Call Number: YA Adam

British fourteen-year-old Max Cassidy calls on his skills and training as a professional escape artist when he attempts to clear his mother of murdering his father, who disappeared two years earlier in the Central American country of Santo Domingo.

Call Number: YA Allende

While his mother struggles with cancer, fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold goes on an expedition to the Amazon with his reporter grandmother where he comes to learn a great deal about his own strengths while also developing a special bond with Nadia, the daughter of their local guide.

Call Number: YA Alton

In the Dorset, England, countryside on a family vacation, a video game fanatic reluctantly embarks on a quest to battle an ancient evil, aided by the daughter of a Wiccan and a man once apprenticed to Merlin.

Call Number: YA PB Anderson

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.

Call Number: YA Barrett

When 16-year-old Telemachos and his two best friends leave their life of privilege to undertake a quest to find Telemachos' father Odysseus, they learn much along the way about what it means to be a man and a king.

Call Number: YA Bauer

Expected to continue her family's long history of becoming prominent lawyers, Ivy Breedlove finds a small handful of Breedlove women who had the courage to break the mold, including her reclusive Aunt Josephine, about whom no one speaks.

Call Number: YA Bell

Sick of the horrors of conquering beings on other planets, Ahvrem will end his service as a soldier and save his sister from an unhappy marriage if he can discover who is behind a rumored plot to assassinate the Emperor.

Call Number: YA Bick

Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.

Call Number: YA Bray

When a plane full of teenage beauty queens crashes on a desert island, stranding them away from tiaras and technology, their inherently competitive natures combine with the wild challenges they encounter in survival-testing and hilarious ways.

Call Number: YA PB Bunting

Journeying to New York aboard the Titanic, Barry O'Neill resists leaving his grandparent's loving home to reunite with his parents and worries about the bullying Flynn brothers, only to find himself in the middle of a disaster.

Call Number: YA Christopher

Kidnapped from a Bangkok airport by an oddly familiar man, Gemma is carried away to the Australian Outback, where in the sand, heat and isolation she learns that she has been the object of her abductor's long obsession and that he expects her to now fall in love with him.

Call Number: YA PB Clement-Davies

In ancient Scotland, a tyrannical new lord of the herd plans complete dominion over the animal world, but deer lore promises a hero, who has a unique bond with all creatures, including man, and who will ignite an epic battle and free the herd forever.

Call Number: YA Collins

In the best-selling first volume of the trilogy set in the cruel world of Panem, the annual Hunger Games pit young children against one another in a battle to the death on national television, so when Katniss is ordered to represent her district, she knows an important decision between survival and the love of another will have to be made when she is called to enter the ring. See also the sequels: Catching Fire and Mockingjay.

Call Number: YA Cooney

Teenager Heidi Landseth helps rescue people from a plane crash on her family's property, and the experience changes her life forever.

Call Number: YA PB Cooney

After an Indian tribe attacks her hometown of Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1704, young Mercy Carter becomes separated from her family and is forced to walk with other townsfolk to an Indian village in Canada where they live as hostages and await the delivery of the ransom for their freedom.

Call Number: YA Craig

While escaping from the strange men that are after him in London, Jimmy Coates discovers he is a genetically engineered superkid and possesses many unusual talents for an eleven-year-old boy.

Call Number: YA Crispin

Young Jack Sparrow saves a ship from a pirate attack and becomes captain of the Wicked Wench as a reward, but when he tricks Lord Cutler Beckett out of a treasure, Cutler seeks retribution against Jack by ordering him to transport slaves.

Call Number: YA Cross

When Robert wakes up naked and alone the last thing he remembers is being in a plane with his family, but he soon realizes that his familiar world has been transformed into an alien landscape.

Call Number: YA Cross

When John, a British demolitions expert, is supposedly killed blowing up a building in Siberia, his fiancTe Annie insists on investigating, despite being in a wheelchair, and John's teenage sister Hayley goes along and finds that the Russian Mafia is involved.

Call Number: YA Davies

Kidnapped by a man who claims to be a remorseless outlaw with terrorist ties, British ambassador's son Jake and his sister, Kas, begin to doubt their captor's identity when they discover unsettling facts about the corrupt local government.

Call Number: YA Dickinson

While searching for the magician in the Empire with the powers to save her cherished Valley, Tilja comes to discover that she has hidden powers of her own and thus is soon leading the way to save her friends from the Empire's evil sorcerers.

Call Number: YA Dowswell

Thirteen-year-old Sam Witchall endures harsh conditions, battles, and a shipwreck after being pressed into service aboard the H.M.S. Miranda during the Napoleonic Wars.

Call Number: YA Dumas

Enriched by vibrant illustrations from an acclaimed and best-selling artist, this adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of seventeenth-century France, where young D'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen, is a timeless swashbuckling tale.

Call Number: YA Elliott

After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.

Call Number: YA Elliott

In early 1790s Paris, young and sheltered Eugenie de Boncoeur finds it difficult to tell friend from foe as she and the royalist brother she relies on become the focus of a sinister spymaster with a grudge against their family.

Call Number: YA Farmer

While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.

Call Number: YA PB Garfield

A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.

Call Number: YA Golden

Seventeen-year-old Jack London makes the arduous journey to the Yukon's gold fields in 1893, becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces in the wilderness that seem to have taken a special interest in him.

Call Number: YA PB Gordon

When his father goes missing and he begins to delve into an archaeological dig to uncover clues, Will Burrows discovers a strange subterranean society where enslaved citizens live under the control of a cruel sect and so now must convince some of them to begin a revolt in order to free themselves and his father in the process.

Call Number: YA Grant

Call Number: YA Halam

As the three survivors of a plane crash on their way to the rain forests of Ecuador, Semi, Miranda, and Arnie believe they are the only people on the island, yet they soon discover they are not as Dr. Franklin, a genetic engineer, reveals himself and his twisted plans.

Call Number: YA Harrison

When Martin is kidnapped from his home, he fears for his life, but he becomes even more devastated when he discovers that someone he loves and who is very close to him was involved in the planning and of the assault.

Call Number: YA Hart

Arriving at Eton amongst the blue-blooded students, James Matthew is different from his peers in style and presence, yet determined to make a name for himself, he takes on a dangerous persona that precedes him throughout his school years and beyond when he decides to set sail on a ship with a dangerous crew to points unknown.

Call Number: YA Hautman

When a deadly flu virus strikes in 2028, those that aren't affected live separately from the "Survivors", thus Ceej Kane finds herself living in isolation with her uncle and sister until the two of them disappear and she is suddenly left to find a new world that she can call home.

Call Number: YA Henry

When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more sympathetic toward his wealthy, blind victim, 16-year-old Cheyenne, than toward his greedy father.

Call Number: YA Herlong

While in the midst of a year-long sailing trip arranged by their father in the hopes of helping the boys come to terms with the loss of their mother, their father suddenly goes missing one evening--leaving brothers Ben, Dylan, and Gerry to fend for themselves in treacherous waters.

Call Number: YA PB Higgins

When 3 thugs of the Tiger's vicious band of criminals kidnap an important Swiss banker and the son of master spy John Chance, it is up to John and his clever daughter to find a way to free him from his prison far away in a remote Scottish castle before the Tiger makes his next move.

Call Number: YA Higson

Young James Bond, while attending boarding school at Eton in the 1930s, must battle against an insane arms dealer who, by using killer eels, is attempting to create a race of indestructible soldiers on the eve of World War II.

Call Number: YA Hobbs

Flying to the subarctic wilds of Canada to visit his father, who is working at a diamond mine, fifteen-year-old Gabe is accidentally stranded with his roommate in a remote area and must test his survival skills.

Call Number: YA Hobbs

Set during the period of the Klondike gold rush, fifteen-year-old Jason and his devoted husky are on a perilous trek as they travel five-hundred miles in an attempt to cross the Yukon River before it freezes and put both their lives at risk.

Call Number: YA Horowitz

When he is cast aside for a part in Shakespeare's play, Tom finds himself acting in a different role that will soon put him in great danger as he suddenly finds himself wrapped up in a secret plot to assassinate the queen!

Call Number: YA Horowitz

After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

Call Number: YA Ibbotson

Meeting the crown prince while at an international folk dancing festival, Tally feels sorry for her royal friend after he explains that he wants to be free just like them, but when his father is assassinated, Tally becomes determined to help her friend and begins plotting his escape from the dangerous Nazis.

Call Number: YA Ives

Known for his skills as a writer, sixteen-year-old Billy Christmas, a.k.a. Scrib, builds an impressive reputation that soon has him writing letters for friends, foes, and outlaws alike, putting him in the midst of dangerous happenings, including narrowly escaping a public hanging and surviving a near-death river ride through the canyon rapids.

Call Number: YA Jacques

Trapped aboard the cursed ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman, Ben, a castaway young boy, and his dog, Ned, brave the perils of the sea to uncover the hidden clues and dark riddles that hold the key to saving the inhabitants of Chapelvale, a Victorian village under siege. By the author of Redwall.

Call Number: YA Jansen

Jeanne and her family, who are Tutsis living in Rwanda during a time of civil war, flee their home in hopes of evading Hutu soldiers as political events threaten to overtake them.

Call Number: YA Kehret

After accidentally stowing away aboard a slave ship bound for Africa, twelve-year-old Emma is shipwrecked and left stranded on the African coast, where she survives with the help of chimpanzees and lizards.

Call Number: YA King

Having wandered away from her arguing family during a hike on New England's Appalachian Trail, a young girl discovers that she is lost in the menacing woods with only her personal stereo and the Red Sox game for comfort.

Call Number: YA Lawrence

Fleeing from his abusive parents during World War II, sixteen-year-old Kak enlists in the Canadian Air Force and is sent on a special mission aboard a plane called B for Buster, where he discovers the truth about war and forms an unlikely friendship.

Call Number: YA Lawrence

Fourteen-year-old John Spencer survives the wreck of his ship on the coast of Cornwall, England, but he may not survive the evil of the murderous pirates who loot the ships that wreck on their shore.

Call Number: YA Levine

When her sister goes missing, shy Addie knows that she must muster all of her strength to take on a dangerous journey in order to find her, save her life, and save the future of their kingdom of Bamarre.

Call Number: YA McKernan

Having stowed away on famed explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, before it set sail for the Antarctic, eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow's exciting journey becomes a life-and-death experience after the ship is sank by the crushing force of the ice and the surviving crew is forced to use all their combined wit, skill, and courage to stay alive.

Call Number: YA Marks

After seventeen-year-old Cam Stewart escapes from the kidnappers who took him from right in front of his San Diego home, he continues a dangerous adventure that includes finding a mysterious chip in his arm which leads him to question his identity.

Call Number: YA Mazer

While fishing on a rowboat, Adam Pelko sees Japanese fighter planes racing across the sky and dropping bombs on the U.S. fleet in Pearl Harbor, and when he gets back to shore, he sees that his father's battleship, the U.S.S. Arizona, is gone and begins to fear the worst.

Call Number: YA Matcheck

When her father's death leaves her orphaned and an outcast among her Apsaalooka (Crow) people, a fifteen-year-old girl sets out to avenge his death and prove that she, not her dead twin brother, is destined to be the Great One.

Call Number: YA McCaughrean

Approaching his 14th birthday, a day on which he is scheduled to die, Pepper Roux embarks on a rollicking journey to escape his fate and meets a series of outrageous new friends and enemies.

Call Number: YA Meyer

Putting her poverty-stricken past beyond her, Jacky embarks on a thrilling adventure aboard the HMS Dolphin, where, while learning to become a skilled sailor, she will do anything to keep the crew from finding out that she is a girl, in a gripping novel set in the eighteenth-century.

Call Number: YA Mikaelsen

After his village is burned by guerrillas, twelve-year-old Santiago takes his younger sister and sets sail on the rough seas where he will battle the fierce waters for many days in an attempt to reach safety in the United States.

Call Number: YA Mikaelsen

After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

Call Number: YA Moore

Set in 1718, Daniel begins his life on the high seas as a stow away where his belief as a non-violent Quaker comes into contrast with his want to fight the pirates who terrorize his homeland on the eastern seaboard.

Call Number: YA Nicholson

Relegated to the lowest levels of society after a schoolroom rebellion, Kestrel Hath and her twin brother, Bowman, seek to recover the wind singer, which once brought happiness and harmony to their caste-system city, from the evil spirit-lord, Morah.

Call Number: YA Northrop

Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.

Call Number: YA Oppel

Set in the early twentieth century in a world where the airplane hasn't been invented, a young boy takes to the skies aboard an airship where he plays an important role in fierce battles that are fought high in the sky. See also the sequels: Skybreaker and Stormclimber.

Call Number: YA PB Orlev

Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.

Call Number: YA Paolini

When fifteen-year-old Eragon comes to learn that he is a gifted Dragon Rider, he realizes that his destiny is to fight the evil powers that will bring complete destruction to the Empire and so leaves his quiet life as a farm boy to succeed in his one true mission in life. See also the sequels: Eldest and Brisingr.

Call Number: YA Parker

The formative years of private investigator Spencer is presented in this illuminating tale that addresses his relationship with his family, his experiences out West, and other highs, lows, and accomplishments that shaped the man he would later become.

Call Number: YA Patterson

Maximum, the Gasman, Nudge, Iggy, and Fang--genetically-engineered children who are part human, part bird--must rescue their sister Angel when she is kidnapped by Erasers, brutal wolf-like creatures, leading them to New York City where their lives are forever changed.

Call Number: YA PB Paulsen

Fourteen-year-old Cody Pierce, escapee from the children's camp, becomes involved in an underground network that teaches him important survival skills which are then used in his plan to liberate his former fellow inmates, in a story set in 2057.

Call Number: YA Paulsen

Hunting for food to support his family on the frontier of an American colony far from the hostilities of the Revolutionary War, 13-year-old Samuel is astonished when his parents are arrested by soldiers, a situation that forces him to make his way to the British headquarters in New York City. By the author of Mudshark.

Call Number: YA Peck

Sent to stay with their uncle in a ship-like home called Drift House, twelve-year-old Susan and her two younger stepbrothers embark on an unexpected adventure involving diabolical mermaids, pirates, and an attempt to stop time forever.

Call Number: YA Perkins

Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and must learn to trust each other in order to survive.

Call Number: YA Pfeffer

When a meteor pushes the moon closer to the earth, setting into motion a series of destructive weather events that wipe out coasts, rock the continents, and block out the sun, Miranda and her family must find a way to survive in a desperate and unfamiliar world. See also the sequel: The Dead and the Gone.

Call Number: YA Philbrick

In a future where civilization has been destroyed, one old man named Ryter has a crazy idea to write a book, even though he may be punished by death for doing so, in a chilling and inspiring story by the author of Freak the Mighty.

Call Number: YA PB Pierce

Alianne, the teenage daughter of Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall, is kidnapped and sold into slavery, forced to serve an exiled royal family in the remote Copper islands, where she is immersed in a world of murder, intrigue, and warring gods.

Call Number: YA Price

In the aftermath of her mother's murder by a cruel man who possesses expert hunting and tracking skills, 14-year-old Angel runs for her life, trying to prevent becoming the next victim and struggling to survive in a harsh landscape while endeavoring to reveal the truth to the world.

Call Number: YA PB Pullman

In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

Call Number: YA Rees

In her attempts to escape the evil hand of a man trying to put her in a brothel, Nancy Kington decides to set sail with a former plantation slave, Minerva Sharpe, in the hopes of finding a new life, yet they know there will be trouble ahead and so raise the black pirate flag atop their mast in the hopes that it will make any troublemakers think twice before approaching.

Call Number: YA Schmidt

Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog, but fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin.

Call Number: YA Schreiber

Preferring to play with his band during a much-anticipated gig, Perry is forced by his mother to escort a quiet, socially awkward Lithuanian exchange student to the prom and is astonished to learn that she is actually an undercover assassin on a high-stakes mission in Manhattan.

Call Number: YA Shulman

Call Number: YA Sleator

After being hit by a car and killed, Peter is given a second chance at life in order to make the necessary changes to alter his destiny, yet his task turns out to be more difficult than he had expected as he only has a limited time to do what needs to be done.

Call Number: J Smith

Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.

Call Number: YA Smith

After being arrested for scaling a New York skyscraper and then sent to live with his long-lost father and fellow climber, Peak Marcello finds it difficult to rebuild their bond, thus when his father suddenly pushes him to climb Mt. Everest, Peak must take into consideration his father's questionable motives.

Call Number: YA Sweeney

Entering an underground cave armed with nothing more than a few supplies and their innermost fears and secrets, four boys must band together when they discover that they are lost and running out of time.

Call Number: YA Taylor

A collection of sea stories spans the oceans of the world and the twentieth century, from a third mate's confrontation with a bullying captain to a brother and sister's unexpected adventures in a sailboat.

Call Number: YA Turner

The king's scholar, the magus, puts Gen, a prisoner of the king, in charge of stealing an ancient treasure that would allow his king to rule a neighboring country, but Gen is smarter than the magus thinks and his plan takes on an unexpected turn. See also the sequels: The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia and A Conspiracy of Kings.

Call Number: YA Wells

After years in foster homes, 17-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.

Call Number: YA Vande Velde

Sacrificed to a dragon after being falsely accused of witchcraft, an embittered fifteen-year-old Alys escapes but wonders where she can go now that her people have turned against her.

Call Number: YA Westerfeld

It's 1914 and Europe is on the precipice of war--the German Clankers and British Darwinists are armed with futuristic weaponry and biotechnology; in the midst of the chaos, Alek, a royal and potential threat to the throne, and Deryn, a common Darwinist, meet on the run and forge an uneasy alliance that will dramatically change the course of the Great War and their lives. See also the sequel: Behemoth.

Call Number: YA Woods

When Jamie and Jerry are pressured to take clumsy Dennis with them on their rafting adventure, disaster soon strikes as the raft is turned over and they all go their separate ways, but when Dennis doesn't return, the two boys decide to lie to make him seem like a hero in his final hours of life.

Call Number: YA Yancey

Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.

Call Number: YA Yohalem

As a future conservation zoologist whose mother is the United States Ambassador to Ethiopia, thirteen-year-old Lucy uses her knowledge for survival when she is kidnapped and subsequently escapes.

Call Number: YA Zindel

While helping a beautiful Aboriginal girl search for her people's missing treasure near the Great Barrier Reef, seventeen-year-old PC finds himself fighting an evil scientist and a deadly underwater monster.

 

Call Number: YA 629.13 BUC

The author recounts how he and his brother, then teenagers, piloted a plane across the U.S., and how the landmark flight drew them closer to each other and to their father, a stunt flyer.

Call Number: YA 796.522 KRA

Explores the adventure and risks that compel climbers to face the challenges of such peaks as Denali, K2, Everest, and the Eiger.

Call Number: 796.522 KRA

The author describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest, a disastrous expedition that claimed the lives of eight climbers, and explains why he survived.

Call Number: 796.522 RAL

A mountaineer who survived a near-fatal accident by amputating his arm when it became trapped behind a boulder in Utah describes how he endured more than five days of hypothermia, dehydration, and hallucinations before managing his own rescue.

Call Number: YA 813.54 PAU

The author--a three-time Newbery Honor winner--relates special memories and incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the character, Brian Robeson.

Call Number: YA 917.9804 KRA

A portrait of Chris McCandless chronicles his decision to withdraw from society and adopt the persona of Alexander Supertramp, offering insight into his beliefs about the wilderness and his tragic death in the Alaskan wilderness.

Call Number: YA 921 Ahmedi, F.

An inspirational memoir of the teenage author's struggles to survive her youth in war-torn Kabul. She describes her witness to brutal conflicts between the mujahideen and the Soviets during her earliest years, her extensive injuries after stepping on a land mine, and her eventual relocation to the United States.

Call Number: YA 921 Beah, I.

A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.

Call Number: YA 921 Hamilton

Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves.

Call Number: YA 958.104 AKB

The author describes his experiences as he traveled to Afghanistan with his father, who was the spokesman for President Hamid Karzai and then became the governor of Kunar.

Call Number: YA 974.7 MUR

With accounts from the survivors and period photos, a tale by the author of the Newbery Honor book, The Great Fire tells what is was like to live through the Great Blizzard of 1888 that crippled New York City with its fierce winds and blinding snow.

Call Number: YA 976 PAL

Discusses Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, including the destruction, relief efforts, and stories of rescue and generosity.