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Orbiting Jupiter, RF

Schmidt, Gary D.

"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--

Date Published:2015

Wonder

Palacio, R. J.

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Library Media Connection, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, August "Auggie" Pullman, a boy born with an incredible facial deformity, is finally ready to go to a public school for the beginning of his fifth grade year. Inside he feels just like other kids, but his face may separate him from potential friends forever.

Date Published:2012

A Voice in the Wind #1

Rivers, Francine

Torn by her love for a handsome aristocrat, a young slave girl clings to her faith in a living God for deliverance from the forces of decadent Rome.

Date Published:1993

The amazing book is not on fire : the world of Dan and Phil

Howell, Dan, 1991-

YouTube stars Dan Howell and Phil Lester tell the humorous story of growing up, becoming YouTube stars, and give advice to their teen followers.

Date Published:2015

The Hunger Games

Collins, Suzanne.

Booklist, Horn Book Magazine, Kliatt, Library Journal, Library Media Connection, Publisher's Weekly, Voice of Youth Advocate, In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

Date Published:2008

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy, HF

Schmidt, Gary D.

"A Yearling book." Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Review, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocate, In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.

Date Published:2006

Cinder, SF

Meyer, Marissa.

Includes bonus material including author interview, bonus short story, reader's guide, excerpt from Scarlet. AudioFile, Horn Book Guide, Library Media Connection, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.

Date Published:2013

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Rowling, J. K.

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal. Voice of Youth Advocates, Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.

Date Published:2002

The boy who dared, HF

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.

"A novel based on the true story of a Hitler youth"--Jacket. Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocate, In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.

Date Published:2008

Paper towns, MYS

Green, John, 1977-

One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

Date Published:2008

The Hobbit : an illustrated edition of the fantasy classic

Dixon, Charles, 1954-

"A Del Rey Book"--T.p. verso. Abridged text in comic book format. "Based on The Hobbit c1965 by J.R.R. Tolkien"--T.p. verso. "The contents of this book were originally published in three volumes in August 1989, April 1990, and August 1990 by Eclipse Books"--T.p. verso. Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and contented hobbit, embarks on a grand and dangerous adventure when he joins the wizard Gandalf and a group of dwarves on their quest to reclaim a stolen treasure. Presented in graphic novel form.

Date Published:2001

Safe haven, ROM.

Sparks, Nicholas

Date Published:2010

Amazing grace, RF

Shull, Megan Elisabeth.

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Library Media Connection, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocate, When tennis superstar Grace "Ace" Kincaid pulls out of the U.S. Open, she heads straight for Medicine Hat, Alaska. With her tennis career out of the way, she can finally lead the normal life she's always wanted but needs to first figure out who she really is.

Date Published:2006

Erak's ransom

Flanagan, John (John Anthony)

Originally published: Australia : Random House Australia Children's Books, 2007. Horn Book Guide, On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and the Rangers must first survive the dangerous effects of a desert wasteland.

Date Published:2010

The maze runner, SF

Dashner, James, 1972-,

Booklist, Library Media Connection, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocate, Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

Date Published:2009

Buzz kill : Senior Year is going to be a Killer

Fantaskey, Beth

Seventeen-year-old Millie joins forces with her classmate, gorgeous but mysterious Chase Colton, to try to uncover who murdered head football coach "Hollerin' Hank" Killdare--and why.

Date Published:2014

The toll : Book 3

Shusterman, Neal,

"Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder"--

Date Published:2019

Invasion

Lewis, J. S. (Jon S.),

Publisher's Weekly, After his parents are killed in an automobile accident, sixteen-year-old Colt McAllister moves to Arizona where he is recruited by a secret organization to join the battle against malevolent, supernatural creatures from another world.

Date Published:2010

Out of my mind, RF

Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Library Media Connection, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

Date Published:2012

The summer I turned pretty, ROM

Han, Jenny.

Sequel: It's not summer without you. Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

Date Published:2009