F Ack  In the Space Left Behind. Joan Ackerman

Fifteen-year-old Colm embarks on a cross-country journey with the father who abandoned him as a child.

 

F Adl   Cherry Heaven. L.J. Adlington

Kat and Tanka J leave the war-torn city, move with their adoptive parents to the New Frontier, and are soon settled into a home called Cherry Heaven, but Luka, an escaped factory worker, confirms their suspicion that New Frontier is not the utopia it seems to be.

 

F Adl   Diary of Pelly D. L. J. Adlington

When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by Holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.

 

F Ale    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Sherman Alexie

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

 

F Ami   The Blood of Flowers. Anita Amirrezvani

The death of her father leads a teenage girl in seventeenth-century Iran to go live with her mother as a servant in the home of her uncle, a wealthy rug designer in the court of the Shah, where she is able to develop her talent for rug design--a skill that becomes vital to her survival after her lack of a dowry forces her into a contract marriage, renewable every three months, with the son of a horse trader.

 

F Bar   Jennifer Government. Max Barry—ABE LINCOLN BOOK

In a corporate-governed future world where people take the last names of the companies they work for, merchandising officer Hack Nike tries to get out of a contract that requires him to shoot teenagers, a situation that results in his unwitting involvement with an agent who is out to get Hack's employer.

 

F Bel    Dirty Work. Julia Bell

Two teenaged girls with little in common must find a way to work together if they are ever to escape their captors after being abducted into an international prostitution ring.

 

F Ben   The Uncommon Reader. Alan Bennett

The Queen of England stumbles upon a mobile library while she is in pursuit of her wayward dogs, strikes up a conversation with the man in charge, and feels it her duty to borrow a book, transforming her view of the world through the written word.

 

F Bra   Evolution, Me, & Other Freaks of Nature. Robin Brande

Following her conscience leads high school freshman Mena to clash with her parents and former friends from their conservative Christian church, but might result in better things when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include "Intelligent Design" in lessons on evolution.

 

F Bri    Total Control. Pamela Britton

When Indi Wilcox, a caseworker for Miracles, is forced to team up with Todd Peters, NASCAR's notorious bad boy, to grant the wish of a terminally ill child, she finds her bad track record with race-car drivers standing in the way of true love.

 

F Bry   Ringside 1925: Views From the Scopes Trial. Jen Bryant

Visitors, spectators, and residents of Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 describe, in a series of free-verse poems, the Scopes "monkey trial" and its effects on that small town and its citizens.

 

F Buc   Conception. Kalisha Buckhanon

Fifteen-year-old Shivana Montgomery, raised by a physically and verbally abusive single mother on the south side of Chicago, assumes her life will follow the same course as the other women she sees around her, but a visit from her beautiful and free-spirited Aunt Jewel, and a budding relationship with Rasul, lead her to hope for more, even after she accidently becomes pregnant.

 

F Buc   The Time Thief: Book Two in the Gideon Trilogy. Linda Buckley-Archer

When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.

 

F Cas   Looking for JJ. Anne Cassidy

Seventeen-year-old Alice, released from prison with a new identity after serving six years for murdering a child, tries to keep her anonymity from the British tabloids, while haunted by memories of her past trauma.

 

F Cas   Marked

After being accepted as a fledgling vampire at the House of Night prep school and receiving special powers by a goddess, sixteen-year-old Zoey Montgomery discovers one of her peers is misusing her powers and must decide what the right thing to do is.

 

F Cha   Total Constant Order. Crissa-Jean Chappell

Resentful and upset when her family moves from Vermont to Miami, Florida, and her parents' fighting escalates, high-schooler Fin develops OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) and becomes consumed with numbers, counting, irrational worrying, and avoiding germs.

 

F Chi    Warrior Heir. Cinda Williams Chima –ABE LINCOLN BOOK

After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.

 

F Coh  You Know Where to Find Me. Rachel Cohn

In the wake of her cousin's suicide, overweight and introverted seventeen-year-old Miles experiences significant changes in her relationships with her mother and father, her best friend Jamal and his family, and her cousin's father, while gaining insights about herself, both positive and negative.

 

F Col   Black Tuesday. Susan Colebank

An over-achieving Phoenix high school student's life changes dramatically when she is responsible for a car crash that kills a child, and she goes from honors classes and tennis team captain to doing community service and rebelling against her controlling mother.

 

F Coo  Diamonds in the Shadow. Caroline B. Cooney

The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.

 

F Cum  Red Kayak. Priscilla Cummings

Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.

 

F Das   Indie Girl. Kavita Daswani

Indira Konkipuddi or "Indie" as she calls herself, has always dreamed of becoming a fashion journalist, and she gets her chance when she is hired to babysit for the son of the publisher of Celebrity Style, a fashion magazine.

 

F Elk    How to Ruin a Summer Vacation. Simone Elkeles

When sixteen-year-old Amy, a spoiled American, goes to Israel for a three-month summer vacation with a father she barely knows, she is not prepared for his Jewish family and the changes they bring about in her life.

 

F Ers    Quaking. Kathryn Erskine

In a Pennsylvania town where anti-war sentiments are treated with contempt and violence, Matt, a fourteen-year-old girl living with a Quaker family, deals with the demons of her past as she battles bullies of the present, eventually learning to trust in others as well as herself.

 

F Fer    The Circle of Blood. Alane Ferguson

As she uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to investigate the death of a young runaway, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, an assistant to her coroner father, worries that her secretive mother may be involved.

 

F Fla    Bang!. Sharon G. Flake

A teenage boy must face the harsh realities of inner city life, a disintegrating family, and destructive temptations as he struggles to find his identity as a young man.

 

F For   Sisters in Sanity. Gayle Forman

When a family trip to the Grand Canyon turns out to be a trick to take her to a remote, all-girl, residential treatment center for unstable teenagers, sixteen-year-old Brit, devastated by her father's duplicity, comes to realize that only through inner strength and the help of other inmates who become her friends can she endure the harsh conditions of the prison-like institution and plan a way to escape.

 

F Fre    Winged Creatures. Roy Freirich

Soon to be a major motion picture.

A group of diverse characters find their lives forever linked after they are caught in the crossfire of a restaurant shooting, and each struggles to come to terms with their own role in the tragedy as they move on with their lives.

 

F Gal    Opposite of Invisible. Liz Gallagher

Artistic Seattle high school sophomore Alice decides to emerge from her cocoon and date a football player, which causes a rift between her and her best friend, a boy who wants to be more than just friends.

 

F God  Falling From Grace.  Jane Godwin

Relates, from varying points of view, events surrounding the search for a twelve-year-old girl lost during a storm off the coast of Australia.

 

F Gri    The Appeal. John Grisham

Billionaire Carl Trudeau, upset over a shocking verdict against his chemical company by a Mississippi jury and convinced that the Supreme Court will not be friendly to his appeal, decides to take the less expensive route of purchasing a seat on the Court by recruiting, financing, manipulating, marketing, and molding an unsuspecting young candidate.

 

F Gra   Not Quite Dead: A Thriller. John MacLachlan Gray

The theft of some of Charles Dickens's papers by an Irish stowaway on a ship from Liverpool to the U.S. brings Dickens unexpectedly and reluctantly together with Edgar Allan Poe, who has information on a woman's murder and has faked his death in an attempt to escape the Irish mob.

 

F Har   Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher. Lenore Hart

Becky Thatcher, the childhood love of Tom Sawyer in Mark Twain's classic tales, explains what happened to her, Tom, and Huck after they grew up, chronicling her quest to find her husband, Tom's cousin Sid Hopkins, after a tragic event during the Civil War.

 

F Hau   No Limit. Pete Hautman

Sixteen-year-old Denn finds himself alienating both friends and family when he becomes obsessed with playing high-stakes poker with adult gamblers.

 

F Hea   Girl Overboard. Justina Chen Headley

After a snowboarding accident, Syrah Cheng, a billionaire's daughter, must rehabilitate both her knee and her self-esteem while forging relationships with those who accept her for who she is.

 

F Hel    Dervishes. Beth Helms

Twelve-year-old Canada and her mother Grace, living in an embassy enclave in Ankara, Turkey, in the mid-1970s with their mostly-absent husband and father, quickly tire of the company of their fellow westerners, as Canada becomes enamored with a Turkish houseboy who knows too many secrets, and Grace finds herself drawn to a friend's wealthy lover.

 

F Hen   Kiss Me Kill Me. Lauren Henderson

Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever.

 

F Hil     Someone Knows My Name. Lawrence Hill

"Enslaved on a South Carolina plantation, Aminata Diallo works in the indigo fields and as a midwife. When she is bought by an entrepreneur from Charleston, she is torn from friends and family. The chaos of the Revolutionary War allows her to escape. In British-held Manhattan, she helps pen the Book of Negroes, a list of blacks rewarded for wartime service to the King with safe passage to Nova Scotia. During her travels in Canada, Sierra Leone, and England, Aminata strives for her freedom and that of her people - even when it comes at a price."--BOOK JACKET.

 

F Hof   The Third Angel. Alice Hoffman

The lives of three women of different generations are united by tragic love, a ghost that haunts a London hotel, and their quest to find the Third Angel that can restore their faith.

 

F Hop  Impulse            Ellen Hopkins

Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.

 

F Igg    Genghis: Birth of an Empire. Conn Iggulden

Chronicles the rise to power of Genghis Khan, a Mongol ruler "who transformed the world map from China to Europe and became one of the most ruthless conquerors in history, born as "Temujin, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe." This first in a series of Genghis Khan novels ends with the murder of his father.

 

F Joh    My Life As A Rhombus Varian Johnson

When the classmate she is tutoring in trigonometry admits she is pregnant, high school junior Rhonda must finally come to terms with the abortion her father insisted she undergo three years earlier and examine how it has changed her life.

 

F Jon    The Game. Diana Wynne Jones

Sent to a boisterous family gathering in Ireland by her overly strict grandmother, orphaned Hayley feels out of place until her unruly cousins include her in a special game involving travel through the mythosphere, the place where all the world's stories can be found, and where some secrets of her past are revealed.

 

F Jor    Taken. Chris Jordan—Abe Lincoln Book

When her son Tommy is kidnapped, widow Kate Bickfrod is forced to play a deadly game with a twisted abductor who not only wants money, but wants her to follow something he calls.

 

F Jor    Mudbound. Hillary Jordan

Jordan takes on social injustice in the postwar Mississippi Delta. Here, two families, the landowning McAllans and their black sharecroppers, the Jacksons, struggle with the mores of the Jim Crow South.

 

F Kad  Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam. Cyntha Kadohata

A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog.

 

F Klu   My Most Excellent Year. Steve Kluger

Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.

 

F Kyl   The God of Animals. Aryn Kyle

Alice Winston is left to help support the family business by boarding the horses of their rich neighbors when her older sister runs away and her parents are no longer able to provide for the family.

 

F Lan   The Girls. Lori Lansens

A fictional autobiography of conjoined twins told by Rose and Ruby Darlen, two young women who, nearing the age of thirty, are about to become history's oldest surviving twins to be joined at the head.

 

F Las   Cheater. Michael Laser

When brilliant high school student Karl Petrovsky gets talked into participating in an elaborate cheating operation at his school, he ends up involved in a bigger problem than he ever anticipated.

 

F Leg   Voices. Ursula K. Le Guin

Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.

 

F Lei    Catch. Will Leitch

Teenager Tim Temples must decide if he wants to leave his comfortable life in a small town and go to college.

 

F Loc   The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. E. Lockhart

Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.

 

F Lut    The Spellman Files. Lisa Lutz

While deciding if she should quit working for her family's private investigation firm, Izzy Spellman copes with meddling parents, an alcoholic uncle, the disappearance of her younger sister, and her own problems with men and drinking.

 

F Mal   The Night Birds. Thomas Maltman

In the summer of 1876, Asa Senger and his German immigrant family find their relationships and faith tested when a mysterious aunt arrives, carrying a devastating secret that could shatter the family.

 

F Man  …Or Not?       Brian Mandabach

14-year old Cassie Sullivan refuses to go along with some of the things the majority embraces at her school and is surprised to find how much is made of her actions. Cassie tries to stay cool in the face of torments and finds refuge in keeping her journal. She beings to question if just simply existing is what she wants, or not?

 

F McB Song Yet Sung. James McBride

Runaway slave Liz Spocott, wounded during capture by notorious slave trader Patty Cannon, meets an ancient nameless woman in Cannon's prison attic who teaches her "the Code," a cryptic means of communication by which runaways reach freedom, and when she escapes once again, Liz uses the code, as well as visions of the future, to help her on her way north.

 

F McK   MacGregor Tells the World. Elizabeth McKenzie

While searching for the truth about his mother's untimely death, MacGregor West is pulled into the world of the eccentric Ware family and a love affair with the beautiful Carolyn, whose own secrets have a surprising link to MacGregor's past.

 

F Men  Better Off Famous?. Jane Mendle

Tired of being average, sixteen-year-old Annie auditions for a television show while visiting her great-aunt in New York City and soon finds her life turned upside-down, as the amazing benefits of fame are overcome by temptations and the ever-present paparazzi.

 

F Mur  Dairy Queen.

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.

 

F Mic   Kiss My Book. Jamie Michaels

Fifteen-year-old Ruby is on top of the world after having a novel published, but accusations of plagiarism send her into hiding at her eccentric aunt's home in upstate New York, where she gets involved in an old mystery and finds her true self again.

 

F Mye  Game. Walter Dean Myers

If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.

 

F Nel   Breathe My Name. R.A. Nelson

Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her birth mother, who has just been released after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters.

 

F Oat   After the Wreck , I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away. Joyce Carol Oates

Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional recovery.

 

F Oco  True Love, the Sphinx, and Other Unsolvable Riddles: A Comedy in Four Voices. Tyne O'Connell

While on a class trip in Egypt, two teenaged best friends from an American private boys' school and two teenaged best friends from a British private girls' school meet each other, and must endure many misunderstandings on their path to true love.

 

F Oko  The Shadow Speaker. Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer, and upon finding her, she also discovers a greater purpose to her life and to the mystical powers she possesses.

 

F Pac   Songs Without Words. Ann Packer

Childhood friends Liz, a housewife, and Sarabeth, a single designer, who were brought close by Sarabeth's mother's suicide when they were sixteen-years-old, are forced to confront problems in their friendship when Liz's fifteen-year-old daughter attempts to take her own life.

 

F Pea   Eye of the Crow. Shane Peacock                    

Young Sherlock finds comfort studying the world around him and reconstructing events, but when he decides to snoop around for clues to solve a sensational murder, Sherlock is accused of the crime and now must use all his mystery-solving clues to save himself.

 

F Per    First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover. Mitali Perkins

During her father's presidential campaign, sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton, who was adopted from Pakistan at the age of three, struggles with campaign staffers who want to give her a more "all-American" image and create a fake weblog in her name.

 

F Pet    Keeping You A Secret. Julie Anne Peters

As she begins a very tough last semester of high school, Holland finds herself puzzled about her future and intrigued by a transfer student who wants to start a Lesbigay club at school.

 

F Pet    Teen, Inc. Stefan Petrucha

Fourteen-year-old Jaiden has been raised by NECorp since his parents were killed when he was a baby, so when he discovers that the corporation has been lying about producing illegal levels of mercury emissions, he and his two friends decide to try to do something about it.

 

F Pic    Perfect Match. Jodi Picoult

Assistant district attorney Nina Frost has always prided herself on the fact that she protects the city's children from abuse and crime, but when her own son is sexually abused, she finds herself overcome with rage and sets out to find his attacker and exact justice for her son.

 

F Pre    Let Sleeping Dogs Lie. Mirjam Pressler

When Johanna discovers that her grandfather's company--and her family's wealth--was founded on injustice due to the anti-Semitic laws of the Third Reich during the Nazi regime, she must make a life-altering decision.

 

F Rea   Star Wars: Death Star. Michael Reaves

As the power-hungry Senator Palpatine tries to defeat the Jedi Order, Grand Moff Tarkin oversees the creation of the Death Star, the ultimate weapon, which the Republic will use to enforce Palpatine's violent rule.

 

F Rio    Lightning Thief. Rick Riordan

After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

 

F Rin    The Redheaded Princess. Ann Rinaldi

In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate near London, striving to get back into the good graces of her father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she faces his death and those of other close relatives until she finds herself next in line to ascend the throne of England in 1558.

 

F Riv    X in Flight. Karen Rivers

Xenos, a teenage boy with a white mother and African-American father he never knew, suddenly gains the ability to fly, with no explanation why.

 

F Sch   The Wednesday Wars. Gary D. 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.

 

F Sch   I Heart You, You Haunt Me. Lisa Schroeder

When her recently deceased boyfriend, Jackson, reappears as a ghost, Ava is thrilled to have him in her life in any way she can, but when she finally begins to move on with her life, Jackson must find a way to let her go.

 

F Sel    Saving Juliet      Suzanne Selfors

Seventeen-year-old Mimi Wallingford's stage fright and fight with her mother on the closing night of Romeo and Juliet are nothing compared to the troubles she faces when she and her leading man are transported to Shakespeare's Verona, where she decides to give the real Juliet a happy ending.

 

F She   I Conquer Britain. Dyan Sheldon

When sixteen-year-old Brooklyn native Cherokee Salamanca swaps lives with British teenager Sophie Pitt-Turnbull for the summer, she gets more than she bargains for as she tries to take London by storm.

 

F She   Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America. Dyan Sheldon

While spending the summer in Brooklyn with her mother's former schoolmate, Sophie, a sheltered English teenager, makes new and unlikely friends and finds a new side to her formerly "dull and passive" personality.

 

F Sti     A Meeting at Corvallis. S.M. Stirling

Ten years after the Change, the survivors in western Oregon have learned to live in a world without technology, but when the future is threatened by the Lord Protector, the leaders of the city-state Corvallis, the Willamette Valley, and the land west of Salem must band together to save their region from further devastation.

 

F Str    Stolen Kisses, Secrets and Lies. Todd Strasser

While dealing with her parents' failing marriage and her Future Business Leaders of America project, high school senior Kate Blessing, the daughter of a crime boss, is torn between two guys--one of whom is the son of her dad's rival.

 

F Str Book 2    Chanda’s Wars. Allan Stratton

Chanda Kabelo, a teenaged African girl, must save her younger siblings after they are kidnapped and forced to serve as child soldiers in General Mandiki's rebel army.

 

F Van   SPUD: A Wickedly Funny Novel. John Van De Ruit

In 1990, thirteen-year-old John "Spud" Milton, a prepubescent choirboy, keeps a diary of his first year at an elite, boys-only boarding school in South Africa, as he deals with bizarre housemates, wild crushes, embarrasingly dysfunctional parents, and much more.

 

F Van   Snitch. Allison Van Diepen

Julia DiVino tries hard not to get mixed-up with the gangs at South Bay High School, but when Eric Valienté enters into her life, everything changes.

 

F Van Street Pharm. Allison Van Diepen

Inheriting the family business when his father is thrown in jail, seventeen-year-old Ty Johnson becomes one of the most successful drug dealers on the streets of Brooklyn until a competitor enters the neighborhood and a nasty turf war begins.

 

F Viv    A Little Friendly Advice. Siobhan Vivian

When Ruby's divorced father shows up unexpectedly on her sixteenth birthday, the week that follows is full of confusing surprises, including discovering that her best friend has been keeping secrets from her, her mother has not been truthful about the past, and life is often complicated.

 

F Vre   Sight. Adrienne Maria Vrettos

Sixteen-year-old Dylan uses her psychic abilities to help police solve crimes against children, but keeps her extracurricular activities secret from her friends at school.

 

F Vre   Skin. Adrienne Maria Vrettos

When his parents decide to separate, eighth-grader Donnie watches with horror as the physical condition of his sixteen-year old sister, Karen, deteriorates due to an eating disorder.

 

F Wah  The Invisible. Mats Wahl

A Swedish teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.

 

F Wal   HIVE: The Higher Institute of Villainous Education. Mark Walden

Thirteen-year-old orphan Otto Malpense, identified as a boy with a special talent for villainy, is kidnapped and taken to the remote Higher Institute of Villainous Education, or H.I.V.E., where he is enrolled in a six-year training program and immediately begins formulating a plan to escape.

 

F Wal   Sketches. Eric Walters

After running away from home, fifteen-year-old Dana finds friends on the Toronto streets, and, eventually, a way to come to terms with what has happened to her.

 

F Wal   Farthing. Jo Walton

Lucy and David Kahn are invited to a country retreat hosted by the well-connected Farthing set, who overthrew Churchill in 1941 and negotiated peace with Hitler; and find themselves involved in a political murder where David becomes the prime suspect.

 

F Wal   Ha’Penny. Jo Walton

Scotland Yard's Inspector Carmichael is called in to investigate the bombing death of a popular actress and stumbles upon a plot to kill Hitler and England's Prime Minister.

 

F Was  Awakening. Robin Wasserman           

Thirteen-year-old J.D. struggles to understand who she is, where she came from, and why she has nightmares.

 

F Was  Hacking Harvard. Robin Wasserman

When three brilliant nerds--Max Kim, Eric Roth, and Isaac "The Professor" Schwarzbaum--bet $20,000 that they can get anyone into Harvard, they take on the Ivy League in their quest for popularity, money, and the love of a beauty queen valedictorian.

 

F Way  The Dead of Summer. Camilla Way

Seven years after witnessing the murders of three children in a cave in Greenwich, England, twenty-year-old Anita Naidu relates the events of the tragedy to a psychologist and reflects on her friendship with an angry, verbally abusive boy named Kyle and an obese outsider named Denis.

 

F Wes  Of Blood and Sorrow. Valerie Wilson Wesley

New Jersey private detective Tamara Hayle, always wary when her life starts running smoothly, finds she was right to be cautious when troublemaker Lilah Love shows up asking for help in finding her missing child, ex-lover Basil Dupre comes back to town, and Tamara's own son, Jamal, witnesses a brutal murder and then is accused of the crime.

 

F Wes  Extras. Scott Westerfeld

In an alternative civilization where the social status of each person is monitored and rated and anyone can drop from celebrity to nobody, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse's popularity ranking is so low her only chance of moving up is to find a good story, so when she meets a group of girls who hide an explosive secret, Aya decides to expose the group and unknowingly puts her own life in danger.

 

F Whe  Parade of Shadows. Gloria Whelan

In 1907, sixteen-year-old Julia Hamilton, happy to accompany her diplomat father on a tour of the Ottoman-controlled cities of Istambul, Damascus, Palmyra, and Aleppo, soon finds the journey increasingly hazardous as she begins to uncover her father's true mission and the secret motivations of the other travelers in their group.

 

F Whi   Life is Fine. Allison Whittenberg

High school student Samara Tuttle finds a friend in her new English teacher, Mr. Halbrook, who inspires her to want a better life, until he vanishes and Samara learns he may have been hiding a shocking secret.

 

F Wie   Leftovers. Laura Wiess

Two teenagers, Blair and Ardith, lose their innocence in more ways than one as they are transformed from happy ninth-graders to high school sophomores determined to secure justice for their families and friends, whatever the cost.

 

F Wie   Such A Pretty Girl. Laura Wiess

Haunted by flashbacks, fifteen-year-old Meredith learns that three years in prison has not changed the abusive father who molested her.

 

F Wil    The Alchemist’s Dream. John Wilson

In the fall of 1669, the Nonsuch returned to London with a load of fur from Hudson Bay. It brought something else, too—the lost journal from Henry Hudson's tragic search for a passage to Cathay in 1611. The journal finds its way to the aged Robert Bylot and triggers disturbing memories of his life—memories of a plague-ridden city, the mysterious alchemist John Dee, and mutiny in the frozen wastes of Hudson Bay. Will the journal and memories finally allow Bylot peace of mind?

 

F Wit   Parrotfish. Ellen Wittlinger

Grady, a transgendered high school student, yearns for acceptance by his classmates and family as he struggles to adjust to his new identity as a male.

 

F Wri   When the Black Girl Sings. Bil Wright

Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.

 

F Zev   Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. Gabrielle Zevin

After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.

 

 

230 Gui            What do Christians Believe? Malcolm Guite

Provides an overview of the beliefs and practices of Christianity and includes a brief history of the religion.

 

294.3 Mor       What do Buddhists Believe? Tony Morris

Provides an overview of the beliefs and practices of Buddhism and includes a brief history of the religion.

 

303.48 Hof     The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. 

Presents an analysis of the psychology of mass movements, whether religious, social, or nationalist, identifying the traits they have in common, and looking at the types of people who participate in such movements.

 

305.235 Sko    Teens in Spain. Jason Skog

Examines the experience of teens in Spain, looking at a typical day, what happens in school, family life, holidays, work, and entertainment. Includes photographs, a glossary, and a historical time line.

 

306.87 Rol       Facing Teenage Pregnancy: A Handbook for the Pregnant Teen. Patricia Roles

Offers advice to teenage girls who find themselves unmarried and pregnant, identifying some of the emotions they may feel upon learning of their pregnancy, exploring options for continuing or terminating the pregnancy, and discussing support systems, how to tell others, and the experience of pregnancy.

 

323.092 Dav    ‘They Say’ Ida B.Wells and the Reconstruction of Race. James West Davidson

Profiles the first thirty years of the life of Ida B. Wells, describing her aggressive fight against segregation and racism in the South, and her outspoken manner against the lynching of African-Americans.

 

323.1197         Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. David J. Weber

Examines the attitudes Spaniards had towards the people they considered "savages" during the Age of Enlightenment, explaining how late eighteenth-century Spanish administrators tried to create a more enlightened policy toward the savages.

 

324.6 Are  Selma and the Voting Rights Act. David Aretha

Provides an account of the events of 1965 when civil rights activists, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., gathered in Selma, Alabama, to protest practices designed to keep African-Americans from being able to vote, and discusses how the televised violence against the activists caused widespread outrage that spurred the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

 

324.27 And  The Republican Party: The Story of the Grand Old Party. Dale Anderson

Photographs, diagrams, timelines, and illustrations traces the history of the Republican Party in America from its formation during the 1856 election and first Republican President in 1860.

 

333.79 Nak     Energy Alternatives. Andrea C. Nakaya

Presents an overview of issues involving alternative energy sources, discussing whether or not they are necessary, the viability of different sources, their use for transportation, and how their use would affect society.

 

335.0092 Whi  Rebels and Revolutionaries: Voices of American Labor. Nancy Whitelaw

Profiles five individuals who fought for social change in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century.

 

338.4 Bel         Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture took on the Food Industry. Warren J. Belasco

The author considers the rise of the “countercuisine” in the 1960s, the subsequent success of mainstream business in turning granola, herbal tea, and other “ revolutionary” foodstuffs into profitable products; the popularity of vegetarian and vegan diets; and the increasing availability of organic foods. 

 

338.4 Sim        Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back. Michele Simon.

Explores the food industry's negative influence on health in the United States, discussing the reliability of corporations, personal responsibilities, marketing practices, government complicity, nutrition labeling in restaurants, school cafeterias, regulation of junk food advertising, and other related topics.

 

342.73 Lew     Freedom For the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Ammendment. Anthony Lewis

Describes the legal and political controversies surrounding the implementation and enforcement of the free expression clauses of the First Amendment.

 

355.02 Fri        Nuclear Weapons and Security. Lauri S. Friedman

Presents issues involving nuclear weapons, discussing the likelihood of their being used in an attack on the United States, how their spread can be prevented, and whether the world could survive a nuclear war.

 

362.29 She      Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction. David Sheff

Journalist David Sheff tells the story of his son Nic's happy early childhood, the transformation wrought by Nic's addiction to methamphetamine, and his own obsession with Nic's well-being.

 

362.74 Erl        Have Your Found Her. Janice Erlbaum

Janice Erlbaum recounts her experiences working with the residents of a homeless shelter she lived at more than twenty years earlier, reflecting on her friendship with one troubled young woman who reminded Janice of the girl she used to be.

 

363.738 Ber     Global Warming and Climate Change. Emma Carlson Berne

Presents issues involving global warming, discussing the severity of the problem, its causes and consequences, the controversies surrounding it, and some possible solutions.

 

364.1 Sim        Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.’s Most Notorious Gang. Colton Simpson

Colton Simpson offers an inside look at the Crips, the most notorious gang in Los Angeles, describing his induction into the gang, the gang's rules and ethics, the violence and betrayal that sent him to prison, and the lessons he learned from the experience.

 

364.1092 Del   Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob. Bob Delaney

Bob Delaney, tells his story of how, in 1975, with just a little over a year as a New Jersey State Trooper, he was approached by his superiors to infiltrate the Mob, and how his efforts helped to convict over thirty members of the Bruno and Genovese crime families.

 

371.8 Sus         Hope in the Unseen : An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League. Ron Suskind

Follows gifted African-American student Cedric Jennings from his crime-infested high school in Washington D.C. to his junior year at Brown University, discussing the problems he encountered along the road out of the ghetto.

 

371.95 And      Nerds Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them. David Anderegg

Examines how children learn what nerds are, explores the unique impact being labeled a nerd has on people at every stage of life, traces the history of anti-intellectualism in America, and urges people to put a stop to the stereotypical labeling of people as "nerds" before it leads to a disinterest in learning and high achievement.

 

378.1 Wis  What Colleges Don't Tell You: (And other parents don't want you to know) : 272 secrets for getting your kids into the top schools Elizabeth Wissner-Gross,

Presents advice for getting through the college admissions process, offers strategies on filling out application forms, raising standardized test scores, writing application essays, interviewing for admission, and overcoming deferrals and rejections.

 

378.3 Nit         Get Paid to Play: EveryStudent Athlete’s Guide to Over $1 Million in College Scholarships. Nancy Nitardy

Provides detailed information on over 350 scholarships available to student athletes, including awards that are not tied to one institution; and offers information on the college admissions process for athletes, and financial aid data.

 

382 Mur           Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21 ^st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat. Sarah Murray

Provides anecdotes and facts that look at the history of long-distance food from ancient times into the twenty-first century, following food from the place it originates to locations around the world, and discussing the effect of those movements on economics, politics, and culture.

 

616.85 Hor      Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. Marya Hornbacher

The author describes her troubled years with anorexia and bulimia, disorders she embraced until a bout with them during her college years changed her perspective.

 

616.89 Che      Manic: A Memoir. Terri Cheney

On the outside, Terri Cheney was a successful, attractive Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer. But behind her seemingly flawless façade lay a dangerous secret--for most of her life Cheney had been battling bipolar disorder and concealing a pharmacy's worth of prescriptions meant to make her "normal." Cheney describes her roller-coaster life with shocking honesty--from glamorous parties to a night in jail; from flying fourteen kites off the edge of a cliff in a thunderstorm to crying beneath her office desk; from electroshock therapy to a suicide attempt fueled by tequila and prescription painkillers. The events unfold episodically, from mood to mood, the way she lived and remembers life. In this way the reader is able to viscerally experience the incredible speeding highs of mania and the crushing blows of depression. This book does not simply explain bipolar disorder--it takes us in its grasp and does not let go.--From publisher description.

 

616.89 Hor      Madness: A Bipolar Life. Marya Hornbacher

A journalist describes the painful impact on her life of bipolar disease, from the initial diagnosis of the ailment, to her efforts to control violently careening mood swings, to her continuing struggle to cope with the ailment in every aspect of her life.

 

616.97 Sil        The AIDS Update. Alvin and Virginia Silverstein

"Discusses the causes, diagnoses, treatment methods, and future of AIDS"--Provided by publisher.

 

616.99 Sil        The Breast Cancer Update. Alvin and Virginia Silverstein

Explains the symptoms of breast canceer along with its history, management, and treatment; and provides personal accounts of those who have been affected by it.

 

618.2 Law       Pregnancy Information for Teens: Health Tips about Teen Pregnancy and Teen Parenting. 

Provides basic consumer information for teens about maintaining health during pregnancy, preparing for childbirth, and caring for a newborn. Includes index and resource information

 

741.5 Joh         Incognegro. Mat Johnson

Zane Pinchback, a light-skinned African-American in the early twentieth-century, is tired of trying to pass for white in order to report on the lynchings and public executions taking place in the Deep South, but he opts to use the deception one more time when his brother is jailed in Mississippi on charges of killing a white woman.

 

780.9 Mit         The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body. Steven Mithen

Examines archaeological records and research on neurology and genetics to explain how and why humans are drawn to music, describing music's connection to language and thought.

 

909 Ran           Issues in the Spanish-Speaking World. Janice W. Randle

Profiles fourteen issues of debate in Spanish-speaking countries, providing background on each and presenting pro and con positions, discussion questions, activity ideas, bilingual vocabulary lists, and lists of print and nonprint resources.

 

921 Bar            Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood. Ibtisam Barakat

The author remembers her childhood in Ramallah and as a Palestinian refugee in the late 1960s.

 

921 Hoo GRAPHIC    J. Edgar Hoover : A Graphic Biography. Rick Geary

Presents a graphic biography of former director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, who served under eight presidents from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon.

 

921 McC         Political Profiles: John McCain Catherine Wells

Profiles the Arizona senator and former prisoner of war who has twice run for the presidency of the United States, once in 2000 and again in 2008.

 

940.54 Sid       Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission. 

Chronicles the raid by 121 U.S. troops to rescue 513 prisoners of war, including the last survivors of the Bataan Death March, from the Philippines in January 1945.

 

946 Bar            A History of Spain. Simon Barton

Offers an overview of the history of Spain, highlighting key figures and events that have shaped the country's development and its role in the world.

 

946 Kam          Empire: How Spain Became a World Power 1492-1763. Henry Kamen

Provides an account of how Spain became the world's first superpower, surveying events from the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century to show how the Spanish Empire was really a global enterprise in which various other countries including Portugal, China, Africa, German, and others played major roles.

 

946 Rod           Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture. Eamonn Rodgers

Contains approximately 750 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about cultural and political developments in Spain, Catalonia, Galicia, and the Basque country since 1939, covering advertising, dance, education, journalism, racism, and many other topics.

 

958.1 Wah       A Brief History of Afghanistan. Shaista Wahab

Traces the history of Afghanistan from ancient civilizations to the early twenty-first century; covering the rise of Islam, the government, coups and revolutions, Mujahideen rule, the Taliban era, civil war, and more. Includes chronology and basic facts about the country's political divisions, geography, demographics, and economy.

 

976.3 Ros        1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina. Chris Rose

A collection of stories that recalls the first year and a half of life in New Orleans after Katrina from those who lived through it.