Teen Books to Check Out

This Girl Isn't Shy, She's Spectacular

2009-10-30T13:32:00.001-07:00

By Nina Beck
Samantha Owens is tired of being a good girl and finds the high fashion world to be an exciting place where she can stay out all night with wild boys. But what happens when she actually finds someone she can really love?
Y BEC

NewsGirl

2009-10-30T13:22:00.000-07:00

By Liza Ketchum

When Amelia discovers that newsboys can make a fortune selling newspapers, she decides there has to be a way she can help her penniless family. Amelia cuts her hair and dresses herself as a boy. But suddenly she finds herself in a runaway balloon that lands in a gold field. What a story this will make -- if she can survive.
Y KET

Dare To Be Scared 4

2009-10-30T13:13:00.000-07:00

By San Souci, Robert D.

Tales of terror just for you! Thirteen brand new stories that will keep you up at night -- witches, werewolves, ghosts, and monsters.

Y SAN

Ash

2009-10-01T10:27:00.000-07:00

By Malinda Lo

In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted.

Y LO

Fairest of All

2009-08-31T14:24:00.000-07:00

By Serena Valentino

Fairest of All is the story of the Wicked Queen, who she was before, and who she longed to be before she was destroyed by her vanity and the need to murder her daughter Snow White. It is a bloody tale of abuse, heartbreak, love and grief, and the lure of a mysterious man in an enchanted mirror.

Chicken Soup For The Soul: Extraordinary Teens

2009-08-31T13:51:00.001-07:00

By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Kent Healy
This book includes personal stories from many well-known young professional athletes, business entrepreneurs, motivational speakers, actors, writers, and filmmakers. Every person shares his or her story along with priceless advice that will show you how you too, can achieve something extraordinary.

Geektastic: Stories From the Nerd Herd

2009-08-31T12:43:00.000-07:00

Edited by Holly Black

Geek is the new cool! Read stories written just for you from the geekiest (coolest) authors around.

Geek Charming

2009-08-31T12:38:00.000-07:00

By Robin Palmer

Dylan Shoenfield is the princess of L.A.’s posh Castle Heights High. She has the coolest boyfriend, the most popular friends, and a brand-new “it” bag that everyone covets. But when she accidentally tosses her bag into a fountain, this princess comes face-to-face with her own personal frog: selfprofessed film geek Josh Rosen. Will the frog help Dylan get her life back on track?

Another Faust

2009-08-31T12:29:00.000-07:00

By Daniel & Dina Nayeri

What do you want so much that you would sell your soul for it? To be a super-beauty, a super jock? A modern day retelling of an old story, this tale of high school competition is both funny and wicked.

Girlfriend Material

2009-06-26T07:03:00.000-07:00

By Melissa Kantor

Kate's never even had a boyfriend, and she'll be wasting her summer abetting her mother's lame ploy to make her Dad jealous by running off to Cape Cod and hanging out with wealthy friends. When Kate gets thrown in with the beautiful Sarah and her cute friend Adam. what starts out as a pretend "fling" gets a lot more complicated. Will Kate take the risk and tell Adam her real feelings?

Dead Is So Last Year

2009-05-01T12:46:00.000-07:00

By Marlene Perez

Something very strange starts happening in Nightshade the summer that the eldest Giordano sister, Rose, gets a job working at Dr. Franken's research laboratory. People are starting to see double. Doppelgängers of Nightshade residents are popping up all over town. Daisy, Rose and Poppy think it's a coincidence, until the rumors start that their father, who disappeared several years ago, has been spotted in town. Can the girls have a summer job, spend days at the beach, and still solve all the mysteries?

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War Is. . .Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War

2009-05-01T12:24:00.000-07:00

Edited by Marc Aronson

Twenty different stories, both fiction and nonfiction, told through essays, a "miliblog", interviews, and more.

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Distant Waves

2009-05-01T12:03:00.000-07:00

A Novel of the Titanic

By Suzanne Weyn

Four sisters and their mother make their way from a spiritualist town in New York to London, becoming acquainted with journalist W. T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor. When they all find themselves on the Titanic, one of Tesla's inventions dooms them...and one could save them. This book has it all--romance, science, spiritualism, and history.
Y WEY

Santa Claus in Baghdad

2009-05-01T11:56:00.000-07:00

And Other Stories About Teens in the Arab World

By Elsa Marston
Eight short stories that tell what it is like to be a teen living in the Arab world today. Find out what different issues they struggle with, and see also how similar their lives can be to yours.
Y MAR

No Cream Puffs

2009-05-01T11:52:00.000-07:00

By Karen Day

Madison is not your average 12-year-old girl from Michigan in 1980. She doesn’t use lipgloss, but she loves to play sports, and joins baseball for the summer—the first girl in Southern Michigan to play on a boys’ team. The press call her a star and a trailblazer, but Madison just wants to play ball. Who knew it would be so much pressure?

Y DAY

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2009-02-24T15:49:00.000-08:00

A Graphic Novel

Originally by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A strange tale of a man who is "born" 70 years old and ages in reverse. This book is funnier than the movie!

Y FIT

Belle

2009-01-30T13:28:00.000-08:00

By Beverly Jenkins

After a gruelling escape to the north, Belle Palmer is free, yet lost and alone. Separated from her father on the harrowing journey, she has no where to turn until she finds shelter with the Bests, the first free family she has ever known.

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Prayed Up

2009-01-30T13:25:00.000-08:00

By Stephanie Perry Moore

Now that he's taken his relationship with Savoy to the next level, Perry is having some major regrets--and all this anxiety is starting to affect his game. When he drops a pass during the season opener, the press has a field day and Perry is distraught. Quickly, things are put into perspective when, on the flight home, their plane has to make an emergency landing. Suddenly, Perry starts seeing things clearly. Admitting that he's let God and his team down, he makes a solemn vow to stay pure and give his all to the game.

YA PB MOO

Science Versus Crime

2009-01-20T13:03:00.000-08:00

Essentials of Forensic Science / Facts on File

By Max M. Houck

Learn how forensic science can determine how a crime is solved and charged.

Y 363.25 HOU

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

2009-01-20T12:58:00.000-08:00

By Deborah Heiligman

Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species. This biography looks at the personal life of Charles and his wife -- discussing the beliefs they held that influenced their professional writings. A great book for a school report!
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The Fetch

2009-01-20T12:53:00.000-08:00

A Supernatural Romance

By Laura Whitcomb

Calder is a Fetch, a Death Escort, who has stepped back from Heaven to Earth. Now he has fallen in love with a mortal girl, and could cause a revolution in the spirit world.

Y WHI

EON: Dragoneye Reborn

2009-01-20T12:43:00.000-08:00

by Alison Goodman

Twelve year old Eon has been practicing Dragon Magic, an East Asian study that involves sword skills and magical attitude. Soon his skills will be tested, but will his secret be exposed? Eon is really Eona -- a sixteen year old girl that is forbidden to compete.

Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?

2009-01-10T14:04:00.000-08:00

edited by Marissa Walsh

Do you feel fat, ugly, skinny, round, bad, or good? Young Adult writers sound off on body image., self-esteem, diets, eating disorders, boys, fashion magazines, and why trying on jeans is a bad experience for everyone.

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Forever Princess

2009-01-10T12:16:00.000-08:00

By Meg Cabot

It's Mia's senior year -- and things should be fabulous! But, with Genovia's and her own future hanging in the balance, Mia's got some decisions to make: Which college? Which guy? How can she choose? Especially when what she decides might determine not just the next four years, but . . . forever!

Y CAB

The Rock and the River

2009-01-10T11:39:00.001-08:00

By Kekla Magoon
Sam wants to believe that his father is right: You can effect change without using violence. But as time goes on, Sam grows weary of standing by and watching as his friends and family suffer at the hands of racism in their own community. Sam beings to explore the Black Panthers, but soon he's involved in something far more serious -- and more dangerous -- than he could have ever predicted. Sam is faced with a difficult decision. Will he follow his father(civil rights activist Roland Childs) or his brother? His mind or his heart? The rock or the river?
Y MAG