DOES MY HEAD LOOK BIG IN THIS?
by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Year eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith–without losing her identity or sense of style.

THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN
by Sherman Alexie
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

FUNNY LITTLE MONKEY
by Andrew Auseon
Arty, an abnormally short fourteen-year-old boy, enlists the help of a group of students, known at school as the "pathetic losers," to take revenge against his abusive, tall fraternal twin brother.

YOTSUBA&! (Series)
by Kiyohiko Azuma
With no knowledge of the world around her and an unnatural fear of air conditioners, Yotsuba has her new neighbors' heads spinning. Join the hilarious exploits of an out-of-this-world schoolgirl as her befuddled friends attempt to uncover the secrets behind this strange child!

I'D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU, BUT THEN I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU
by Ally Carter
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.

AL CAPONE DOES MY SHIRTS
by Gennifer Choldenko
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A HOLLYWOOD STARLET
by Lola Douglas
Teen movie star Morgan Carter retreats to a small midwestern town to recuperate anonymously after an overdose and rehabilitation, recording her thoughts in a diary.

THE SECRET BLOG OF RAISIN RODRIGUEZ
by Judy Goldschmidt
In a blog she sends to her best friends back in Berkeley, seventh-grader Raisin Rodriguez chronicles her successes and her humiliating failures as she attempts to make friends at her new Philadelphia school.

AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES
by John Green
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.

SPLIT SCREEN
by Brent Hartinger
Two books in one tell of sixteen-year-old friends Russel, who is gay, and Min, who is bisexual, as they face separate romantic troubles while working as extras on the set of a horror movie.

BAD KITTY
by Michele Jaffe
While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her friends, recently arrived from California.

ANOTHER KIND OF COWBOY
by Susan Juby
In Vancouver, British Columbia, two teenage dressage riders, one a spoiled rich girl and the other a closeted gay sixteen-year-old boy, come to terms with their identities and learn to accept themselves.

MY MOST EXCELLENT YEAR: A NOVEL OF LOVE, MARY POPPINS, AND FENWAY PARK
by Steve Kluger
Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.

WHAT'S MICHAEL? (Series)
by Makoto Kobayashi
One of manga's most delightful exports to the States, this is a one-of-a-kind blend of screwball fantasy mixed with slice-of-life hilarity that has audiences on both sides of the world rolling in the aisles.

SON OF THE MOB: HOLLYWOOD HUSTLE
by Gordon Korman
Eighteen-year-old Vince Luca, son of mob boss Anthony Luca, goes away to college in southern California hoping to escape his past, but soon his brother and a series of "uncles" appear at his dorm, and before long he is caught up in criminal activity once again.

HOW TO DITCH YOUR FAIRY
by Justine Larbalestier
In a world in which everyone has a personal fairy who tends to one aspect of daily life, fourteen-year-old Charlie decides she does not want hers–a parking fairy–and embarks on a series of misadventures designed to rid herself of the invisible sprite and replace it with a better one, like her friend Rochelle's shopping fairy.

GIRL, 15, CHARMING BUT INSANE
by Sue Limb
Fifteen-year-old Jess, living with her mum, separated from her father in Cornwall, and with a best friend who seems to do everything perfectly, finds her own assets through humor.

THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU-BANKS
by E. Lockhart
Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.

THE BOYFRIEND LIST
by E. Lockhart
A Seattle fifteen-year-old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance-artist mother and her father and more.

I'M BEING STALKED BY A MOONSHADOW
by Doug MacLeod
As his odd parents fight the regional environmental health officer about their dung-covered house and his melodramatic younger brother demands attention, fourteen-year-old Australian Seth Parrot simply seeks the muscular woman of his dreams.

WHAT-THE-DICKENS: THE STORY OF A ROGUE TOOTH FAIRY
by Gregory Maguire
As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage's tale of a newly-hatched, orphaned, skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibbereen tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.

DAIRY QUEEN
by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.

PULLING PRINCES
by Tyne O'Connell
Hoping to become more popular at her elegant English boarding school, fifteen-year-old Californian Calypso Kelly invents a fake handsome boyfriend, until she realizes that her wit and skill at fencing may be enough to attract the attention of a real-life handsome prince.

SCOTT PILGRIM (Series)
by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Scott Pilgrim's life is fantastic. He's 23, in a rock band, between jobs, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's awesome until a seriously mind-blowing delivery girl named Ramona Flowers enters his life.

HOW ANGEL PETERSON GOT HIS NAME
by Gary Paulsen
Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.

LIFE, LOVE, AND THE PURSUIT OF FREE THROWS
by Janette Rallison
High school freshmen Josie and Cami try to remain best friends as they compete for basketball awards and boys.

VIBES
by Amy Kathleen Ryan
Kristi, a sophomore in an alternative high school, is aware that nearly everyone dislikes her–even those obsessed by her large breasts–but begins to doubt her psychic insights after learning long-held family secrets and some classmates' true feelings.

THE WEDNESDAY WARS
by Gary D. Schmidt
On Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

THE SCHWA WAS HERE
by Neal Shusterman
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.

ANATOMY OF A BOYFRIEND
by Daria Snadowsky
n her last semester at a private school in Fort Myers, Florida, seventeen-year-old Dom finds her life transformed by her first boyfriend, Wes, a track star at the public school her best friend attends.

VAMPIRE HIGH
by Douglas Rees
When his family moves from California to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.

THE BOOK OF BUNNY SUICIDES
by Andy Riley
From an encounter with the business end of Darth Vader's lightsaber, to supergluing themselves to a diving submarine, to hanging around underneath a loose stalactite, these bunnies are serious about suicide.

HOW TO GET SUSPENDED AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
by Adam Selzer
Gifted eighth-grader Leon Harris becomes an instant celebrity when the film he makes for a class project sends him to in-school suspension.

BONE VOLUME 1: OUT FROM BONEVILLE
by Jeff Smith
After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins are separated and lost in a vast uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures.

FREAK SHOW
by James St. James
Having faced teasing that turned into a brutal attack, Christianity expressed as persecution, and the loss of his only real friend when he could no longer keep his crush under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen, decides the only to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

SURVIVING THE APPLEWHITES
by Stephanie S. Tolan
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.

BE MORE CHILL
by Ned Vizzini
Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.

THE CALVIN AND HOBBES TENTH ANNIVERSARY BOOK
by Bill Watterson
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of this distinguished partnership between a six-year-old boy and his (sometimes) stuffed tiger, Watterson has prepared a special book, which shares his thoughts on cartooning and is illustrated throughout.

MY DEAD GIRLFRIEND: VOLUME 1
by Eric Wight
When Finney arrives at the first day of eighth grade, he meets the new girl in school–a ghost named Jenny. He summons all of his courage and asks Jenny to the Dead Day Dance, but the only problem is she's a ghost and he's not, meaning they can't actually dance, hold hands, or even share a kiss. What's a boy to do?

Nonfiction

CANDYFREAK: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE CHOCOLATE UNDERBELLY OF AMERICA
by Steve Almond
From the Twin Bing to the Idaho Spud, the Valomilk to the Abba-Zaba, and discontinued bars such as the Caravelle, Marathon and Choco-Lite, Almond uncovers a trove of singular candy bars made by unsung heroes working in old-fashioned factories.

KING OF THE MILD FRONTIER
by Chris Crutcher
Whether trying to impress members of the girls' softball team–with disastrous dental results–or enduring the humiliation of his high school athletic club initiation, Crutcher's recollections of the tricky road to adulthood is peppered with hilarious, heartbreaking and unforgettable events.

DARWIN AWARDS 4: INTELLIGENT DESIGN
by Wendy Northcutt with Christopher M. Kelly
Filled with more than 100 new tales of evolution in action and complete with essential science and safety discussions, this book shows that when it comes to common sense, natural selection still has a long way to go.

BAT BOY LIVES!: THE WEEKLY WORLD NEWS GUIDE TO POLITICS, CULTURE, CELEBRITIES, ALIEN ABDUCTIONS, AND THE MUTANT FREAKS THAT SHAPE OUR WORLD
by David Perel & the editors of the Weekly World News
All the news that's not fit to print is found in this fascinating compendium of the best of Weekly World News.

FOUND: THE BEST LOST, TOSSED, AND FORGOTTEN ITEMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
by David Rothbart
From discarded valentines to a breakup letter written on the back of an air sickness bag, this tribute to everyday life takes an uncensored, poignant and hilarious peek into other people's lives.

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