2010 9-12 Master List
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox/By Mary Pearson
- Henry Holt, 2008.
- In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
- Artichoke’s Heart/By Suzanne Supplee
- Peguin, 2008.
- When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and feeling out of control. As she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.
- Ghost Medicine/By Andrew Smith
- Feiwal & Friends, 2008.
- Still mourning the recent death of his mother, seventeen-year-old Troy Stotts relates the events of the previous year when he and his two closest friends try to retaliate against the sheriff's son, who has been bullying them for years.
- Graceling/By Kristin Cashore
- Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
- In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
- The Hunger Games/By Suzanne Collins
- Scholastic, 2008.
- In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
- Impossible/By Nancy Werlin
- Peguin, 2008.
- When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break the curse she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to save them both.
- No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, Teenagers on Death Row/By Susan Kuklin
- Henry Holt, 2008.
- In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there.
- Perfect Chemistry/By Simone Elkeles
- Walker & Co., 2008.
- When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany, and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates--and others.
- The Red Necklace/By Sally Gardner
- Penguin, 2008.
- In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French Revolution.
- Shift/By Jennifer Bradbury
- Simon & Schuster, 2008.
- When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.
- Ten Mile River/By Paul Griffen
- Penguin, 2008.
- Having escaped from juvenile detention centers and foster care, two teenaged boys live on their own in an abandoned shack in a New York City park, making their way by stealing, occasionally working, and trying to keep from being arrested.
- Unwind/By Neal Shusterman
- Simon & Schuster, 2007.
- In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
- Wintergirls/By Laurie Halse Anderson
- Penguin, 2009.
- Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
updated: Friday, 24-Apr-2009 11:14:07 EDT