Publisher: Dafina Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2011
ISBN-13: 9780758231192
ISBN-10: 0758231199

Fiction. The drama never stops in newly initiated voodoo priestess Jayd Jackson's life, and if anything, it's amplified in this 14th volume of the Drama High series, following The Meltdown. At the start of her senior year, Jayd has to handle the fallout from a disastrous debutante ball, a cell-phone photo that seems like proof her boyfriend is cheating, and going up against her former best friend, Misty, in the beginnings of a supernatural war. Meanwhile, cracks start to form in Jayd's rock-solid circle of friends and trouble brews at her family's salon. Fans of Ni-Ni Simone's high-drama Seven McKnight novels who don't already know Jayd's story should check it out, starting with The Fight.

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Publisher: Groundwood Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/24/2010
ISBN-13: 9780888999733
ISBN-10: 0888999739

Fiction. This is the story of three teenagers -- all orphans, all desperate to escape horrors in their home countries -- whose paths converge on board a boat crossing the English Channel. Abdul is running from war-torn Baghdad, Iraq; Rosalia, a Romani girl, was sold into sexual slavery but escaped; and Cheslav is fleeing from the Russian military. All of them hope to start new lives in England...but they'll have to make it there alive first. Action-packed, heart-wrenching, and suspenseful, No Safe Place is a very fast-paced and at times brutal read.

Publisher: HarperTeen
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061726842
ISBN-10: 0061726842

Nonfiction. Talk about quick reads! This collection of very short life stories written by teenagers -- some of whom you may have heard of -- is powerful, funny, shocking, sad, clever, and at times inspiring. You'll be amazed by how much only six words can get across: "We are banned from Wal-Mart forever." "Found out I had cancer. Damn." "Contemplated joining circus. Foolishly chose college." Whether browsing for choice entries or reading straight through, fans of poetry and true stories will be succinctly entertained by this thought-provoking and emotionally charged book.

Publisher: Egmont USA
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/08/2011
ISBN-13: 9781606840993
ISBN-10: 1606840991

Science Fiction. When early-21st-century teenager Kyle Straker volunteered to be hypnotized as part of his town's talent show, he didn't expect it to actually work. But if it hadn't, people might never have known what happened while he was under: the rest of humanity received the equivalent of an upgrade to their operating systems, making Kyle and his three fellow volunteers obsolete and, as far as everyone else in the world was concerned, nonexistent. This book, set in a future many years after that upgrade, relates Kyle's harrowing experiences after the conversion and tells a fast-moving, über-creepy story of technology taken way, way too far.