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.

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

by Jordan Sonnenblick

Steven Alper's 8th grade year isn't starting out so great. He's madly in love with a girl named Renee who barely notices he's alive, and his 5 year old brother Jeffrey is as annoying as ever. At least he made the All-Star Jazz Band where can play the drums, but keeping up with teachers and homework even makes that hard.

Things really take a turn for the worse when Jeffrey is diagnosed with a serious illness, and suddenly Steven's life is really turned upside down. His parents are worried about Jeffrey's illness, and the bills and hospital stays that go with it. Steven really falls behind in school, and suddenly needs a tutor, who turns out to be the girl of his dreams.

Donut Days

by Lara Zielin

Both of Emma's parents are pastors of their own church and both feel very strongly about Emma going to a Christian college. But the Christian college that her parents want her to attend does not have a program in journalism and Emma loves to write. To have a chance at winning the money to pay for her own college tuition, Emma has to cover the opening of a new donut store. People come from all over to camp out weeks in advance. At the same time she is struggling to make her parents understand how important writing is to her, she finds out about a conspiracy to have her mother fired and she uncovers an environmental scandal involving her parents' church. All she wants is to be a writer and for her parents to trust her, but those simple wishes don't seem so simple after all.

What momma left me

by Renee Watson

Serenity and her brother have to live with their grandparents after a terrible accident leaves them without their mother. Their father is no where to be found. Serenity is 13 and has many secrets that she is afraid to share: her mother's secrets; her father's secrets; even her brother's secrets. But keeping them inside is hurting her. How can she be happy and peaceful knowing what really happened to her mother? How can she prove to her brother that she loves him if she can't keep his secrets? Doing the right thing never seemed so hard before.

Bruiser

by Neal Shusterman

When Bronte and her brother, Tennyson, are with Brewster, the world is a better place. The constant fighting of their parents doesn't bother them. The cuts and scrapes seem to disappear. Even when sadness, disappointment, and anger are within their world, it just doesn't seem so bad, as long as Brewster is around. Maybe Brew knows what to say to make you feel better. Maybe Brew just knows how to cheer you up. But if Brewster were such a fun and great guy to be around, why doesn't he have any other friends? Why do all the other kids avoid him?

The impossible is suddenly possible, but at what cost?

You

by Charles Benoit

Kyle Chase is typical. He's the typical guy who likes to hang out with his typical friends, making the typical bad choices young adutls make. That is, until he meets the new kid in school. Could this new guy be for real? After sort-of making friends with Zack, Kyle's life is not so typical anymore and he finds himself making no-so-typical choices. Sometimes you can take back your mistakes or, at least, make up for them. Sometimes it's too late.

After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick

Have you ever known anyone who had cancer?  Do you ever wonder about how they go back to being "normal" after all the treatments, pain, strong drugs, and hair loss?

Jeffrey Alper and his best friend, Tad Ibsen know all too well.  Both still live with the effects of their cancer treatment, and the constant worrying about it happening again.  Now they are eighth graders, trying to pass both their classes and a state test to get into high school.  There's also their parents, girls, and teachers who want them to keep challenging themselves, even when Jeff is not sure he'll have the brains or the strength.

This book is the sequel to "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie", which was about Jeff''s older brother Steven.  Now Steven, who Jeff has always leaned on for help with school and family, is in Africa and Jeff must find new ways to deal with all the hassles in his life.

Looks

by Madeleine George

Meghan Ball and Aimee Zorn are both judged by others based on their looks. They also have something else in common. They've both been burned by the same person who pretends to be a friend. How can one person be so invisible and large at the same time? How is it possible to be so sad that you are, literally, wasting away?

Meghan and Aimee join forces to get revenge on the one person who has betrayed their trust.

I am number four

by Pittacus Lore

Imagine being only one of nine others responsible for the survival of your race. There are those who are hunting you all down, one by one, to kill you. All nine of these survivors must be killed in numerical order. Numbers one, two, and three are already dead. Number four is next. But number four is fifteen now. He has a girlfriend and a best friend. He has finally found a place where he feels like he belongs, but THEY know where he is and THEY are coming after him. Should he stay and fight or continue to run?