2006 9-12 Master List
- CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE / Todd Strasser
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing ISBN: 0689841698 $15.95
- A surrogate family of homeless teens lives on the streets of New York City, and the bleakness of their lives is clear early on when Country Club dies of "liver failure due to acute alcohol poisoning." His brief life is summarized in a one-page dossierlike format that immediately precedes the narrative description of his death.
- DOUBLE HELIX / Nancy Werlin
- Penguin Group ISBN: 014240327X $5.99
- Edgar Award-winning author Nancy Werlin is well-known for her suspenseful thrillers for young readers. Eli Samuels' mother is dying from Huntington's disease. As Eli goes to work in a lab, he discovers some disturbing information about its doctor and his own family. Scott Shina's compelling narration adds further chills to this dramatic tale.
- GODLESS / Pete Hautman
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing ISBN: 0689862784 $15.95
- 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.
- GOTHIC: TEN ORIGINAL DARK TALES / Deborah Noyes, ed.
- Random House, Incorporated ISBN: 0763622435 $15.99
- A lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant... a serial killer who defies death... a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds within its peeling walls a grotesque secret. Here are witches who feast on faces, changeling rites of passage, a venerable vampire contemplating his end, and a fanged brat who drains the patience of a bumbling teenage boy....
- THE HEDGE KNIGHT / George R. R. Martin
- Diamond Book Distributors, Incorporated ISBN: 097640110X $14.95
- In this prequel story to George R. R. Martin's Award winning, New York Times Best Selling novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, Night falls over the life of one noble knight and brings the dawn of his squire's knighthood. Dubbing himself "Ser Duncan the Tall," the Hedge Knight sets forth to the tourney at Ashford Meadow in search of fame, glory, and the honor of upholding his oath as a knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Unfortunately for him, the world isn't ready for a knight who keeps his oaths, and his chivalrous methods could be the very cause of his demise.
- HONEY, BABY, SWEETHEART / Deb Caletti
- Thorndike Press ISBN: 0786273089 $22.95
- Sixteen-year-old "Quiet Girl" Ruby McQueen and her broken-hearted librarian mother learn about the true meaning of love and freedom from it, individual purpose, and the ties that bind.
- I AM THE MESSENGER / Markus Zusak
- Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated ISBN: 037593099X $18.99
- 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.
- INSIDE OUT / Terry Trueman
- HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 0064473767 $6.99
- The Worst Danger is Within A busy coffee shop -- a robbery gone wrong. Two gunmen, nine hostages, flashing lights. And Zach is caught in the mayhem. But nobody realizes that Zach -- who has no gun and no knife -- has a mind more dangerous than any weapon.
- LAST SHOT: A FINAL FOUR MYSTERY / John Feinstein
- Random House Children's Books ISBN: 0375931686 $18.99
- Steven Thomas is one of two lucky winners of the U.S. Basketball Writer's Association's contest for aspiring journalists. His prize? A trip to New Orleans and a coveted press pass for the Final Four. It's a basketball junkie's dream come true! But the games going on behind the scenes between the coaches, the players, the media, the money-men, and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely competitive than those on the court.
- LOOKING FOR ALASKA / John Green
- Penguin Group Incorporated ISBN: 0525475060 $15.99
- 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.
- MY SISTER'S KEEPER / Jodi Picoult
- Simon & Schuster, Incorporated ISBN: 0743274849 $18.00
- This story tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood....
- NOTHING TO LOSE / Alex Flinn
- HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 0060517522 $6.99
- A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.
- PLAYING IN TRAFFIC / Gail Giles
- Roaring Brook Press ISBN: 1596430052 $16.95
- Shy and unremarkable, seventeen-year-old Matt Lathrop is surprised and flattered to find himself singled out for the sexual attentions of the alluring Skye Colbly, until he discovers the evil purpose behind her actions.
- PROM / Laurie Halse Anderson
- Penguin Group ISBN: 0670059749 $16.99
- Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.
- SAVING FRANCESCA / Melina Marchetta
- Thorndike Press ISBN: 0786273097 $22.95
- Limitation Placers in Francesca's life: St. Sebastian's, which pretends to be a coed school; the dearth of female companions to be found there; and the endless supply of idiotic, smug boys. But the Queen of Limitation Placers is her vivacious mother, who makes her attend the hateful school-until the day she's stricken with acute depression, leaving Francesca lost and alone.
updated: Thursday, 03-Aug-2006 14:19:16 EDT