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.

The Eleventh Plague ( F HIR)

Things for Kayla progress from bad, as in being told her

computer grades disqualify her from an art scholarship, to

worse, when she refuses to accept an identification bar

code tattoo on her seventeenth birthday.

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve,

Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only

one other in his community and discovers the terrible

truth about the society in which he lives.

In a world where some people are born with extreme

and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for

redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of

killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save

their land from a corrupt king.

Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip

in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded

and they must hide to stay alive.

In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped,

and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi

are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured,

too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced

to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an

escape.

Graceling (F CAS)

The Giver (F LOW)

Bar Code Tattoo (F WEY)

Dustlands: Blood Red Road (F YOU)

Tomorrow When the War Began (F MAR)

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Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an

apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his

mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school,

and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another

resident of their building.

Even though his classmates from first grade on have

considered him strange and a loser, Donald Zinkoff's

optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving

family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.

Entering 7th grade is no big deal for Marley Sandelski: Same

old boring classes, same old boring life. The only thing he has

to look forward to is the upcoming Star Trek convention. But

when he inadvertently draws the attention of Digger Ronster,

the biggest bully in school, his life has officially moved from

boring to far too dramatic . . . from invisible to center stage.

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the

life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and

her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-

out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that

has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find

her a better life.

Tamara dreams of the day when ten-year-old Muscle

Man McGinty's constant lies catch up to him, but when

an incredible event takes place in the summer of 1969,

her outlook on life is altered in the most surprising way.

If you liked... Liar & Spy (F STE)

Loser (F SPI)

Warp Speed (F YEE)

Inside Out & Back Again (F LAI)

One & Only Ivan (F APP)

Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscleman McGinty Told Me (F MAR)

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If you liked... Game Changers

Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from

social services after being banned from playing Little

League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is

only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer

them proof.

After winning a basketball reporting contest,

eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to

cover the Final Four tournament, where they

discover that a talented player is being

blackmailed into throwing the final game.

Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on

his noteworthy basketball talents to get him

out of the inner city and give him a chance to

succeed in life, but his coach sees things

differently.

Since Ty Green's brother Thane is already a college football

star, Ty himself has now been offered an opportunity to

play on the team. But his gambling Uncle Gus who is Ty's

guardian forbids him to do so. He wants Ty to scrub floors

and toilets for his cleaning business and to get information

from his older brother that the Mafia can use. Now Ty must

develop a plan to save Thane's career and even his own life.

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his

football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play

soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to

remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

Groomed by his father to be a star player, football is the

only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick Johnson,

who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his

freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using

steroids, despite the consequences to his health and

social life.

Football Hero (F GRE)

Gym Candy (F DEU)

Tangerine (F BLO)

SLAM! (F MYE)

Heat (F LUP)

Last Shot (F FEI)

Girls & Sports 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.

After moving from Chicago to Dallas in the spring of

her sophomore year, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that

joining the softball team at her private school not

only helps her make friends, it also provides

unexpected opportunities to learn and grow.

Thirteen-year-old Savvy's dreams of starting for her

elite basketball team are in danger when she is

accused of taking steroids.

In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-

one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual

softball game, during which one girl's bigotry

comes to the surface.

When Russian skating coach Andrei Grosheva

offers twelve-year-old farm girl Claire a

scholarship to train with the elite in Lake Placid,

she encounters a world of mean girls on ice,

where competition is everything.

Two years after her mother's death of cancer,

fourteen-year-old Flora leaves the family's Maine

farm for Colorado's International Sports Academy,

where fierce competition could end their dream of

Flora playing for U.S. Soccer.

Dairy Queen ( F MUR)

Throwing Like A Girl ( F MAC)

Boost ( F MAC) Bat 6 ( F WOL)

Sugar & Ice ( F MES)

Soccerland ( F CHO)

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

To free herself from an upcoming arranged

marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden

of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of

its own, decides to help a young prisoner

escape.

Having learned how to box while in prison,

fifteen-year-old Johnny sets out to discover

if he can make a decent living as a fighter in

late nineteenth-century New York City.

Seventeen-year-old Englishman Carl Hobbes

meant no harm when he hacked into Fort Knox's

security system, but at Camp Twilight in the

Arctic Circle, known as the Guantanamo Bay of

the north, he is tortured to reveal information

about a conspiracy of which he was never a part.

When Deet's father is jailed for using

drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what

he expected, nor are other people

necessarily the way he thought they were.

Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the

law, must find a way to keep their halfway house

open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.

THE Juvie Three (F KOR)

Monster (F MYE)

InCarceron (F FIS) DO Not Pass Go (F HIL)

ICeCore (F WHY)

The Boxer (F KAR)

Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary

seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies

beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest,

where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-

eating people who were once dead.

Each time fifteen-year-old Hannah and her out-of-

work father move she has some fears about making

friends, but a classmate warns her that in

Maplecrest, Vermont, the cheerleaders really are

monsters.

When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year

-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him

invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason

to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul

UnDeaD Rot & Ruin (F MAB)

Benny reluctantly leaves the safety of home and joins his

bounty-hunting half-brother Tom in the zombie-riddled wilds

of the Rot and Ruin. As the brothers encounter villains far

more inhuman than the undead, Benny begins to question his

understanding not only of Tom, but also of life, death, and

what bravery really means.

After a disease turns everyone over sixteen into

brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group

of teenagers leave their shelter and set out of a

harrowing journey across London to the safe haven of

Buckingham Palace.

This excitingly disgusting book examines fungi,

viruses, and other kinds of parasites who survive by

hijacking the brains and bodies of other animals. For

instance, a certain fungus can force a carpenter ant

to find just the right environment before the fungus

starts growing…out of the ant's head.

. . . But Well Read Forest of Hands & Teeth (F RYA)

The Boy Who Couldn’t Die (F SLE) The Enemy (F HIG)

Zombie Makers (578.6 JOH) Zombie Blondes (F JAM)

Romance k

PARANORMAL

After her parents die under mysterious circumstances, sixteen-

year-old Renee Winters is sent from California to an old-

fashioned boarding school in Maine, where she meets a fellow

student to whom she seems strangely connected.

Dead Beautiful (F WOO)

Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family,

sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's

thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other

people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who

is hiding even more mysteries.

Evermore ( F Noe)

Paranormalcy ( F Whi)

Sleepless ( F Noe)

Wicked Lovely ( F Mar)

Vampire Kisses ( F Sch) When a dark prophecy begins to come true, sixteen-year

-old Evie of the International Paranormal Containment

Agency must not only try to stop it, she must also

uncover its connection to herself and the alluring

shapeshifter, Lend.

Eron, a supernatural being known as a Sandman whose

purpose is to help humans fall asleep, falls in love with a

sad teenaged girl who is mourning her boyfriend's

death.

Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see

faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle

between the Summer King and Winter Queen, and the

survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the

balance.

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.

Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-

compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato

farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two

teenagers go missing within months of each other, with

no explanation.

Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college

dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a

world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one

particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his

lucrative business of raising the dead.

Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron,

young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching

for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way

to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.

When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the

independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century,

sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous

and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life

described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka

Obscura.

In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal

maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where

his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood

toys, including one called Scowler, to protect himself, his

eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.

With the help of his servant and an orphan girl, a magician

named Valerian searches graveyards, churches, and

underground waterways for a book he hopes will save him

from a pact he has made with evil.

Cryer’s Cross ( F McM)

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer ( F McB)

The Knife of Never Letting Go ( F NES)

This Dark Endeavor ( F OPP)

Haunting HorroRs

Scowler ( F KRA) Audio only

The Book of Dead Days ( F SED)

Girl Power Hoping to rescue her family from their personal and financial

troubles, twelve-year-old Katherine Ann Stephenson comes up with

a plan to put her magical abilities to good use. When her plan gets

underway, however, her sister's fiancé begins showing a dangerous

interest in her magical potential.

While staying with her grandmother over the summer, Devon Delaney becomes friends with Lexi and pretends she is dating the most popular boy in middle school. When Lexi transfers to Devon's school in the middle of the year, Devon desperately tries to cover up for her lies.

Sixth-grader Annabelle spends autumn coping with competing groups of friends at school, her mother's pre-wedding stress, learning to get along with a cute stepbrother-to-be, and such momentous events as wearing her first bra and learning to shave her legs.

A scrapbook format is used to tell a story of a year in middle

school. Describes Ginny's problems such as turning her hair

pink, getting detention for throwing frogs in class, and

losing the lead in the ballet recital.

When best friends Lydia and Julie prepare to begin

junior high as the most popular girls, they record their

observations of classmates in the hope that they will

discover the way to be popular, but their plan goes

awry.

Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls (F CAB) Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is

even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned

upside-down when she learns that her family is moving

across town, which will mean a new house, school, best

friend, and plenty of new rules

The Popularity Papers (F IGN)

Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf (F HOL)

Girls Acting Catty (F MAR)

The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney (F BAR)

Kat Incorrigible (F BUR)