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Copper Sun by Sharon Draper

• Winner of the 2007 Coretta Scott King Award
• Two fifteen-year-old girlsone a slave and the
  other an indentured servantescape their Carolina
  plantation and try to make their way to Fort
  Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives
  sanctuary to slaves.

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Touching Spirit Bearby Ben Mikaelsen

• Within Cole Matthews lies anger, rage and hate.
  Cole has been stealing and fighting for years.
  This time he caught Peter Driscal in the parking
  lot and smashed his head against the sidewalk.
  Now, Peter may have permanent brain damage and
  Cole is in the biggest trouble of his life. Cole
  is offered Circle Justice a system based on
  Native American traditions that attempts to
  provide healing for the criminal offender, the
  victim, and the community. With prison as his
  only alternative, Cole plays along. He says he
  wants to repent, but in his heart, Cole blames
  his alcoholic mom, his abusive dad, wimpy Peter-
  everyone but himself- for his situation. Cole
  receives a one-year banishment to a remote
  Alaskan island. There, he is mauled by a
  mysterious white bear of Native American legend.
  Hideously injured, Cole waits for death. His
  thoughts shift from anger to humility. To
  survive, he must stop blaming others and take
  responsibility for his life. Rescuers arrive to
  save Cole's body, but it is the attack of the
  Spirit Bear that may save his soul.

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Ravens Gate by Anthony Horowitz

• Ravens Gate is the first in the Gatekeepers
  series about five young people who must save the
  world from evil. 14-year-old Matt, a troubled
  orphan who is in with the wrong crowd. As
  punishment for being present during an assault,
  Matt must choose between life with off-putting
  Mrs. Deverill in a remote Yorkshire village, or
  jail. As Matt soon learns, Lesser Malling is much
  worse than jail, because strange and dangerous
  things are occurring there. Raven's Gate, an
  ancient portal to the world of evil, is about to
  be opened, and Matt is to be the blood sacrifice.

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Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

• This is the first book in the Percy Jackson and
  the Olympians series, about a contemporary
  12-year-old New Yorker who learns he's a demigod.
  Perseus, aka Percy Jackson, thinks he has big
  problems. His father left before he was born,
  he's been kicked out of six schools in six years,
  he's dyslexic, and he has ADHD. What a surprise
  when he finds out that that's only the tip of the
  iceberg he vaporizes his pre-algebra teacher,
  learns his best friend is a satyr, and is almost
  killed by a minotaur before his mother manages to
  get him to the safety of Camp Half-Blood--where
  he discovers that Poseidon is his father. But
  that's a problem, too. Poseidon has been accused
  of stealing Zeus' lightning bolt, and unless
  Percy can return the bolt,humankind is doomed.

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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

• Tally Youngblood lives in a futuristic society
  that acculturates its citizens to believe that
  they are ugly until age 16 when they'll undergo
  an operation that will change them into
  pleasure-seeking "pretties." Anticipating this
  happy transformation, Tally meets Shay, another
  female ugly, who shares her enjoyment of
  hoverboarding and risky pranks. But Shay also
  disdains the false values and programmed
  conformity of the society and urges Tally to
  defect with her to the Smoke, a distant
  settlement of simple-living conscientious
  objectors. Tally declines, yet when Shay is found
  missing by the authorities, Tally is coerced by
  the cruel Dr. Cable to find her and her
  compatriotsor remain forever "ugly." Tally's
  adventuresome spirit helps her locate Shay and
  the Smoke. It also attracts the eye of David, the
  aptly named youthful rebel leader. Who can Tally
  trust?

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Twilight
twilight
by Stephanie Meyer
There are three things that Isabella knows. 1.
Edward is a vampire 2. There's a part of himhow
big a part, she isn't surethat truly thirsts for
her blood 3. She is unconditionally and
irrevocably in love with him. Of course,
Isabella never planned on falling in love with a
vampire. It's not the kind of thing you put in
your dayplanner. Tuesday, 4pm, fall in love with
blood-sucking undead monster. Nope. Imagine
going to your boyfriend's house for dinner to
meet his parents knowing that under other
circumstances you'd be the main course. Isabella
knows that loving Edward is dangerous. She even
suspects that she may be putting her
familyeveryone else she cares aboutat risk.
But what Isabella doesn't realize is that Edward
and his family aren't the only vampires in town.
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Among the Hiddenby Margaret Peterson Haddix

• Luke has never been to school. He's never had a
  birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for
  an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a
  friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a
  third child forbidden by the Population Police.
  He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now,
  with a new housing development replacing the
  woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer
  even allowed to go outside.
• Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the
  window of a house where he knows two other
  children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow
  child like himself. Jen is willing to risk
  everything to come out of the shadows does Luke
  dare to become involved in her dangerous plan?
  Can he afford not to?

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Code Orangeby Caroline B. Cooney

• Mitty Blake is a talented but underachieving
  student in advanced biology at a New York City
  private high school. He is more interested in his
  friend Olivia than in completing his
  infectious-disease report, which could keep him
  from flunking. When he discovers a smallpox scab
  in an envelope in an old medical book, his
  research takes an urgent turn as he tries to
  determine whether he has contracted the disease.
  Searching for information on the Internet
  (thankfully, the high-achieving Olivia knows how
  to use a library), he inadvertently alerts a
  terrorist group to his situation. They kidnap
  Mitty with the intention of using him as a human
  biological weapon against the people of New York.

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2007 Middle School AwardSome rules keep us safe,
some dont always seem necessary, and some can
usually go without saying Rules like Keep
your pants on in public, and If the bathroom
door is locked, KNOCK! (especially if Catherine
has a friend over!) Catherine takes care of her
little brother whos autistic, by writing down
important rules like these ones and protecting
him when other kids make fun of him. Still, she
wants to be a normal kid make friends with the
girl next door and go with a boy to the summer
dance. NOT necessarily go with her brother to his
occupational therapy appointments. But, while
shed there she finds an unlikely friend. Jason
can only communicate by pointing to word cards in
a notebook, but he doesnt really have useful
words like whatever and sucks a big one, so
Catherine makes him more. She enjoys getting to
know Jason, but would it ruin her chances of
being a normal 12-year-old if she tells other
people about him?
(Stella Shafer, MLIS student, iSchool, University
of Washington)
Rules by Cynthia Lord
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Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar

• Ah, 9th grade.  Freshmen year.  New beginnings. 
  Scott is looking forward to it and yet he is a
  bit nervous.  As he readies himself for his big
  year, his home life seems to get complicated by
  the return of his older brother and the
  announcement that his mother is having another
  baby.  Scott's year doesn't go as planned and
  through a series of hilarious misadventures, we
  see him change and grow.  Throughout it all, he
  writes a series of letters to his yet unborn
  sibling as a manual for how to survive your
  freshmen year.  These include lessons in lost
  friends, unattainable girls, new friends and
  unexpected secrets from the family.

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

• Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in
  the walls of a busy Paris train station, where
  his survival depends on secrets and anonymity.
  But when his world suddenly interlocks with an
  eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who
  runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's
  undercover life, and his most precious secret,
  are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a
  treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical
  man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father
  form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and
  spellbinding mystery.

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Stargirlby Jerry Spinelli

• Stargirl, a strange girl, went to a regular
  school. No one except two people liked her.
  Stargirl becomes popular, then she is not.
  Stargirl is strange because she sings Happy
  Birthday on her ukulele. How does she know
  everyone's birthday? At the beginning Leo (a boy)
  gets a porcupine necktie. It does not have a name
  on the box! Who is it from?

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House of the Scorpionby Nancy Farmer

• At his coming-of-age party, Matteo Alacrán asks
  El Patrón's bodyguard, "How old am I?...I know I
  don't have a birthday like humans, but I was
  born." "You were harvested," Tam Lin reminds him.
  "You were grown in that poor cow for nine months
  and then you were cut out of her." To most people
  around him, Matt is not a boy, but a beast. But
  for El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium --
  a strip of poppy fields lying between the U.S.
  and what was once called Mexico -- Matt is a
  guarantee of eternal life. El Patrón loves Matt
  as he loves himself for Matt is himself. They
  share identical DNA.

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Life As We Knew It
Life as We Knew It
By Susan Beth Pfeffer
When scientists predict that an asteroid will
collide with the moon, Miranda and her neighbors
break out their lawn chairs to watch the
spectacular show.  But when the collision pushes
the moon closer to the Earth, it sets off
devastating tsunamis, earthquakes, and storms. 
Through her daily journal entries, Miranda
recounts her familys struggle to survive.  While
the book falls firmly into the science fiction
genre, it will also appeal to readers who enjoyed
Anne Franks diary, as the focus of the narrative
is on a girl facing grim circumstances and
ultimately learning about herself and the nature
of hope.   (New Hampshire Isinglass Teen Read
Award committee)
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