-up
240 pages

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In the Frederick Douglass Project where DeShawn lives, daily life is ruled by drugs and gang violence. Many teenagers drop out of school and join gangs, and every kid knows someone who died. Gunshots ring out on a regular basis.

DeShawn is smart enough to know he should stay in school and keep away from the gangs. But while his friends have drug money to buy fancy sneakers and big-screen TVs, DeShawn's family can barely afford food for the month. How can he stick to his principles when his family is hungry?

JESSICA’S GUIDE TO DATING ON THE DARK SIDE
Beth Fantaskey
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152063849
Ages 14-up
368 pages

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Marrying a vampire definitely doesn’t fit into Jessica Packwood’s senior year “get-a-life” plan. But then a bizarre (and incredibly hot) new exchange student named Lucius Vladescu shows up, claiming that Jessica is a Romanian vampire princess by birth --- and he is her long-lost fiancé.

Armed with newfound confidence and a copy of GROWING UP UNDEAD, Jessica makes a dramatic transition from average American teenager to glam European vampire princess. But when a devious cheerleader sets her sights on Lucius, Jess finds herself fighting to win back her wayward prince, stop a global vampire war --- and save Lucius’s soul from eternal destruction.

MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD
Francisco X. Stork
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
ISBN: 9780545054744
Ages 12-up
320 pages

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Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear --- part of the autism-like impairment no doctor has been able to identify --- and he's always attended a special school where his differences have been protected. But the summer after his junior year, his father demands that Marcelo work in his law firm's mailroom in order to experience "the real world."

There Marcelo meets Jasmine, his beautiful and surprising co-worker, and Wendell, the son of another partner in the firm. He learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire. But it's a picture he finds in a file -- a picture of a girl with half a face -- that truly connects him with the real world: its suffering, its injustice, and what he can do to fight.

NORTH OF BEAUTIFUL
Justina Chen Headley
Little, Brown for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316025058
Ages 12-up
384 pages

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Terra is tall and blonde, with an unbelievably gorgeous body, but what most people in her stifling Washington town notice is the port-wine birthmark covering half her face. She secretly plans to leave her small town by escaping to an East Coast college, but is pushed off-course by her controlling father. When she meets handsome, goth Jacob who immediately understands her battle with feeling different, Terra is forced in yet another direction. With her carefully laid plans disrupted, will Terra be able to find her true path?

PROJECT SWEET LIFE
Brent Hartinger
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780060824112
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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Instead of enjoying long days of biking, swimming and sitting around, 15-year-old Dave and his two best friends are being forced by their fathers into a summer of hard labor. His friends have something else in mind, though: Not only will they not work over the summer, but they're determined to trick everyone into believing they really do have jobs. There's only one problem: Dave's dad wants evidence that his son is actually bringing in money. And that means Dave, Curtis and Victor will have to get some --- without breaking the law and without doing any work!

RESPONSE
Paul Volponi
Viking Juvenile
ISBN: 9780670062836
Ages 12-up
160 pages

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Noah and his friends go to a predominantly white neighborhood with a plan: steal a car, sell it to a chop shop and make some fast cash. But that never happens. Instead, Noah, a teen father, is the victim of a vicious beating that leaves him with a fractured skull. Was the attacker just protecting his turf, or did he assault Noah because he’s black?

SAME DIFFERENCE
Siobhan Vivian
Push/Scholastic
ISBN: 9780545004077
Ages 12-up
304 pages

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Emily is ready for a change. She's been in the same town with the same friends for a long time...and none of them really understand her art. But when she goes to Philadelphia for a summer art institute, she suddenly finds like-minded people. One in particular, Fiona, intrigues and challenges her. But there are some things Emily is going to have to find out for herself --- like what the balance is between life and art, and which is more important when push comes to shove.

SHADOWED SUMMER
Saundra Mitchell
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385735711
Ages 12-up
183 pages

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Iris is ready for another hot, routine summer in her small Louisiana town, hanging around the Red Stripe grocery with her best friend, Collette, and traipsing through the cemetery telling each other spooky stories and pretending to cast spells. Except this summer, Iris doesn’t have to make up a story. One falls right in her lap.

Years ago, before Iris was born, a local boy named Elijah Landry disappeared. All that remained of him were whispers and hushed gossip in the church pews. Until this summer. A ghost begins to haunt Iris, and she’s certain it’s the ghost of Elijah. What really happened to him? And why, of all people, has he chosen Iris to come back to?

SOPHOMORE UNDERCOVER
Ben Esch
Disney-Hyperion
ISBN: 9781423113034
Ages 12-up
256 pages

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For 15-year-old, adopted Vietnamese orphan Dixie Nguyen, high school is one long string of hard-to-swallow humiliations. He shares a locker with a nudist linebacker, his teachers are incompetent, and he's stuck doing fluff pieces for the school newspaper. But Dixie's luck takes a turn when he stumbles across one of the jocks using drugs in the locker room; not only does he finally have something newsworthy to write, but the chance to strike a blow against his tormentors at the school as well.

However, when his editor insists he drop the story and cover homecoming events instead, Dixie sets off on his own unconventional --- and often misguided --- investigation. He soon discovers that the scandal extends beyond the football team to something far bigger and more sinister than he ever thought possible.

THE BOOK OF TORMOD: A TEMPLAR’S APPRENTICE
Kat Black
Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9780545056540
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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Scotland. 1307. Thirteen-year-old Tormod MacLeod is different. He knows things before they happen. Even his own brother treats him differently, and all Tormod can do is bide his time until he's old enough to leave the village and make something of himself. His chance comes sooner than expected when a Templar knight asks him to deliver a secret message. But Tormod's efforts end up endangering both their lives. What follows is a desperate journey to escape the army of King Philippe le Bel of France. If he is to survive, Tormod must learn to harness the powers within.

P.S. I LOATHE YOU: The Clique #10
Lisi Harrison
Poppy/Little, Brown for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316006811
Ages 12-up
224 pages

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Massie Block: When the Pretty Committee deems its boy-fast null and void, boy fever sweeps through BOCD. What better way to back handspring into new crush Dempsey's heart --- and make old crush Derrington jealous --- than cheer for him on the soccer field?

Kristen Gregory: With Massie and her SBFF (secret best friend forever) Layne vying for the same boy, Kristen has to make a choice: A) the Pretty Committee, or B) the Witty Committee.

Dylan Marvil: Dylan has a secret crush on Derrington --- and it's no secret that he likes burpilicious redheads….

Alicia Rivera: Alicia prefers pliés to pom-poms, especially when Massie orders her to the bottom of the cheer-pyramid. Can Alicia accept her beta status, or is it time to become alpha of her own squad?

Claire Lyons: Now that she's back with Cam, Claire finally has her love life in order. But her friends are trading crushes like styling tips. Will the Pretty Committee survive the boy-swap intact, or is the Clique about to come apart at the seams?

SKELETON CREEK
Patrick Carman
Scholastic Press
Mystery/Suspense
ISBN: 9780545075664
144 pages

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Strange things are happening in Skeleton Creek --- and Ryan and Sarah are trying to get to the heart of it. But after an eerie accident leaves Ryan housebound and forbidden to see Sarah, their investigation takes two tracks: Ryan records everything in his journal, while Sarah uses her videocam to search things out…and then email the clips for Ryan to see. In a new, groundbreaking format, Patrick Carman’s story is broken into two parts --- Ryan's text in the book, and Sarah's videos on a special website (www.skeletoncreekisreal.com), with links and passwords given throughout the book.

STARCLIMBER
Kenneth Oppel
Eos/HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780060850579
Ages 12-up
400 pages

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Pilot-in-training Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries, expert on high-altitude life-forms, are invited aboard the Starclimber, a vessel that literally climbs its way into the cosmos. Before they even set foot aboard the ship, catastrophe strikes: Kate announces she is engaged --- and not to Matt.

Despite this bombshell, Matt and Kate embark on their journey into space, but soon the ship is surrounded by strange and unsettling life-forms, and the crew is forced to combat devastating mechanical failure. For Matt, Kate and the entire crew of the Starclimber, what began as an exciting race to the stars has now turned into a battle to save their lives.

FADE
Lisa McMann
Simon Pulse
ISBN: 9781416953586
Ages 14-up
256 pages

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For Janie and Cabel, real life is getting tougher than the dreams. They're just trying to carve out a little (secret) time together, but no such luck.

Disturbing things are happening at Fieldridge High, yet nobody is talking. When Janie taps into a classmate's violent nightmares, the case finally breaks open --- but nothing goes as planned. Janie is in way over her head, and Cabe's shocking behavior has grave consequences for both of them.

Worse yet, Janie learns the truth about herself and her ability --- and it's brutally bleak. Not only is her fate as a dream catcher sealed, but what's to come is way darker than she had feared.