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1) Pop
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
2) Firelight
Author
Series
Firelight novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Jacinda, who can change into a dragon, is forced to move away from her community of shapeshifters and start a more normal life, she falls in love with a boy who proves to be her most dangerous enemy.
4) Revived
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been brought back from the dead repeatedly by a top-secret government super drug called Revive, and forced to move so the public does not learn the truth, fifteen-year-old Daisy meets people worth living for and begins to question the heavy-handed government controls she has dealt with for eleven years.
5) Unleashed
Author
Series
Wolf Springs chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned Kat McBride, nearly seventeen, must leave California to live with her grandfather in small-town Arkansas, where she is drawn into a paranormal world of feuding werewolf clans.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After moving to Minot, North Dakota, with his mother, the new female base commander, Air Force dependent Stu Ballentyne gradually becomes aware that something terrible is going on in his neighbor's house.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed "It" girl in her class, but her grades stink. Their worlds are about to collide when Stewart and his dad move in with Ashley and her mom. Stewart is trying to be 89.9 percent happy about it, but Ashley is 110 percent horrified. She already has to hide the real reason her dad moved out; "Spewart" could further threaten her position...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her mother's attempted suicide, thirteen-year-old Anna goes to live with her father and his new family, and learns to navigate the shifting loyalties of middle school friendships.
9) Skellig
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dina is used to being popular but starting a new school in eighth grade is difficult, especially where cliques rule, and although working with "queen bee" Chelsea on a video project should help, Chelsea is hiding huge family problems that could mean trouble for both girls.
11) Bystander
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.
12) Dog sense
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After he and his mother move from California to Montana to live with his grandfather, thirteen-year-old Guy gradually adjusts to the unfamiliar surroundings, makes a friend, and learns to deal with a bully, with the help of his Frisbee-catching dog, Streak.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he died.
14) Zombie blondes
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Each time fifteen-year-old Hannah and her out-of-work father move she has some fears about making friends, but a classmate warns her that in Maplecrest, Vermont, the cheerleaders really are monsters.
15) Invisible lines
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Coming from a poor, single-parent family, seventh-grader Trevor must rely on his intelligence, artistic ability, quick wit, and soccer prowess to win friends at his new Washington, D.C. school, but popular and rich Xander seems determined to cause him trouble.
16) Through her eyes
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Stringz
Author
Publisher
WestSide Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jace Adams, a cellist who loves to surf, never fits in where his mother decides to move them, but after a difficult start in Seattle, he comes to realize that talent is not something to hide and that he has "family" in some unexpected places.
Author
Publisher
Wizards of the Coast
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When newly-turned teen vampire Mina Hamilton, now Smith, moves with her family far from their California home, her best friend Serena, and her vampire boyfriend George, life is not at all what she expects.
19) Peanut
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
206 pages : illustrations, some color ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Nervous about starting her sophomore year at a new high school, Sadie decides to make herself more interesting by claiming to be allergic to peanuts, but her lie quickly spirals out of control.
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