Eulalia! by Brian Jacques

Lord Asheye of Salamandastron has a prophecy: A new Badger Lord must take his place and reign over the legendary badger fortress. But who is this young warrior who shuns both armor and sword? And how is he to be found? Mad Maudie, a feisty haremaid of the Long Patrol, is just the one to track him down. Meanwhile, the unsuspecting future Badger Lord has been captured by a scurrilous group of Sea Raiders led by the infamous fox, Vizka Longtooth, who intends on conquering Redwall Abbey. It is up to our young hero to defend Redwall so that he may fulfill his destiny as leader of Salamandastron.

The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer

Safely returned from his perilous stint among Northmen, 12-year-old Jack reflects, "That's the nature of adventures. . . . They're nasty while they're happening and only fun later." For readers, though, there's satisfaction in both the nasty and the fun, and this sequel to The Sea of Trolls (2004) offers full measures of both. After Jack learns that his often-bratty little sis is a changeling (and that his real sister likely dwells with hobgoblins), a misguided exorcism results in Lucy's disappearance. Then the young bard must descend into the out-of-time Land of the Silver Apples to retrieve both of his lost siblings. In that richly imagined realm, surprises include a reunion with shield-maiden Thorgil as well as creatures whose appearances deceive—shape-shifting knuckers; hideous yet likable hobgoblins; and lovely, soulless elves, whose inability to grow or age tinges their existence with tragedy. Occasionally, one wishes for a greater range of emotional tone to the predicaments, which plunge Jack into deep despair perhaps too consistently, but Farmer beautifully balances pell-mell action and quieter thematic points, especially the drawbacks of immortality and the wild tangle of Christian and pagan traditions in eighth-century Britain. Like the druidic life force Jack taps, this hearty adventure, as personal as it is epic, will cradle readers in the "hollow of its hand."

Edenville Owls

There is something evil in the air. Fourteen-year-old Bobby senses it. Who is that man he saw arguing with his pretty new English teacher? And what was the real reason she missed school for days afterward? Bobby knows he should mind his own business, but times are confusing. World War II has just ended and the world is changing. Bobby's world, especially. There's his relationship with Joanie, for one?why does being her friend feel awkward all of a sudden? And then there are his buddies, the junior varsity Edenville Owls?a group of basketball players in need of a leader. Can they help each other off the court as well as they can on it? They will need to. Something evil is in the air.

Cracks by Mike Klaassen

Cracks is a book teen boys will relate to, knowing that there is always hope for their future in spite of the direst circumstances. This book is must read for young people and for counselors leading youth rehabilitation groups.

Summer Intern by Carrie Karasyov

About to be a freshman at Columbia in the fall, Kira Parker is thrilled to be a summer intern at Skirt, the only New York fashion magazine worth reading. Certain that she’ll bag the plum position as assistant to the editor-in-chief, Kira is irritated to discover that Daphne Hughes, the publisher’s daughter, is the most likely candidate for the job. Competition, scandal, and boy issues ensue!

Bittersweet Sixteen by Carrie Karasyov

-- A brand-new wardrobe from Saks
-- A private jet to Holland to select the perfect tulip
-- A guest list that rivals red-carpet after-parties
-- And a birthday bash that blows all others completely out of the water
Okay, it's not your average birthday wish list, but Whitney Blake and Sophie Mitchum are anything but average.
I'm Laura Finnegan -- thrift-store junkie and scholarship student at Tate, our posh all-girls high school in Manhattan. Needless to say, I'm not like Whit and Soph -- gorgeous, popular, and filthy rich -- but that doesn't stop us from being BFFs. Sophomore year was going great, until they started tuning in to the all-Sweet Sixteen, all-the-time channel. Now tempers are flaring, Prada bags are flying, and guys are being tossed around in vicious tug-of-war battles. All this, just to see whose Sweet Sixteen reigns supreme?

InuYasha, Volume 26 (Comic)

Pulled back in time to Japan's ancient past, Japanese high school girl Kagome finds her destiny linked to a doglike half-demon named Inu-Yasha, who remembers Kagome's previous incarnation as the woman who killed him - and to the Shikon Jewel, or "Jewel of Four Souls," which can fulfill the greatest dreams of any man or monster. Now Kagome and Inu-Yasha must work together to search for the scattered shards of the jewel before everyone's nightmares are given the power the need to come true.

Pick Me Up

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Twice Told

Readers and writers all have their choice when art is the inspiration. Twice Told is a collection of original short stories inspired by fine-artist Scott Hunt's haunting charcoal drawings. Eighteen authors, each one a standout voice in young-adult fiction, used one of nine images as a creative spur. Pieces by two different authors are paired with each piece of art, proving that every picture tells at least two stories. The result is an anthology of captivating stories with sometimes similar and sometimes vastly different themes. Each tale demonstrates the power of art to stir ideas and highlights the author's unique resources to interpret what he or she sees.

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding

Amongst the dark streets of London dwells unimaginable terror . . .

Thaniel, just seventeen, is a wych-hunter. Together, he and Cathaline - his friend and mentor - track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quarter of London. It is on one of these hunts that he first encounters Alaizabel Cray.

Alaizabel is half-crazed, lovely, and possessed. Whatever dreadful entity has entered her soul has turned her into a strange and unearthly magnet - attracting evil and drawing horrors from every dark corner. Cathaline and Thaniel must discover its cause - and defend humanity at all costs.

Closing the GAP by Jay McGraw

When did that sudden gap divide your home into territories staked and claimed, with music blasting through the halls and fists banging on doors to turn down the stereo/TV/video game? Teens, when did you start seeing your parents as your enemies instead of your heroes? And parents, when did you start seeing your teens as crazy little demons instead of your loving children?

Finally, there is a solution for both sides, and one that will not only bridge that gap but show parents and teens alike how to prevent it. Jay McGraw is the ideal person to write a book for both parents and teens. He introduces a new plan for both teens and their parents to work through the issues that divide them and, in the process, rediscover the love that initially defined their relationship.

Life Strategies forTeens by Jay McGraw

Are you as tired as I am of books constantly telling you about doing your best to understand your parents, doing your homework, making curfew, getting a haircut, dropping that hemline, and blah, blah, blah?

Well, you don't have to be anymore. Life Strategies for Teens is the first guide to teenage life that won't tell you what to do, or who to be, but rather how to live life best. Employing the techniques from Dr. Phillip C. McGraw's Life Strategies, his son Jay provides teens with the Ten Laws of Life, which make the journey to adulthood an easier and more fulfilling trip. Whether dealing with the issues of popularity, peer pressure, ambition, or ambivalence, Life Strategies for Teens is an enlightening guide to help teenagers not only stay afloat, but to thrive during these pivotal years.

The 7 Habits for Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey

n an entertaining style, Covey provides a step-by-step guide to help teens

• improve self-image,
• build friendships
• resist peer pressure
• achieve their goals
• get along with their parents

• and much more.
  

In addition, this book is stuffed with cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world.

Just in Case by Meg Rosoff

Watching Justin Case is like watching a train wreck.

He's impossible. He's irresistible. He's convinced Fate is out to get him;

And he's right.

Fate is watching him-watching and plotting a million terrifying things that might happen to Justin today.

He might leave home.
He might die.
He might even fall in love.

Justin's story is funny, tender, timely, and compelling. Like Meg Rosoff's stunning debut, the award-winning How I Live Now, this novel is utterly unique.

A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt

Simone has always felt different, though her life seems pretty normal. Her mom's a lawyer for the ACLU, so she's grown up spending her Saturdays outside the food co-op, gathering signatures for worthy causes. Her dad's a political cartoonist who does most of the work around the house. Her little brother is a jock who seems to know how to do everything just right. Her best friend has a new boyfriend and is probably about to start having sex. And Simone has a crush on a really smart and funny guy who spends all his time with another girl.

But you can tell what really makes Simone different just by looking at her: she doesn't resemble anyone in her family. She's adopted. She's always known it, but she's never wanted to know anything about where she came from. She's happy with her family just as it is, thank you.

Then on day, Rivka calls, and Simone learns who her mother was - a sixteen-year-old, just like Simone. Who is Rivka? What does she want? Why is she calling now, after all these years? The answers lead Simone to deeper feelings of anguish and love than she has ever known and prompt her to question everything she has taken for granted about faith, life, the afterlife, and what it means to be a daughter.

The Wish House by Celia Rees

Richard has hung out at the abandoned house in the woods during his summer vacation for as long as he can remember. But this year, he discovers that a family has moved in. The father, J. A. Dalton, is an internationally renowned artist who insists on painting Richard's portrait, while Dalton's wife draws the boy into her circle as though he were one of the family's bohemian adult friends.

But it is their beautiful daughter, Clio, with whom Richard becomes obsessed. Soon he finds ways to spend days - and nights - with Clio, all the while struggling to understand and fit in with her eccentric clan. How can he know that some mysteries are best left unsolved- and that the passions of a single summer will change his life forever?

From Celia Rees, acclaimed author of Witch Child and Sorceress, comes another atmospheric and engrossing novel, this time one that plays out in the mystical borderlands between art and reality - and innocence and betrayal.

The Death Collector by Justin Richards

The foggy streets of Victorian London are thick with thieves. But when Eddie 'Dipper' Hopkins steals George Archer's wallet, he has no idea that he is entering a dark world of grave robbers, assassins and zombies.

Because George Archer is no ordinary citizen. He is the newest and youngest member of the Department of Unclassified artifacts at the British Museum, a department that investigates the bizarre and the unexplained. And in George's wallet is a clue to one of the biggest mysteries of all time, a secret as old as the dinosaurs - and one that certain people would kill for.

Suddenly on the run for their lives, Eddie and George join forces with budding actress Elizabeth Oldfield to escape the clutches of a depraved genius - a man who needs the secret to carry out a terrifying plan. In this heart-stopping race against time, Eddie, George and Elizabeth have only one chance to unravel the secret they possess before London is overrun by creatures from the dead . . . one of which is already prowling the streets.

The Wrong Hands by Nigel Richardson

Fourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair was born with huge, strange hands - the wrong hands. He was also born with a secret. The only time he ever told someone his secret, it got him into big trouble. So he won't be telling anyone ever again.

But then there's the plane crash. And the baby. And that e-mail out of the blue:

Congratulations on a brave act. I know how brave it was because I
saw what you did. I saw everything that you did. Do you understand? You
know how to contact me. If you choose not to, I will be forced to come and
find you. I need to understand what I saw. One way or the other.

Could answering this e-mail be an amazing opportunity, or the biggest mistake of this life? In Nigel Richardson's suspenseful and magical debut novel, Graham finds his world suddenly, thrillingly complicated - and his secret harder and harder to conceal.

Dead Connection by Charlie Price

Dearly Beloved
Born 1944 Died 1969

Car wreck, she told me. When she accepted the date, she didn't know he drank so much. She smelled it on his breath the minute she opened her front door. They hit a tree. He broke his neck. She went through the convertible's windshield and bled to death ...

Blessed Daughter
Born 1966 Died 1977

She tells me not to worry, but she died when she was eleven, brain tumor, so I don't think she's really an expert.

She's smart, though. She tells me what to say to the guys who tease me about my looks or my mother. "Don't get too close, I have AIDS." Cool, huh? They leave me alone now, which is fine with me.

Is Murray psychic? He talks to the dead and comforts them in their lonely graves, even as they provide solace for him - they are his best friends. When he hears a new voice in the cemetery, he's sure it's Nikki, the cheerleader who has been missing for months. But who will believe him? He's a loser. Can he even believe in himself?

Along comes Pearl, daughter of the cemetery caretaker, who befriends Murray and tries to enter his world. Together they may prove the astonishing possibility that Nikki is closer than anyone thinks.

Dead Connection twists and turns with multiple points of view. A gripping and suspenseful story by a compelling new voice in teen literature.

Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland.

At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil.

At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen...

But the Wintersmith isn't exactly a boy. He is Winter itself - snow, gales, icicles - all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.

Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. She'll also need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary Granny Weatherwax. They - Crivens! Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men too! She'll have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pictsies ever to be banished form Fairyland - whether she wants it or not.

It's going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn't survive until Spring ----

--- Spring won't come.

Wait for Me by An Na

Mina is the perfect daughter. Bound for Harvard, president of the honor society, straight A student, all while she works at her family's dry cleaners and helps care for her hearing-impaired younger sister. On the outside, Mina does everything right. On the inside, Mina knows the truth. Her life is a lie.

At the height of a heat wave, the summer before her senior year, Mina meets the one person to whom she cannot lie. Ysrael, a young migrant worker who dreams of becoming a musician, comes to work at the dry cleaners and asks Mina the one question that scares her the most. Wat does she want?

Mina finds herself torn between living her mother's dreams, caring for her younger sister, grasping the love that Ysrael offers, and the most difficult of all, living a life that is true.

The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult

Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father, Daniel's life - a straight-A student; a pretty, popular freshman in high school; a girl who's always seen her father as a hero. That is, until her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. Suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family - and herself - seems to be a lie. Could the boyfriend who once made Trixie wild with happiness have been the one to end her childhood forever? She says that he is, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a seemingly mild-mannered comic book artist with a secret tumultuous past he has hidden even from his family, venture to hell and back to protect his daughter.

Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

When Miranda first hears the warnings that a meteor is headed on a collision path with the moon, they just sound like an excuse for extra homework assignments. But her disbelief turns to fear in a split second as the entire world witnesses a lunar impact that knocks the moon closer in orbit, catastrophically altering the earth's climate.

Everything else in Miranda's life fades away as supermarkets run out of food, gas goes up to more than ten dollars a gallon, and school is closed indefinitely.

But what Miranda and her family don't realize is that the worst is yet to come.

A Higher Geometry by Sharelle Byars Moranville

Anna Conway sometimes wishes that her relationships would come as easy to her as math. A natural math talent, Anna is at odds with what's expected of her as a teenager coming of age in the late 1950s.

While Anna dreams of leaving her small town for college to study mathematics at a higher level, her parents want her to follow the more traditional path of getting married and having children. Anna's never really thought about dating, but when she meets Mike she begins to feel different: their relationship takes off, and goes further than Anna had ever expected. Now it's up to Anna to make her future happen. But how will she choose between the person she loves and her lifelong passion?

Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai

It is 1980 and the season of the monsoons in Sri Lanka. Fourteen-year-old Amrith faces an uneventful summer in the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Aunty Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life "before," when his loving mother was still alive. Amrith's holiday plans seem unpromising until, like an unexpected monsoon, his cousin arrives from Canada. Amrith's ordered life becomes storm-tossed as he falls in love with the boy. Shakespeare's Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds himself immersed.

The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick

It is 1915, a few months after the start of World War I. Seventeen-year-old Sasha is a sheltered English girl. Just as her brother, Thomas, longs to be a doctor, Sasha wants to be a nurse. As the hospitals fill with young soldiers, she gets a chance to help. But working in the wards confirms what Sasha has suspected. She has a terrible gift: she can see the future. And as with Cassandra, the prophetess of Troy, no one believes her. Sasha's premonitions show her the horrors on the battlefields of the Somme and the faces of the soldiers who will die. One of them is her brother.

In this riveting story, Sasha risks her own life as she races to find Thomas and - somehow - prevent his death.

the WEIGHT of the SKY by Lisa Ann Sandell

Sarah, like every college-bound junior, deals with constant pressure from her teachers, friends, and parents. An on top of that, there's the isolation of being a marching band geek and the only Jew in her class. So when the chance to spend the summer working on kibbutz in Israel comes her way, Sarah jumps at the opportunity to escape her world. No one in Israel knows anything about her, and from the moment she arrives Sarah joyfully starts shedding the weight of her past.

But living in Israel brings new and very real complications, and when the idyllic life Sarah creates for herself is shattered in an instant, she finds herself longing for the home she thought she'd outgrown.

Lisa Ann Sandell's lyrical debut novel beautifully captures the experience of leaving behind a life that's too small, and the freedom that come from starting over.

The Wall and the Wing by Laura Ruby

A few, nicknamed leadfeet, are sentenced by a trick of nature or fate to forever spend their lives closer to the ground. But on night, a girl named Gurl - a leadfoot, an orphan, a nobody - discovers that she can do something much better than fly.

She can become invisible.

This amazing power will help her uncover the secret mysteries of the city. But even with her newfound talent, Gurl can't seem to hide from a giant rat man with a taste for cats, a manipulative matron with a penchant for plastic surgery, and a belligerent boy named Bug.

Gradually Gurl learns to control her power and teams up with Bug to figure out who and what she is. Their quest will take them on a wild ride through this magical city, where they'll confront chatty birds and mind-bending monkeys, an eccentric genius with a head full of grass and a pocket full of kittens, and the handsome but lethal Sweetcheeks Grabowski - the gangster who holds the key to Gurl's past . . . and the world's future.

Storm Thief

Rail and Moa are thieves in a city of chaos. For as log as anyone can remember, Orokos has been lashed by probability storms - violent tempests that change whatever they touch. When a probability storm hits, streets are rearranged, children are turned to glass, rivers break from their banks. and life suddenly becomes death. Nothing is stable. Everyone is vulnerable.

Rail has struggled with the effects of one such storm for years; when he was hit, he lost the ability to breathe freely. Moa has also seen her share of struggle - as the daughter of dead rebles, as an outcast, as a criminal. Now they have uncovered their first taste of fortune; a strange artifact wanted by the most powerful people in the city. As with most fortunes, this one comes with a price.

The mysterious object is a gift to any theif. But could it be more? Rail and Moa will have to run, fight, double-cross, steal, and dodge the storms in order to find out...and unlock Orokos's deepest, most dangerous secrets.