THE ALISON RULES
Catherine Clark
HarperTempest
ISBN: 0060559802
Ages 12-up
272 pages
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Alison, who is mourning the death of her mother, has done her best to keep things under control --- if you follow the rules, you won't get hurt. Her best friend Laurie supports her one hundred percent. But rules are meant to be broken, and when the charming and funny Patrick moves to town, Alison's lifelong friendship with Laurie is put to the test.

BLOOD SECRET
Kathryn Lasky
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0060000651
Ages 12-up
256 pages

After being abandoned by her mother and living in a Catholic Charities home, fourteen-year-old Jerry Moon is sent to New Mexico to live with her great-great-aunt Costanza, a tall, ancient woman who bakes delicious bread and pastries. Jerry does not speak due to "selective mutism." But gradually, with her eccentric great-great-aunt by her side, Jerry begins to find the words to say and the courage to speak them.

FLESHMARKET
Nicola Morgan
Delacorte Press
ISBN: 038573154X
Ages 14-up
224 pages

Edinburgh, 1822. Robbie is just eight years old when he witnesses his mother's tragic death from the removal of a breast tumor during public surgery at the hands of a savage surgeon, Dr. Knox. Life only gets tougher for Robbie as his father loses his business and then disappears, leaving the unfortunate youngster with the responsibility of caring for his little sister. For years, Robbie considers Dr. Knox to be his mother's killer --- and now, as a teenager, he seeks revenge.

GANGSTA RAP
Benjamin Zephaniah
Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
ISBN: 1582348863
Ages 14-up
334 pages
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When Ray and his friends are permanently suspended from school, their headmaster decides to give them a second chance --- a chance to fulfill their dream of forming a rap group. Through a specialized social program, the boys are taught the business of the music industry and what it takes to record an album. Within weeks they become the Positive Negatives, and a few months later they sign a record deal and are on their way to the top. But their dream soon becomes a nightmare as violence escalates around them. Suddenly, not only are their careers at stake, but their very lives as well.

LETTING GO OF BOBBY JAMES, OR HOW I FOUND MY SELF OF STEAM
Valerie Hobbs
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374343845
Ages 12-up
144 pages
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When sixteen-year-old Sally Jo Walker (aka Jody) is abandoned at a gas station by her husband after he hits her, she courageously resolves to move forward. With a mere twenty dollars, she begins a new life in Jackson Beach, Florida, washing dishes at a café and sleeping in a movie theater at night. She then befriends Effaline, a girl who is more alone and lost than she is. Jody is determined to save her --- and in trying to do so, Jody might just save herself too.

THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY
David Levithan
Knopf
ISBN: 0375828451
Ages 12-up
224 pages
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A boy whose girlfriend is in love with Holden Caulfield. A girl who loves the boy who wears all black. A boy with the perfect body. A girl who writes love songs for a girl she can't have. These are just a few of the captivating characters you'll get to know in this heartfelt collection of monologues about love, identity and our interconnectedness as humans.

TEEN IDOL
Meg Cabot
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0060096160
Ages 12-up
304 pages
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High school junior Jenny Greenley is good at solving problems --- so good in fact that she's the school newspaper's anonymous advice columnist. It's fun solving other people's problems --- even if doesn't make her own (like not having a boyfriend) go away. But when nineteen-year-old movie star Luke Striker comes to town to research a role, he creates havoc that even levelheaded Jenny isn't sure she can repair --- especially since she's right in the middle of it.

VEGAN VIRGIN VALENTINE
Carolyn Mackler
Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763621552
Ages 14-up
256 pages
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Mara Valentine is in control. She's a straight-A senior, a vegan, and her parents' pride and joy. She's neck-and-neck with her womanizing ex-boyfriend for valedictorian and is looking forward to attending Yale in the fall. Mara has her remaining months in Brockport all figured out --- but her plans don't include having V, her slutty, pot-smoking, sixteen-year-old niece, come to live with her family. Nor does it involve lusting after her boss or dreaming about grilled cheese sandwiches every night. What does a control freak like Mara do when things start spinning wildly out of control?

Series Books

Dangerous Girls

THE TASTE OF NIGHT
(Dangerous Girls #2)
R.L. Stine
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0060596163
Ages 12-up
240 pages

Destiny Weller and her twin sister, Livvy, were as close as two sisters could be --- until Livvy chose to become a vampire, leaving Destiny behind. Now Destiny will do anything to bring Livvy back to the family. But in Livvy's world of endless darkness, she knows there's only one way she and Destiny can be reunited --- Destiny must become a vampire too.

Angel

BOOK OF THE DEAD (Angel Series)
Ashley McConnell
Simon Spotlight
ISBN: 0689870841
Ages 16-up
304 pages

Wes has been a compulsive reader since he was a child. So when his former colleague and ex-Watcher Adrian O'Flaherty comes to town and invites Wes along to a highly secret auction of rare occult books, Wes can't turn down this incredible offer. But what Wes doesn't know is that Adrian is looking for more than dusty old tomes at the auction --- he's out for revenge.

Everwood

MOVING ON (Everwood #2)
Emma Harrison
Simon Spotlight
ISBN: 0689870833
Ages 12-up
240 pages

Just when Ephram Brown starts to think that Everwood isn't so bad after all, everything changes. Dr. Brown pulls the town's golden boy, Colin Hart, out of his coma and he makes a miraculous recovery. Everyone is thrilled --- especially his girlfriend Amy, who seems to have completely forgotten the kiss that she and Ephram shared just before Colin woke up. While she's trying to pretend that she barely knows Ephram, Colin wants him to be his new best friend. It is at this point that things really get awkward.