Marc Acito.  How I Paid for College:  A Novel of Sex, Theft,

Friendship and Musical Theater   A deliciously funny romp of a novel about one overly theatrical and sexually confused New Jersey teenager's larcenous quest for his acting school tuition.

Elise  Aidinoff.  The Garden

Retells the tale of the Garden of Eden from Eve's point of view, as Serpent teaches her everything from her own name to why she should eat the forbidden fruit, and then leaves her with Adam and the knowledge that her choice has made mankind free.

Clive Barker.  Days of Magic, Nights of War

Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat continue as she makes a startling realization as to who she is, and the forces of Night begin plans for war.

T. A. Barron.  The Great Tree of Avalon Book 1:  Child of the

Dark Prophecy   In accordance with prophecy, Avalon's existence is threatened in the year that stars stop shining and at the time when both the dark child and Merlin's heir are to be revealed.

K. P. Bath.  The Secret of Castle Cant:  Being an Account of the

Remarkable Adventures of Lucy Wickwright, Maidservant and Spy    When twelve-toed orphan Lucy Wickwright is brought to Castle Cant to be serving girl to the Baron's daughter, the Adorable & Honorable Pauline, she becomes involved with revolutionaries and uncovers surprising palace intrigues.

Terence Blacker.  Boy2Girl

After the death of his mother, thirteen-year-old Sam comes to live with his cousin and as a prank, he dresses up as a girl for school, but it soon gets out of hand.

Francesca Lia Block.  Necklace of Kisses

Forty-year-old Weetzie Bat ends her once-passionate relationship with secret agent Max and checks into an enchanted pink hotel, whre she meets an otherworldly host of fawns, angels, and mermaids.

Ann Brashares.  Girls in Pants:  The Third Summer of the

Sisterhood   The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school and spends their last summer before college learning about life and themselves.

Herbie Brennan.  The Purple Emperor

Henry and his friend Mr. Fogarty return to the Faerie Realm to help their friends, the royal siblings Pyrgus and Holly Blue, in their continued fight against the treacherous Lord Hairstreak and the evil forces of the Faeries of the Night.

Kevin Brooks.  Candy

Joe, a boy from the right side of the tracks, meets and becomes obsessed with Candy who is filled with drugs, violence, desperation, and the truth is that he tries to save her from herself.

Alyssa Brugman.  Finding Grace

Undecided about her future after graduating from high school, an Australian girl takes a job caring for a brain-damaged woman.

Meg Cabot.  Teen Idol

When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker shows up at a small-town Indiana high school to do research for a movie role, he persuades junior Jenny Greenley to use her considerable talents to try to change things at school for the better.

Cecil Castellucci.  Boy Proof

Feeling alienated from everyone around her, Los Angeles high school senior and cinephile Victoria Denton hides behind the identity of a favorite movie character until an interesting new boy arrives at school and helps her realize that there is more to life than just the movies.

Dorian Cirrone.  Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You

Sixteen-year-old Kayla, a ballet dancer with very large breasts, and her sister Paterson, an artist, are both helped and hindered by classmates as they confront sexism, conformity, and censorship at their high school for the arts while still managing to maintain their sense of humor.

Eoin Colfer.  The Supernaturalist

In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.

Allison Croggon.  The Naming:  The First Book of Pellinor

A manuscript from the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandah chronicles the experiences of sixteen-year-old Maerad, an orphan gifted in the magic and power of the Bards, as she escapes from slavery and begins to learn how to use her Gift to stave off the evil Darkness that threatens to consume her world.

Melissa de la Cruz.  The Au Pairs:  A Novel

Three teenage girls from different backgrounds work for a summer in the Hamptons as au pairs for a wealthy family, and in spite of many ups and downs, all three end up changing for the better.

Mark Delaney.  Pepperland

Struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother in the late 1970s, sixteen-year-old Beatles fan Star Cochran hopes to find closure by delivering to John Lennon a letter her mother wrote to him in 1964 but never sent.

Sarah Dessen.  The Truth about Forever

The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.

John Dickinson.  The Cup of the World

When Phaedra, a willful daughter of a baron, decides to marry for love, she sets off an unforseeable chain of events and a battle between good and evil.

Nancy Farmer.  Sea of Trolls

After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister, Lucy, are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.

Debbie Tanner Federici & Susan Vaught.  L. O. S. T.

Pulled from an ordinary life the summer before his senior year in high school, Bren is amazed to learn that the girl who carried him through space and time is the queen of all witches, who believes that he is destined to help her defeat a terrible evil.

Catherine Fisher.  The Oracle Betrayed

After she is chosen to be "Bearer-of-the-god," Mirany questions the established order and sets out, along with a musician and a scribe, to find the legitimate heir of the religious leader known as the Archon.

John Green.  Looking for Alaska:  a Novel

Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Michael Gruber.  The Witch's Boy

A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire.

Brent Hartinger.  The Order of the Poison Oak

After "coming out" at school, sixteen-year-old Russel decides to take a counselor job at a camp for burn victims to get away from the antagonism of his classmates, but finds ten-year-old boys have just as many problems as he does.

Pete Hautman.  Godless

When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own.

S. E. Hinton.  Hawkes Harbor

Taking to sea, Jamie sought out danger and adventure in exotic ports all over the world as a smuggler, gunrunner and murderer. Tough enough to handle anything, he's survived foreign prisons, pirates, and a shark attack. But in a quiet seaside town in Delaware, Jamie discovered something that was enough to drive him insane and change his life forever.

Ellen Hopkins.  Crank

Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank . And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.

Iain Lawrence.  B for Buster

In the spring of 1943, sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age to enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over Germany.

Ursula K. Le Guin.  Gifts

When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.

Sue Limb.  Girl, 15, Charming But Insane

Fifteen-year-old Jess, living with her mum, separated from her father in Cornwall, and with a best friend who seems to do everything perfectly, finds her own assets through humor.

Carolyn Mackler.  Vegan Virgin Valentine

Mara's niece, who is only one-year-younger, moves in bringing conflict between the two teenagers because of their opposite personalities.

Sarra Manning.  Pretty Things

While rehearsing for a production of "The Taming of the Shrew," four English teenagers explore their relationships and sexuality, while also discovering some surprising truths about themselves.

Melina Marchetta.  Saving Francesca

Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed.

Tom Matthews.  Like We Care

Popular high-school star athlete started a revolution by boycotting corporate products.

O. R. Melling.  The Chronicles of Faerie Book 1:  The Hunter's

Moon

Ben Mikaelsen.  Tree Girl

When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until, after she and her traumatised sister find safety in a Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a future.

Kate Morgenroth.  Jude

Still reeling from his drug-dealing father's murder, moving in with the wealthy mother he never knew, and transferring to a private school, fifteen-year-old Jude is tricked into pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit.

David Randall.  Clovermead

Clovermead, twelve-year-old tomboy, learns that her father has been lying about the past and that the truth may be the key to ending the epic battle raging between the followers of Lord Ursus and those of Lady Moon.

Louise Rennison.  Away Laughing on a Fast Camel:  Even More

Confessions of Georgia Nicolson   The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him.

Rick Riordan.  Percy Jackson and the Olympians:  The Lightning

Thief   Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

Meg Rosoff.  how i live now

To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.

Benjamin Alire Saenz.  Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

As a Chicano boy living in the unglamorous town of Hollywood, New Mexico, and a member of the graduating class of 1969, Sammy Santos faces the challenges of "gringo" racism, unpopular dress codes, the Vietnam War, barrio violence, and poverty.

Jaclyn Moriarty.  The Year of Secret Assignments

Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.

Michael Morppurgo.  Private Peaceful

When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.

James Patterson.  Maximum Ride:  the Angel Experiment

After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.

Jodi Picoult.  My Sister's Keeper

Written with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity, this novel is about a teen who was conceived as a bone marrow match for her sister Kate, and what happens when she begins to question who she really is.

Tamora Pierce.  Trickster's Queen

Aly fails to foresee the dangers that await as she uses her magic to safeguard Dova and her younger siblings, despite knowing that her thirteen-year-old charge might be queen of the Copper Isles when the colonial rulers are defeated.

Anita Shreve.  Light on Snow

Finding an wailing infant while snowshoeing in the woods with her father makes 12-year-old Nicky Dillon question her life's strange shape, from why her father moved them to the isolated New England farmhouse to how they can come to terms with the tragedy they left behind.

Jordan Sonnenblick.  Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie

When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family.

Gary Soto.  Help Wanted:  Stories

Ten stories portray some of the struggles and hopes of young Mexican Americans.

Tammar Stein.  Light Years:  A Novel

Maya Laor leaves her home in Israel to study astronomy at the University of Virginia after the tragic death of her boyfriend in a suicide bombing.

Roderick Townley.  Sky:  a Novel in Three Sets and an Encore

In New York City in 1959, fifteen-year-old Alec Schuyler, at odds with his widowed father over his love of music, finds a mentor and friend in a blind, black jazz musician.

Scott Westerfeld.  Midnighters:  Touching Darkness Book 2

As they continue to battle evil creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight, Jessica and her new friends learn about Bixby, Oklahoma's shadowy past and uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the secret hour.

Deborah Wiles.  Each Little Bird That Sings

Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.

Allan Wolf.  New Found Land:  Lewis and Clark's Voyage of

Discovery   The letters and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, members of the Corps of Discovery, their guide Sacagawea, and Captain Lewis's Newfoundland dog, all tell of the historic exploratory expedition to seek a water route to the Pacific Ocean.

Chris Wooding.  The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray

As Thaniel, a wych-hunter, and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, try to rid the alleys of London's Old Quarter of the terrible creatures that infest them, their lives become entwined with that of a woman who may be either mad or possessed.

Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple.  Pay the Piper:  A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy

Tale

Timothy Zahn.  Dragonback Book 2:  Dragon and Soldier

Fourteen-year-old Jack, who is the human host in a symbiotic relationship with a dragon warrior named Draycos, joins a mercenary outfit to uncover those behind a vast conspiracy to wipe out Draycos's race.

Markus Zusak.  I Am the Messenger

After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.