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	The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian Alexie, Sherman, 1966- New York : Little, Brown, 2007. Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Subjects Spokane Indians -- Juvenile fiction. Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Juvenile fiction. Indian reservations -- Juvenile fiction. Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.

	The book thief Zusak, Markus. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. Subjects Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction. Books and reading -- Fiction. Storytelling -- Fiction. Death -- Fiction. Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Fiction.

	The Christopher killer : a forensic mystery Ferguson, Alane. New York : Viking/Sleuth, 2006. On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger. Subjects Coroners -- Fiction. Forensic sciences -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. Mystery and detective stories.

	Dairy queen : a novel Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 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. Subjects Football -- Juvenile fiction. Farm life -- Juvenile fiction.

	The dangerous days of Daniel X Patterson, James, 1947- New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008. Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence Earth and another planet are at stake. Subjects Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction. Criminals -- Fiction. Kidnapping -- Fiction. Orphans -- Fiction.

	The Declaration Malley, Gemma. New York : Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books, 2007. In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her. Subjects Aging -- Juvenile fiction. Immortality -- Juvenile fiction. Children -- Juvenile fiction. England -- Juvenile fiction.

	Deadline Crutcher, Chris. New York : Greenwillow Books, 2007. Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos." Subjects Terminally ill -- Fiction. Self-perception -- Fiction. High schools -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction.

	The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks : a novel Lockhart, E. New York : Hyperion, c2008. Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks. Subjects Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction. Friendship -- Juvenile fiction. Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction. Practical jokes -- Juvenile fiction. Clubs -- Juvenile fiction.

	Graceling Cashore, Kristin. Orlando, FL : Harcourt, 2008. 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. Subjects Imaginary places -- Juvenile fiction. Uncles -- Juvenile fiction. Princes -- Juvenile fiction. Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

	The graveyard book Gaiman, Neil. New York : HarperCollins, c2008. Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. Subjects Newbery Medal. Dead -- Juvenile fiction. Supernatural -- Juvenile fiction. Cemeteries -- Juvenile fiction.

	Going bovine Bray, Libba. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009. Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure. Subjects Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease -- Fiction. Mad cow disease -- Fiction. Dwarfs -- Fiction. People with disabilities -- Fiction. Automobile travel -- Fiction.

	How to say goodbye in Robot Standiford, Natalie. New York : Scholastic, 2009. After moving to Baltimore and enrolling in a private school, high school senior Beatrice befriends a quiet loner with a troubled family history. Subjects Friendship -- Fiction. Family problems -- Fiction. Death -- Fiction. Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction.

	The hunger games Collins, Suzanne. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008. In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. Subjects Survival skills -- Juvenile fiction. Television programs -- Juvenile fiction. Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction. Contests -- Juvenile fiction.

	Identical Hopkins, Ellen. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2008. Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart. Subjects Family problems -- Fiction. Emotional problems -- Fiction. Secrets -- Fiction. Sexual abuse victims -- Fiction. Twins -- Fiction. Sisters -- Fiction. California -- Fiction.

	A great and terrible beauty Bray, Libba. New York, NY : Delacorte Press, 2003. After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. Subjects Magic -- Fiction. Supernatural -- Fiction. Boarding schools -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.

	In the forests of the night Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. New York : Delacorte Press, c1999. Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will. Subjects Vampires -- Fiction. Witches -- Fiction. Time travel -- Fiction. Youths' writings.

	Inkheart Funke, Cornelia Caroline. New York : Scholastic, 2003. Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. Subjects Books and reading -- Juvenile fiction. Characters and characteristics in literature -- Juvenile fiction. Magic -- Juvenile fiction. Bookbinding -- Juvenile fiction. Authorship -- Juvenile fiction. Italy -- Juvenile fiction.

	Leviathan Westerfeld, Scott. New York : Simon Pulse, 2009. In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts. Subjects Science fiction -- Juvenile fiction. Animals -- Juvenile fiction. Princes -- Juvenile fiction. Genetic engineering -- Juvenile fiction.

	Life as we knew it Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948- Orlando : Harcourt, c2006. Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. Subjects Natural disasters -- Juvenile fiction. Family -- Juvenile fiction. Diaries -- Juvenile fiction.

	Little brother Doctorow, Cory. New York, NY : Tor Teen, 2008. After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. Subjects Terrorism -- Fiction. Computer hackers -- Fiction. Civil rights -- Fiction. Counterculture -- Fiction. United States. Dept. of Homeland Security -- Fiction. San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.

	Marcelo in the real world Stork, Francisco X. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009. Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm. Subjects Autism -- Juvenile fiction. Asperger's syndrome -- Juvenile fiction. Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.

	The monstrumologist Yancey, Richard. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2009. In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi. Subjects Supernatural -- Juvenile fiction. Monsters -- Juvenile fiction. Apprentices -- Juvenile fiction. Orphans -- Juvenile fiction. New England -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.

	A northern light Donnelly, Jennifer. San Diego : Harcourt, 2003. In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story. Subjects Education -- Fiction. Farm life -- New York (State) -- Fiction. Hotels, motels, etc. -- Fiction. Murder -- Fiction. Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction. New York (State) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. Donnelly, Jennifer -- Manuscripts. Hotels -- Fiction.

	Paper towns Green, John, 1977- New York, N.Y. : Dutton Books, c2008. One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears. Subjects Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction. Florida -- Juvenile fiction. Coming of age -- Fiction. Mystery and detective stories.

	Peaches Anderson, Jodi Lynn. New York : HarperCollins, 2005. Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach. Subjects Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. Farm life -- Georgia -- Fiction. Family problems -- Fiction. Peach -- Fiction. Georgia -- Fiction.

	The Pox party Anderson, M. T. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2006. Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. Subjects Freedom -- Fiction. Liberty -- Juvenile fiction. Slavery -- Juvenile fiction. Science -- Experiments -- Juvenile fiction. African Americans -- Juvenile fiction. Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Juvenile fiction. United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Juvenile fiction.

	Shift Bradbury, Jennifer. Atheneum Books 20080520 Chris and Win take a bicycle trip across America after graduation, but only one returns and that person is pressured to reveal what happened. Subjects Freedom -- Fiction. Liberty -- Juvenile fiction. Slavery -- Juvenile fiction. Science -- Experiments -- Juvenile fiction. African Americans -- Juvenile fiction. Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Juvenile fiction. United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Juvenile fiction.

	Shiver Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981- New York : Scholastic, 2009. In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity. Subjects Wolves -- Fiction. Human-animal relationships -- Fiction. Metamorphosis -- Fiction. Supernatural -- Fiction.

	Thirteen reasons why Asher, Jay. New York : Razorbill, 2008. When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death. Subjects Suicide -- Fiction. High schools -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

	The truth about forever Dessen, Sarah. New York : Viking, 2004. The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief. Subjects Grief -- Fiction. Death -- Fiction. Caterers and catering -- Fiction. Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

	Wicked lovely Marr, Melissa. New York : HarperTeen, 2007. 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. Subjects Fairies -- Fiction. Kings, queens, rulers, etc. -- Fiction. Secrets -- Fiction.

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