F AMI
Amirrezvani, Anita.
The blood of flowers / Amirrezvani, Anita. — New York : Little, Brown, c2007.
After her father dies without leaving her with a dowry, a 17th century Persian teen becomes a servant to her wealthy rug designer uncle in the court of Shah Abbas the Great, where her weaving talents prove both a blessing and curse.
F AND
Anderson, M. T.
The Pox party / Anderson, M. T. — Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2006.
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
F ARS
Arslan, Antonia, and Brock, Geoffrey.
Skylark farm / Arslan, Antonia, and Brock, Geoffrey. — New York : Knopf, c2006.
A chronicle of the trials of a family struggling for survival during the Armenian genocide in Turkey, in 1915.
F BAC
Bachman, Richard, and King, Stephen.
Blaze / Bachman, Richard, and King, Stephen. — New York : Scribner, c2007.
Written in 1973 by Stephen King under the pen name Richard Bachman, this is the story of Blaze, a surprisingly sympathetic criminal. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teen, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal. But then George is killed, and Blaze is on his own.
F BAR
Barth-Grözinger, Inge.
Something remains / Barth-Grözinger, Inge. — New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2006.
In 1933, as Hitler becomes Chancellor, twelve-year-old Erich and his family, who are Jewish, find they need to make changes in their everyday lives as hatred of the Jews grows.
F BED
Beddor, Frank.
The Looking Glass Wars / Beddor, Frank. — New York : Dial Books, c2006.
When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.
F BLO
Block, Francesca Lia.
Psyche in a dress / Block, Francesca Lia. — New York : Joanna Cotler Books, c2006.
A young woman, Psyche, searches for her lost love and questions her true self in a modern retelling of Greek myths.
F CAB
Cabot, Meg.
Pants on fire / Cabot, Meg. — New York : HarperTempest, c2007.
Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.
F CAR
Card, Orson Scott.
Empire / Card, Orson Scott. — New York : Tor, c2006.
In a near future world, the American Empire is shattering into a civil war between the Right and the Left, devastating the country, while the peaceful majority uses all of its wits and technological ingenuity to hold the people and government together.
F CAS
Castellucci, Cecil, and Rugg, Jim.
The plain Janes / Castellucci, Cecil, and Rugg, Jim. — New York : Minx, c2007.
When Jane has to move to the suburbs she thinks her life is over, but then she meets three friends who form a club. Still, high school is hell.
F CHA
Chabon, Michael.
The Yiddish policemen’s union / Chabon, Michael. — New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2007.
In this alternate history-detective story, Alaska has become a safe haven for Jews after the Holocaust of World War II. Sixty years later, the territory is about to revert to native Alaskans and detective Landsman’s life is a shambles. He must contend with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, hopefulness, evil, and salvation that are his heritage, and figure out who the murderer is.
F COE
Coelho, Paulo, and Costa, Margaret Jull.
The witch of Portobello / Coelho, Paulo, and Costa, Margaret Jull. — New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2007.
How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves — even if we are unsure of who we are? That is the central question of this story about a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well — or hardly at all.
F COH
Cohn, Rachel, and Levithan, David.
Nick and Norah’s infinite playlist / Cohn, Rachel, and Levithan, David. — New York : Knopf, c2006.
High school student Nick O’Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
F COL
Cole, Stephen.
Thieves like us / Cole, Stephen. — New York : Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2006.
A mysterious benefactor hand-picks a group of teen geniuses to follow a set of clues leading to the secrets of everlasting life, secrets which they must steal and for which they risk being killed.
F CON
Conway, Celeste.
The melting season / Conway, Celeste. — New York : Delacorte Press, c2006.
Giselle, the sheltered daughter of two famous ballet dancers, comes to terms with her relationships with both her late father and her mother, realizing some important truths that help her move forward both in her life and with her own dancing.
F COO
Cooper, Brenda.
The silver ship and the sea / Cooper, Brenda. — New York : Tor, c2007.
Chelo Lee, her brother Joseph, and four other genetically enhanced children who have been abandoned on the colony world of Fremont struggle to make the dangerous, wild planet home and discover that a long-deserted space ship could hold the key to their survival.
F COR
Corrigan, Eireann.
Ordinary ghosts / Corrigan, Eireann. — New York : Scholastic Press, c2007.
His mother is dead and his father and brother leave, Emil is all alone at the prep school until he finds a key that leads to adventure.
F DUR
Durham, David Anthony.
Acacia / Durham, David Anthony. — New York : Doubleday, c2007.
A fantasy about the ruling family of the empire called Acacia, whose prosperity is supported by traffic in drugs and human lives. When the king is targeted by an assassin and his empire is attacked by ancient enemies, he takes desperate steps in the hope of saving his children from a grim fate.
F FLI
Flinn, Alex.
Diva / Flinn, Alex. — New York : HarperTempest, c2006.
Despite her mother’s objections, sixteen-year-old Caitlin determines to pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer by attending a performing arts school in Miami.
F GAI
Gaiman, Neil.
Fragile things / Gaiman, Neil. — New York : William Morrow, c2006.
A collection of more than 25 short stories follows a theme of the intersections between life and death, perception and reality, and darkness and light.
F GIL
Giles, Gail.
What happened to Cass McBride? / Giles, Gail. — New York : Little, Brown and Company, c2006.
After his younger brother commits suicide, Kyle Kirby decides to exact revenge on the person he holds responsible.
F GOI
Going, K. L.
Saint Iggy / Going, K. L. — Orlando : Harcourt, c2006.
Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.
F GOO
Goonan, Kathleen Ann.
In war times / Goonan, Kathleen Ann. — New York : Tor, c2007.
In an alternate-universe novel about World War II, Sam Dance vows he will do anything he can to stop the war. He is seduced by a mysterious female physicist, who has devised a machine that will end the war, perhaps even end the human predilection for war forever.
F GRE
Greif, Jean-Jacques.
The fighter / Greif, Jean-Jacques. — New York : Bloomsbury, c2006.
Moshe Wisniak, a poor Polish Jew, uses his physical strength and cleverness, plus luck, to help him survive the horrors he is subjected to in the concentration camps of World War II. Based on the life of Moshè Garbarz.
F GRU
Gruen, Sara.
Water for elephants / Gruen, Sara. — Chapel Hill, NC : Algonguin Books Of Chapel Hill, 2006.
An old man, all but forgotten in the modern world, replays in his mind the adventures of his youth, when he ran away with the circus, met the woman of his dreams, and learned about the faithfulness of elephants.
F HAI
Haig, Matt.
The dead fathers club / Haig, Matt. — New York : Viking, 2007, c2006.
Introduced to the Dead Fathers Club of murdered men by the ghost of his late father, 11-year-old Philip Noble learns that his uncle, who has designs on Philip’s mother, murdered Philip’s father in order to get his hands on the family pub.
F HEM
Hemingway, Amanda.
The poisoned crown / Hemingway, Amanda. — New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2007.
An exceptional teenage boy possessing extraordinary powers, Nathan races against time to collect three Grail relics before his own world, as well as the parallel worlds into which he dreams himself, can be devastated by evil witchcraft.
F HIN
Hinton, S. E.
Some of Tim’s stories / Hinton, S. E. — Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2007.
A collection of 14 interconnected short stories captures the lives of adults lost in a world of missed opportunities and connections, in a volume that chronicles the larger saga of two cousins, Terry and Mike, whose paths lead to very different futures.
F HOF
Hoffman, Mary.
The falconer’s knot / Hoffman, Mary. — New York : Bloomsbury Children’s Books, c2007.
Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.
F JIN
Jinks, Catherine.
Evil genius / Jinks, Catherine. — Orlando : Harcourt, 2007, c2005.
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
F JOH
Johnson, Maureen.
Devilish / Johnson, Maureen. — New York : Razorbill, c2006.
Jane Jarvis, a senior at a Catholic girl’s school in Providence, Rhode Island, tries to save her best friend by making a pact with a demon–in the form of a cupcake-eating, very friendly teenage girl.
F JOH
Johnson, Peter.
What happened / Johnson, Peter. — Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, c2007.
When Duane is involved in a hit and run accident during a snowstorm, passengers Kyle and his younger brother must face Duane’s powerful father, a man whose hatred of their own absent father may lead him to harm the boys.
F JOL
Jolin, Paula.
In the name of God / Jolin, Paula. — New Milford, Conn. : Roaring Brook Press, c2007.
Determined to follow the laws set down in the Qur’an, seventeen-year-old Nadia becomes involved in a violent revolutionary movement aimed at supporting Muslim rule in Syria and opposing the Western politics and materialism that increasingly affect her family.
F JON
Jones, Lloyd.
Mister Pip / Jones, Lloyd. — New York : Dial Press, 2007, c2006.
One white man, the eccentric Mr. Watts, chooses to stay behind when war shatters a tropical island. He sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens’ classic Great Expectations. His actions transform the lives of his listeners.
F JOY
Joyce, Graham.
TWOC / Joyce, Graham. — New York : Viking, c2007.
Matt is having a rough time after the traffic accident in which his brother is killed and the girlfriend is scarred so he decides to recreate the accident to remember so he can get on with his life.
F KAD
Kadohata, Cynthia.
Cracker! / Kadohata, Cynthia. — New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007.
A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog.
F KER
Kerr, M. E.
Someone like summer / Kerr, M. E. — New York : HarperTeen, c2007.
An upper-middle-class white girl from Long Island and an immigrant worker from Colombia fall in love despite objections from both their families and their community.
F KHA
Khadra, Yasmina, and Cullen, John.
The sirens of Baghdad / Khadra, Yasmina, and Cullen, John. — New York : Nan A. Talese, c2007.
Forced to leave the university when the Americans invade Iraq, a young man from a small desert village heads for Baghdad to join the resistance, until a top secret mission forces him to reconcile a proposed terrorist act with his own moral principles.
F KLE
Klein, Lisa M, and Shakespeare, William.
Ophelia / Klein, Lisa M, and Shakespeare, William. — New York : Bloomsbury, c2006.
In a story based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia tells of her life in the court at Elsinore, her love for Prince Hamlet, and her escape from the violence in Denmark.
F KOS
Kostick, Conor.
Epic / Kostick, Conor. — New York : Viking, 2007, c2004.
On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik’s father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.
F KUR
Kurland, Lynn.
When I fall in love / Kurland, Lynn. — New York : Jove, c2007.
While on vacation in England, Jennifer McKinnon wakes up eight hundred years into the past where she discovers that chivalry is alive and well when a handsome knight comes to her rescue and vows to help her return home.
F LEA
Leavitt, Martine.
Keturah and Lord Death / Leavitt, Martine. — Asheville, NC : Front Street, c2006.
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King’s Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.
F LES
Lester, Julius.
Cupid / Lester, Julius. — Orlando : Harcourt, c2007.
Cupid, the spoiled and mischievous god of love, is attracted to and marries the beautiful mortal, Psyche, and both learn many lessons about the nature of love.
F LIP
Lipsyte, Robert.
Raiders night / Lipsyte, Robert. — New York : HarperTempest, c2006.
Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he witnesses the rape of a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs.
F LOC
Lockhart, E.
Dramarama / Lockhart, E. — New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2007.
Spending their summer at Wildewood Academy, an elite boarding school for the performing arts, tests the bond between teens Sadye and her best friend Demi.
F LOU
Lourie, Richard.
A hatred for tulips / Lourie, Richard. — New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, c2007.
In modern-day Amsterdam, an elderly man named Joop describes his desperate efforts to feed his starving family during the Nazi occupation of World War II and reveals how his struggle to provide for them set in motion a horrifying chain of events.
F LYG
Lyga, Barry.
The astonishing adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl / Lyga, Barry. — Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2006.
A fifteen-year-old “geek” who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.
F LYN
Lynskey, Edward C.
The Blue Cheer / Lynskey, Edward C. — Holicong, PA] : PointBlank, c2007.
Frank Johnson moved to Scarab in hopes of lazy days and tranquil mountains, but that is not what he found; now he is determined to bring the racist group Blue Cheer to justice, any way he can.
F MCC
McCaughrean, Geraldine, and Rostand, Edmond.
Cyrano / McCaughrean, Geraldine, and Rostand, Edmond. — Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2006.
Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant 17th-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence.
F MCC
McClintock, Norah.
Tell / McClintock, Norah. — Custer, WA : Orca Book Publishers, c2006.
David knows about the murder of his stepfather.
F MCL
McLaughlin, Emma, and Kraus, Nicola.
Dedication / McLaughlin, Emma, and Kraus, Nicola. — New York : Atria Books, c2007.
Thirteen years after the love of her life abruptly leaves town hours before the senior prom only to become the world’s biggest recording star, twenty-nine-year-old Kate Hollis decides to resolve her lingering resentment by confronting him during a home visit.
F MIN
Min, Anchee.
The last empress / Min, Anchee. — Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2007.
Follows the last empress of China, as Empress Orchid copes with tragic personal losses as she struggles to save her crumbling empire.
F MOR
Morrison, Grant, and others
All-Star Superman. / Morrison, Grant, and others. — New York : DC Comics, c2007.
Presents a new version of the story of Superman, following his activities as a superhero and his interactions with Lois Lane, Jimmy Olson, and Lex Luthor.
F MYE
Myers, Walter Dean.
Street love / Myers, Walter Dean. — New York : Amistad/HarperTempest, c2006.
This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.
F NAS
Naslund, Sena Jeter.
Abundance: a novel of Marie Antoinette / Naslund, Sena Jeter. — New York : William Morrow, c2006.
A fictional tale of the life of Marie Antoinette presents the story of a teenage empress’s daughter who is forced to leave her family home to marry the future king of France and who rebels against the formality and rigid protocol of court life.
F NEL
Nelson, Blake.
Paranoid Park / Nelson, Blake. — New York : Viking, c2006.
A sixteen-year-old Portland, Oregon skateboarder, whose parents are going through a difficult divorce, is engulfed by guilt and confusion when he accidentally kills a security guard at a train yard.
F ODO
Odom, Mel.
The quest for the trilogy / Odom, Mel. — New York : Tor, c2007.
Warned by the old wizard Craugh about an ancient threat known as Kharrion’s Wrath that endangers the entire world, Juhg must search through the secrets contained in the journals of his absent mentor Wick, as well as in a trilogy of missing books, to find the key to salvation.
F PAR
Parker, Robert B.
Edenville Owls / Parker, Robert B. — New York : Sleuth/Philomel Books, c2007.
Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
F PEE
Peet, Mal.
Tamar / Peet, Mal. — Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, c2007.
In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
F PYL
Pyle, Kevin C.
Blindspot / Pyle, Kevin C. — New York : Henry Holt, c2007.
Dean and his friends have turned the woods behind their housing development into an area of operations for their army fantasy and spend hours lost in episodes of intrigue and danger. A scary encounter with a homeless man in the woods one night, however, changes everything.
F ROW
Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows / Rowling, J. K, and Mary GrandPré, , ill. — New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, c2007.
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldermort’s remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
F RUS
Russell, Karen.
St. Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves / Russell, Karen. — New York : Knopf, c2006.
Presents ten short stories set in the Florida Everglades and starring children who must survive against incredible odds.
F SEL
Seliy, Shauna.
When we get there / Seliy, Shauna. — New York : Bloomsbury USA, c2007.
In the coal-mining town of Banning, Pennsylvania, over the course of the winter of 1974, 13-year-old Lucas, the youngest member of an Eastern European family, embarks on a search to find his missing mother, who vanished without explanation.
F SIM
Simmons, Michael.
The rise of Lubchenko / Simmons, Michael. — New York : Razorbill, c2006.
Suspecting that his father’s business partner is selling smallpox virus to terrorists and murdering anyone who gets in his way, sixteen-year-old Evan Macalister once again travels to France with his friends, Ruben and Erika, to search for the mysterious Lubchenko, the elusive spymaster whose help they need to avert a major disaster.
F SKE
Skelton, Matthew.
Endymion Spring / Skelton, Matthew. — New York : Delacorte Press, c2006.
Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake Winters is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book, secretely brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg’s mute apprentice to save it from evil forces, and which now draws Blake into a dangerous and life-threathening quest.
F SON
Sones, Sonya.
What my girlfriend doesn’t know / Sones, Sonya. — New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2007.
Fourteen-year-old Robin Murphy is so unpopular at high school that his name is slang for “loser,” and so when he begins dating the beautiful and popular Sophie her reputation plummets, but he finds acceptance as a student in a drawing class at Harvard.
F STR
Stroud, Jonathan.
The golem’s eye / Stroud, Jonathan. — New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2004.
In their continuing adventures, magician’s apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem’s power before it destroys London.
F STR
Stroud, Jonathan.
Ptolemy’s gate / Stroud, Jonathan. — New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion Books For Children, c2006.
Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England’s minister of information.
F TOL
Tolkien, J. R. R, and Tolkien, Christopher.
The children of Hurin / Tolkien, J. R. R, and Tolkien, Christopher. — Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2007.
A fantasy adventure saga set in the early days of Middle-Earth features humans and elves, dwarves and dragons, orcs and dark sorcerers clashing in an epic battle between good and evil.
F TUR
Turtledove, Harry.
The gladiator / Turtledove, Harry. — New York : Tor, c2007.
The Soviet Union won the Cold War; now, more than a century later, the world’s gone communist and capitalism is a bad word. The biggest excitement in Gianfranco’s life is a war game called Gladiator. Then, abruptly the shop that supplies the game is shut down and the proprietors disappear. Why do the Security Police want so desperately to find them?
F WAH
Wahl, Mats, and Tucker, Katarina Emilie.
The invisible / Wahl, Mats, and Tucker, Katarina Emilie. — New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2007.
A Swedish teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.
F WES
Westerfeld, Scott.
The last days / Westerfeld, Scott. — New York : Razorbill, c2006.
As an ancient evil stirs beneath the streets of New York City, infecting rats and people like a plague, five quirky teens come together to form a “New Sound” band whose music seems to have paranormal power.
F WES
Westerfeld, Scott.
Peeps / Westerfeld, Scott. — New York : Razorbill, 2006, c2005.
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.
F WIE
Wiess, Laura.
Such a pretty girl / Wiess, Laura. — New York : Pocket Books/MTV Books, c2007.
Haunted by flashbacks, fifteen-year-old Meredith learns that three years in prison has not changed the abusive father who molested her.
F YAN
Yang, Gene, and Pien, Lark.
American born Chinese / Yang, Gene, and Pien, Lark. — New York : First Second, c2006.
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
F ZAR
Zarr, Sara.
Story of a girl / Zarr, Sara. — New York : Little, Brown, c2007.
In the three years since her father caught her in the back seat of a car with an older boy, sixteen-year-old Deanna’s life at home and school has been a nightmare, but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his family, she discovers the power of forgiveness.