by Neal Shusterman
by Paul Griffin
by Elizabeth Scott
by Melissa de La Cruz
by Terry Pratchett
By Jody Gehrman
By James Kennedy
By Julie Roorda
By Suzanne Collins
By Anne Laurel Carter
Frankie Landau-Banks blossomed during the summer between her freshman and sophomore year and she is sick and tired of being underestimated. Her new boyfriend keeps ditching her at important times and lying about where he is going. When she follows him one night and discovers that her boyfriend has been keeping from her that he is a member of their school's secret all-male society The Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds, she comes up with a plan. Instead of demanding they let her in or secretly infiltrating their ranks, she decides to become their leader.
One year ago, Echo's older sister Zoë was murdered. She is trying to rebuild her life when her Zoë's boyfriend shows up with Zoë's old diary. Echo and her sister were close, so at first she does not want to read the diary. What could possibly be in there that she doesn't already know? But quiet, academic Echo longs for wild child Zoë so fiercely that curiosity gets the better of her. What she finds is a second chance at knowing the sister who had been so much a part of her life yet so elusive, especially during those last few months.
Welcome back for more of our One Library, One Book related Teen Books to Check Out. The Teen Book Club will be reading Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Relin for our November 3rd Book Club, but if you've already read it and are itching for more books about Pakistan, check out Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples.
Our One Library, One Book has started. The Teen Book Club will be reading Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Relin for our November 3rd Book Club, but if you've already read it and are itching for more books about Pakistan, check out Beneath My Mother's Feet by Amjed Qamar.
Up All Night is a book of six unusual short stories by six popular YA authors: Peter Abrahams, Libba Bray, Devid Levithan, Patricia McCormick, Sarah Weeks, and Gene Luen Yang. Each story has a common theme. The characters are up all night - and the results are life changing. Each story is different. One is a ghost story, one a romance, one told in comics, but in each a single night changes the course of the lives.
The summer after high school, Honor Role student Chris and his goofball best friend Win decide to go on a cross country bike-trip. Halfway through, Chris stops to change a flat tire and Win keeps on going. Chris doesn't hear from him again, and then the FBI show up asking all sorts of questions. 
Mosca Mye is considered strange in her village, mostly because of her ability to read. When the strange con artist Eponymous Klent comes into town, throwing fancy words around like water and filling everyone's head with stories, Mosca sees her chance. She frees him from the stocks and together they flee to the great city of Mandelion! There Mosca meets the Duke's sister Lady Tamarind and gets caught up in a web of illegal printing presses, twin queens, floating coffee houses, and homicidal geese. Will she be able to sort out the strings and make everything right before she loses her head?
Toby Klein is not exactly stereotypical cheerleader material. She's a computer hacker with a black belt in karate and an attitude problem. Never one to back down from a challenge, Toby quickly realizes that the A-list cheerleaders are actually a front for highly trained, athletically invincible operatives for the United States government. Can Toby handle the makeover? And can the squad handle her? 
It has been 500 years since Ragnarok. The old gods tales are not remembered and magic has been outlawed. Maddy, however, was born with a runemark on her face, and she has powers that frighten the villagers. Then old One-eye sends her on a quest that throws her world into Chaos. Are the old gods coming back? Who is One-eye anyway?
Teen Anthony D requested that we put To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee on our blog. The book follows Scout during the summers of the great depression. Her father Atticus is a lawer. Anthony writes that "a black man is accused of rape and Atticus has to defend him in an all white town." Scout and her family deal with the tauntings of the townsfolk and estrangement from many they thought were their friends.
In Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins, Debbie wishes on her necklace that something would happen. Her friend Hector, across town, realizes that there could be more to his life and decides to learn to play the guitar. Together with their childhood friends, Debbie and Hector have a quiet yet eventful summer full of learning to drive, loosing a necklace, finding a brief romance, and figuring out more about who they are.
After a particularly trying day in which she sets her hair on fire in chemistry class in front of her crush, Libby Fawcett decides to start an online journal. A password protected for her eyes only type of online journal, not a public blog. She can type faster than she can write, and her written journals have a tendency to get lost and read by others. She spends a month pouring her heart out to this blog, telling it secrets about the crushes her friends have, how her arch nemesis Angel Rivera is ruining her life, and about her blossoming friendship with her crush. Then Angel Rivera pulls her worst prank yet ... she steals the password to Libby's blog and posts her secrets all over school. Will Libby ever be able to show her face again? And will her friends ever forgive her?
If you are looking for something fun and funny to start off your lazy summer days, The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett might just be the perfect book for you. Tiffany Aching lives on a farm, makes very good cheese, and wants to be a witch when she grows up. When the monsters of Fairyland start invading her land, Tiffany grabs her trusty frying pan and sets out to defend her home. She has befriended a small, angry tribe of blue skinned "pictsies" called the Nac Mac Feegle or the Wee Free Men who will follow her as far as she will lead them (as long as there is a chance for stealin' and drinkin' and fightin' along the way) to help her defeat the Queen of Fairyland.
I tagged Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Peterson with "Super Heroes," but these mice aren't super heroes in the traditional sense. They don't have special powers and they don't wear spandex, but give them a cloak and a sword and they WILL save mousedom.
In Street Love Walter Dean Myers takes his talent for words into the romance genre by giving us this gritty, realistic story of two teenagers in love on the streets of Harlem. Damien has broken free of the gang-infested streets he lives on and his parents are excited about him being on the fast track to getting "A PhD in mucho buckology." Damien, however, has his sights set on the quiet Junice he's seen around. Junice's life couldn't be more different from Damien's. Her mother is in jail, her grandmother failing to Alzheimer's, she is left to take care of her younger sister and her grandmother all while trying to finish high school. 
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale is the journal of Dashti, the maid to the Lady Saren. Saren has been sentenced to be shut in a tower for seven years because of her refusal to marry the man her father has chosen for her, and Dashti is to take care of her during her imprisonment. 
When Ashley suggested this book for our blog, she described it as, "the story of a young relationship gone wrong." The story starts with Nick in a courthouse where his ex girlfriend is getting a restraining order against him. Talk about love gone wrong! Nick is rich, an honors student, a football player, the most popular guy in school. How did it come to this? His father hits him, so he knows better than to ever hit someone in return, right? Especially not Caitlin, his one true love. But somehow he did. Through court mandated family violence councelling and keeping a journal where he recounts his relationship with Caitlin, we grow to understand how he got to where he is and where he can go from there.
Bobby's sixteenth birthday brings change to his life, but not the usual sort of change. His girlfriend, Nia, is pregnant. The book alternates chapters between now, where Bobby is struggling to raise his baby Feather on his own, and then, the story of Bobby and Nia and how their family and friends deal with Nia's pregnancy. Bobby's love for Feather is achingly beautiful, and his attempts to balance school, work, a social life, and being a father are realistic, poignant, and provocative.
Coraline and her parents have just moved to a new house. The house is very large and has been divided up into four seperate apartments, so the door in her living room now opens up onto a boarded up wall. One night Coraline opens the door in the middle of the night and finds, instead of a wall, another apartment with another mother and another father. These creepy parents have shiny black buttons sewn on their eyes and want Coraline to stay with them. When she escapes back to her apartment she discovers that the Other Mother has kidnapped her real parents and she must go back over there and use all her cunning to rescue her parents. Coraline is a creepy, pulse pounding ghost story that will have you gripping the book and reading the whole thing in one sitting. Just be sure not to read it alone!
Over winter break, Austrailian teen Amal makes the biggest decision of her life. She decides to wear a hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full time. The decision was hers and hers alone, yet nobody seems to understand that. Many people, her principal included, are convinced that her parents are forcing her into it. Going to her snobby prep school day after day, while enduring classmates who ask her to give a speech to the whole school why terrorists do what they do and how Islam justifies it, is bad enough, but she also has to deal with all the other realities of being a high school girl. She has her first, serious mad crush on a boy, she fights with her parents, goes shopping with friends, and learns more about herself than she thought she would when she first put on the hijab.
Is poetry just for old people and chumps? Never! These poems are fun and inviting, with strange shapes and a fantastic narrator. Jessie falls in love with blue lipstick, but decides it isn't for her, flashes with her brother, ends up with the worst of all possible bad hairstyles, turns in homework to her English teacher that her cat ate then ... "coughed" up, and still manages to write poetry with style and confidence.
Alex, Karolina, Gert, Nico, Chase, and Molly are thrust together once a year when their parents get together to choose which charities to send their extra money to. This year their lives take a turn for the surreal when they decide to spy on their parents boring cocktail party only to discover that their parents are actually mass-murdering super villains who call themselves "The Pride."
In Thirteen Reasons Why, Clay Jensen comes home from high school one day to find a shoebox with 7 tapes in it. When he starts to listen to the first tape, he is floored - Hannah Baker's voice is speaking too him. Clay had had a crush on Hannah since she moved to town, but two weeks ago she swallowed a handful of pills. Now her voice is on his stereo telling the story of why she did it and, worst of all, "if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why."
Just in time for Valentine's Day, we bring you a new retelling of Cupid and Psyche's classic love story.
Check this book out if you are looking for a sweet, sad, vulnerable read. There are moments when the book tries a bit too hard, but with this book that works because Naomi is trying so hard herself to find out who she is and where she fits in.
What isn't cool about going to spy-school? As a sophomore, Cammie Morgan is fluent in fourteen different languages, she has learned to blend into a crowd well enough to have earned the nickname "the Chameleon," and she's just starting her Covert Operations classes. During the third week of school, her Cov Ops class goes on assignment in town where she meets an ordinary non-spy boy - and one that sees HER!
