The Hunger Games

By Suzanne Collins
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When her sister is chosen by lottery, Katniss steps up to go in her place.
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The Shepherd's Granddaughter

By Anne Laurel Carter

From the land of Pakistan, a coming-of-age story that captures the suffering of the people. This is the story of Amani, who discovers that the Israeli's are secretly planning to build a settlement on disputed land. Will the military be the ones to stop this -- or will help come from a more peaceful source?
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

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.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks is laugh out loud funny, heart poundingly exciting, and it makes you want to stand up and cheer.

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Saving Zoë by Alyson Noël

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.

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Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples

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.

Najmah's father and brother were taken away by the Taliban and her mother and baby brother were killed by a bomb during the Afghan War. Najmah decides to make the perilous journey from Afghanistan to Peshawar, Pakistan, disguised as a boy. On the other side of the border, Nusrat has travelled to Pakistan from America with her Afghan doctor husband to set up clinics, but the two became separated so she starts running a school for Afghan refugee children that have come across the border. When the two women meet, they share a friendship borne out of loss and hope and a love of the night sky.

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Beneath My Mother's Feet by Amjed Qamar

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.

Fourteen year old Nanzia has always been the perfect daughter. Her parents have worked hard to make a life and dowry for her, and obedience is the least she can give to her mother. When her father gets into an accident at work, her older brother dissapears, and her dowry is stolen, Nanzia remembers the words of the Prophet Muhammad. "All children know that the gates of heaven lie beneath their mother's feet." She drops out of school to become a live in maid with her mother in their town of Karachi, Pakistan. Being a maid, though, is a shameful occupation and Nanzia worries that no one will want her for a daughter-in-law. Losing everything, though, Nanzia finds she has gained a wonderful kind of freedom. What is she willing to sacrifice?

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Up All Night

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.

Inspired by the book to write a short story about being up all night? Harper Collins is looking for a teen to write a seventh short story for the paperback version of this book! Click here to find the registration form. Be sure to get it in the mail by October 1, 2008!

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