Love You Hate You Miss You
by Elizabeth Scott
Published 2009 by Harper Teen

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780061122835

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With sarcastic humor, cutting insight, and beautiful prose, Scott delivers a searing story of a teenage girl who thinks she may have killed her best friend, and her struggle to put the pieces of her life back together. Get this, I'm supposed to be starting a journal about "my journey.... More...

The Tomorrow Code
by Brian Falkner
Published 2008 by Random House Books for Young Readers

Library Binding, English. ISBN: 9780375939235

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"THE END OF THE WORLD started quietly enough for Tane Williams and Rebecca Richards. . . .

"Tane and Rebecca aren't sure what to make of it--a sequence of 1s and 0s, the message looks like nothing more than a random collection of alternating digits.... More...

The Knife of Never Letting Go
by Patrick Ness
Published 2008 by Candlewick Press (MA)

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780763639310

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A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard -- and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret.

Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks.... More...

The Spectacular Now
by Tim Tharp
Published 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780375851797

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SUTTER KEELY. HE'S the guy you want at your party. He'll get everyone dancing. He'll get everyone in your parents' pool. Okay, so he's not exactly a shining academic star. He has no plans for college and will probably end up folding men's shirts for a living.... More...

Headlong
by Kathe Koja
Published 2008 by Farrar Straus Giroux

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780374329129

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The Vaughn School is home to the Vaughn Virgins: the upper stratum of girls who have perfect grades, perfect lives, and perfect friends. Two girls discover what it means to dive deep beneath the surface--of friendship, of commitment--and to live life with all their hearts.... More...

Love Is Hell
by Melissa Marr
Published 2008 by Harper Teen

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780061443046

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In this new collection in the vein of "Prom Nights from Hell," some of today's hottest authors--Melissa Marr, Scott Westerfield, Justine Larbalestier, Laurie Faria Stolarz, and Gabrielle Zevin--contribute stories of love gone supernaturally wrong. Sure, love is hell.... More...

The Devil's Paintbox
by Victoria McKernan
Published 2009 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780375837500

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In an adventure-filled and historically accurate new novel about two orphans and their journey on the Oregon Trail, the author of "Shackleton's Stowaway" captures both the peril and stunning beauty of the Western frontier. When orphans Aiden and Maddy Lynch first meet trailrider Jefferson J.... More...

A Brand-New Brawl
by Tracey West
Published 2009 by Scholastic Inc.

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780545131230

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Julie and her friend Billy go toe-to-toe in a Bakugan Battle. Although Julie loses, she's impressed by Billy's skill and a little jealous of his talking Bakugan. Will Julie ever find her own talking Bakugan? Meanwhile Runo and Marucho have realized that they can't defeat Masquerade alone. The team needs help and that means Shun. He agrees . . . but only if they can defeat him in a brawl. Can they do it? More...

Black Rabbit Summer
by Kevin Brooks
Published 2009 by Push

Mass Market Paperbound, English. ISBN: 9780545060899

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Thoughtful Pete, tough Pauly, twins Eric and Nicole, strange Raymond: As kids they were tight; now they've grown up--and apart. They agree to get together one last time, but past hurts, personal histories, soon surface, and the party's over. The group splinters off into the night; into the noise and heat and chaos of the summer carnival.... More...

The Summer I Turned Pretty
by Jenny Han
Published 2009 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781416968238

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Belly has spent her summers at the beach house with Conrad and Jeremiah, who had never noticed her noticing them. Every summer Belly hoped it would be different. This time, it is. The summer that Belly turns pretty is the summer that changes everything--for better and for worse.... More...

Closed for the Season: A Mystery Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
Published 2009 by Clarion Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780547084510

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A contemporary thriller by the bestselling author of THE OLD WILLIS PLACE.

Two 13-year-old boys, Arthur and Logan, set out to solve the mystery of a murder that took place some years ago in the old house Logan's family has just moved into. The boys' quest takes them to the highest and lowest levels of society in their small Maryland town, and eventually to a derelict amusement park that is supposedly closed for the season. More...

Thirteen
by Lauren Myracle
Published 2009 by Puffin Books

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780142413708

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"New York Times"-bestselling author Myracle continues the tale of Winnie Perry, who is a teenager at last. As Winnie turns 13, she discovers this milestone brings ginormous problems with it. Winnie Perry is a teenageraat last! And itas a really big deal.... More...

My Big Nose & Other Natural Disasters
by Sydney Salter
Published 2009 by Graphia Books

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780152066437

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It's the end of junior year, and summer is about to begin. The Summer of Passion, to be exact, when Jory Michaels plans to explore all the possibilities of the future--and, with any luck, score a boyfriend in the process. But Jory has a problem. A big problem.... More...

Twenty Boy Summer
by Sarah Ockler
Published 2009 by Little, Brown Young Readers

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780316051590

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Beautifully written and emotionally honest, this debut novel explores what it truly means to love someone, what it means to grieve, and ultimately how to make the most of every single moment this world has to offer. ""Don't worry, Anna. I'll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it.... More...

Gentlemen
by Michael Northrop
Published 2009 by Scholastic Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780545097499

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Gritty, fast-paced, and brutally real, this debut novel takes an unflinching look at what binds friends together--and what can tear them apart. More...

Purge
by Sarah Darer Littman
Published 2009 by Scholastic Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780545052351

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Janie Ryman hates throwing up. So why does she binge eat and then purge several times a day? That's what the doctors and psychiatrists at Golden Slopes hope to help her discover. In order to get better, Janie must talk about things she's admitted to no one--not even to herself. More...