Fiction

F Aro               Head Case. Sarah Aaronson

Seventeen-year-old Frank Marder struggles to deal with the aftermath of an accident he had while driving drunk that killed two people, including his girlfriend, and left him paralyzed from the neck down.

 

F Ash               Th1rteen R3asons Why. Jay Asher

When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

 

F Boo              Tyrell. Coe Booth

Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.

 

F Bro               Martyn Pig. Kevin Brooks

Faced with the possibility of living with a dreadful aunt, fifteen-year-old Martyn Pig decides not to tell authorities when his alcoholic father dies accidentally, instead asking a friend for her help in disposing of the body.

 

F Cho              The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Stephen Chbosky

Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the dilemmas of growing up through a collection of letters he sends to an unknown receiver.

 

F Cor               Carpe Diem.  Autumn Cornwell

Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.

 

F Dic                The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Charles Dickens

Moving from a sedate cathedral town to London's sordid opium dens, the mystery of who killed the missing Edwin Drood, or if he was actually killed at all, is finally resolved.

 

F Dic                Angel Isle. Peter Dickinson

While seeking the Ropemaker to restore the ancient magic that will protect their valley, Saranja, Maja, and Ribek must outwit twenty-four of the empire's most powerful and evil magicians.

 

F Dow             Before I Die. Jenny Downham

A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.

 

F DuP              People of Sparks. Jeanne DuPrau

Having escaped to the Unknown Regions, Lina and the others seek help from the village people of Sparks. Sequel to City of Ember. 

 

F Ful                Hoops of Steel. John Foley

Passionate about basketball, troubled teenager Jackson O'Connell chronicles the ways the game colors the events of his senior year in high school.

 

F Har               The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney. Suzanne Harper

In Lily Dale, New York, a community dedicated to the religion of Spiritualism, tenth-grader Sparrow Delaney, the youngest daughter in an eccentric family of psychics, agonizes over whether or not to reveal her special abilities in order to help a friend.

 

 

F Har               My Lady Judge. Cora Harrison

Mara, a judge in sixteenth-century Ireland , arrives in a small independent kingdom on the west coast of Ireland , a land that lives according to the ancient Celtic laws, to investigate the mysterious death of her assistant during a May Day festival.

 

F Har               Grand & Humble. Brent Hartinger

Alternating chapters follow the lives of two high school boys, whose recent nightmares and premonitions of disaster are linked to mysterious past events.

 

F Hit                I’m Exploding Now. Sid Hite

The summer he turns seventeen, Max Whooten is feeling off his game with no job and nothing to do, but after spending a lot of time hanging out in Manhattan, thinking about life, writing down his thoughts, and visiting his aunt in Woodstock, he develops a personal philosophy called "coolism" which seems to help turn things around.

 

F Hor               Slam. Nick Hornby

At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.

 

F Jam               Listening at the Gate. Betsy James

After seventeen-year-old Kat leaves the Creek home of her mother's sister, she returns to Downshore and becomes embroiled in upheaval there and in the land of the Rigi, as well as in Nall's quest to go to the Gate. Book 3 of the Seeker Chronicles.

 

F Jea                Beating Heart: A Ghost Story. A.M. Jenkins

Following his parents' divorce, seventeen-year-old Evan moves with his mother and sister into an old house where the spirit of a teenager who died there awakens and mistakes him for her long-departed lover.

 

F Key              Alabama Moon. Watt Key

After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon Blake is removed from the Alabama forest where he was raised and sent to a boy's home, where, for the first time, he has contact with the outside world and learns about friendship, love, and humanity.

 

F Ker               Your Eyes in Stars. M.E. Kerr

In their small New York town, two teenaged girls become friends while helping each other make sense of their families, neighbors, and selves as they approach adulthood in the years preceding World War II.

 

F Lam              What I Meant…   Marie Lamba

Having to share her home with her demanding and devious aunt from India makes it all the more difficult for fifteen-year-old Sang to deal with such things as her parents thinking she is too young to date, getting less than perfect grades, and being shut out by her long-time best friend.

 

F Lan               Blood is Thicker. Paul Langan & D.M. Blackwell

Hakeem has a hard time adjusting when, due to his father's sickness, Hakeem and his family must move in with his uncle in distant Detroit, especially when he has to share his room with his moody cousin Savon.

 

F Lan               The Bully. Paul Langan

After Darrell Mercer and his mother move from Philadelphia to California in the middle of the school year, the ninth-grader quickly becomes a target for the freshman class bully, Tyray Hobbs. A Bluford High Book.

 

F Lan               Payback. Paul Langan

Tyray Hobbs, the most feared student in Bluford High School's freshman class, tries to regain his reputation after he is publicly humiliated by Darrell Mercer.

 

F Lea               Keturah and Lord Death. Martine Leavitt

When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love. A National Book Award Finalist

 

F Lev               Wide Awake. David Levithan

In the not-too-distant future, when a gay Jewish man is elected president of the United States, sixteen-year-old Duncan examines his feelings for his boyfriend, his political and religious beliefs, and tries to determine his rightful place in the world.

 

F Lyg               The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. Barry Lyga

A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.

 

F Mac              Pendragon: the Merchant of Death. D.J. MacHale

When the seemingly normal fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon is swept into an alternate dimension, he finds himself hailed as a savior in a place called Denduron, a territory in the throes of revolution against a magical tyrant.

 

F Mar              Uninvited. Amanda Marrone

When rejection comes back to bite you. Jordan's life sucks. Her boyfriend, Michael, dumped her, slept his way through half the student body, and then killed himself. But now, somehow, he appears at her window every night, begging her to let him in. Jordan can't understand why he wants her, but she feels her resistance wearing down. After all, her life - once a broken record of boring parties, meaningless hookups, and friend's she couldn't relate to - now consists of her drinking alone in her room as he waits for the sun to go down.

 

F McC             God of Luck. Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Ah Lung and his wife Bo See have been lucky enough to find true love in their arranged marriage, and when Ah Lung is kidnapped and sent to work the deadly guano mines of Peru, the two lovers vow to be reunited once more.

 

F Mul               Fablehaven. Brandon Mull

When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.

 

F Na                Wait For Me. An Na

Mina yearns to find her own path in life but working at the family business, taking care of her little sister, and dealing with her mother's expectations are as stifling as the southern California heat, until she falls in love with a man who offers a way out.

 

F Nai               The Other Side of Truth. Beverley Naidoo

Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport, and they become fearful of their new surroundings.

 

F Pac               Mentor : The Kid & The CEO. Tom Pace

Tony has run-ins with the law and no direction in life~ until he meets Malcolm, a businessman who has faced many of the same challenges. Because Malcolm is willing to share his knowledge and experience with Tony, they both become successful and significant. There are setbacks for both student and teacher, but with hope and action they overcome challenges and difficulties and achieve significance.

 

F Pee               Keeper. Mal Peet

In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a great goalkeeper and renowned soccer star.

 

F Pes               Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Marisha Pessl

Sixteen-year-old Blue van Meer and her professor father settle into North Carolina after a decade of moves, where she becomes a part of an elite group of student intellectuals and is rocked by the suspicious death of their mentor, film studies teacher Hannah Schneider, whose murder she tries to solve.

 

F Phi                The Last Book in the Universe. Rodman Philbrick

After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.

 

F Pie                Terrier. Tamora Pierce

When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City.

 

F Por               King Dork. Frank Portman.

High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life.

 

F Pra                Wintersmith. Terry Pratchett

When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, she requires the help of the six-inch-high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright.

 

F Ree               A Darkling Plain. Philip Reeve

The Hungry City Chronicles Book 4. While dealing with people from their past and treachery from unexpected sources, Tom, Hester, and Wren return to save the world.

 

F Ree               Infernal Devices. Philip Reeve

The Hungry City Chronicles Book 3 In the distant future, when fifteen-year-old Wren Natsworthy, bored with life in Anchorage, steals an Old-Tech book for a Lost Boy, she sets off a sequence of events that leads her parents, Tom and Hester, back into battle with old enemies and new.

 

F Rom             When The World Was Young. Tony Romano

In 1957 Chicago, first-generation Italian immigrants Angela Rosa and Agostino Peccatori find themselves trying to cling to the ways of their old country while adjusting to life in a new city.

 

F Rub               Good Girls. Laura Ruby

Sixteen-year-old high school senior Audrey is humiliated when a compromising photograph of her is sent around her school, but she discovers a toughness within her that she never knew she had.

 

F San               Getting It. Alex Sanchez

Hoping to impress a female classmate, fifteen-year-old Carlos secretly hires gay student Sal to give him an image makeover, in exchange for Carlos's help in forming a Gay-Straight Alliance at their Texas high school.

 

F Sch               A Matter of Trust. Anne Schraff

When Darcy Wills starts hanging out with "the zeros," a group of students at Bluford High, Brisana Meeks, Darcy's grade school friend, quickly becomes her rival and not only taunts Darcy daily but tries to steal her boyfriend. A Bluford High Book

 

F Sch               Secrets in the Shadows. Anne Schraff

High-school student Roylin Bailey tries to impress the new girl in history class, but when one of his friends disappears, he becomes caught in a web of lies and threats. A Bluford High Book.

 

F Sch               Someone to Love Me. Anne Schraff

When Cindy Gibson starts dating Bobby Wallace, he appears to be everything that Cindy is looking for, until he starts behaving strangely and Cindy finds herself in the worst trouble of her life. A Bluford High Book.

 

F Sch               Until We Meet Again. Anne Schraff

Darcy Wills' plan for a wonderful summer are shattered when bad news threatens her relationship with her boyfriend Hakeem, a new person enters her life causing much confusion, and Darcy finds herself making choices that will change her world forever. A Bluford High Book.

 

F Sch               Vampire Kisses 4: Dance with a Vampire. Ellen Schreiber

When eleven-year-old Valentine, younger brother of vampires Jagger and Luna, comes to Dullsville looking for them, he threatens goth-girl Raven's younger brother, Billy Boy, as well as her relationship with her vampire boyfriend, Alexander.

 

F Seb               The Almost Moon. Alice Sebold

Fifty-year-old artist's model Helen Knightly, worn down by years of dealing with her depressed and needy mother, gives in to the temptation to smother the now old and senile Clair and spends the next twenty-four hours feeling both liberated by what she has done, and tormented by her memories of the past and expectations for the future.

 

F Sed               The Foreshadowing. Marcus Sedgwick

Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.

 

F Sim               Vandal. Michael Simmons

The love-hate relationship between high school musician Will and his older brother Jason is fueled by the abuse Will suffers at Jason's hands but a devastating accident changes everything for the boys and their family.

 

F Spa              The Choice. Nicholas Sparks

Resisting romantic commitments while enjoying a life of boating, swimming, and barbecues, Travis Parker is unable to deny his attraction to new neighbor Gabby Holland, a defensive woman whose long-time boyfriend further challenges Travis' growing feelings.

 

F Uhl                Last Dance at the Frosty Queen. Richard Uhlig

In the spring of 1988, as his high school graduation approaches, Artie Flood worries that he will never be able to escape his tiny Kansas town.

 

F Vij                Motherland. Vineeta Vijayaraghavan

Fifteen-year-old Maya learns the cause of the rift she feels between her and her mother and is finally able to come to terms with her divided loyalties when she leaves New York to spend the summer with her grandmother in southern India, the land of her birth.

 

F Vol               Rooftop. Paul Volponi

Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that follows.

 

F Von              It Had To Be You: The Gossip Girl Prequel. Cicily Von Ziegesar

Reveals the effects on a trio of bright, attractive, fifteen-year-old friends--Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, and Nate Archibald--when Serena considers leaving their seemingly perfect life of luxury in New York's Upper East Side for boarding school.

 

F Wes              Specials. Scott Westerfeld

When she is turned into a super-modelesque super-fighting machine, Tally, a former ugly, is ordered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid in a carefully engineered world of perfection where she refuses to play by the rules. Book 3 in the series.

 

F Wit               Blind Faith. Ellen Wittlinger

While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.

 

Story Collections

SC Hea            Hauntings. Betsy Hearne

Fifteen stories of death and hauntings, set in the past, the present, and the afterlife.

 

Non-Fiction

016.791 Atk   Flickipedia: Perfect Films for Every Occasion, Holiday , Mood, Ordeal, and Whim

A practical guide to over 1,300 movie suggestions that are tailored to everyday situations and listed by categories including holidays, seasonal passages, life phases, and nostalgia.

 

070.4 Bau        Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform and Invent Investigative Journalism. Ann Bausum

Examines the birth of investigative journalism in America at the turn of the 20th century, discussing the work of the dedicated journalists who, through their exposés, forced responsible changes in the industrial practices and politics of that period.

 

303.4 Pen        Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes. Mark J. Penn

Identifies over seventy trends in religion, leisure, politics, and family life which have an influence on American society, such as people continuing to work after retirement, teens knitting, women driving technology, fathers spending more time with the children, and more.

 

303.48 Fri     The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Thomas L.Friedman

Contains an overview of the global political and economic change since the turn of the twenty-first century, discussing the rapid developments in technologies that has allowed India and China to become part of a growing supply chain of manufacturing impacting global markets.

 

305.23 Naz      Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother. Sonia Nazario

Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled. After eleven years, he decided he would go find her. He set off alone, with little more than a slip of paper bearing his mother's North Carolina telephone number. Without money, he made the dangerous trek up the length of Mexico, clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains. He and other migrants, many of them children, are hunted like animals. To evade bandits and authorities, they must jump onto and off the moving boxcars they call the Train of Death. It is an epic journey, one thousands of children make each year to find their mothers in the United States.--From publisher description.

 

371.822 Mor   Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time. Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin.

In 1993 a mountaineer named Greg Mortenson drifted into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram mountains after a failed attempt to climb K2. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. Three cups of Tea is the Story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools- especially for girls- in the forbidding terrain that gave birth to the Taliban. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit. 

 

379.73 Wes     Pledging Allegiance: The Politics of Patriotism in America’s Schools. Joel Westheimer

Thirteen contributors share their perspectives on the true meaning of patriotism in a post-September 11 world.

 

 

388.1 Whi        Get Up and Go! The History of American Road Travel. Sylvia Whitman

Examines how people have traveled across the United States on roads from Indian trails to interstate highways and describes the development of different means of transportation and their impact on American society.

 

641.5 Sto         Cooking With Curtis. Curtis Stone.

With useful chef's tips on purchasing and preparation and photography of every recipe to whet the appetite, Cooking with Curtis is the key to an impressive repertoire of knock-out dishes.

 

782 Jas                       Beats, Rhymes, & Life: What we Love and Hate About Hip-Hop. Kenji Jasper

A collection of essays in interviews that explore the most prominent symbols of the hip-hop genre, discussing what they mean to the hip-hop community and how the genre's stars influence popular and teen culture.

 

782.42 Gou      Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain , and America  Jonathan Gould

A comprehensive biography and history of the Beatles that describes their childhood in Liverpool and influence by such popular artists including Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry, and chronicles their growth as singers, song writers, and instrumentalists.

 

812 Law          Inherit the Wind. Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's 1951 play based on the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, July 1925, which opened the debate over the teaching of creationism and evolution.

 

818 Bel            The Best Teen Writing of 2007. Ed. Justin Beltz

Contains selections from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards with a foreword by Billy Collins.

 

917.3 Nat        Guide to Scenic Highways & Byways: The 275 Best Drives in the U.S. National Geographic

Includes 275 distinctive drives and descriptions. Offers firsthand guidance from expert travel writers, and includes 260 color maps, including individual route and regional planning maps. Includes 350 color photos.

 

970.01 Fre       Who Was First: Discovering the Americas. Russell Freedman

Examines the archaeological evidence that various explorers such as the Vikings and the Chinese came to America long before Columbus.

 

973.04 Phi       The Great Circle: A History of the First Nations. Neil Philip

Presents a comprehensive history of Native American nations, from pre-Columbian times to the reclaiming of traditions; and explores Native American ideas about land and society, religion, science, and history.

 

 

Graphic

 

741.5 Aar        Scalped. Jason Aaron

Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of abject poverty and utter hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation in hopes of finding something better. Now he's come back home armed with nothing but a set of nun chucks, a hell-bent-for-leather attitude and one dark secret, to find nothing much has changed on "The Rez" -- short of a glimmering new casino, and a once-proud people overcome by drugs and organized crime. Is he here to set things right or just get a piece of the action?

 

741.5 Aba        Laika. Nick Abadzis

A graphic novel account of the life of Laika, the first dog in space, who died in her experimental launch.

 

741.5 Car        Confessions of a Blabbermouth. Mike & Louise Carey

Tasha Flanigan loves to talk, especially on her blog, and when her mom brings home a creepy boyfriend and his daughter, Tasha can't help but talk about them.

 

741.5 Cha        Northwest Passage. Scott Chantler

Contains the first three volumes of Scott Chantler's graphic novels in which explorer Charles Lord, saddled with a desk job governing a frontier trading post, embarks on a journey to discover the legendary Northwest Passage and fights to reclaim his home, which was captured by French privateers. Includes annotations.

 

741.5 Din         Batman: Harley & Ivy. Paul Dini

Gotham City femmes fatale Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy team for madcap adventures in which brilliant, misunderstood ecoterrorist Ivy is foiled at every turn by Harley’s personal brand of ditzy chaos.

 

741.5 Joo         Shaman Warrior: Vol.2. Park Joong-Ki

Marked for death by a jealous king, master warrior-wizard Yarong entrusts the care of his child to Batu, a loyal servant. Batu seeks refuge in a nondescript hovel deep in the desert wastelands near Kugai, ready to defend the youngster against the king’s murderous henchmen. Help comes from a surprising source- a headstrong, young shaman warrior who’s also felt the harsh sting of betrayal and is being tracked by a group of strange ruthless bounty hunters.

 

741.5 Joo         Shaman Warrior: Vol.4. Park Joong-Ki

The forces of Kugai are determined to kill Yaki before her Shaman powers develop; so Genji risks her life to deliver the child to the hands of monsters to raise and train her.

 

741.5 Kaw       Alive. Book 1 & 2 Tadashi Kawashima

A strange virus is making its way around the globe, causing its victims to commit suicide- and becoming a lethal pandemic in less than a week. Now a group of Tokyo teens who have survived the outbreak are wondering why they are still alive.

 

741.5 Nil          30 Days of Night. Steve Niles

During its thirty days and nights of darkness, Barrow, Alaska, endures an attack by a band of vampires that only the husband-and-wife sheriff team of the small town can stand against.

 

741.5 Sch        Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives. Ellen Schreiber

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. Book 1

 

741.5 Wat        Clubbing. Andi Watson

When Charlotte "Lottie" Brook gets caught with a fake I.D. at a posh London nightclub, she is forced so spend the summer at her grandparent's stuffy country club where she narrowly escapes romance and ends up solving a mystery.