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The Game by Diana Wynne Jones

In this latest novel by Diana Wynne Jones (Conrad's Fate, Howl's Moving Castle), Hayley meets dozens of cousins who invite her to play a strange game. Its object is to go to different places in the mythosphere and retrieve various items while dodging mythological creatures. The plot thickens when she meets her father and learns that he and her mother are both trapped in the mythosphere. Can Hayley save them?

Rover by Jackie French

Twelve-year-old Hekja, who is from a simple fishing village in the north of what today is Scotland, adopts a puppy. A few months later, the Viking invaders demolish the village, and Hekja and her dog are carried off to a richer but less free life in Greenland. Hekja becomes a slave in the household of Leif Erikson's sister, but discovers that her dog has a unique ability. Can they escape a life of slavery?

Anything But Ordinary by Valerie Hobbs

Winifred and Bernie, both quirky and unpopular, meet in eighth grade in New Jersey, become best friends, and later begin to date. Poised to graduate at the top of their class and go to college together, the couple's plans are stopped by the death of Bernie's mother. Grief-stricken, Bernie lets his grades slip and decides to forego college. Winifred chooses UC Santa Barbara, where she becomes "Wini" and passes her days chasing boys, shopping, and drinking lattes. Will these two ever find their way together again?

Price of Admission by Leslie Margolis

Jasmine Green, the daughter of a major Hollywood studio head, lives the kind of life that makes people envious. She has a bottomless bank account, vintage car, mansion, and birthday parties that end up splashed across the pages of People magazine. Just to clear her head, Jasmine anonymously writes a thinly veiled exposè about her life in the form of a screenplay. But when the script is bought by her own father's studio, suddenly this juicy read is the talk of the town, and on the fast track to being green-lit. Can Jasmine save her family's reputation?

The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Cynnie takes care of herself, and more importantly, she takes care of her little brother, Bill. So it doesn't matter that her mom is drunk all the time. Cynnie's got her own life, and she's the one Bill loves more than anyone. And if there's one thing she knows for sure, it's that she'll never, ever sink as low as her mother. But when things start to fall apart, Cynnie needs a way to dull the pain. Can Cynnie stop herself from becoming her mother?

Case Closed: Volume 1 by Gosho Aoyama

In the first volume of this manga/graphic novel, Jimmy Kudo is a famous teenaged detective who solves cases and hopes that his best friend Rachel will one day become his girlfriend. But before he can tell her he likes her, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous situation, and is accidentally shrunk down as a kid again when he is fed a mysterious chemical! Can he find the "men in black" that did this to him, while keeping his real identity a secret? Can he find a way to keep solving cases while trapped in the body of a child?