Sorted by Call Number / Author

FIC BAU
Bauer, Joan, 1951-. Squashed. New York : Speak, 2005.
As sixteen-year-old Ellie pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own.

FIC BRO
Brown, Jennifer, 1972-. Hate list. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.

FIC COH
Cohn, Rachel. Cupcake. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2008, c2007.
Former "bad girl" Cyd Charisse moves to New York City to live with her half-brother Danny while exploring career options and various relationships, including the one with Shrimp, who is surfing in New Zealand.

FIC COL
Coll, Susan. Acceptance. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Follows the lives of three high school juniors--Taylor, Maya, and Harry--as they apply to a number of colleges and cope with the pressures of their teachers and parents, and an admissions advisor, Olivia, who struggles to sift through applications after her university was accidentally placed ona list of the top fifty schools in the country.

FIC COR
Cornwell, Autumn. Carpe diem. 1st Square Fish ed. New York : Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends, 2009, c2007.
Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.

FIC GOI
Going, K. L. (Kelly L.). King of the screwups. Boston : Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Liam Geller is one of the most popular boys in school but can't seem to do anything right in the eyes of his father; so he goes to live with his homosexual, rocker uncle who helps him to understand that there is much more to him than his father will ever see.

FIC GRA
Gray, Claudia. Evernight. 1st pbk. ed. New York : HarperTeen, 2009, c2008.
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.

FIC HOO
Hooper, Mary, 1948-. Newes from the dead. 1st American ed. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2008.
In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn.

FIC JON
Jonsberg, Barry, 1951-. Am I right or am I right? 1st Knopf trade pbk. ed. New York : Knopf, 2008, c2005.
Sixteen-year-old Calma Harrison is certain she knows what is behind the strange behavior of everyone in her life, and convinced that she is the only one who can fix things, but soon learns just how wrong she is.

FIC KOE
Koertge, Ronald. Deadville. 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2008.
While visiting an injured classmate in the hospital, sixteen-year-old Ryan, who is trying to come to terms with his sister's death from cancer, meets a young patient who claims to be able to see into the world where the dead live.

FIC LaC
LaCour, Nina. Hold still. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Books, c2009.
Caitlin wrestles with her feelings of devastation and helplessness after her friend Ingrid commits suicide, and she turns to her family and newfound friends for help while encountering love, broadening her horizons, and using Ingrid's journal to heal.

FIC LEH
Lehane, Dennis. Shutter Island. New York : Harper, [2009], c2003.
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule begin to fear for their own lives and sanity when their investigation on Shutter Island into how a patient escaped the Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane yields more questions than answers.

FIC LO
Lo, Malinda. Ash. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.

FIC LOD
Lodato, Victor. Mathilda Savitch. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
After the tragic death of her older sister, Mathilda is determined to help her grief-stricken parents and starts to investigate her sister's life, but sorting through secret possessions reveals a plot reminiscent of an ancient myth that urges Mathilda to leave everything behind to discover the truth.

FIC MYR
Myracle, Lauren, 1969-. Peace, love, & baby ducks. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Books, c2009.
Fifteen-year-old Carly's summer volunteer experience makes her feel more real than her life of privilege in Atlanta ever did, but her younger sister starts high school pretending to be what she is not, and both find their relationships suffering.

FIC STO
Stockbridge, Sara, 1966-. Grace Hammer. 1st American ed. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2009.
Grace Hammer, a pickpocket living comfortably with her children in Whitechapel in 1888, comes face to face with her past when Mr. Blunt, a man she relieved of his scarlet treasure, enacts a plan of revenge.

FIC STO
Stolarz, Laurie Faria, 1972-. Project 17. 1st Disney, Hyperion pbk. ed. New York : Disney, Hyperion Books, 2009, c2007.
When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occurring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives.

FIC STO
Stone, Tanya Lee. A bad boy can be good for a girl. 1st trade pbk. ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, [2007], c2006.
Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva all fall for the same sexy high school senior, and while they each make different choices, they're all changed by their experiences of love and sex.

FIC STR
Strasser, Todd. Wish you were dead. New York : Egmont USA, 2009.
Madison, a senior at a suburban New York high school, tries to uncover who is responsible for the disappearance of her friends, popular students mentioned in the posts of an anonymous blogger, while she, herself, is being stalked online and in-person.

FIC STR
Stratton, Allan. Chanda's wars. 1st pbk. ed. New York : HarperTeen, 2009, c2008.
Chandra Kabelo, a teenaged African girl, must save her younger siblings after they are kidnapped and forced to serve as child soldiers in General Mandiki's rebel army.

FIC VAU
Vaught, Susan, 1965-. My big fat manifesto. Pbk. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2009, c2008.
High school senior Jamie Carcaterra tries to win a scholarship by sharing her experiences as a fat girl in today's appearance-obsessed high school culture, but as she opens her life up to the criticism of her classmates and the media, she begins to wonder if she is being truly honest with herself.

FIC VOL
Volponi, Paul. Rooftop. New York : Speak, 2007, c2006.
Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that follows.

FIC WES
Westerfeld, Scott. Blue noon /#3. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Eos, 2007, c2005.
The Midnighters are baffled when the blue time suddenly occurs in the middle of the day. They soon discover that the walls between the secret hour and real time are crumbling, and, unless they can stop it, the dark creatures will have a chance to feed after centuries of waiting.

FIC WES
Westerfeld, Scott. The secret hour /#1. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Eos, 2005, c2004.
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.

FIC WES
Westerfeld, Scott. Touching darkness /#2. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Eos, 2006, c2004.
Jessica Day, and her four friends, the "midnighters", are the only ones in Bixby, Oklahoma that know the world freezes at midnight, and as they battle evil creatures living in the hour hidden they learn about Bixby's shadowy past and uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the secret hour.

FIC WHI
White, Andrea, 1953-. Surviving Antarctica : reality TV 2083. 1st Eos pbk. ed. New York : Eos, c2006, c2005.
In the year 2083, five fourteen-year-olds who were deprived by chance of the opportunity to continue their educations re-enact Scott's 1910-1913 expedition to the South Pole as contestants on a reality television show, secretly aided by a Department of Entertainment employee.

SC GUN
Atkin, S. Beth. Gunstories : life-changing experiences with guns. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Collins, 2007.
A collection of stories, interviews, and photographs that share the mixed impact guns have on the lives of young people, from teens who participate in hunting and other shooting sports to individuals affected by gang violence