http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/ WPL New Teen Fiction eng Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:20:08 EDT Millennium Feed Builder 720 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/screens/feeds.gif http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/ 88 31 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1443366*eng ]]> 9780373830886 (pbk.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1443168*eng ]]>With college just a week away, the private jets are booked, the vintage Gucci steamer trunks packed, and it is time for the A-list crew to say goodbye. Or is it? Sam is head to USC film school, but when Eduardo offers her a different ending, like moving to Paris as newlyweds, will she go? There are only a few precious days left in LA, and then it is time for everyone to choose what their futures will hold. Only one thing is certain: wherever they go, they will always be on the A-List. 9780316113533 (pbk.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1443167*eng ]]> 9780373830916 (pbk.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1443166*eng ]]>A high school drama club on Long Island stages a controversial play written by a fellow classmate that puts their faculty advisor's career in jeopardy. 0142410519 (pbk.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1443049*eng ]]>Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and fledging vampyre Zoey Redbird's adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Those who appear to be friends are turning out to be enemies. And oddly enough, sworn enemies are also turning into friends. So begins the gripping third installment of this "highly addictive series" in which Zoey's mettle will be tested like never before. Her best friend Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity. Zoey doesn't have a clue how to help her, but she does know that anything she and Stevie Rae discover must be kept secret from everyone else at the House of Night, where trust has become a rare commodity. Speaking of rare: Zoey finds herself in the very unexpected and rare position of having three boyfriends. Mix a little blood lust into the equation and the situation has the potential to spell social disaster. Just when it seems things couldn't get any tougher, vampyres start turning up dead. Really dead. It looks like the People of Faith, and Zoey's horrid-step-father in particular, are tired of living side-by-side with vampyres. But, as Zoey and her friends so often find out, how things appear rarely reflects the truth. 9780312360306 (pbk.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1443048*eng ]]> 9780439904919 : $3.99 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1443047*eng ]]>Eighteen-year-old Indigo is looking forward to becoming a full-time waitress after high school graduation, but her life is turned upside down by a large check given to her by a customer who appreciates that she cares enough to scold him about smoking. 9781416910077 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1443000*eng ]]> 9780440238690 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1440381*eng ]]> 9780758225344 (pbk.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1440038*eng ]]>Ava "borrows" her friend's boyfriend for a special occasion. 9781416954415 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1439464*eng ]]>In Morganville, Texas, a town where evil terrorizes the streets under the cover of darkness, Claire Danvers, who has had enough of her current dorm situation, moves off campus and discovers that her new roommates are vampires. 0451219945 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1439463*eng ]]>When she pledges herself to Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town, Claire is faced with a past stalker, murder, and an ancient bloodsucker who extends a chilling invitation for private lessons in his secluded home. 9780451222381 (pbk.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1439353*eng ]]> 9780889842939 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1438824*eng ]]>Yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his father and his father's boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice that something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to do something about it. 9780375840982 (trade) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1438818*eng ]]>Seventeen-year-old Miguel Schreiber and a long-term enemy are drawn into a strange dream world when they fall in love with shapeshifting sisters from Australia--twins hiding from a cursed ancestor who can only be freed with the girls' cooperation. 9780142408162 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1438362*eng ]]>Shy, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his sixteen-year-old brother, Enrique, accompanied by two friends, drive from their home in southern California to Monterey to confront the abusive father who walked out a year earlier, and who now wants to return home. 9780061173301 (trade bdg.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1438023*eng ]]>"War-torn Afghanistan could not seem farther from Newfoundland, but it is about to change twelve-year-old tomboy Jack Cooper (or Jacqueline), as her mother insists on calling her) forever. When her father is killed in the war, she watches helplessly as her mother crumbles under sorrow and depression..." 9780887768101 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1437248*eng ]]>Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants. Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt his past. Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him. Determined to have Elena, he'd kill to possess her. Collected here in one volume for the first time, volumes one and two of The Vampire Diaries, the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them. 9780061140976 (trade pbk.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1437232*eng ]]>After their missing friend's body is found and another of their friends commits suicide, four former best friends live in fear of their secrets being exposed by someone who is stalking them via their cell phones. 9780060887360 (trade bdg.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1436917*eng ]]>After a school trip to Israel, Johanna discover's that her German grandfather acquired a clothing store during the Nazi regime according to the anti-Semitic laws of the Third Reich rather than starting it himself as her family has always stated. She struggles with whether to keep silent or to question her family's history. 9781932425840 (hdbk. : alk. paper) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1436588*eng ]]>For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime. She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control. Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant.... 9781416953579 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1436580*eng ]]>In the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the near future, where a standardized test determines each person's entire life, a powerful man runs a corrupt empire until seventeen-year-old Ann and other students take the lead in boycotting the test. 9780810993563 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1436577*eng ]]>In London, the teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, uncover plans for a deadly weapon and race to find and dismantle it, then confront the corrupt scientist behind the scheme. 9780803732650 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1436569*eng ]]>In the Paris village of Montmartre in 1904, fourteen-year-old Brigitte works long hours in her aunt's cafe, where she serves such regular customers as the young artist Pablo Picasso, encounters Russian revolutionaries, and longs to attend the exciting circus nearby. Includes author's note on the Picasso painting "Family of Saltimbanques." 9781570917127 (reinforced for library use) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1436562*eng ]]>When high school junior Emily Bennet is caught between a new relationship with the boy of her dreams and planning an alternative prom with her longtime rival on the student newspaper, it forces her to think about her values and make a difficult decision. 9780061143724 (trade bdg.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1436549*eng ]]>Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own. 9780803732278 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1436528*eng ]]>A fictional account of one of the worst storms to hit the Caribbean--Hurricane Mitch in 1998--told from the perspective of a thirteen-year-old boy living in a small village in Honduras. 9780060000189 (trade bdg.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1436518*eng ]]>A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions. 9780060790851 (trade bdg.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1436492*eng ]]>Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price. 9780439895767 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1436461*eng ]]>When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness. 9780060891275 (trade bdg.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1436452*eng ]]>Boys, bullies, and blogs come together in a book that brings the popular online diary format to print. For fans of Lauren Myracle’s ttyl, ttfn, and l8r, g8r, this fun, fast-paced book introduces an unforgettable and relatable heroine and features chapter openers designed to look like the pages of an online blog. An innovative debut, Something to Blog About is filled with the memorable missteps and heartfelt emotions of growing up. Libby Fawcett decides to start a secret blog so that she can have an outlet to vent her feelings and frustrations. When Seth Jacobs (her crush since eighth grade) witnesses her tragic (and comic) run-in with a Bunsen burner in chemistry class, or when she finds out that her mother is dating the father of her arch-nemesis, Angel Rodriguez, she’s able to keep a level head and make it through school each day with each blog posting. But when her entries get posted all over for the whole world to see, will Libby be able to walk the halls—or face Seth—ever again? Debut author Shana Norris will win over a whole new generation of teens as she hilariously chronicles the pitfalls and triumphs of the life of a high school girl. 9780810994744 (hardcover with jacket) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435664*eng ]]>Maya, a high school senior bound for Stanford University, goes against her better judgement when she and a popular but somewhat disreputable boy start a profitable school-wide cheating ring in order to save her family's Thai restaurant, which she fears will be shut down due to her irresponsible actions. 9780061288555 (trade bdg.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435644*eng ]]>As Johnis and the other "chosen" recruits of the Forest Guard are pulled into deeper danger to secure the seven lost Books of History, Johnis tries to rescue his mother from enslavement by the Horde, but risks betraying the Forest Dwellers. 9781595543639 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435640*eng ]]>Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom. 9780060741419 (trade bdg.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435638*eng ]]>When seventeen-year-old Genesis Sommer's father disappears on Moosehead Lake near their small-town Maine home in mid-November, she must cope with the pressure of keeping her family together, even while rumors about the event plague her. 9781599900636 (hardcover) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435630*eng ]]>As the land of the Forest Dwellers is increasingly decimated by the Horde, Thomas Hunter, supreme commander of the Forest Guard, choses four sixteen-year-old recruits for a special mission--to find the seven lost Books of History that have power over the past, present, and future. 9781595543592 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435622*eng ]]>Having escaped death in Australia, Sam endures a dangerous sea voyage back to England, where he rejoins the Navy and becomes midshipman on the Victory as it prepares for the Battle of Trafalgar. 9781599900803 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435482*eng ]]>When fourteen-year-old Katie and her older sister, Michaela, move from New York City to upstate New York, Katie is horrified by the country life-style but is even more shocked when her sister adapts effortlessly, enjoying their new life, unlike Katie. 9780439922272 (alk. paper) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435477*eng ]]>As her freshman year nears an end, fourteen-year-old Willa finds herself helping plan two weddings, auditioning for "Our Town," organizing a book drive, fighting jealousy over her boyfriend's beautiful new friend, and preparing to become a big sister. 9781416940760 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435464*eng ]]>Six teens are drawn back to the small, North Carolina town where they once lived and, one by one, begin to die of their worst fears, as prophesied by the cult leader they killed five years earlier, and who they believe poisoned their parents. 9781416940074 (hardcover) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435430*eng ]]>Presents ten stories of teenagers facing all of the usual challenges of school, parents, boyfriends and girlfriends, plus the additional complications that come with having a physical or psychological disability. 0763632554 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435411*eng ]]>Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever. 9780385734875 (trade) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435407*eng ]]>A collection of eighteen stories describing the surprises, sacrifices, doubts, pain, and joy of falling in love. 9780375848865 (hbk.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435406*eng ]]>Seventeen-year-old Sugar Magnolia Dempsey is tired of leaving friends behind every time her hippie parents decide to move, but her plan to be unpopular at her new Austin, Texas, school backfires when other students join her on the path to "supreme dorkdom." 9780385734653 (trade) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435396*eng ]]>Jess Jordan is barely 15. Fred is her often-aggravating best guy friend; her father is a lonely bachelor; Flora is her gorgeous best friend, a constant liability; and Ben Jones is barely a twinkle in her eye. Into this innocent scene are dropped 30 or so helpless French exchange students. Jess and her mother are assigned to house Eduoard, a shy, awkward, and painfully English-deprived boy Jess's age. To counter what Jess fears in Eduoard's growing crush on her, Jess convinces her friend Fred to pose as her boyfriend, but he refuses to take their fake relationship seriously. Add a gorgeous, womanizing French student, an ill-fated camping trip in a student's a backyard, and Flora just being, well, Flora, and you have all the makings of an international incident. Will Jess be able to keep the peace, or even translate the whole debacle to the confused French students? 0385735383 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435394*eng ]]>Once sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton's father is elected president of the United States, the adopted Pakistani-American girl moves into the White House and makes some decisions about how she is going to live her life in the spotlight. 9780525479512 (hardcover) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1435366*eng ]]>In the beach town of Neptune, New Jersey, Phoebe's life is changed irrevocably when her gay cousin moves into her house and soon goes missing. 9780061256271 (trade. bdg.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1431023*eng ]]>Chandra Kabelo, a teenaged African girl, must save her younger siblings after they are kidnapped and forced to serve as child soldiers in General Mandiki's rebel army. 9780060872625 (trade bdg.) http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1423459*eng ]]>While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder. 9780316002868 http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/record=b1417333*eng ]]>The orphaned daughter of Katherine Parr and Henry VIII, sixteen-year-old Mary Seymour vies to gain acceptance and fend off her jealous relatives and castle-mates as she enters into Queen Elizabeth's court. 9781423107972