Week of March 22, 2010

FIC VOL  
  Rooftop     Paul Volponi
Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York housing project. seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that follows. 199 pages

FIC WEL    
Resurrection Men     T.K. Welsh
In London during the 1830s, twelve-year-old orphan Victor begins to realize that men are purposely infecting children with a sickness so they can sell the dead bodies to scientists, and set out to uncover the man behind the deadly crime. 214 pages

SC  MYE  
    What they found: Love on 145th Street   Walter Dean Myers
Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, including a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry. 243 pages

FIC FEI  
      Cover-Up   John Feinstein
Two teenagers learn that every player on a professional football team--which is supposed to play in the Super bowl--has failed their drug test and the owner has covered up the results, and how they must find a way to prove it. 298 pages

FIC JAF    
    Bad Kitty     Michele Jaffee
While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her friends recently arrived from California. 268 pages

FIC COL      
  The Hunger Games   Suzanne Collins
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeem accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death. 374 pages

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Week of March 8, 2010

818     FLA    
You Don't Even Know Me: Stories and Poems about Boys  Sharon G. Flake
                    A collection of nine short stories and thirteen poems by Sharon Flake that offer insight into the emotions, experiences, and values of African-American males. 195 pages

FIC     BRE    
The Shadow Project   Herbie Brennan
                    A young English thief stumbles on, and subsequently is recruited for, a super-secret operation that trains teenagers in remote viewing and astral projection techniques in order to engage in spying. 355 pages

FIC     COO    
They Never Came Back    Caroline B. Cooney
                    When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tiny Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life. 200 pages

FIC      PEE
    Exposure   Mal Peet
                    Paul Fautino, South America's best soccer journalist, reports on the series of events that hurl Othello from the heights of being a beloved and successful soccer star, happily married to the pop singer Desdemona, into a downward spiral, in this novel loosely based on Shakespeare's play, Othello. 430 pages

FIC     HUG  
  Missing in Action  Dean Hughes
                    While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo  himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

FIC     STO  
  Marcelo in the Real World  Francisco X. Stork
                    Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.  312 pages

FIC     JOR
      Hot Girl   Dream Jordan
                    Kate, a fourteen-year-old Brooklyn girl and former gang member, risks losing her first good foster family when she adopts the risque ways of her flirtatious new friend, Naleejah.  214 pages