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    Going Bovine
    by Libba Bray
            Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed
    with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a
    death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to
    find a cure.
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    Stealing Death
    by Janet Lee Carey
            After losing his family, except for his younger sister Jilly, and their home in
    a tragic fire, seventeen-year-old Kipp Corwin, a poor farmer, must wrestle with
    death itself in order to save Jilly and the woman he loves.
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    Fire
    by Kristin Cashore
            In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with
    unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her,
    but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.
    (added 10/09)
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    The Amanda Project: Invisible I
    by Melissa Kantor
            When new and unconventional high school student Amada Valentino
    disappears, her three closest friends, who are all from vastly different circles,
    band together and, using enigmatic clues that seem to come from Amanda herself,
    try to find her.      
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    The Monster Variations
    by Daniel Kraus
            On his way to State University, nineteen-year-old James runs into a former
    friend and is immersed in memories from the year they were twelve and learned
    that monsters exist in the world--and within themselves.    
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    Hold Still
    by Nina LaCour
            Ingrid didn't leave a note. Three months after her best friend's suicide,
    Caitlin finds what she left instead: a journal, hidden under Caitlin's bed.
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    Liar
    by Justine Larbalestier
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    The Treasure Map of Boys
    by E. Lockhart
            A Seattle sixteen-year-old juggles therapy, running a school bake sale,
    coping with her performance artist mother, growing distant from an old friend,
    and conflicting feelings about her ex-boyfriend and potential new boyfriends.  
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    Hamlet
    by John Marsden
            Grieving for the recent death of his beloved father and appalled by his
    mother's quick remarriage to his uncle, Hamlet, heir to the Danish throne,
    struggles with conflicting emotions, particularly after his father's ghost appeals
    to him to avenge his death.
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    Purple Heart
    by Patricia McCormick
            While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury
    sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles
    to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.
    (added 10/09)
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    Shooting Star
    by Fredrick McKissack, Jr.
            Jomo Rogers, a naturally talented athlete, starts taking performance
    enhancing drugs in order to be an even better high school football player, but
    finds his life spinning out of control as his game improves.   
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    Days of Little Texas
    by R.A. Nelson
            Sixteen-year-old Ronald Earl King, who has been a charismatic evangelist
    since he was ten years old, is about to preach at a huge revival meeting on the
    grounds of an old plantation, where, with confusing help from the ghost of a girl
    he could not heal, he becomes engaged in an epic battle between good and evil.
    (added 8/09)
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    The Ask and the Answer
    by Patrick Ness
            Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated
    as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space
    colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
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    Intertwined
    by Gena Showalter
            Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living
    inside him: one can time travel, one can raise the dead, one can tell the future,
    and one can possess another human, and then he meets a girl who quiets the
    voices.
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    Shiver
    by Maggie Striefvater
            In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house,
    Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn,
    has been watching her with increasing intensity.
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    My Soul to Take
    by Rachel Vincent
            Kaylee has become a "soul screamer"--she knows when someone is going to
    die and is compelled to scream, as if in warning. But her classmates keep dying!
    (added 9/09)
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    The Rules of Survival
    by Nancy Werlin
            Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age,
    to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically
    abusive mother.
    (added 8/09)
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    Leviathan
    by Scott Westerfeld
            In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run
    from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using
    mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a
    boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
    (added 10/09)
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