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New Titles --- Young Adult January 2010
Eighteen-year-old Zach does not remember how he came to be in a treatment center for alcoholics, but through therapy and caring friends, his amnesia fades and he learns to face his past while working toward a better future.
New Jersey sisters Rosie, aged fifteen, and Skate, aged sixteen, cope differently with their father’s alcoholism and incarceration, but manage to stay close to one another as they strive to lead normal lives and find hope for the future.
When their village is destroyed in the Guatemalan Civil War, Tomasa and her family, except her mother and brother, who have been taken by the authorities, begin the long trek north in search of somewhere they will be safe.
Sammy wants to be a musician, as was his grandfather, but while the band he is in is self-destructing, Sammy is too distracted by his grandfather’s decline and confused feelings about his best friend to fix it-and his mother stays too busy to help.
Four short stories, abridged and illustrated by Gris Grimly, by the nineteenth-century American writer best know for his tales of horror.
When Johanna shows up at the beginning of summer to house-sit next door to Finn, he has no idea of the profound effect she will have on his life by the time summer vacation is over.
New Titles --- Young Adult December 2009
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed dwarf he meets in the hospital to find a cure.
Rebecca goes to New Orleans to stay with her aunt and sees the destruction of Hurricane Katrina and meets a ghost girl named Lisette.
A Seattle sixteen-year-old juggles therapy, running a school bake sale, coping with her performance artist mother, growing distant from an old friend, and conflicting feelings about her ex-boyfriend and potential new boyfriends.
Upon arriving at her dorm room, eighteen-year-old Cecily decides to postpone her freshman year of college to return to her Chicago home, where she spends a year pondering what went wrong while forging new relationships with family and friends.
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
Getting caught shoplifting leads fifteen-year-old Mia to a greater understanding of herself, sympathy for her unmarried mother, and a job in a college laboratory which not only pleases her ailing scientist grandfather, but lets her glimpse a possible future brighter than any she had imagined.
New Titles --- Young Adult October 2009
When a power surge during experimental plastic surgery turns fourteen-year-old Alison into a human flamethrower, she drops from popular Beverly Hills princess to social outcast, but with the help of a comic-loving “geek”, she becomes a real-life superhero.
After moving from a small town in Ohio to Panama while her father takes part in building the Panama Canal, a fifteen-year-old girl yearning for new experiences meets Frederico, a Spanish aristocrat who is working as a canal differ, and they begin a romance.
Sixteen-year-old Nick and his family have battled magicians and demons for most of his life, but when his brother, Alan, is marked for death while helping new friends Jamie and Mae, Nick’s determination to save Alan leads him to uncover a devastating secret.
During the summer vacations of his thirteenth through his sixteenth year at the family’s lake cottage, Luke realized that although some things stay the same over the years, many more change.
In the public eye since she was adopted as a baby from China by her Hollywood celebrity parents, sixteen-year-old Chloe-Grace, longing for a “normal” life, undergoes a transformation with the help of her mother’s stylist and finds not only the life she wanted but an important key to her past.
New Titles --- Young Adult August 2009
In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the first year of rationing as her family spirals out of control. Told in short diary entries filled with scrapbook clippings, this riveting ecothriller is one girl’s attempt to stay grounded in a world where disaster has become the norm.
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody’s college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
After a deadly attack on her home, fifteen-year-old Princess Branwen meets a mystical woman in white who prophesies that Branwen will save her homeland from falling to the Saxons.
Desperate to save the human race after a comet’s deadly particles devastate the adult population, scientists create a ship that will carry a crew of 251 teenagers to a home in a distant solar system.
2008 Printz Medal Books
The white darkness
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