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Springfire
Terie Garrison
Synopsis:

The third book in the imaginative DragonSpawn Cycle begins as Donavah and the red dragon Xyla narrowly escape the dreaded dragonmasters. Suddenly they are transported from the midst of a deadly battle to Stychs, a legendary and mystical land that looks just like Donavah’s home world―though just how and why she is there yields more questions than answers.

Only dragons can move between the two worlds so quickly, and Xyla is now gravely ill from the strain. Donavah and her friends must undertake a treacherous journey to find the other red dragons if Xyla is to be healed. Along the way Donovah is kidnapped and cruelly imprisonedby a rogue magician, an ordeal that leaves her forever scarred. Rescued by the desert sages of Delaron, Donavah finally learns of her role in an ancient prophecy―a prophecy that must be fulfilled if maejic is to survive in Alloway.

Publication Date: 06/08/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Silver Moon Elm
Anthony Alongi, MaryJanice Davidson
Synopsis: Almost immediately after learning yet another devastating family secret, fifteen-year-old Jennifer awakens in a universe transformed by werachnid sorcery, in which weredragons are long extinct, and she must try to find a way to change everything back.
Publication Date: 06/05/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl
Cara Lockwood, Julie Kenner, Beth Kendrick, Meg Cabot, Jennifer O'Connell
Synopsis: A collection of personal essays by some of today's most popular young adult and women's fiction writers considers the ways in which the books of Judy Blume influenced their emotional, social, and physical developments, in a volume that includes contributions by Meg Cabot, Cara Lockwood, and Megan McCafferty. 50,000 first printing.
Publication Date: 06/05/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Chick Lit
Cool Jewels
Naomi Fujimoto
Synopsis: Designing and making jewelry is so much fun, teenagers can’t get enough of it. Cool Jewels: Beading Projects for Teens not only gives the lowdown on tools, techniques, beads, and findings, it also presents 35 irresistible step-by-step projects sure to get teens hooked on the hobby.
Publication Date: 06/01/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Nonfiction
Chloe Doe
Suzanne Phillips
Synopsis: Chloe Doe chronicles a 17-year-old girl's tumultuous path to becoming a prostitute and her ultimate transformation back into mainstream society. During her therapy at Madeline Parker Institute for Girls, Chloe slowly reveals aspects of her painful past--the stepfather who abused her sister, the mother who let it all happen, the need to love and be loved--and faces the future she finally decides to build for herself. Told in heart-wrenching language that's sometimes caustic, often ironic, and always authentic, Chloe Doe is certain to find a place among classics about teens that triumph over their loneliness and desperation to find hope.
Publication Date: 06/01/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
The Ghost in Allie's Pool
Synopsis: Eighth-grader Allie Toth is visited by the ghost of a woman who committed suicide during the voyage of the Mayflower, while at the same time her best friend Marissa has dropped her for a more popular crowd. Includes facts about Dorothy May Bradford and other Mayflower passengers.Eighth-grader Allie Toth is visited by the ghost of a woman who committed suicide during the voyage of the Mayflower, while at the same time her best friend Marissa has dropped her for a more popular crowd.
Publication Date: 05/31/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Chick Lit
Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City
Synopsis:

Life will never be the same for Ananka Fishbein after she ventures into an enormous sinkhole near her New York City apartment. A million rats, delinquent Girl Scouts out for revenge, and a secret city below the streets of Manhattan combine in this remarkable novel about a darker side of New York City you have only just begun to know about…

Publication Date: 05/29/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Dragon and Judge
Timothy Zahn
Synopsis: Orphaned at the age of three, brought up by his Uncle Virgil, a con man, Jack Morgan has done things that are unusual even in the future in space. But when he rescued Draycos, a dragon-like symbiont, from certain death, his life became a series of breathtaking adventures. With the help of Draycos, who can leap onto Jack's back and become what looks like a tattoo, Jack has been doing everything he can to find out who ambushed the scout-fleet of Draycos's people, the K'da and Shontine, leaving Draycos the sole survivor. Now Jack thinks he may finally be on the trail of the information he needs. But before he can act on what he knows, he's kidnapped by aliens, who ask him to be a judge for them, as, they reveal to him, his parents had once been.
 
Jack's friend Alison Kayna and her newly acquired K'da symbiont are also kidnapped, by the people trying to ambush the K'da/Shontine fleet. Her captors will do almost anything to learn from Alison where the fleet will rendezvous. Jack and Draycos must rescue her before Alison is hurt--or worse. Using every trick in the book, Jack and Draycos race to her aid, but they aren't able to eliminate the threat to the endangered fleet...and precious time is running out!
Publication Date: 05/29/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Series
Inside Girl
J. Minter
Synopsis:

Flan Flood is determined to be more than just Patch Flood's little sister when she begins her freshman year at Stuyvesant High, a huge public school downtown. When she meets a new group of friends that could help her become a new person, Flan has to convince them that she's just an ordinary girl, like they are. This becomes nearly impossible when her very not normal friends Liesel, Philippa, and Sara-Beth Benny move in! Can Flan keep the Inside Girls hidden, find a new high school boy to date, and get her new friends to accept her? Featuring Flan Flood, long a favorite character of the original Insider novels, Inside Girl offers a fresh, young, and girl-centric perspective that is perfect for early teen readers.

Publication Date: 05/29/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
The Mysterious Adventures of Pauline Bovary
Synopsis: With life simply overflowing with pungent melodrama, it’s all Pauline and her purple pen can do to record each twist of the plot. First, her best friend splits to become a teen ice queen. Then, Pauline’s dragged into the revolting details of her divorcing parents’ love life. And to top it off, she finds herself falling for a self-described “neo-existentialist” — much to the displeasure of her loyal boyfriend. How will she ever write her way out of this one?
Publication Date: 05/28/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Outside The Box
Dan Allosso
Synopsis: Teenager Reid Anderson knows there’s something wrong with society, otherwise he wouldn’t feel so alienated. He has a problem with authority but can’t decide: “am I antisocial or does society suck?” So he goes through life pretending he doesn’t care.

A new Wii console and simulation game show up in his rec room, and Reid is just bored enough to try them out. When a demon from inside the game threatens him in reality, Reid is plunged into a world of troubled teens he didn’t know existed. The demon’s challenge takes him on a journey of discovery. Suddenly exposed to other outsiders, Reid learns to question authority and find his own answers. He finds true friends among those labeled defective and cast aside by society—and together, they learn to fight for themselves.

Set against a background of video games, teen mental illness, and anticonsumer counterculture; told through the eyes of Reid and his friends, Outside the Box challenges the safe, orthodox picture of the world championed in many popular teen novels.

Publication Date: 05/25/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
The Thrilling Life of Pauline de Lammermoor
Synopsis: Nearly 14, Pauline has discovered that her life is far more interesting if she records it as a great work of fiction — featuring, of course, herself as the tragic heroine. Pauline’s hand-wringing accounts of misbehaving boyfriends, backstabbing friends, and general angst are intermingled with more serious issues like her parents’ divorce and her beloved teacher’s loss of a best friend to AIDS. Laced with the pop-culture references young readers love, Pauline’s “novel” reveals the realities of today’s teenage life.
Publication Date: 05/23/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Runnerland
John Burns
Synopsis: Peter’s just a normal teenager living a normal life — until his father suddenly dies and his world is turned upside down. Already teetering on the brink of despair, Peter goes over the edge when he accidentally discovers that he was adopted. Feeling betrayed, overwhelmed, and confused, Peter runs away from home and goes underground, living with other street children in a squat ruled by the creepy yet charismatic Dekman. The constant panhandling soon bores him, and Peter finds himself blacking out, escaping to a strange subconscious world he calls Runnerland. As the pressures on the street and in the squat mount, the borders between Runnerland and the real world begin to blur, forcing Peter to make some hard choices and seek answers to the questions he's been avoiding. But can he escape Dekman's cult-like gang? And if so, where will he go? Cautionary without being demeaning, Runnerland portrays life on the street with chilling accuracy.
Publication Date: 05/23/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
The Lacemaker and the Princess
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Synopsis: After an accidental encounter with Marie Antoinette, poor lacemaker Isabelle is invited back to her palace to play with her daughter, but as the situation for the common man worsens on the streets and talk of revolution begins, Marie begins to fear for the safety of her royal friend with whom she has become close.
Publication Date: 05/22/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Sofi Mendoza’s Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico
Synopsis: Born in Mexico, but having lived in California nearly all her life, Sofi experiences the culture of Mexico while on a trip to Tijuana, but when she tries to reenter the United States and cannot because she isn't a citizen, Sofi must wait out her time at a relative's house where she learns even more about her native land and its people.
Publication Date: 05/22/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
The Chaos King
Laura Ruby
Synopsis:

In a city filled with wonders, one girl can do the most wonderful thing of all.

Georgie is special.

Not only is she the one person who can disappear at will, but since she found her parents, she's become The Richest Girl in the Universe. She may be special, but is she lucky? Her parents have forbidden her to vanish, her new school is full of snooty heiresses, she's had a growth spurt that makes her as graceful as a grizzly, and her best friend in the world, a belligerent boy named Bug, seems to have abandoned her.

But adventure is just around the corner, as a madman who calls himself The Chaos King has Georgie and Bug in his sights. In their efforts to save themselves from his insane plans, Georgie and Bug discover some of the amazing secrets of the city they love. Their journey will lead them to confront a pack of blasé vampires, a living lion of stone, a disgruntled teenage poet, a candy-loving sloth, The Second Richest Girl in the Universe, a fussy man named Mr. Fuss, and finally, the brink of the unimaginable. . . .

Publication Date: 05/22/07
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Paranormal

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