After all, you're coming in for these books anyway, so you could register for the reading program (it only takes a few minutes) and get tons of points for reading books you were going to read anyway, then you could spend said points, getting raffle tickets for our drawings I told you about here or saving up for the whole paperback book order thing, which is fabulous. Just a suggestion.
Brett McCarthy: Work in Progress by Maria Padian...
Brett is a normal girl, a great soccer player, good student, has a terrific best friend, and pretty much has the eighth grade scene figured out. But then comes the prank.
Now she's a total loser, a juvenile delinquent who eats lunch with the principal every single day.
Nevertheless, Brett soldiers on, even as her entire world changes around her.
She's just smart-mouthed enough to make me very happy.
Under the Same Sky by Cynthia DeFelice...
Joe Pedersen wants a motorbike, something he's sure will give him the freedom he craves. He hopes his father will buy him one for his fourteenth birthday, but he's out of luck. Instead, his dad suggests that Joe work over the summer to earn money for the bike. Joe jumps at the chance, and joins up with the summer migrant workers on his family farm.
This novel challenges prejudices and is bound to make you think.
Warriors: Power of Three, Book Two: Dark River by Erin Hunter...
You know this series by now, I hope, so I'm not going deep into it. Just know that it's here.
Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors...
Juliet's horrible, pointless death proves yet again that arranged marriages have got to go. Down with patriarchy! Oh. Right. The book.
Mimi, 17 years old and forced into playing Juliet on Broadway (Sob! Your life is so hard...) opposite the incredibly attractive Troy, is catapulted with her costar into Shakespeare's Verona, Italy. Soon she realizes that she has tons in common with Juliet, who is also being steered down a path she doesn't want. So Mimi sets out to save Juliet and give her a happy ending.
Good luck.
What's next?
Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner...
If you think Percy Jackson had it bad, wait until you hear about poor Helen. As in "The face that launched a thousand ships."
Helen doesn't want to get married, but she's a beautiful princess, so that's kind of her job. *retch* Still, she trains with her brothers, dreaming of heroic adventures and freedom.
Instead of waiting for the gods to help her, Helen goes it alone, making friends with Atlanta and the non-mummified Oracle of Delphi.
A Match Made in High School by Kristin Walker...
Hooray! Fiona's school has roped her into participating in Trying the Knot, a mandatory class dedicated to showing students what married life is all about. Fiona is paired up with "super-jock" (what does that mean?) Todd Harding. And then Fiona's crush is paired up with Todd's super-evil girlfriend. Fiona's best friend is fated to spend the year with Johnny Mercer, who is huge and a class clown.
Comedy ensues.
Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey...
Solange Drake is the only female vampire ever born, destined to be a vampire queen, and the girl every vampire boy wants to date. Well, marry. Or maybe kill, what with the bounty hunter situation.
When Solange is kidnapped, she must depend on her brother Nicholas and her (human) best friend Lucy to save her. If Lucy doesn't need saving herself, what with Nicholas. And then there's the vampire hunter helping Solange survive...
Epic battles, drama, humor, and so forth. Enjoy.
In Ecstasy by Kate McCaffrey...
When painfully shy Mia's popular best friend Sophie suggests that the two of them try ecstasy, Mia hopes it will help fit in. The two girls are then pulled apart as the drug changes their lives.
Although it's not written in verse, readers will draw parallels between this book and Crank.
Jack: Secret Histories by F. Paul Wilson...
Jack has discovered his talent. He's great at fixing things. At making things right. So when he and his friends Weezy and Eddie find a corpse in the woods, Jack decides to make things right...
Inside Out by Terry Trueman...
I love the publisher's blurb for this one, so I'm quoting for you: "A busy coffee shop--a robbery gone wrong. Two gunmen, nine hostages, flashing lights. And Zach is caught in the mayhem. But nobody realizes that Zach--who has no gun and no knife--has a mind more dangerous than any weapon."
It's on my reading list.
Albatross by Josie Bloss...
Overcoming her parent's painful divorce, Tess moves to Michigan. She's lost without her old life, but her attraction to Micah is beginning to help. But Micah is intense, his affection for her moving from warm and caring to controlling and violent.
Alligator Bayou by Donna Jo Napoli...
Is a must for historical fiction fans. Napoli tells the story of Calogero and his family, six Sicilians living in Tallulah, Louisiana in 1899.
The immigrants are welcomed by some in the town, but others shun them. Calogero struggles to adapt to his new home, aided by Patricia, a beautiful young black woman. But every day, relations between the white community and the Sicilians grow closer to a violent conclusion.
Based on a actual historical events, Napoli gives us a story every American should know.
Speaking of civil rights, here is Free? a collection of short stories edited by Amnesty International.
I'm excited about Eoin Colfer's story. Maybe I'll just take a peek here...
Jars of Glass by Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler...
Sisters Chloe and Shana both long for their lives to go back to normal, the way it was before their mother went to the hospital. Chloe wants her mother to come home; Shana never wants to see their mother again. While Shana tries to escape, Chloe is left to be the responsible one.
When their situation gets even worse, the sisters must unite to rebuild their family.
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