BAD KITTY
Michele Jaffe
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0060781084
Ages 12-up
288 pages

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Jasmine Callihan wants nothing more than to enjoy her family vacation in Las Vegas. But she's also looking to avoid her evil cousin, show her suspicious dad that she can be a Model Daughter, and perhaps meet the hot guy she's been noticing from across the pool. Unfortunately, Jasmine doesn't get what she wishes for --- instead she becomes the central figure in a Las Vegas-sized mystery!

A BRIEF CHAPTER IN MY IMPOSSIBLE LIFE
Dana Reinhardt
Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN: 0385746989
Ages 12-up
224 pages

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Simone is starting her junior year in high school, and her future is looking bright. Then one day her birth mother contacts her. Simone has always known she was adopted, but she never wanted to know anything about it and is happy with her family as it's presently constituted.

Who exactly is her birth mother, and why has she contacted Simone now? The answers lead Simone to deeper feelings of anguish and love than she has ever known, and to question everything she once took for granted about faith, life, the afterlife, and what it means to be a daughter.

GRAND & HUMBLE
Brent Hartinger
HarperTempest
ISBN: 0060567279
Ages 14-up
224 pages

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Harlan is a popular kid and Manny is a geek. But something strange is happening to both of them. Harlan is slowly losing his grip because he's been stricken with panic attacks he can't control. And Manny has started having nerve-racking nightmares that leave him exhausted and terrified. In this complex and original novel, popular author Brent Hartinger takes us on an intense psychological journey as Harlan and Manny struggle with a fear they can't name. It's a journey that eventually leads downtown, where a secret lies at the intersection of Grand and Humble.

HARD HIT
Ann Turner
Scholastic Press
ISBN: 0439296803
Ages 12-up
128 pages

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As the pitcher on his high school team, Mark lives and breathes baseball. Although there's pressure from his coach and his dad to excel, he's able to enjoy the time he spends with one of his best friends and his new girlfriend. But when Mark's dad is diagnosed with cancer, everything Mark has ever believed in --- love, God, baseball --- is called into question.

This profoundly affecting novel in verse traces the physical and emotional journey of a boy in crisis, and all the emotions --- anger, denial, fear, bargaining, sadness, acceptance --- that accompany loss.

MURKMERE
Patricia Elliott
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 0316010421
Ages 12-up
352 pages

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Aggie's life in the village is as normal and dull as any girl's; she has never questioned the rule of the Ministration or the power of the divine beings --- the birds. Then, the crippled master of the nearby manor, Murkmere, sends for Aggie to become a lady's companion to his ward, Leah. Aggie accepts and even starts to befriend the wild and strange girl who seems to want nothing but to escape Murkmere and its powermongering steward, Silas. As preparations begin for the ball celebrating Leah's sixteenth birthday, Aggie finds herself more deeply involved in the sinister plots that surround Murkmere, Leah, and the mysterious Master.

SHOCK POINT
April Henry
G. P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 0399243852
Ages 12-up
176 pages

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Sixteen-year-old Cassie's stepfather Rick is about to strike it rich with Socom, a new behavioral drug in which Rick is a big investor. But then Cassie discovers that Rick, a teen psychiatrist, has already been prescribing Socom illegally to his patients --- and three teens have died. Before she can report him, Rick has Cassie committed to Peaceful Cove, a sadistic boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico. Cassie is determined to escape --- but even if she does, will anyone believe her story?

WARRIOR GIRL: A Novel of Joan of Arc
Pauline Chandler
Greenwillow Books
ISBN: 0060841028
Ages 10-up
368 pages

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Mariane believes in her cousin Jehanne and has faith in Jenanne's visions. What Mariane doesn't know, as she and Jehanne embark on a crusade that will lead them both into battle and closer and closer to peril, is that someone is after her. She also doesn't know that the vicious murder of her mother was not a random act and that somewhere in her possession is the key to a future she can only dream about.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

AFTER IMAGE
Pierce Askegren
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN: 1416911812
Ages 16-up
272 pages

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The long-closed Sunnydale Drive-In is having a grand reopening with a scheduled nightlong festival of classic action and horror movies. But Buffy is too distracted to take in a movie. A frightening encounter with a werewolf ends with its vanishing --- not into the woods, but evaporating like a ghost before her eyes. Suspicious people in dated clothes and hairstyles are spotted throughout town but don't appear to be the usual vampires. And most disturbing, a sleeping sickness begins to spread all over town, leaving those affected in a state of extreme drowsiness --- or a coma.

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HURRICANE HEX
Diana G. Gallagher
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN: 1416914676
Ages 16-up
224 pages

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Despite the fact that it's hurricane season, Phoebe, Piper and Paige decide to take a trip to the Sunshine State and visit Paige's best friend from college. They arrive just as a hurricane in South Florida changes course and starts heading toward them. The three sisters soon discover that the dangerous storm isn't their only worry --- it seems that Paige's friend has taken up practicing folk magic with a quirky neighbor who has an unhealthy obsession with Florida folklore.

Mates, Dates

MATES, DATES, AND DIAMOND DESTINY
Cathy Hopkins
Simon Pulse
ISBN: 0689876971
Ages 12-up
272 pages

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At first Nesta becomes involved in charity work because she thinks it would be a cool way to meet people (mainly boys). But as her eyes are opened to the plight of the world, she begins to notice her own materialism, and she genuinely wants to get involved and help others. Then Nesta meets William, a boy who questions her motives. At times, she is convinced he hates her and the feeling is mutual. But Izzie, Lucy and TJ think it is something more like love...