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