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Last Updated March 15, 2009
- YA 001.944 H193 - Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May or May Not Exist by Kelly Halls
Introduces young readers to the animals studied in cryptozoology, animals which may or may not be real.
- YA BRYAN - Pieces of Georgia: A Novel by Jen Bryant
In journal entries to her mother, a gifted artist who died suddenly, thirteen-year-old Georgia McCoy reveals how her life changes after she receives an anonymous gift membership to a nearby art museum.
- YA FLINN - Beastly by Alex Flinn
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
- YA HALE - Dark Water Rising by Marian Hale
While salvaging and rebuilding in the aftermath of the Galveston flood of 1900, sixteen-year-old Seth proves himself in a way that his previous efforts never could, but he still must face his father man-to-man.
- YA HARPE - The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney by Suzanne Harper
In Lily Dale, New York, a community dedicated to the religion of Spiritualism, tenth-grader Sparrow Delaney, the youngest daughter in an eccentric family of psychics, agonizes over whether or not to reveal her special abilities in order tohelp a friend.
- YA HAYDO - The Floating Island: The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme by Elizabeth Haydon
Charles is the youngest son of a long line of famous shipwrights. He dreams of sailing the ships instead of building them. Set in the same universe as the author's bestselling adult series, this title is the first in a trilogy.
- YA HOLM - Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff by Jennifer Holm
Ginny makes a to do list for her seventh grade year, which includes landing a role in the school play, trying to make friends, ignoring her horoscope, and going to see her grandpa Joe in Florida; but she always seems to come up short in accomplishing any
- YA KORMA - Schooled by Gordon Korman
Cap lives in isolation with his grandmother, a former hippie; but when she falls from a tree and breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a foster home where he has his first experience in a public school.
- YA KOSTI - Epic by Conor Kostick
On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.
- YA LURIE - Brothers, Boyfriends, and Other Criminal Minds by April Lurie
While living on the same block as several members of the Mafia does have the advantage of a lower crime rate, fourteen-year-old April and her brother find there are times when it is also a major disadvantage.
- YA RESAU - What the Moon Saw: A Novel by Laura Resau
Fourteen-year-old Clara has never met her father's parents. So when she receives a letter from Mexico inviting her to come visit for the summer, she is in for an experience of a lifetime.Hispanic.
- YA SALIS - Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury
Eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders, and some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, in 1975, find their survival skills put to the test when a massive earthquake strikes, followed by a tsunami.
- YA SCOTT - The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
Fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, find themselves caught up in the deadly struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient book that holds the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
- YA SMITH - Peak by Roland Smith
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
- YA SONNE - Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer--and the need to quickly become a convincing
- YA STEAD - First Light by Rebecca Stead
When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.
- + BERRY - Chance Fortune and the Outlaws by Shane Berryhill
Joshua Blevins enlists the aid of his mentor, Captain Fearless, to gain entrance to the Burlington Academy for the Superhuman under the false identity of Chance Fortune.
- + MCNIS - Breathe: A Ghost Story by Cliff Mcnish
When he and his mother move into an old farmhouse in the English countryside, asthmatic, 12-year-old Jack discovers that he can communicate with the ghosts inhabiting the house and finds a spirit out to do harm to him and his mother.
- + SCHMI - The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much
- + STEWA - The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Stewart
Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.