2010 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

THE STREET ART BOOK: 60 ARTISTS IN THEIR OWN WORDS **Available from Prospector with a Denver Public Library card.**
by Ric Blackshaw and Liz Farrelly
The first book to go behind the scenes of the street art world.

THE NAKED TRUTH: YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL AND (HIV) POSITIVE
by Marvelyn Brown with Courtney E. Martin
A surprisingly hopeful story of how a straight, non-promiscuous, everyday girl contracted HIV and how she manages to stay upbeat, inspired and more positive about life than ever before.

PERFECT CHEMISTRY **Available from Prospector with a Denver Public Library card.**
by Simone Elkeles
When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates, and others.

JUMPING OFF SWINGS
by Jo Knowles
Tells, from four points of view, the ramifications of a pregnancy resulting from a "one-time thing" between Ellie and Josh.

DOPE SICK
by Walter Dean Myers
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.

THE VAMPIRE BOOK
by Sally Regan
Learn how vampires live, how they avoid capture, and why they're so darn attractive. Also trace the history of vampire lore – in literature, movies and on television – from the woods of Transylvania to the modern-day high school.

LOCKDOWN: ESCAPE FROM FURNACE
by Alexander Gordon Smith
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.

SHOW ME HOW: 500 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW, INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE FROM THE EVERYDAY TO THE EXOTIC
by Derek Fagerstrom, Lauren Smith & the Show Me Team
In a series of 500 nearly wordless, highly informative step-by-step procedurals, readers learn how to do hundreds of useful (and fascinating and important and sometimes downright bizarre) tasks.

HIGH VOLTAGE TATTOO
by Kat Von D.
A rich view of contemporary tattoo culture, as only a true insider can offer.

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