March 2010
Front and Center
By Catherine Murdock
Other folks have big plans for D.J. Like her coach. College scouts. All the town hoops fans. A certain Red Bend High School junior who's keen for romance and karaoke. Not to mention Brian Nelson, who she should not be thinking about! Who she is done with, thank you very much. But who keeps showing up anyway.
February 2010
The Disreputable History of Frankie
Landau-Banks
By E. Lockhart
BRILLIANT HIJINKS
Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.
January 2010
Shiver
By Maggie Stiefvater
WEREWOLF ROMANCE
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
December 2009:
Catch the Fire!
Catching Fire
By Suzanne Collins
HUNGER GAMES BOOK 2
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
AND
Fire
By Kristin Cashore
BEFORE GRACELING--FIRE
In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.
November 2009
The Vampire's Assistant
By Darren Shan
FIRST THREE, ALL IN ONE
Best friends Darren and Steve visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a deadly spider and a vampire named Mr. Crepsley forces them to make life-changing choices.
Contains: A Living Nightmare,
The Vampire's Assistant, and
Tunnels of Blood.
October 2009
Scat
By Carl Hiaasen
ECO-THRILLER AND SMOKE
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
September 2009
Impossible
By Nancy Werlin
MAGIC, ROMANCE, and a FAMILY CURSE
When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her
family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break the curse she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to save them both.
August 2009
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
By Carrie Ryan
BEYOND THE FOREST ZOMBIES
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
July 2009
Along for the Ride
by Sarah Dessen
NEW DESSEN
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
June 2009
It's a Summer of Series:
Necropolis
By Anthony Horowitz
BOOK 4 of the GATEKEEPERS Series
To stop the evil corporation Nightrise from unleashing its devastating power around the globe, fifteen-year-old Matt and three other Gatekeepers travel to Hong Kong to find Scarlet, the final Gatekeeper, whose fate is inextricably joined to their own.
The Last Olympian
By Rick Riordan
BOOK 5 of the PERCY JACKSON Series
While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.
The Sorceress
By Michael Scott
BOOK 3 of the NICHOLAS FLAMEL Series
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to continue their search for the Codex.
May 2009
What I Saw and How I Lied
By Judy Blundell
GLAMOUR AND MURDER, MAYBE
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
April 2009
Paper Towns
By John Green
MARGO: ENIGMA TO MYSTERY
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
March 2009
Graceling
By Kristin Cashore
ROMANCE, ADVENTURE, FANTASY
In a world where people born with an extreme skill--called a Grace--are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace--or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away--a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.
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