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April 5, 2007

NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2007 TEENS TOP TEN BOOKS

The Young Adult Library Services Association has announced the nominees for the 2007 TEENS TOP TEN BOOKS. During TEEN READ WEEK you will have an opportunity to vote for your favorites, so here is a chance to get a head start on some of your reading.

FIREGIRL by Tony Abbott Tom tells avout the arrival of Jessica, a new student who was badly burned in a fire. Little by little Tom begins to look beyond her exterior.

CLAY by David Almond Stephen has a talent, the gift of creation--and he konws the Davie has this talent, too. Davie allows Stephen to convince him to help bring a life-size figure to life--and Clay is born. Stephen has special plans for this innocent. What has Davie helped to unleash on the world?

ROAD OF THE DEAD by Kevin Brooks Fourteen-year-old British, half-gypsy Ruben is frightened when he finds himself psychically witnessing the vicious attack and murder of his sister. When the official investigation stalls, Ruben and his brother attempt to put together the pieces of the crime themselves.

SECRETS OF MY HOLLYWOOD LIFE:ON LOCATION by Jen Calonita What if everyone in America wanted to know what you were doing when you weren't filming your TV show? Kaitlin Burke, a 16-year-old TV star, is exhausted from this glamorous life. So much so she decides to go undercover as an ordinary high school student. But could it be that high schoo is just as tough as Hollywood? (This title was reviewed on The YA Book Log on August 9, 2006)

THE LOUD SILENCE OF FRANCINE GREEN by Karen Cushman Francine Green doesn't speak up much, and who can blame her? But when outspoken, passionate Sophie Bowman transfers into Francine's class, she finds herself thinking about new things that never concerned her before....Eventually, Francine disvovers that she not only has something to say, she is absolutely determined to say it.

JUST LISTEN by Sarah Dessen
Annabel is nice. Too nice to say why she is unhappy with her life and what happened the night her life changed. That doesn't work in the world of her only remaing friend , anger-management-alum and alternative-music-nut Owen. Can she learn to speak, argue and finally to say the truth?

HOW TO RUIN A SUMMER VACATION by Simone Elkeles The last thing 16-year-old Amy wants to do for the summer is go to Israel with her estranged Israeli father, who's dragging her to meet a family she's never known. What could be worse than a summer ina place without friends, shopping or a cell phone?

IN SEARCH OF MOCKINGBIRD by Loretta Ellsworth Erin waits as long as she canm until she devides that running away from home is her only choice. Then she goes on a mission: To find the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird. This takes Erin on a bus journey, knowing that if she can find Harper Lee she will also be closer to her motherm who adored that one book more than all others.

THE CHRISTOPHER KILLER by Alane Ferguson Wehn Cameryn asks to be her father's assistant at the county coroner' office, she never expects that her first case will be a friend in a serial killer case.

WHAT HAPPENED TO CASS MCBRIDE by Gail Giles After his younger brother's suicide,Kyle Kirby exacts revenge on theperson he holds responsible: he kidnaps 17-year-old Cass from her house, and buries her alive, chastising her with a walkie talkie. Can Detective Ben Grey discover Cass's whereabouts before it's too late?

HELLO GROIN by Beth Goobie When Dylan agrees to create a display for her high school library, she has no idea of the trouble it's going to cause--for the school principal, her family, her boyfriend Cam and his jock friends, her best friend Jocelyn, not to mention Dylan herself. And Dylan wouldn't never have had to face her deepest fear and the way she was letting it run her life.

RIVER SECRETS by Shannon Hale Razo is one of Bayern's weaker soldiers. He is sure he is only on the important Tira mission out of pita. But in the strange southern country, Razo befriends both the high and low born, people who can perhaps provide them with vital information. And Razo is the one who must embrace his own talents in order to get the Bayern soldiers home again, alive.

SHOCK POINT by April Henry When fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng discovers that her psychiatrist stepfather is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged patients, she is determined to expose hime. Instead he sends her to a boot camp for troubled teens in order to keep her quiet. Cassie is in danger at this 'school." Can she escape, expose her stepgather and stop the school?

BAD KITTY by Michele Jaffe Jasmine had to give up her police internship to go on her family vacation. It doesn't take long before Jas stumbles upon a murder mystery while vacationing with her family in Las Vegas.

BORN TO ROCK by Gordon Korman After ultra-straight-laced Leo Caraway discovers that his biological father is none other than millionaire King Maggot, lead singer of the punk band Purge, he accepts a roadie job on King's tour in the hope of securing sorely needed college tuition to Harvard.

NEW MOON by Stephanie Meyer Edward leaves, not wanting to put Bella into danger. Bella depression deepens until she befriends Jacob, a sophomore from her school witha penchant for motorcycles. Their adventures are wild and her fun with Jacob soon turns into danger, especially when she finds out Jacob's real identity.

KIKI STRIKE:INSIDE THE SHADOW CITY by Kristen Miller When Ananka Fishbein ventures into an enomous sinkhole near her New York City apartment, she finds things that change her life: a million rats, delinquent Girl Scouts, and a secret city.

PROM ANONYMOUS by Blake Nelson Chloe Thomas is the last person that anyone expects to see at the prom. She agrees to go when her two oldest friends ask her to. What will happen in the three weeks leading up to the big night?

MAXIMUM RIDE: SCHOOL'S OUT -- FOREVER by James Patterson Max and her flock are discovered by an FBI agent and forced to go to "school." There is no such thing as an ordinary day there, and max faces her greatest enemy.

LIFE AS WE KNEW IT by Susan Beth Pfeffer When a meteor knocks the moon closer to earth. Miranda and her family need to prepare for tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoic eruptions, extreme weather, food shortages, and disease.

PENELOPE BAILEY TAKES THE STAGE by Susanna Reich Left in the care of family with very rigid views of proper behavior in the late 1800s, Penny is determined not to give up her dreams of an acting career. She starts by plotting to star in the school play.

ALL HALLOWS' EVE:13 STORIES by Vivian Vande Velde. This is a spine-tingling collection of scary stories, take Halloween night and add a possessed car, a crypt, a psychic and ten more!

SKIN by Adrienne Maria Vrettos The one normal peron in Donnie's family is his older sister, Karen. His family has to a make hugh changes when they admit that Karen has an eating disorder, and suddenly Donnie feels more on his own than ever. Will thingss be able to become normal again?

THE UNRESOLVED by T. K. Welsh The 1904 "General Slocum" steamship disaster killed more than 1000 people from the part of New York City known as Kleindeutschland. One victim was 15-year-old Mallory Meer. Her boyfriend, Dustin Brauer, is accused of setting the fire by a leader in the German neighborhood. Mallory, now insubstantial, sees everything and helps the truth to emerge.

FLORA SEGUNA: BEING THE MAGIKAL MISHAPS OF A GIRL SPIRIT, HER GLASS-GAZING SIDEKICK, TWO OMINOUS BUTLERS (ONE BLUE), A HOUSE WITH ELEVEN THOUSAND ROOMS, AND A RED DOG by Ysabeau S. Wilce Flora gets lost in her own eleven thousand room house and stumbles upon the long-banished butler of Crackpot Hall. Soon she finds herself in the middle of a mind-blowing mussle of intrigue and betrayal that changes her world forever.

At this writing the East Meadow Public Library does not own every title on the list, but I will try to get the missing books in the not too distant future. Also the majority of the titles are written for 8th through 12th grade.

Since all but one title is new, anyone can review these books for THE YA BOOK LOG and receive community service credit. Just write your review with your name, grade and school, and email it to fjackson@ eastmeadow.info. If someone writes a review before you, you can always write a comment.

Mrs. Jackson
Head of Young Adult Services

Posted by fjacksonem at April 5, 2007 1:28 PM

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