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__Librarian's Recommendations__
Grade 5-8 //The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.// Grade 6+ Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr. Grade 5+ //Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.// Grade 6+ //After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.// Grade 7+ //Frankie Landau-Banks attempts to take over a secret, all-male society at her exclusive prep school, and her antics with the group soon draw some unlikely attention and have unexpected consequences that could change her life forever.// Grade 7+ The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief. Grade 7+ //Contains three interconnected holiday stories of love, romance, and kisses in a small town, by popular teen authors John Green, Lauren Myracle, and Maureen Johnson.// Grade 5-8 //Quest and his stepsister Angela are thrust into the dangerous world of the American Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when they learn Angela's real mother was a former Secret Service agent who was killed by a terrorist group.// Grade 7+ //Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.// Grade 7+ //When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.// Grade 6+ //Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.//
 * __The Graveyard Book__ by Neil Gaiman**
 * __Percy Jackson and the Olympians__ series by Rick Riordan**
 * __Savvy__ by Ingrid Law**
 * __Chains__ by Laurie Halse Anderson**
 * __Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks__ by E. Lockhart**
 * __The Truth About Forever__ by Sarah Dessen**
 * __Let it Snow__ by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle**
 * __I.Q. Series, Book 1: Independence Hall__ by Roland Smith**
 * __Airhead__ by Meg Cabot**
 * __Shift__ by Jennifer Bradbury**
 * __Football Genius__ by Tim Green**

__**Recommendations for More Mature Readers**__ Grade 8+ //Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.// Grade 8+ //Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.// Grade 9+ //In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever. National Book Award Winner.// Grade 9+ //Interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state, and decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.//
 * __Wintergirls__ by Laurie Halse Anderson**
 * __Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian__ by Sherman Alexie**
 * __What I Saw and How I Lied__ by Judy Blundell**
 * __Little Brother__ by Cory Doctrow**

__Audio Book Recommendations__
__Curse of the Blue Tattoo__ by L.A. Meyer, Read by Katherine Kellgren *^ __The Graveyard Book__ by Neil Gaiman, Read by Neil Gaiman *^ __Elijah of Buxton__ by Christopher Paul Curtis, Read by Mirron Willis* __Nation__ by Terry Pratchett, Read by Stephen Briggs* __Every Soul a Star__ by Wendy Mass, Read by Jessica Almasy, Ali Ahn and Mark Turestsky†

__The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian__ written and narrated by Sherman Alexie* __Dope Sick__ by Walter Dean Myers, Read by JD Jackson† __The Forest of Hands and Teeth__ by Carrie Ryan, Read by Vani Millon† __Pretty Monsters__ by Kelly Link, Read by a variety of readers†
 * __Audio Books for More Mature Readers__**

^Audie Award Winner †School Library Journal Starred Review
 * Odyssey Award Winner

__School Library Journal Starred Reviews__
Grade 8+ //In a small East Texas town largely ruled by prejudices and bullies, fourteen-year-old Austin sets out to win a ride in the next parade and, in the process, grows in her understanding of friendship and helps her widowed mother through her mourning.// Grade 7+ //After losing his family, except for his younger sister Jilly, and their home in a tragic fire, seventeen-year-old Kipp Corwin, a poor farmer, must wrestle with death itself in order to save Jilly and the woman he loves.// Grade 6+ //Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose. (Sequel to Al Capone Does My Shirts)// Grade 7+ //By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.// //Sequel to The Hunger Games.// Grade 8+ //Devon Davenport is a straight-A student and prominent player on her school's soccer team, but when she is linked to an abandoned baby found in the trash she is accused of attempted murder.// Grade 5-8 //Twelve-year-old Amelia Forrester arrives in San Francisco with her family in 1851 and dresses like a boy in the mostly-male town, cutting her hair and wearing a cap to work as a newsboy in order to sell Eastern newspapers and participate in the biggest stories of the day.// Grade 8+ //Jomo Rogers, a naturally talented athlete, starts taking performance enhancing drugs in order to be an even better high school football player, but finds his life spinning out of control as his game improves.// Grade 7+ //Written in screenplay format. In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.// Grade 3-6 //In Fayette, South Carolina, the highlight of Popeye's summer is learning vocabulary words with his grandmother until a motor home gets stuck nearby and Elvis, the oldest boy living inside, joins Popeye in finding the source of strange boats floating down the creek.// Grade 7+ //In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.// Grade 6+ //A companion book for young readers based upon the explorations of the Americas in 1491, before those of Christopher Columbus.// Grade 5-8 //Discusses the work of Tyrone Hayes and his efforts to study and protect frogs, and follows Hayes into the field with his students to perform experiments with various types of frogs.// Grade 5-8 //A graphic novel retelling of the legend of Robin Hood, revealing why he decided to become an outlaw in Crusades-era England, fighting for justice rather than personal gain.// Grade 5-7 Graphic Novel //Eleven-year-old Jack Clark struggles with everyday obstacles while his family and community contend with the challenges brought on by the Dust Bowl in 1937 Kansas.//
 * 2009-Sept __The Sweetheart of Prosper County__ by Jill Alexander**
 * 2009-Sept __Stealing Death__ by Janet Lee Carey**
 * 2009-Sept __Al Capone Shines My Shoes__ by Jennifer Choldenko**
 * 2009-Sept __Catching Fire__ by Suzanne Collins**
 * 2009-Sept __After__ by Amy Efaw**
 * 2009-Sept __Newsgirl__ by Liza Ketchum**
 * 2009-Sept __Shooting Star__ by Frederick McKissack**
 * 2009-Sept __Riot__ by Walter Dean Myers**
 * 2009-Sept __The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvi__s by Barbara O'Connor**
 * 2009-Sept __Leviathan__ by Scott Westerfeld***
 * 2009-Sept __Before Columbus__ by Charles C. Mann**
 * 2009-Sept __The Frog Scientis__t by Pamela S. Turner**
 * 2009-Sept Outlaw: __The Legend of Robin Hood__ by Tony Lee**
 * 2009-Sept T__he Storm in the Barn__ by Matt Phelan**
 * Author visiting in October. Book available Oct. 6, 2009

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