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Title Author Call No.
SUMMER BOYS ABBOTT, HAILEY YA FICTION
ABBOTT

Three cousins check out the teen guys when they go on summer vacation in Maine

FIREGIRL
ABBOTT, TONY YA FICTION
ABBOTT

A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, agirl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.

DREAM FACTORY BARKLEY, BRAD YA FICTION
BARKLEY

Alternating chapters present the view points of two teenagers who find summer employment as costumed cartoon characters at Disney World and try to resist falling in love.

HANGING ON TO MAX BECHARD, MARGARET YA FICTION
BECHARD

When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone.

HIGH HEAT DEUKER, CARL YA FICTION
DEUKER

When sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the star pitcher's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart.

AMERICA FRANK, E. R. YA FICTION
FRANK

America is a 15-year-old boy who's admitted to a residential treatment program under the care of Dr. B., who nudges America into revealing his troubled past.

SHATTERING GLASS GILES, GAIL YA FICTION
GILES

When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class,turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.

BRONX MASQUERADE GRIMES, NIKKI YA FICTION
GRIMES

While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.

RIVER SECRETS HALE, SHANNON YA FICTION
HALE

Razo travels from Bayern to Tira at war's end as par of a diplomatic corps, but events in the Tiran capital fuel suspicionsand anger, and Razo must spy out who is responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in an enemy land.

GREEN ANGEL HOFFMAN, ALICE YA FICTION
HOFFMAN

Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.

THE MISFITS HOWE, JAMES YA PB FICTION
HOWE

Four students who do not fit in at their small-town middle school decide to create a third party for the student council elections to represent all students who have ever been called names.

BAD KITTY JAFFE, MICHELE YA FICTION
JAFFE

While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas,seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her friends, recently arrived from California.

DUNK LUBAR, DAVID YA FICTION
LUBAR

Determined to get a job as the "Bozo" in the dunking tank at a New Jersey shore amusement park, Chad finds himself thrown into a strange and twisted world, where humor has far more power than he ever imagined.

THE EARTH, MY BUTT, AND OTHER BIG ROUND THINGS MACKLER, CAROLYN YA FICTION
MACKLER

Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking,15-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.

CHILL WIND McDONALD, JANET YA FICTION
MCDONALD

A girl from the projects, Aisha, loses her welfare benefits. Can she get a job for Big Models and be a success?

WHAT HAPPENED TO LANI GARVER PLUM-UCCI, CAROL YA FICTION
PLUM-UCCI

New kid at school named Lani is befriended by Claire who is fighting leukemia.

FULL TILT SHUSTERMAN, NEAL YA PB FICTION
SHUSTERMAN

When 16-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious,by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.