Alexie, Sherman – Flight(181 pages) – On the verge of committing an act of violence, a troubled, orphaned Indian teenager finds himself hurtled through time and into various bodies, before returning to himself, forever altered by his experiences. Adult Fiction

Alexie, Sherman – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian(229 pages) – Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Teen Fiction

Anderson, Laurie Halse – Twisted(250 pages) – After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts. Teen Fiction

Appignanesi, Richard – Romeo and Juliet (194 pages) – In graphic novel format, presents an adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tale about two star-crossed lovers. Teen Graphic

Asher, Jay – Thirteen Reasons Why(288 pages) – When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah’s voice recounting the events leading up to her death. Teen Fiction

Beah, Ishmael – A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (229 pages) – The memoir of Beah’s experience as a child soldier in Sierra Lione. Adult 966.404 B365l

Brande, Robin – Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature (268 pages) – Following her conscience leads high school freshman Mena to clash with her parents and former friends from their conservative Christian church, but might result in better things when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include “Intelligent Design” in lessons on evolution. Teen Fiction

Brooks, Martha – Mistik Lake(207 pages) – After Odella’s mother leaves her, her sisters, and their father in Manitoba and moves to Iceland with another man, she then dies there, and the family finally learns some of the many secrets that have haunted them for two generations. Teen Fiction

Burgess, Melvin – Bloodsong(354 pages) – The sequel to Bloodtide. Forced into the clutches of a bloodthirsty dragon, Sigurd—the new hope of the Volson clan—fights not only for his life, but for the survival of an apocalyptic Britain. Teen Fiction

Cameron, Peter – Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You(229 pages) – Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life. Teen Fiction

Carey, Janet Lee – Dragon's Keep (302 pages) – In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon’s claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother’s dark secrets. Teen Fiction

Carey, Mike – The Re-Gifters(148 pages) – Meet Jen Dik Seong—or “Dixie” as she’s known to her friends. She's living on the ragged edge of LA's Koreatown, and her only outlet is the ancient martial art of hapkido. In fact, she's on the verge of winning a championship – until she falls for fellow hapkido fan/California surfer boy Adam and gets thrown spectacularly off her game. As she struggles to win the tournament – not to mention Adam's affections – Dixie learns that in love and in gift-giving, what goes around comes around. Teen Graphic

Cassidy, Anne – Looking for JJ(319 pages) – Seventeen-year-old Alice, released from prison with a new identity after serving six years for murdering a child, tries to keep her anonymity from the British tabloids, while haunted by memories of her past trauma. Teen Fiction

Castellucci, Cecil – Beige(307 pages) – Katy, a quiet French Canadian teenager, reluctantly leaves Montréal to spend time with her estranged father, an aging Los Angeles punk rock legend. Teen Fiction

Clarke, Judith – One Whole and Perfect Day(248 pages) – When her grandmother invites the whole family to a party, sensible Lily can't imagine how her "freakish" family will make it through the day. Teen Fiction

Compestine, Ying Chang – Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party248 pages) – Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter. Youth Fiction

Cross, Shauna – Derby Girl(234 pages) – When sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, who is miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing. Teen Fiction

Cullen, Lynn – I Am Rembrandt's Daughter(320 pages) – In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a wealthy suitor. Teen Fiction

Dowd, Siobhan – A Swift Pure Cry(309 pages) – Coolbar, Ireland, is a village of secrets and Shell, caretaker to her younger brother and sister after the death of their mother and with the absence of their father, is not about to reveal hers until suspicion falls on the wrong person. Teen Fiction

Downham, Jenny – Before I Die (326 pages) – A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies. Teen Fiction

Doyle, Larry – I Love You, Beth Cooper (255 pages) – Recklessly announcing his love for the head cheerleader during his valedictorian commencement speech, Denis Cooverman is inducted into the wilder side of youth culture by the object of his affection, who turns out to be more than he bargained for. Teen Fiction

Ellis, Ann Dee – This Is What I Did (157 pages) – Bullied because of an incident in his past, eighth-grader Logan is unhappy at his new school and has difficulty relating to others until he meets a quirky girl and a counselor who believe in him. Teen Fiction

Felin, M. Sindy – Touching Snow (234 pages) – After her stepfather is arrested for child abuse, thirteen-year-old Karina's home life improves but while the severity of her older sister's injuries and the urging of her younger sister, their uncle, and a friend tempt her to testify against him, her mother and other well-meaning adults persuade her to claim responsibility. Teen Fiction

Fradin, Judith Bloom and Dennis Brindell Fradin – Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy (216 pages) – Drawn from historical documents and archival photographs, a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning social worker and civil rights activist documents her life, achievements, and contributions, revealing why she is considered an American icon. Youth 92 Addams, Jane

Friesen, Gayle – For Now (247 pages) – Jen is okay with her mother remarrying. She has decided to remain calm when her new step-sister evicts her from her bedroom. But now Mom is pregnant... Teen Fiction

Gipi – Notes for a War Story(128 pages) – Three young drifters in a war-torn nation meet Felix, an older thug who soon takes over the group and forms them into an organized gang that performs acts that they never would have in a civilized world. Teen Graphic

Grey, Christopher – Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant(400 pages) – Set in Milan, 1947, Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, is worried about their future when he is informed that a deadline for da Vinci's greatest work has been given by the Duke of Milan and, failing to complete the project, may lead to the ruin of the artist and many of those connected with him. Teen Fiction

Hale, Shannon – Book of a Thousand Days(305 pages) – Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids. Teen Fiction

Hemphill, Stephanie – Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath (261 pages) – The author interprets the people, events, influences, and art that made up the life of Sylvia Plath in poetry. Teen 811.6 H491y

Hinds, Gareth – Beowulf(120 pages) – A retelling in graphic format of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Edgetheow, to save the people of Heorot hall from the terrible monster, Grendel. Teen Graphic

Hornby, Nick – Slam(309 pages) – At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically. Teen Fiction

Hosseini, Khaled – A Thousand Splendid Suns(372 pages) – Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in war torn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage. Adult Fiction

Jenkins, A.M. – Repossessed(218 pages) – A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior. Teen Fiction

Jocelyn, Marthe – How It Happened in Peach Hill(232 pages) – When fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, but to reach their goals they will have to do some serious lying and Annie will have to stand up for herself. Teen Fiction

Johnston, Tony – Bone by Bone by Bone(184 pages) – In 1950s Tennessee, ten-year-old David's racist father refuses to let him associate with his best friend Malcolm, an African American boy. Teen Fiction

Jones, Lloyd – Mister Pip(256 pages) – On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is a daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens's classic "Great Expectations." Adult Fiction

Key, Watt – Alabama Moon(294 pages) – After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life. Youth Fiction

Klass, David – Firestorm(289 pages) – 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. Teen Fiction

Knox, Elizabeth – Dreamquake(464 pages) – Sequel to Dreamhunter. Aided by her family and her creation, Nown, Laura investigates the powerful Regulatory Body's involvement in mysterious disappearances and activities and learns, in the process, the true nature of the Place in which dreams are found. Teen Fiction

Koertge, Ron – Strays(167 pages) – Recently orphaned, sixteen-year-old Ted O’Connor is sent to a foster home. Teen Fiction

Lanagan, Margo – Red Spikes (167 pages) – The meaning of life and the definition of what it means to be human is captured in a collection of intense short stories set in distant worlds. Teen Fiction

Landy, Derek – Skulduggery Pleasant (392 pages) – When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones. Youth Fiction

Lat – Town Boy(192 pages) – Malaysian teenager Mat makes a life-changing move from the quiet Kampung where he was born to Ipoh, the rapidly industrializing nearby town. Youth

Lockhart, E. – Dramarama(311 pages) – Spending their summer at Wildewood Academy, an elite boarding school for the performing arts, tests the bond between teens Sadye and her best friend Demi. Teen Fiction

Lyga, Barry – Boy Toy(410 pages) – After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molester’s release from prison when he finally tells his best friends the whole truth. Teen Fiction

Lyga, Barry – The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl(311 pages) – A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself. Teen Fiction

MacCready, Robin Merrow – Buried(198 pages) – When her alcoholic mother goes missing, seventeen-year-old Claudine begins to spin out of control, despite her attempts to impose order on every aspect of her life. Teen Fiction

Marillier, Juliet – Wildwood Dancing (407 pages) – Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood. Teen Fiction

McCaughrean, Geraldine – The White Darkness(373 pages) – 2008’s Printz Award Winner! Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone—a troubled fourteen-year-old—discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symmes's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth. Teen Fiction

Mieville, China – Un Lun Dun(432 pages) – Stumbling into an alternate funhouse version of her home city, twelve-year-old Londoner Deeba finds herself trapped in a world of killer giraffes, animated umbrellas, ghost children, and flying double-decker buses and menaced by a choking black smog, and is forced to take on the role of unlikely savior to prevent utter destruction. Teen Fiction

Miller, Sarah – Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller (208 pages) – At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Teen Fiction

Moore, Perry – Hero (428 pages) – Thom Creed, the gay son of a disowned superhero, finds that he, too, has special powers and is asked to join the very League that rejected his father, and it is there that Thom finds other misfits whom he can finally trust.Teen Fiction

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert – The Off Season(277 pages) – High school junior D.J. staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations. Teen Fiction

Myers, Walter Dean – What They Found: Love on 145th Street(243 pages) – Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as 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. Teen Fiction

Olmstead, Robert – Coal Black Horse (218 pages) – When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war. Adult Fiction

Peet, Mal – Tamar(424 pages) – In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family. Teen Fiction

Raddatz, Martha – The Long Road Home A Story of War and Family(310 pages) – Documents the two-day firefight in Sadr City that began the Iraqi insurgency, during which eight 1st Cavalry Division soldiers were killed and numerous others wounded, an engagement that was vigilantly monitored by their loved ones back home. Adult 956.70443 R125l

Reef, Catherine – e.e. cummings (149 pages) – Illustrated with sketches, paintings, photographs, and quotes, this fascinating biography paints a vivid portrait of E. E. Cummings, who defied the traditionalists of the early 20th century to become one of America's most renowned poets. Youth 92 Cummings, E.E.

Resau, Laura – Red Glass(275 pages) – Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain. Teen Fiction

Resau, Laura – What the Moon Saw(258 pages) – Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world. Youth Fiction

Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (759 pages) – Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him. Youth Fiction

Schmidt, Gary D. – The Wednesday Wars(264 pages) – During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in. Youth Fiction

Sedgwick, Marcus – My Swordhand is Singing(205 pages) – In the dangerous dark of winter in an Eastern European village during the early seventeenth century, Peter learns from a gypsy girl that the Shadow Queen is behind the recent murders and reanimations, and his father's secret past may hold the key to stopping her. Teen Fiction

Selznick, Brian – The Invention of Hugo Cabret(553 pages) – When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized. Youth Fiction

Sharenow, Robert – My Mother the Cheerleader(288 pages) – Thirteen-year-old Louise uncovers secrets about her family and her neighborhood during the violent protests over school desegregation in 1960 New Orleans. Teen Fiction

Shusterman, Neal – Unwind (335 pages) – In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives “unwound” and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs – and, perhaps, save their own lives. Teen Fiction

Sis, Peter – The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (unpaged) – Annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes take readers on an extraordinary journey of how the artist-author's life was shaped while growing up in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War, as well as the influence of western culture through the influx of banned books, music, and news, in a powerful graphic memoir. Youth 92 Sis, Peter

Smith, Roland – Peak(246 pages) – A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest. Teen Fiction

Sonnenblick, Jordan – Notes from the Midnight Driver(265 pages) – After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness. Teen Fiction

St. James, James – Freak Show (297 pages) – Having faced teasing that turned into a brutal attack, Christianity expressed as persecution, and the loss of his only real friend when he could no longer keep his crush under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen, decides the only way to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Teen Fiction

Tammet, Daniel – Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant (226 pages) – Traces the inspiring story of an autistic savant with genius-level mathematical talents, describing how he was eschewed by his classmates in spite of his near-photographic memory and super-human capacity for math and language, in a firsthand account that offers insight into how he experiences the world. Adult 616.85882 T158b

Tan, Shaun – The Arrival(128 pages) – In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family. Teen Graphic

The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural(253 pages) – These short stories remind us why we fear the undead. Teen Fiction

Thompson, Kate – The New Policeman (442 pages) – Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed. Teen Fiction

Wallace, Rich – One Good Punch(114 pages) – Eighteen-year-old Michael Kerrigan, writer of obituaries for the Scranton Observer and captain of the track team, is ready for the most important season of his life—until the police find four joints in his school locker, and he is faced with a choice that could change everything. Teen Fiction

Weinheimer, Beckie – Converting Kate(288 pages) – After moving from Arizona to Maine, sixteen-year-old Kate tries to recover from her father's death as she resists her mother's dogmatic religious beliefs and attempts to find a new direction to her life. Teen Fiction

Wiess, Laura – Such a Pretty Girl(212 pages) – Haunted by flashbacks, fifteen-year-old Meredith learns that three years in prison has not changed the abusive father who molested her. Teen Fiction

Wizner, Jake – Spanking Shakespeare(304 pages) – Shakespeare Shapiro navigates a senior year fraught with feelings of insecurity while writing the memoir of his embarrassing life, worrying about his younger brother being cooler than he is, and having no prospects of ever getting a girlfriend. Teen Fiction

Zarr, Sara – Story of a Girl (192 pages) – In the three years since her father caught her in the back seat of a car with an older boy, sixteen-year-old Deanna's life at home and school has been a nightmare, but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his family, she discovers the power of forgiveness. Teen Fiction

Zevin, Gabrielle – Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (271 pages) – After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life. Teen Fiction