Shooting Star by Frederick McKissack - Jomo, a naturally talented athlete, starts taking performance enhancing drugs to be an even better football player, but finds that even as his game improves, he's losing control of the rest of his life.
Geektastic edited by Holly Black - short stories ranging from "Once you're a Jedi, you're a Jedi all the way" to "It's just a jump to the left" by Libba Bray, revel in teen geekhood.
Moonlight by Rachel Hawthorne - Dark Guardian Volume 1 - Kayla works as a wilderness guide in the national forest where her parents were killed 12 years earlier; When Kayla meets Lucas, she learns that he is her guardian, and she has a destiny...
Crash into Me by Albert Borris - Four suicidal teens go on a "celebrity suicide road trip", visiting the graves of famous suicides, with the intention of ending their lives in Death Valley, Ca.
Taken by Norah McClintock - When Stephanie is abducted and abandoned in the woods, it takes all of her strength to survive.
Hancock Park by Isabel Kaplan - Becky's life is complicated; as she tries to fit in at her exclusive prep school and survive her parents divorce, she finds herself turning to her psychotherapist to cope, suffering anxiety and OCD. The author of this first novel was only 16 when she wrote it!
Paris Pan Takes the Dare by Cynthea Liu - twelve year old Chinese American Paris Pan wants to fit in at her new school badly enough that she takes a dare to stay the night in a spooky woods, reputedly haunted by the ghost of a girl who died there years ago.
Gateway by Sharon Shinn - Daiyu, adopted at birth from China, steps through the St. Louis arch and finds herself in a new world where most everyone is Chinese, and discovers her new destiny.
Wicked Will by Bailey MacDonald - performing in the English town of Stratford-on-Avon in 1576, a young actress (disguised as a boy) and a local lad named Will Shakespeare uncover a murder mystery.
Year of the Horse by Justin Allen - Yen Tzu-lu, a child of Chinese immigrants, travels across the continent searching for a gold mine. He and his companions find danger, excitement, indians, soldiers and more...
Forest Born by Shannon Hale - Volume 4 of Bayern - when her beloved forest no longer gives her comfort and her brother Razo invites Rinna to the city to be one of Queen Ani's waiting women, she accepts, only to discover her own strength comes from unexpected places.
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia - Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a newcomer to his small South Carolina town, whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her 16th birthday.
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