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It's that time of year again! The YA summer reading club has begun again. This year the theme is Metamorphosis @ Your Library. Here's your chance to get some great prizes while doing your summer reading. After you read your book you can either send us an email telling us about your book or you can come into the library and fill out a short report form. Then you get your prize. Don't know what to read? Check out some of the books on this blog or visit the Young Adult Librarian at the library for a suggestion.

Hanna had figured out who A was and was about to tell her friends when A ran her over with a car. Even though Hanna has awakened from her coma and will be fine, now she can't remember anything that happened right before the accident. Aria, Spencer, and Emily don't know what to do. A's still threatening them and now they know she means business. On top of that Hanna's best friend Mona has also started receiving threatening texts from A. It seems the girls will forever live in fear of A until a simple phrase that Emily says to Hanna brings her memory back. "Don't believe everything you hear", suddenly Hanna remembers who A is; great news right? It would be if Spencer wasn't with A when Hanna remembers. Will the girls be able to get to Spencer before A realizes that they know who she is? To find out read Unbelievable.

Do you believe in witches? Well Kyle Kingsbury didn't until he was turned into a beast by one. Kyle was the type of guy that every girl wanted. He was cute, had a famous dad, and knew how to charm a girl. Even though every girl liked Kyle, Kyle did not like every girl. He only liked the girls who were as gorgeous as him. He treated the girls who he thought were not so cute terribly. Well one of those girls that he treated horribly turned out to be a witch and she wanted to teach Kyle a lesson. So she turned him into a beast and the only way he could be turned back to his old self was by falling in love with someone, have them fall in love with him as well, and kiss him; but he only had two years to do this. Kyle couldn't believe what had happened to him. He looked hideous, how was he going to get a girl to fall in love with him and kiss him. A year passes and Kyle has been living in a brownstone in Brooklyn with only his housekeeper and blind tutor. He has just about given up hope of ever breaking the curse until an intruder breaks into his home. In order to avoid being arrested the intruder offers his teenage daughter to Kyle and Kyle accepts. To find out if this girl will be the one to finally break Kyle's curse read Beastly.

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It's lunch time and Adam is having lunch with Zoe in the hallway at school. He's finally gotten the nerve up to make a move and kiss her when the alarm bell goes off and the teacher's run into the hallway yelling "LOCKDOWN". Someone's in the school with a gun and everyone is scrambling to get into the classrooms and lock the doors. Adam and Zoe try to make their way out of the building but the crowd of students is too thick to get through. So they try and make a dash for one of the classrooms but one by one doors are slamming in their faces. Until they find themselves alone in the hallway with nowhere to hide from the gunman. The only place they can find to hide is in the boys bathroom. There they hide with two other students in one bathroom stall until they hear the door open and the sound of a gun clicking. Will Adam and Zoe make it out alive? Who is the gunman? To find out read Lockdown by Diane Tullson. Check the catalog to see if it's in. Lockdown

Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan

YA PB HOR Duncan

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

PB Fic Matheson

Bloodline: a novel by Kate Cary

YA HOR Cary

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Series)

YA PB Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Cirque du freak (Series) by Darren Shan

YA PB Series Cirque du freak

The Restless Dead: ten original stories of the supernatural

YA SS Restless

Lessons from a dead girl
By. Jo Knowles
Leah is dead and Laine isn't broken up about it. Laine hated Leah. Leah forced Laine to do things she didn't want to do. Things she knew other girls didn't do. Now that Leah is gone Laine is left wondering why Leah chose her and dealing with the painful memories.

Game
By. Walter Dean Myers
Drew is the star of his basketball team. That is until the new kid comes along and steals all the attention. Drew tries not to let this get to him because he needs basketball to get to college. He doesn't want to loose this opportunity like he's seen other great players before him do.

Rhymes with Witches
By. Lauren Myracle
Invisible Jane is suddenly beginning to be noticed by the group of girls who are her schools "royalty". This is the break that Jane has been waiting for, or so she thinks. Can Jane handle the price they ask for popularity?

Extras by Scott Westerfeld
Fifteen year old Aya is a nobody, an extra. She's desparate to escape "extra-land" but her only chance is to find a big story, something "wild and unexpected". Aya meets a clique of girls who have a secret so big it may "change the face of the brave new world forever". Could this be the break to get her out of the land of extras?
Ms. Michelle

Girlology: A Girl's Guide to Stuff that Matters
By. Melisa Holmes, M.D. and Trish Hutchison, M.D.
In this book the authors are discussing everything from friendships to boys to family life.

Middle School: The Real Deal
By. Juliana Farrell and Beth Mayall
"From cliques to class schedules, electives to extra credit, cafeteria food to combination locks, you'll find everything you need to know right here."

The Diet for Teenagers Only
By. Carrie Wiatt and Barbara Schroeder
Learn some tips for healthy dieting for teens.

Diamonds in the Shadow
Caroline B. Cooney
The Finches a Connecticut family, sponser an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.

Taken
Edward Bloor
In 2036 kindnapping rich children has become an industry, but when thirteen year old Charity Meyers is taken and held for ransom, she soon discovers that this kidnapping is not what it seems.

"Once you've been taken, you usually have twenty-four hours left to live. By my reckoning, that meant I had about twelve hours remaining."
Bloor, E. (2007). Taken. Alfred A. Knopf: New York.