A time for dancing. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1995.
Seventeen-year-old best friends Samantha and Juliana tell their stories in alternating chapters after Juliana is diagnosed with cancer.
FIC JEN
Jenkins, A. M. (Amanda McRaney). Night road. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2008.
Cole, a hemovore who feeds off of human blood, is asked to take another heme out for training, but, Gordon, his new charge, is having difficulty leaving his old life behind and his actions soon threaten them both.
FIC JIN
Jinks, Catherine. The reformed vampire support group. Boston : Harcourt, 2009.
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.
FIC JOC
Jocelyn, Marthe. Would you. 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2008.
Nat's summer of work and hanging out with friends is suddenly changed when her sister, Claire, is hit by a car and ends up in a coma.
FIC JOH
Johnson, Christine 1978-. Claire de Lune. 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2010.
On her sixteenth birthday Claire discovers strange things happening and when her mother reveals their family secret which explains the changes, Claire feels her world, as she has known it to be, slowly slipping away.
FIC JOH
Johnson, LouAnne. Muchacho : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2009.
Living in a neighborhood of drug dealers and gangs in New Mexico, high school junior Eddie Corazon, a juvenile delinquent-in-training, falls in love with a girl who inspires him to rethink his life and his choices.
FIC JOH
Johnson, Maureen, 1973-. Girl at sea. 1st HarperTeen pbk. ed. New York : HarperTeen, 2008, c2007.
High-school junior Clio Ford reluctantly gives up her dream job and a potential first kiss to take a working vacation with her estranged father on a yacht in Italy.
FIC JON
Jonsberg, Barry, 1951-. Dreamrider. 1st American ed. New York : A. Knopf, 2008.
Harangued by his father about his weight and bullied in all the many schools he has attended, teenaged Michael finds some comfort in his ability to experience lucid dreaming, but then starts to notice that the things that happen in his dreams are starting to occur in the real world as well.
FIC JOY
Joyce, Graham. TWOC : taken without owner's consent. New York : Viking, 2007.
Unable to remember details of a joyriding accident that resulted in the death of his older brother Jake and left Jake's girlfriend horribly scarred, and suffering from hallucinations of his dead sibling, sixteen-year-old car thief Matt visits a counselor and tries to recreate the events.
FIC KEP
Kephart, Beth. House of Dance. 1st ed. New York : Laura Geringer Books, c2008.
During one of her daily visits across town to visit her dying grandfather, fifteen-year-old Rosie discovers a dance studio that helps her find a way to bring her family members together.
FIC KEP
Kephart, Beth. Undercover. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2007.
High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing and going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parents' marital problems draw her out of herself.
FIC KER
Kerr, M.E. Fell : by M.E. Kerr. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
John Fell's arrival at the elite Gardiner School and hisdiscovery of its mysterious club, Sevens, in the sinister campus tower and its unusual students dramatically transforms his life.
FIC KID
Kidd, Sue Monk. The secret life of bees. New York : Penguin Books, 2003, c2002.
Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
FIC KLA
Klass, David. California Blue. New York : Scholastic, c1994.
When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of butterfly which may necessitate closing the mill where his dying father works, they find themselves on opposite sides of the environmental conflict.
FIC KLA
Klass, David. Firestorm. 1st ed. New York : Frances Foster Books, 2006.
After learning that he has been sent from the future for a special purpose, eighteen-year-old Jack receives help from an unusual dog and a shape-shifting female fighter.
FIC KLA
Klass, David. Timelock. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.
Jack discovers that the only way to protect the Earth from ecological disaster at the hands of the Dark Army is to lock time, and he must choose between staying in the present or returning to the future world from which he came.
FIC KLE
Klein, Lisa M., 1958-. Lady Macbeth's daughter. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.
In alternating chapters, ambitious Lady Macbeth tries to bear a son and win the throne of Scotland for her husband, and Albia, their daughter who was banished at birth and raised by three weird sisters, falls in love, learns of her parentage, and seeks to free Scotland from tyranny in this tale based on Shakespeare's Macbeth.
FIC KLE
Klein, Lisa M., 1958-. Ophelia : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury ;, 2006.
In a story based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia tells of her life in the court at Elsinore, her love for Prince Hamlet, and her escape from the violence in Denmark.
FIC KOE
Koertge, Ronald. Strays. 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2007.
Sixteen-year-old Ted, orphaned when his parents are killed in a car crash, identifies more with animals than people--especially strays whose situation Ted equates with his own, but as he starts to settle in to his new foster home and school, he forms bonds with his two foster brothers and gradually comes back in touch with the human race.
FIC KOJ
Koja, Kathe. Buddha boy. 1st ed. New York : Frances Foster Books, 2003.
Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.
FIC KOJ
Koja, Kathe. Talk. 1st ed. New York : Frances Foster Books, 2005.
Hoping to escape from himself for awhile, Kit auditions for a controversial school play, struggles with coming out, and both he and his costar face crises in their view of themselves and in their close relationships.
FIC KOR
Korman, Gordon. The juvie three. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2008.
Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.
FIC KOR
Korman, Gordon. Pop. 1st ed. New York : Balzer + Bray, c2009.
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
FIC KOS
Kostick, Conor. Epic. New York : Viking, 2007, c2004.
On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.
FIC KRA
Kraft, Erik. Miracle wimp. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
Tom Mayo, a wisecracking misfit, tries to navigate his way through wood shop, dating, driving, and class tormentors.
FIC LAM
Lamba, Marie. What I meant-- 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2007.
Having to share her home with her demanding and devious aunt from India makes it all the more difficult for fifteen-year-old Sang to deal with such things as her parents thinking she is too young to date, getting less than perfect grades, and being shut out by her long-time best friend.
FIC LAR
Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004. The girl who played with fire. 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed. New York : Vintage Books, 2010, c2009.
Mikael Blomkvist is publishing the story of his career, exposing the extensive sex trafficking operation between Sweden and Eastern Europe, but when two investigative journalists are killed the night before the story runs and Lisbeth Salander is implicated, Mikael vows to clear the girl's name and find the true killer.
FIC LAS
Laser, Michael. Cheater : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Books, c2008.
When brilliant high school student Karl Petrovsky gets talked into participating in an elaborate cheating operation at his school, he ends up involved in a bigger problem than he ever anticipated.
FIC LEG
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. Gifts. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2004.
When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
FIC LEG
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. Voices. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2006.
Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
FIC LEL
Lelic, Simon. A thousand cuts. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 2010.
Detective Inspector Lucia May investigates the case of Samuel Szajkowski, a new history teacher who gunned down three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself, resisting her supervisor's pressure to make it an open-and-shut case as she uncovers a toxic school culture that contributed to the teacher's violent breakdown.
FIC LEV
Levithan, David. Love is the higher law. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2009.
Three New York City teens express their reactions to the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and its impact on their lives and the world.
FIC LEW
Lewis, Beverly, 1949-. The forbidden. Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c2008.
Although the church split has torn their Amish community apart, Nellie Mae Fisher and Caleb Yoder still feel drawn to one another, but if they pursue their relationship, they know they will have to go against the wishes of those they hold dear and risk everything.
FIC LEW
Lewis, Beverly, 1949-. The longing. Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c2008.
Nellie Fisher's decision to join the New Order has resulted in her having to break off her relationship with Caleb Yoder, but her yearning to better understand God does not still her longing for a husband and family of her own--a future she envisioned with Caleb, and that he would still like to provide.
FIC LEW
Lewis, Beverly, 1949-. The parting. Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c2007.
Nellie Mae Fisher, still mourning the loss of her sister, finds her Amish community, and her relationship with Caleb Yoder, being torn apart by a revival that pushes the Old Order community to the breaking point.
FIC LIP
Lipsyte, Robert,. The brave. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
Having left the Indian reservation for the streets of New York, seventeen-year-old boxer, Sonny Bear tries to harness his innner rage by training with Alfred Brooks, who has left the sport to become a policeman.
FIC LIP
Lipsyte, Robert. Center field. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2010.
Mike lives for baseball and hopes to follow his idol into the major leagues one day, but he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and a growing awareness that something sinister is happening at school.
FIC LIP
Lipsyte, Robert. The contender. New York : HarperCollins, c1967.
A Harlem high school drop-out escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym. He learns being a contender is hard and often discouraging work and that you don't know anything until you try.
FIC LIP
Lipsyte, Robert,. Warrior angel. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
Native American boxer of the Moscondaga Nation, Sonny Bear must fight to retain his heavyweight championship title.
FIC LIP
Lipsyte, Robert. Yellow flag. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2007.
When seventeen-year-old Kyle reluctantly succumbs to family pressure and replaces his injured brother in the family racecar, he struggles to keep up with his trumpet playing while deciding how--or if--he can continue making music with a brass quintet and headlines as a Nascar racer.
FIC LIT
Littke, Lael. Lake of secrets. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 2002.
Having arrived in her mother's home town to try to find her long-missing brother, who disappeared three years before she was born, fifteen-year-old Carlene finds herself haunted by memories from a past life.
FIC LIT
Little, Melanie, 1969-. The apprentice's masterpiece : a story of medieval Spain. Toronto ; : Annick Press, c2008.
In fifteenth-century Spain, apprentice scribe Ramon witnesses his family become torn by the Inquisitions.
FIC LLO
Lloyd, Saci. The carbon diaries 2017. 1st American ed. New York : Holiday House, 2010, c2009.
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.
FIC LOC
Lockhart, E. The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks : a novel. New York : Hyperion, c2008.
Frankie Landau-Banks attempts to take over a secret, all-male society at her exclusive prep school, and her antics with the group soon draw some unlikely attention and have unexpected consequences that could change her life forever.
FIC LOD
Lodato, Victor. Mathilda Savitch. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
After the tragic death of her older sister, Mathilda is determined to help her grief-stricken parents and starts to investigate her sister's life, but sorting through secret possessions reveals a plot reminiscent of an ancient myth that urges Mathilda to leave everything behind to discover the truth.
FIC LOV
Love, D. Anne. Defying the diva. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2008.
During Haley's freshman year of high school, a campaign of gossip and bullying causes her to be socially ostracized, but after spending the summer living with her aunt, working at a resort, making new friends, and dating a hunky lifeguard, she learns how to stand up for herself and begins to trust again.
FIC LOW
Lowry, Lois. Gathering blue. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2000.
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
FIC LUP
Lupica, Mike. Million-dollar throw. New York : Philomel Books, c2009.
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
FIC MAC
Mackey, R. Scott,. Blood runs deep. Sterling, VA: Brookfield, 2001.
Racial prejudice, track and field, dating and death all come together in this coming of age mystery set in northern California.
FIC MAR
Marrone, Amanda. Uninvited. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2007.
Jordan's life takes a surreal turn when her ex-boyfriend Michael, who died two days earlier, shows up outside her window begging to be let in, and even though she knows it would mean her own destruction, she is very, very tempted, especially when he keeps coming back, night after night.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John,. Darkness, be my friend. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Sequel to: A killing frost. As survivors of an enemy invasion of their homeland, Ellie and her friends return to Australia as guides for soldiers from New Zealand who plan an attack on the Wirrawee airfield.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John,. The dead of night. New York: Laurel-Leaf, 1999.
The sequel to Tomorrow, When the War Began, where six determined Australian teens try to find their missing friends while continuing to resist the enemies who have invaded their country.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John,. Tomorrow, when the war began. New York: Laurel-Leaf, 1993.
Seven Australian teens return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John,. Winter. New York: Scholastic, 2002.
Winter, an orphan, returns to her homestead in rural Australia, to discover her past and solve the mystery of her parents.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John, 1950-. Burning for revenge. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.
Having been separated from the New Zealand rescue troops they were guiding, five Australian teenagers continue their resistance against the unknown enemy invading their homeland.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John, 1950-. Checkers. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Speaking from a mental hospital, a teenage girl recounts the tremendous media pressure that preceded the breaking scandal of her father's unethical business dealings.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John, 1950-. Hamlet : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009, c2008.
Grieving for the recent death of his beloved father and appalled by his mother's quick remarriage to his uncle, Hamlet, heir to the Danish throne, struggles with conflicting emotions, particularly after his father's ghost appeals to him to avenge his death.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John, 1950-. A killing frost. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Ellie and her friends, a small band of teenagers trying to survive in the Australian countryside, continue to resist the enemies who have invaded their country.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John, 1950-. The night is for hunting. Boston: Houghton, 1998.
While trying to care for a group of abandoned young children, five Australian teens continue their struggle for survival and their resistance against the enemy invading their homeland.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John, 1950-. The other side of dawn. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002.
Ellie and her friends, five Australian teenagers who survived the enemy invasion of their country, use guerrilla tactics to support a major counterattack by New Zealand troops.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John, 1950-. While I live. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2007.
Ellie Linton, an Australian teen who engaged in guerilla warfare with invading forces after returning home from a camping trip with friends to find her family and the entire town imprisoned, tries to adjust to life on the farm following the end of hostilities, but finds the peace uneasy both across the border and within herself.
