1632

by Eric Flint

A mysterious accident in time causes 21st century American democracy to collide head-on with the Thirty Years War in 17th century Germany as Mike Stearn and a group of armed miners take on a gang of strangely attired invaders.

ISBN: 0671319728, $7.99, Paperback, 597 pages, Simon & Schuster
Green Angel

by Alice Hoffman

Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.

ISBN: 0439443857, $5.99, Paperback, 116 pages, Scholastic
Zazoo

Richard Mosher

Amid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a 13 year old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love.

ISBN: 0618439048, $6.99, Paperback, 266 pages, Houghton Mifflin
Across the Nightingale Floor

by Lian Hearn

In a novel set in a land much like feudal Japan, a young boy named Takeo becomes a pawn in the ceaseless battles between rival warlord clans in a culture ruled by codes of honor and formal rituals.

ISBN: 1573223328, $14.00, Paperback, 305 pages, Berkley
Acceleration

by Graham McNamee

Stuck working in the lost and found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, 17 year old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.

ISBN: 0440238366, $5.99, Paperback, 210 pages, Random House
Devil in the White City

by Erik Larson

An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated ts construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.

ISBN: 0375725601, $14.95, Paperback, 447 pages, Random House
Sickened

by Julie Gregory

This memoir describes growing up as the victim of Munchausen by proxy, a dangerous form of child abuse. Her mother invented or caused a series of illnesses and ailments that threatened her life and stole her childhood.

ISBN: 0553381970, $12.00, Paperback, 256 pages, Random House
Working Fire

by Zac Unger

A compelling and moving memoir that chronicles one man's journey from Ivy League graduate to dedicated firefighter and paramedic, discussing his training, the moments of triumph and tragedy, and the camraderie that exists among his comrades.

ISBN: 0143034952, $15.00, Paperback, 272 pages, Penguin Group
Devil in the Details

by Jennifer Traig

A woman with obsessive compulsive disorder in her childhood recounts how her drive for perfection and incessant hand washing rituals compromised her daily life and strained her relationship with her parents.

ISBN: 0316158771, $22.95, Hardcover, 246 pages, Little Brown
Airborn

by Kenneth Oppel

Matt, a young cabin boy, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for mysterious winged creatures living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

ISBN: 0060531827, $6.99, Paperback, 544 pages, HarperCollins
Afterlife

by Gary Soto

A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance.

ISBN: 0152052208, $6.95, Paperback, 161 pages, Harcourt
Emako Blue

by Brenda Woods

Monterey, Savannah, Jamal, and Eddie have never had much to do with each other until Emako Blue shows up at chorus practice, but just as the lives of the five Los Angeles students become intertwined, tragedy tears them apart.

ISBN: 0142404187, $5.99,Paperback, 142 pages, Penguin Group
High Heat

by Carl Deuker

Sometimes life throws you curves, and Shane discovers it's how you play the game that counts most of all.

ISBN: 0060572485, $6.99, Paperback, 352 pages, HarperCollins
No Shame, No Fear

by Ann Turnbull

England, 1662, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and 17 year old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds.

ISBN: 0763625051, $15.99, School and Library, 293 pages, Candlewick Press
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

by Sonya Sones

Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.

ISBN: 0060515732, 15.99, Hardcover; 64 pages, HarperCollins Publishers
Pact

by Sampson Davis,George Jenkins,Ramek Hunt, Lisa Frazier Page

The experiences of the authors, three friends who grew up in impoverished families in Newark, New Jersey, and who supported one another in their dreams of becoming doctors in spite of disadvantages.

ISBN: 157322989X, $14.00, Paperback, 248 pages, Berkley
 
Shattering Glass

Gail Giles

When Rob Haynes, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns Simon Glass, the school nerd, into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.

ISBN: 0689858000, $6.99, Paperback, 215 pages, Simon & Schuster
Shopaholic

by Judy Waite

Due to her difficult life at home, Taylor's new friendship with Kat means the world to her, but when Kat's shopping gets out of control and she turns to Taylor for financial support, Taylor is put in a position where she must go against her values in order to keep her new friend from walking away.

ISBN: 0689851391, $6.99, Paperback, 211 pages, Simon & Schuster
Uglies

Scott Westerfeld

In Tally's world, everyone gets to be transformed from ugly to gorgeous on their sixteenth birthday, but Tally's friend Shay would rather risk life on the outside than be operated on, and when she runs away, the authorities make Tally find her friend and turn her in.

ISBN: 0689865384, $6.99, Paperback, 425 pages, Simon & Schuster