The Christopher killer : a forensic mystery. New York : Sleuth/Viking, 2006.
On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.
FIC FER
Ferraro, Tina. The ABC's of kissing boys. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
When sixteen-year-old Parker Stanhope takes kissing lessons from the freshman across the street as part of her plan to get on the varsity soccer team, a relationship blossoms that threatens her popularity at school and must be kept secret from their feuding fathers.
FIC FER
Ferrell, David, 1956-. Screwball. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, c2003.
FIC FER
Ferris, Jean, 1939-. Bad. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1998.
In an attempt to please her friends, sixteen-year-old Dallas goes along with their plan to rob a convenience store and when her father refuses to allow her to come home, she is sentenced to six months in the Girls' Rehabilitation Center.
FIC FIE
Fiedler, Lisa. Dating Hamlet : Ophelia's story. 1st ed. New York : Holt, 2002.
In a story based on the Shakespeare play, Ophelia describes her relationship with Hamlet, learns the truth about her own father, and recounts the complicated events following the murder of Hamlet's father.
FIC FLE
Fleischman, Paul,. Seek. New York: Simon Pulse, 2003.
Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-gone father, a radio announcer.
FIC FLE
Fleischman, Paul. Whirligig. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 1998.
While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he caused, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.
FIC FLE
Fleischman, Sid, 1920-. The entertainer and the dybbuk. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2008.
A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Includes author's note which details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s.
FIC FLE
Fletcher, Christine, 1964-. Ten cents a dance. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2008.
In 1941 Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby, a Polish-American girl from the slums, leaves her meat-packing plant job to be a "taxi" dancer, paid a dime apiece to dance with men in a dance hall, and becomes entangled with the mob.
FIC FOX
Foxlee, Karen, 1971-. The anatomy of wings. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf, c2009.
After the suicide of her troubled teenage sister, eleven-year-old Jenny struggles to understand what actually happened by studying the clues her sister left behind in a cardboard box.
FIC FRA
Frank, E. R. Wrecked. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2005.
After a car accident seriously injures her best friend and kills her brother's girlfriend, sixteen-year-old Anna tries to cope with her guilt and grief, while learning some truths about her family and herself.
FIC FRA
Frank, Lucy. I am an artichoke. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c1995.
Working as a mother's helper in New York City, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself caught in the middle of a troubled relationship between an eccentric writer and her anorexic daughter.
FIC FRA
Frankel, Valerie. Fringe benefits. New York : NAL Jam Books, c2008.
Adora Benet fears her summer will be a disaster when her best friends and her boyfriend all announce they are heading off on separate journeys, leaving Adora alone in the city to try and earn money for college, but with the help of some new friends, Adora learns an important lesson about being true to herself.
FIC FRE
Freitas, Donna. This gorgeous game. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Seventeen-year-old Olivia Peters, who dreams of becoming a writer, is thrilled to be selected to take a college fiction seminar taught by her idol, Father Mark, but when the priest's enthusiasm for her writing develops into something more, Olivia shifts from wonder to confusion to despair.
FIC FRI
Friedman, Robin, 1968-. Nothing. 1st ed. Woodbury, MN : Flux, c2008.
Despite his outward image of popular, attractive high-achiever bound for the Ivy League college of his father's dreams, high school senior Parker sees himself as a fat, unattractive failure and finds relief for his overwhelming anxieties in ever-increasing bouts of binging and purging.
FIC FRI
Friend, Natasha, 1972-. Lush. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2006.
Unable to cope with her father's alcoholism, thirteen-year-old Sam corresponds with an older student, sharing her family problems and asking for advice.
FIC FRI
Friesen, Gayle. For now. Toronto, ON ; : KCP Fiction, c2007.
Jes has tolerated her mother's marriage and being ousted from her room by her beautiful stepsister, but the news that her mom is pregnant, and the distancing of her two best friends, has Jes feeling very left out.
FIC FRO
Frost, Helen, 1949-. The braid. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcibly evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.
FIC FRO
Frost, Helen, 1949-. Crossing stones. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Four young people in two families tell of their experience during World War I when the boys enlist and are sent to fight, Emma finishes school, and Muriel joins the suffrage movement.
FIC FRO
Frost, Helen, 1949-. Diamond Willow. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.
FIC FRO
Frost, Helen, 1949-. Keesha's house. 1st ed. New York : Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality, and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and where they found home again.
FIC FUL
Fullerton, Alma. Walking on glass. 1st ed. New York : HarperTempest, c2007.
A teenage boy recounts, in a free verse journal, his attempts to come to terms with the realities of his mother's near-death coma.
FIC GAI
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2002.
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
FIC GAL
Galante, Cecilia. The patron saint of butterflies. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2008.
When her grandmother takes fourteen-year-old Agnes, her younger brother, and best friend Honey and escapes Mount Blessing, a Connecticut religious commune, Agnes clings to the faith she loves while Honey looks toward a future free of control, cruelty, and preferential treatment.
FIC GAL
Gallagher, Liz. The opposite of invisible. 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2008.
Artistic Seattle high school sophomore Alice decides to emerge from her cocoon and date a football player, which causes a rift between her and her best friend, a boy who wants to be more than just friends.
FIC GAL
Galloway, Gregory. As simple as snow. Berkley trade pbk. ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2006, c2005.
After his eccentric girlfriend mysteriously disappears, a young man must unravel the puzzle she left behind in her cryptic, riddle-filled letters and in the obituaries she created for every living person in town.
FIC GIL
Giles, Gail. What happened to Cass McBride? : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006.
After his younger brother commits suicide, Kyle Kirby decides to exact revenge on the person he holds responsible.
FIC GIL
Gilman, David. The devil's breath. 1st American ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007.
After fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist father goes missing while working in Namibia, Max finds he has become the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, and decides he must find his father in Africa before they both are killed.
FIC GOL
Goldblatt, Stacey. Stray : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007.
Natalie's mother, a veterinarian with a dogs-only practice, has the sixteen-year-old on such a short leash that, when the teenaged son of her old school friend comes to stay with them for the summer, Natalie is tempted to break her mother's rules and follow her own instincts for a change.
FIC GON
Gonzalez, Julie, 1958-. Ricochet. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007.
When his best friend is killed in a game with a loaded gun, fifteen-year-old Connor finds his perceptions of himself and his relationships with his family, friends, and the other people in his life changed in more profound ways than he could have imagined.
FIC GRA
Grab, Daphne. Alive and well in Prague, New York. 1st ed. New York : Laura Geringer Books, c2008.
Manhattanites Matisse Osgood and her artist parents move to upstate New York when her father's Parkinson's disease worsens, and Matisse must face high school in a small, provincial town as she tries to avoid thinking about her father's future.
FIC GRA
Gramont, Nina de. Every little thing in the world. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010.
Before she can decide what do about her newly discovered pregnancy, sixteen-year-old Sydney is punished for "borrowing" a car and shipped out, along with best friend Natalia, to a wilderness camp for the next six weeks.
FIC GRA
Grant, Cynthia D. The white horse. New York: Atheneum, 1998.
Raina is 15, pregnant, and an all-too-frequent victimof her drug-addicted mother's violent rages. Ms. Johnson is Raina's teacher who has a love-hate relationship with her job and worries that she has no life outside of work. They struggle together to create a good life.
FIC GRA
Gray, Claudia. Evernight. 1st pbk. ed. New York : HarperTeen, 2009, c2008.
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.
FIC GRA
Gray, Claudia. Hourglass. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2010.
Star-crossed lovers Lucas and Bianca are on the run, pursued not only by Black Cross vampire hunters but also by the powerful vampires of Evernight, when Bianca learns that her destiny is tied to that of the wraiths.
FIC GRA
Gray, Claudia. Stargazer. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2009.
When evil wraiths attack her boarding school, Evernight Academy, teenage vampire Bianca discovers she has become the target.
FIC GRE
Green, John. Looking for Alaska : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Dutton, c2005.
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
FIC GRI
Griffin, Paul, 1966-. The Orange Houses. New York : Dial Books, c2009.
Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
FIC HAD
Haddon, Mark. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2004, c2003.
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
FIC HAL
Halliday, John,. Shooting monarchs. 1st ed. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2003.
Macy and Danny, two teenage boys who have both grown up under difficult circumstances, turn out very differently--one becomes a hero, the other a murderer.
FIC HAL
Halpin, Brendan, 1968-. How ya like me now. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007.
After his father dies and his mother goes into rehab, Eddie moves from the suburbs into his cousin's Boston loft, where he gradually adjusts to being one of the few white kids in a progressive private school, and learns how to feel like a normal teenager.
FIC HAR
Harazin, S. A. Blood brothers. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007.
With his best friend on life-support after taking drugs at a party, seventeen-year-old Clay, a medical technician, recalls their long friendship, future plans, and recent disagreement, and tries to figure out who is responsible for the accidental overdose.
FIC HAR
Harmon, Michael B. The last exit to normal. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2008.
Yanked out of his city life and plunked down in a small Montana town with his newly outed father and his father's boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to figure out what is going on.
FIC HAR
Harmon, Michael B. Skate. 1st Laurel-Leaf ed. New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, [2008], c2006.
Facing a disintegrating home life and trouble at school, teenager Ian McDermott runs away with his younger brother to Washington State in search of safety, justice, and their long-absent father.
FIC HAR
Harrar, George, 1949-. Not as crazy as I seem. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003.
As fifteen-year-old Devon begins mid-year at a new prestigious prep school, he is plagued by compulsions such as the need to sort things into groups of four.
FIC HAR
Harris, Robert, 1957-. Enigma. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Random House, c1995.
FIC HAR
Hartinger, Brent. Geography Club. 1st ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2003.
A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at their high school.
FIC HAR
Hartinger, Brent. Split screen : attack of the soul-sucking brain zombies ; Split screen : bride of the soul-sucking brain zombies. 1st ed. New York : HarperTempest, c2007.
Contains two stories, told in flip book format, in which friends Russel and Min see the same events from different perspectives as they work together as extras in a zombie film, while Russel deals with his parents' reaction to the news that he is gay, as well as the return of an old boyfriend, and Min struggles to accept her girlfriend's decision not to come out.
FIC HAU
Hautman, Pete, 1952-. How to steal a car. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
Kelleigh, a fifteen-year-old suburban high school student with a learner's permit, recounts how she began stealing cars one summer despite being unsure of her reasons for doing so.
FIC HAU
Hautman, Pete, 1952-. Sweetblood. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2003.
After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the "proto-vampires" she has met online and in person, and most of all with her uncontrolled diabetes.
FIC HEA
Headley, Justina Chen, 1968-. North of beautiful. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
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 Jacob.
FIC HEN
Henderson, Lauren, 1966-. Kiss me kill me. 1st trade pbk. ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever.
FIC HEN
Henry, April. Torched. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2009.
In order to save her parents from going to jail for possession of marijuana, sixteen-year-old Ellie must help the FBI uncover the intentions of a radical environmental group by going undercover.
FIC HIN
Hinton, S. E. Tex. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1989], c1979.
The love between two teen-age brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
FIC HOC
Hockensmith, Steve. Pride and prejudice and zombies : dawn of the dreadfuls. Philadelphia : Quirk Books, c2010.
Elizabeth Bennet's peaceful life in the English countryside is ruined when the dead suddenly become reanimated, and as she and her sisters are trained to defend themselves, two men compete for Elizabeth's heart, the powerful warrior who trains the Bennets to kill and the man who hopes to solve the "dreadful" problem with science.
FIC HOF
Hoffman, Alice. Incantation. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006.
During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen-year-old Estrella, brought up a Catholic, discovers her family's true Jewish identity, and when their secret is betrayed by Estrella's best friend, the consequences are tragic.
FIC HOR
Hornby, Nick. Slam. New York : Putnam's Sons, c2007.
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.
FIC HOR
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-. Ark angel. New York : Speak, 2007, c2006.
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
FIC HOR
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-. Eagle Strike. New York : Speak, 2006, c2003.
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
FIC HUG
Hughes, Mark Peter. Lemonade Mouth. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007.
A disparate group of high school students thrown together in detention form a band to play at a school talent show and end up competing with a wildly popular local rock band.
FIC HUR
Hurley, Tonya. Ghostgirl. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
Charlotte Usher has always struggled to fit in at her high school, and when Charlotte finds herself living in a parallel spiritual world after choking to death on a gummy bear, she tries to reconnect with the physical world while making new friends at her new school for the dead.
