Forgive My Fins

by Tera Lynn Childs

Lily Sanderson is half human, half mermaid. When she gets the chance, and permision, from her father to live as a human for a few years in her aunts house she jumps at the chance to find out what it's like to be a human girl, attending a human high school, falling in love with a human guy. This is her chance to find out more about her human mother and what her life was like on land.

Life gets a little complicated when you're a teenager. Imagine how complicated things would be if you don't acually belong to the group of people you hang around with. You have a secret you can't share with anyone, not even your best friend of 3 years. The guy you like doesn't even know who you are, while the guy that likes you is constantly making your life miserable.

Brain Jack

by Brian Falkner

Computer hacking. It's a problem that's real. Some people think hackers are cool. Some people think hackers are criminals. What if the government were to hire all the best hackers in the world to monitor the security of the most important places in the United States? It would be a very important job, but not without it's down side. You would make tons of money, but not be able to go anywhere without being guarded. The government would have to know your every move.... your every thought.

What if the government you are working to protect is able to hack into your brain and controll your memories, your thoughts? Is hacking still cool when your government hacks into your brain?

Fat Cat

by Robin Brande

Your best friend is supposed to be someone you can trust. Someone you tell all your secrets to and who tells you all of theirs. Your best friend is not supposed to say things behind your back. Ugly things. Unforgivable things. But that's just what happened between Cat and her ex-best friend, Matt.

Now, Cat is launching a science experiment that can possibly change everything. She's better and smarter than Matt could ever hope to be. With Amanda's help (Cat's new BFF) her science project will surprise everyone: her family, her friends, her teacher, and the science fair judges... IF she can survive the experiments.

Dragonfly

by Julia Golding

Tashi and Ramil are getting married, not because they love each other, but because it will build their country's armies with enough strength and power to stop an invasion from their common enemy. Actually, Tashi and Ramil pretty much hate each other.

Before they can even get to know each other, they are kidnapped by circus bandits only to be taken deep into the forest with no hope of escape. They don't trust each other and they can't trust any one else. How will they escape? How will they save their countries from attack? Will both be able to survive the beatings and tricks from enemies coming at them from all sides?

Ship Breaker

by Paolo Bacigalupi

Imagine a world where oil and gas are scarce. Imagine having to salvage copper wiring, aluminum, and other metals to make a buck. Now, imagine having to use children, small enough to fit in tight spaces, to crawl through old, rusty, abandoned ships to collect and salvage these precious metals. What happens when you get older and your body isn't as small as it used to be? What do you have to do make a better life for yourself. Maybe....... you don't want to know.

Nailer is a teenage boy who's job it is to scavenge through wrecked ship, but he's getting older, and bigger. What he needs is a lucky break. His dad is not someone you would look forward to seeing. His mother died doing what Nailer is doing now inside the ships. No brothers. No sisters. Luck isn't on his side.

How to Survive Middle School

by Donna Gephart

Food fights and fist fights everyday. Eighth graders putting sixth graders into lockers. Ex-best friends and bullies. How do you survive all the stuff that goes on in middle school?

David Greenberg is about to find out and share the secrets to surviving middle school on the internet. His internet video show "Talk Time" includes celebrity interviews, a singing hamster, and the daily acne forecast.

Thinking this is NOT cool? Think again. David's videos go viral and....  well, you read it and find out.

The Danger Box

by Blue Balliett

What if you found a box with a secret treasure inside it? Imagine the possibilities of what that could be. Do you share the secret with someone or keep it to yourself? What if someone was trying to track down the box with the secret treasure? ...and they were willing to do anything to get to it? Do you hide it and risk your life and the lives of the people around you, give it up, or give the box to the police?

Zoomy Chamberlain lives with his grandparents. He has no idea where is parents are, not that he wants to find out. They live in a small town where nothing exciting happens. Ever. Until now.

Zoomy has found the danger box.

Witch and Wizard

by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet

Whit and Wisty Allgood are brother and sister. They are also a witch and wizard, but they have no clue about their powers. It all comes as a surprise to them when they are awakened in the middle of the night by officers of the New Order. Their parents disappear, Whit and Wisty are arrested, and sentenced to death.

While in the hospital awaiting their death, Whit and Wisty discover other kids have been arrested as well. That's the weird part: Only kids have been arrested and are locked up in this hospital. It's up to the brother and sister to escape and lead the others to freedom.

Fever Crumb

by Philip Reeve

As far back as she can remember, Fever has always been an engineer in training.  Dr. Crumb tells her she was found in a basket with a note telling her name, but nothing else. Her only memories are those growing up in Godshawk's Head, until now.

When she is sent to help Kit on an archaeology project, she is consumed with thoughts, images, and memories not her own. Who's are they? What do they mean? Why is this happening to her? She has more questions than answers and when it seems she might be getting information about who she really is, someone tries to kill her. Travel with Fever on her journey through her mysterious past and with her into her unknown future.

Incarceron

by Catherine Fisher

Finn is on the inside. Claudia is on the outside. Incarceron, the prison, keeps their two worlds from coming together.

The thing about Incarceron is: if you're on the inside, there's no getting out. No one knows where it is and no one knows exactly WHAT it is either. Only the Warden and the inmates know what really goes on inside the walls of Incarceron.

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

Eleven year old Delphine lives in Brooklyn with her Father, Grandma (Big Ma) and two younger sisters.  The girls' Mother left them to live in California when they were small.  One summer their Father decides the girls should get to know their Mother, Cecile, and the three sisters fly across the country by themselves to Oakland, California in the summer of 1968.  It turns out Cecile isn't much of a Mother, she never cooks for them, and sends them to the neighborhood day camp every day.  The camp is run by a group called the Black Panthers, who wear large afros and black berets, and teach the girls to question everything they were taught to believe.   How will this summer in Oakland change Delphine and her sisters and the way they feel about their distant Mother, who seems to want nothing to do with them?

The Monstrumologist

by Rick Yancey

What if there were scientist who really studied monsters? What would their lives be like and how would they go about studying the things they specialized in? Where do you find monsters; or do they find you?

This story is told by Will Henry. He is the apprentice, the assistant, to the town's monstrumologist, Dr. Pellinore. The things Will has seen are incredibly terrorizing and horribly gross. Don't read this book before you go to bed. It may give you nightmares.