Week of Feb. 22, 2010
FIC DEL
Not My Daughter Barbara Delinsky
High School principal Susan Tate's life takes a sudden detour when her seventeen-year-old daughter finds out she is pregnant and her two best friends announce they are too, leading the people of their Main costal village to accuse Susan of being responsible for the actions of the teenagers and making Susan fear the life she has built for her family will be lost. 343 pages
FIC STA
How to Say Goodbye in Robot Natalie Standiford
After moving to Baltimore and enrolling in a private school, high school senior Beatrice befriends a quiet loner with a troubled family history. 276 pages
FIC MCC
The Road Cormac McCarthy
Traces the journey of a father and his son as they walk alone after a great fire has consumed the nation and left everything in ashes. 287 pages
FIC MUR
Front and Center Catherine Gilbert Murdock
D.J. Schwenk finds her life taking an unexpected turn just as she was thinking things were finally calming down, and as she tries to make important decisions about her future, she discovers romance and adventure in the unlikeliest places. 256 pages
FIC MOU
Winter's End Jean-Claude Mourlevat
Fleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government that murdered their parents fifteen years earlier. 415 pages
FIC ALM
Raven Summer David Almond
Led to an abandoned baby by a raven, fourteen-year-old Liam seems fated to meet two foster children who have experienced the world's violence in very different ways as he struggles to understand war, family problems, and friends who grow apart. 198 pages
FIC HEA
North of Beautiful Justina Chen Headley
Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of her Goth classmate. 373 pages
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Week of Feb. 8, 2010
FIC THO
Creature of the Night Kate Thompson
Bobby recklessly smokes, drinks, and steals cars in Dublin, and when his mother relocates the family to a small cottage in the countryside, Bobby believes a certain spookiness lurks in the corners of the new home. 250 pages
FIC DRA
Fire from the Rock Sharon M. Draper
Sylvia Patterson's life suddenly changes with the integration of Little Rock's Central High in 1957 when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school. 231 pages
FIC NOE
Evermore Alyson Noel
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries. 306 pages
FIC STR
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
A collection of thirteen linked short stories recounting the experiences of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher who witnesses the changes in her town and the world at large. 286 pages
FIC REB
Three girls and Their Brother: A Novel Theresa Rebeck
Three young women find themselves easy prey for the sharks of show business when they are offered modeling careers; however, an incident with a famous movie star causes them to reevaluate their lives and relationships with one another. 341 pages
FIC AND
Peaches: a novel: Jodi Lynn Anderson
Love and Peaches: a novel
The Secrets of Peaches: a novel
Three very different friends, Murphy, Leeda, and Birdie, struggle to cope with the joys and sorrows of love, family, and destiny as their friendship is tested beyond its limits. 311 pages
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Week of February 1, 2010
FIC MYE
Sunrise over Fallujah Walter Dean Myers
Robin Perry, from Harlem. is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian affairs Batalion, and his time there profoundly changes him. 290 pages
FIC MAZ
The Missing Girl Norma Fox Mazer
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best. 284 pages
FIC BRO
Mistik Lake Martha Brooks
After Odella's mother leaves her, her sisters, and their father in Manitoba and moves to Iceland with another man, she then dies there, and the family finally learns some of the many secrets that have haunted them of for two generations. 207 pages
FIC SLE
The Last Universe William Sleator
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem. 217 pages
FIC DOC
Little Brother Cory Doctorow
Interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state, and decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. 382 pages
FIC NIC
Jango William Nicholson
Seeker, the Wildman, and Morning star discover that the mysterious warrior sect they had been so desperate to join is not quite what it appears from the outside. 409 pages
FIC SLE
Into the Dream William Sleator
When two youngsters realize they are having the same frightening dream, they begin searching for an explanation for this mysterious coincidence. 127 pages