The Messenger by Lois Lowry
ISBN 0385737165  EAN: 9780385737166 BantamPaperback (12 to 17) WB Price: $12.50
Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Lowry returns with the eagerly anticipated companion to "Gathering Blue" and "The Giver," For the past six years, Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man, known for his special sight. Village was a place that welcomed newcomers, but something sinister has seeped into Village and the people have voted to close it to outsiders. Matty has been invaluable as a messenger. Now he must make one last journey through the treacherous forest with his only weapon, a power he unexpectedly discovers within himself. 17.58 cms L x 10.72 cms W (0.09 kgs) 169 pages

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

ISBN 0385732317 EAN 9780385732314 Delacorte Paperback (13 to 17)WB Price: $17.95
It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls--and their foray into the spiritual world--lead to? 20.4 cms L x 13.2 cms W 403 pages

The Battle for Jericho by Sharon M Draper
ISBN 0689842333 Simon Paperback (13 to 17)WB Price: $11.95
Sixteen-year-old Jericho is psyched when he and his cousin and best friend, Josh, are invited to pledge for the Warriors of Distinction, the oldest and most exclusive club in school. Just being a pledge wins him the attention of Arielle, one of the hottest girls in his class, whom he's been too shy even to "talk" to before now.But as the secret initiation rites grow increasingly humiliating and force Jericho to make painful choices, he starts to question whether membership in the Warriors of Distinction is worth it. How far will he have to go to wear the cool black silk Warriors jacket? How high a price will he have to pay to belong? The answers are devastating beyond Jericho's imagination. 17.73 cms L x 10.77 cms W 352 pages 

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
ISBN 1416914633 Simon Paperback (12+)WB Price: $16.95
"January 24th After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs...." It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her." For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl's harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful -- and as timely -- today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction. 16.87 cms L x 13.5 cms W 214 pages 

So B. It by Sarah Weeks
ISBN 0064410471 Harper Paperback (10 to 14)WB Price: $11.95
Heidi is on a quest.She doesn't know when her birthday is or who her father is. In fact, everything about Heidi and her mentally disabled mother's past is a mystery. Then a strange word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past. Far away from home, pieces of her puzzling history come together. But it isn't until she learns to accept not knowing that Heidi truly arrives. 19.3 cms L x 13.2 cms W 245 pages 

Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake
ISBN 1423103866 EAN: 9781423103868 Jump Paperback (12 to 14) WB Price: $13.95
Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is always scheming about ways to make money. She's starved for the green stuff, and will do just about anything legal to get it--wash cars, sell rotten candy, skip lunch, and clean houses, She is obsessed with making money, having money, smelling money, and touching money. Raspberry is determined that she and her momma will never be homeless again. When they are approved for a Section 8 move to a nice house in Pecan Landings, Raspberry thinks things are looking up. But after their apartment in the projects is robbed, and protests by the rich folks in Pecan Landings force them out of their new house, Raspberry must do everything in her power to keep her world from crumbling. A Coretta Scott King Honor Book 20.83 cms L x 14.38 cms W (0.22 kgs) 188 pages

The Revealers by Doug Wilheim
ISBN 0374462437 Farrar Paperback (10+)WB Price: $11.95
Parkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment of kids by other kids. Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get the better of their tormentors by starting an unofficial e-mail forum at school in which they publicize their experiences. Unexpectedly, lots of other kids come forward to confess their similar troubles, and it becomes clear that the problem at their school is bigger than anyone knew. The school principal wants to clamp down on the operation, which she does when the trio, in their zealousness for revenge, libel a fellow student in what turns out to have been a setup. Now a new plan of attack is needed . . . This suspenseful story of computer-era underground rebellion offers fresh perspectives on some of the most enduring themes in fiction for young readers. 19.35 cms L x 13.9 cms W 224 pages 

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
ISBN 00545055768EAN: 9780545055765 Scholastic Paperback (13+) 
WB Price: $12.95
Richie Perry didn't have a plan for getting out of his dead-end inner-city life, so he joined the Army. But at this point in history, joining the Army means fighting in Vietnam, and Richie hadn't realized how horrifying that would be. Now, he and his friends can't take the time to worry about why they are in Vietnam, who they are fighting or what is happening in the real world--they just want to get out alive. 320 pgs Awards: Coretta Scott King Award | Winner | Author | 1989;17.88 cms L x 13.11 cms W (0.26 kgs) 309 pages

Uglies by Scott Westerfield
ISBN 0689865384 EAN 9780689865381 Simon Paperback (12 to 17) 
WB Price: $15.95
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.Awards: Young Readers Choice Award | Nominee | Intermediate/Grades 7-9 | 2008 ; Buckeye Childrens Book Award | Second Place | Teen | 2007 ; Black-Eyed Susan Award | Nominee | High School | 2007 - 2008 ; Golden Archer Award | Nominee | Middle/Junior High | 2008 ; Beehive Awards | Nominee | Young Adult | 2007 ;17.5 cms L x 13 cms W (0.31 kgs) 448

Pretties by Scott Westerfield
ISBN 0689865392 Simon Paperback (12 to 17) WB Price: $15.95
Gorgeous. Popular.Perfect. Perfectly wrong.Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted.But beneath all the fun -- the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom -- is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what's wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold.Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life -- because the authorities don't intend to let anyone with this information survive. 370 pgs

Iqbal by Francesco I'Adamo
ISBN 1416903291 Aladdin Paperback (10 to 13) WB Price: $10.95
When young Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, his arrival changes everything for the other overworked and abused chidren there. It is Iqbal who explains to them that despite their master's promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinetely. But it is also Iqbal who inspires the other children to look to a future free from toil...and is brave enough to show them how to get there.This moving fictionalized account of the real Iqbal Masih is told through the voice of Fatima, a young Pakistani girl whose life is changed by Iqbal's courage.120 pgs

Peter and The Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
ISBN 078684907X Disney Paperback (9 to 13) WB Price: $14.45
In an evocative and fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island an orphan boy named Peter and his mysterious new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil. Bestselling authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson have turned back the clock and revealed a wonderful story that precedes J. M. Barrie's beloved Peter Pan. Peter and the Starcatchers is brimming with richly developed characters from the scary but somehow familiar Black Stache and the ferocious Mister Grin to the sweet but sophisticated Molly and the fearless Peter. Riveting adventure takes listeners on a journey from a harsh orphanage in old England to a treacherous sea in a decrepit old tub. Aboard the Never Land is a trunk that holds a magical substance with the power to change the fate of the world - just a sprinkle and wounds heal and just a dusting and people can fly. Towering seas and a violent storm are the backdrop for battles at sea. Bone-crushing waves eventually land our characters on Mollusk Island - where the action really heats up. Awards: Book Sense Book of the Year | Honor Book | Children's Literature | 2005 ; Young Reader's Choice Award | Nominee | Junior/Grades 4-6 | 2007 ; SIBA Book Award | Winner | Children's | 2005 ; Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award | Nominee | Grades 4-8 | 2007 ; Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award | Nominee | Grades 6-8 | 2007 ; Maine Student Book Award | Third Place | Grades 4-8 | 2005 ; Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book | Nominee | Children's | 2006 ; Grand Canyon Reader Award | Winner | Intermediate | 2006 ; Colorado Children's Book Award | Nominee | Junior Novel | 2006 ; 18 cms L x 12.8 cms W (0.31 kgs) 451 pages 

The Good Dog by Avi
ISBN 0689838255 EAN 9780689838255 Aladdin Paperback (8 to 12) 
WB Price: $11.95
McKinley, a malamute, is a good dog -- he's reliable and trustworthy. Whether it's watching over the other dogs of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, or taking care of his human pup, Jack, McKinley never even thinks of letting anyone down -- until he meets Lupin. Lupin is a she-wolf and she's urging the dogs of Steamboat Springs to leave their domesticated lives and join her wild pack. And though she scares McKinley, he also finds himself drawn to her and the life of freedom that she offers.For the first time, McKinley's loyalties are torn. Should he stay with his humans and continue to lead the dogs of Steamboat Springs? Or should he join the wolf and live freely, like his ancestors did? When the wild calls, what will McKinley's answer be? 19 cms L x 13 cms W (0.17 kgs) 256 pages

The Report Card by Andrew Clements
ISBN 0689845243 Aladdin Paperback (8 to 12) WB Price: $10.45
Nora Rose Rowley is a genius, but don't tell anyone. She's managed to make it to the fifth grade without anyone figuring out that she's not just an ordinary kid, and she wants to keep it that way. But then Nora gets fed up with the importance everyone attaches to test scores and grades, and she purposely brings home a terrible report card just to prove a point. Suddenly the attention she's successfully avoided all her life is focused on her, and her secret is out. And that's when things start to get really complicated....173 pgs

The School Story by Andrew Clements
ISBN 0689851863 Aladdin Paperback (8 to 12) WB Price: $10.45
Natalie's best friend, Zoe, is sure that the novel Natalie's written is good enough to be published. But how can a twelve-year-old girl publish a book? Natalie's mother is an editor for a big children's publisher, but Natalie doesn't want to ask for any favors.Then Zoe has a brilliant idea: Natalie can submit her manuscript under a pen name, with Zoe acting as her literary agent. But it's not easy for two sixth graders to put themselves over as grown-ups, even with some help from a couple of "real" grown-ups who are supportive but skeptical. The next best-selling school story may be in their hands -- but can Natalie and Zoe pull off their masquerade? 196 pgs

The Janitor's Boy by Andrew Clements
ISBN 068983585X Aladdin Paperback (8 to 12) WB Price: $10.45
When Jack Rankin is publicly embarrassed by his father, the school janitor,he decides to take revenge by defacing a school desk with a huge wad of disgusting, watermelon bubble gum, Unfortunately, it also led to the perfect punishment. The principal sentences him to three weeks of after-school gum cleanup for the chief custodian ie his dad.But doing time in the school basement after hours reveals some pretty surprising things: about the school, about Jack's father, and about Jack himself. 160 pgs

After by Francine Prose
ISBN 0060080833 Harper Paperback (12 to 17) WB Price: $15.95
The shootings in Pleasant Valley were fifty miles away, but at Central High a grief and crisis counselor is hired, security is increased, and privileges are being taken away. " No one knows why." If you break the new rules the punishment is severe. And the rules keep changing every day. " School feels like a prison." It's for their protection, yet fifteen-year-old Tom Bishop and his friends learn that things are far more sinister than they seem. Students and teachers begin disappearing.  "There's no way to stop it." Nationally best-selling and acclaimed author Francine Prose has written a haunting novel about what happens when protection goes too far and what it means to have freedom extinguished -- in the name of safety.330 pgs Awards: L.A. Times Book Prize | Finalist | Young Adult Fiction | 2003 ; California Young Reader Medal | Winner | Young Adult | 2006 ; Iowa High School Book | Nominee | Young Adult | 2006 - 2007 ; Black-Eyed Susan Award | Nominee | High School | 2005 - 2006 

Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
ISBN 0553298186 EAN 9780553298185 Laurel Paperback (9 to 12) WB Price: $11.50
A tree full of monkeys the last thing fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee thought he'd find on one of his treks through Oklahoma's Cherokee Ozarks. Jay learns from his grandfather that the monkeys have escaped from a circus and there is a big reward for anyone who finds them. He knows how much his family needs the money. Jay is determined to catch the monkeys. It's a summer of thrills and dangers no one will ever forget. 304 pgs Award: California Young Reader Medal. 17.6 cms L x 10.7 cms W (0.15 kgs) 304 pages

The Body Of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
ISBN 0786816414 EAN 9780786816415 Hyperion Paperback (12 to 17) WB Price: $12.45
Chris Creed grew up as the class freak--the bullies' punching bag. After he vanished, the weirdness that had once surrounded him began spreading. It was as if a darkness reached out of his void to grab at the most normal, happy people--like some twisted joke or demented form of justice. It tore the town apart. Sixteen-year-old Torey Adams's search for answers opens his eyes to the lies, the pain, and the need to blame when tragedy strikes, and his once-safe world comes crashing down around him. Awards: Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Nominee | Young Adults | 2001 ; Michael L. Printz Award | Honor Book | Young Adults | 2001 Black-Eyed Susan Award | Nominee | High School | 2002 - 2003 ; 19 cms L x 12.9 cms W (0.22 kgs) 331 pages