AFTER
Amy Efaw
Viking Juvenile
ISBN: 9780670011834
Ages 12-up
350 pages

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Before That Morning, these were the words most often used to describe straight-A student and star soccer player Devon Davenport: responsible, hardworking, mature. But all that changes when the police find Devon home sick from school as they investigate the case of an abandoned baby. Soon the connection is made --- Devon has just given birth, and the baby in the trash is hers. After That Morning, there’s only one way to define Devon: attempted murderer.

ANDROMEDA KLEIN
Frank Portman
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385735254
Ages 14-up
432 pages

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Andromeda Klein has a few problems. Her hair is kind of horrible. Her partner-in-occultism, Daisy, is dead. Her secret, estranged, much older and forbidden boyfriend-in-theory has gone AWOL. And her mother has learned how to text.

In short, things couldn't get much worse. Until they do. Daisy seems to be attempting to make contact from beyond, books are starting to disappear from the library, and then, strangely and suddenly, Andromeda's tarot readings are beginning to predict events with bizarrely literal accuracy.

In the ensuing struggle of neutral versus evil, it's Andromeda Klein against the world, modern society, demonic forces, and the "friends" of the library.

DIARY OF A WITNESS
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375856846
Ages 12-up
208 pages

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Ernie doesn't have a lot of friends at school. Just Will. They have things in common --- like fishing. But more important, they have common enemies: the school jocks, who seem to find bullying just another sport.

For the most part, Ernie and Will take life at high school in stride. Until Will has one very bad day. Now nothing is remotely funny. Ernie finds himself a witness --- to loss, to humiliation, and to Will’s anger --- an anger that’s building each and every moment.

Ernie doesn’t want to believe his best friend is changing, but he can’t deny the truth. Soon he has a choice: join or die. Or can he find another way?

GEEKTASTIC: Stories from the Nerd Herd
edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316008099
Ages 12-up
416 pages

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Acclaimed authors Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the bestselling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga, Wendy Mass, Garth Nix, Scott Westerfield, Lisa Yee, and Sara Zarr.

With illustrated interstitials from comic book artists Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O'Malley, GEEKTASTIC covers all things geeky, from Klingons and Jedi Knights to fan fiction, theater geeks and cosplayers.

HAMLET
John Marsden
Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763644512
Ages 14-up
240 pages

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, but Hamlet can’t be sure what’s causing the stench. His rage at his mother’s infidelities --- together with his greed for the sensual Ophelia and his dead father’s call to revenge a "murder most foul" --- have his mind in chaos, and he wants to scatter his traitorous uncle’s insides across the fields. But was it really his father’s ghost that night on the ramparts, or a hell-fiend sent to trick him?

INTERTWINED
Gena Showalter
Harlequin Teen
ISBN: 9780373210022
Ages 14-up
448 pages

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Most 16-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him: One can time-travel. One can raise the dead. One can tell the future. And one can possess another human. With no other family and a life spent in and out of institutions, Aden and the souls have become friends. But now they're causing him all kinds of trouble.

Then he meets a girl who quiets the voices --- as long as he's near her. Why? Mary Ann Gray is his total opposite. He's a loner; she has friends. He doesn't care what anyone thinks; she tries to make everyone happy. And while he attracts the paranormal, she repels it. For her sake, he should stay away. But it's too late....

LOVE IS A HIGHER LAW
David Levithan
Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375834684
Ages 12-up
176 pages

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The lives of three teens --- Claire, Jasper and Peter --- are altered forever on September 11, 2001. Claire, a high school junior, has to get to her younger brother in his classroom. Jasper, a college sophomore from Brooklyn, wakes to his parents’ frantic calls from Korea, wondering if he’s okay. Peter, a classmate of Claire’s, has to make his way back to school as everything happens around him.

Here are three teens whose intertwining lives are reshaped by this catastrophic event. As each gets to know the other, their moments become wound around each other’s in a way that leads to new understandings, new friendships, and new levels of awareness for the world around them and the people close by.

POP
Gordon Korman
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780061742286
Ages 12-up
272 pages

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When Marcus moves to a new town in the dead of summer, he doesn't know a soul. While practicing football for impending tryouts, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with an older man. Charlie is a charismatic prankster --- and the best football player Marcus has ever seen. He can't believe his good luck when he finds out that Charlie is actually Charlie Popovich, or "the King of Pop," as he had been nicknamed during his career as an NFL linebacker. But that's not all. There is a secret about Charlie that his family is desperate to hide.

When Marcus begins school, he meets the starting quarterback on the team: Troy Popovich. Right from the beginning, Marcus and Troy disagree --- about football, about Troy's ex-girlfriend, Alyssa, but most of all about what's good for Charlie. Marcus is betting that he knows what's best for the King of Pop. And he is willing to risk everything to help his friend.

PROPHECY OF THE SISTERS
Michelle Zink
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316027427
Ages 12-up
352 pages

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Twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe have just become orphans. They have also become enemies. As they discover their roles in a prophecy that has turned generations of sisters against each other, the girls find themselves entangled in a mystery that involves a tattoo-like mark, their parents' deaths, a boy, a book, and a lifetime of secrets.

RUINED: A Ghost Story
Paula Morris
Point/Scholastic
ISBN: 9780545042154
Ages 12-up
304 pages

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Rebecca couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans, where she comes to spend the year while her dad is traveling. She's staying in a creepy old house with her aunt. And at the snooty prep school, the filthy-rich girls treat Rebecca like she's invisible. Only gorgeous, unavailable Anton Grey seems to give Rebecca the time of day, but she wonders if he has a hidden agenda. Then one night, in Lafayette Cemetery, Rebecca makes a friend. Sweet, mysterious Lisette is eager to talk to Rebecca, and to show her the nooks and crannies of the city. There's just one catch: Lisette is a ghost.

SHIVER
Maggie Stiefvater
Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9780545123266
Ages 13-up
400 pages

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For years Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf --- her wolf --- is a haunting presence she can’t seem to live without.

Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human…until the cold makes him shift back again.

Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It’s her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears and the temperature drops, Sam must fight to stay human --- or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.

TOMBSTONE TEA
Joanne Dahme
Running Press Teens
ISBN: 9780762437184
Ages 12-up
224 pages

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In order to be accepted by the “in crowd” at her new high school, Jamie accepts a dare to spend one night in a local cemetery collecting rubbings from 10 gravestones. Once inside the gate of the dark and frightening burial ground, Jamie meets Paul, a handsome boy who works as a caretaker at the cemetery. Paul explains to Jamie about Tombstone Tea: a fund-raising performance in which actors impersonate the people buried in the cemetery. The actors are supposedly rehearsing on this particular evening, but Jamie quickly discovers that they aren’t actors at all but the ghosts of men and women buried in the cemetery.

TRICKS
Ellen Hopkins
Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781416950073
Ages 14-up
640 pages

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Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching...for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don't expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words "I love you" are said for all the wrong reasons.

Five moving stories remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story --- a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. A story about kids figuring out what sex and love are all about, at all costs, while asking themselves, "Can I ever feel okay about myself?"

Alphas

ALPHAS
Lisi Harrison
Poppy/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316035798
Ages 12-up
272 pages

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At OCD the losers are tormented. At Alpha Academy, they're sent home. Skye Hamilton has scored an invitation to the ultra-exclusive Alphas-only boarding school where beta is spelled LBR. What happens when the country's best, brightest and hawtest begin clawing and scratching their way to the top?

John Feinstein’s Sports Mysteries

CHANGE-UP: Mystery at the World Series
John Feinstein
Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375856365
Ages 10-up
320 pages

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Bestselling author, journalist and Edgar Award winner John Feinstein is back with another high-stakes sports mystery. Teen reporters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are covering baseball’s World Series, and during the course of an interview with a new hot pitcher, they discover more than a few contradictions in his life story. What is he hiding? An embarrassing secret? A possible crime? Let the investigation begin!

Louder Than Words

CHELSEY
Chelsey Shannon
HCI Teens
ISBN: 9780757314131
Ages 12-up
157 pages

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Chelsey was dealt the unthinkable. When Her Only Surviving Parent, her beloved father, was violently murdered days before her 14th birthday, Chelsey's life was forever changed. As she was forced to come to terms with a new home life, a new school, a new identity as an orphan, Chelsey struggled to make sense of her personal tragedy. Yet she found a way to flourish despite all the odds.

EMILY
Emily Smucker
HCI Teens
ISBN: 9780757314148
Ages 12-up
163 pages

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Plagued with some sort of cold or fever or bizarre aches and pains for much of her life, Emily thought the dizziness and stomach aches at the start of her senior year were just another bout of "Emily flu." But when they didn't go away, she knew something was seriously wrong. Eventually diagnosed with the rare and incurable West Nile virus, Emily watched her senior year and the future she had planned for go up in smoke.

MARNI
Marni Bates
HCI Teens
ISBN: 9780757314124
Ages 12-up
162 pages

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Unable to deal with the mounting stress at home, in school and with friends, Marni's compulsion to pluck out her eyebrows, eyelashes…even the hair from the top of her head, helped her to quiet her mind and escape the pressures of the world around her.

Marni first began pulling the summer just before entering high school, and she was immediately hooked. Unfortunately, by the time she discovered that her habit was an actual disorder --- trichotillomania or "trich" --- it was way too late. "When I stared at the mirror and tried to recognize the girl without eyebrows, eyelashes and bangs as myself and failed, I knew something had gone horribly wrong."

Poseur

PETTY IN PINK: Poseur #3
Rachel Maude
Poppy/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316065856
Ages 13-up
240 pages

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Poseur's hot new handbag captures Hollywood tastemaker Ted Pelligan's eye, and now everyone's atwitter. Will those delicate straps hold his attention? Or snap under the strain? To prove their worth, fashion foursome Melissa, Charlotte, Petra and Janie must a) dangle their bag on celebrity armage, b) sneak into the most anticipated event of the year, and c) convince the paparazzi to point their Canons. And all without couture-competitor Vivien Ho noticing.

Companion to A BRIDGE TO THE STARS and SHADOWS IN THE TWILIGHT

WHEN THE SNOW FELL
Henning Mankell
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385734974
Ages 12-up
256 pages

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As it has in the past, the first snow of the year signifies to Joel Gustafson his very own New Year’s Eve. So when the snow begins to fall on a cold November day, Joel gets busy making new resolutions --- three, to be exact. As the winter days pass, life becomes ever more complicated. Joel has questions and the answers don’t necessarily come easily, but he is determined to keep his resolutions --- for his father, for himself, and for their future.

In this companion novel to A BRIDGE TO THE STARSand SHADOWS IN THE TWILIGHT, readers follow Joel’s journey as he realizes along the way that it will require determination, strength and valor to truly become a man.