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Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrink Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When the new boy at her school turns out to be the son of a Hollywood power player, Jessica, a small-town sixteen-year-old with stars in her eyes, a job at Wal-Mart, and a bit part in "West Side Story," sets out to get Jordan's estranged father to attend the production--but her drama teacher's politically correct hatchet job on the script threatens to turn her "big break" into a disaster.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Theresa Anderson and Devon Hampton set out to beat the SAT in order to get into a top college; however, they must also deal with the reality of street violence that could keep them both from realizing their dream.
6) L8r, g8r
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Throughout their senior year in high school, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela continue to share "instant messages" with one another about their day-to-day experiences as they consider college, sex, the importance of prom, and the inevitable end of their inseparable trio.
7) Stargirl
Author
Language
English
Description
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
9) Fairy tale
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Morgan Sparks and her boyfriend Cam have been best friends since they were children, but just before their shared sixteenth birthday, Cam confesses that he is a fairy who was switched at birth with a human child, and now the fairies want to switch them back.
11) Shrimp
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Back in San Francisco for her senior year in high school, seventeen-year-old Cyd attempts to reconcile with her boyfriend, Shrimp, making some girlfriends and beginning to feel more a part of her family in the process.
12) Fade to black
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
An HIV-positive high school student hospitalized after being attacked, the bigot accused of the crime, and the only witness, a classmate with Down Syndrome, reveal how the assault has changed their lives as they tell of its aftermath.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Vladimir Tod volume 3
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Tenth grade does not bring any relief to Vlad who is finding it increasingly difficult to resist feeding on his classmates and to avoid the evil vampire D'Ablo who wants to drain his powers.
14) Undercover
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing and going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parents' marital problems draw her out of herself.
15) New moon
Author
Language
English
Description
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
16) Gimme a call
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
After accidentally dropping her cell phone into a fountain at the mall, fourteen-year-old Devi Banks starts to get phone calls--and an earful of advice on how to live her life to avoid making disastrous choices--from her seventeen-year-old self.
18) Pop
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
19) Stoner & Spaz
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Language
English
Description
A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman.
20) Ghostgirl
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Usher has always struggled to fit in at her high school, and when Charlotte finds herself living in a parallel spiritual world after choking to death on a gummy bear, she tries to reconnect with the physical world while making new friends at her new school for the dead.
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