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2008

BAD TICKETS

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
O'Dell
Author's First Name: 
Kathleen
Publisher: 
Knopf
Publication Date: 
2007

Arriving at Sacred Heart Academy in 1967, 16-year old Jane introduces sedate Mary Margaret to a different lifestyle that includes cutting class and smoking pot. Each learns from the other as they strive to make sense of their relationships and emerging independence.

THE WHITE DARKNESS

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
McCaughrean
Author's First Name: 
Geraldine
Publisher: 
Harper Teen
Publication Date: 
2007

When her "Uncle" Victor takes fourteen-year-old Sym to Antarctica, his mad search for the entrance to a mythical underworld turns into a desperate race for survival in a real and hostile environment where she has only an imaginary companion for support.

BOY TOY

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Lyga
Author's First Name: 
Barry
Publisher: 
Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: 
2007

Josh’s “flickers” of memory gradually grow to a full-fledged retelling of how his seductive 24-year-old teacher molested him when he was twelve.

DRAMARAMA

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Lockhart
Author's First Name: 
E.
Publisher: 
Hyperion
Publication Date: 
2007

Sarah and her friend Demi leave their dull Ohio town for a summer at Wildewood Drama Academy where drama abounds offstage as well as on.

EPIC

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Kostick
Author's First Name: 
Conor
Publisher: 
Viking
Publication Date: 
2007

On tightly controlled New Earth, violence has been banned, and the fantasy computer game, Epic, settles all disputes. When a group of teens challenges the ruling order, they find themselves facing the power-hungry Game Masters and the game becomes real.

KISSING THE BEE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Koja
Author's First Name: 
Kathe
Publisher: 
Frances Foster
Publication Date: 
2007

Carefully denying her increasing interest in Emil, her best friend's boyfriend, Dana works assiduously on her biology project about bees. When Emil wants to observe the bee hives with her, Dana strives to hide her feelings from him.

UNDERCOVER

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Kephart
Author's First Name: 
Beth
Publisher: 
Laura Geringer Books
Publication Date: 
2007

Elisa, a contemporary Cyrano d’Bergerac, writes letters to help boys attract other girls. Things change, however, when she falls for one of her “clients” who is trying to woo her nemesis. Complex, well-rounded characters and poetic metaphors create a compelling story.

PAYBACK

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Heneghan
Author's First Name: 
James
Publisher: 
Groundwood
Publication Date: 
2007

Newly arrived in Canada, Irish immigrant Charley fends off taunts and ignores the bullies when they transfer their derision to effeminate Benny. When Benny’s anguish leads to suicide, Charley must find a way to atone for his own inaction.

TOUCHING SNOW

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Felin
Author's First Name: 
M. Sindy
Publisher: 
Atheneum
Publication Date: 
2007

Seventh-grader Karina and other members of her Haitian immigrant family hide her stepfather's violence until one terrible episode threatens to expose all and send the tyrant they call "the Daddy" to jail.

BEFORE I DIE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Downham
Author's First Name: 
Jenny
Publisher: 
David Fickling
Publication Date: 
2007

When sixteen-year-old Tessa learns she has terminal leukemia, she makes a list of ten things she is determined to experience before her days are through.

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