The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
ANN BRAS HARES
0-385-73058-6
Over a few bags of cheese puffs, four girls decide to form a sisterhood and take the vow of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The next morning, they say goodbye. And then the journey of the Pants, and the most memorable summer of their lives, begin.
A Great and Terrible Beauty
LIBBA BRAY
0-385-73231-7
Sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle is sent to the Spence Academy in London after tragedy strikes her family in India. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma finds her reception a chilly one. But at Spence, Gemma's power to attract the supernatural unfolds; she becomes entangled with the school's most powerful girls and discovers her mother's connection to a shadowy group called the Order. A curl-up-under-the-covers Victorian gothic.
The Chocolate War
ROBERT CORMIER
0-375-82987-3
Jerry Renault dares to disturb the universe in this groundbreaking and now classic novel, an unflinching portrait of corruption and cruelty in a boys’ prep school.
The Rag and Bone Shop
Robert Cormier
0-440-22971-5
A seven-year-old girl is brutally murdered. A twelve-year-old boy named Jason was the last person to see her alive— except, of course, for the killer. Unless Jason is the killer.
Dr. Franklin's Island
ANN HALAM
0-440-23781-5
A plane crash leaves Semi, Miranda, and Arnie stranded on a tropical island, totally alone. Or so they think. Dr. Franklin is a mad scientist who has set up his laboratory on the island, and the three teens are perfect subjects for his frightening experiments in genetic engineering.
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
KIMBERLYWILLIS HOLT
0-440-23841-2
Toby's small, sleepy Texas town is about to get a jolt with the arrival of Zachary Beaver, billed as the fattest boy in the world. Toby is in for a summer unlike any other—a summer sure to change his life.
The Parallel Universe of Liars
KATHLEEN JEFFRIE JOHNSON
0-440-23852-8
Surrounded by superficiality, infidelity, and lies, Robin, a self-described chunk, isn’t sure what to make of her hunky neighbor's sexual advances, or of the attention paid her by a new boy in town who seems to notice more than her body.
Ghost Boy
IAIN LAWRENCE
0-440-41668-X
Fourteen-year-old Harold Kline is an albino—an outcast. When the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it in hopes of discovering who he is and what he wants in life. Is he a circus freak or just a normal guy?
The Lightkeeper's Daughter
IAIN LAWRENCE
0-385-73127-2
Imagine growing up on a tiny island with no one but your family. For Squid McCrae, returning to the island after three years away unleashes a storm of bittersweet memories, revelations, and accusations surrounding her brother's death.
gggathering Blue
LOIS LOWRY
0-440-22949-9
Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously taken to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
The Giver
LOIS LOWRY
0-440-23768-8
Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices, until Jonas is given an opportunity that will change his world forever.
The Silent Boy
LOIS LOWRY
0-440-41980-8
When tragedy strikes a small turn-of-the-century town, only Katy realizes what the gentle, silent boy did for his family. He meant to help, not harm. It didn’t turn out that way.
Shades of Simon Gray
JOYCE MCDONALD
0-440-22804-2
Simon is the ideal teenager—smart, reliable, hardworking, trustworthy. Or is he? After Simon's car crashes into a tree and he slips into a coma, another portrait of him begins to emerge.
Zipped
LAURAANDTOM MCNEAL
0-375-83098-7
In a suspenseful novel of betrayal, forgiveness, and first love, fifteen-year-old Mick Nichols opens an e-mail he was never meant to see—and learns a terrible secret.
In My Hands
IRENE GUT OPDYKE with JENNIFER ARMSTRONG
0-553-49411-2
Irene Gut was just seventeen when war broke out in her native Poland. Forced to work as a housekeeper for a Nazi major, she successfully hid twelve Jews in the basement of his home until the Germans’ defeat.
Holes
LOUIS SACHAR
0-440-22859-X
Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake. But there's more than character improvement going on at the camp—the warden is looking for something.
Pool Boy
MICHAEL SIMMONS
0-385-73196-5
Brett Gerson is the kind of guy you love to hate—until his father is thrown in prison and Brett has to give up the good life. That's when some swimming pools enter his world and change everything.
Stargirl
JERRY SPINELLI
0-440-41677-9
Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of Stargirl, Stargirl. 2 Then they turn on her.
The Gospel According to Larry
JANET TASHJIAN
0-440-23792-0
Josh Swensen's virtual alter ego, Larry, becomes a huge media sensation. While it seems as if the whole world is trying to figure out Larry's true identity, Josh feels trapped inside his own creation.
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