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Reeve, Philip. Fever Crumb. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr. 6+) SF
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Reeve, Philip. Fever Crumb. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr. 6+) SF Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present. This is a prequel to The Hungry City Chronicles: #1 Mortal Engines, 2003; #2 Predator’s Gold, 2004; #3 Infernal Devices, 2006. Sequel: A Web of Air, forthcoming 10/2011. Reeve, Philip. No Such Thing as Dragons. Scholastic, 2010. (Gr. 8+) FAN A young, mute boy who is apprenticed to a dragon-slayer suspects that the winged beasts do not exist, until he--and his master--learn the truth. Rees, Douglas. Vampire High: Sophomore Year. Delacorte, 2010. (Gr. 7+) PARANORMAL When Cody’s Goth cousin Turk moves into his house, enrolls at Vlad Dracul, and decides to turn an abandoned nineteenth-century mill into an art center, the vampire (Jenti) students are not pleased, and Cody’s hopes for a great sophomore year are blighted. Previous title: Vampire High, 2003. Reichs, Kathy. Virals. Razorbill, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SF The niece of famed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, fourteen-year-old Tory and her three friends are exposed to a rare strain of canine parvovirus that gives them special powers which they use to try to solve a murder. Sequel: Seizures, forthcoming 10/2011 Revis, Beth. Across the Universe. Razorbill, 2011. (Gr. 9+) SF Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet three hundred years in the future, but her frozen slumber abruptly ends when someone on board the ship tries to murder her. Sequel: A Million Suns, forthcoming 1/2012. Rex, Adam. Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story. Balzer + Bray, 2010. (Gr. 10+) PARANORMAL After being bitten by a vampire, not only is fifteen-year-old Doug doomed eternally to be fat, but now he must also save himself from the desperate host of a public-access-cable vampire-hunting television show that is on the verge of cancellation. Riordan, Rick. The Red Pyramid. Hyperion, 2010. (Gr. 6+) FAN Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane unites his children, Sadie and Carter, for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, hoping to set things right for his family after the death of the children's mother--instead, he awakens the gods of Egypt and unleashes the worst of them, the god Set, who banishes Julius to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. Sequel: The Throne of Fire, 2011. Riordan, Rick. The Lost Hero. Hyperion, 2010. (Gr. 6+) FAN Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself. Sequel in The Heroes of Olympus series: The Son of Neptune, forthcoming 10/2011. Companion series to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Rollins, James. Jake Ransom and the Skull King’s Shadow. Harpercollins, 2009. (Gr. 5-8) FAN Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull King. Sequel: Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx, 2011. Rosen, Lev A. C. All Men of Genius. Tor, forthcoming 9/2011. (A/YA) SF A comedic Steampunk sensation inspired by both Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, All Men of Genius follows Violet Adams as she disguises herself as her twin brother to gain entry to Victorian London’s most prestigious scientific academy, and once there, encounters blackmail, mystery, and love. Roth, Veronica. Divergent. Katherine Tegen Books, 2011. (Gr. 9+) SF In a future Chicago, Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she does not fit into any one group. Rothfuss, Patrick. The Wise Man’s Fear. Daw, 2011. (A/YA) FAN Kvothe continues on his quest to reclaim the honor of his family in the Fae realm and learn the truth about the death of his parents and Amyr, the Chandrian. Previous title in The Kingkiller Chronicles: The Name of the Wind, 2007. Rushdie, Salman. Luka and the Fire of Life. Random House, 2010. (A/YA) FAN “You’ve reached the age at which people in this family cross the border into the magical world. It’s your turn for an adventure—yes, it’s finally here!” So says Haroun to his younger brother, twelve-year-old Luka, in Salman Rushdie’s thrilling, delightful, lyrically crafted fable for the young and young at heart. Rutkoski, Marie. The Cabinet of Wonders. FS&G, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister. Sequels: The Celestial Globe, 2010; The Jewel of Kalderash, forthcoming 10/2011. Ryan, Amy. Glow. Griffin, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr. 9+) SF The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known. Part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, she and her boyfriend Kieran will be pioneers of New Earth. Waverly knows she must marry young in order to have children who can carry on the mission, and Kieran, the handsome captain-to-be, has everything Waverly could want in a husband. Everyone is sure he’s the best choice. Still, there’s a part of Waverly that wants more from life than marriage, and she is secretly intrigued by the shy, darkly brilliant Seth. Ryan, Carrie. The Forest of Hands and Teeth. Delacorte, 2009. (Gr. 10+) PARANORMAL Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead. Sequels: The Dead-Tossed Waves, 2010; The Dark and Hollow Places, 2011. Sage, Angie. Queste. Harpercollins, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN Nicko and Snorri are trapped in Time, and Septimus Heap goes on a quest to find the House of Foryx, a place where all Time meets. Previous titles in the Septimus Heap series: #1 Magyk, 2005; #2 Flyte, 2006; #3 Physik, 2007. Sequels: Syren, 2009; Darke, 2011. St. John, Lauren. Dolphin Song. Dial, 2008. (Gr. 4-6) FAN When Martine and five of her classmates are thrown overboard while on a school trip to South Africa and are brought to shore by a pod of helpful dolphins, the castaways must learn how to survive on their deserted island home while trying to find a way to get their animal saviors back to deep water after they become beached. Sequel to: The White Giraffe, 2007. Sequels: The Last Leopard, 2009; The Elephant’s Tale, 2010. Sanderson, Brandon. Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones. Scholastic, 2008. (Gr. 4-6) FAN Thirteen-year-old Alcatraz Smedry and his companions seek Al's father and grandfather in the Great Library of Alexandria, where they face undead, soul-stealing wraiths called the Curators of Alexandria, and one of the Scrivener's Bones, a part-human, part-machine mercenary. Sequel to: Alcatraz and the Evil Librarians, 2007. Sequels: Alcatraz and the Knights of Crystallia, 2009; Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens, 2010. Saunders, Kate. Beswitched. Feiwel & Friends, forthcoming 12/2011. (Gr. 4-6) FAN A magic spell has spun Flora into the past. She's mysteriously swapped lives with a schoolgirl in 1935! No iPod? No cell phone? No hair products? How will she survive? Now Flora's a new girl at St. Winifred's, where she has to speak French at breakfast, wear hideous baggy bloomers, and sleep in a freezing dormitory. But lots of adventures in the past are amazing even if they are not forever. Sawyer, Robert J. WWW: Wake. Ace Books, 2009. (A/YA) SF When Webmind, an emerging consciousness, befriends Caitlin Decter to learn about her world, a secret government agency, WATCH, believes Webmind is a risk to national security and wants it destroyed, despite Caitlin's acceptance and belief in her new friend. Sequel: WWW: Wonder, 2011. Schiltz, Laura Amy. The Night Fairy. Candlewick, 2010. (Gr. 3-5) FAN When Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she has to learn to do everything differently. Schreiber, Ellen. The Coffin Club. Katherine Tegen Books, 2008. (Gr. 7+) SUPERNATURAL As teen vampire twins Luna and Jagger try to trick a high school soccer star into bonding with Luna for eternity, 16-year-old goth girl Raven Madison and her vampire boyfriend, Alexander, strive to save him. Previous titles in the Vampire Kisses series: #1 Vampire Kisses, 2003; #2 Kissing Coffins, 2005; #3 Vampireville, 2006; #4 Dance with a Vampire, 2007. Sequels: Royal Blood, 2009; Love Bites, 2010. Schreiber, Ellen. Once in a Full Moon. Katherine Tegen Books, 2010. (Gr. 10+) Popular seventeen-year-old Celeste finds herself falling in love with a boy from the wrong side of their small, midwestern town, even though she suspects that he is a werewolf. Sequel: Magic of the Moonlight, forthcoming 12/2011. Scott, Michael. The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel). Delacorte, 2007. (Gr. 7+) FAN Nicholas Flamel, born in Paris in 1330, discovered the secret of eternal life and hid it in the Book of Abraham the Mage. Now Dr. John Dee is after the book, planning to use it to destroy the world. Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones who can stand against him. The fate of the world is in their hands. Sequels: The Magician, 2008; The Sorceress, 2009; The Necromancer, 2010; The Warlock, 2011. Sedgwick, Marcus. White Crow. Roaring Brook, 2011. (Gr. 9+) PARANORMAL Sixteen-year-old Rebecca moves with her father from London to a small, seaside village, where she spends the summer exploring the village's sinister history with a new friend. Selfors, Suzanne. Mad Love. Walker, 2011. (Gr. 9+) FAN When her famous romance-novelist mother is secretly hospitalized in an expensive mental facility, sixteen-year-old Alice tries to fulfill her mother's contract with her publisher by writing a love story-- with the help of Cupid. Selzer, Adam. I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It. Delacorte, 2010. (Gr. 9+) SUPERNATURAL Living in the post-human era when the undead are part of everyday life, high schooler Alley breaks her no-dating rule when Doug catches her eye, but classmate Will demands to turn her into a vampire and her zombie boyfriend may be unable to stop him. Selzer, Adam. Extraordinary*: The True Story of My Fairygodparent, Who Almost Killed Me, and Certainly Never Made Me a Princess. Delacorte, forthcoming 11/2011. Jennifer Van Der Berg would like you to know that the book ostensibly written about her—Born to Be Extraordinary by Eileen Codlin—is a bunch of bunk. Yes, she had a fairy godparent mess with her life, but no, she was not made into a princess or given the gift of self-confidence, and she sure as hell didn't get a hot boyfriend out of it. Here's the REAL scoop . . . Sensel, Joni. The Farwalker's Quest. Bloomsbury, 2009. (Gr. 5-8) FAN When twelve-year-old Ariel and her friend Zeke find a mysterious artifact which has not been seen in a long time, it proves to be the beginning of a long and arduous journey that will ultimately reveal to them their true identities. Sequel: The Timekeeper’s Moon, 2010. Service, Pamela. Escape from Planet Yastol. Darby Creek, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr. 4-6) SF Eleven-year-old Joshua Higgins' prize-winning science fiction novel draws the attention of sinister blue aliens who capture Josh and his sister Maggie and take them to the planet Yastrol, the setting of his novel. Sheehan, Anna. A Long, Long Sleep. Candlewick, 2011. (Gr. 8+) SF Rosalinda Fitzroy, heir to the multiplanetary corporation UniCorp, is awakened after years in stasis to find that everyone she knew has died and as she tries to make a new life for herself, learns she is the target of a robot assassin. Shinn, Sharon. Troubled Waters. Ace, 2010. (A/YA) FAN After Zoe Ardelay escapes an impending forced marriage to the king by hiding on the shores of a mighty river, she discovers that she is a magical being ruled by the elemental sign of water and must decide how to use her power to rise above the deceptions and intrigue of the royal court. Shusterman, Neal. Everlost. Simon & Schuster, 2006. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL After dying in a car accident together and ending up in Everlost, a netherworld filled with children and teens, Nick accepts his fate while Allie decides to pursue new adventures by taking over the bodies of the living, but with threats coming from within Everlost, the two friends must stick together in order to reach their true and final destination. Sequels: Everwild, 2009; Everfound, 2011. Simner, Janni Lee. Bones of Faerie. Random House, 2009. (Gr. 7+) FAN Fifteen-year-old Liza travels through war-ravaged territory in a struggle to bridge the faerie and human worlds and to bring back her mother while learning of her own powers and that magic can be controlled. Sequel: Faerie Winter, 2011. Simner, Janni Lee. Thief Eyes. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN After her mother mysteriously disappears,16-year-old Haley convinces her father to take her to Iceland, where her mother was last seen and where she meets gorgeous Ari, a boy with a dangerous secret who appoints himself her protector--help she will need after she becomes ensnared by an ancient spell cast by her ancestor Hallgerd. Slade, Arthur. The Hunchback Assignments. Random House, 2009. (Gr. 7+) SF In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild. Sequels: The Dark Deeps, 2010; Empire of Ruins, forthcoming 9/2011. Slonczewski, Joan. Highest Frontier. Tor, forthcoming 9/2011. (A/YA) SF Preparing to enter her first year at a college located in orbit, Jennifer Ramos Kennedy grieves the untimely death of her twin brother and is urged to fulfill the expectations of her influential family in the wake of a surge in global warming and a threat by an invasive alien species. Sleator, William. The Phantom Limb. Amulet, forthcoming 10/2011. (Gr.7+) PARANORMAL Living in a dreary new home with his father dead, his mother hospitalized, and his grandfather increasingly distant, fourteen-year-old Isaac's wish for someone to reach out to him comes true in the form of a phantom arm that appears in a mirror box designed to help amputees, warning of danger. Smibert, Angie. Memento Nora. Marshall Cabendish, 2011. (Gr. 8+) SF Nora, Winter, and Micah, friends in a near future world in which terrorism is common and a single pill can wipe out disturbing memories, work together to create an underground comic for them and their classmates to share experiences they want to remember. Smith, Alexander Gordon. Lockdown: Escape from the Furnace. FS&G, 2009. (Gr. 6+) SF When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible. Sequels: Solitary, 2010; Death Sentence, 2011; Fugitives, forthcoming 3/2012. Smith, Clete Barrett. Aliens on Vacation. (The Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast #1) Disney Hyperion, 2011. (Gr. 5-8) SF Scrub arrives at his grandmother's Washington bed-and-breakfast only to discover she has opened the doors to aliens that arrive through off-Earth portals, and he must decide what to do when the local sheriff, already suspicious of Granny, notices some of the kids Scrub is chaperoning at a camp out glow in the dark. Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Tantalize. Candlewick, 2007. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect. Companion novels: Eternal, 2009; Blessed, 2011. Smith, L. J. The Vampire Diaries: #1 The Awakening. Harperteen, 1991. (Gr. 7+) PARANORMAL Stefan and Damon, two vampire brothers, compete for the love of Elena Gilbert, a beautiful high school senior who is searching for excitement. Sequels: #2 The Struggle, 1991; #3 The Fury, 1991; #4 Dark Reunion, 1992; The Return: Shadow Souls, 2010; The Return: Midnight, 2011. Smith-Ready, Jeri. Shade. Simon Pulse, 2010. (Gr. 9+) SUPERNATURAL Sixteen-year-old Aura of Baltimore, Maryland, reluctantly works at her aunt's law firm helping ghosts with wrongful death cases file suits in hopes of moving on, but it becomes personal when her boyfriend, a promising musician, dies and persistently haunts her. Sequel: Shift, 2011. Spradlin, Michael. Orphan of Destiny. Putnam, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN Young Squire Tristan, Robard, Maryam, and Angel make one last desperate push to deliver the Holy Grail to safety in 1191 Scotland, but the way is full of danger as new enemies are met and Sir Hugh attempts to thwart them at every turn. Previous titles in The Youngest Templar series: Keeper of the Grail, 2008; Trial of Faith, 2009. St. Crow, Lili. Strange Angels. Razorbill, 2009. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"-bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents, and why. Sequels: Betrayals, 2009; Jealousy, 2010; The Reckoning, forthcoming 11/2011. Stanley, Diane. The Silver Bowl. Harpercollins, 2011. (Gr. 7+) FAN From the age of seven when she became scullery maid in a castle, Molly has seen visions of the future which, years later, lead her and friend Tobias on an adventure to keep Alaric, the heir to the throne, safe from a curse. Stein, Tammar. Kindred. Knopf, 2011. (Gr. 10+) Paranormal Spiritual warfare breaks out when the Archangel Raphael and the Devil deliver assignments to eighteen-year-old fraternal twins Miriam and Moses. Stephens, John. The Emerald Atlas. Knopf, 2011. Kate, Michael, and Emma are on a journey to dangerous and secret corners of the world...a journey of allies and enemies, of magic and mayhem. And—if an ancient prophesy is correct—what they do can change history, and it is up to them to set things right. Stevermer, Caroline. Magic Below Stairs. Dial, 2010. (Gr. 4-6) FAN Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a household elf, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's apprentice. Stewart, Paul and Chris Riddell. Immortals. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN Nate Quarter is a lowly lamplighter in the phraxmines of the Eastern Woods, until treachery forces him to flee for his life to the mighty city of Great Glade. Previous titles in The Edge Chronicles: #1 Beyond the Deepwoods, 2004; #2 Stormchaser, 2004; #3 Midnight over Scantaphrax, 2004; #4 The Curse of the Gloamglozer, 2005; #5 The Last of the Sky Pirates, 2005; #6 Vox, 2005; #7 Freeglader, 2006; #8 The Winter Knights, 2007; #9 Clash of the Sky Galleons, 2007. Stiefvater, Maggie. Shiver. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr. 9+) SUPERNATURAL In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity. Sequels: Linger, 2010; Forever, 2011. Stone, Jeff. Eagle. Random House, 2008. (Gr. 5-9) FAN Angered that his grandmaster wouldn't let him train as a Dragon, Ying took his revenge by burning his temple to the ground, but after being rescued by his younger sister after betraying the emperor, Ying learns the truth about his past, his five younger brothers, and the manipulative Tonglong. Previous titles in The Five Ancestors series: #1 Tiger, 2005; #2 Monkey, 2005; #3 Snake, 2006; #4 Crane, 2007. Sequels: #6 Mouse, 2009; #7 Dragon, 2010. Stringer, Helen. Spellbinder. Feiwel & Friends, 2009. (Gr. 7+) SUPERNATURAL Twelve-year-old Belladonna Johnson, who lives with the ghosts of her parents in the north of England, teams up with an always-in-trouble classmate to investigate why all of the ghosts in the world have suddenly disappeared. Sequel: The Midnight Gate, 2011. Stroud, Jonathan. The Ring of Solomon: A Bartimaeus Novel. Hyperion, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN Wise-cracking djinni Bartimaeus finds himself at the court of King Solomon with an unpleasant master, a sinister servant, and King Solomon's magic ring. Sullivan, Laura. Under the Green Hill. Holt, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN While staying with distant relatives in England, Americans Rowan, Meg, Silly and James Morgan, with their neighbors Dickie Rhys and Finn Fachan, learn that one of them must fight to the death in the Midsummer War required by the local fairies. Sequel: Guardian of the Green Hill, forthcoming 10/2011. Tanner, Lian. Museum of Thieves. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 4-6) FAN When Separation Day is canceled, Goldie, who has always been both impatient and bold, runs away, risking not only her own life but also the lives of those she has left behind. Sequel: City of Lies, forthcoming 9/2011. 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