Book Title Author

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Hope Was Here
Joan Bauer

Hope and her aunt move from New York to Wisconsin where Aunt Addie will be a cook, and Hope, a waitress, in a diner whose owner is involved in a campaign to oust the corrupt town mayor.

Hanging on to Max
Margaret Bechard

When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone, which is a challenge for a motherless teen.

All-American Girl
Meg Cabot

Artistic Samantha, who enjoys creating funny top-ten lists, saves the President from an assassin, and finds herself a media hero with a surprising new boyfriend.

King of the Mild Frontier
Chris Crutcher

A popular teen author tells stories from his own youth. Some are laugh-out-loud funny, while others relate conflicts with family, and struggles with his bad temper.

Last Shot: a Final Four Mystery
 

John Feinstein

Two teens win a contest to be guest sports reporters at college basketball’s Final Four, where they investigate a plot they have uncovered that could throw the final game.

The Thief Lord
Cornelia Funke

To prevent being separated after their mother’s death, two brothers run away from Germany to Venice, a city their mother had told them about in marvelous detail, and where they fall in with a group of orphans led by the Thief Lord.

Bronx Masquerade
Nikki Grimes

As part of a class assignment, 18 students in a city high school write about their ideas, feelings, questions and fears, thus telling their life stories to each other.

Point Blank
Anthony Horowitz

With James Bond style action and technological wizardry, teen secret agent Alex Rider works undercover in a secluded boarding school to thwart a plot to take over the world.

Son of the Mob
Gordon Korman

Vince has very funny and frustrating experiences trying to be a normal teen because he wants nothing to do with the powerful crime organization that his father runs.

The Beast
Walter Dean Myers

While visiting home in Harlem, Anthony finds that his first true love, the poetic Gabi, whom he left behind when he went off to prep school, is now addicted to drugs.

Airborn
Kenneth Oppel

Matt, the cabin boy aboard the luxury airship Aurora, meets Kate, granddaughter of a man found dying, and muttering about strange creatures that the teens then try to find, while struggling against problems like pirates and a fierce storm.

So Yesterday
Scott Westerfeld

Hunter’s job, to spot the newest trends for retailers to develop into products, draws him and the ultra-cool Jen into a mystery when his boss and a cargo of the hottest new shoes go missing.