FICTION

Bray, Libba
A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
YA FICTION BRAY

Butcher, A.J.
THE SERPENT SCENARIO
(SPY HIGH: MISSION THREE)
The Bond Team from Spy High is back and they're trying to discover the the source of a deadly new drug named "Drac", which is turning its users into zombies with a craving for blood.
YA PBK BUTCHER

Martin, Eric (ed.)
THE CAMPFIRE COLLECTION: SPINE-TINGLING TALES TO TELL IN THE DARK
Grab this collection of short horror stories for those summer nights when you want to be frightened. This collection includes beastly attacks, near-death and supernatural experiences to terribly true stories.
YA FICITION CAMPFIRE

Clarke, Arthur C.
SUNSTORM
Bisesa Dutt returns from Mir, the scrambled world of kidnapped human samples, just when Earth is stricken by a massive solar flare. Astronomer Royal Siobhan McGorran learns from scientists on the moon that the flare is only a precursor to one that will destroy all life on Earth, and Bisesa's travels offer clues that the flares are constituents in a lengthy plot on the part of the alien Firstborn to destroy the human race.
YA FICTION CLARKE

Cohn, Rachel
POP PRINCESS
15 year old high school student Wonder Blake gets her big chance when "Tig", the former manager of Wonder's older sister Lucky, who died tragically in a car accident two years earlier, overhears her singing to her walkman, and offers her a record deal. And the rest, as they say, is pop history!
YA FICTION COHN

Donnelly, Jennifer
A NORTHERN LIGHT
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiancé, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about a murder.
YA FICTION DONNELLY

Frost, Helen
KEESHA'S HOUSE
Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality, and abuse describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and where they found home again.
YA FICTION FROST

Going, K.L.
FAT KID RULES THE WORLD
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
YA FICTION GOING

Johnson, Angela
THE FIRST PART LAST
In this prequel to the award-winning novel HEAVEN, Johnson uses powerful language and keen insight to show one young man's struggle to deal with teenage fatherhood and raising his baby girl on his own.
YA FICTION JOHNSON

Koja, Kathe
BUDDHA BOY
Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.
YA FICTION KOJA

Mackler, Carolyn
THE EARTH, MY BUTT, AND OTHER BIG ROUND THINGS
Feeling like she doesn't fit in with her family who are all thin and good-looking, a fifteen-year-old girl tries to deal with her self-image, her first relationship, and her disillusionment with people close to her.
YA FICTION MACKLER

Meyer, L.A.
BLOODY JACK: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF MARY "JACKY" FABER, SHIP'S BOY
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, thirteen-year-old Mary disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
YA PAPERBACK FICTION MEYER

Meyer, L.A.
CURSE OF THE BLUE TATTOO: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE MISADVENTURES OF JACKY FABER, MIDSHIPMAN AND FINE LADY
In sequel to Bloody Jack, follow Mary "Jacky" Faber as she is forced to give up being a pirate and is sent to the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls to learn how to become a fine lady. But Jacky has trouble with her classmates, begins an investigation into a murder, and is convinced that she will never learn to
become a proper lady.
YA FICTION MEYER

Rees, Celia
PIRATES!: THE TRUE AND REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF MINERVA SHARPE AND NANCY KINGTON, FEMALE PIRATES
In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates.
YA FICTION REES

Staub, Wendy Corsi
ZARA: THE ROOMMATE
(College Life 101 Series)
Zara followed her parents' wishes by enrolling in a women's college for a career in medicine, but failing grades, an obnoxious roommate, and an unrequited love are conspiring to ruin her.
YA PBK STAUB

Vance, Susanna
DEEP
Two wildly dissimilar teenage girls find themselves thrown together on a Caribbean island, fighting for their lives. Birdie has grown up in Oregon, the bright and bubbly only daughter of loving and protective parents. Morgan has grown up on a sailboat, daughter of unconventional parents.
YA FICTION VANCE

NON-FICTION

Brown, Oral Lee
THE PROMISE: HOW ONE WOMAN MADE GOOD ON HER EXTRAORDINARY PACT TO SEND A CLASSROOM OF FIRST-GRADERS TO COLLEGE
In 1987, haunted by a little girl begging for food in her East Oakland neighborhood, Brown impulsively adopted a first-grade class at a local elementary school. Having promised to finance a college education for each of the twenty-three students, on a salary of only $45,000 a year. Twelve years later, she made good on her promise--sending nineteen of the twenty-three students to college.
YA SUBJECT LA 2317 B714 A3 2005

Davis, Sampson
THE PACT: THREE YOUNG MEN MAKE A PROMISE AND FULFILL A DREAM
This book tells the story of three black young men growing up in broken homes in a crime-ridden area of Newark, N.J. These young men could easily have followed their childhood friends into lives of drug dealing, gangs and prison, but when their high school was visited by a college recruiter aimed at preparing minority students for medical school, the three friends decided to do something with their lives.
YA SUBJECT PAPERBACK

Gray, Farrah
REALLIONAIRE: NINE STEPS TO BECOMING RICH FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Just twenty-years-old, Gray is a self-made millionaire. He draws lessons from his successes and failures, from his first job selling handmade body lotion to his Los Angeles neighbors to his founding of Farr-Out Foods at 13, his sale of it two years later for over a million dollars and his current philanthropic and developmental projects like running INNERCITY magazine.
YA SUBJECT HG 179 G7218 2004

Johns, Geoff
TEEN TITANS: FAMILY LOST
Long ago, Raven, the daughter of a demon ruler and an Earth woman, entered the lives of the Teen Titans, and her arrival almost signaled the end of the world. Years later, she's returned, and the Teen Titans must save the world again.
YA SUBJECT PN 6728 T34 J64 2004

Keys, Alicia
TEARS FOR WATER: SONGBOOK OF POEMS & LYRICS
Keys has sold millions of her CDs and has won several Grammy Awards. Here, she shares lyrics, as well as a collection of poems from her journals and notebooks. After several of the poems, she offers readers glimpses of her mindset and inspiration for her writings.
YA Subject ML 54.6 K48 2004

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