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What’s New in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Supernatural Fiction for Children and
Teens 2010/2011
Compiled by
Susan Fichtelberg, Children’s Librarian, Woodbridge Public Library
sfichtelberg@woodbridgelibrary.org
Bonnie Kunzel, Youth Services and Adolescent Literacy Consultant
bkunzel@aol.com
Aguirre, Ann. Enclave. Feiwel & Friends, 2011. (Gr. 9+) SF
In a post-apocalyptic future, Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while
avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the
outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the ways of the elders may be wrong.
Alender, Katie. From Bad to Cursed: A Bad Girls Don't Die Novel. Hyperion, 2011.
(Gr. 9+) Paranormal
After taking an oath to a seemingly benevolent spirit, a high school girl finds herself
changing in frightening ways.
Angelini, Josephine. Starcrossed. HarperTeen, 2011. (Gr. 9+) Paranormal
When shy sixteen-year-old Helen Hamilton starts having vivid dreams about three
ancient, hideous women and suddenly tries to kill a new student at her Nantucket
high school, she discovers that she is playing out some version of an old tale
involving Helen of Troy, the Three Furies, and a mythic battle.
Alexander, R. C. Unfamiliar Magic. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Believing herself capable of greatness but unable to learn spells from her safetyminded mother, young witch Desi explores magic on her own when she is placed in
the charge of her mother's cat familiar, a feline that is transformed into a sushieating teenage girl.
Anthony, Joelle. Restoring Harmony. Putnam, 2010. (Gr. 7+) SF
Having lived an existence of relative quiet on an isolated farming island, 16-year-old
Molly of 2041 Canada is sent to find and rescue her grandparents from a U.S.
suburb devastated by global economic collapse and organized crime.
Anthony, Piers. Well-Tempered Clavicle. Tor, forthcoming 2011. (A/YA) FAN
Picka Bones and his sister Joy’nt are off in search of adventure with three creatures
newly arrived from Mundania –and not the sort of creatures you might expect! Join
them in a madcap quest, in this 35th tale of the land of Xanth.. (Newest in the
Xanth series.)
Archer, Jennifer. Through Her Eyes. Harperteen, 2011. (Gr. 8+) PARANORMAL
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Sixteen-year-old Tansy is used to moving every time her mother starts writing a new
book, but in the small Texas town where her grandfather grew up, she is lured into
the world of a troubled young man whose death sixty years earlier is shrouded in
mystery.
Armstrong, Kelley. The Dark Powers #1: The Summoning. Harperteen, 2008.
(Gr. 10+) SUPERNATURAL
Teenagers with supernatural powers are being hunted by a mysterious organization.
Sequels: #2 The Awakening, 2009; #3 The Reckoning, 2010.
Armstrong, Kelley. The Gathering. Harpercollins, 2011. (Gr. 10+)
SUPERNATURAL
Strange things are happening in Maya's tiny Vancouver Island town. First, her
friend Serena, the captain of the swim team, drowns mysteriously in the middle of a
calm lake. Then, one year later, mountain lions are spotted rather frequently
around Maya's home—and her reactions to them are somewhat . . . unexpected. Her
best friend, Daniel, has also been experiencing unexplainable premonitions about
certain people and situations. Sequel: The Calling, forthcoming 4/2012.
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Token of Darkness. Delecorte, 2010. (Gr. 7+)
SUPERNATURAL
After Cooper Blake wakes from a serious car accident to find himself in the
company of an attractive, tormented ghost, he keeps his visions to himself until he
discovers that two of his peers also hide supernatural abilities.
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. All Just Glass. Delacorte, 2011. (Gr. 7+)
SUPERNATURAL
Raised to distrust all vampires, Sarah, a member of a legendary family of vampirehunting witches, is changed into a vampire by the boy she thought she loved and
denounced by her loved ones, prompting her reliable older sister to question an
order for Sarah's execution. Sequel to: Shattered Mirror, 2001.
Augarde, Steve. X-Isle. David Fickling Books, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SF
Granted coveted places on an island in a future world devastated by flooding, Baz
and Ray quickly discover that their new home is ruled by an unpredictable religious
fanatic whose violent system compels the boys to plan a dangerous rebellion.
Bachorz, Pam. Drought. Egmont, 2011. (Gr. 7-10) SF
Ruby Prosser longs for escape from the Congregation and the early-nineteenthcentury lifestyle the community practices, even though she knows the Congregants
need her blood to survive, but when she meets Ford, the new Overseer, who holds
the promise to access to the modern world, her will to stay weakens.
Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker. Little Brown, 2010. (Gr. 9+) SF
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In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil
tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the
wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Baker, E. D. The Dragon Princess. Bloomsbury, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Although a princess, Millie cannot keep herself from turning unexpectedly into a
dragon, so she ventures off to the Frozen North to find the Blue Witch, who she
hopes will help her learn to control her dragon magic. Sequels: Dragon Kiss; A
Prince among Frogs, 2010.
Baker, E. D. The Wide-Awake Princess. Bloomsbury, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
A younger sister to a princess destined to be Sleeping Beauty, Princess Annie
remains awake when her older sister pricks her finger, an act that causes all within
the castle to fall asleep, and compels Annie to venture through a rose-covered hedge
to find a spell-breaking prince.
Baker, E. D. Fairy Lies. Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2/2012. (Gr. 6-9) FAN
The fairy princess Tamisin has been kidnapped from her home in the human world
by Oberon, king of the fairies, who thinks he's her father. When Tamisin's
boyfriend Jak finds out, he sets off to rescue her. In this funny and heartwarming
romp through a land of fairies, goblins, sphinxes, unicorns, and many more,
Tamisin and Jak try to regain their romance even as they find their way back to the
human world. Previous title: Fairy Wings, 2009.
Baker, Kage. The Bird of the River. Tor, 2010. (A/YA) FAN
Sharp-eyed orphan Eliss and her half-brother make a new home on a river barge
and clash with a teen assassin amid an escalating series of pirate attacks on riverside
cities. Previous titles: The House of the Stag, 2009; The Anvil of the World, 2010.
Balog, Cyn. Sleepless. Delecorte, 2010. (Gr. 8+) PARANORMAL
Communicating supernaturally in dreams shared with human charges he seduces
into sleep, Eron experiences a forbidden attraction to Julia, whose sad dreams
reveal the tragic death of her boyfriend and remind Eron of his own lost mortal life.
Balog, Cyn. Starstruck. Delacorte, 2011. (Gr. 7+) PARANORMAL
Gwendolyn "Dough" X doesn't think she has much going for her—she carries a few
extra pounds, her family struggles with their small bakery and the other kids at her
New Jersey high school don't seem to know that she exists. Thank the stars for her
longtime boyfriend, Philip P. Wishman—or "Wish." He moved away to California
three years ago, when they were 13, but then professed his love for her via e-mail,
and he's been her long-distance BF ever since. At the beginning of her junior year,
though, Wish e-mails that he's moving back to Jersey. But when she sees Wish at
school, something amazing happens. He looks at Dough like she's just as gorgeous as
he is. But Wish is acting a little weird, obsessed with the sun and freaked out by
rain. And the creepy new guy working at the bakery, Christian, is convinced that
there's more to Wish's good looks than just healthy eating and lots of sun. He tells
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Dough that a mark on Wish's neck marks him as a member of the Luminati—an
ancient cult of astrologers who can manipulate the stars to improve their lives. Is
Wish and Dough's love meant to be—or are they star-crossed?
Barker, Clive. Absolute Midnight. Harpercollins, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr. 8+)
FAN
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, is the only person who can stop
the evil Mater Motley who, now that the hour of midnight has come, is prepared to
unleash the end of the world. Previous titles in The Books of Abarat: Abarat, 2002;
Days of Magic, Nights of War, 2004.
Barnes, Jennifer Lynn. Raised by Wolves. Egmont, 2010. (Gr. 9+)
SUPERNATURAL
A girl raised by werewolves must face the horrors of her past to uncover the dark
secrets that the pack has worked so hard to hide. Sequel: Trial by Fire, 2011.
Barnhouse, Rebecca. The Coming of the Dragon. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 5-8)
FAN
Rune, an orphaned young man raised among strangers, tries to save the kingdom
from a dragon that is burning the countryside and, along the way, learns that he is a
kinsman of Beowulf. Companion novel: Peaceweaver, forthcoming 3/2012.
Barron, T. A. Merlin’s Dragon. Philomel, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Basil, a small, flying lizard who is searching for others like himself, discovers that
there is more to him than he knows, as he becomes engaged in Avalon's great war
between the evil Rhita Gawr and the forces of good. Sequels: Doomraga's Revenge,
2009; Ultimate Magic, 2010.
Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson. The Bridge to Never Land. Hyperion, 2011.
Aidan and Sarah cooper have no idea what they're getting into one afternoon when
they discover a mysterious coded document in a secret compartment of an antique
English desk their father recently bought at an auction. Something about the
document seems familiar to Sarah, and that night she realizes what it is: the
document seems to be referring to some books she has read-the Starcatchers series,
about the origin of Peter Pan. But how could that be? The document seems far older
than the books. And of course, the books are just stories. Curious, Sarah and Aidan
begin to decipher the mysterious document. At first it's a game-unraveling the
mystery piece by piece, each piece leading them to a new, deeper puzzle. But soon
the game turns strange-and scary. Pursued by a being that can take any form and
will stop at nothing to get what it wants from them, Aidan and Sarah embark on a
desperate, thrilling quest for help-a quest that leads them to some unforgettable
people in some unlikely places, including one that's not supposed to exist at all.
Basye, Dale E. Fibble : The Fourth Circle of Heck. Random House, 2011. (Gr. 4-8)
FAN
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When goth teen Marlo wakes up in Fibble, the part of Heck that is reserved for
liars, she is disgusted to find that she is in her younger brother Milton's body.
Previous titles: Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go, 2008; Rapacia: The Second Circle of
Heck, 2009; Blimpo: The Third Circle of Heck, 2010.
Bauer, A. C. E. Come Fall. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Drawn together by a mentoring program and an unusual crow, middle school
misfits Salman, Lu, and Blos form a strong friendship despite teasing by fellow
students and the maneuverings of fairies Oberon, Titania, and Puck.
Bearn, Emily. Tumtum and Nutmeg. Little Brown, 2009. (Gr. 4-6) FAN
Wealthy, married mice Tumtum and Nutmeg find adventure when they secretly try
to help two human siblings who live in a tumbledown cottage with their absentminded inventor father. Sequel: The Rose Cottage Tales, 2010.
Bedford, Martyn. Flip. Wendy Lamb Books, 2011. (Gr. 7+) PARANORMAL
One December night, 14-year-old Alex goes to bed. He wakes up to find himself in
the wrong bedroom, in an unfamiliar house, in a different part of the country, and
it's the middle of June. Six months have disappeared overnight. The family at the
breakfast table are total strangers. And when he looks in the mirror, another boy's
face stares back at him. A boy named Flip. Unless Alex finds out what's happened
and how to get back to his own life, he may be trapped forever inside a body that
belongs to someone else.
Bell, Hilari. The Last Knight. Eos, 2007. (Gr. 7 +) FAN
In alternate chapters, eighteen-year-old Sir Michael Sevenson, an anachronistic
knight errant, and seventeen-year-old Fisk, his street-wise squire, tell of their noble
quest to bring Lady Ceciel to justice while trying to solve her husband’s murder.
Sequels: Rogue’s Home, 2008; and The Player’s Ruse, 2010.
Bell, Hilari. Trickster’s Girl. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. (Gr. 7+) FAN
In the year 2098, grieving her father and angry with her mother, fifteen-year-old
Kelsa joins the magical Raven on an epic journey from Utah to Alaska to heal the
earth by restoring the flow of magic that humans have disrupted. Sequel: Traitor’s
Son, forthcoming 3/2012.
Bell, Hilari. The Goblin Gate. Harperteen, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Jeriah uncovers a web of political intrigue while trying to obtain a spell from Master
Lazur that might allow him to rescue his brother Tobin from the Otherworld, where
he was taken by the beguiling hedgewitch Makenna and her legion of goblins.
Sequel to: Goblin Wood, 2003.
Bergren, Lisa Tawn. Waterfall. David C. Cook, 2011. (Gr. 7+) FAN
American teen Gabi Bertarrini, spending yet another boring summer in Tuscany
with her sister and parents, famed Etruscan scholars, finds life getting a lot more
exciting when she places her hand on top of a hand print in an ancient tomb and is
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transported to fourteenth-century Italy where she is rescued from a fierce battle
between warring knights by Prince Marcello Falassi, who takes her back to his
father's castle-- which she has seen in ruins in her modern-day life. Sequels in The
River of Time Series: Cascade, 2011; Torrent, 2011.
Berkeley, Jon. The Hidden Boy. Katherine Tegen Books, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
When Bea and her family are transported aboard an underwater bus to a strange
land, her younger brother Theo is lost during the voyage, and somehow it falls to
Bea to find out what has become of him. First in The Bell Hoot Fables series.
Sequel: The Sleeper’s Moon, forthcoming 10/2011.
Bernobich, Beth. The Fox and the Phoenix. Viking, forthcoming 10/2011. (Gr. 8+)
FAN
Sixteen-year-old Kai, a magician's apprentice and former street tough, must travel
to the Phoenix Empire, where his friend Princess Lian is studying statecraft, and
help her escape so she can return home before her father, the king, dies.
Berry, Julie. Secondhand Charm. Bloomsbury, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
On her journey to the royal university to become a doctor, fifteen-year-old Evie,
wearing potent gypsy charms, learns of her monstrous inheritance.
Bick, Ilsa J. Ashes. Egmont, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr. 10+) SF
An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device,
wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions. Alex hiked into the
woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons. Now desperate
to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the ground, Alex meets up
with Tom—a young soldier—and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the
EMP.
Billingsley, Franny. Chime. Dial, 2011. (Gr. 8+) FAN
In the early twentieth century in Swansea, Wales, seventeen-year-old Briony, who
can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for
her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes
secrets that even Briony does not know about.
Black, Holly. The White Cat. The Curse Workers #1. Margaret K. McElderry, 2010.
(Gr. 9+) FAN
Rendered an outsider because of his dubious family of magical con artists, Cassel
struggles with lingering guilt over his role in a friend's death years earlier and
begins experiencing bizarre dreams about a white cat that make him question his
dead friend's actual fate. Sequels: Red Glove, 2011; Black Heart, forthcoming
4/2012.
Black, Jenna. Shadowspell: A Faeriewalker Novel. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011. (Gr.
9+) FAN
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Faeriewalker Dana Hathaway, already in hiding from the Faerie Queen and her
assassins, finds her life even more restricted when Arawn, the Erlking, arrives in
Avalon, the only place on Earth where humans and Fae live together, and makes his
interest in Dana obvious. Sequel: Sirensong, 2011.
Black, Kat. The Book of Tormond 1: A Templar's Apprentice. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr.
6+) FAN
While trying to harness his power for prophetic visions, a fourteenth-century
Scottish boy joins a Templar knight on his sacred quest to unearth an ancient relic.
Sequel: The Templar’s Gifts, 2011.
Block, Francesca Lia. The Frenzy. HarperTeen, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL
When she was thirteen, something terrifying and mysterious happened to Liv that
she still does not understand, and now, four years later, her dark secret threatens to
tear her apart from her family and her true love.
Blubaugh, Penny. Blood and Flowers. HarperTeen, 2011. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Three years ago, Persia ran away from her drug-addict parents and found a home
with the Outlaws, an underground theater troupe. This motley band of mortals and
fey, puppeteers and actors, becomes the loving family Persia never had, and soon
Persia not only discovers a passion for theater but also falls in love with Nicholas,
one of the other Outlaws.
Booraem, Ellen. Small Persons with Wings. Dial, 2011. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Adopting a strictly scientific approach to life after being teased for her belief in
fairies, Mellie learns that her family comes from a long line of fairy guardians, but
their position is compromised when the fairies want their magic back, a powerhungry enchantress in disguise wants to steal it and Mellie is transformed into a
frog.
Bow, Erin. Plain Kate. Arthur A. Levine, 2010.
Living in a magical world of talking cats and shadows that can bring back the dead,
wood-carver's daughter Kate uses talismans to discover secrets and is accused of
witchcraft when a bizarre sickness spreads across the countryside, a situation that
prompts her to make a dangerous pact with a desperate man.
Boyce, Frank Cottrell. Cosmic. Walden Pond Press, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) SF
Frequently mistaken for an adult because of his mature appearance, 12-year-old
Liam tires of the few benefits he's been able to take advantage of as a result and
cons his way onto a spaceship for civilians by pretending to be an adult chaperone, a
situation that lands him between worlds far from home.
Bracken, Alexandra. Brightly Woven. Egmont, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Sixteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabel, an unusually talented weaver and the village
elder's daughter, must master her mysterious power and join a young wizard,
Wayland North, to prevent an imminent war in their kingdom.
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Breitrose, Prudence. Mousenet. Hyperion, forthcoming 10/2011. (Gr. 4-6) SF
Sent to live with her chef father and his wife in Oregon after having stayed with her
inventor uncle and scientist mother in Cincinnati, ten-year-old misfit Megan is
lonely until she starts working with some computer-savvy mice to try to save Mouse
Nation--and the planet.
Brennan, Herbie. The Faeman Quest. Bloomsbury, 2011. (Gr.7+) FAN
Stubborn and feisty Mella, the daughter of Lord Henry and Queen Holly Blue, has
the power to determine the fate of both the faerie and "analogue" worlds when she
travels to the country of Haleklind and discovers rebel forces preparing for war.
Previous titles in The Faerie Wars Chronicles: Faerie Wars, 2003; The Purple
Emperor, 2004; Ruler of the Realm, 2006; Faerie Lord, 2007.
Brennan, Herbie. The Doomsday Box : A Shadow Project Adventure. Balzer + Bray,
2011. (Gr. 6-9) SF
Working on a highly-classified espionage project, four English teenagers go back in
time to the Cold War in 1962 to prevent a global outbreak of the bubonic plague in
the twenty-first century.
Brennan, Sarah Rees. Demon’s Lexicon. Margaret K. McElderry, 2009. (Gr. 9+)
FAN
Aware that deadly magicians are plotting to take back a charm that was stolen by
his mother, Nick turns to his brother, Alan, for help in keeping the demons away,
but when he uncovers dark secrets about his family, Nick's trust in Alan is shaken
to the core in the midst of their most dangerous mission. Sequels: The Demon’s
Covenant, 2010 and The Demon’s Surrender, 2011.
Brewer, Heather. Twelfth Grade Kills. Dutton, 2010. (Gr. 7+) SUPERNATURAL
The Council of Elders, having been informed that Tomas still lives, puts off Vlad's
execution, providing Vlad the opportunity to try to set some things right. Previous
titles in The Chronicles of Vlad Tod: #1 Eighth Grade Bites, 2007; #2 Ninth Grade
Slays, 2008; #3 Tenth Grade Bleeds, 2009; #4 Eleventh Grade Burns, 2010.
Brewer, Heather. First Kill. Dial, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr. 7+) PARANORMAL
The summer before ninth grade, when Joss sets off to meet his uncle and hunt down
the beast that murdered his younger sister three years earlier, he learns he is
destined to join the Slayer Society.
Briceland, V. The Glass Maker’s Daughter. Flux, 2009. (Gr. 10+) FAN
Sixteen-year-old Risa's disappointment over an unprecedented event is devastating,
but the evil and destruction that follows the king's death show her that the god and
goddess have special need of her talents and those of her new, lower-class friends.
Sequels: The Buccaneer's Apprentice, 2010 and The Nascenza Conspiracy, 2011.
Brodien-Jones, Christine. The Owl Keeper. Delacorte, 2010. (Gr. 5-9) FAN
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Loving his grandmother's story about a pre-Destruction protector who once united
sages and extinct silver owls against the powers of the dark, Maxwell Unger is
challenged to be brave and protect an important secret when a mysterious girl
comes to town.
Buckley, Michael. Tales from the Hood. Abrams, 2008. (Gr. 4-6) FAN
When the fairy-tale detectives rush to New York City hoping to find an Everafter
who can cure Puck, they trigger a chain of events that includes a murder mystery,
and learn many new things about their mother who, along with their father, is still
in an enchanted sleep. Previous titles in the Sisters Grimm series: #1 The Fairy-Tale
Detectives, 2005; #2 The Unusual Suspects, 2005; #3 The Problem Child, 2006; #4
Once upon a Crime, 2007; #5 Magic and Other Misdemeanors, 2007. Sequels: #7
The Everafter War, 2009; #8 The Inside Story, 2010.
Buckley, Michael. NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society.
Amulet, 2009. (Gr. 4-6) SF
While running a spy network from their elementary school, five unpopular misfits
combine their enhanced abilities and use cutting-edge gadgetry to fight evil around
the world. Sequels: M Is for Mama’s Boy, 2010; The Cheerleaders of Doom,
forthcoming 9/2011.
Bullen, Alexandra. Wish: A Novel. Point, 2010. (Gr. 9+) PARANORMAL
After her vivacious twin sister dies, a shy teenaged girl moves with her parents to
San Francisco, where she meets a magical seamstress who grants her one wish.
Companion novel: Wishful Thinking, Point, 2011.
Bunce, Elizabeth. Starcrossed. Arthur A. Levine, 2010. (Gr. 8+) FAN
In a kingdom dominated by religious intolerance, Digger, a street thief, has always
avoided attention, but when she learns that her friends are plotting against the
throne she must decide whether to join them or turn them in. Sequel: Liar’s Moon,
forthcoming 11/2011
Burgis, Stephanie. Kat, Incorrigible. Atheneum, 2011. (Gr. 5-9) FAN
Destined to be a magical Guardian of Society in 19th-century England, 12-year-old
Kat struggles to gain acceptance from a rigid Order of the Guardians that expelled
her mother, an effort that is challenged by a determination to help her sisters.
Sequel: Renegade Magic, forthcoming 4/2012.
Butcher, Jim. Small Favor: The Dresden Files, Book 10. Roc, 2008. (A/YA) FAN
Chicago wizard Harry Dresden's calm life is interrupted when Mab, monarch of the
Winter Court of the Sidhe, decides to call in the favor that Harry owes her, sending
him on a quest that leaves him trapped between a deadly foe and an untrustworthy
ally. Previous titles: : #1 Storm Front, 2000; #2 Fool Moon, 1/01; #3 Grave Peril,
9/01; #4 Summer Knight, 2002; #5 Death Masks, 2003; #6 Blood Rites, 2004; #7
Dead Beat, 2005; #8 Proven Guilty, 2006; #9 White Night, 2007; #11 Summer Knight,
2009; #12 Death Masks, 2009. #13 Mean Streets: Four Novellas Featuring Harry
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Dresden, John Taylor, HarperBlaine, and Remy Chandle,. 2010; #14 Ghost Story,
2011.
Burtenshaw, Jenna. Shadowcry. Greenwillow, 2011. (Gr. 7-9) FAN
Pursued by two ruthless men of the High Council of Albiom, fifteen-year-old Kate
Winters discovers that she is one of the Skilled, a rare person who can see through
the veil between the living and the dead.
Bush, Penelope. Alice in Time. Holiday House, 2011. (Gr. 7-10) FAN
As her self-centered behavior spirals out of control, fourteen-year-old Alice gets an
unusual chance to fix her whole disastrous life when she is mysteriously spirited
back in time.
Cabot, Meg. Airhead. Point, 2008. (Gr. 7+) SF
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for
fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed
into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels. Sequels: Being Nikki, 2009;
Runaway, 2010.
Cabot, Meg. Insatiable. William Morrow, 2010. (A/YA) PARANORMAL
Soap opera writer Meena Harper has the ability to foresee how people are going to
die, but this precognition only works on other people, not Meena herself, leaving her
vulnerable once she begins to fall in love with a vampire. Sequel: Overbite, 2011.
Cabot, Meg. Abandon. Point, 2011. (Gr. 8+) PARANORMAL
A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from
Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down,
but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding
her of her visit to the Underworld.
Caine, Rachel. The Morganville Vampires: #1 Glass Houses. Signet, 2006. (Gr. 10+)
PARANORMAL
In Morganville, Texas, a small college town where evil terrorizes the streets under
the cover of darkness, Claire Danvers discovers that her new roommates are
vampires and all hell breaks loose as the living party with the dead. Sequels:
#2 The Dead Girls’ Dance, 2007; #3 Midnight Alley, 2007; #4 Feast of Fools, 2008; #5
Lord of Misrule, 2009; #6 Carpe Corpus, 2009; #7 Fade Out, 2009; #8 Kiss of Death,
2010; #9 Ghost Town, 2010; #10 Bite Club, 2011; # 11 Last Breath, forthcoming
11/2011.
Campbell, Chelsea. The Rise of Renegade X. Egmont, 2010. (Gr. 9+) SF
Expecting to become a supervillain on his 16th birthday, Damien Locke, son of one
of Golden City's most notorious supervillains, is horrified to discover that he may
instead be destined to become a superhero.
Cann, Kate. Possessed. Point, 2010. (Gr. 10+) PARANORMAL
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Rayne escapes London for a job in the country at Morton's Keep, where she is
drawn to a mysterious clique and its leader, St. John, but puzzles over whether the
growing evil she senses is from the manor house or her new friends. Sequel:
Consumed, 2011.
Catanese. P. W. Happenstance Found. Aladdin, 2009.
A boy awakens, blindfolded, with no memory of even his name, but soon meets Lord
Umber, an adventurer and inventor, who calls him Happenstance and tells him that
he has a very important destiny--and a powerful enemy. Sequels in The Books of
Umber series: Dragon Games, 2010; The End of Time, 2011.
Card, Orson Scott. Pathfinder. Simon & Schuster, 2010. (Gr. 7+) SF
This series follows Rigg's quest to save his world from destruction and uncover the
truth behind the Tender's prophecy. Sequel: Ruins, forthcoming 3/2012.
Card, Orson Scott. The Lost Gate: A Novel of the Mither Mages. Tor, 2010. (A/YA)
FAN
Danny grew up in a family compound in Virginia, believing that he alone of his
family had no magical power. But he was wrong. Kidnapped from his high school
by a rival family, he learns that he has the power to reopen the gates between Earth
and the world of Westil.
Card, Orson Scott Ruins. Simon Pulse, forthcoming 3/2012. (Gr.7+) SF
Rigg is a teenager who possesses a secret talent that allows him to see the paths of
people’s pasts. Rigg’s only confidant is his father, whose sudden death leaves Rigg
completely alone, aside from a sister he’s never met. But a chance encounter with
Umbo, another teen with a special talent, reveals a startling new aspect to Rigg’s
abilities, compelling him to reevaluate everything he’s ever known. Rigg and Umbo
join forces and embark on a quest to find Rigg’s sister and discover the true depth
and significance of their powers. Because although the pair can change the past, the
future is anything but certain….
Carey, Janet Lee. The Dragons of Noor. Egmont, 2010. (Gr. 8+) FAN
Seven hundred years after the days of the dragon wars, magic again is stirring and
three teenagers join forces to help bind the broken kingdoms of Noor and
Otherworld.
Carey, Janet Lee. Dragonwood. Dial, forthcoming 1/2012. (Gr. 7+) FAN
In 1192 A.D. on Wilde Island, Tess, the daughter of a cruel blacksmith, is accused of
witchcraft and must flee, but when she meets a handsome and enigmatic warden of
Dragonswood who offers her shelter, she does not realize that he too harbors a
secret that may finally bring about peace among the races of dragon, human, and
fairy.
Carroll, Michael. Super Human. Philomel, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SF
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A ragtag group of young superheroes takes on a powerful warrior who is
transported from 4,000 years in the past to enslave the modern world. Sequel: The
Ascension, 2011.
Carson, Rae. The Girl of Fire and Thorns. Greenwillow, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr.
8+) FAN
Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness. Elisa is the chosen one.
But she is also the younger of two princesses. The one who has never done anything
remarkable, and can’t see how she ever will.
Cast, P. C. and Kristin Cast. The House of the Night 7: Burned. St. Martin’s, 2010.
(Gr. 10+) SUPERNATURAL
As Zoey's fate hangs in the balance, her friends must figure out how to bring her
back from the Otherworld while coping with serious problems of their own.
Previous titles: #1 Marked, 2007; #2 Betrayed, 2007; #3 Chosen, 2008; #4 Untamed,
2008; #5 Hunted, 2009; #6 Tempted, 2009. Sequels: Dragon’s Oath, 2011 and
Destined, forthcoming 9/2011.
Chadda, Sarwat. Devil’s Kiss. Hyperion, 2009. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL
Fifteen-year-old Billi SanGreal has grown up knowing that being a member of the
Knights Templar puts her in danger, but if she is to save London from catastrophe
she must make sacrifices greater than she imagined. Sequel: Dark Goddess, 2011.
Charlton, Blake. Spellwright. Tor, 2010. (A/YA) FAN
Nicodemus is a young, gifted wizard with a problem. Magic in his world requires the
caster to create spells by writing out the text . . . but he has always been dyslexic,
and thus has trouble casting even the simplest of spells. And his misspells could
prove dangerous, even deadly, should he make a mistake in an important
incantation. Sequel: Spellbound, 2011.
Chick, Bryan. Secrets and Shadows. The Secret Zoo #2. Greenwillow, 2011. (Gr. 47) FAN [Sequel: Riddles and Danger]
Noah and his friends in the Secret Society join forces with four teens known as the
Descenders to try to protect the Secret Zoo hidden below the Clarksville City Zoo
from monstrous sasquatches and the evil Shadow Master. Previous title: The Secret
Zoo, 2010. Sequel: Riddles and Danger, forthcoming 9/2011.
Childs, Tera Lynn. Oh My Gods. Dutton, 2008. (Gr. 9+) FAN
When her mother marries a man from Greece and moves the family onto an island
in the Aegean Sea, Phoebe's life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that
her new classmates at her exclusive academy are all descendants of real Greek gods-and her very real competition on the track team! Sequels: Goddess Bootcamp,
2009 and Sweet Venom, forthcoming 10/2011.
Chima, Cinda Williams. The Demon King. Hyperion, 2009. (Gr. 8+) FAN
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Relates the intertwining fates of former street gang leader Han Alister and
headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of an amulet that once belonged
to an evil wizard and Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court. Sequels
in the Seven Realms series: The Exiled Queen, 2010 and The Grey Wolf Throne,
forthcoming 9/2011.
Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones. McElderry, 2007. (Gr. 8+) FAN
In her first meeting with the Shadowhunters, a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to
ridding the earth of demons, Clary must come to terms with her recently revealed
gift of the Sight while dealing with her brother's near-death encounter with a demon
and the sudden disappearance of her mother. Sequels: # 2 City of Ashes, 2008; # 3
City of Glass, 2009; # 4 City of Fallen Angels, 2011; #5 City of Lost Souls,
forthcoming 5/2012. (Companion Series: The Infernal Devices: #1 The Clockwork
Angel, 2010; # 2 Clockwork Prince, forthcoming 12/2011.)
Clayton, Emma. The Whisper. Chicken House, forthcoming 2/2012. (Gr. 7+) SF
Telepathic twins Mika and Ellie at last are reunited. But if they're ever to free the
brainwashed, microchipped child soldiers, they must pretend to play along with the
tyrant Mal Gorman's maniacal plan, even as they mind-read his every evil thought.
Members of an elite squadron of mutants, the brother and sister have specialized
skills that will enable them to steal the top-secret formula for an age-reversing drug
developed by rebel scientists on the wild side of The Wall. Juiced by these potent
pills, the cadaver-like Gorman foresees a future in which he'll be forever young released from the machinery that now supports him. Unless, that is, Ellie and Mika
have a master plan of their own: to bring the all-powerful Gorman to his knees, and
face-to-face with his greatest fear. Previous title: The Roar! 2009.
Clement-Moore, Rosemary. Texas Gothic. Delacorte, 2011. (Gr. 8+) Paranormal
Seventeen-year-old Amy Goodnight has long been the one who makes her family of
witches seem somewhat normal to others, but while spending a summer with her
sister caring for their aunt's farm, Amy becomes the center of weirdness when she
becomes tied to a powerful ghost.
Cole, Steve. Z. Rex. Philomel, 2009. (Gr. 8+) SF
From Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Edinburgh, Scotland, thirteen-year-old Adam Adlar
must elude police while being hunted by a dinosaur come-to-life from a virtual
reality game invented by his father, who has gone missing. Sequel: Z. Raptor, 2011.
Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox. Hyperion, 2008. (Gr. 6-9) FAN
Once again, Artemis will have to pair up with his old comrade, Captain Holly Short,
to track down a missing demon and rescue him before the time spell dissolves and
the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth. Previous titles in the Artemis Fowl
series: #1 Artemis Fowl, 2001; #2 Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, 2002; #3
Artemis Fowl: The Hyperion Code, 2003; #4 Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception,
2005; #5 Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, 2006. Newest title: Artemis Fowl: The
Atlantis Complex, 2010.
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Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr. 7+)
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and
Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their
families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the
faces of an impending rebellion. Previous title: Hunger Games, 2008. Sequel:
Mockingjay, 2010.
Condie, Allyson. Matched. Dutton, 2010. (Gr. 10+) SF
Cassie has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for him, but when it
comes to choosing her match could they have gotten it wrong? Sequel: Crossed,
11/2011.
Cornish, D. M. Lamplighter. Putnam, 2008. (Gr. 7+) FAN
As Rosamund starts his life as a lamplighter on the Wormway, he continues his fight
against monsters, making friends and enemies along the way, but questions about
his origins continue to plague him. Previous title in The Monster Blood Tattoo
series: Foundling, 2006. Sequel: Factotum, 2010.
Coville, Bruce. Darks Whispers. Scholastic, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Seeking to unravel the secret of the long enmity between unicorns and delvers, Cara
travels through a strange underground world to the court of the centaur king, while
on Earth, Beloved and her hunters make final plans to jump to the fantasy land of
Luster and drive the unicorns to extinction. Previous titles in The Unicorn
Chronicles: #1 Into the Land of the Unicorns, 1994; #2 The Song of the Wanderer,
1999. Sequel: The Last Hunt, 2010.
Cowell, Cressida. How to Twist a Dragon’s Tail. Little Brown, 2008. (Gr. 3-5) FAN
When his best friend Fishlegs is stricken with Vorpentitis, Hiccup Horrendous
Haddock III must outwit Sharkworms, Doomfangs, and Hooligans to find a potato-the rare cure for this deadly disease. Previous titles in The Heroic Misadventures of
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III: #1 How to Train Your Dragon, 2004; #2 How to Be
a Pirate, 2005; #3 How to Speak Dragonese, 2006; How to Cheat a Dragon’s Curse,
2007. Sequels: A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons, 2009; How to Ride a Dragon’s
Storm, 2010; How to Break a Dragon’s Heart, forthcoming 11/2011.
Crilley Paul. The Invisible Order: Rise of the Darklings. Egmont, 2010. (Gr. 5-8)
After saving a piskie's life, twelve-year-old Emily Snow finds herself in the middle of
a centuries-old war between rival fairy factions and a secret society named The
Invisible Order. Sequel: The Fire King, forthcoming 9/2011.
Cremer, Andrea. Wolfsbane. (Sequel to Nightshade) Philomel, 2011. (Gr. 9+)
Paranormal
Alpha wolf Calla Tor wakes up in the Searchers's lair, her sworn enemy, but they
give her the opportunity to save her pack and the man she left behind if she
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promises to destroy her former masters. Previous title: Nightshade, 2010. Sequel:
Bloodrose, forthcoming 1/2012.
Cronin, Justin. The Passage. Ballantine, 2010. (A/YA) SF
A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous
product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper
Bellafonte can stop.
Cypess, Leah. Mistwood. HarperCollins, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Brought back from the Mistwood to protect the royal family, a girl who has no
memory of being a shape-shifter encounters political and magical intrigue as she
struggles with her growing feelings for the prince. Companion novel: Nightspell,
2011.
Dakin, Glenn. The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance. Egmont, 2009. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Thirteen-year-old Theo, who has lived in seclusion his entire life, discovers he is the
descendant of the Candle Man, a Victorian vigilante with the ability to melt
criminals with a single touch. Sequel: Candle Man: The Society of Dread, 2010.
Dale, Anna. The Magical Misfit. Bloomsbury, 2011. (Gr. 4-6) FAN
Mr. Hardbattle, aided by his friends Miss Quint and resourceful thirteen-year-old
Arthur, seeks a new place for all of the magic that has gone out of control and taken
over his bookshop and home.
Dashner, James. Maze Runner. Delacorte, 2009. (Gr. 6+) SF
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name.
His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds
himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse
surrounded by stone walls. No one knows why or how they got there but every 30
days a new boy arrives. Then the first girl arrives and more surprising yet is the
message she delivers. Sequels: The Scorch Trial, 2010; The Death Cure,
forthcoming 10/2011.
Davis, Heather. The Clearing. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. (Gr. 9+)
SUPERNATURAL
Amy, a sixteen-year-old girl recovering from an abusive relationship, moves to the
country in Washington to live with her great-aunt, and there she discovers a
mysterious clearing in the woods where she meets Henry, a boy stuck in the summer
of 1944.
Davis, Heather. Wherever You Go. Harcourt, forthcoming 11/2011.
SUPERNATURAL
Seventeen-year-old Holly Mullen, overwhelmed with responsibility at home,
grieving over her boyfriend Rob's tragic death, and confused by the sudden
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attention of his best friend, Jason, is further upset when her Alzheimer's-stricken
Papa Aldo claims to be having conversations with Rob's ghost.
De La Cruz, Melissa. Masquerade. Hyperion, 2007. (Gr. 9+) PARANORMAL
Searching for the truth surrounding the mysterious deaths of young Blue Bloods,
Schuyler Van Alen journeys to Venice, Italy, to get help, while back in New York, a
young vampire discovers his true destiny at an after-party masquerade where
danger lurks behind every mask. Sequel to: Blue Bloods, 2006. Sequels: #3
Revelations, 2008; #4 The Van Alen Legacy, 2009; #5 Keys to the Repository, 2010; #6
Lost in Time, forthcoming 9/2011.
Deebs, Tracy. Tempest Rising. Walker, 2011. (Gr. 8-11) FAN
On her seventeenth birthday, Tempest must decide whether to remain a human and
live on land or submit to her mermaid half, like her mother before her, and enter
into a long-running war under the sea.
Deedy, Carmen Agra & Randall Wright. The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a
Tale. Peachtree, 2011. (Gr. 5-7) FAN
A community of mice and a cheese-loving cat form an unlikely alliance at London's
Cheshire Cheese, an inn where Charles Dickens finds inspiration and Queen
Victoria makes an unexpected appearance.
Delaney, Joseph. The Attack of the Fiend. Greenwillow, 2008. (Gr. 6-9) FAN
When three of the most powerful witches unite to unleash an unimaginable evil,
Tom Ward and Mr. Gregory set out to stop them while dealing with the contents of
Tom's family's trunks, which could either save them or plunge them into further
danger. Previous titles in The Last Apprentice series: #1 Revenge of the Witch, 2005;
#2 The Curse of the Bane, 2006; #3 The Night of the Soul Stealer, 2007; #5 The
Wrath of the Bloodeye, 2008; #6 The Clash of the Demons, 2009; #7 Rise of the
Huntress, 2010; #8 Rage of the Fallen, forthcoming 4/2012.
De Lint, Charles. The Painted Boy. Viking, 2010. (Gr. 8+) FAN
High-schooler Jay Li finds himself in the Arizona desert performing dangerous feats
as part of his journey to prove himself a worthy member of the part human, part
dragon Yellow Dragon Clan.
Delsol, Wendy. Stork. Candlewick, 2010. (Gr. 10+) SUPERNATURAL
After her parents' divorce, Katla and her mother move from Los Angeles to Norse
Falls, Minnesota, where Kat immediately alienates two boys at her high school and,
improbably, discovers a kinship with a mysterious group of elderly women--the
Icelandic Stork Society--who "deliver souls." Sequel: Frost, forthcoming 10/2011.
Derting, Kimberly. The Body Finder. HarperTeen, 2010. (Gr. 9+)
PARANORMAL
High school junior Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their
victims to try to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing her town, and although her
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best friend and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her safe, she becomes a
target. Sequels: Desires of the Dead, 2011; The Last Echo, 4/2012.
Despain, Bree. The Dark Divine. Egmont, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL
Grace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend-practically a brother--returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her
family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small
Minnesota town. Sequel: The Saving Grace, 12/2011.
Destefano, Lauren. Wither. Simon & Schuster, 2011. (Gr. 9+) SF
By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern
science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left
all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years.
Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate
orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls
are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children. Sequel
in the Chemical Garden Trilogy: Fever, forthcoming 2/2012.
Diamand, Emily. Raiders’ Ransom. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr. 5-8) SF
In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the
piratical Reavers kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly
Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a
mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom.
Sequel: Flood and Fire, 2011.
DiTerlizzi, Tony. The Search for WondLa. Simon & Schuster, 2010. (Gr. 4-6) SF
Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with
bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a
journey to find others like her. Features "augmented reality" pages, in which
readers with a webcam can access additional information about Eva Nine's world.
Dixon, Heather. Entwined. Greenwillow, 2011. (Gr. 7-10) FAN
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess
Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic
passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.
D'Lacey, Chris. Fire Eternal. Scholastic, 2008. (Gr. 7+) FAN
As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons
awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of bestselling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world
from theforces of evil. Previous titles in the Last Dragon Chronicles: #1 The Fire
Within, 2005; #2 Icefire, 2006; #3 Firestar, 2007. Sequels: #5 Dark Fire, 2010; #6
Fire World, 2011.
D’Lacey, Chris. The Dragons of Wayward Crescent: # 1 Gruffen. Orchard, 2009.
(Gr. 4-6). FAN
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Lucy thinks there is a monster lurking outside her bedroom window, so her mother
makes a dragon out of clay to protect her while she sleeps. Sequel: Gauge, 2010.
Doctorow, Cory. For the Win. Tor Teen, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SF
Four teenagers, each of whom is a talented player of massively-multiplayer online
games, become involved in the difficulties that threaten to tear the world of virtual
gaming reality apart--all are involved in a conspiracy to crash the world economy of
all the virtual worlds at once, a Ponzi scheme combined with a brilliant hack that
ends up being the biggest and most entertaining game of all.
Dokey, Cameron. The World Above. Simon Pulse, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
When her twin brother, Jack, disappears after scaling a magical beanstalk in an
effort to reclaim their destitute family's riches, Gen enters the mysterious "Land
Above" and confronts a dangerous giant, in a reimagining of the classic tale, "Jack
and the Beanstalk."
Dolamore, Jaclyn. Between the Sea and Sky. Bloomsbury, forthcoming 10/2011.
(Gr. 8+) FAN
Esmerine, a mermaid, grows close to her childhood playmate Alander, a winged
man, when they join forces to find her sister Dosia, who has reportedly eloped with
a human despite the sisters' vow to always keep the sea and its people first in their
hearts.
Dolamore, Jaclyn. Magic Under Stone. Bloomsbury, forthcoming 4/2012. (Gr. 8+)
FAN
For star-crossed lovers Nimira and Erris, there can be no happily ever after until
Erris is freed from the clockwork form in which his soul is trapped. And so they go
in search of the sorcerer Ordoria Valdana, hoping he will know how to grant Erris
real life again. When they learn that Valdana has mysteriously vanished, it's not
long before Nimira decides to take matters into her own hands-and begins to study
the sorcerer's spell books in secret. Yet even as she begins to understand the power
and limitations of sorcery, it becomes clear that freeing Erris will bring danger-if
not out-and-out war-as factions within the faerie world are prepared to stop at
nothing to prevent him from regaining the throne.
Dowell. Frances O'Roark. Falling In. Atheneum, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet and falls into a
parallel universe where the children believe she is the witch they have feared for
years, finally come to devour them.
Duane, Diane. A Wizard of Mars. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Joining an elite team to investigate the mysterious "message in a bottle" that holds
clues to the long-lost inhabitants of Mars, Kit and Nita are astonished when a life
form from another era emerges from the bottle and reveals a Martian plan for
interplanetary war. Previous titles in the Young Wizards series: #1 So You Want to
Be a Wizard, 1983; #2 Deep Wizardry, 1985; #3 High Wizardry, 1990; #4 A Wizard
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Abroad, 1993; #5 The Wizard’s Dilemma, 2001; #6 A Wizard Alone, 2002 ; #7
Wizard’s Holiday, 2003; #8 Wizards at War, 2005.
Duane, Diane. Omnitopia Dawn. Daw, 2010. (A/YA) SF
Dev Logan, the genius programmer responsible for a popular, massive multiplayer
online game, Omnitopia, guards a secret about his invention--it is no longer simply a
program, it has become sentient. Sequel: Omnitopia East Wind, forthcoming
8/2011.
Dunmore, Helen. The Tide Knot. Harpercollins, 2008. (Gr. 5-9) FAN
As they search for their missing father near their Cornwall home, Sapphy and her
brother Conor learn about their family's connection to the domains of air and of
water. Sequel to: Ingo, 2006. Sequels: The Deep, 2009 and The Crossing of Ingo,
2011.
Dunkle, Clare B. The House of Dead Maids. Holt, 2010. (Gr. 8+) PARANORMAL
Eleven-year-old Tabby Aykroyd, who would later serve as housekeeper for thirty
years to the Brèonte sisters, is taken from an orphanage to a ghost-filled house,
where she and a wild young boy are needed for a pagan ritual.
Durst, Sarah Beth. Enchanted Ivy. Margaret K. McElderry, 2010. (Gr. 8+) FAN
Meeting a powerful alumni group that promises her entry into Princeton University
if she can pass a secret test, 16-year-old Lily discovers a magical, alternate-world
Princeton and is placed at the fateful center of a power struggle between both
worlds.
Durst, Sarah Beth. Drink, Slay, Love. Margaret K. McElderry, forthcoming 9/2011.
(Gr. 8 +) SUPERNATURAL
What happens when a vampire is stabbed through the heart by a were-unicorn? She
suddenly develops a very inconvenient conscience.
Ephron, Delia. The Girl with the Mermaid Hair. HarperTeen, 2010. (Gr. 7-10) FAN
A vain teenage girl is obsessed with beauty and perfection until she uncovers a
devastating family secret.
Fagan, Deva The Magical Misadventures of Prunella Bogthistle. Holt, 2010. (Gr. 46+) FAN
The personal quests of a young witch who aspires to be a villain and a young thief
who is determined to become a hero intersect in a swampy bog.
Fagan, Deva. Circus Galacticus. Harcourt, forthcoming 11/2011. (Gr. 7+) SF
Trix can deal with being an orphan charity case at a snotty boarding school. She can
hold her own when everyone else tells her not to dream big dreams. She can even
fight back against the mysterious stranger in a silver mask who tries to steal the
meteorite her parents trusted her to protect.
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Falkner, Brian. Brain Jack. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SF
Las Vegas is gone—destroyed in a terrorist attack. Black Hawk helicopters patrol
the skies over New York City. And immersive online gaming is the most dangerous
street drug around. In this dystopic near-future, technology has leapt forward once
again, and neuro-headsets have replaced computer keyboards. Just slip on a
headset, and it’s the Internet at the speed of thought.
Falls, Kat. Dark Life. Scholastic, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) SF
Working on his family's undersea farm all his life, Ty is challenged to thwart a band
of outlaws who the government claims is destroying underwater territories, an effort
for which he teams up with a Topside girl who is searching for her prospector
brother. Sequel: Rip Tide, forthcoming 8/2011.
Fantaskey, Beth. Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side. Harcourt, 2009. (Gr.
7+) SUPERNATURAL
Jessica, who was adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended
from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire
prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her. Sequel: Jessica
Rules the Dark Side, forthcoming 1/2012.
Fantaskey, Beth. Jekel Loves Hyde. Harcourt, 2010. (Gr. 10+) PARANORMAL
As seventeen-year-old Jill Jekel and classmate Tristen Hyde work together on a
chemistry project, hoping to win a scholarship for her and a cure for his curse, they
also uncover family secrets and a chemistry of their own.
Feasey, Steve. Wereling. Feiwel & Friends 2010. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL
Fourteen-year-old Trey Laporte?s ordinary life is wrenched apart when he
discovers that he is the last hereditary werewolf and that the most evil bloodthirsty
vampire known to the netherworld wants him dead. Sequels: Dark Moon, 2011;
Blood Wolf, forthcoming 12/2011.
Ferraiolo, Jack. Sidekicks. Amulet, 2011. (Gr. 7-10) FAN
Scott Hutchinson, aka Bright Boy, the sidekick of Phantom Justice, begins to
question how long he can remain in the shadow of the superhero after discovering
that his nemesis, supervillain sidekick Monkeywrench, might be one of the most
popular kids at his school.
Fforde, Jasper. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing. Viking, 2011. (A/YA) FAN/SF
It is fourteen years since Thursday Next pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and the
Special Operations Network has been disbanded. Using Swindon's Acme Carpets as
a front, Thursday and her colleagues Bowden, Stig and Spike continue their same
professions, but illegally (from the website: www.thursdaynext.com). Previous
titles: #1 The Eyre Affair, 2002; #2 Lost in a Good Book, 2003; #3 The Well of Lost
Plots, 2004; and #4 Something Rotten, 2004; #5 Thursday Next: First Among Sequels,
2007.
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Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron. Dial, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the
Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a
young prisoner escape. Sequel: Sapphique, 2010.
Fisher, Catherine. The Dark City. Dial, 2011. (Gr. 6+) FAN
Sixteen-year-old Raffi, Master Galen, and a mysterious traveler, Carys, enter the
ruined city of Tasceron seeking a relic that may save the world, while evading the
Watch, a brutal organization opposed to the Order to which Raffi and Galen
belong. Sequels in the Relic Master series: The Lost Heiress, 2011; The Hidden
Coronet, 2011; The Margrave, 2011.
Fitzpatrick, Becca. Hush, Hush. Simon & Schuster, 2009. (Gr. 8+)
SUPERNATURAL
High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but
when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is
mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the
school counselor, and her own instincts. Sequels: Crecendo, 2010; Silence,
forthcoming 10/2011.
Flanagan, John. The Battle for Skandia (#4). Philomel, 2008. (Gr. 5-9) FAN
After Ranger's apprentice Will battles Temujai warriors to rescue Evanlyn, Will's
kingdom of Skandia joins forces with rival kingdom Araluen to defeat a common
enemy. Previous titles in the Ranger’s Apprentice series: #1 The Ruins of Gorlan,
2005; #2 The Burning Bridge, 2006; #3 The Icebound Land, 2007; Sequels: #5 The
Sorcerer of the North, 2008; #6 Erak’s Ransom, 2010; #7 The Kings of Clonmel, 2010;
#8 Halt’s Peril, 2010; #9 The Emperor of Nihon-Ja, 2011; #10 The Outcasts,
forthcoming 11/2011.
Fletcher, Susan. Ancient, Strange, and Lovely. Atheneum, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Fourteen-year-old Bryn must try to find a way to save a baby dragon from a
dangerous modern world that seems to have no place for something so
ancient. Previous titles in The Dragon Chronicles: Dragon’s Milk, 1989; Flight of
the Dragon Kyn, 1991; Sign of the Dove, 1996.
Flinn, Alex. Cloaked. Harperteen, 2011. (Gr. 6-9+) FAN
Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop
in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her
brother who was turned into a frog.
Flinn, Alex. Bewitching: The Kendra Chronicles. Harperteen, forthcoming 2/2012.
(Gr. 8+) FAN
Friesner, Esther. Spirit’s Princess. Random House, forthcoming 4/2012.
Himiko the beloved daughter of a chieftain in third century Japan has always been
special. The day she was born there was a devastating earthquake, and the tribe's
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shamaness had an amazing vision revealing the young girl's future—one day this
privledged child will be the spiritual and tribal leader over all of the tribes. Book
One revolves around the events of Himiko's early teen years—her shaman lessons,
friendships, contact with other tribes, and journey to save her family after a series
of tragic events.
Funke, Cornelia. Reckless. Little Brown, 2010. (Gr. 6+) FAN
Jacob and Will Reckless have looked out for each other ever since their father
disappeared, but when Jacob discovers a magical mirror that transports him to a
warring world populated by witches, giants, and ogres, he keeps it to himself until
Will follows him one day, with dire consequences.
Garcia, Kami and Margaret Stohl. Beautiful Creatures. Little Brown, 2009. (Gr.
9+) FAN
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil
War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with
whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may
be revealed on her sixteenth birthday. Sequels: Beautiful Darkness, 2010; Beautiful
Chaos, forthcoming 10/2011.
Gardner, Lyn. Into the Woods, David Fickling Books, 2007.
When their parents die and the three sisters are put under the care of the sinister
Dr. DeWilde, Storm, Aurora, and Anything flee into the wood in the hopes of
finding a better life, but dangerous encounters with kidnappers and hungry wolves
make their trek to find a place to call home more treacherous than they could have
ever imagined. Sequel: Out of the Woods, 2010.
Gensler, Sonia. The Revenant. Knopf, 2011. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Willie, having accepted a teaching job at the Cherokee Female Seminary under the
name of a classmate, begins to question her belief in ghosts and is forced to face her
past when strange things start happening at the school and she hears students
discussing the death of a girl who is rumored to haunt the room in which Willie is
staying.
George, Jessica Day. Tuesdays at the Castle. Bloomsbury, forthcoming 10/2011.
(Gr. 4-6) FAN
Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. That's because on
Tuesdays the castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes even an entire wing. No
one ever knows what the castle will do next, and no one-other than Celie, that istakes the time to map out the new additions. But when King and Queen Glower are
ambushed and their fate is unknown, it's up to Celie, with her secret knowledge of
the castle's never-ending twists and turns, to protect their home and save their
kingdom.
George, Jessica Day. Princess of the Midnight Ball. Bloomsbury, 2009. (Gr. 6+)
FAN
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As one of the princesses forced to dance every night at the midnight balls for the
King Under Stone, Rose and her soldier, Galen, work together to break the evil
curse--using a magic invisibility cloak and their true love to fight their foes in the
dark halls in which she has been imprisoned. Companion novel: Princess of Glass,
2010.
Ghislain, Gary. How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend. Chronicle Books, 2011.
(Gr. 9+) SF
David, the son of a famous psychologist, falls in love with Zelda, a new patient who
believes she is from outer space, and soon they are tearing through Paris in search
of Johnny Depp, so that she can take him to her home planet.
Gidwitz, Adam. A Tale Dark & Grimm. Dutton, 2010. (Gr. 4-6) FAN
Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more
tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers
and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes,
Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom,
and The devil and his three golden hairs.
Gier, Kerstin. Ruby Red (Ruby Red Trilogy #1) Henry Holt, 2011. (Gr. 7-10) FAN
Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth Shepherd unexpectedly travels through time to the
eighteenth century, and she must find out why her mother lied about her date of
birth to hide her ability, research her history, and work with Gideon, another time
traveler.
Gill, David. Black Hole Sun. Greenwillow, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SF
On the planet Mars, 16-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by
the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a
feral band of marauders
Goodman, Alison. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn. Viking, 2008. (Gr. 8+) FAN
Living a secret life as boy named Eon in order to gain knowledge in the ancient art
of Dragon Magic in the hopes of one day becoming a Dragoneye, sixteen-year-old
Eona gets her chance to demonstrate her skills at the Imperial Court and discovers
a dangerous enemy, Lord Ido, in her midst. Sequel: Eona, 2011.
Golding, Julia. The Silver Sea. Marshall Cavendish, 2010. (Gr. 8+) FAN
When pirates raid a village in ninth-century Norway, eighteen-year-old Toki is
captured as a prize, while Freydis, his younger sister, is taken to a friendly village
where she and her African slave, Enno, learn that their fates are linked by
prophecy.
Golden, Christopher and Tim Lebbon. The Wild. (The Secret Journeys of Jack
London Book 1) HarperCollins, 2011. (Gr. 8+) PARANORMAL
Seventeen-year-old Jack London makes the arduous journey to the Yukon's gold
fields in 1893, becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces in the
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wilderness that seem to have taken a special interest in him. Sequel: The Sea
Wolves, forthcoming 3/2012.
Gordon, Roderick. Tunnels. Chicken House, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
When his father goes missing and he begins to delve into an archaeological dig to
uncover clues, Will Burrows discovers a strange subterranean society where
enslaved citizens live under the control of a cruel sect and so now must convince
some of them to begin a revolt in order to free themselves and his father in the
process. Sequels: Deeper, 2009; Freefall, 2010; Closer, 2011.
Goto, Hiromi. Half World. Viking, 2010. (Gr. 6+) PARANORMAL
The human daughter of parents from the Half World, a limbo between Earth and
the afterlife, Melanie Tamaki is forced to follow her missing mother to Half World,
from which neither may return alive.
Grabenstein, Chris. The Crossroads. Random House, 2008. (Gr. 6+)
SUPERNATURAL
When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new
stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well
as another kind of ghost from Zack's past. Sequels: The Hanging Hill, 2010; The
Black Heart Crypt, forcoming 8/2011.
Grant, Michael. Hunger. Katherine Tegen Books, 2009. (Gr. 7+) SF
Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal
town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the
Darkness underground awakens. Previous title: Gone, 2008. Sequels: Lies, 2010;
Plague, 2011; Fear, forthcoming 4/2012.
Grant, Michael. The Magnificent 12: The Call. Katherine Tegen Books, 2010. (Gr.
6+) FAN
A seemingly average twelve-year-old learns that he is destined to gather a team of
similarly gifted children to try to save the world from a nameless evil, which is
threatening to reappear after having been imprisoned for three thousand years.
Sequel: The Trap, forthcoming 8/2011.
Grant, Sara. Dark Parties. Little Brown, 2011. (Gr. 8+) SF
Sixteen-year-old Neva, born and raised under the electrified Protectosphere that
was built when civilization collapsed in violent warfare, puts her friends, family, and
life at risk when she tries to find out if their world is built on a complex series of lies
and deceptions.
Gratton, Tessa. Blood Magic. Random House, 2011. (Gr. 10+) FAN
In Yaleylah, Missouri, teens Silla and Nick, drawn together by loss and a shared
family history of blood magic practitioners, are plunged into a world of dark magic
as they try to unravel the mystery of Silla's parents' apparent murder-suicide.
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Gray, Claudia. Evernight. Harperteen, 2008. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds
herself drawn to another outsider, Lucas, but dark forces threaten to tear them
apart and destroy Bianca's entire world. Sequels: Stargazer, 2009; Hourglass, 2010;
Afterlife, 2011.
Griffo, Michael. Unnatural: An Archangel Academy Novel. Kensington, 2011. (Gr.
9+) Paranormal
Michael Howard finally feels like he fits in after being moved from his hometown in
Nebraska to attend Archangel Academy in northwestern England, but when he
learns that his friend Ronan is a vampire, he realizes it is only the beginning of the
secrets that exist in this new place.
Griffin, Adele. Tighter. Knopf, 2011. (Gr. 9+) Paranormal
Based on Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw," tells the story of Jamie
Atkinson's summer spent as a nanny in a small Rhode Island beach town, where she
begins to fear that the estate may be haunted, especially after she learns of two
deaths that occurred there the previous summer.
Guibord, Maurissa. Warped. Delacorte, 2011. (Gr. 8+) FAN
When seventeen-year-old Tessa Brody comes into possession of an ancient unicorn
tapestry, she is plummeted into sixteenth-century England, where her life is
intertwined with that of a handsome nobleman who is desperately trying to escape a
terrible fate.
Haarsma, P. J. Softwire: Wormhole Pirates on Orbis 3. Candlewick, 2009. (Gr. 5-8)
SF
At the start of their third rotation of service, Johnny Turnbull, his sister Ketheria,
and friends face pirates who seem to know Johnny and want him to deliver a
mysterious message. Previous titles: #1 Virus on Orbis 1, 2006; #2 Betrayal on Orbis
2, 2008. Sequel: #4 Awakening on Orbis 4, 2010.
Haberdasher, Violet. Knightley Academy. Aladdin, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
In an alternate Victorian England, fourteen-year-old orphan Henry Grim, a
maltreated servant at an exclusive school for the "sons of Gentry and Quality,"
begins a new life when he unexpectedly becomes the first commoner to be accepted
at Knightley Academy, a prestigious boarding school for knights. Sequel: The
Secret Prince, 2011.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Found. Simon & Schuster, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) SF
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were
discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on
board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and
two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time. Sequels: Sent, 2009;
Sabotaged, 2010; Torn, forthcoming 8/2011.
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson. The Always War. Simon & Schuster, forthcoming
11/2011. (Gr. 7+) SF
In a war-torn future United States, fifteen-year-old Tessa, her childhood friend
Gideon, now a traumatized military hero, and Dek, a streetwise orphan, enter
enemy territory and discover the shocking truth about a war that began more than
seventy-five years earlier.
Hahn, Mary Downing. The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall. Clarion, 2010. (Gr. 4-6)
SUPERNATURAL
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London
orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she
soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
Hale, Dean and Shannon Hale. Rapunzel’s Revenge. Bloomsbury, 2008. (Gr.7+)
FAN
Using her long, braided hair as a lasso, Rapunzel teams up with a wild outlaw
named Jack and heads west to start a brand new life filled with grand adventures
and crazy characters in this colorful graphic novel. Sequel: Calamity Jack, 2010.
Hall, Teri. The Line. Dial, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) SF
In a futuristic United States enclosed within an invisible barrier reputed to shut out
bizarre creatures and superhumans who were transformed by an enemy weapon,
Rachel receives a mysterious cry for help from the other side of the barrier that
forces her to make a difficult choice. Sequel: Away, forthcoming 9/2011.
Hamilton, Kersten. Tyger Tyger: A Goblin Wars Book. Clarion, 2010. (Gr. 7+)
FAN
Soon after the mysterious and alluring Finn arrives at her family's home, sixteenyear-old Teagan Wylltson and her disabled brother are drawn into the battle Finn's
family has fought since the thirteenth century, when Fionn MacCumhaill angered
the goblin king. Sequel: In the Forest of the Night, forthcoming 10/2011.
Hand, Elizabeth. Wonderwall. Viking, 2010. (Gr. 10+) FAN
After Meredith's girlfriend commits suicide, she abandons art school and goes home
to Washington, D.C., intending to kill herself, but a chance street encounter leads
her to create a painting that acts as a magical passage through which the young,
nineteenth-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud emerges, and both their lives are
changed. Sequel: Radiant Days, forthcoming 4/2012.
Hand, Elizabeth. Illyria. Viking, 2010. (Gr. 9+) SUPERNATURAL
Sharing twin souls and a first love, cousins Madeleine and Rogan, the descendants
of a famous actress, are cast in a school production of Twelfth Night that forces
them to confront their respective strengths and future prospects.
Hardinge, Frances. Fly Trap. Harpercollins, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
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Adventurous orphan Mosca Mye, her savage goose, Saracen, and their sometimesloyal companion, Eponymous Clent, become embroiled in the intrigues of Toll, a
town that changes entirely as day turns to night. Sequel to: Fly by Night, 2006.
Hardy, Janice. The Shifter. Blazer & Bray, 2009. (Gr. 8+) FAN
Nya, a 15-year-old war orphan, becomes a pawn in a bigger political game when her
uncanny--and dangerous--ability to draw out people's pain and transfer it to
someone else turns out to be the only weapon she has to save her sister. Sequels:
Blue Fire, 2010; Darkfall, forthcoming 10/2011.
Harland, Richard. Worldshaker. Simon & Schuster, 2010. (Gr. 6+) SF
Col Porpentine is being groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a
juggernaut where elite families live on the upper decks while the Filthies toil below,
but when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl, he discovers how ignorant he is. Sequel:
Liberator, 2012.
Harrington, Kim. Clarity. Point, 2011. (Gr. 8+) Paranormal
Sixteen-year-old Clare Fern, a member of a family of psychics, helps the mayor and
a skeptical detective solve a murder in a Cape Cod town during the height of tourist
season--with her brother a prime suspect. Sequel: Perception, forthcoming 3/2012.
Harris, Carrie. Bad Taste in Boys. Delacorte, 2011. (Gr. 7+) Paranormal
Future physician Kate Grable is horrified when her high school's football coach
gives team members steroids, but the drugs turn players into zombies and Kate
must find an antidote before the flesh-eating monsters get to her or her friends.
Harrison, Kim. Something Deadly This Way Comes . HarperCollins, 2011. (Gr. 9+)
Paranormal
Technically dead seventeen-year-old Madison must choose between reclaiming her
body and continuing as Dark Timekeeper, struggling in the war between Light and
Dark reapers while trying to change the rules. Previous titles in the Madison Avery
series: Once Dead, Twice Shy, 2009; Early to Death, Early to Rise, 2010.
Harrison, Lisi. Monster High. Poppy, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL
Frankie Stein was created in a laboratory, and when she enters Mount Hood High
School camouflaged as a "normi," all she wants is to fit in, but it takes the help of
another new student who believes that everyone should be treated equally before
Frankie even has a chance. Sequels: The Ghoul Next Door, 2011; Where There’s a
Wolf, There’s a Way, forthcoming 9/2011.
Harrison, Mette Ivie. The Princess and the Hound. Eos, 2007. (Gr. 7+) FAN
This lovely romantic fantasy is set against the backdrop of a world where animal
magic is considered evil and its practioners persecuted. Prince George hides his
animal magic as he travels to a rival kingdom to court Princess Beatrice. She is stiff
and proud; her huge hound is warm and loving. Both have secrets which must be
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revealed for true love to flourish. Sequels: The Princess and the Bear, 2009; The
Princess and the Snowbird, 2010.
Harrison, Mette Ivie. Tris and Izzie. Egmont, 10/2011. (Gr. 8+) FAN
Harrison, Michelle. 13 Treasures. Little Brown, 2009. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Bedeviled by evil fairies that only she can see, thirteen-year-old Tanya is sent to stay
with her cold and distant grandmother at Elvesden Manor, where she and the
caretaker's son solve a disturbing mystery that leads them to the discovery that
Tanya's life is in danger. Sequel: 13 Curses, 2011.
Hautman, Pete. The Obsidian Blade. Candlewick, forthcoming 4/2012. (Gr. 9+) SF
Harvey, Alyxandra. Hearts at Stake: Drake Chronicles, 1. Walker, 2010. (Gr. 8+)
SUPERNATURAL
As her momentous sixteenth birthday approaches, Solange Drake, the only born
female vampire in 900 years, is protected by her large family of brothers and her
human best friend Lucy from increasingly persistent attempts on her life by the
powerful vampire queen and her followers. Sequels: Blood Feud, 2010; Out for
Blood, 2010; Bleeding Hearts, forthcoming 1/2012.
Harvery, Alyxanda. Haunting Violet. Walker, 2011. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL
Sixteen-year-old Violet Willoughby has been part of her mother's Spiritualist scam
since she was nine, but during an 1872 house party in Hampshire, England, she is
horrified to learn that she can actually see ghosts, one of whom wants Violet to solve
her murder.
Hawkins, Rachel. Hex Hall #1. Hyperion, 2010. (Gr. 7+) PARANORMAL
After a prom-night spell goes badly wrong, witch Sophie Mercer is exiled to an
isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, supernaturally gifted teenagers,
where she learns that an unknown predator has been attacking students. Sequels:
Demonglass, 2011; Spellbound, forthcoming 3/2012.
Hawthorne, Rachel. Dark Guardian: #1 Moonlight. Hyperion, 2009. (Gr. 7+)
PARANORMAL
Waiting for the moment when Kayla discovers her hidden power of being able to
turn into a wolf, Lucas keeps his distance from her until the time is right to reveal
the special bond they share and the dangers he knows they shall soon face in the
days ahead. Sequels: #2 Full Moon, 2009; #3 Dark of the Moon, 2009; #4 Shadow of
the Moon, 2010.
Hayter, Rhonda. The Witchy Worries of Abbie Adams. Dial, 2010. (Gr. 4-6) FAN
Fifth-grader Abbie, descended from a long line of witches, tries to keep her family's
magic powers secret from everyone she knows until her father brings home a kitten
with some very unusual characteristics.
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Healey, Karen. Guardian of the Dead. Little Brown, 2010. (Gr. 9+)
PARANORMAL
Eighteen-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her
rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of
creatures from Maori myth and legend that is plotting to kill millions of humans in
order to regain their lost immortality.
Henderson, Jason. Vampire Rising. Harperteen, 2010. (Gr. 7+) PARANORMAL
At a boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex Van Helsing learns that
vampires are real, that he has a natural ability to sense them, and that an agency
called the Polidorium has been helping his family fight them since 1821. Sequel:
Voice of the Undead, 2011.
Hennesy, Carolyn. Pandora Gets Jealous. Bloomsbury, 2008. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Thirteen-year-old Pandy is hauled before Zeus and given six months to gather all of
the evils that were released when the box she brought to school as her annual
project was accidentally opened. Sequels: Pandora Gets Vain, 2008; Pandora Gets
Lazy, 2009; Pandora Gets Heart, 2010; Pandora Gets Angry, 2011.
Higgins, F. E. The Lunatic Curse. Feiwel & Friends, 2011. (Gr. 6+) FAN
The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its
rumored monster. On an island at the center of the lake is an asylum; no one has
ever escaped it. So how will Rex, whose father, Ambrose Grammaticus, has been
imprisoned there under false pretenses, prove that Ambrose is not insane? Previous
titles: The Black Book of Secrets, 2007; The Bone Magician, 2008; The Eyeball
Collector, 2009.
Hobb, Robin. Dragon Keeper. Eos, 2010. (A/YA) FAN
Trader's wife Alise and 16-year-old Thymara must join the caravan traveling up the
toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild River, with the aim of relocating weakened
dragons from outside their home town of Cassarick to the long-lost city of
Kelsingra. Sequels: Dragon Haven, 2010; City of Dragons, forthcoming 2/2012.
Hoffman, Alice. Green Witch. Scholastic, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
A year after her world was nearly destroyed, Green has become the one villagers
turn to for aid, but Green will need the help of other women who are believed to be
witches if she is to find her best friend and her one true love. Sequel to: Green
Angel, 2003. Sequel: Green Heart, forthcoming 2/2012.
Hoffman, Mary. City of Secrets. Bloomsbury, 2008. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Seventeen-year-old Matt, painfully dyslexic and insecure, discovers that he can
travel between worlds after being transported to Talia, where he joins Luciano and
other Stravaganti in trying to prevent the di Chimici family's breakthrough into our
world. Previous titles in the Stravaganza series: #1 City of Masks, 2002; #2 City of
Stars, 2003; #3 City of Flowers, 2005. Sequel: # 5 City of Ships, 2010.
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Hoffman, Nina Kiriki. Thresholds. Viking, 2010. (Gr. 8+) FAN/SF
Relocating with her family to a new home in Oregon, Maya is astonished to discover
that the kids in a nearby apartment building perform magic and use portals to visit
other worlds, a situation that is complicated by a need for secrecy and Maya's
efforts to safeguard an alien. Sequel: Meeting, forthcoming 8/2011.
Holt, K. A. Brains for Lunch: A Zombie Novel in Haiku. Roaring Brook, 2010. (Gr.
5-8) PARANORMAL
At a middle school where zombies, blood-sucking chupacabras, and humans never
mingle, "lifer" Siobhan and Loeb, a zombie who likes to write haiku, share an
attraction. Story written entirely in haiku.
Holt, Simon. The Devouring. Little Brown, 2008. (Gr. 10+) PARANORMAL
The existence of Vours, supernatural creatures who feast on fear and attack on the
eve of the winter solstice, becomes a terrifying reality for fifteen-year-old Reggie
when she begins to suspect that her timid younger brother might be one of their
victims. Sequels: Soulstice, 2009; Fearscape, 2010.
Hopkinson, Nalo. The Chaos. Margaret K. McElderry, forthcoming 4/2012. (Gr.
9+) SF
Toronto sixteen-year-old Scotch may have to acknowledge her own limitations and
come to terms with her mixed Jamaican, white, and black heritage if she is to stop
the Chaos that has claimed her brother and made much of the world crazy.
Howell, Troy. The Dragon of Cripple Creek. Amulet Books, 2011. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
When Kat, her father, and brother visit an old gold mine that has been turned into
an amusement park, she falls down a shaft and meets an ancient dragon, the last of
his kind, and inadvertently triggers a twenty-first century gold rush.
Hubbard, Mandy. Ripple. Razorbill, 2011. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Lexi is cursed by the siren's song and, after having to kill the last boy she loved, has
cut herself off from making friends or falling in love, until one boy manages to
break down the walls she has built around her heart, but when Lexi is offered a
chance to live a normal life if she only gives him up, she must decide if it is worth the
cost.
Hudson, Tara. Hereafter. HarperTeen, 2011. (Gr. 7-9) Paranormal
Amelia, long a ghost, forms a strong bond with eighteen-year-old Joshua, who
nearly drowned where she did and who awakens in her long-forgotten senses and
memories even as Eli, a spirit, tries to draw her away.
Hughes, Mark Peter. A Crack in the Sky. Random House, 2010. (Gr.5-8) SF
In a post-apocalyptic world, thirteen-year-old Eli, part of the most powerful family
in the world, keeps noticing problems with the operations of his domed city but his
family denies them, while in the surrounding desert, the Outsiders struggle to
survive while awaiting a prophesied savior.
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Humphreys, C. C. The Hunt of the Unicorn. Knopf, 2011. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Despite strange dreams and her ailing father's firm belief in the family lore of a
long-ago ancestor's connection to the mythical unicorn, Elayne, a fifteen- year-old
New Yorker, remains skeptical until, a school visit to the unicorn tapestries in the
Cloisters leads her into a tumultuous world where she must fulfill the legacy of her
ancestors by taming a unicorn and bringing a tyrant to justice.
Hunter, Erin. Warriors: Omen of the Stars: The Fourth Apprentice. Harpercollins,
2009. (Gr. 5-8)
A mysterious prophecy has been foretold--an omen that will change the warrior
Clans forever--but in order to pave the path, three young cats must delve deeply
into their Clan's past. Sequels: Fading Echoes, 2010; Night Whispers, 2010; Sign of
the Moon, 2011.
Hunter, Erin. Seeker. Harpercollins, 2008. (Gr. 6-9). FAN
Taken away from their families when they were young cubs, a black bear, a polar
bear, and grizzly bear are suddenly brought together to complete a dangerous quest
in the hopes of figuring out where their true destiny lies after so many years away
from the ones they love. Sequels: Great Bear Lake, 2009; Smoke Mountain, 2009;
Last Wilderness, 2010; Fire in the Sky, 2010; Spirits in the Stars, 2011.
Hurd, Thacher. Bongo Fishing. Henry Holt, 2011. (Gr. 4-7) SF
Berkeley, California, middle-schooler Jason Jameson has a close encounter of the
fun kind when Sam, a bluish alien from the Pleiades, arrives in a 1960 Dodge Dart
spaceship and invites Jason to go fishing.
Hurley, Tonya. Ghostgirl. Little Brown, 2008. (Gr. 9+) PARANORMAL
Having been unpopular and practically invisible by those around her when she was
alive, Charlotte Usher's world changes dramatically after she suddenly dies and
ends up as a ghost lingering in a place somewhere between the living and the dead.
Sequels: Homecoming, 2009; Lovesick, 2010.
Jacques, Brian. Doomwyte. Philomel, 2008. (Gr. 5+) FAN
The Redwallers face some of their most dangerous villains yet in a treacherous hunt
for long-lost treasure. Previous titles: #1 Redwall, 1986; #2 Mossflower, 1988; #3
Mattimeo, 1990; #4 Mariel of Redwall, 1992; #5 Salamandastron, 1993; #6 Martin the
Warrior, 1994; #7 The Bellmaker, 1995; #8 Outcast of Redwall, 1996; #9 The Pearl’s
of Lutra, 1997; #10 The Long Patrol, 1998; #11 Marlfox, 1998; #12 The Legend of
Luke, 1999; #13 Lord Brocktree, 2000; #14 Taggerung: a Tale from Redwall, 2001;
#15 Triss, 2002; #16 Loamhedge, 2003; #17 High Rhulian, 2005; #18 Eulalia! 2007.
Sequels: The Sable Queen, 2010; The Rogue Crew, 2011.
Jennewein, James. Runewarriors: Dane and the Shield of Odin. Laura Geringer
Books, 2008. (Gr. 7+) FAN
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In an ancient and mystical time, fourteen-year-old Dane joins forces with his rival,
Jarl the Fair, to retrieve the Shield of Odin and Astrid, the girl they love, from the
tyrant Thidrick, fulfilling a destiny long foretold. Sequels: Sword of Doom, 2010;
Ship of the Dead, 2011.
Jinks, Catherine. Evil Genius. Harcourt, 2007. (Gr. 7+) SF
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true
identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
Sequels: Genius Squad, 2008; Genius Wars, 2010.
Jinks, Catherine. The Reformed Vampire Support Group. Harcourt, 2009. (Gr. 7+)
PARANORMAL
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support
group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of
them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime. Companion novel:
The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group, 2011.
Johnson, Christine. Claire De Lune. SimonPulse, 2010. (Gr. 9+) PARANORMAL
Astonished to discover she is the latest in a line of female werewolves, 16-year-old
Claire hides her lupine identity from her boyfriend, whose father is a werewolf
hunter, and resolves to help her pack defeat a human-killing rogue werewolf.
Sequel: Nocturne, forthcoming 8/2011.
Jones, Carrie. Need. Bloomsbury, 2008. (Gr. 10+) FAN
When her family falls apart and she is sent to live with her grandmother in a rural
town in Maine, Zara begins to feel as though she may be able to start life anew-until a stalking pixie with bad intentions makes himself known and causes chaos in
her emotionally fragile world. Sequels: Captivate, 2010; Entice, 2010.
Jones, Carrie. After Obsession. Bloomsbury, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr. 10)
PARANORMAL
When Alan, a half-Navajo in touch with the spiritual mysticism of his ancestors,
meets Aimee, a gifted psychic in his new high school, they realize they've had
precognitive dreams of each other and that they must confront an evil spirit that has
been responsible for mysterious deaths in the river in their small Maine town for
hundreds of years and which is now haunting Alan's cousin Courtney.
Jones, Diana Wynne. Enchanted Glass. Harpercollins, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in
an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan
shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start
intruding on their lives.
Jones, Frewin. The Faerie Path. Eos, 2007. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Anita, an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl, is transported from modern-day London to
the realm of Faerie where she discovers that she is Princess Tania, the long-lost
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daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania. Sequels: #2 The Lost Queen, 2007; #3
The Sorcerer King, 2008; #4 The Immortal Realm, 2009; #5 The Enchanted Quest,
2010; #6 The Charmed Return, 2011.
Jones, Frewin. Warrior Princess: The Emerald Flame. Harperteen, 2010. (Gr. 7+)
FAN
Branwen has accepted the role of Chosen One, and now, with a growing army
including her half-owl half-human friend Rhodri and the dashing yet maddening
Iwan, she must overcome terrifying odds if she is to succeed in saving Wales from
the Saxon invaders.
Kade, Stacey. Queen of the Dead. Hyperion, 2011. (Gr. 8+) Paranormal
Will gets involved with The Order, a group consisting of ghost-talkers like himself,
as he continues to help spirits into the light, while Alona, his vain, self-centered, and
cranky spirit guide begins to learn the value of helping others. Previous title: The
Ghost and the Goth, 2010.
Karr, Julia. XVI. Speak, 2011. (Gr. 9+) SF
At fifteen, Nina Oberon lives in a totalitarian future society in which all girls are
required to get a Governing Council-ordered "XVI" wrist tattoo on their sixteenth
birthdays, announcing to the world that they are ready for sex, a claim Nina is not
prepared to make, and when her mother is attacked right before Nina's birthday,
she reveals a shocking truth with her dying breaths and Nina is left to care for her
younger sister and try to discover who she really is, all the while staying one step
ahead of her mother's killer.
Kate, Lauren. Passion. Random House, 2011. (Gr. 7+) Paranormal
Reveals background information about the lives of Luce and her fallen angel
boyfriend, Daniel, and provides insight into centuries' worth of dangerous love.
Previous titles: Fallen, 2009; Torment, 2010. Newest title: Fallen in Love,
forthcoming 1/2012.
Kay, Guy Gavriel. Under Heaven. Roc, 2010. (A/YA) FAN
Shen Tai, a general serving the Emperor of Kitai, receives 250 Sardian horses, an
unthinkable gift fit to overwhelm an emperor, and travels to claim the horses in
person.
Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Invincible. Griffin, 2011. (Gr. 9+) Paranormal
Teenager Nick Gautier, having survived a zombie attack, deals with a principal who
does not like him, a coach who is trying to recruit him, and a girl with secrets, while
struggling to raise the dead before his soul is claimed by demons and shape-shifters.
Previous title in The Chronicles of Nick: Infinity, 2010. Sequel: Infamous,
forthcoming 3/2012.
Kerr, P. B. The Day of the Djinn Warriors. Orchard, 2008. (Gr. 6+) FAN
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While traveling around the globe in order to rescue their mother from the Blue
Djinn of Babylon, twins John and Philippa discover that an evil force has put a spell
on a battalion of terra-cotta warriors created by a Chinese emperor and now must
find a way to put their planned reign of destruction in check before the entire world
is ruined forever. Previous titles in The Children of the Lamp series: #1 The
Akhenaten Adventure, 2004; #2 The Blue Djinn of Babylon, 2006; #3 The King Cobra
of Kathmando, 2007; #4 The Day of the Djinn Warrior, 2008; #5 The Eye of the
Forest, 2009; #6 The Five Fakirs of Faizabad, 2010; #7 The Grave Robbers of Genghis
Khan, forthcoming 11/2011.
Kessler, Liz. Philippa Fisher’s Fairy Godsister. Candlewick, 2008. (Gr.4-6) FAN
This is the story of two girls, one of whom happens to be a fairy. Sequels: Philippa
Fisher and the Dream-Maker’s Daughter, 2009; Philippa Fisher and the Stone
Fairy's Promise, 2010.
Kessler, Liz. A Year without Autumn. Candlewick, forthcoming 10/2011. (Gr. 6+)
SF
Twelve-year-old Jenni's much-anticipated vacation with her family and best friend
Autumn goes awry when an old elevator transports her to a future in which
everything has changed, and she must not only return to her time but find a way to
prevent what she has seen from coming true.
Kiernan, Celine. The Poison Throne. Orbit, 2010. (A/YA) FAN
Fifteen-year-old Wynter Moorehawke faces a terrible choice: bow to the king's will
while tending to her ailing father; or risk assassination, torture and imprisonment
to join her friend Razi and the mysterious Christopher Garron in their efforts to
restore the kingdom to its former stability. Sequels: The Crowded Shadows, 2010;
The Rebel Prince, 2010.
Kimmel, Elizabeth. Suddenly Supernatural: School Spirit. Little Brown, 2008. (Gr.
4-6) SUPERNATURAL
Like her mother, a professional medium, Kat has been able to see dead people since
turning thirteen, and although they would prefer to be normal, Kat and her best
friend come to terms with their own talents while helping free the spirit of a girl
trapped at their middle school. Sequels: Scaredy Kat, 2009; Unhappy Medium,
2009; Crossing Over, 2010.
Kirby, Matthew J. Icefall. Scholastic, forthcoming 10/2011.
Princess Solveig and her siblings are trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between
towering mountains and a frozen fjord, along with her best friend and an army of
restless soldiers, all awaiting news of the king's victory in battle, but as they wait for
winter's end and the all-encompassing ice to break, acts of treachery make it clear
that a traitor lurks in their midst.
Kirk, Daniel. Elf Realm. Abrams, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
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When Matt and his family move to a new development, they stumble into the middle
of massive upheaval in the Fairy world, and as the elves' territory disintegrates and
dark factions try to seize control, an apprentice mage sees in Matt the key to saving
the realms from destruction. When Matt and his family move to a new development,
they stumble into the middle of massive upheaval in the Fairy world, and as the
elves' territory disintegrates and dark factions try to seize control, an apprentice
mage sees in Matt the key to saving the realms from destruction. Sequels: The High
Road, 2009; The Road’s End, 2011.
Kittredge, Caitlin. The Iron Thorn. Delecorte, 2011. (Gr. 8+) FAN
In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the
streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for
Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam
the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical—born
of the belief in magic and witchcraft. And for Aoife Grayson, her time is growing
shorter by the day. Sequel: The Nightmare Garden, forthcoming 2/2012.
Kizer, Amber. Wildcat Fireflies: A Meridian Novel. Delacorte, 2011. (Gr. 9+)
Paranormal
Teenaged Meridian Sozu, a half-human, half-angel link between the living and the
dead known as a Fenestra, hits the road with Tens, her love and sworn protector, in
hopes of finding another person with Meridian's ability to help souls transition
safely into the afterlife. Previous title: Meridian, 2009.
Klimo, Kate. The Dragon in the Sock Drawer. Random House, 2008. (Gr. 3-5)
FAN
Cousins Jesse and Daisy always knew they would have a magical adventure, but
they are not prepared when the "thunder egg" Jesse has found turns out to be a
dragon egg that is about to hatch. Sequels: The Dragon in the Driveway, /2009; The
Dragon in the Library, 2010; The Dragon in the Volcano, 2011.
Klimo, Kate. Daughter of the Centaurs. Random House, forthcoming, 1/2012. (Gr.
8+)
Malora knows what she was born to be: a horse wrangler and a hunter, just like her
father. But when her people are massacred by batlike monsters called
Leatherwings, Malora will need her horse skills just to survive. The last living
human, Malora roams the wilderness at the head of a band of magnificent horses,
relying only on her own wits, strength, and courage. When she is captured by a
group of centaurs and taken to their city, Malora must decide whether the comforts
of her new home and family are worth the parts of herself she must sacrifice to keep
them.
Knight, E. E. Dragon Strike. Roc, 2008. (A/YA) FAN
Part of the last desperate hope to preserve the survival of their dying species, three
dragon siblings--AuRon, Wistala, and Copper--find themselves at odds over the
coming human war, with AuRon believing that dragons should remain out of
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human affairs, Wistala hoping for peaceful coexistence, and Copper seizing the
opportunity to fulfill his own plans. Previous titles in the Age of Fire series: #1
Dragon Champion, 2005; #2 Dragon Avenger, 2006; #3 Dragon Outcast, 2007.
Sequels: Dragon Rule, 2009; Dragon Fate, 2010.
Knight, Karsten. Wildefire. Simon & Schuster, 2011. (Gr. 9+) FAN
After a killing for which she feels responsible, sixteen-year-old Ashline Wilde moves
cross-country to a remote California boarding school, where she learns that she and
others have special gifts that can help them save the world, but evil forces are at
work to stop them.
Kostic, Conor. Edda. Viking, 2011. (Gr. 7+) SF
In the virtual world of Edda, ruler Scanthax decides he wants to invade another
virtual world, embroiling the universes of Edda, Saga, and Epic in war, with only
three teenagers to try to restore peace. Previous titles: Epic, 2006; Saga, 2008.
Kushner, Ellen and Holly Black, eds. Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and
Poems of the Borderlands (Borderland) Random House, 2011. (Gr. 9+) SS/FAN
A collection of stories and poems set in Bordertown, a city on the edge of the faerie
and human world that is populated by human and elfin runaways, including Cory
Doctorow's "Shannon's Law," Patricia A. McKillip's "Cruel Sister," Annette Curtis
Klause's "Elf Blood," and others.
Lackey, Mercedes and Rosemary Edghill. Legacies. Tor Teen, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
After her family is killed, Spirit White is taken to Oakhurst Academy, a
combination orphanage and school for those with magical powers, where she and
her new friends investigate when students start mysteriously disappearing. Sequel:
Conspiracies, 2011.
LaFevers, R. L. Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris, Houghton Mifflin, 2008. (Gr. 58) FAN
When mummies go missing all over London, eleven-year-old Theodosia puts aside
her fight against the Serpents of Chaos to save her father, who is suspected in the
thefts, all the while avoiding a string of new governesses. Sequel to: Theodosia and
the Serpents of Chaos, 2007. Sequels: Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus, 2010;
Theodosia and the Last Pharoh, 2011.
LaFevers, R. L. The Flight of the Phoenix. Houghton Mifflin, 2009. (Gr. 3-5) FAN
After his parents are lost at sea and further disaster strikes, Nathaniel Fludd is
tasked with ensuring that a phoenix's egg is safely hatched, but he also must keep
his pet gremlin out of trouble and rescue his cousin and guardian from the Bedouin
or risk the extinction of all the world's mythical creatures. Sequels: The Basilisk's
Lair, 2010; The Wyverns' Treasure, 2010; The Unicorn’s Tale, 2011.
Lairamore, Dawn. Ivy’s Ever After. Holiday House, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
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A whimsical fractured fairy tale finds a spirited, non-conformist princess teaming
up with an undersized dragon to foil an evil prince's dastardly plot to destroy their
kingdom. Sequel: Ivy and the Meanstalk, forthcoming 10/2011.
Lake, Nick. Blood Ninja. Simon & Schuster, 2009. (Gr. 9+) SUPERNATURAl
After his father is murdered and a ninja saves his life, Taro discovers the connection
between ninjas and vampires and finds himself being dragged into a bitter conflict
between the rival lords ruling Japan. Sequel: The Revenge of Lord Oda, 2010.
Lanagan, Margo. The Brides of Rollrock Island. Knopf, forthcoming 9/2012.
Lancaster, Mike A. Human.4. Egmont, 2011. (Gr. 7-10) SF
Twenty-first century fourteen-year-old Kyle was hypnotized when humanity was
upgraded to 1.0 and he, incompatible with the new technology, exposes its terrifying
impact in a tape-recording found by the superhumans of the future.
Langrish, Katherine. The Shadow Hunt. Harpercollins, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
On the haunting, windswept moors of Devil's Edge, Wolf and Nest discover a
sinister enemy too close for comfort, making it difficult to discern who they can
trust and who needs to be kept at arm's length.
Lasky, Kathryn. Daughters of the Sea, 1: Hannah. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr. 7+) FAN
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant
in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where she meets a noted portrait
painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when
she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable
pull to the sea. Sequel: May, 2011.
Law, Ingrid. Savvy. Dial, 2008. (Gr. 4-6) FAN
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed
her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her
father is injured in a terrible accident. Companion novel: Scumble, 2010.
Leavitt, Lindsey. Princess for Hire. Hyperion, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Longing for a bit of glamour in her Idaho life, Desi Bascomb gets it when she
discovers her ability to look like any princess who needs subbing services, but Desi
soon learns that being royalty involves more than wearing a tiara and waving at
cameras. Sequel: The Royal Treatment, 2011.
Levine, Gail Carson. Fairies and the Quest for Never Land. Disney, 2010. (Gr. 35+) FAN
Gwendolyn Carlisle, descendant of Wendy Darling, tries to help the fairies of Fairy
Haven recapture the evil dragon Kyto, but the fairies aren't so sure Gwendolyn can
help their cause. Previous titles: Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, 2005; Fairy
Haven and the Quest for the Wand, 2007.
Levine, Gail Carson. A Tale of Two Castles. Harpercollins, 2011. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
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Twelve-year-old Elodie journeys to Two Castles in hopes of studying acting but
instead becomes apprentice to a dragon, who teaches her to be observant and use
reasoning, thus helping her to uncover who is poisoning the king.
Lim, Rebecca. Mercy. Hyperion, 2011. (Gr. 8-10) Paranormal
Mercy, a fallen angel, is doomed to an eternity of living someone else's life, but when
she meets Ryan, an eighteen-year-old who refuses to believe his missing twin sister is
dead, she realizes she can help him, even if it means exposing her true self and
taking a chance that her efforts will be rejected.
Lindskold, Jane. Thirteen Orphans. Tor, 2008. (A/YA) FAN
In an alternate world inspired by ancient Chinese lore and magic, Brenda learns
about her magical ancestry after an attack on her father and finds herself among a
band of orphans who each represent an animal from the Chinese zodiac. Sequels:
Nine Gates, 2009; Five Odd Honors, 2010.
Littlefield, Sophie. Banished. Delacorte, 2010. (Gr. 9+) SUPERNATURAL
Sixteen-year-old Hailey Tarbell, raised by a mean, secretive grandmother, does not
know that she comes from a long line of healers until her Aunt Prairie arrives with
answers about her past that could quickly threaten her future. Sequel: Unforsaken,
forthcoming 10/2011.
Livingston, Lesley. Darklight. Harperteen, 2010. (Gr. 8+) FAN
After a dangerous encounter in Central Park, actress Kelley Winslow, who has only
recently learned that she is a Faerie, journeys to the Otherworld and begins to
untangle the strands of a magical conspiracy with far-reaching consequences.
Previous title: Wondrous Strange, 2009. Sequel: Tempestuous, 2010.
Llewellyn, Sam. The Well Between the Worlds. Orchard, 2009. (Gr. 5-9) FAN
Eleven-year-old Idris finds his life taking a dramatic turn when, after a neardrowning incident, he is accused of being allied to the feared sea monsters of
Lyonesse and is rescued from a death sentence by a mysterious and fearsome
stranger. Sequel: Darksoltice, 2010.
Lloyd, Saci. The Carbon Diaries: 2015. Holiday House, 2009. (Gr. 8+) SF
In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide
rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura
documents the first year of rationing as her family spirals out of control. Sequel:
The Carbon Diaries 2017, 2010.
Lo, Malinda. Ash. Little Brown, 2009. (Gr. 10+) FAN
Forced into becoming an indentured servant when her family dies, Ash lives a lonely
and desperate life with no hopes for the future, until she meets Kaisa, the King's
royal Huntress, who teaches her to love, live, and dream once again. Companion
novel: Huntress, 2011.
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Lu, Marie. Legend. Putnam, forthcoming 11/2011. (Gr. 7+) S
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteenyear-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to
capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
Lubar, David. My Rotten Life. Starscape, 2009. (Gr. 3-5) SUPERNATURAL
Ten-year-old Nathan Abercrombie is having a really bad day. First, Shawna
Lanchester, the prettiest girl in his class, doesn’t invite him to her party. Then he
gets picked last in gym class. Things couldn’t get any worse…until he gets doused
with an experimental serum that turns him into a half-dead zombie! Sequels: Dead
Guy Spy, 2010; Goop Soup, 2010; Big Stink, 2010; Enter the Zombie Zone, 2011.
Lubar, David. Attack of the Vampire Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales.
(Weenie Books #5) Starscape, 2011. (Gr. 6-8) SS/FAN
Contains over thirty stories of vampires, ghosts, middle school teachers, and other
scary things.
Lupica, Mike. Hero. Philomel, 2010. (Gr. 6+) SUPERNATURAL
Fourteen-year-old Billy learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who
was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and
now Billy must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his
own life.
Lyga, Barry. Mangaman. Houghton Mifflin, 2011. (Gr. 7+) GN/SF
Ryoko Kiyama, a character from a Japanese comic book, or manga, falls through a
rip into the real world-- the western world-- and tries to survive as the ultimate
outsider at a typical American high school.
Lynch, Chris. Monkey See, Monkey Don’t. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr. 5-8) SF
In a future where electronic surveillance has taken the place of love, young Zane
uses technology to talk to animals and battles an evil veterinarian who is working on
a new device to control animal movement and speech, employing Zane's dog as his
first test case. Previous title: Cyberia, 2008. Sequel: Prime Evil, 2010.
Maberry, Jonathan. Rot and Ruin. Simon & Schuster, 2010. (Gr. 9+)
SUPERNATURAL
In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people
left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura
is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a
bounty hunter. Sequel: Dust and Decay, forthcoming 8/2011.
MacCullough, Carolyn. Once a Witch. Clarion, 2009. (Gr. 7+) SUPERNATURAL
Born into a family of witches, seventeen-year-old Tamsin is raised believing that she
alone lacks a magical "Talent," but when her beautiful and powerful sister is taken
by an age-old rival of the family in an attempt to change the balance of power,
Tamsin discovers her true destiny. Sequel: Always a Witch, forthcoming 8/2011.
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Madigan, L. K. The Mermaid’s Mirror. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. (Gr. 7+)
FAN
Lena, almost sixteen, has always felt drawn to the waters of San Francisco Bay
despite the fears of her father, a former surfer, but after she glimpses a beautiful
woman with a tail, nothing can keep Lena from seeking the mermaid in the
dangerous waves at Magic Crescent Cove.
Mafi, Tahereh. Shatter Me. HarperTeen, 2011. (Gr. 10+) SF
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the
condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a
post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her
affection,offers hope of a better future.
Malley, Gemma. The Returners. Bloomsbury, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SF
Experiencing brutal nightmares in the aftermath of his mother's death and in
reaction to his father's alienating radical political beliefs, Will Hodge discovers he is
being followed by a group of people who claim that they have been reincarnated to
witness historical atrocities.
Malley, Gemma. The Legacy. Bloomsbury, 2011. (Gr. 7+) SF
When a Pincent Pharma truck is ambushed by the Underground, revealing not the
expected supply of drugs but corpses, it becomes clear that the Longevity
prescription for eternal youth is failing to live up to its promises, and when the
Underground is blamed for releasing a deadly virus, the truth finally comes out.
Previous titles: The Declaration, 2007; The Resistence, 2008.
Mantchev, Lisa. Eyes Like Stars. Feiwel & Friends, 2009. (Gr. 8+) FAN
Seventeen-year-old Bertie strives to save Theater Illuminata, the only home she has
ever known, but is hindered by the Players who magically live on there, especially
Ariel, who is willing to destroy the Book at the center of the magic in order to escape
into the outside world. Sequels: Perchance to Dream, 2010; So Silver Bright,
forthcoming 9/2011.
Marchetta, Melina. Finnikin of the Rock. Candlewick, 2010. (Gr. 8+) FAN
Finnikin reluctantly joins forces against the imposter who has ruled Lumatere for
years with an enigmatic young novice who claims that her dark dreams will lead
them to a surviving royal child and a way to regain the throne.
Marr, Melissa. Wicked Lovely. HarperTeen, 2007. (Gr. 8+) FAN
Aislinn has the sight. She can see faeries. But she keeps this ability a secret, until
Keenan comes after her. He's the Summer King. He's been looking for his queen
for nine centuries. Now he's found her -- in Aislinn, whether she wants to join him
or not. Sequels: Ink Exchange, 2008; Fragile Eternity, 2009; Radiant Shadows,
2010.
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Marr, Melissa. Graveminder. William Morrow, 2011. (Gr. 9+) PARANORMAL
When her grandmother Maylene, who always gave tender attention to the dead with
unusual rituals, dies mysteriously, Rebekkah Barrow returns home and discovers
that Maylene was murdered and that there was good reason for her odd traditions.
Martin, John. How to Grow Up and Rule the World, by Vordak the Incomprehensible.
Egmont, 2010. (Gr. 3-5) SF
The evil genius Vordak the Incomprehensible conveys to the inferior masses his
nefariousftrr methods for achieving ultimate control of the planet.
Martin, George R. R. Dance with Dragons. Bantam, 2011. (A/YA) FAN
New threats emerge to endanger the future of the Seven Kingdoms, as Daenerys
Targaryen, ruling in the East, fights off a multitude of enemies, while Jon Snow,
Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, faces his foes both in the Watch and
beyond the great Wall of ice and stone. Previous titles in The Song of Ice and Fire:
A Game of Thrones, 1996; A Clash of Kings, 1999; A Storm of Swords, 2000; A Feast
for Crows, 2005.
Martinez, A. Lee. Emperor Mollusk Vs. the Sinister Brain. Orbit, forthcoming
3/2012. (A/YA) SF
Emperor Mollusk. Intergalactic Menace. Destroyer of Worlds. Conqueror of Other
Worlds. Mad Genius. Ex-Warlord of Earth. Not bad for a guy without a spine.
But what's a villain to do after he's done . . . everything. With no new ambitions,
he's happy to pitch in and solve the energy crisis or repel aliens invaders should the
need arise, but if he had his way, he'd prefer to be left alone to explore the
boundaries of dangerous science. Just as a hobby, of course.
McBride, Regina. The Fire Opal. Delacorte, 2010. (Gr. 8+) FAN
Having spent her life peacefully collecting kelp with her mother and dreaming of the
legendary Holy Isles, Maeve O'Tullagh is horrified when her mother and new sister
fall into a mysterious trance.
McCafferty, Megan. Bumped. Balzer & Bray, 2011. (Gr. 9+) SF
In 2036 New Jersey, when teens are expected to become fanatically religious wives
and mothers or high-priced Surrogettes for couples made infertile by a widespread
virus, sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony find in one another the
courage to believe they have choices.
McCaffrey, Anne and Elizabeth Ann. Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats. Random
House, 2010. (A/YA) SF
In a universe in which space-faring humans are aided by remarkable telepathic cats,
a government edict to control a health threat by impounding and destroying
animals throughout the galaxy threatens the survival of these invaluable felines.
Sequel: Catacombs, 2010.
McCaffrey, Todd. Dragonheart. Del Rey, 2008. (A/YA) SF
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The dragons of Pern are dying...and the only person who can save them has been
dead for over 400 Turns. This fantasy is written by Anne McCaffrey's son, Todd,
heir to the literary world of Pern. Sequel: Dragongirl, 2010.
McDonald, Ian. Planesrunner. Pry, forthcoming, 12/2011. (Gr. 9+) SF
McKillip, Patricia A. The Bards of Bone Plain. Ace, 2010. (A/YA) FAN
While searching for the mystical Bone Plane, Princess Beatrice, aided by a scholar
and an archaeologist, discovers a disk marked with ancient runes that holds the key
to the secrets of a lost language she suddenly notices everywhere.
McKinley, Robin. Pegasus. Putnam, 2010. (Gr. 6+) FAN
Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pegasi, Princess Sylvi
is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own pegasus, on her twelfth birthday, but the
closeness of their bond becomes a threat to the status quo and possibly to the safety
of their two nations.
McMann, Lisa. Wake. Simon Pulse, 2008. (Gr. 7+) SUPERNATURAL
Tired of being dragged into other people's dreams and watching their subconscious
fantasies and fears revealed in all their glory, Jane's powers take a dangerous turn
after she discovers that she is in a very scary dream in which she is not only an
observer but an unwilling participant as well. Sequels: Fade, 2009; Gone, 2010.
McNamee, Eoin. The Ring of Five. Wendy Lamb Books, 2010. (Gr. 5-8)
PARANORMAL
Arriving at a mysterious paranormal school where he befriends two kids with
supernatural abilities, Danny Caulfield discovers a latent talent for spying before
being sent on a terrifying mission. Sequel: The Unknown Spy, forthcoming 8/2011.
Mead, Richelle. Vampire Academy: #1 Vampire Academy. Razorbill, 2007. (Gr. 9+)
PARANORMAL
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa
and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's
Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training,
while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister
plots. Sequels: #2 Frostbite, 2008; #3 Shadow Kiss, 2008; #4 Blood Promise, 2009;
#5 Spirit Bound, 2010; #6 Last Sacrifice, 2010.
Mead, Richelle. The Golden Lily. Razorbill, forthcoming 5/2012. FAN
Mebus, Scott. Gods of Manhattan. Dutton, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Thirteen-year-old Rory discovers a spirit world that thrives alongside his
contemporary New York City, filled with fantastical creatures and people from the
city's colorful past who have become gods and goddesses and who have chosen Rory
to perform a dangerous mission. Sequels: Spirits in the Park, 2009; The Sorcerer’s
Secret, 2010.
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Meloy, Colin. Wildwood. Balzer + Bray, 2011. (Gr. 4-8) FAN
Prue's life shifts from ordinary to extraordinary when her baby brother is
kidnapped by a murder of crows and she must embark into the Impassable
Wilderness, a dense forest in the center of Portland, Oregon, with her friend Curtis
in tow, where the pair will encounter warring creatures, peaceful mystics, and other
dark-minded, powerful figures.
Meloy, Maile. The Apothecary. Putnam, forthcoming 10/2010. (Gr. 6+) FAN
It's 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here,
fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin
Burrows - a fascinating boy who's not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of
becoming a spy. When Benjamin's father is kidnapped, Janie and Benjamin must
uncover the secrets of the apothecary's sacred book, the Pharmacopoeia, in order to
find him, all while keeping it out of the hands of their enemies - Russian spies in
possession of nuclear weapons. Discovering and testing potions they never believed
could exist, Janie and Benjamin embark on a dangerous race to save the apothecary
and prevent impending disaster.
Michaelis, Antonia. Dragon of Darkness. Amulet, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Jumar and Christopher, two boys from very different backgrounds, are thrown
together by magic, mayhem and a common foe as they battle deadly dragons in the
wilderness of Nepal.
Miller, Kirsten. The Eternal Ones. Razorbill, 2010. (Gr. 8+) PARANORMAL
Experiencing recurring visions of a romance from a past life that ended tragically,
dressmaker Haven leaves the home of her tyrannical grandmother to start over in
New York, where she falls in love with a man who is under suspicion for murder
and who Haven finds both familiar and threatening. Sequel: A Season in the
Underworld, forthcoming 8/2011.
Milway, Alex. The Mousehunter. Little Brown, 2009. (Gr. 4-6) FAN
Working for the wealthy Isiah Lovelock and dreaming of the day she can become a
famous mousehunter, Emiline is thrilled when she finally gets her chance--venturing
to far away lands on a grand adventure to capture the legendary pirate
Mousebeard! Sequel: The Curse of Mousebeard, 2010.
Mitchard, Jacquelyn. The Midnight Twins. Razorbill, 2008. (Gr. 7+)
PARANORMAL
Mirror twins born on either side of midnight on New Year's Eve, Meredith and
Mallory Bryn have always shared a close bond, until a mysterious, near-fatal fire on
their thirteenth birthday gives rise to visions and dreams--Mallory of the past, and
Meredith of the future--that reveal the deep and dangerous secrets of the people
around them. Sequels: Look Both Ways, 2009; Watch for Me by Moonlight, 2010.
Monir, Alexandra. Timeless. Delacorte, 2011. (Gr. 7+) Paranormal
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Forced to live with her wealthy, estranged grandparents in New York City after her
mother dies, sixteen-year-old Michele retreats to her room where she finds a diary
that transports her back to 1910-- with life-changing consequences.
Moriarty, Chris. The Inquisitor's Apprentice. Harcourt, 2011. (Gr. 7+) FAN
After it is discovered that he can see witches, a young Jewish boy named Sacha
Kessler becomes an apprentice to the department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian
Wolf, and while working to prevent magical crime with his fellow apprentice Lily
Astral, clues are uncovered that lead Sacha to believe that his own family could be
accused of murder.
Morris, Gerald. Squire’s Quest. Houghton Mifflin, 2009. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
After nearly six months without contact with the World of the Faeries--not even
from his old friend, the mischievous sprite Robin--Terence is sure something is
rotten in King Arthur's court. Previous titles: #1 The Squire’s Tale, 1998; #2 The
Squire, His Knight, & His Lady, 1999; #3 The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf, 2000; #4
Parsifal’s Page, 2001; #5 The Ballad of Sir Dinadan, 2003; #6 The Princess, the
Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight, 2004; #7 The Lioness & Her Knight, 2005; #8 The
Quest of the Fair Unknown, 2006. Sequel: The Legend of the King, 2010.
Morris, Gerald. The Adventures of Sir Gawain the True. Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, 2011. (Gr. 3-5) FAN
Relates the adventures of Sir Gawain, the only undefeated knight in King Arthur's
court, who eventually learns the value of friendship, courtliness, and courtesy after
a challenge from the Green Knight. Previous titles in The Knights’ Tales: The
Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great, 2008; The Adventures of Sir Givret the Short,
2008.
Moss, Jenny. Shadow. Scholastic, 2010. (Gr. 8+) FAN
When Shadow, whose job all her life has been to stay close to the young queen and
prevent her prophecied death at the age of sixteen, fails in her task and the castle is
thrown into chaos, she escapes along with a young knight, embarking upon a
journey that eventually reveals her true identity.
Mull, Brandon. A World Without Heroes. (Beyonders #1) Aladdin, 2011. (Gr. 5-8)
FAN
Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian,
where he joins Rachel and a few rebels to piece together the Word that can destroy
the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth. Sequel: Seeds of Rebellion, forthcoming
3/2012.
Mullin, Mike. Ashfall. Tanglewood Press, 2011. (Gr. 7+) SF
After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its
surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois
to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a
new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.
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Nadol, Jen. The Mark. Bloomsbury, 2010. (Gr. 9+) FAN
While in Kansas living with an aunt she never knew existed and taking a course in
philosophy, sixteen-year-old Cass struggles to learn what, if anything, she should do
with her ability to see people marked to die within a day's time. Sequel: The Vision,
forthcoming 9/2011.
Nayeri, Daniel and Dina Nayeri. Another Faust. Candlewick, 2009. (Gr. 9+)
PARANORMAL
Years after five children mysteriously disappeared from cities across Europe, they
reappear at an exclusive party in New York City under the tutelage of a suspicious
benefactor, but their unique gifts--reading minds, stopping time, seducing with false
beauty, and more--begin to bring them more consequences then benefits. Sequel:
Another Pan, 2010.
Neff, Henry. The Hound of Rowan. Random House, 2007. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
When Max McDaniels discovers a mysterious Celtic tapestry, he is led to Rowan
Academy, where he, while investigating the disappearance of priceless artwork and
gifted children, discovers his true destiny, plunging him into an ancient battle
between good and evil. Sequels in The Tapestry series: #2 The Second Siege, 2008;
#3 The Fiend and the Forge, 2010.
Nelson, R. A. Throat. Knopf, 2011. (Gr. 9+) Paranormal
Seventeen-year-old Emma, having always felt cursed by her epilepsy, comes to
realize that it is this very condition that saves her when she is mysteriously attacked
and left with all the powers but none of the limitations of a vampire.
Ness, Patrick. The Knife of Never Letting Go. Candlewick, 2008. (Gr. 10+) SF
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola
set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and
seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World. Sequels
in the Chaos Walking trilogy: The Ask and the Answer, 2009. Monsters of Men,
2010.
Neumeier, Rachel. The Floating Islands. Knopf, 2011. (Gr. 7-10) FAN
The adventures of two teenaged cousins who live in a place called The Floating
Islands, one of whom is studying to become a mage and the other one of the
legendary island flyers.
Nichols, Lee. Deception. Bloomsbury, 2010. (Gr. 9+) PARANORMAL
When Emma Vaile’s parents go missing while away on a mysterious business trip,
she’s left all alone in her creepy old house. But her brother’s very cute best friend,
Bennett Stern—Emma’s knight in J. Crew armor—arrives unexpectedly to whisk
her away to New England. There, Emma settles into his family’s museum-like
mansion and enrolls at an old-fashioned private school. She quickly finds friends in
the popular legacy crowd at Thatcher and spends her free time crushing on Bennett.
But the eerie visions she’s been hiding from everyone have gotten worse. Emma has
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memories of Thatcher that she can’t explain—it’s as if she’s returning home to a
place she’s never been. Finally, Emma confides in Bennett and learns she is a
ghostkeeper, a person who can communicate with ghosts. Bennett brought Emma to
Thatcher to protect her, but now he needs her help tracking an other-worldly
murderer. Sequels: Betrayal, 2011; Surrender, forthcoming 12/2011.
Nimmo, Jenny. Charlie Bone and the Shadow. Orchard, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
After his family is kidnapped and taken away to Badlock, Charlie Bone wastes no
time in venturing to the forbidden land to fight his greatest enemy and free his
beloved family. Newest in The Children of the Red King series. Previous titles: #1
Midnight for Charlie Bone, 2003; #2 Charlie Bone and the Time Twister, 2003; #3
Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy, 2004; #4 Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors,
2005; #6 Charlie Bone and the Beast, 2007. Sequel: Charlie Bone and the Red
Knight, 2010.
Nimmo, Jenny. The Chronicles of the Red King: The Secret Kingdom. Scholastic,
2011. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Timoken and his sister, Zobayda, under the protection of a forest jinni but pursued
by evil virideed, straddle the world of men and the world of enchantments, seeking a
home while remaining young by drinking a potion called Alixir.
Nix, Garth. Superior Saturday. Scholastic, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
As Arthur Penhaligon prepares to face the most powerful and knowledgeable
Trustee of the Will, Superior Saturday, Arthur's mother is still missing, his home
city is under attack, and his allies are unreliable when it comes to gaining the Sixth
Key. Previous titles in The Keys to the Kingdom series: #1 Mister Monday, 2003; #2
Grim Tuesday, 2005; #3 Drowned Wednesday, 2005; #4 Sir Thursday, 2006; #5 Lady
Friday, 2007. Newest title: Lord Sunday, 2010.
Nix, Garth and Sean Williams. Troubletwisters. Scholastic, 2011.
Jaide and Jack Shield don't know that the world is under attack. They don't know
that their dad and their Grandma X, who they move in with, are Wardens, or that
they themselves are troubletwisters, young Wardens just coming into their powers.
Noel, Alyson. The Immortals: #1 Evermore. Griffin, 2009. (Gr. 9+)
PARANORMAL
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can
see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other
people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more
mysteries. Sequels: #2 Blue Moon, 2009; #3 Shadowland, 2009; #4 Dark Flame,
2010; #5 Everlasting, 2011.
North, Pearl. Libyrinth. Tor Teen, 2009. (Gr. 8+) FAN
In a distant future where Libyrarians preserve and protect the ancient books that
are housed in the fortress-like Libyrinth, Haly is imprisoned by Eradicants, who
believe that the written word is evil, and she must try to mend the rift between the
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two groups before their war for knowledge destroys them all. Sequel: The Boy from
Ilysies, 2010.
Novik, Naomi. Victory of Eagles. Del Rey, 2008. (A/YA) FAN
As Napoleon launches an attack on Britain, Captain Will Laurence, accused of
treason, escapes from his prison ship and sets out on a desperate quest to reunite
with his fighting dragon, Temeraire, who has been consigned to breeding grounds in
Wales. Previous titles in the Temeraire Series: #1 His Majesty’s Dragon, 3/06; #2
Throne of Jade, 4/06; #3 Black Powder War, 5/06; #4 Empire of Ivory, 9/07.
Sequels: #6 Tongues of Serpents, 2010; Crucible of Gold, forthcoming 3/2012.
O’Brien, Caragh M. Birthmarked. Roaring Brook, 2010. (Gr. 7+) SF
When her midwife mother is forcibly taken away by the very people she serves, 16year-old Gaia Stone wonders whether the Enclave deserves the loyalty her family
has so faithfully given. Sequel: Prized, forthcoming 11/2011.
O’Brien, Johnny. Day of the Assassins: A Jack Christie Adventure. Candlewick,
2009. (Gr. 8+) SF
Fifteen-year-old Jack is sent to 1914 Europe as a pawn in the battle between his
long-lost father, who has built a time machine, and a secret network of scientists
who want to prevent him from trying to use it to change history for the better.
Includes historical notes. Sequel: Day of Deliverance, 2010.
Odyssey, Shawn Thomas. The Wizard of Dark Street. Egmont, 2011. (Gr. 4-7) FAN
Twelve-year-old Oona decides to quit her apprenticeship with her uncle, a wizard
who owns an enchantment shop on the last of the Faerie roads that connect New
York City to the Land of the Fey, and hone her skills as a detective, but when her
uncle is found stabbed, Oona's skills are put to the test.
Okorafor, Nnedi. Akata Witch. Viking, 2011. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian
parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent
magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial
killer.
Oliver, Lauren. Before I Fall. The Bowen Press, 2010. (Gr. 9+)
SUPERNATURAL
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over
and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
Oliver, Lauren. Liesl & Po. Harpercollins, forthcoming 10/2011. (Gr. 4-6)
A mix-up involving the greatest magic in the world has tremendous consequences
for Liesl, an orphan who has been locked in an attic, Will, an alchemist's runaway
apprentice, and Po, a ghost, as they are pursued by friend and foe while making an
importantjourney.
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Oliver, Lauren. Delirium. Harpercollins, 2011. (Gr. 8+) SF
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the
delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five
days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, she falls in love.
O'Neal, Elis. The False Princess. Egmont, 2011. (Gr. 7+) FAN
For sixteen years, Nalia has been raised as the princess of Thorvaldor, but one day
she learns that her real name is Sinda and that she is part of a complicated plot that
would change the future of her country forever.
Oppel, Kenneth. This Dark Endeavor. Simon & Schuster, 2011. (Gr. 9+) SF
When his brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of
Geneva, Victor Frankenstein embarks on a quest to create the Elixir of Life
described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
Paolini, Christopher. Inheritance. Knopf, forthcoming 11/2011. (Gr. 6+)
Not so very long ago, Eragon—Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider—was nothing more than
a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the
fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. Previous titles in The
Inheritance Cycle: Eragon, 2003; Eldest, 2006; Brisingr, 2008.
Patterson, James. Max. Little Brown, 2009. (Gr. 7+) SF
Fourteen-year-old Max, leader of a flock of genetically engineered part-human/partbird hybrids, must volunteer, along with the five youngest members of the group, to
join the Navy in learning why fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii, in order to be
able to rescue her mother who has been kidnapped by a criminal mastermind.
Previous titles: #1 The Angel Experiment, 2005; #2 School’s Out—Forever, 2006; #3
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, 2007; #4 The Final Warning, 2008.
Newest titles: Fang, 2010; Angel, 2011.
Patneaude, David. Epitaph Road. Egmont, 2010. (Gr. 7+) SF
In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by
women, and fourteen-year-old Kellen must fight to save his father from an outbreak
of the virus that killed ninety-seven percent of the male population thirty years
earlier.
Paver, Michelle. Outcast. Katherine Tegen Books, 2008. (Gr. 6-9) FAN
Cast out of the clans because his mark as a Soul-Eater has been revealed, Torak
finds refuge on a distant island, but when he discovers that Seshru the Viper Mage
has discovered his whereabouts, Torak has no choice but to stand and fight.
Previous titles in The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series: #1 Wolf Brother, 2005;
#2 The Spirit Walker, 2006; #3 Soul Eater, 2007. Sequels: Oathbreaker, 2009; Ghost
Hunter, 2010.
Paxson, Diana L. Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword of Avalon. Roc, 2010. (A/YA)
FAN
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Continuing the saga of the inhabitants of Avalon, a young boy raised in secret after
his parents are killed by traitors returns home to prove his worth and lead his
followers to victory while wielding the newly forged sword Excalibur. Previos titles:
#1 Priestess of Avalon, 2001; #2 Ancestors of Avalon, 2004; #3 Ravens of Avalon,
2007.
Pearce, Jackson. Sisters Red. Little Brown, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL
After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters
Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that
prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally
using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son. Companion novel:
Sweetly, forthcoming 8/2011.
Peck, Richard. Three Quarters Dead. Dial, 2010. (Gr. 7+) SUPERNATURAL
Sophomore loner Kerry is overjoyed when three popular senior girls pick her to be
in their clique until the seniors die in a car crash, return from the dead, and insist
that Kerry help them exact revenge on a disloyal classmate.
Peck, Richard. Secrets at Sea. Dial, forthcoming 10/2011. (Gr. 4-6) FAN
Helena is the oldest of four mouse siblings who live in the walls of the Cranston
estate. It is 1887 when the nouveau riche Cranstons decide to take a cruise ship to
England in search of a husband for their awkward older daughter. The Cranston
mice stow away in the luggage . . . and so begins the time of their lives, as they meet
intriguing, cosmopolitan mice onboard and take it upon themselves to help the
human Cranston daughters find love. They might just find perfect futures for
themselves as well!
Perro, Bryan. The Mask Wearer. Delacorte, 2011. (Gr. 5-7) FAN
To defeat the forces of evil which threaten his world, young Amos Daragon, aided
by mythical animal friends, sets out on a journey to find four masks that harness the
forces of nature and sixteen powerful stones that give the masks their magic.
Peterfreund, Diana. Rampant. Harperteen, 2009. (Gr. 7+) FAN
After sixteen-year-old Astrid Llewelyn survives a vicious unicorn attack, she learns
that she is a descendant of the most famous unicorn hunter of all time and she must
travel to Rome, Italy, to train in the ancient arts in order to carry on her family
legacy and save the world from the threat posed by the reemergence of lethal
unicorns. Sequel: Ascendant, 2010.
Pevel, Pierre. The Alchemist in the Shadows. Pyr, 2011. (A/YA) FAN
In 1633 Paris, where dragons can be raised as pets, Cardinal Richelieu calls upon
the Cardinals Blades to defend the city. Previous title: The Cardinal’s Blades, 2010.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. The Dead and the Gone. Harcourt, 2008. (Gr.7+) SF
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes,
seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of
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New York City. Companion novel to: Life As We Knew It, 2006. Newest title: The
World I Live In, 2010.
Pierce, Tamora. Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper. Random House, 2009.
(Gr. 7+) FAN
Beka, who has been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog" and who is now a fullfledged member of the Provost's Guard, heads with her former partner to a
neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins. Previous title:
Terrier, 2006. Sequel: Mastiff, forthcoming 10/2011.
Pierce, Tamora. Tortall and Other Lands : A Collection of Tales. Random House,
2011. (Gr. 7+) SS/FAN
A collection of fantasy stories by Tamora Pierce that are set in her created land of
Tortall and feature a range of familiar and unknown characters.
Pike, Aprilynne. Spells. HarperTeen, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
A sequel to the best-selling Wings finds Laurel honing her Fall faerie skills six
months after saving the gateway to Avalon and wondering how to proceed when she
realizes her loved ones are still in danger, a situation complicated by her torn
feelings for David and Tamani. Previous title: Wings, 2009. Sequel: Illusions,
2011.
Pinkwater, Daniel. Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl. Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Big Audrey, who has cat-like whiskers, and her telephathic friend Molly set out on a
journey to find out why flying saucers are landing behind the old stone barn in
Poughkeepsie, New York, and, more importantly, to determine whether another catwhiskered girl really exists. Previous titles: The Neddiad, 2007; The Yggyssey, 2009.
Plum, Amy. Die for Me. HarperTeen, 2011. (Gr. 9+) Paranormal
After their parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year-old Kate Mercier and
her older sister Georgia, each grieving in her own way, move to Paris to live with
their grandparents and Kate finds herself powerfully drawn to the handsome but
elusive Vincent who seems to harbor a mysterious and dangerous secret.
Pogue, David. Abby Carnelia's One and Only Magical Power. Roaring Brook, 2010.
(Gr. 4-6) FAN
After eleven-year-old Abby discovers that she has a completely useless magical
power, she finds herself at a magic camp where her hope of finding others like
herself is realized, but when a select group is taken to a different camp, a sinister
plot comes to light.
Pon, Cindy. Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia. Greenwillow, 2009. (Gr.
9+) FAN
With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant
blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a
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strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent. Sequel: Fury of the
Phoenix, 2011.
Pratchett, Terry. Unseen Academicals. Discworld #37. HarperCollins, 2009.
(A/YA) FAN
While Archchancellor Ridcully, at the request of benevolent tyrant Lord Ventinari,
attempts to assemble a capable football team from the unathletic rabble at AnkhMorpork's Unseen University, handsome yet lazy Trev falls for dim yet pretty
kitchen maid Juliet. (The Discworld Series which began with The Color of Magic,
1983.) Newest title: Snuff, forthcoming 10/2011
Pratchett, Terry. The Illustrated Wee Free Men. Harpercollins, 2008. (Gr. 6+)
FAN
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of sixinch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion
from Fairyland, in an illustrated gift edition with fold-outs and new material by the
author. The original Tiffany Aching Adventures: #1 The Wee Free Men, 2003; #2 A
Hat Full of Sky, 2004; #3 Wintersmith, 2006; # 4 I Shall Wear Midnight, 2010.
Priest, Cherie. Boneshaker. Tor, 2010. (A/YA) SF
Commissioned to build a machine that will promote gold-rush land-breaking efforts
between Civil War-era Seattle and Alaska, inventor Leviticus Blue inadvertently
triggers the release of a deadly gas that transforms people into the living dead, a
situation that prompts his teenage son to restore the family reputation years later.
Sequels: Dreadnought, 2010; Ganymede, forthcoming 9/2011.
Prineas, Sarah. The Magic Thief: Stolen. Harpercollins, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
When a local pickpocket puts his hand in the pocket belonging to the wizard
Nevery, Conn gets more than he expected when he is drawn into the world of
wizardry as a result of his mischievous deed. Sequels: Lost, 2009; Found, 2010.
Prineas, Sarah. Winterling. Harpercollins, forthcoming 1/2012. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Spirited young Fer travels through the Way to a magical world in which beings part
human and part animal serve an evil ruler known as the Lady, and where she hopes
to learn about her long-lost parents and her own identitiy.
Putney, M. J. Dark Mirror. Griffin, 2011. (Gr. 8+) FAN
Lady Victoria Mansfield has struggled to keep the secret that her blood is tainted by
magic, but when a shocking accident forces her to reveal her skill, she is shipped off
to Lackland Academy, a reform school for young men and women in her position,
where she learns important lessons about love, friendship, and courage.
Rallison, Janette. My Unfair Godmother. Walker, 2011. (Gr. 6-10) FAN
A fairy godmother-in-training is sent to help angry seventeen-year-old Tansy, who
reluctantly is staying with her father and his new wife while her mother and sister
are traveling, but the unfortunate result of this intended help is chaos and
confusion. Previous title: My Fair Godmother, 2009.
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Reeve, Philip. Fever Crumb. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr. 6+) SF
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the
future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age
fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about
her past while facing danger in the present. This is a prequel to The Hungry City
Chronicles: #1 Mortal Engines, 2003; #2 Predator’s Gold, 2004; #3 Infernal Devices,
2006. Sequel: A Web of Air, forthcoming 10/2011.
Reeve, Philip. No Such Thing as Dragons. Scholastic, 2010. (Gr. 8+) FAN
A young, mute boy who is apprenticed to a dragon-slayer suspects that the winged
beasts do not exist, until he--and his master--learn the truth.
Rees, Douglas. Vampire High: Sophomore Year. Delacorte, 2010. (Gr. 7+)
PARANORMAL
When Cody’s Goth cousin Turk moves into his house, enrolls at Vlad Dracul, and
decides to turn an abandoned nineteenth-century mill into an art center, the
vampire (Jenti) students are not pleased, and Cody’s hopes for a great sophomore
year are blighted. Previous title: Vampire High, 2003.
Reichs, Kathy. Virals. Razorbill, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SF
The niece of famed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, fourteen-year-old
Tory and her three friends are exposed to a rare strain of canine parvovirus that
gives them special powers which they use to try to solve a murder. Sequel: Seizures,
forthcoming 10/2011
Revis, Beth. Across the Universe. Razorbill, 2011. (Gr. 9+) SF
Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and
expects to awaken on a new planet three hundred years in the future, but her frozen
slumber abruptly ends when someone on board the ship tries to murder her.
Sequel: A Million Suns, forthcoming 1/2012.
Rex, Adam. Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story. Balzer + Bray, 2010. (Gr.
10+) PARANORMAL
After being bitten by a vampire, not only is fifteen-year-old Doug doomed eternally
to be fat, but now he must also save himself from the desperate host of a publicaccess-cable vampire-hunting television show that is on the verge of cancellation.
Riordan, Rick. The Red Pyramid. Hyperion, 2010. (Gr. 6+) FAN
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane unites his children, Sadie and Carter, for a
"research experiment" at the British Museum, hoping to set things right for his
family after the death of the children's mother--instead, he awakens the gods of
Egypt and unleashes the worst of them, the god Set, who banishes Julius to oblivion
and forces the children to flee for their lives. Sequel: The Throne of Fire, 2011.
Riordan, Rick. The Lost Hero. Hyperion, 2010. (Gr. 6+) FAN
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Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves
at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to
free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself. Sequel in The Heroes
of Olympus series: The Son of Neptune, forthcoming 10/2011. Companion series to
the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
Rollins, James. Jake Ransom and the Skull King’s Shadow. Harpercollins, 2009.
(Gr. 5-8) FAN
Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a
Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost
civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the
Skull King. Sequel: Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx, 2011.
Rosen, Lev A. C. All Men of Genius. Tor, forthcoming 9/2011. (A/YA) SF
A comedic Steampunk sensation inspired by both Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, All Men of Genius follows Violet
Adams as she disguises herself as her twin brother to gain entry to Victorian
London’s most prestigious scientific academy, and once there, encounters blackmail,
mystery, and love.
Roth, Veronica. Divergent. Katherine Tegen Books, 2011. (Gr. 9+) SF
In a future Chicago, Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions
to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she
discovers that she does not fit into any one group.
Rothfuss, Patrick. The Wise Man’s Fear. Daw, 2011. (A/YA) FAN
Kvothe continues on his quest to reclaim the honor of his family in the Fae realm
and learn the truth about the death of his parents and Amyr, the Chandrian.
Previous title in The Kingkiller Chronicles: The Name of the Wind, 2007.
Rushdie, Salman. Luka and the Fire of Life. Random House, 2010. (A/YA) FAN
“You’ve reached the age at which people in this family cross the border into the
magical world. It’s your turn for an adventure—yes, it’s finally here!” So says
Haroun to his younger brother, twelve-year-old Luka, in Salman Rushdie’s
thrilling, delightful, lyrically crafted fable for the young and young at heart.
Rutkoski, Marie. The Cabinet of Wonders. FS&G, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague
hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father,
and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister. Sequels: The Celestial
Globe, 2010; The Jewel of Kalderash, forthcoming 10/2011.
Ryan, Amy. Glow. Griffin, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr. 9+) SF
The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known. Part of the
first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, she and her boyfriend
Kieran will be pioneers of New Earth. Waverly knows she must marry young in
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order to have children who can carry on the mission, and Kieran, the handsome
captain-to-be, has everything Waverly could want in a husband. Everyone is sure
he’s the best choice. Still, there’s a part of Waverly that wants more from life than
marriage, and she is secretly intrigued by the shy, darkly brilliant Seth.
Ryan, Carrie. The Forest of Hands and Teeth. Delacorte, 2009. (Gr. 10+)
PARANORMAL
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and
especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where
dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
Sequels: The Dead-Tossed Waves, 2010; The Dark and Hollow Places, 2011.
Sage, Angie. Queste. Harpercollins, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Nicko and Snorri are trapped in Time, and Septimus Heap goes on a quest to find
the House of Foryx, a place where all Time meets. Previous titles in the Septimus
Heap series: #1 Magyk, 2005; #2 Flyte, 2006; #3 Physik, 2007. Sequels: Syren, 2009;
Darke, 2011.
St. John, Lauren. Dolphin Song. Dial, 2008. (Gr. 4-6) FAN
When Martine and five of her classmates are thrown overboard while on a school
trip to South Africa and are brought to shore by a pod of helpful dolphins, the
castaways must learn how to survive on their deserted island home while trying to
find a way to get their animal saviors back to deep water after they become beached.
Sequel to: The White Giraffe, 2007. Sequels: The Last Leopard, 2009; The
Elephant’s Tale, 2010.
Sanderson, Brandon. Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones. Scholastic, 2008. (Gr.
4-6) FAN
Thirteen-year-old Alcatraz Smedry and his companions seek Al's father and
grandfather in the Great Library of Alexandria, where they face undead, soulstealing wraiths called the Curators of Alexandria, and one of the Scrivener's Bones,
a part-human, part-machine mercenary. Sequel to: Alcatraz and the Evil
Librarians, 2007. Sequels: Alcatraz and the Knights of Crystallia, 2009; Alcatraz
Versus the Shattered Lens, 2010.
Saunders, Kate. Beswitched. Feiwel & Friends, forthcoming 12/2011. (Gr. 4-6)
FAN
A magic spell has spun Flora into the past. She's mysteriously swapped lives with a
schoolgirl in 1935! No iPod? No cell phone? No hair products? How will she
survive? Now Flora's a new girl at St. Winifred's, where she has to speak French at
breakfast, wear hideous baggy bloomers, and sleep in a freezing dormitory.
But lots of adventures in the past are amazing even if they are not forever.
Sawyer, Robert J. WWW: Wake. Ace Books, 2009. (A/YA) SF
When Webmind, an emerging consciousness, befriends Caitlin Decter to learn about
her world, a secret government agency, WATCH, believes Webmind is a risk to
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national security and wants it destroyed, despite Caitlin's acceptance and belief in
her new friend. Sequel: WWW: Wonder, 2011.
Schiltz, Laura Amy. The Night Fairy. Candlewick, 2010. (Gr. 3-5) FAN
When Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she
has to learn to do everything differently.
Schreiber, Ellen. The Coffin Club. Katherine Tegen Books, 2008. (Gr. 7+)
SUPERNATURAL
As teen vampire twins Luna and Jagger try to trick a high school soccer star into
bonding with Luna for eternity, 16-year-old goth girl Raven Madison and her
vampire boyfriend, Alexander, strive to save him. Previous titles in the Vampire
Kisses series: #1 Vampire Kisses, 2003; #2 Kissing Coffins, 2005; #3 Vampireville,
2006; #4 Dance with a Vampire, 2007. Sequels: Royal Blood, 2009; Love Bites, 2010.
Schreiber, Ellen. Once in a Full Moon. Katherine Tegen Books, 2010. (Gr. 10+)
Popular seventeen-year-old Celeste finds herself falling in love with a boy from the
wrong side of their small, midwestern town, even though she suspects that he is a
werewolf. Sequel: Magic of the Moonlight, forthcoming 12/2011.
Scott, Michael. The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel).
Delacorte, 2007. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Nicholas Flamel, born in Paris in 1330, discovered the secret of eternal life and hid it
in the Book of Abraham the Mage. Now Dr. John Dee is after the book, planning to
use it to destroy the world. Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones who can
stand against him. The fate of the world is in their hands. Sequels: The Magician,
2008; The Sorceress, 2009; The Necromancer, 2010; The Warlock, 2011.
Sedgwick, Marcus. White Crow. Roaring Brook, 2011. (Gr. 9+) PARANORMAL
Sixteen-year-old Rebecca moves with her father from London to a small, seaside
village, where she spends the summer exploring the village's sinister history with a
new friend.
Selfors, Suzanne. Mad Love. Walker, 2011. (Gr. 9+) FAN
When her famous romance-novelist mother is secretly hospitalized in an expensive
mental facility, sixteen-year-old Alice tries to fulfill her mother's contract with her
publisher by writing a love story-- with the help of Cupid.
Selzer, Adam. I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It. Delacorte, 2010. (Gr. 9+)
SUPERNATURAL
Living in the post-human era when the undead are part of everyday life, high
schooler Alley breaks her no-dating rule when Doug catches her eye, but classmate
Will demands to turn her into a vampire and her zombie boyfriend may be unable
to stop him.
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Selzer, Adam. Extraordinary*: The True Story of My Fairygodparent, Who Almost
Killed Me, and Certainly Never Made Me a Princess. Delacorte, forthcoming 11/2011.
Jennifer Van Der Berg would like you to know that the book ostensibly written
about her—Born to Be Extraordinary by Eileen Codlin—is a bunch of bunk. Yes, she
had a fairy godparent mess with her life, but no, she was not made into a princess or
given the gift of self-confidence, and she sure as hell didn't get a hot boyfriend out of
it. Here's the REAL scoop . . .
Sensel, Joni. The Farwalker's Quest. Bloomsbury, 2009. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
When twelve-year-old Ariel and her friend Zeke find a mysterious artifact which
has not been seen in a long time, it proves to be the beginning of a long and arduous
journey that will ultimately reveal to them their true identities. Sequel: The
Timekeeper’s Moon, 2010.
Service, Pamela. Escape from Planet Yastol. Darby Creek, forthcoming 9/2011.
(Gr. 4-6) SF
Eleven-year-old Joshua Higgins' prize-winning science fiction novel draws the
attention of sinister blue aliens who capture Josh and his sister Maggie and take
them to the planet Yastrol, the setting of his novel.
Sheehan, Anna. A Long, Long Sleep. Candlewick, 2011. (Gr. 8+) SF
Rosalinda Fitzroy, heir to the multiplanetary corporation UniCorp, is awakened
after years in stasis to find that everyone she knew has died and as she tries to make
a new life for herself, learns she is the target of a robot assassin.
Shinn, Sharon. Troubled Waters. Ace, 2010. (A/YA) FAN
After Zoe Ardelay escapes an impending forced marriage to the king by hiding on
the shores of a mighty river, she discovers that she is a magical being ruled by the
elemental sign of water and must decide how to use her power to rise above the
deceptions and intrigue of the royal court.
Shusterman, Neal. Everlost. Simon & Schuster, 2006. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL
After dying in a car accident together and ending up in Everlost, a netherworld
filled with children and teens, Nick accepts his fate while Allie decides to pursue new
adventures by taking over the bodies of the living, but with threats coming from
within Everlost, the two friends must stick together in order to reach their true and
final destination. Sequels: Everwild, 2009; Everfound, 2011.
Simner, Janni Lee. Bones of Faerie. Random House, 2009. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Fifteen-year-old Liza travels through war-ravaged territory in a struggle to bridge
the faerie and human worlds and to bring back her mother while learning of her
own powers and that magic can be controlled. Sequel: Faerie Winter, 2011.
Simner, Janni Lee. Thief Eyes. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
After her mother mysteriously disappears,16-year-old Haley convinces her father to
take her to Iceland, where her mother was last seen and where she meets gorgeous
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Ari, a boy with a dangerous secret who appoints himself her protector--help she will
need after she becomes ensnared by an ancient spell cast by her ancestor Hallgerd.
Slade, Arthur. The Hunchback Assignments. Random House, 2009. (Gr. 7+) SF
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback,
becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the
world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild. Sequels: The Dark
Deeps, 2010; Empire of Ruins, forthcoming 9/2011.
Slonczewski, Joan. Highest Frontier. Tor, forthcoming 9/2011. (A/YA) SF
Preparing to enter her first year at a college located in orbit, Jennifer Ramos
Kennedy grieves the untimely death of her twin brother and is urged to fulfill the
expectations of her influential family in the wake of a surge in global warming and a
threat by an invasive alien species.
Sleator, William. The Phantom Limb. Amulet, forthcoming 10/2011. (Gr.7+)
PARANORMAL
Living in a dreary new home with his father dead, his mother hospitalized, and his
grandfather increasingly distant, fourteen-year-old Isaac's wish for someone to
reach out to him comes true in the form of a phantom arm that appears in a mirror
box designed to help amputees, warning of danger.
Smibert, Angie. Memento Nora. Marshall Cabendish, 2011. (Gr. 8+) SF
Nora, Winter, and Micah, friends in a near future world in which terrorism is
common and a single pill can wipe out disturbing memories, work together to create
an underground comic for them and their classmates to share experiences they want
to remember.
Smith, Alexander Gordon. Lockdown: Escape from the Furnace. FS&G, 2009.
(Gr. 6+) SF
When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the
Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who
disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape
might just be possible. Sequels: Solitary, 2010; Death Sentence, 2011; Fugitives,
forthcoming 3/2012.
Smith, Clete Barrett. Aliens on Vacation. (The Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast #1)
Disney Hyperion, 2011. (Gr. 5-8) SF
Scrub arrives at his grandmother's Washington bed-and-breakfast only to discover
she has opened the doors to aliens that arrive through off-Earth portals, and he
must decide what to do when the local sheriff, already suspicious of Granny, notices
some of the kids Scrub is chaperoning at a camp out glow in the dark.
Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Tantalize. Candlewick, 2007. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her
family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries
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that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the
prime suspect. Companion novels: Eternal, 2009; Blessed, 2011.
Smith, L. J. The Vampire Diaries: #1 The Awakening. Harperteen, 1991. (Gr. 7+)
PARANORMAL
Stefan and Damon, two vampire brothers, compete for the love of Elena Gilbert, a
beautiful high school senior who is searching for excitement. Sequels: #2 The
Struggle, 1991; #3 The Fury, 1991; #4 Dark Reunion, 1992; The Return: Shadow
Souls, 2010; The Return: Midnight, 2011.
Smith-Ready, Jeri. Shade. Simon Pulse, 2010. (Gr. 9+) SUPERNATURAL
Sixteen-year-old Aura of Baltimore, Maryland, reluctantly works at her aunt's law
firm helping ghosts with wrongful death cases file suits in hopes of moving on, but it
becomes personal when her boyfriend, a promising musician, dies and persistently
haunts her. Sequel: Shift, 2011.
Spradlin, Michael. Orphan of Destiny. Putnam, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Young Squire Tristan, Robard, Maryam, and Angel make one last desperate push
to deliver the Holy Grail to safety in 1191 Scotland, but the way is full of danger as
new enemies are met and Sir Hugh attempts to thwart them at every turn. Previous
titles in The Youngest Templar series: Keeper of the Grail, 2008; Trial of Faith, 2009.
St. Crow, Lili. Strange Angels. Razorbill, 2009. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL
Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other
creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents,
and why. Sequels: Betrayals, 2009; Jealousy, 2010; The Reckoning, forthcoming
11/2011.
Stanley, Diane. The Silver Bowl. Harpercollins, 2011. (Gr. 7+) FAN
From the age of seven when she became scullery maid in a castle, Molly has seen
visions of the future which, years later, lead her and friend Tobias on an adventure
to keep Alaric, the heir to the throne, safe from a curse.
Stein, Tammar. Kindred. Knopf, 2011. (Gr. 10+) Paranormal
Spiritual warfare breaks out when the Archangel Raphael and the Devil deliver
assignments to eighteen-year-old fraternal twins Miriam and Moses.
Stephens, John. The Emerald Atlas. Knopf, 2011.
Kate, Michael, and Emma are on a journey to dangerous and secret corners of the
world...a journey of allies and enemies, of magic and mayhem. And—if an ancient
prophesy is correct—what they do can change history, and it is up to them to set
things right.
Stevermer, Caroline. Magic Below Stairs. Dial, 2010. (Gr. 4-6) FAN
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Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a household elf, is
plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and
eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's apprentice.
Stewart, Paul and Chris Riddell. Immortals. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Nate Quarter is a lowly lamplighter in the phraxmines of the Eastern Woods, until
treachery forces him to flee for his life to the mighty city of Great Glade. Previous
titles in The Edge Chronicles: #1 Beyond the Deepwoods, 2004; #2 Stormchaser,
2004; #3 Midnight over Scantaphrax, 2004; #4 The Curse of the Gloamglozer, 2005;
#5 The Last of the Sky Pirates, 2005; #6 Vox, 2005; #7 Freeglader, 2006; #8 The
Winter Knights, 2007; #9 Clash of the Sky Galleons, 2007.
Stiefvater, Maggie. Shiver. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr. 9+) SUPERNATURAL
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace
has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has
been watching her with increasing intensity. Sequels: Linger, 2010; Forever, 2011.
Stone, Jeff. Eagle. Random House, 2008. (Gr. 5-9) FAN
Angered that his grandmaster wouldn't let him train as a Dragon, Ying took his
revenge by burning his temple to the ground, but after being rescued by his younger
sister after betraying the emperor, Ying learns the truth about his past, his five
younger brothers, and the manipulative Tonglong. Previous titles in The Five
Ancestors series: #1 Tiger, 2005; #2 Monkey, 2005; #3 Snake, 2006; #4 Crane, 2007.
Sequels: #6 Mouse, 2009; #7 Dragon, 2010.
Stringer, Helen. Spellbinder. Feiwel & Friends, 2009. (Gr. 7+) SUPERNATURAL
Twelve-year-old Belladonna Johnson, who lives with the ghosts of her parents in the
north of England, teams up with an always-in-trouble classmate to investigate why
all of the ghosts in the world have suddenly disappeared. Sequel: The Midnight
Gate, 2011.
Stroud, Jonathan. The Ring of Solomon: A Bartimaeus Novel. Hyperion, 2010.
(Gr. 7+) FAN
Wise-cracking djinni Bartimaeus finds himself at the court of King Solomon with an
unpleasant master, a sinister servant, and King Solomon's magic ring.
Sullivan, Laura. Under the Green Hill. Holt, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
While staying with distant relatives in England, Americans Rowan, Meg, Silly and
James Morgan, with their neighbors Dickie Rhys and Finn Fachan, learn that one of
them must fight to the death in the Midsummer War required by the local fairies.
Sequel: Guardian of the Green Hill, forthcoming 10/2011.
Tanner, Lian. Museum of Thieves. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 4-6) FAN
When Separation Day is canceled, Goldie, who has always been both impatient and
bold, runs away, risking not only her own life but also the lives of those she has left
behind. Sequel: City of Lies, forthcoming 9/2011.
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Taylor, Laini. Blackbringer: Faeries of Dreamdark, Book One. Penguin, 2007. (Gr.
5-8) FAN
Magpie Windwitch, faerie, devil hunter, and granddaughter of the West Wind, must
defeat an ancient evil creature, the Blackbringer, who has escaped from his bottle
and threatens to unmake all of creation. Sequel: Silksinger, 2010.
Taylor, Laini. Daughter of Smoke and Bone. Little Brown, forthcoming 9/2011.
(Gr. 9+) PARANORMAL
Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real;
she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages-not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that
color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.
Thompson, Kate. The White Horse Trick. Greenwillow, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
In the late twenty-first century, dramatic climate change has made life in Ireland
almost impossible, and soon Tir na n'Og is faced with a refugee problem, partly
because of a warlord who is a member of the Liddy family. Previous titles: The
New Policeman, 2007; The Last of the High Kings, 2008.
Testa, Dom. The Dark Zone: A Galahad Book. Tor Teen, 2011. (Gr. 7-10) SF
The teenage crew of the "Galahad" survive the Kuiper Belt, with help from The
Cassini, only to be confronted by a group of organisms that could be either friend or
foe and Triana and the Council make a decision that sets into motion a chain of
events that leads to a wormhole. Previous titles in the Galahad series: The Comet’s
Curse, 2009; The Web of Titan, 2010; The Cassini Code, 2010. Sequels: Cosmic
Storm, forthcoming 9/2011; The Galahad Legacy, forthcoming 3/2012
Tiernan, Cate. Immortal Beloved. Little Brown, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL
After seeing her best friend, a Dark Immortal called Incy, torture a human with
magick, Nastasya, a spoiled party girl, enters a home for wayword immortals and
finally begins to deal with life, even as she learns that someone wants her dead.
Sequel: Darkness Falls, forthcoming 1/2012.
Tomlinson, Heather. Toads and Diamonds. Holt, 2010. (Gr.7+) FAN
In a retelling of the Perrault fairy tale set in pre-colonial India, two stepsisters
receive gifts from a goddess and each walks her own path to find her gift's purpose,
discovering romance along the way.
Townley, Rod. The Door in the Forest. Knopf, 2011. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
While trying to outwit the soldiers who are occupying their small town, fourteenyear-old Daniel, who cannot lie, and Emily, who discovers she has magical powers,
are inexplicably drawn to a mysterious island in the heart of the forest where
townsfolk have been warned never to go.
Treggiari, Jo. Ashes, Ashes. Scholastic, 2011. (Gr. 9+) SF
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In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes and epidemics,
Lucy survives alone until vicious hounds hunt her and force her to join Aidan, but
soon they learn that she is the target of the Sweepers.
Turner, Megan Whalen. The Conspiracy of Kings. Harpercollins, 2010. (Gr. 7+)
FAN
Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Sophos, an unwilling prince, tries to save his
country from being destroyed by rebellion and exploited by the conniving Mede
empire. Previous titles: #1 The Thief, 1996; #2 The Queen of Attolia, 2000; #3 The
King of Attolia, 2006.
Ursu, Anne. Breadcrumbs. Walden Pond Press, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr. 4-6)
FAN
Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. But that was before he stopped
talking to her and disappeared into a forest with a mysterious woman made of ice.
Now it's up to Hazel to go in after him.
Valente, Catherynne M. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her
Own Making. Feiwel and Friends, 2011. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
A young girl named September finds herself transported from her home in Omaha
to Fairyland, where she must battle the mysterious Marquess alongside her
creature-friends.
Van Cleve, Kathleen. Drizzle. Dial, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
When a drought threatens her family's magical rhubarb farm, eleven-year-old Polly
tries to find a way to make it rain again.
Van Diepen, Allison. The Vampire Stalker. Point, 2011. (Gr. 9+) PARANORMAL
Amy is in love with someone who doesn't exist: Alexander Banks, the dashing hero
in a popular series of vampire novels. Then one night, Amy meets a boy who bears
an eerie resemblance to Alexander. In fact, he IS Alexander, who has escaped from
the pages of the book and is in hot pursuit of a wicked vampire named Vigo.
Together, Amy and Alexander set out to track Vigo and learn how and why
Alexander crossed over. But when she and Alexander begin to fall for each other,
Amy wonders if she even wants him to ever return to the realm of fiction.
Vande Velde, Vivian. Deadly Pink. Harcourt, forthcoming 7/2012. (Gr. 5-8) SF
Grace Pizzelli is the average sister. She’s nothing like her brilliant older sister,
Emily, who works for Rasmussem, creators of the world’s best virtual reality games.
They seem so real that you can taste the food and smell the flowers. The games
aren’t real, though—or at least they weren’t. Now that Emily has hidden herself
inside one , it’s clear that the technology can only keep her safe for so long.
Something must have gone terribly wrong for Emily to retreat into the pink and
sparkly Land of the Golden Butterflies, but no one seems to know what.
Companion to: User Unfriendly, 1991; Heir Apparent, 2002.
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Vaughn, Carrie. Voice of Dragons. Harperteen, 2010. (Gr. 9+) FAN
In a parallel world where humans and dragons live in a state of cold war, seventeenyear-old Kay and her dragon friend, Artegal, struggle to find a way to show that
dragons and humans can co-exist.
Wagner, Hilary. The White Assassin. Holiday House, forthcoming 10/2011. (Gr. 58) FAN
Snakes, bats, and rats join forces to save Nightshade from Billycan and his horde of
brutal swamp rats, aided by an antidote to the drug that made Billycan the way he
is, but the revelation of secrets proves an even more powerful weapon in the fight
for peace.
Ward, David. Between Two Ends. Amulet Books, 2011. (Gr. 5-7) FAN
Trying to help his father deal with his long-standing depression, Yeats and his
parents visit his grandmother's old and eerie house, where he discovers a pair of
pirate bookends that unlock a thirty-year-old secret that Yeats must try to resolve
by entering the exotic world of "The Arabian Nights."
Ward, Rachel. Numbers. Scholastic, 2010. (Gr. 9+) SUPERNATURAL
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die,
so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a
boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved
than either of them had planned. Sequel: The Chaos, 2011.
Waters, Daniel. Generation Dead. Hyperion, 2008. (Gr. 9+) SUPERNATURAL
When teenagers that die come back to life and are labeled "living impaired" or
"differently biotic," they are integrated into the school population, but the living
teens don't want them around. Sequels: The Kiss of Life, 2009; Passing Strange,
2010.
Weatherly, L.A. Angel Burn. Candlewick, 2011. (Gr. 9+) Paranormal
Willow, a girl with a gift that allows her to see a person's future, hopes, dreams, and
sorrows just by touching him or her, meets Alex, a gorgeous, mysterious young man
who knows all about Willow's powers and their link to dark and dangerous forces,
and is sworn to destroy her. Sequel: Angel Fire, forthcoming 12/2011
Wells, Robison. Variant. HarperTeen, 2011. (Gr. 7+) SF
After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New
Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he
finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.
Wells, Rosemary. On the Blue Comet. Candlewick, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell
their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-yearold Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter,
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witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that
takes him to a different time and place.
Werlin, Nancy. Extraordinary. Dial, 2010. (Gr. 10+) FAN
Phoebe, a member of the wealthy Rothschilds family, befriends Mallory, an
awkward new girl in school, and the two become as close as sisters, but Phoebe does
not know that Mallory is a faerie, sent to the human world to trap the ordinary
human girl into fulfilling a promise made by her ancestor Mayer to the queen of the
faeries.
West, Michelle. City of the Night. Daw, 2010. (A/YA) FAN
As Rath joins with mages and the Twin Kings' agents to wage a secret battle against
the Lord of the Hells and his servants, he gives Jewel Markess and her den of
orphans the opportunity to escape the chaos by providing them with a note of
introduction to the head of House Terafin, where Jewel will discover her destiny.
Sequels in The House War series: House Name, 2011; Skirmish, forthcoming 1/2012;
Westerfeld, Scott. Leviathan. Simon Pulse, 2009. (Gr. 8+) SF
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from
the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical
machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the
British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts. Sequels:
Bohemeth, 2010; Goliath, forthcoming 9/2011.
White, Kiersten. Supernaturally. HarperTeen, 2011. (Gr. 7+) Paranormal
Sixteen-year-old Evie thinks she has left the International Paranormal Containment
Agency, and her own paranormal activities, behind her when she is recruited to help
at the Agency, where she discovers more about the dark faerie prophecy that
threatens her future. Previous title: Paranormalcy, 2010.
White, Ruth. You'll Like It Here. (Everybody Does) Delacorte Books, 2011. (Gr. 58) SF
Although Meggie Blue seems to be an average sixth-grader she is abnormally
frightened when residents of her small, North Carolina town become fixated on
aliens, and soon she and her family are forced to flee, making it clear that all is not
as it seems.
Wildavsky, Rachel. The Secret of Rover. Amulet Books, 2011. (Gr. 5-8) SF
Twelve-year-old twins Katie and David Bowen evade foreign militants and make
their way from Washington, D.C. to their uncle's Vermont home, hoping he can
help rescue their parents, who were kidnapped because of their secret invention,
Rover.
Whitley, David. The Midnight Charter. Roaring Brook, 2009. (Gr. 6+) FAN
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A special document and the lives of two children who know its secrets are at the
center of a dangerous adventure upon which the fate of the materialistic world in
which they live rests. Sequel: Children of the Lost, 2011.
Wilce, Ysabeau S. Flora’s Fury. Harcourt, forthcoming 5/2012. (Gr. 6+) FAN
Despite her troublesome attraction to magick, Flora Fyrdraaca has — more or less
— spent her life doing what's been expected of her. Yet now, at sixteen, she knows
that this path has been strewn with secrets. Secrets have kept her from following her
passion of becoming a ranger, of perfecting her use of magick, of proclaiming her
hidden identity. But Flora has had enough of living with lies. Previous titles: Flora
Segunda, 2007; Flora’s Dare, 2008.
Wilks, Mike. Mirrorscape. Egmont, 2009. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
In a world where all pleasures are severely restricted, Melkin Womper is
apprenticed to a master painter where he discovers the Mirrorscape, a world inside
paintings, and becomes entangled in a war between the restrictive Fifth Mystery
and the rebels fighting to stop them. Sequel: Mirrorstorm, forthcoming 10/2012.
Willingham, Bill. Down the Mysterly River. Starscape, 2011. (Gr. 7-10) FAN
Top notch Boy Scout Max "the Wolf" cannot remember how he came to be in a
strange forest, but soon he and three talking animals are on the run from the Blue
Cutters, hunters who will alter the foursome's very essence if they can catch them.
Wilson, Daniel H. A Boy and His Bot. Bloomsbury, 2011. (Gr. 5-8) SF
When timid young Code falls down a hole into Mekhos, where everything is made of
metal and circuitry, he must obtain the legendary Robonomicon from evil
Immortalis in order to save the robots of this subterranean world and return home.
Wilson, N. D. 100 Cupboards. Random House, 2007. (Gr. 4-6). FAN
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his
sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin
Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open
onto other worlds. Sequels: Dandelion Fire, 2009; The Chestnut King, 2010.
Wilson, N. D. The Dragon’s Tooth. Random House, 2011. (Gr. 4-6) FAN
For two years, Cyrus and Antigone Smith have run a sagging roadside motel with
their older brother, Daniel. Nothing ever seems to happen. Then a strange old man
with bone tattoos arrives, demanding a specific room. Less than 24 hours later, the
old man is dead. The motel has burned, and Daniel is missing. And Cyrus and
Antigone are kneeling in a crowded hall, swearing an oath to an order of explorers
who have long served as caretakers of the world's secrets, keepers of powerful relics
from lost civilizations, and jailers to unkillable criminals who have terrorized the
world for millennia.
Winterson, Jeanette. The Battle of the Sun. Bloomsbury, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN
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Chosen by the dark genius Magus to perfect an alchemy that will transform 17thcentury London into a golden place, Jack resolves to defy his evil master and save
the city, an effort marked by dragons, knights and the contributions of Elizabeth I.
Wooding, Chris. Malice. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr. 6+) FAN
Having read all about the sinister world in which the villainous Tall Jake resides,
fans Luke, Seth, and Kady learn more about it than they ever wanted when they are
suddenly pulled into the pages of their comic book and come face-to-face with Tall
Jake himself! Sequel: Havoc, 2010.
Wrede, Patricia. Thirteenth Child. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr. 7+) FAN
Eff must finally get over believing she is bad luck and accept that her special
training in Aphrikan magic, and being the twin of the seventh son of a seventh son,
give her extraordinary power to combat evil magical creatures. Sequel: Across the
Great Barrier, 2011.
Yep, Laurence. City of Fire. Tor, 2009. (Gr. 5-8) FAN
Twelve-year-old Scirye and her companions travel to Houlani, a new Hawaiian
island created by magic, where they enlist the help of volcano goddess Pele in an
attempt to stop an evil dragon and a mysterious man from altering the universe.
Sequel: City of Ice, 2011.
Yolen, Jane. Dragon’s Heart. Harcourt, 2009. (Gr. 6+) SF
Having been presumed dead, Jakkin and Akki finally return to Austar IV with
newfound skills, and the knowledge that what they have learned could either
transform their planet or destroy it. Previous titles: #1 Dragon’s Blood, 1982; #2
Heart’s Blood, 1984; #3 A Sending of Dragons, 1987.
Yolen, Jane and Midori Snyder. Except the Queen. Roc, 2010. (A/YA) FAN
Banished by the Fairy Queen to the mortal realm of Earth, two sisters, Serena and
Meteora, find themselves fighting a rising dark power that threatens both the fairy
and human worlds.
Yolen, Jane. Snow in Summer: Fairest of Them All. Philomel, forthcoming 11/2011.
With her black hair, red lips, and lily-white skin, Summer is as beautiful as her
father's garden. And her life in the mountains of West Virginia seems like a fairy
tale; her parents sing and dance with her, Cousin Nancy dotes on her, and she is
about to get a new baby brother. But when the baby dies soon after he's born,
taking Summer's mama with him, Summer's fairy-tale life turns grim. Things get
even worse when her father marries a woman who brings poisons and magical
mirrors into Summer's world. Stepmama puts up a pretty face, but Summer
suspects she's up to no good - and is afraid she's powerless to stop her.
Yovanoff, Brenna. The Replacement. Razorbill, 2010. (Gr. 9+) SUPERNATURAL
Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes
from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled
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by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement-left in the crib of a human baby
sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated
ground, Mackie is fighting to survive in the human world. Sequel: The Space
Between, forthcoming 11/2011.
Zevin, Gabrielle. All These Things I've Done. FS&G, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr. 9+)
SF
In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, cellphone use is illegal,
and water and paper are rationed, Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust into the
spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.
Zink, Michelle. Prophecy of the Sisters. Little Brown, 2009. (Gr. 9+)
SUPERNATURAL
An ancient prophecy has turned sixteen-year-old twin sisters, Lia and Alice, into
archenemies, forcing Lia to review the history of past generations in order to stop
Alice from taking part in a devastating act of betrayal that will destroy their special,
sisterly bond forever. Sequels: Guardian of the Gate, 2010; A Temptation of Angels,
forthcoming 3/2012.