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Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Eighth-graders Massie, Alicia, Dylan, Kristen, and Claire, all members of the New Pretty Committee at Octavian Country Day School, agree to snub the Briarwood boys who are due to invade the previously all-girls domain, but find it difficult to obey their own decree.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French Revolution.
3) Shadow kiss
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Shadow-kissed Rose is hunted by the immortal undead that are seeking vengeance on her for her Strigoi kills, which puts her in a terrible position that could result in the death one of the two people she values most, her best friend Lissa, or her tutor Dimitri Belikov, the man she loves.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
6) The luxe
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In 1899 Manhattan, the drowning of beautiful Elizabeth Holland, daughter of New York society's ruling family, brings to the surface the scandalous behavior of several teenagers of varying social class.
7) Frostbite
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
While on a school skiing trip, guardian-in-training Rose faces everything from misunderstandings between friends to fights among factions of Moroi as reports of horrific Strigoi attacks raise tensions, ultimately leading Rose and some of those closest to her into a battle that teaches her much about life, death, and love.
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books/HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town; but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.
10) Headlong
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
High school sophomore Lily opens herself to new possibilities when, despite warnings, she becomes friends with "ghetto girl" Hazel, a new student at the private Vaughn School which Lily, following in her elitist mother's footsteps, has attended since preschool.
11) Sovay
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
An historical novel set in 1794 England, about a wealthy girl who disguises herself as a highwayman, acquires papers that could lead to her father's arrest, and must hide both her and her father's identity during the political unrest of the French Revolution.
12) The secret year
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Reading the journal of the high-society girl he was secretly involved with for a year helps high school senior Colt cope with her death and come closer to understanding why she needed him while continuing to be the girlfriend of a wealthy classmate.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After the death of Elizabeth Holland, all of New York speculates about her unfortunate demise and wonder what role her mischievous sister, Diana, and notorious cad Henry Schoonmaker played in the events leading up to her death.
14) Splendor
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Diana and Elizabeth Holland, two of Manhattan's favorite socialites, show new signs of maturity as Elizabeth tries to deal with a secret from the past, and Diana is forced to make a decision about her future; meanwhile, Carolina finds that money can buy happiness, and Penelope learns the pleasures of life without Henry.
15) Invisible lines
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Coming from a poor, single-parent family, seventh-grader Trevor must rely on his intelligence, artistic ability, quick wit, and soccer prowess to win friends at his new Washington, D.C. school, but popular and rich Xander seems determined to cause him trouble.
16) Hazel
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents' sugar plantation where she discovers some shocking family secrets.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown. Includes an author's note and historical timeline.
19) Hannah
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where she meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea.
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