ANASTASIA’S SECRET
Susanne Dunlap
Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
ISBN: 9781599904207
Ages 12-up
352 pages

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For Anastasia Romanov, life as the privileged daughter of Russia's last tsar is about to be torn apart by the bloodshed of revolution. Ousted from the imperial palace when the Bolsheviks seize control of the government, Anastasia and her family are exiled to Siberia. But even while the rebels debate the family's future with agonizing slowness and the threat to their lives grows more menacing, romance quietly blooms between Anastasia and Sasha, a sympathetic young guard she has known since childhood. But will the strength of their love be enough to save Anastasia from a violent death?

THE BATBOY
Mike Lupica
Philomel Books/Penguin Young Readers Group
ISBN: 9780399250002
Ages 10-up
276 pages

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It is every baseball kid’s dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for 14-year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, and in the end he couldn’t leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father.

There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop --- once the most popular player in baseball before he was banned for using steroids. Now he is making his comeback. And an unlikely friendship slowly develops between this man in need of a family and this boy in need of a father.

BEFORE I FALL
Lauren Oliver
HarperCollins Children’s Books
ISBN: 9780061726804
Ages 14-up
480 pages

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Samantha Kingston has it all: the world's most crush-worthy boyfriend, three amazing best friends, and first pick of everything at Thomas Jefferson High --- from the best table in the cafeteria to the choicest parking spot. Friday, February 12, should be just another day in her charmed life.

Instead, it turns out to be her last.

Then she gets a second chance. Seven chances, in fact. Reliving her last day during one miraculous week, she will untangle the mystery surrounding her death --- and discover the true value of everything she is in danger of losing.

CENTER FIELD
Robert Lipsyte
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780060557041
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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Mike has his junior year well under control. He has a solid group of friends. He's dating Lori, one of the hottest girls in school. And Coach Cody has all but given him the starting spot as the Ridgedale Rangers' varsity center fielder.

But then Oscar Ramirez shows up. Oscar is an amazing ballplayer, as talented at the plate as he is in center field, and it's not long before Mike loses control. He's on the bench, he’s getting into fights, and he finds himself in weekend detention with Katherine Herold, the most mysterious, abrasive, alluring girl in school. Mike is lost, confused, and looking to Coach Cody to help him get back on track. But the coach has his own set of rules for Mike to play by, and the decisions Mike makes are going to impact more than just the starting lineup.

EVERY LITTLE THING IN THE WORLD
Nina de Gramont
Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781416980131
Ages 14-up
288 pages

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Sixteen-year-old Sydney Biggs is a “good kid” --- smart, pretty, self-aware. No one doubts that she'll go far in life. But lately her mother worries that Sydney is wandering down the wrong path and getting all caught up in petty teenage rebellion and shenanigans. When Sydney and her best friend, Natalia, “borrow” a car to go to a party and then get escorted home by the police, their parents pack them up and ship them off to a hard-love wilderness camp to stop this behavior before it gets out of hand, before things go too far. The problem is, they already have. Sydney the “good kid” is pregnant.

HAPPYFACE
Stephen Emond
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316041003
Ages 12-up
320 pages

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Enter Happyface's journal and get a peek into the life of a shy, artistic boy who decides to reinvent himself as a happy-go-lucky guy after he moves to a new town. See the world through his hilariously self-deprecating eyes as he learns to shed his comic-book-loving, computer-game playing ways. Join him as he makes new friends, tries to hide from his past, and ultimately learns to face the world with a genuine smile.

THE HEART IS NOT A SIZE
Beth Kephart
HarperTeen
ISBN: 9780061470486
Ages 12-up
256 pages

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Georgia knows what it means to keep secrets. She knows how to ignore things. She knows that some things are better left unsaid. Or are they?

When Georgia and her best friend, Riley, travel along with nine other suburban Pennsylvania kids to Anapra, a squatters' village in the heat-flattened border city of Juarez, Mexico, secrets seem to percolate and threaten both a friendship and a life. Certainties unravel. Reality changes. And Georgia is left to figure out who she is outside the world she's always known.

THE LAST SUMMER OF THE DEATH WARRIORS
Francisco X. Stork
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
ISBN: 9780545151337
Ages 12-up
352 pages

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When Pancho arrives at St. Anthony's Home, he knows his time there will be short: If his plans succeed, he'll soon be arrested for the murder of his sister's killer. But then he's assigned to help D.Q., whose brain cancer has slowed neither his spirit nor his mouth. D.Q. tells Pancho all about his "Death Warrior's Manifesto," which will help him to live out his last days fully --- ideally, he says, with the love of the beautiful Marisol. As Pancho tracks down his sister's murderer, he finds himself falling under the influence of D.Q. and Marisol, who is everything D.Q. said she would be; and he is inexorably drawn to a decision: to honor his sister and her death, or embrace the way of the Death Warrior and choose life.

OUT OF MY MIND
Sharon M. Draper
Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781416971702
Ages 10-up
304 pages

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Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school, but no one knows it. Most people --- her teachers and doctors included --- don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons over and over again. If only she could speak up, if only she could tell people what she thinks and knows. But she can't, because Melody can't talk. She can't walk. She can't write.

Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind --- that is, until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. At last Melody has a voice…but not everyone around her is ready to hear it.

THE RETURNERS
Gemma Malley
Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
ISBN: 9781599904436
Ages 12-up
256 pages

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London teenager Will Hodge is miserable. His mother is dead, his father's political leanings have grown radical, and his friends barely talk to him. To top it off, he's having nightmares about things like concentration camps. Then Will notices he's being followed by a group of people who claim to know him from another time in history. It turns out they are Returners, reincarnated people who carry with them the memory of atrocities they have witnessed in the past. Will realizes that he, too, is a Returner. But something about his memories is different, and with dawning horror, Will suspects that he wasn't just a witness to the events, he was instrumental in making them happen.

SHAKESPEARE MAKES THE PLAYOFFS
Ron Koertge
Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763644352
Ages 12-up
176 pages

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Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland has a passion for playing baseball, a knack for writing poetry --- and a cute girlfriend named Mira who is not much interested in either. But then, Kevin doesn’t exactly share Mira’s newfound fervor for all things green. So when Kevin signs up for open mike night at Bungalow Books and meets Amy, a girl who knows a sonnet from a sestina and can match his emails verse for verse, things start to get sticky. Should he stay with Mira? Or risk spoiling his friendship with Amy by asking her out?

THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE
Jandy Nelson
Dial Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780803734951
Ages 14-up
288 pages

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Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to center stage of her own life --- and, despite her nonexistent history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two. Toby was Bailey's boyfriend; his grief mirrors Lennie's own. Joe is the new boy in town, a transplant from Paris whose nearly magical grin is matched only by his musical talent. For Lennie, they're the sun and the moon; one boy takes her out of her sorrow, the other comforts her in it. But just like their celestial counterparts, they can't collide without the whole wide world exploding.

SPLIT
Swati Avasthi
Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375863400
Ages 14-up
288 pages

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Sixteen-year-old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father’s fist), $3.84 and a secret. He tries to move on, going for new friends, a new school and a new job, but all his changes can’t make him forget what he left behind --- his mother, who is still trapped with his dad, and his ex-girlfriend, who is keeping his secret. At least so far. Worst of all, Jace realizes that if he really wants to move forward, he may first have to do what scares him most: He may have to go back.

THE UNWRITTEN RULE
Elizabeth Scott
Simon Pulse
ISBN: 9781416978916
Ages 14-up
224 pages

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Sarah has had a crush on Ryan for years. He's easy to talk to, supersmart, and totally gets her. Lately it even seems like he's paying extra attention to her. Everything would be perfect except for two things: Ryan is Brianna's boyfriend, and Brianna is Sarah's best friend.

Sarah forces herself to avoid Ryan and tries to convince herself not to like him. She feels so guilty for wanting him, and the last thing she wants is to hurt her best friend. But when she's thrown together with Ryan one night, something happens. It's wonderful...and awful.

Sarah is torn apart by guilt, but what she feels is nothing short of addiction, and she can't stop herself from wanting more...

The Clique

THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR STALKING: The Clique #12
Lisi Harrison
Poppy/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316006835
Ages 12-up
256 pages

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Massie Block: forms BOCD’s first-ever cheerleading squad called the Socc-hers.

Kristen Gregory: When Massie is secretly vying for the same boy as Layne, she has to make a choice. Life was easier when the boyfast was still on!

Dylan Marvil: Has got a secret crush on Derrington --- and it’s no secret that he likes burpilicious redheads.

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…

Maximum Ride

MAXIMUM RIDE #6: FANG
James Patterson
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316036191
Ages 12-up
336 pages

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Being a kid with wings --- constantly on the run --- has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the flock makes her fear the worst. Then, a cryptic message from a young girl arrives, warning them "The sky will fall." And as if an impending apocalypse weren't bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max's soul mate: Fang will be the first to die.

Max's desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time?

Companion to THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH

THE DEAD-TOSSED WAVES
Carrie Ryan
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385736848
Ages 14-up
416 pages

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Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She’s content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabry’s mother thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zealots who worship the dead. Like the stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry. And suddenly, everything is changing. One reckless moment, and half of Gabry’s generation is dead, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only knows one thing: she must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.

Sequel to GREEN ANGEL

GREEN WITCH
Alice Hoffman
Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9780545141956
Ages 12-up
144 pages

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In her spellbinding new novel, Alice Hoffman shows us how loss and grief can be transformed into action, love and hope. It is the tale of Green, who must learn to open herself to others in a post-disaster world. To do so, she must collect the stories of a number of "witches" and continue to write her own.

For readers who loved GREEN ANGEL, this book draws them back into the world of Green as she continues to heal. And for new readers, it presents a stand-alone exploration of how we confront the things we fear the most --- minute by minute, day by day.