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It is the middle of the night and Garrett is handcuffed and riding in the back seat of a car going to where, he has no idea. All he knows is that the people who took him are named Rebecca and Harry and they are somewhere in upstate New York. They arrive at a place called Lake Harmony and Garrett quickly learns that this is a place where parents can send their hard to handle children to be straightened out. But Garrett's a good kid, he gets straight A's, why would his parent's send him to Lake Harmony. Could it be because he was dating an older woman who also happened to be his math teacher, or that he's cut school a few times. All Garrett knows is that Lake Harmony uses physical and mental abuse tactics to straighten out their so called troubled teens and their not allowed any contact with the outside world. When Garrett hears whispers about a groups plan to escape, he decides to take his chances with them. To find out if Garrett successfully escapes Lake Harmony read Boot Camp by Todd Strasser.

Patricia McCormick wrote Sold, as a tribute to a young girl who not only survives but triumphs. Thirteen year old Lakshmi lives in the mountains of Nepal with her mother, baby brother and step-father. Her family is so poor they cannot afford a tin roof like the other families in the village. Lakshmi wants to go to the city to work so that she can send money back to her family but her mother wants her to stay in school. After a horrible monsoon that washes away the crops and destroys the already tattered roof, Lakshmi's step-father says that she is to go to the city to work. Lakshmi is happy, proud that she will be able to help her family. She soon learns that her job in the city is not the maid job she thought it would be. Lakshmi's step-father has sold her into prostitution and now she is stuck in India forced to pay off the price that was paid for her. Lakshmi struggles to make it through the nightmare her life has become and dreams of the day she will be free again.
Recommended for Grades 9 and up.

As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob-knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?
Meyer, S (2007). Eclipse. Little, Brown and Company: New York.

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The Super Bowl. America's biggest sports spectacle. More than ninety-five million fans will be watching. But Steve Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson know that what they'll be watching is a lie. THey know that the entire offensive line of the California Dreams have failed their doping tests and shouldn't be allowed to play. They know that the Dreams' owner is trying to cover up the test results until after the game. They know that they are sitting on the biggest sports scandal of the decade. What they don't know-yet-is how to prove it. To find out if they do, read Cover-Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl

Feinstein, J. (2007). Cover-Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl. Alfred A. Knopf: New York.

Kira has landed an awesome internship at Skirt magazine, one of the most glamorous magazines around. She's living in Manhattan, interning at Skirt, and set to attend Columbia in the fall; what more could a girl want. What Kira would really love though, is to win the internship position for Skirt's editor in chief. Unfortunately that position is also being sought after by Daphne the daughter of the magazine's owner. Kira's been working extra hard to win this position but will she be able to win against Daphne who has the magazine wrapped around her pinky? In addition to trying to win the internship Kira has a crush on James a assistant photographer and is dating Matt a guy who seems to good to be true. Read Summer Intern to join Kira on a fabulous summer in the Big Apple.