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Title

Author

6X: The Uncensored Confessions Nina Malkin
21 Proms David Levithan and Daniel Ehrenhaft, ed.
Abandon in Place Jerry Oltion
Absolutely, Positively Not David LaRochelle
Acceleration Graham McNamee
The Adventures of Samuel Blackthorne Scott Emerson
Agnes Parker...Girl in Progress Kathleen O'Dell

Al Capone Does My Shirts

Gennifer Choldenko

Aleutian Sparrow

Karen Hesse

Alia Waking Laura Williams McCaffrey
All American Girl Meg Cabot
Amalee Dar Williams
An Unlikely Friendship Ann Rinaldi

And in the Morning

John Wilson
Angel's Grace Tracey Baptiste
Animals on the Trail With Lewis & Clark Dorothy Hinsaw Patent 

Illus. by William Allen Munoz

Annie on My Mind

Nancy Garden
Art Against the Odds Susan Goodman Rubin
Art Geeks and Prom Queens Alison Noel
Asphalt Angels Ineke Hloltwijk 
At Her Majesty's Request:  An African Princess in Victorian England Walter Dean Meyers
Atlantis Endgame Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith
Away to the Goldfields Pat Derby
The Babbs Switch Story Darleen Bailey Beard
Back to the Divide Elizabeth Kay
Barry, Boyhound Andy Spearman
Beekman's Big Deal Michael de Guzman
Becoming Little Women Jeannine Atkins
Becoming Naomi Leon Pam Munoz Ryan
The Beguilers Kate Thompson

Beka Cooper - Terrier

Tamora Pierce
Best Foot Forward Joan Bauer
Beyond the Dragon Portal Melissa Glenn Haber
The Big Burn Jeanette Ingold
The Big Empty J. B. Stephens
Bindi Babies Narinder Dhami
Bird Angela Johnson
Birdwing Rafe Martin
Birth of the Firebringer Meredith Ann Pierce

Bittersweet

Drew Lamm
Black Mirror Nancy Werlin
Black Powder Staton Rabin

The Black Tattoo

Sam Enthoven
Bleed Laurie Faria Stolarz
Bloodline Kate Cary
Blood Red Horse K. M. Grant
Blue Eyes Better Ruth Wallace-Brodeur
The Blue Mirror Kathe Koja
The Blue Roan Child Jamieson Findlay
Bluish Virginia Hamilton
The Body of Christopher Creed Carol Plum-Ucci  
Book of Dead Days Marcus Sedgwick
Book of One Hundred Truths Julie Schumacher
Borderlands Jennifer Owings Dewey
Born Confused Tanuja Desai Hidier
Bound Donna Jo Napoli
Boy Meets Boy David Leviathan
The Boy from the Basement Susan Shaw
The Boy Who Saved Baseball John H. Ritter
Boys in Control Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Bringing Up the Bones Lara M. Zeises
Brooklyn Rose Ann Rinaldi
Brothers Bart Moeyaert
Bucking the Sarge Christopher Paul Curtis
The Burn Journals Brent Runyon
Buddha Boy Kathe Koja
Buried Robin Merrow MacCready

Burned

Ellen Hopkins
Buttermilk Hill Ruth White
Candy Kevin Brooks
Call Me Maria Judith Oritz-Cofer
The Capture (Guardians of Ga'Hoole Series #1) Kathryn Lasky
Carver:  A Life in Poems Mary Nelson
Catalyst Laurie Halse Anderson
Cathy's Book Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman
Chalice of Wind (Balefire: Book 1) Cate Tiernan

Chance Fortune and the Outlaws

Shane Berryhill

Children of the Lamp: The Akenaten Adventure P. B. Kerr
Children of the Lamp: The Blue Djinn of Babylon P. B. Kerr

The Children of the Red King Series Books 1 & 2: Midnight for Charlie Bone and Charlie Bone and the Time Twister

 Jenny Nimmo
Chicks With Sticks: It's a Purl Thing Elizabeth Lenhard
Children of the Red King Series: Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy Jenny Nimmo
The Children of the Red King Series: Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors Jenny Nimmo

Cinderella (As if You Didn't Already Know the Story)

Barbara Ensor
City of Flowers (Stravaganza #3) Mary Hoffman
The City of Ember Jeanne Duprau
The City of the Beasts Isabel Allende
Cold Tom Sally Prue
Colman Monica Furlong
The Coming of Dragons A. J. Lake
Commander in Chief: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War Albert Marrin
Confessions of a Boyfriend Stealer: A Blog Robynn Clairday
Contents Under Pressure Lara Zeises
The Convicts Iain Lawrence
A Corner of the Universe Ann M. Martin
Counting Stars David Almond
The Courtesan's Daughter Priscilla Galloway
Crashing Chris Wooding
Crossing the Panther's Path Elizabeth Alder
Crimes and Punishments of Miss Payne Barry Jonsberg
The Cry of the Icemark Stuart Hill
Dancing at the Odinochka Kirkpatrick Hill
The Dark Ground Gillian Cross
The Dark Flight Down Marcus Sedgwick
The Darkest Evening William Durbin
Darkness Over Denmark:  The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews  Ellen Levine
Dark Angel David Klass
Dark Waters Catherine MacPhail
Daughter of Venice Donna Jo Napoli
A Deadly Game of Magic Joan Lowry Nixon
Deep Susanna Vance
Defiance Valerie Hobbs
Devilish Maureen Johnson
Devil's Footsteps E. E. Richardson

A Different Kind of Heat

Antonio Pagliarulo
Dirty Magic Carol Hughes
The Divide Elizabeth Kay
The Divided Crown Isabel Glass
Dizzy Cathy Cassidy
Donuthead Sue Stauffacher
The Doomed Queen Anne  Carolyn Meyer  
Double Helix Nancy Werlin
Dreadful Sorry Katheryn Reiss
dr. franklin's island Ann Halam
Dragon's Nest (Dragons of Deltora Series #1) Emily Rodda
Dragon Rider Cornelia Funke
Dreadful Acts (Eddie Dickens Trilogy #2) Philip Ardagh
Dream Freedom Sonia Levitin
Dreamland Sarah Dessen
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie Jordan Sonnenblick

Duckling Ugly

Neal Shusterman

Dusk Susan Gates
Dust to Eat Michael L. Cooper
Eagle Strike Anthony Horowitz
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Nancy Farmer
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things Carolyn Mackler

East

Edith Pattou
The Edge Chronicles: Deepwoods and Stormchaser Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
The Edge Chronicles: Midnight Over Santaphrax Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Eldest Christopher Paolini
elseWhere Will Shetterly
Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin
Endymion Spring Matthew Skelton
The Enemy Has a Face Gloria D. Miklowitz
Enna Burning Shannon Hale
Esperanza Rising Pam Muņoz Ryan
Eragon Christopher Paolini
Escape from Memory Margaret Peterson Haddix
Faerie Wars Herbie Brennan
Fake ID Walter Sorrells
Faking 19 Alyson Noel
Falling From Fire Teena Booth
Fame, Glory, and Other Things on my To Do List Janette Rallison

The Far Side of Evil

Sylvia Louise Engdahl
The Farther You Run Davida Wills Hurwin

The Farthest-Away Mountain

Lynne Reid Banks
Fat Boy Swim Catherine Forde
Feed M.T. Anderson
Feud Patricia Finney
Flush Carl Hiaason
Fifteen Love Robert Corbet
The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre Ann Rinaldi
Finding My Hat John Son
Finishing Becca Ann Rinaldi
Fingers William Sleator

Firestorm

David Klass

The First Part Last Angela Johnson
Fish L. S. Matthews
Fish L. S. Matthews
Flame Hilari Bell

Flight of the Fisherbird

Nora Martin

Flight to Freedom Ana Veciana-Suarez
Flipped Wendelin Van Draanen
Flood James Heneghan
A Foreign Field Gillian Chan

The Foreshadowing

Marcus Sedgwick

The Forest in the Hallway Gordon Smith
Forgotten Fire Adam Bagdasarian

Forging the Sword: The Farsala Trilogy Book III

Hilari Bell
Four and Twenty Blackbirds Cherie Priest

Freaks

Annette Curtis Klause
Freedom Beyond the Sea Waldtraut Lewin
Frozen Rodeo Catherine Clark
The Game of Sunken Places M. T. Anderson
The Gateway Trilogy Book One: Night Gate Isobelle Carmody
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmitt Till Case Chris Crowe
Getting the Girl Markus Zusak
Ghost Ship Dietlof Reiche
Gifts Ursula K. LeGuin
Girl, (Nearly) 16: Absolute Torture Sue Limb
Girls for Breakfast David Yoo
Gifts From the Sea Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Girls Out Late Jacqueline Wilson
Goddess of Yesterday Caroline B. Cooney
Ghost Fever (Mal de Fantasma) Joe Hayes
The Girlfriend R. L. Stine
The Girl Who Invented Romance Caroline B. Cooney
Godless Pete Hautman
Going for the Record Julie A. Swanson

The Goose Girl

Shannon Hale
Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask R. L. Stine
A Great and Terrible Beauty Libba Bray
The Great Tree of Avalon:  The Child of the Dark Prophecy T. A. Barron
Gregor the Overlander and Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane Suzanne Collins
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods Suzanne Collins
Gregor and the Marks of Secret Suzanne Collins

Grim Tuesday

Garth Nix

Guitar Girl Sarrah Manning
Guitar Highway Rose Brigid Lowry
Hachiko Waits Leslie Newman
Half and Half Lensey Namioka

The Hand of the Devil

Dean Vincent Carter

Hanging on to Max  Margaret Bechard

Hard Hit

Ann Turner

Hard Love 

Ellen Wittlinger  
Harmless Dana Reinhardt
Harry Sue Sue Stauffacher
Hatching Magic Ann Downer
Hate You Graham McNamee 
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray Chris Wooding

Hazing Meri Sugarman

M. Apostolina
Hear My Sorrow:  The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City, 1909 Deborah Hopkins
Heartbeat Sharon Chreech
Heart on my Sleeve Ellen Wittlinger
Heck Superhero Martine Leavitt
Heir Apparent Vivian Vande Velde
Helicopter Man Elizabeth Fensham
In High Places Harry Turtledove
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow Susan Bartoletti
Hitty's Travels:  Civil War Times Ellen Weiss