The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin

YA FIC BER

Being a hefty, deaf newcomer almost makes Will Halpin the least popular guy at Coaler High. But when he befriends the only guy less popular than him, the dork-namic duo has the smarts and guts to figure out who knocked off the star quarterback. Will can’t hear what’s going on, but he’s a great observer. So, who did it? And why does that guy talk to his fingers? And will the beautiful girl ever notice him? (Okay, so Will’s interested in more than just murder . . .)

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Little Brother

YA FIC DOC

Chaos ensues when the San Francesco Bridge is destroyed by a terrorist attack. The only ones found at the scene by the Department of Home Land Security are:

Marcus Yellow - a 17 year-old tech junkie who enjoys cutting school to play alternate reality games as the leader of his foursome of friends.

Darryl Glover - the best friend of Marcus who handles all the details of the group’s gaming plans.

Vanessa Park - a North Korean techy who attends an all-girls Catholic school and comes up with all the ideas.

Jois Torrez - The vain, tech savvy, genius who handles all the technical aspects of the group.

Together do they make 4 average, game playing, high-school students, just ditching school to play the latest round of Harajuku Fun Madness? Or are they really a threat to national security?

If I Stay

YA FIC FOR

Slam

YA FIC HOR

15 year old Sam’s life has been pretty on track for him lately. His teachers finally think he has college potential, his mom has dumped her loser boyfriend, he’s mastered some new, more difficult skateboarding tricks (with the help of his idol, Tony Hawke, whose poster talks back to Sam: ok so it's actually quotes from Tony Hawke's autobiography), and he’s even started dating Alicia, a girl who he thought was way out of his league. Live is perfect until Alicia tells Sam that she’s pregnant and going to keep the baby. SLAM!

“It took years for everything to come together like that, and it took two seconds to screw it all up. One mistake and my life would never be the same.”

Jellicoe Road

YA FIC MAR 

Everything starts on Jellico Road. A tragic accident 20 years ago that has forever interwoven the life of 5 young people. Taylor Markham being abandoned by her mother at the age of 11.  A territory war at the Jellico School between the townies, the cadets and the school houses, led by Taylor who is now a senior. The disappearance of a dear friend who may have the story of Taylor’s past locked away in a secret manuscript. The appearance of a dark stranger with the key to unlocking it. And Taylor’s emotional journey to discovering both her past and future path down Jellico Road ....

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

YA FIC ALE

Have you ever felt that if you were someone else, even just part-time, your life would be better? You'd be better? That what Arnold "Junior" Spirit thought when he asked to transfer to a high school off of the Spokane Indian Reservation. Perhaps, just perhaps, he'd found the chance to escape from the poverty, his alcoholic relatives, his chronic illnesses, and the feeling that he'll never deserve anything better. Faced with the challenges of racial stereotypes by people at his new school and his entire tribe thinking he is a traitor. Junior will learn that the journey he needs to take to find out who he truly is meant to be (full-time), is a lot longer than the 22 mile drive off the reservation.

Saving Francesca

YA FIC MAR

Francesca is working to save everyone but herself: Her mom Mia, is in a deep depression and doesn’t leave the bedroom, her father can’t seem to get a grip on the fact that the family is falling apart, her younger brother Luca, who needs help with homework and meals on the dinner table, oh yes, and all the girls at St. Sebastian’s school, where up until this year has been a boys only school. But add one toilet and 30 girls and presto you have a co-ed school where the boys are intolerable, the teachers are unsympathetic, and girls who are ready for a revolution. Normally Francesca has the unwavering support of her mother, but not this time.

“And I want to tell her everything. About Thomas Mackee the slob and Tara Finke the fanatic and Justine Kalinsky the loser and Siobhan Sullivan the slut. And I want to tell her about William Trombal and how my heart beat fast when he looked at me, but more than anything, I want to say to her that I’ve forgotten my name and the sound of my voice and that she can’t spend out whole lives being so vocal and then shut down this way. If I had to work out the person I speak to the most in a day, it’s Mia, and that’s what I’m missing”

Alone, scared and lost in a mounting sea of pressure, just who’s going to be the one saving Francesca?