, Patricia Wrede
(Frontier Magic, Book 2) Eff, an unlucky thirteenth child, and her twin brother Lan, the powerful seventh son of a seventh son, face new challenges that force Eff to travel beyond the Great Barrier in an effort to understand her own magical abilities, as well as those of Lan, and try to save the settlers from a new threat.
The Apothecary, Maile Meloy
Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, newly arrived in London from Los Angeles in 1952, becomes friends with a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows, and is drawn into a dangerous adventure with Benjamin when his father is kidnapped and Russian spies try to steal his book of secrets.
Art Geeks and Prom Queens, Alyson Noe?l
Seventeen-year-old Alex seriously messes up during her senior year at an Orange County, California high school, skipping classes and staying out all night at Hollywood night clubs with older guys, in an effort to distract herself from some unpleasant realities.
The Cupcake Queen, Heather Hepler
While longing to return to life in New York City, thirteen-year-old Penny helps her mother and grandmother run a cupcake bakery in Hog’s Hollow, tries to avoid the beastly popular girls, to be a good friend to quirky Tally, and to catch the eye of enigmatic Marcus.
Dark Song, Gail Giles
After her father loses his job and she finds out that her parents have lied to her, fifteen-year-old Ames feels betrayed enough to become involved with a criminal who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
Deadly Cool, Gemma Halliday
When sixteen-year-old Hartley Featherstone finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her, she goes to his house to confront him and suddenly finds herself embroiled in a murder mystery.
Destined: A House of Night Novel, P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
Zoey, safe at home with her guardian warrior Stark, confronts new forces at work in the House of Night, including Aurox, a devastatingly handsome teenage boy, created by Neferet as her greatest weapon.
Dreamland, Alyson Noe?l
Eager to contact her sister Ever, ghost Riley goes in search of the place where dreams are made, where she finds a renegade ghost boy who has been flouting the rules of Dreamland for decades.
The Eleventh Plague, Jeff Hirsch
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.
First Kiss (Then Tell)
Twenty-five best-selling young adult authors share stories about their first kiss. Includes stories from Deb Caletti, Sarah Mlynowski, Scott Westerfeld, Alyson Noe?l, Lauren Myracle, and more.
The Girl in the Steel Corset, Kady Cross
Sixteen-year-old Finley, a lady’s maid in 1897 England, is forced to leave yet another job when the dark “thing” inside her knocks out the brutal son of her employer. She is taken in by Griffin King, the orphaned Duke of Greythorne, who sees the magical darkness inside Finley and enlists her to join his little group of misfits in a quest to bring down the mastermind behind a rash of crimes committed by automatons.
How to Save a Life, Sara Zarr
Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill’s mother agrees to adopt Mandy’s unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.
If I Tell, Janet Gurtler
Raised by her grandparents, seventeen-year-old Jasmine, the result of a biracial one night stand, has never met her father but has a good relationship with her mother until she sees her mother’s boyfriend kissing Jaz’s best friend.
The Knife That Killed Me, Anthony McGowan
Paul Varderman, a secondary student in an English Catholic School, is a loner until, just as he is becoming friends with “the freaks,” the school bully encourages Paul to join his gang and gives him a knife to carry as an incentive.
The Lipstick Laws, Amy Holder
When Britney, the most popular girl at Penford High School, invites April Bowers to her lunch table April is thrilled with her sudden change in status, but soon finds that Britney’s friendship comes at a steep price.
Past Perfect, Leila Sales
Sixteen-year-old Chelsea knows what to expect when she returns for a summer of historical reenactment at Colonial Essex Village until she learns that her ex-boyfriend is working there, too, and then meets the very attractive Dan who works at a rival historical village.
The Power or Six, Pittacus Lore
John Smith–who is Number Four–teams up with Number Six and learns more about the fate of his home planet, Lorien, after it was attacked by the Mogadorians, and tries to reconcile the stress of knowing that the fates of Lorien and Earth are tied to his success.
The Pull of Gravity, Gae Polisner (Teen Book Festival 2012 Author)
When their friend Scooter dies of a rare disease, teenagers Nick Gardner and Jaycee Amato set out on a secret journey to find the father who abandoned “The Scoot” when he was an infant, and give him a signed first edition of “Of Mice and Men.”
Saving Zoe?, Alyson Noe?l
Instead of a fresh start, high school provides more grief and isolation to Echo, whose older sister died a year earlier, but insights gained from Zoe’s diary–a fifteenth birthday gift from Zoe’s boyfriend–about her sister’s life and death change Echo in ways she could have never expected.
The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
The Secret Circle, L.J. Smith
Cassie is drawn into the Secret Circle, a coven of young witches whose power has controlled New Salem for three hundred years, and when she falls hopelessly in love with the leader’s boyfriend, she is tempted to use dark powers.
Skyship Academy: The Pearl Wars, Nick James
In 2095 when a fifteen-year-old slacker discovers that he has the power to control Pearls, fragments of space debris that are a dying Earth’s most important energy source, government forces work to capture him.
Stork, Wendy Delsol
After her parents’ divorce, Katla and her mother move from Los Angeles to Norse Falls, Minnesota, where Kat immediately alienates two boys at her high school and, improbably, discovers a kinship with a mysterious group of elderly women–the Icelandic Stork Society–who “deliver souls.”
Variant, Robison Wells
After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico’s Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.
Where I Belong, Gwendolyn Heasley
When sixteen-year-old Corinne Corcoran’s father loses his job, she is forced to give up her privileged Manhattan lifestyle and move to Broken Spoke, Texas, where she discovers that life is more than shopping sprees and country clubs.
Witchlanders, Lena Coakley
After the prediction of Ryder’s mother, once a great prophet and powerful witch, comes true and their village is destroyed by a deadly assassin, Ryder embarks on a quest that takes him into the mountains in search of the destroyer.
You Are My Only, Beth Kephart
Tells, in their separate voices and at a space of fourteen years, of Emmy, whose baby has been stolen, and Sophie, a teenager who defies her nomadic, controlling mother by making friends with a neighbor boy and his elderly aunts.
Published on October 27, 2011.
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