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 I'd
Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by
Ally Carter -
The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is a fairly typical
all-girls' school--except that it's a school for spies. Cammie Morgan may be
an elite spy-in-training, but she's also beginning her most dangerous
mission--she's falling in love. |
 Among the Hidden
by Margaret Peterson Haddix -
Government regulations limit families to two children
each, so Luke, an illegal third-born, must live his life in secret, hidden
in his family's farmhouse. Then he joins Jen, another "shadow child," for a
chance to come out into the light. |
 Mira, Mirror by Mette
Harrison - Long after the disappearance of Snow White's
stepmother, the witch trapped in her mirror manipulates a desperate peasant
and a merchant's daughter to seek the magic she needs to gain her freedom,
but the girls show her a power far greater. |
 Hattie Big Sky by
Kirby Larson - After inheriting her uncle's homesteading
claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in
1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems
related to the war being fought in Europe. |
 Travel Team by Mike
Lupica - In his first novel for young readers, the author of
"Wild Pitch" and "Bump and Run" tells the story of a 12-year-old Danny
Walker, the smallest kid on the basketball court who's cut from the very
travel team his father led to national prominence as a boy. |
 Loving Will
Shakespeare by
Carolyn Meyer - This riveting historical tale reveals the
passion and romance between the world's most famous playwright and the woman
who risked everything to be with him. |
 Marie, Dancing by
Carolyn Meyer - This moving, historically based
account examines the life of Marie van Goethem, a 14-year-old ballet dancer
in the famed Paris Opera who was the model for Edgar Degas's most famous
sculpture, "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen." |
 Heir Apparent by
Vivian Vande Velde - While playing a total immersion
virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine
learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is
connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself. |
 No More Dead Dogs by
Gordon Korman - Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is
sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in
spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to
suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well. |
 Ever
by Gail Carson Levine - Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan
god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be
sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through
a series of quests that might make her immortal. |
 Uprising by Haddix -
In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston
reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory,
including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire
that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's
daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes. |
 Fever, 1793 by
Laurie Halse Anderson -
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook,
separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance
when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. |
 Wednesday Wars by Gary
Schmidt - During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons
when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school,
seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they
read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about
the world he lives in. |
 Weedflower by Cynthia
Kadohata - After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American
family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an
internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her
family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to
hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop. |
 Peeled by
Joan Bauer - In an upstate New York farming community,
high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange
occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted. |
 Princess
Ben by
Catherine Gilbert Murdock - A girl is transformed, through
instruction in life at court, determination, and magic, from sullen, pudgy,
graceless Ben into Crown Princess Benevolence, a fit ruler of the kindgom of
Montagne as it faces war with neighboring Drachensbett. |
 Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli -
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of
nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named
Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. |
 Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
- After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is
hit by a taxi and killed, she must adjust to her new surroundings and figure
out how to "live." |
 Possibilities of
Sainthood by Donna Freitas - While
regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint,
fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for
everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode
Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy. |
 The Graveyard Book by Neil
Gaiman - Nobody Owens is a
normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of
the graveyard. |
 Leaving Protection by Will Hobbs
- Sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels,
happy to get a job aboard a troller fishing for king salmon off southeastern
Alaska, finds himself in danger when he discovers that his mysterious
captain is searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to
Alaska and the Northwest. |
 The Bridesmaid by Hailey Abbott -
Having vowed as children to never marry after
witnessing many disastrous weddings and obnoxious brides in their parents'
wedding planning business, fifteen-year-old Abby is dismayed when her older
sister Carol suddenly gets engaged and turns into "Bridezilla." |
 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott -
Chronicles the lives of the four March
sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. |
 Never Mind!: A Twin Novel by Avi and Rachel Vail -
Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and
Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else
when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes
coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown. |
 Backwater by Joan Bauer -
While compiling a genealogy of her family of
successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into
the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she
identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family. |
 All
American Girl by Meg Cabot - A
sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen
Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First
Son. |
 Cheating Lessons by Nan Wilard Cappo -
When her team is announced as finalists in the
state Classics Bowl contest, Bernadette suspects that cheating may have been
involved. |
 It's My Life: Diary of a Teenage Girl by Melody Carlson -
Sixteen-year-old Caitlin struggles with her
feelings about her best friend's pregnancy, boys who tempt her to break her
vow not to date, non-Christian friends, and what God may be calling her to
do with her life. |
 Looking for X by Deborah Ellis -
When eleven-year-old Kyber's life falls apart,
she searches for a homeless woman whom she befriended. |
 Love Among the Walnuts by Jean Ferris -
Born and raised in isolation in a wealthy,
eccentric family, Sandy is shocked when he, his parents, and their servants
become victims of a vicious plot by his greedy uncles to incapacitate them
and take their money. |
 Midnight Blue by Pauline Fisk -
Bonnie's newfound happiness in a world beyond
the sky is threatened by the cruel Grandbag, and although she is offered
help by the ancient, elusive lord and lady of the hill, she alone must meet
the challenge in the end. |
 Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse -
An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering
during World War II in American internment camps designed to "protect" the
population from the invading Japanese. |
 Dunk by David Lubar -
While hoping to work as the clown in an
amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his
junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness,
hassles with police, and the girl that got away. |
 Flavor of the Week by Tucker Shaw -
Cyril, an overweight boy who is good friends
with Rose but wishes he could be more, helps his best friend Nick woo her
with culinary masterpieces which Cyril himself secretly creates. Includes
recipes from the story. |
 Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen -
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe
how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have
changed over the years. |
 Uglies by Scott Westerfeld -
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What
could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't
wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your
sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly
into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech
paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few
weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants
to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away,
Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very
pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find
her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally
makes changes her world forever. |
 Schooled by Gordon Korman -
While hoping to work as the clown in an
amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his
junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness,
hassles with police, and the girl that got away. |
 Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
by David Lubar - While
navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new
baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he
hones his skills as a writer. |
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Authors: Shannon Hale Joan Bauer Mitali Perkins Gail Carson Levine Will Hobbs David Lubar Janette Rallison |
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