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Terror On The Titanic
Jim Wallace
Synopsis: Terror on the Titanic by Jim Wallace takes YOU back in time to an historical adventure aboard the infamous Titanic. 9-12 year old readers will explore the world's most luxurious ship and study how it operates, meet the crew, and drink up the magical excitement of this maiden voyage!

Choose Your Own Adventure Terror on the Titanic is an interactive adventure book in which YOU decide what happens next.

The date is April 10, 1912. Embarking on the Titanic seems like a dream. Quickly you learn that there is evil-doing aboard. Who can you trust? Will you be able to save the Titanic from certain doom as it careens into an iceberg? Will you be remembered as a hero, or just another victim of one of the sea's most tragic events?

For readers who enjoyed other titles from the Choose Your Own Adventure series including: The Abominable Snowman R. A. Montgomery, Secret of the Ninja by Jay Leibold, and Journey Under the Sea by R. A. Montgomery.

Publication Date: 12/01/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
The Ghost of Schafer Meadows
inside map, Guy Zoellner, cover, Maria Vekkos, Beth Hodder
Synopsis: 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award winner! Jessie Scott, 12, and her dog, Oriole, solve a mystery at the Schafer Meadows Ranger Station in Montana's Great Bear Wilderness.
Publication Date: 11/28/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Breathe My Name
R.A. Nelson
Synopsis: Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her birth mother, who has just been released after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters. Original.
Publication Date: 11/08/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Chess Rumble
Jesse Joshua Watson, G. Neri
Synopsis: Branded a troublemaker due to his anger over everything from being bullied to his sister's death a year before, Marcus begins to control himself and cope with his problems at home and at his inner-city school when an unlikely mentor teaches him to play chess.
Publication Date: 11/08/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Hot Mama
Jennifer Estep
Synopsis: By day, Fiona Fine is a successful couture designer, catering to the high society players of Bigtime, New York. By night, she's Fiera, a member of the heroic Fearless Five who can create and manipulate fire with her bare hands.

Fiona's personal life, though, isn't so hot. She still misses her fiancÂŽ, who was killed by ubervillains a year ago. Still, men admire Fiona's smoking assets, and she decides to get back in the dating game- especially after she meets Johnny Bulluci. But this notorious playboy has plenty of secrets to go along with his sexy smile. And, with two new ubervillains in town who are intent on raising hell, Fiona's love life might just crash and burn.
Publication Date: 11/06/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Better Off Famous?
Jane Mendle
Synopsis:

Fame is awesome, right?  Partying every night at the hottest clubs. Hanging with the coolest stars.  Having your picture in every magazine.  Yeah, that's what Annie Hoffman thought too.  Until she became a celebrity.

 

All Annie ever wanted for her sixteenth birthday was a driver’s license and a spot at Julliard’s prestigious high school violin program. Well, she got neither. But as luck would have it, a casting director for fall’s hottest new television show happens to be at the Julliard auditions, and Annie wows him. He thinks her look is exactly what his show, a teen soap set at a posh New York school, has been missing. And just like that, Annie gets cast as the naive “new girl,” and her life is turned upside down.

 

Sure, the perks are great, the wardrobe is awesome, and her tutor is a super hot genius… but being stalked day and night by paparazzi out to catch her in her worst light---not so fun! Can Annie learn to balance her life-- and her partying-- before the press, and the public, write her off for good?

Publication Date: 10/30/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Tiger Trap
Eric Walters
Synopsis:

Sarah and Nicholas Fraser, the irrepressible sister-and-brother duo of Eric Walters's bestselling Tiger by the Tail, Tiger in Trouble, and Tiger Town, are back for a fourth adventure. The kids are already swamped with exotic animals when Mr. McCurdy and Vladimir, the owners of Tiger Town, rescue another truckload of creatures, including two baby kangeroos, a leopard, and a lion.

Always the worrier, Sarah frets about finances and wonders how they'll be able to care for the ever-expanding menagerie. Then a man named Anthony appears on the farm, and Sarah and Nick have a lot more to fear. Who is this newcomer — friend or foe, patron or poacher?

All Sarah knows is that some shady characters are threatening her beloved animals again, a bunch of gun-toting crooks are trying to buy illegal wildlife for zoos, and some sort of parrot disease has put McCurdy's farm under quarantine!

Publication Date: 10/30/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Slam
Nick Hornby
Synopsis: At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend Alicia gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically, so Sam turns to Hawk's autobiography for answers.
Publication Date: 10/16/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Young Arcan  and the Garden of Loc
Synopsis: Young Arcan and the Garden of Loc is the story of Arcan, an eleven-year-old boy who befriends a talking tree named Arborgast. When Loc, one of the creators of the world, begins to steal the spirit of life from the lands, Arcan is compelled to save his dying friend and all of Emberthel. Journeying to Loc's Garden, Arcan seeks to free the world's stolen life essence.
Publication Date: 10/15/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Taken
Edward Bloor
Synopsis: BY 2035 THE RICH have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and kidnapping has become a major growth industry in the United States. The children of privilege live in secure, gated communities and are escorted to and from school by armed guards.

But the security around Charity Meyers has broken down. On New Year's morning, she wakes and finds herself alone, strapped to a stretcher, in an ambulance that's not moving. She is amazingly calm - kids in her neighborhood have been well trained in kidnapping protocol. If this were a normal kidnapping, Charity would be fine. But as the hours of her imprisonment tick by, Charity realizes there is nothing normal about what's going on here. No training could prepare her for what her kidnappers really want . . . and worse, for who they turn out to be.
Publication Date: 10/09/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
The Jaguar Stones: Middleworld
Synopsis: Harry Potter meets Indiana Jones meets Clash of the Titans! Fasten your seat belts for a heart-stopping ride of suspense and terror, set against a background of haunted temples, family secrets, ritual sacrifice, and adolescent angst, as a pampered, pizza-eating Boston teenager fights to survive in the teeming jungle and save the modern world from the Ancient Maya Lords of Death. It transports the reader to a world in which the Maya deities still have power and influence, where time and space are in flux, but where even a fourteen-year-old from the outside can become aware, and find wisdom and love, if he can but open his eyes to the magic around him.
Publication Date: 10/05/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Spud
John van de Ruit
Synopsis: In 1990, thirteen-year-old John "Spud" Milton, a prepubescent choirboy, keeps a diary of his first year at an elite, boys-only boarding school in South Africa, as he deals with bizarre housemates, wild crushes, and embarrassing parents.
Publication Date: 10/04/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
The Finnish Line
Linda Gerber
Synopsis: When Nordic ski jumper Maureen ?Mo? Clark set foot in Finland, she breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, escape from her famous skier father?s shadow and a chance to jump in the renowned Lahti Ski Games. But Mo quickly realizes that balancing practice and classes is more challenging than she expected. So when a gorgeous bad boy teammate offers coaching assistance?for a little publicity in return?how can she refuse? Surely she can work in a few extra practices somewhere between studying for calculus and sightseeing in Finland? Amid snowmobiling and dog-sledding, ice hotels and Northern lights, Mo begins to discover what strength and perseverance?the Finnish sisu?is all about. Now it?s up to her to take that final jump and cross the finish line in style.
Publication Date: 10/04/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Midnight Alley
Rachel Caine
Synopsis: Claire Danvers's college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it's giving night school a whole new meaning.

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Publication Date: 10/02/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
The Charioteer of Delphi
Caroline Lawrence
Synopsis: The Roman Mysteries Book XII A RETURN TO ROME.  Flavia and her friends experience the danger and exhilaration of chariot racing in the circus Maximus. It's September AD 80.  Flavia, Jonathon, Lupus and Nubia are back in Rome to celebrate the Festival of Jupiter at the town house of Senator Cornix.  A famous racehorse has gone missing just days before important events at the Circus Maximus.  With their new companion Scopos, the young charioteer from Delphi, the friends must infiltrate rival facing factions to discover who stole the horse, and why.  Violence, deception, secret identities and a deadly curse are all ingredients in this twelfth installment of the exciting series.
Publication Date: 10/02/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
The Return of Light
Lisa Falkenstern, Dia Calhoun
Synopsis: A Christmas tree discovers that its destiny is to bring light to the homeless
Publication Date: 10/01/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction

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