Jeffrey isn't a little boy with

cancer anymore. He's a teen

who's in remission, but life

still feels fragile. The

aftereffects of treatment

have left Jeffrey with an

inability to be a great student

or to walk without limping.

His parents still worry about

him. His older brother,

Steven, lost it and took off to

Africa to be in a drumming

circle and "find himself."

Jeffrey has a little soul searching to do, too, which

begins with his escalating anger at Steven, an old

friend who is keeping something secret, and a girl who

is way out of his league but who thinks he's cute.

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When Bronte starts dating Brewster “Bruiser” Rawlins—the guy voted Most Likely to Get the Death Penalty—her twin brother, Tennyson, isn’t surprised. But then strange things begin to occur. Tennyson and Bronte’s scrapes heal unnaturally fast, and cuts disappear before their eyes. What at first seems like their good fortune turns out to be more than they bargained for . . .

-Amazon.com 2012

There's a reason why

Brewster can't have friends—

why he can’t care about too

many people. Because when

he cares about you, things

start to happen. Impossible

things that can’t be explained.

Chiko, a quiet, studious student whose medical doctor father has been arrested as a traitor, is seized by the government and forced into military training. Chiko is groomed for guerrilla warfare against the Karenni, a Burmese minority group living in villages and refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border. After he and his patrol stumble into land mines, Tu Reh, an angry Karenni and rebel fighter, must decide whether or not to save him. Tu Reh's home was destroyed by Burmese soldiers, and he struggles with his conscience and his desire for revenge and independence. Both Chiko and Tu Reh are caught in a conflict that neither fully understands. Family, friendships, and loyalty have shaped their lives. But as young soldiers, they face harrowing situations, profound suffering, and life-and-death decisions. Both boys learn the meaning of courage.

-School Library Journal 2011

Fourteen-year-old Natalie O'Reilly's world is turned

upside down with the news that she will soon go blind.

As if this weren't shocking enough, she is forced to face

the fact that she must now attend a school for the blind

to learn Braille and how to use a cane. As Natalie tackles

the skills that will help her to survive in a sighted world,

she inwardly hopes for a miracle that will save her sight.

But will that miracle come, or will she need to learn to

embrace her new life?

-Penguin Group USA 2011

Sixteen year-old Cheyenne

Wilder is sleeping in the back

of a car while her mom fills

her prescription at the

pharmacy. Before Cheyenne

realizes what's happening,

their car is being stolen--with

her inside!

Griffin hadn't meant to kidnap Cheyenne, all he

needed to do was steal a car for the others. But once

Griffin's dad finds out that Cheyenne's father is the

president of a powerful corporation, everything

changes--now there's a reason to keep her. What

Griffin doesn't know is that Cheyenne is not only sick

with pneumonia, she is blind. How will Cheyenne

survive this nightmare, and if she does, at what price?

- Henry Holt 2010

Elizabeth has just started working as a page at the New York Circulating Material Repository - a lending library of objects, contemporary and historical, common and obscure. And secret, too - for in the repository's basement lies the Grimm Collection, a room of magical items straight from the Grimm Brother's fairy tales.

But the magic mirrors and seven-league boots and other

items are starting to disappear. And before she knows it, she

and her fellow pages - handsome Marc, perfect Anjali, and

brooding Aaron - are suddenly caught up in an exciting, and

dangerous, magical adventure

- Penguin Group USA (2011)

The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that

she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with

Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they

slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's

infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between

Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path

that no one else has dared to follow.

- Dutton Books (2010)

Cassia has always trusted the Society

to make the right choices for her:

what to read, what to watch, what to

believe. So when Xander's face

appears on-screen at her Matching

ceremony, Cassia knows with

complete certainty that he is her ideal

mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's

face flash for an instant before the

screen fades to black.

Melody has cerebral palsy, and most people—her teachers and doctors included—don’t think she’s capable of learning. Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind—that is, until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. At last Melody has a voice . . . but not everyone around her is ready to hear it.

Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2012)

Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording, and she’s the smartest kid in her whole school—but no one knows it. If only she could speak up, if only she could tell people what she thinks and knows . . . but she can’t, because Melody can’t talk. She can’t walk. She can’t write.

Evie’s always thought of herself as a normal teenager, even though she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, she’s falling for a shape-shifter, and she’s the only one who can see through glamours. But now Evie’s dreams are filled with haunting voices and cryptic messages—and she’s realizing that she may be at the center of a dark faerie prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures. So much for normal.

-HarperCollins (2011)

Prisoners in the Palace

London, 1838. Sixteen-year-old Liza's dreams of her society debut are dashed when her parents are killed in an accident. Penniless, she accepts the position of lady's maid to young Princess Victoria and steps unwittingly into the gossipy intrigue of the servant's world below-stairs as well as the trickery above.

Is it possible that her changing circumstances may offer Liza the chance to determine her own fate, find true love, and secure the throne for her future queen?

- Chronicle Books (2010)

Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea—except that everything seems very wrong.

Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on? Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all—including Leo—related to a god.

RickRiordan.com 2012

Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina. When the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing on a nearby island, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.

As the friends discover their heightened senses and animal-quick reflexes, they must combine their scientific curiosity with their newfound physical gifts to solve a cold-case murder that has suddenly become very hot-if they can stay alive long enough to catch the killer's scent. Fortunately, they are now more than friends- they're a pack. They are Virals.

-Penguin Group USA, Incorporated (2010)