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Everyone Who's Anyone by Randi Reisfeld

After her stunning win on a TV reality show, 17-year-old Jacey is America's newest It girl. She's a movie star and a millionaire who's living it up in a Malibu beach house. Jacey's got friends, fans, and fabulous covered! But everyone wants a piece of her! Will she be able to survive all the tabloids and blogs?

Waves by Sharon Dogar

In this mystery novel, Hal is spending his summer on the wild west coast of England, and meets beautiful, impetuous Jackie. It's paradise -- or would be, if only he didn't keep hearing the desperate pleas of his lost sister Charley in his head.... Where is she? And what was she doing out on the waves that night?

Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks

Seventeen-year-old Odella is haunted by family secrets. Why doesn’t her great-aunt Gloria visit anymore? Why does her mother, Sally, drink so much? Sally’s tragic car accident on a frozen lake when she was sixteen seems to have cast a spell over her life that no one can break. Odella tries to hold her family together, but when her mother runs off, the family is left reeling. Then Odella meets Jimmy Tomasson, whose dreams of prophetic flying fish seem to have led him to her. In the heat and tenderness of their deepening feelings and in his belief in her, Odella begins to find the strength to unravel the web of secrets that has ensnared them all!

Ship of Fire by Michael Cadnum

In a stunning retelling based on actual events, author Michael Cadnum (Blood Gold, The Horses of the Night) depicts Sir Francis Drake's most famous act of daring, the raid on the Spanish port of Cadiz. When Thomas Spyre, a seventeen-year-old surgeon's apprentice, is offered the chance to sail on the Elizabeth Bonaventure, Sir Francis Drake's flagship, he never dreams that his master's death in a freak accident will leave him as the ship's only doctor. Thomas is determined to prove himself as a surgeon, but now he must also face battle, when Drake himself enlists him in combat!

Bloodline Book Two: Reckoning by Kate Cary

In this follow-up to Bram Stoker’s original Dracula, Mary Seward thought she had escaped the darkness of Transylvania and the evil that claimed the soul of her fiancé, John Shaw. But now, back in England, Mary has terrible nightmares, fears the dark, sees vampires everywhere she turns. And when a strange virus weakens her father and her patients at the clinic, she suspects that there’s a far more sinister explanation than the one the doctors provide. Then Quincey Harker, heir to Count Dracula’s bloodline, shows himself in England. Gaunt and pale, he claims to have renounced his evil heritage, in part out of love for Mary. But is he telling the truth -- or playing a deadly game with her?

Bowery Girl by Kim Taylor

This is the story of two "Bowery girls" -- Mollie Flynn and Annabelle Lee, young women without family or education who must fend for themselves. Two young women whose survival depends on each other. After a chance encounter with Emmeline DuPre, a "Do-Gooder" who has recently opened a settlement house, Mollie and Annabelle are given the opportunity to better themselves. But the city offers many temptations, and on the streets of the Bowery, you do whatever it takes to survive!

Deadline by Chris Crutcher

In this latest novel by critically acclaimed author Chris Crutcher (Whale Talk, The Sledding Hill), Ben Wolf has big things planned for his senior year. How can a pint-sized seventeen-year-old do anything significant in the nowheresville of Trout, Idaho? First, Ben makes sure that no one else knows what is going on -- not his superstar quarterback brother, Cody, not his parents, not his coach, no one. Next, he decides to become the best 127-pound football player Trout High has ever seen; to give his close-minded civics teacher a daily migraine; and to help the local drunk clean up his act. And then there's Dallas Suzuki. Amazingly perfect, fascinating Dallas Suzuki, who may or may not give Ben the time of day. Really, she's first on the list. Living with a secret isn't easy, though, and Ben's resolve begins to crumble ... especially when he realizes that he isn't the only person in Trout with secrets!

Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf by Jennifer L. Holm

In this book by Babymouse co-author Jennifer L. Holm, Ginny has ten items on her big to-do list for seventh grade. None of them, however, include accidentally turning her hair pink. Or getting sent to detention for throwing frogs in class. Or losing the lead role in the ballet recital to her ex-best friend. Or the thousand other things that can go wrong between September and June. But it looks like it's shaping up to be that kind of a year! Here's the story of one girl's worst school year ever -- told completely through her stuff!

Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley

In this latest fantasy novel by popular author Robin McKinley (Beauty, The Door in the Hedge, The Hero and the Crown), Jake Mendoza lives at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park. Keeping a preserve for dragons is controversial: detractors say dragons are extremely dangerous and unjustifiably expensive to keep and should be destroyed. They are up to eighty feet long and breathe fire. On his first overnight solo trek, Jake finds a dragon -- a dragon dying next to the human she killed! Jake realizes this news could destroy Smokehill -- even though the dead man is clearly a poacher who had attacked the dragon first, that fact will be lost in the outcry against dragons. But then Jake is struck by something more urgent -- he sees that the dragon has just given birth, and one of the babies is still alive!

Freak by Marcella Pixley

For Miriam Fisher, a budding poet who reads the Oxford English Dictionary for fun, seventh grade is a year etched in her memory "clear as pain." That's the year her older sister, Deborah, once her best buddy and fellow "alien," bloomed like a beautiful flower and joined the high school in-crowd. That's the year high school senior Artie Rosenberg, the "hottest guy in the drama club" and, Miriam thinks, her soul mate, comes to live with Miriam's family. And that's the year the popular "watermelon girls" turn up the heat in their cruel harassment of Miriam -- ripping her life wide open in shocking, unexpected ways. Teased and taunted in school, Miriam is pushed toward breaking. Can she find the inner strength to prove she's a force to be reckoned with?