Tessa, who has terminal cancer, creates a list of ten things she wants to do in

the months she has left to live. This fierce and devastating novel explores end-oflife

realities with honesty and grace.

In the second House of Night book, fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has

accepted her powers and role as Leader of the Dark Daughters. She finally really

fits in. But too soon the people Zoey cares about from her old life are in danger,

and it looks like the House of Night is killing human teenagers. Betrayal and

heartbreak are inevitable for Zoey as her world turns upside down.

New York teenager Clary witnesses a murder she cannot prove: the victim

disappears before her eyes and no one else can see the killers. She discovers

she can see supernatural beings that no one else can, and is drawn into the

world of the Shadowhunters (teens who kill demons and monsters.) She soon

learns that her mother, Jocelyn, is the only person who knows the whereabouts

of The Mortal Cup, a dangerous magical item that turns humans into

Shadowhunters. Clary must find the cup and keep it from a renegade sector of

Shadowhunters bent on eliminating all nonhumans.

getting the chance to publish their stories. What they don't know is that this

seemingly friendly competition could lead to their worst nightmares coming true

Greg Heffley knows he’s not popular, but he tries hard to fit in. He records his

observations about life in middle school in his journal (NOT a diary, he says)

In the third installment of “The Twilight Saga,” Bella continues her struggle in

determining what life direction to take and with whom. She is pulled romantically

in one direction by vampire Edward and in the other direction toward her long

time friend Jake who is a werewolf. Decisions must be made as Bella prepares to

graduate from high school and move forward in her life as an immortal. Tension

is high and charged with emotion as Bella grapples with choices that will result in

decisions that will affect her into eternity.

A few years after Tally Youngblood brought down her highly ordered society of

Uglies, Pretties, and Specials, popularity reigns supreme. Everyone is doing all

they can to get the most buzz. In the midst of the chaos, Aya Fuse is ok with

being unknown. But then she meets a secretive clique, and she wants to show

the world how cool they are, but doing so would put her in the spotlight – a

dangerous place she might not be ready for.

Fourteen-year-old Cadel Piggot studies subjects like infiltration, misinformation,

and forgery at the Axis Institute for World Domination. As he learns diabolical

new skills, he meets a girl who makes him reconsider his turn to the dark side.

Suspenseful and thrilling, readers will want to see if Cadel can or will subvert his

teacher’s machinations.

Brothers Max and Josh have much more in common than simply playing the roleplaying

game, “Genesis Alpha.” Josh was born so his stem cells could be

harvested to save his older brother Max’s life. But role-playing changes to rolereality

when Max is accused of a violent murder and Josh wonders if he knows

his brother at all. “Genesis Alpha,” simply a game, but what has it to do with Max

and Josh’s reality?

her post-baby body. Speed helps her lose the weight, but it also makes her lose

her reclaimed life. The spiral into hopeless addiction to meth is even faster this

time. It is not just her life being affected. She has her baby to think of…doesn’t

she? This brutal examination of meth and its effects is written in free verse.

Who will be left standing in the seventh and final book? Harry, Ron, and

Hermione or Lord Voldemort? Voldermort is ruthless in his pursuit of the trio, but

Harry, Ron, and Hermione have honed their magical skills in the past six years

and are ready for battle. Well plotted, the magical, mental, and physical

It’s not easy being an urban faerie, and changeling Kaye just made life harder on

herself. Drunk on faerie wine, she made a declaration of love to her boyfriend,

Roiben, newly crowned King of the Unseelie Court. Now she can’t see or speak

to him again until she brings him a faerie that will tell a lie. Kaye and her best

friend begin this seemingly impossible quest with little hope, but everyone knows

that getting there is half the fun.

In this sequel to the epic fantasy Seeker, we return to Anacrea, where Seeker of

Truth, Morning Star and Wildman are undergoing training to become Nomana, or

Noble Warriors. Seeker discovers his innate power and enters a strange state he

calls "jango." His power threatens to overwhelm his judgment, as his fellow

novices are called toward their own adventures. Time is running out as the

Nomana face new threats from many directions, but the three must try to

Unlucky Jinx hopes that moving in with her aunt and uncle in New York will help

her escape the bad luck that caused her so much trouble in her hometown. But it

isn’t to be. Her bad luck is actually a curse, and avoiding magic doesn’t seem to

help. Jinx’s glamorous cousin Tory and her coven of Uptown witches feel

threatened by Jinx’s gift. Jinx must learn to control her power to turn the curse to

her advantage and stop Tory before she causes too much damage.

Gossip Girl meets Age of Innocence in this lushly-detailed period piece. Four

teenage girls weave a web of catty gossip, lies, backstabbing and secrets in late

nineteenth-century Manhattan. This tangled web includes not one but two sets of

star-crossed lovers; an upstairs/downstairs romance; a scheming social climber;

a bitter servant girl; and oodles of money, all set in a Edith Wharton via

Hollywood vision of Old New York.

Max and her flock of winged, genetically engineered teens have been literally

stamped with an expiration date. Additionally, they are split apart and spread

around the world, hiding or captive to their worst enemies. The whitecoats

(scientists) are at it again, tinkering with the usual way of things. How will the

flock manage to defeat a “re-evolution” plan to engineer a superior human race

and save the world?

Penelope Wilhern has everything including a pig-like face, a terrible family curse.

Penelope deals with the superficial aspects of her life as well as dealing with her

meddling mother and looks for adventure outside of her protected life to find

Echo feels pressured to match up to her sister, Zoë, especially after her sister’s

brutal murder. Her parents are staggered, as is Echo, but life continues to move

on. Her freshman year at high school starts embarrassingly and things look grim

until Zoë’s former boyfriend shows up with Zoë’s diary. Turns out that Zoë had

gone places and done things that Echo was not aware of. As Echo explores

Zoë’s life through her diary, she begins to reexamine her own.

The lass, the youngest child of nine, is so rejected by her mother that she isn't

even named. But in return for wealth for her family, the lass agrees to spend a

year in the home of an enchanted great white bear. Will she survive the year?

The third book and final book in the Gemma Doyle trilogy wraps up all the loose

ends. Gemma is continuing to both grow in power and come under attack in “the

Realms,” the magical world she and her friends visit. While the late 1800’s

finishing school she attends with her friends is attempting to shape them into

proper ladies, forces far more strong are shaping Gemma in the Realms. Gemma

also continues her relationship with Kartik, a magician from the Realms. Some

characters will die, while others will change their destiny.

If your name was on a box given to you after your secretive grandfather’s death,

would you open it immediately? Of would you be afraid of what it might hold?

Tamar waits a bit to open her box, then is plunged into her grandfather’s world of

resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland during WWII. She and her cousin

must delve deeply into the clues left by her grandfather to find the truth of what

happened years ago. Love, passion, mystery, and tragedy all play out masterfully

Tyler Miller is invisible in his high school career until a rebellious grafitti prank

lands him in a summer of hard labor. Now he has muscles, and he’s looking

good to the ladies, including Bethany Milbury, sister of his main tormentor and

daughter of his father’s boss. Life seems to be taking a nice turn for Tyler until he

is charged for a crime he didn’t commit. The reader follows Tyler as he tries to

turn his twisted life into one of which he can be proud.

In the future, being a troubled teen means something worse than being sent to a

boot camp to get straightened out. Abortion is illegal, but when a child is between

the ages of thirteen and eighteen, a parent may choose to retroactively "abort"

the child through "unwinding," in which their body parts are harvested for use by

other people. Connor, Risa and Lev, who are all scheduled to be unwound, are

literally running for their lives: if they can evade capture and survive until the age

of 18, they will be spared a terrible fate.

Two best friends, one a pure vampire and one a half-blood vampire, are captured

and returned to the private school they escaped from two years ago. But things

have changed since they left and there is now danger to add to the drama that

resides in the halls of St. Vladimir’s Academy.

Everything would have been okay for Aislinn – her relationship with Seth, her

normal life – except for the fairies noticing that she was one of the few humans

with “the Sight.” She begins to be “tracked” by fairies that have noticed her

unwanted gift of seeing the normally invisible fairies. Now Keenan, the fairie

Summer King, believes Aislinn is the bride he has been seeking for nine

Jenica and her four sisters have a delightful secret: they can enter into a fairy

world of dancing, light, and music. When their father is called away on business,

however, all of that is threatened when the dreaded cousin Cesar movies into the

house. This delightful fantasy mixes the feel of a fairy tale of old with a modern

female sensibility.