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Young Adult Books July 2007

"I believe in everything until it's disproved.
So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind.
Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"

~ John Lennon (1940-1980), British musician, artist, and political activist

New and Recently Released!
Slawter - by Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 20061101
ISBN: 9780316013871
ISBN-10:0316013870
Lights. Camera. Slawter! Grubbs Grady and his half-brother Bill-E are thrilled to join their uncle Dervish as onset consultants for the newest movie by cult horror producer David A Haym. Shot in a deserted town renamed Slawter, the demon-themed movie is to be Haym's masterpiece. But as strange incidents disrupt the set, Grubbs begins to wonder whether more than filming is afoot.
A Swift Pure Cry - by Siobhan Dowd
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/10/2007
ISBN: 9780385751087
ISBN-10:0385751087
Fiction. Ever since Irish teenager Shell Talent's mother died last year, her father has been a "worshipper extraordinaire," devoting his life to the church instead of working to support Shell and her younger siblings Jimmy and Trix. And when he isn't collecting donations for the church, Shell's dad is in the pub. Unlike her father, Shell's faith has shrunk to nothing...until young Father Rose begins preaching in her parish. When the comfort Shell seeks from her classmate, Declan, gets her pregnant and vicious rumors begin to fly, Father Rose may be the only person in town she can turn to.
The Professor's Daughter - illustrated by Emmanuel Guibert; story by Joann Sfar; translated by Alexis Siegel
Publisher: First Second
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2007
ISBN: 9781596431300
ISBN-10:159643130X
Graphic Novel. An age difference between lovers can make for a challenging romance--especially when the difference spans not decades, but centuries! In 19th-century London, young Lillian's father is a professor of Egyptology...and Lillian is dating his most prized possession, the mummy of 16th-century emperor Imhotep IV. This self-mockingly silly, action-packed love story from French creators Guibert and Sfar is high art and great fun all at once.
7 days at the hot corner - Terry Trueman
Publisher: HarperTempest
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 20070301
ISBN: 9780060574949
ISBN-10:0060574941

In baseball, fielding your position at third base is tricky—that's why third is called "the hot corner." You have to be aware that anything can happen at any time. This should be the best year of Scott's life: It's his last season of varsity ball, his team is about to go to the city championship, and a pro career is on the line. Instead, everything he always counted on comes crashing down at the same time, and his whole life is like one blazing hot corner—full of deadly line drives and crazy "bad hops." Scott can't believe the awful stuff coming his way, but it's time to find out whether he has what it takes to play the hot corner—on the baseball diamond and off it.

Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa - Micol Ostow
Publisher: Razorbill
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 20061108
ISBN: 9781595140814
ISBN-10:1595140816
Forced to stay with her mother in Puerto Rico for weeks after her grandmother's funeral, half-Jewish Emily, who has just graduated from a Westchester, New York, high school, does not find it easy to connect with her Puerto Rican heritage and relatives she had never met
Nick & Norah's infinite playlist - Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 20060523
ISBN: 9780375835315
ISBN-10:0375835318
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, Tris.
Moon white : color me enchanted - Melody Carlson
Publisher: Think Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 20070122
ISBN: 9781576839515
ISBN-10:1576839516
When, at her stepmother's urging, Heather explores Wiccan spirituality, she not only becomes isolated from her Christian friends, she falls deeper and deeper into the occult and faces shocking betrayals and threats to her very life
Focus on: Faerie Realms
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale - by Holly Black
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2002
ISBN: 9780689849244
ISBN-10:0689849249
Urban Fantasy. Kaye Fierch feels like a freak with her mismatched Asian features and blonde hair--and it doesn't help that her mom, Ellen, is a wannabe rock-and-roller who raised Kaye in a succession of sleazy bars. Kaye also has vivid memories of playing with faeries when she was a little kid living in her grandmother's house in New Jersey. When Ellen's boyfriend gets violent, she and Kaye move back there...and Kaye discovers not only that her faerie friends weren't imaginary, but that she's one of them, and she's in the middle of a brutal war between the Seelie and Unseelie kingdoms. Gentle readers beware: these faeries are no cutesy Tinkerbells; they're of the hedonist, untamed variety.
Stardust - by Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Perennial
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2003
ISBN: 9780613606486
ISBN-10:0613606485
Fantasy. In the quiet English hamlet of Wall, Tristran Thorn embarks on a strange and remarkable journey through the world of Faerie to recover a fallen star for the woman he loves (who thinks she's given Tristan an unachievable task). Tristan has no idea how he'll find the star--which turns out to be not an inanimate object, but a magical female creature--or how many of the dangerous residents of Faerie are also hunting it. Written for adults, this fairy tale combines magic, adventure, and romance--and packs in a number of supremely satisfying twists and surprises.
Wildwood Dancing - by Juliet Marillier
Publisher: Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/23/2007
ISBN: 9780375833649
ISBN-10:0375833641
Fantasy. Jena and her four sisters, who live with their merchant father in Transylvania, use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into the Other Kingdom every time the moon is full. For the past nine years, they've joined dwarfs, trolls, and other fairy folk in the Dancing Glade for all-night revels. Jena found her best friend--a talking pet frog--there, and eldest sister Tati has fallen in love with one of the Night People. But now the sisters' cousin Cezar, who loathes and fears the Other Kingdom, threatens to raze the Wildwood where the kingdom lies. This fast-paced, suspenseful, and romantic tale will keep readers enchanted through the very last page.
The Hunter's Moon - by O.R. Melling
Publisher: Amulet Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/30/2005
ISBN: 9780810958579
ISBN-10:0810958570
Fantasy. American teenager Gwen is visiting her cousin Findabhair in Ireland, where the two planned to travel in search of an opening into the magical world...but instead, the magical world found them. The King of Faerie has kidnapped Findabhair, and now Gwen must find a gateway into the faerie world and rescue her before the King can make a human sacrifice of her. This thrilling and romantic adventure provides plenty of Irish legend and lore, and is the 1st in the Chronicles of Faerie series.
I was a teenage fairy - Francesca Lia Block
Publisher: Joanna Cotler Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 19981001
ISBN: 9780060277475
ISBN-10:0060277475
Once upon a time, in the bubble-gum-snapping, glitter polish-wearing, lip-gloss-applying San Fernando Valley, a gentle girl named Barbie met a feisty fairy named Mab: "Maybe Mab was real. Maybe there really are girls the size of pinkies with hair the color of the darkest red oleander blossoms and skin like the greenish-white underbellies of calla lilies.... But it doesn't matter if Mab is real or imagined, Barbie thought, as long as I can see her." Mab, with her crabby commentary and no-holds-barred opinions, gives Barbie the strength she needs to face the horrors casting a shadow over her life in sunny, shimmering California.
Faerie wars - by Herbie Brennan
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 20030501
ISBN: 9781582348100
ISBN-10:1582348103
Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night. 
The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
Publisher: HarperCollins Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 20030501
ISBN: 9780060012366
ISBN-10:0060012366
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.  We also have the two sequels: A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith.