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Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the
Collapse, fifteen-year-old Stephen, his father, and
grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but
when his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk
everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life
is turned upside down.
The Eleventh Plague ( F HIR)
Things for Kayla progress from bad, as in being told her
computer grades disqualify her from an art scholarship, to
worse, when she refuses to accept an identification bar
code tattoo on her seventeenth birthday.
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve,
Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only
one other in his community and discovers the terrible
truth about the society in which he lives.
In a world where some people are born with extreme
and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for
redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of
killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save
their land from a corrupt king.
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip
in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded
and they must hide to stay alive.
In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped,
and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi
are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured,
too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced
to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an
escape.
Graceling (F CAS)
The Giver (F LOW)
Bar Code Tattoo (F WEY)
Dustlands: Blood Red Road (F YOU)
Tomorrow When the War Began (F MAR)
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Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an
apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his
mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school,
and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another
resident of their building.
Even though his classmates from first grade on have
considered him strange and a loser, Donald Zinkoff's
optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving
family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.
Entering 7th grade is no big deal for Marley Sandelski: Same
old boring classes, same old boring life. The only thing he has
to look forward to is the upcoming Star Trek convention. But
when he inadvertently draws the attention of Digger Ronster,
the biggest bully in school, his life has officially moved from
boring to far too dramatic . . . from invisible to center stage.
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the
life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and
her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-
out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that
has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find
her a better life.
Tamara dreams of the day when ten-year-old Muscle
Man McGinty's constant lies catch up to him, but when
an incredible event takes place in the summer of 1969,
her outlook on life is altered in the most surprising way.
If you liked... Liar & Spy (F STE)
Loser (F SPI)
Warp Speed (F YEE)
Inside Out & Back Again (F LAI)
One & Only Ivan (F APP)
Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscleman McGinty Told Me (F MAR)
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Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from
social services after being banned from playing Little
League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is
only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer
them proof.
After winning a basketball reporting contest,
eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to
cover the Final Four tournament, where they
discover that a talented player is being
blackmailed into throwing the final game.
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on
his noteworthy basketball talents to get him
out of the inner city and give him a chance to
succeed in life, but his coach sees things
differently.
Since Ty Green's brother Thane is already a college football
star, Ty himself has now been offered an opportunity to
play on the team. But his gambling Uncle Gus who is Ty's
guardian forbids him to do so. He wants Ty to scrub floors
and toilets for his cleaning business and to get information
from his older brother that the Mafia can use. Now Ty must
develop a plan to save Thane's career and even his own life.
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his
football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play
soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to
remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
Groomed by his father to be a star player, football is the
only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick Johnson,
who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his
freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using
steroids, despite the consequences to his health and
social life.
Football Hero (F GRE)
Gym Candy (F DEU)
Tangerine (F BLO)
SLAM! (F MYE)
Heat (F LUP)
Last Shot (F FEI)
Girls & Sports After spending her summer running the family farm
and training the quarterback for her school's rival
football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out
for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of
those around her.
After moving from Chicago to Dallas in the spring of
her sophomore year, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that
joining the softball team at her private school not
only helps her make friends, it also provides
unexpected opportunities to learn and grow.
Thirteen-year-old Savvy's dreams of starting for her
elite basketball team are in danger when she is
accused of taking steroids.
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-
one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual
softball game, during which one girl's bigotry
comes to the surface.
When Russian skating coach Andrei Grosheva
offers twelve-year-old farm girl Claire a
scholarship to train with the elite in Lake Placid,
she encounters a world of mean girls on ice,
where competition is everything.
Two years after her mother's death of cancer,
fourteen-year-old Flora leaves the family's Maine
farm for Colorado's International Sports Academy,
where fierce competition could end their dream of
Flora playing for U.S. Soccer.
Dairy Queen ( F MUR)
Throwing Like A Girl ( F MAC)
Boost ( F MAC) Bat 6 ( F WOL)
Sugar & Ice ( F MES)
Soccerland ( F CHO)
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
To free herself from an upcoming arranged
marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden
of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of
its own, decides to help a young prisoner
escape.
Having learned how to box while in prison,
fifteen-year-old Johnny sets out to discover
if he can make a decent living as a fighter in
late nineteenth-century New York City.
Seventeen-year-old Englishman Carl Hobbes
meant no harm when he hacked into Fort Knox's
security system, but at Camp Twilight in the
Arctic Circle, known as the Guantanamo Bay of
the north, he is tortured to reveal information
about a conspiracy of which he was never a part.
When Deet's father is jailed for using
drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what
he expected, nor are other people
necessarily the way he thought they were.
Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the
law, must find a way to keep their halfway house
open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.
THE Juvie Three (F KOR)
Monster (F MYE)
InCarceron (F FIS) DO Not Pass Go (F HIL)
ICeCore (F WHY)
The Boxer (F KAR)
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.
Each time fifteen-year-old Hannah and her out-of-
work father move she has some fears about making
friends, but a classmate warns her that in
Maplecrest, Vermont, the cheerleaders really are
monsters.
When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year
-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him
invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason
to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul
UnDeaD Rot & Ruin (F MAB)
Benny reluctantly leaves the safety of home and joins his
bounty-hunting half-brother Tom in the zombie-riddled wilds
of the Rot and Ruin. As the brothers encounter villains far
more inhuman than the undead, Benny begins to question his
understanding not only of Tom, but also of life, death, and
what bravery really means.
After a disease turns everyone over sixteen into
brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group
of teenagers leave their shelter and set out of a
harrowing journey across London to the safe haven of
Buckingham Palace.
This excitingly disgusting book examines fungi,
viruses, and other kinds of parasites who survive by
hijacking the brains and bodies of other animals. For
instance, a certain fungus can force a carpenter ant
to find just the right environment before the fungus
starts growing…out of the ant's head.
. . . But Well Read Forest of Hands & Teeth (F RYA)
The Boy Who Couldn’t Die (F SLE) The Enemy (F HIG)
Zombie Makers (578.6 JOH) Zombie Blondes (F JAM)
Romance k
PARANORMAL
After her parents die under mysterious circumstances, sixteen-
year-old Renee Winters is sent from California to an old-
fashioned boarding school in Maine, where she meets a fellow
student to whom she seems strangely connected.
Dead Beautiful (F WOO)
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family,
sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's
thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other
people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who
is hiding even more mysteries.
Evermore ( F Noe)
Paranormalcy ( F Whi)
Sleepless ( F Noe)
Wicked Lovely ( F Mar)
Vampire Kisses ( F Sch) When a dark prophecy begins to come true, sixteen-year
-old Evie of the International Paranormal Containment
Agency must not only try to stop it, she must also
uncover its connection to herself and the alluring
shapeshifter, Lend.
Eron, a supernatural being known as a Sandman whose
purpose is to help humans fall asleep, falls in love with a
sad teenaged girl who is mourning her boyfriend's
death.
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see
faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle
between the Summer King and Winter Queen, and the
survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the
balance.
Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black
and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with
the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can
make her dreams come true.
Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-
compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato
farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two
teenagers go missing within months of each other, with
no explanation.
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college
dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a
world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one
particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his
lucrative business of raising the dead.
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron,
young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching
for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way
to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the
independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century,
sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous
and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life
described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka
Obscura.
In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal
maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where
his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood
toys, including one called Scowler, to protect himself, his
eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.
With the help of his servant and an orphan girl, a magician
named Valerian searches graveyards, churches, and
underground waterways for a book he hopes will save him
from a pact he has made with evil.
Cryer’s Cross ( F McM)
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer ( F McB)
The Knife of Never Letting Go ( F NES)
This Dark Endeavor ( F OPP)
Haunting HorroRs
Scowler ( F KRA) Audio only
The Book of Dead Days ( F SED)
Girl Power Hoping to rescue her family from their personal and financial
troubles, twelve-year-old Katherine Ann Stephenson comes up with
a plan to put her magical abilities to good use. When her plan gets
underway, however, her sister's fiancé begins showing a dangerous
interest in her magical potential.
While staying with her grandmother over the summer, Devon Delaney becomes friends with Lexi and pretends she is dating the most popular boy in middle school. When Lexi transfers to Devon's school in the middle of the year, Devon desperately tries to cover up for her lies.
Sixth-grader Annabelle spends autumn coping with competing groups of friends at school, her mother's pre-wedding stress, learning to get along with a cute stepbrother-to-be, and such momentous events as wearing her first bra and learning to shave her legs.
A scrapbook format is used to tell a story of a year in middle
school. Describes Ginny's problems such as turning her hair
pink, getting detention for throwing frogs in class, and
losing the lead in the ballet recital.
When best friends Lydia and Julie prepare to begin
junior high as the most popular girls, they record their
observations of classmates in the hope that they will
discover the way to be popular, but their plan goes
awry.
Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls (F CAB) Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is
even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned
upside-down when she learns that her family is moving
across town, which will mean a new house, school, best
friend, and plenty of new rules
The Popularity Papers (F IGN)
Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf (F HOL)
Girls Acting Catty (F MAR)
The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney (F BAR)
Kat Incorrigible (F BUR)