Here Lies Bridget by Paige Harbison -- When Bridget Duke, the meanest girl in school, gets into a serious car accident, she ends up in limbo, facing everyone she's wronged and given only one chance to find redemption.
Legacy by Gemma Malley -- When a Pincent Pharma truck is ambushed by the Underground, revealing not the expected supply of drugs but corpses, it becomes clear that the Longevity prescription for eternal youth is failing to live up to its promises, and when the Underground is blamed for releasing a deadly virus, the truth finally comes out.
Plain Kate by Erin Bow -- Plain Kate's odd appearance and expertise as a woodcarver cause some to think her a witch, but friendship with a talking cat and, later, with humans help her to survive and even thrive in a world of magic, charms, and fear.
Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yancey -- In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New England scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh.
Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade -- After being hit by a bus and killed, a high school homecoming queen gets stuck in the land of the living, with only a loser classmate -- who happens to be able to see and hear ghosts -- to help her.
Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schoeder -- As teenagers Brooklyn and Nico work to help each other recover from the deaths of Brooklyn's boyfriend -- Nico's brother Lucca -- and their friend Gabe, the two begin to rediscover their passion for life, and a newly blossoming passion for one another.
Faeman Quest by Herbie Brennan -- Faerie Wars book 5 - Stubborn and feisty Mella, the half-faeire half-human daughter of Lord Henry and Queen Holly Blue, has the power to determine the fate of both the faerie and "analogue world" when she travels to the country of Haleklind and discovers rebel forces preparing for war.
Hacking Timbuktu by Stephen Davies -- London sixteen-year-old Danny Temple and friend Omar use their computer and parkour skills to elude pursuers as they follow clues in an Arabic manuscript to the mysterious cliffs of Bandiagara in sub-Saharan Afria seeking an ancient treasure.
Goblin Gate by Hilari Bell -- Jeriah uncovers a web of political intrigue while trying to obtain a spell from Master Lazure that might allow him to rescue his brother Tobin from the Otherworld, where he was taken by the beguiling hedgewitch Makenna and her legion of goblins.
Sapphique by Catherine Fisher -- After his escape from the sentient prison, Incarceron, Finn finds that the Realm is not at all what he expected, and he does not know whether he is to be its king, how to free his imprisoned friends, or how to stop Incarceron's quest to be free of its own nature.
The Eagle by Rosemary Sutcliff -- A young centurion ventures among the hostile tribes beyond the Roman Wall to recover the eagle standard of the Ninth, a legion which mysteriously disappeared under his father's command. Includes a reader's guide. Now a popular motion picture!
Seed Seeker by Pamela Sargent -- Several hundred years ago, Ship (an intelligent computer-spaceship) settled colonists on Home and then left, promising to return. Now a light in the sky leads the people on Home to believe Ship has returned, but all is not well on Home, and Ship's return stirs trouble between Villages.
Vampire's Promise by Caroline Cooney -- Althea, Devnee, and Lacey all bargain with a vampire for popularity, beauty, and freedom, but are faced with the consequences of their deals when the vampire chooses his victims.
All Just Glass by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -- Turned into a vampire by the boy she thought she loved, seventeen-year-old Sarah, daughter of a powerful line of vampire-hunting witches, is now hunted by her older sister Adia, who has been given the assignment to kill Sarah.
Think Again by JonArno Lawson -- This collection of quietly beautiful and surprisingly humorous, illustrated short poems reveals first love's uncertainties, frustrations and joys.
Dirty Little Secrets by Cynthia Omololu -- When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Lucy must take control and find a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother's compulsive hoarding from being revealed to friends, neighbors, and especially the media.
Nevermore by Kelly Creagh -- When cheerleader Isobel Lanley is assigned to work with goth, Edgar Allen Poe fan Varen Nethers on an English project, she is swept into a horrific dream world that he has created in his mind.
Grace by Elizabeth Scott -- Sixteen-year-old Grace travels on a decrepit train toward a border that may not exist, recalling events that brought her to choose life over being a suicide bomber, and dreaming of freedom from the extremist religion-based government of Keran Berj.
Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel -- In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project -- an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills -- he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother.
This Gorgeous Game by Olivia Freitas -- Seventeen-year-old Olivia Peters, who dreams of becoming a writer, is thrilled to be selected to take a college fiction seminar taught by her idol, Father Mark, but when the priest's enthusiasm for her writing develops into something more, Olivia shifts from wonder to confusion to despair.
Teenage Waistland by Lynn Biederman -- In their separate voices, three morbidly obese New York City teens relate their experiences participating in a clinical trial testing lap-band surgery for teenagers, which involves a year of weekly meetings and learning to live healthier lives.
Jane by April Lindner -- In this contemporary retelling of "Jane Eyre," an orphaned nanny becomes entranced with her magnetic and brooding employer, a rock star with a torturous secret from his past.
Angry Young Man by Chris Lynch -- Eighteen-year-old Robert tries to help his half-brother Xan, a seventeen-year-old misfit, to make better choices as he becomes increasingly attracted to a variety of protesters, anarchists, and the like.
Adios, Nirvana by Conrad Wesselhoeft -- As Seattle sixteen-year-old Jonathan helps a dying man come to terms with a tragic event he experienced during World War II, Jonathan begins facing his own demons, especially the death of his twin brother, helped by an assortment of friends, old and new.
Delirium by Lauren Oliver -- Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, she falls in love.
Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey -- Eighteen-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of creatures from Maori myth and legend that is plotting to kill millions of humans in order to regain their lost immortality.
Famous by Todd Strasser -- Sixteen-year-old Jamie Gordon had a taste of praise and recognition at age fourteen when her unflattering photograph of an actress was published, but as she pursues her dream of being a celebrity photographer, she becomes immersed in the dark side of fame.
Latte Rebellion by Sarah Jamila Stevenson -- When high school senior Asha Jamison is called a "towel head" at a pool party, she and her best friend Carey start a club to raise awareness of mixed-race students that soon sweeps the country, but the hubbub puts her Ivy League dreams, friendship, and beliefs to the test.
Once in a Full Moon by Ellen Schreiber -- Seventeen-year-old Celeste Parker finds herself falling for Brandon, a boy from the wrong side of their small, midwestern town, even though she suspects that he is a werewolf.
See What I See by Gloria Whelan -- When eighteen-year-old Kate arrives on the Detroit doorstep of her long-estranged father, a famous painter, she is shocked to learn that he is dying and does not want to support her efforts to attend the local art school.
Trickster's Girl by Hilari Bell -- In the year 2098, grieving her father and angry with her mother, fifteen-year-old Kelsa joins the magical Raven on an epic journey from Utah to Alaska to heal the earth by restoring the flow of magic that humans have disrupted.
Cold Hands, Warm Heart by Jill Wolfson -- In the year 2098, grieving her father and angry with her mother, fifteen-year-old Kelsa joins the magical Raven on an epic journey from Utah to Alaska to heal the earth by restoring the flow of magic that humans have disrupted.
Other Side of Dark by Sarah Smith -- Since losing both of her parents, fifteen-year-old Katie can see and talk to ghosts, which makes her a loner until fellow student Law sees her drawing of a historic house and together they seek a treasure rumored to be hidden there by illegal slave-traders.
Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck -- Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger, who's actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
Subject Seven by James A. Moore -- Years ago, scientists began developing the ultimate military weapon: deadly sleeper assassins housed within the bodies of teenagers. Now, Subject Seven, the dangerous alter-ego living inside a 16-year-old boy, has escaped the lab and is on a mission. His objective? To seek out others like him and build an army capable of destroying their creators.
Black Hole Sun by David Gill -- On the planet Mars, sixteen-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.
Close to Famous by Joan Bauer -- Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston -- Suffering from a crippling case of post-traumatic stress disorder, sixteen-year-old Loa Lindgren tries to use her problem solving skills, sharpened in physics and computer programming, to cure herself.
Choker by Elizabeth Woods -- Teenaged Cara, solitary and bullied in high school, is delighted to reconnect with her childhood best friend Zoe, whose support and friendship help Cara gain self-confidence, even as her classmates start dying.
Angel by James Patterson -- Maximum Ride #7 - Heartbroken after her best friend and soul mate, Fang, leaves her flock, Maximum Ride begins to believe the evil scientists trying to convince her she needs to save the world, and that Dylan, the newest member of her flock, is her perfect mate. Fang travels the country collecting his own gang of evolved humans, but the two separate flocks must unite to defeat a frightening doomsday cult whose motto is Save the Planet: Kill the Humans. And this time, the true heroine, for once, might just be little Angel.
Ortega by Maureen Fergus --Eleven years ago, an infant lowland gorilla was acquired by a privately funded laboratory. An elite surgical team undertook a series of radical procedures designed to make it physically possible for the infant gorilla to acquire speech. But can he convince humans that he really is more than just a freak?
Beginner's Guide to Living by Lia Hills -- Eleven years ago, an infant lowland gorilla was acquired by a privately funded laboratory. An elite surgical team undertook a series of radical procedures designed to make it physically possible for the infant gorilla to acquire speech. But can he convince other humans he's more than a freak?
Girl, a Ghost, and the Hollywood Hills by Lizabeth Zindel -- When the ghost of Holly's mother claims she was murdered by Holly's aunt, Claudia, Holly must decide how far she will go to get revenge.
Beat the Band by Don Calame -- Paired with the infamous "Hot Dog" Helen for a health class presentation on safe sex, tenth-grader Coop tries to regain his "cool" by entering his musically challenged rock group in the "Battle of the Bands" competition.
Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony -- Ten years after the Great Collapse of 2031, sixteen-year-old Molly McClure, with only her fiddle for company, leaves the safety of her family's island home to travel through a dangerous and desolate wasteland on her way to Oregon to find her grandparents in the hopes of persuading them to return with her to Canada.
Virgin Territory by James Lecesne -- When an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary appears on a tree at the Jupiter, Florida, golf course where fifteen-year-old Dylan Flack is caddying for the summer, he encounters a group of "pilgrims" who dare him to take a risk and find out what he really wants out of life.
Sorta like a Rock Star by Michael Quick -- Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland -- Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove is locked away in the Wildthorn Hall mental institution, where she is stripped of her identity and left to wonder who has tried to destroy her life.
Balefire by Cate Tiernan -- Separated since birth, seventeen-year-old twins Thais and Clio unexpectedly meet in New Orleans where they seem to be pursued by a coven of witches who want to harness the twins' magical powers for its own ends.
Jack: Secret Vengence by F Paul Wilson -- Young Repairman Jack has always seen Carson Toliver as one of the "good guys" of High School, until his best friend Weezy tells him that Carson date-raped her. Can Jack stop Carson from spreading lies and get revenge without revealing himself?
Tweet Heart: A novel in e-mails, blogs and tweets by Elizabeth Rudnick -- Lottie wants to help her friend Claire find love, and Claire thinks that she is on the right track when her crush starts following her on Twitter, while Will hides his crush on her and a mutual friend tries to get them together.
Lord of the Kill by Theodore Taylor -- With his parents in India, sixteen-year-old Ben Jepson is in charge of Los Coyotes Preserve, a refuge for big cats near Los Angeles, when two powerful groups try to shut it down by intimidation, murder, and kidnapping the largest tiger in captivity.
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