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NEW FICTION

Halo by Alexandra Adornetto
Bethany, the least experienced of a trio of angels sent to Earth to bring good to the world, becomes romantically drawn to a mortal boy, jeopardizing her power against the Dark Forces, in the first title of a teen trilogy.
Publication Date: 08/31/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Call#: YAFICTION ADORNETTO

12th Grade Kills by Heather Brewer
In the action-packed finale of the best-selling series, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, the Council of Elders, having been informed that Tomas still lives, defers Vlad's execution, providing him the opportunity to confront the secrets of his past, unravel the mystery of who he is, make decisions about his future and face his greatest enemy.
Publication Date: 09/21/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Call#: YAFICTION BREWER

Absolute Value of -1 by Steve Brezenoff
Four teenagers relate their experiences as they try to cope with problems in school and at home by smoking, drinking, using drugs, and running track.
Publication Date: 09/01/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFICTION BREZENOFF

Don't Judge a Girl By Her Cover by Ally Carter
When Cammie Morgan visits her Gallagher Academy roommate Macey in Boston during summer break, the two girls soon find themselves trapped in a kidnapper's dangerous plot, with only their espionage skills to save them.
Publication Date: 05/18/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFICTION CARTER

Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima
A riveting new installment in the Seven Realms series is an epic tale of uncertain friendships, cut-throat politics and the irresistible power of attraction as two teenagers, one fleeing from a forced marriage and the other from a dangerous family of wizards, cross paths and fall in love.
Publication Date: 09/28/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Call#: YAFICTION CHIMA

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
In the prequel to the best-selling The Mortal Instruments series, Tessa Gray descends into Victorian London's dark underworld to search for her missing brother, with the mysterious Shadowhunters as her only allies. 500,000 first printing.
Publication Date: 08/31/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFICTION CLARE

Rise Of The Huntress by Joseph Delaney
Returning from Greece, Tom and the Spook find that their home, including the Spook's precious library of knowledge, has been burned to the ground, and that their battle against the denizens of the dark must continue.
Publication Date: 08/17/2010
Audience: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Call#: YAFIC DELANEY

13 to Life by Shannon Delany
After her mother's death, Jessie Gillmansen meets a new student at school, Pietr Rusakova, a Russian who has a mysterious past which poses a danger to her and everyone in her small town.
Publication Date: 06/22/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFIC DELANEY

Rush by Jonathan Friesen
A pariah in his town and home for the results of his risk-taking behavior, eighteen-year-old Jake seeks adrenaline rushes to clear his dark thoughts, but when Salome, the girl he loves, gets caught up in taking chances, too, the consequences are devastating.
Publication Date: 06/10/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Call#: YAFIC FRIESEN

Julian Game by Adele Griffin
In an effort to improve her social status, a new scholarship student at an exclusive girls' school uses a fake online profile to help a popular girl get back at her ex-boyfriend, but the consequences are difficult to handle.
Publication Date: 08/26/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFIC GRIFFIN

Boom! or 70000 Light Years by Mark Haddon
Overhearing two of their teachers speaking a secret language, Jimbo and Charlie are amazed when Mr. Kidd's eyes flicker a fluorescent blue when Charlie questions him, making the boys wonder if their teachers are bank robbers, spies or aliens.
Publication Date:05/11/2010
Audience: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Call#: YAFIC HADDON

Nightlight A Parody by The Harvard Lampoon
In this parody of the popular Twilight series, gawky, vampire-obsessed Belle determines that computer nerd Edwart is not only her soul mate, but also a vampire, and sets out to find a way to get him to bite her so they can spend eternity together.
Publication Date: 11/03/2009
Audience: General
Call#: YAFIC HARVARD

Girl Stolen by April Henry
When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
Publication Date: 09/28/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFIC HENRY

Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
A novel in free verse explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
Publication Date: 09/14/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFIC HOPKINS

Firelight by Sophie Jordan
Taylor: When 16-year-old Jacinda, who can change into a dragon, moves away from her community of shapeshifters to start a more normal life, she falls in love with a boy who proves to be her most dangerous enemy.
Publication Date: 09/07/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFIC JORDAN

Torment: A Fallen Novel by Lauren Kate
Hidden by her cursed angelic boyfriend in a school for Nephilim, Luce discovers the meaning of the Shadows that have always followed her and begins manipulating them to learn about her past lives.
Publication Date: 09/28/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Call#: YAFIC KATE

Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel
Lenah Beaudonte, for five centuries the queen of a vampire coven, has her humanity restored by the sacrifice of her soul mate, and is now a sixteen-year-old girl with the ability to love again--if her abandoned coven doesn't catch her first.
Publication Date: 08/03/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Call#: YAFIC MAIZEL

Devoured by Amanda Marrone
Megan works at an amusement park to keep an eye on her boyfriend, Ryan, and his best friend, Alexa, who clearly likes him, only to begin seeing the ghost of her dead sister and discovering that Luke--who has a crush on Megan, but is being pursued by Megan's new friend Ari--can also see the apparition.
Publication Date: 09/22/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Call#: YAFIC MARRONE

Wake of Lorelei Lee by L.A. Meyer
A latest installment in the series that includes Rapture of the Deep finds Jacky turning over a new leaf only to be arrested and sent to an Australian penal colony aboard her confiscated ship, a situation that compels her to rally her fellow prisoners.
Publication Date: 09/13/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Call#: YAFIC MEYER

Nobel Genes by Rune Michaels
A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prize-winning sperm donor.
Publication Date: 08/10/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Call#: YAFIC MICHAELS

Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Enjoying her life in the shadow of a fiery older sister, 17-year-old bookworm Lennie Walker is shattered by her sister's sudden death, a tragedy that causes her relationships with her sister's equally grief-stricken boyfriend and a French newcomer to change in ways she never could have imagined.
Publication Date: 03/09/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFIC NELSON

Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
A final installment in the series that includes The Ask and the Answer finds Todd and Viola confronting impossible choices in the face of an ultimate battle between the vengeful Spackle and ruthless human leaders.
Publication Date: 09/28/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFICTION NESS

Nightmarys by Dan Poblocki
Suffering nightmares about everything--from his brother who has come back from Iraq in a coma to the biology specimens in his classroom--Timothy is horrified when images from his worst nightmares begin appearing while he is awake, manifestations he discovers may be related to a new girl's secret past.
Publication Date: 08/28/2010
Audience: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Call#: YAFIC POBLOCKI

Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price
As an eyewitness to two murders, a Montana teenager relates the shocking story behind the crimes in a police interrogation interspersed with flashbacks.
Publication Date:8/17/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFICTION PRICE

Candidates by Inara Scott
Fifteen-year-old Dancia is recruited by a boarding school for teenagers with special abilities where she makes friends for the first time, is attracted to a popular junior and becomes involved with a dangerous classmate.
Publication Date: 08/24/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFIC SCOTT

Immortal Beloved by Cate Tiernan
After seeing her best friend, a Dark Immortal called Incy, torture a human with magick, Nastasya, a spoiled party girl, enters a home for wayword immortals and finally begins to deal with life, even as she learns that someone wants her dead.
Publication Date: 09/07/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Call#: YAFIC TIERNAN

Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin
Phoebe befriends Mallory, an awkward new girl at school, and the two become very close, but Phoebe is unaware that Mallory is a faerie, sent to trap her into fulfilling a promise made by her ancestor to the queen of the faeries.
Publication Date: 09/07/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Call#: YAFIC WERLIN

Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
 Mackie Doyle seems like everyone else in the perfect little town of Gentry, except that he is living with a fatal secret: he is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby 16 years before; now the creatures under the hill want him back, and Mackie must decide where he really belongs and what he really wants.
Publication Date: 09/21/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YAFIC YOVANOFF

NEW NONFICTION

They Called Themselves the KKK by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Uses personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents, and diaries, to unveil the creation of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee, and its spread across the American South.
Publication Date: 08/23/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Call#: YA 332.4 BARTOLETTI

Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science: 50 Experiements for Daring Young Scientists by Sean Connolly
Presents in introduction to thirty-four scientific breakthroughs, discussing the history of their discovery and providing instructions for conducting experiments which demonstrate their principles.
Publication Date: 05/05/2010
Audience: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Call#: YA 507.8 CONNOLLY

Freestyle Skateboarding Tricks by Sean D'Arcy
Flips, slides, grinds, pivots and much, much more for skateboarders.
Publication Date: 09/03/2010
Audience: General
Call#: YA 796.22 DARCY