Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9780761356868
ISBN-10: 076135686X

Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew.

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/12/2010
ISBN-13: 9780375965869
ISBN-10: 0375965866

Fiction. "Is it okay to hate a dead kid? Even if I loved him once? Even if he was my best friend?" In dark, cutting prose that's also drily funny, high-school senior and full-time "pizza delivery technician" Vera Dietz tells of her struggles to cope with her best friend Charlie's scandalous death--and to deal with his ghost, who's begging Vera to clear his name. Here's the kicker: five months before Charlie died, he effectively ruined Vera's life, so she isn't at all sure she wants to help him. Sex, lies, vices, and secrets litter the pages of this edgy, compelling read that fans of strong characterizations, complex relationships, and raw emotion will love.

Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2011
ISBN-13: 9780545240758
ISBN-10: 0545240751

Rejecting melodramatic teen notions about romance, friends Jen and Wes wonder about their growing attraction to each other in the face of such challenges as a pity date and views that differ. By the National Book Award-winning author of Godless.

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/17/2010
ISBN-13: 9780374368999
ISBN-10: 0374368996

Fourteen-year-old Amanda and her best friend Lena start high school looking forward to playing on the varsity soccer team, but when Lena makes varsity and Amanda only makes junior varsity, their long friendship rapidly changes.

Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/28/2010
ISBN-13: 9780385734288
ISBN-10: 038573428X

Fiction. In this 4th novel to feature her, the appealingly neurotic and hyper-verbal Ruby Oliver is still trying to make sense of the vagaries of love and popularity--so she creates a documentary film to help her figure it all out. Meanwhile, Ruby's got family issues; her supposed boyfriend, Noel, "seems to have turned into a pod-robot lobotomy patient;" and her longtime crush, Gideon, has resurfaced. This hysterically funny novel is sure to please fans of great dialogue, fun characters, and (of course) the inimitable Ruby Oliver herself.

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Publisher: Dutton
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/16/2007
ISBN-13: 9780525478300
ISBN-10: 0525478302

Fiction. When blue-haired, smart-mouthed Molly is paired up with her nemesis--blonde, perky Cassie--for a class project, they clash. And clash again. Then they get lunch duty and end up in a food fight, causing the lunch lady to quit. At their private, hippie-run school, punishment fits the crime, so Cassie and Molly have to take over for the lunch lady--but besides not being able get along, neither of them can cook! To find out whether these two should be around sharp knives together, and for a fast-paced, funny read with some great recipes, get in line for Hot Lunch.

Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/30/2006
ISBN-13: 9780345461308
ISBN-10: 0345461304

Adult Science Fiction. After being kidnapped by aliens and befriending a (cranially enhanced) talking dog named George in Lost and Found, former commodities trader Marcus Walker is now safe from his abductors, stranded on the distant planet Sessrimathe...and terrifically bored. Desperate for something useful to do, Marcus tackles the complex process of understanding Sessrimathian culinary technology and ingredients, never guessing that the cooking skills he develops could be his ticket back home to Earth at last. Laced throughout with dry humor and alien politics, this 2nd volume in the Taken trilogy can stand alone but is bound to give you a taste for more of Marcus and George's adventures.

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Publisher: HarperTeen
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780060765255
ISBN-10: 0060765259

Humorous Mystery. At Harewood Technical High School, the random yet devastatingly complete shunning of unpopular girls has become a tradition. No one knows who decides which girls will be D-listed (also known as being "Defiled"), but freshman Sherman Mack aims to find out--and to bring the whole system crashing down. (Of course, winning the favor of his crush in the process would be a big bonus.) With a whiff of noir style and a veritable parade of entertaining, lifelike characters, this hilarious story will pull fans of quirky fiction in from the start...and hold their attention right up to the climactic dinner party--Sherman's final exam for cooking class--where all is revealed.

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