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  Cover Art: One Million Things : a Visual Encyclopedia One Million Things : a Visual Encyclopedia
Featuring gorgeous photographs that illustrate and educate, this visual encyclopedia is jam-packed with thousands and thousands of images that bring more than one million things to light.
2008
Children's Nonfiction Book
  Cover Art: Compromised Ayarbe, Heidi
Compromised
With her con-man father in prison, fifteen-year-old Maya sets out from Reno, Nevada, for Boise, Idaho, hoping to stay out of foster care by finding an aunt she never knew existed, but a fellow runaway complicates all of her scientifically-devised plans.
2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Frenzy Block, Francesca Lia.
The Frenzy
When she was thirteen, something terrifying and mysterious happened to Liv that she still does not understand, and now, four years later, her dark secret threatens to tear her apart from her family and her true love.
2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Compound Bodeen, S. A.
The Compound
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
2008
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Blade : Playing Dead Bowler, Tim.
Blade : Playing Dead
A fourteen-year-old British street person with extraordinary powers of observation and self-control must face murderous thugs connected with a past he has tried to forget, when his skills with a knife earned him the nickname, Blade.
2009
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Laddertop. Volume 1 Card, Orson Scott.
Laddertop. Volume 1
Twenty-five years ago, the alien Givers came to Earth. They gave the human race four giant towers known as Ladders that power the entire planet. Robbi and Azure, become entangled in a dangerous mystery that may help them solve the riddle of the Givers ... if it doesn't destroy the Earth first!
2011
Teen Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: The Girl Next Door Castrovilla, Selene,
The Girl Next Door
As seventeen-year-old Sam desperately tries to help her best friend and neighbor Jesse through aggressive treatments for a rare and usually fatal form of cancer, they find themselves falling deeply in love.
2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Al Capone Does My Shirts Choldenko, Gennifer
Al Capone Does My Shirts
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
2004
Children's Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Breaking Point Choyce, Lesley
Breaking Point
Cameron has been in trouble with the law more than once for breaking and entering. After his latest conviction, he's sent to an outdoors program for young offenders rather than a standard juvenile detention facility. In a fearless but ill-timed escape he must use all of his courage and newfound survival skills if he's going to make it back alive.
2012
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Something Like Fate Colasanti, Susane
Something Like Fate
Lani and Jason, who is her best friend's boyfriend, fall in love, causing Lani tremendous anguish and guilt.
2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Three Black Swans Cooney, Caroline B.
Three Black Swans
When sixteen-year-old Missy Vianello decides to try to convince her classmates that her cousin Claire is really her long-lost identical twin, she has no idea that the results of her prank will be so life-changing.
2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Agent Angus Denman, K. L.
Agent Angus
Angus and his best buddy, Shahid, share a love of science and their robot, Gordon. But after a stink bomb incident at school,he claims to share the creative Ella's interest in reading facial expressions and declares his ambition to become a crime-solving mentalist. He impresses Ella by identifying the stink bomber, but when Ella's treasured sketchbook is stolen, she asks Angus to find the thief.
2012
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Between the Sea and Sky Dolamore, Jaclyn
Between the Sea and Sky
Esmerine, a mermaid, grows close to her childhood playmate Alander, a winged man, when they join forces to find her sister Dosia, who has reportedly eloped with a human despite the sisters' vow to always keep the sea and its people first in their hearts.
2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Benito Runs Fontes, Justine
Benito Runs
Benito's father, Xavier, returns from Iraq after more than a year suffering from PTSD--post-traumatic stress disorder--and yells constantly. Benny can't handle seeing his dad so crazy, so he decides to run away. Will Benny find a new life, or will he learn how to deal with his dad--through good times and bad?
2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Hold the Pickles Grant, Vicki.
Hold the Pickles
Dan Hogg is thrilled when his uncle offers him some work at a food fair, but his excitement vanishes when he learns that the job is dressing up in a hotdog costume and handing out samples. He discovers it's not so bad once his mascot persona gains the attention of a pretty girl named Brooke. Except now Dan is under attack from Cupcake Katie and a mysterious guy with a strange interest in Brooke.
2012
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Maxed Out Greer, Daphne
Maxed Out
More than anything, twelve-year-old Max wants to play hockey like he used to. But since the death of his dad, his mom does more crying than mothering, and Max has to take his special-needs brother, Duncan, with him everywhere he goes.
2012
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: If I Tell Gurtler, Janet
If I Tell
Raised by her grandparents, seventeen-year-old Jasmine, the result of a biracial one night stand, has never met her father but has a good relationship with her mother until she sees her mother's boyfriend kissing Jaz's best friend.
2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Clarity Harrington, Kim
Clarity
Sixteen-year-old Clare Fern, a member of a family of psychics, helps the mayor and a skeptical detective solve a murder in a Cape Cod town during the height of tourist season--with her brother a prime suspect.
2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Resistance. Book 2 Defiance Jablonski, Carla.
Resistance. Book 2 Defiance
In 1943, as the German occupation of France continues, the Tessier siblings increase their involvement in the Resistance while staying out of the way of the Millice, the Vichy military police. Includes facts about Charles De Gaulle and his support of resistance movements.
2011
Teen Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Living Hell Jinks, Catherine.
Living Hell
Chronicles the transformation of a spaceship into a living organism, as seventeen-year-old Cheney leads the hundreds of inhabitants in a fight for survival while machines turn on them, treating all humans as parasites.
2010
Teen Fiction Book
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