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	Kingdom of the Golden Dragon		Fic Allende, I
		Allende, Isabel
		Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.
	Other Side of Truth		Fic Naidoo
		Naidoo, Beverley
		Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.
	Paranoid Park		Fic Nelson, B
		Nelson, Blake
		A sixteen-year-old Portland, Oregon, skateboarder, whose parents are going through a difficult divorce, is engulfed by guilt and confusion when he accidentally kills a security guard at a train yard.
	Time Bomb		Hinton, Nigel.
		Hinton, Nigel
		Now grown, Andy tells the story of the summer of 1949 when, embittered after enduring injustice at their English school and disappointed by the adults in their lives, he and his friends wrestle with thoughts of revenge and deal with several life-changing secrets.
	Rat Life		YA Fic Arnold, T
		Arnold, Tedd
		After developing an unusual friendship with a young Vietnam War veteran in 1972, fourteen-year-old Todd discovers his writing talent and solves a murder mystery.
	The Squad: Perfect Cover		YA FIC Barnes, J.
		Barnes, Jennifer
		High school sophomore Toby Klein enjoys computer hacking and wearing combat boots, so she thinks it is a joke when she is invited to join the cheerleading squad but soon learns cheering is just a cover for an elite group of government operatives known as the Squad.
	Peeled		YA Fic Bauer
		Bauer, Joan
		In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.
	Road of the Dead		YA Fic Brooks
		Brooks, Kevin
		Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London traveling to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister.
	Sword		YA FIC CHEN, D.
		Chen, Da
		When Miu Miu turns fifteen, she learns the truth about her father's violent death and discovers that she must avenge his murder before she can marry the man to whom she is betrothed. Based on a story told to the author by a former prisoner during China's Cultural Revolution.
	Tin Angel		YA Fic Cowan
		Cowan, Shannon
		When Ronnie lets Lee, a fugitive activist, hide out at her family's former lodge in the mountains, she is accused of murder when the lodge burns down, resulting in the death of Louis Moss, a family friend and benefactor.
	Angels on Sunset Boulevard		YA Fic Del la Cruz
		Del la Cruz, Melissa
		When the people closest to them start to disappear, Taj and Nick hit the streets of Los Angeles looking for a way to reach the lost souls of their friends that have been "tapped" by The Angels Practice, a World Wide Web-based movement that connects young people and makes them feel good with no apparent consequences.
	Neptune's Children		YA FIC DOBKIN, B.
		Dobkin, Bonnie
		After terrorists release a virus that kills every adult, a group of teenage survivors creates a community in an amusement park, organizing homes, jobs, and school for the younger kids. Reminiscent of Lord of the Flies (but with way more gadgets), this gripping book explores the bonds of human relationships and the dangers of a leadership with too much power.
	Last Shot		YA Fic Feinstein
		Feinstein, John
		fter winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
	Paper Towns		YA Fic Green
		Green, John
		One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
	Blood Brothers		YA Fic Harazin
		Harazin, S. A.
		With his best friend on life-support after taking drugs at a party, seventeen-year-old Clay, a medical technician, recalls their long friendship, future plans, and recent disagreement, and tries to figure out who is responsible for the accidental overdose.
	snatched		YA Fic Hautman
		Hautman, Pete
		Too curious for her own good, Roni, crime reporter for her high school newspaper, teams up with Brian, freshman science geek, to investigate the beating and kidnapping of a classmate.
	Skullduggery		YA FIC HAUTMAN, P.
		Hautman, Pete
		During a field trip in the woods, Roni and Brian find the local archaeology professor, Andrew Dart, knocked unconscious in a cave, which leads them to investigate a land development scheme.
	Torched		YA FIC HENRY, A.
		Henry, April
		In order to save her parents from going to jail for possession of marijuana, sixteen-year-old Ellie must help the FBI uncover the intentions of a radical environmental group by going undercover.
	Girl at Sea		YA FIC Johnson
		Johnson, Maureen
		Clio will have to live with her father, whom she considers immature and selfish, on a yacht in Italy. Within pages, Clio is off on an excursion that involves her father,his new girlfriend,his girlfriend's daughter, a grad assistant, and her father's best friend. There is a secret shrouding this adventure. Through old letters that are found and snippets of conversation, readers figure out that the group is looking for something akin to the Rosetta Stone.
	Crimes and Punishments of Miss Payne		YA FIC Jonsberg, B. 2004
		Barry Jonsberg
		Calma, who is smart and an excellent writer, and her unlikely friend, Kiffo, a seeming all-around failure, undertake a dangerous project when they follow an abusive teacher whom they suspect of dealing drugs.
	Omega Place		YA Fic Marks
		Marks, Graham
		Seventeen-year-old Paul Hendry runs away from home and joins Omega Place, a radical organization intent on upsetting England's country-wide closed-circuit surveillance system, but soon discovers that the other members of the group may not be entirely altruistic.
	Missing Girl		YA Fic Mazer
		Mazer, Norma Fox
		n Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.
	White Darkness		YA Fic McCaughrean, g
		McCaughrean, Geraldine
		Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symmes's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
	Genesis Alpha		YA FIC Michaels
		Michaels, Rune
		When thirteen-year-old Josh's beloved older brother, Max, is arrested for murder, the victim's sister leads Josh to evidence of Max's guilt--and her own--hidden in their favorite online role-playing game and Josh, who was conceived to save Max's life years earlier, must consider whether he shares that guilt.
	Kiss my book		YA FIC MICHAELS, J.
		Michaels, Jamie.
		Fifteen-year-old Ruby is on top of the world after having a novel published, but accusations of plagiarism send her into hiding at her eccentric aunt's home in upstate New York, where she gets involved in an old mystery and finds her true self again.
	Operation Red Jericho		YA FIC Mowll, J.
		Mowll, Joshua
		The posthumous papers of Rebecca MacKenzie document her adventures, along with her brother Doug, in 1920s China as the teenaged siblings are sent to live aboard their uncle's ship where they become involved in the dangerous activities of a mysterious secret society called the Honourable Guild of Specialists.
	Man vs. Beast		YA Fic Muchamore
		Muchamore, Robert
		When a new radical animal protection group argues that it is right to kill or threaten one human in order to save the lives of many animals, James and the other agents must try to stop the group from completing a violent mission.
	The Dealer		YA FIC Muchamore, R. 2004
		Robert Muchamore
		When James is given the challenging assignment of tracking down the world's most powerful drug lord, he starts searching the streets where the dealers work.
	Eye of the Crow		YA Fic Peacock
		Peacock, Shane
		A woman is found stabbed to death in London. A young Sherlock Holmes is drawn to the scene to investigate, and becomes a suspect himself.
	Tamar		YA FIC Peet
		Peet, Mal
		In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
	Life as We Knew it		YA FIC Pfeffer, S
		Pfeffer, Susan Beth
		Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
	Harmless		YA FIC REINHARDT, D.
		Reinhardt, Dana
		When Anna, Emma, and Mariah concoct a story about why they are late getting home one Friday night, their lie has unimaginable consequences for the girls, their families, and the community.
	Blackthorn Winter		YA FIC Reiss, K. 2006
		Kathryn Reiss
		An idyllic seaside artists' colony in England is the scene of murder, and fifteen-year-old American-born Juliana Martin-Drake attempts to solve the crime while unraveling the mystery of her own past.
	Tin Angel		YA Fic Shannon
		Cowan, Shannon
		When Ronnie lets Lee, a fugitive activist, hide out at her family's former lodge in the mountains, she is accused of murder when the lodge burns down, resulting in the death of Louis Moss, a family friend and benefactor.
	The Trap		YA Fic Smelcer
		Smelcer, John
		In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.
	Sleeper Code		YA FIC Sneigoski
		Sneigoski, Tom
		Just when he has met a beautiful girl and his outlook is improving, sixteen-year-old narcoleptic Tom Lovett begins to suspect that his dreams and hallucinations of killing people may be something more real and terrifying.
	First Shot		YA FIC SORRELLS, W.
		Sorrells, Walter
		David Crandall, haunted by his mother's murder two years ago, uncovers a dark family secret that leads him to believe that his father, headmaster of the military school in which David is currently a senior, is the killer.
	Witch Dreams		YA Fic Vande Velde, V.
		Vande Velde, Vivian
		Sixteen-year-old Nyssa uses her ability to see into people's dreams to discover who murdered her parents six years ago.
	H.I.V.E.		YA Fic Walden
		Walden, Mark
		Swept away to a hidden academy for training budding evil geniuses, Otto, a brilliant orphan, Wing, a sensitive warrior, Laura, a shy computer specialist, and Shelby, an infamous jewel thief, plot to beat the odds and escape the prison known as H.I.V.E.
	Unresolved		YA Fic Welsh
		Welsh, T. K.
		In 1904 New York City, the spirit of a deceased German American teenage girl searches for the person responsible for the Slocum steamboat fire that claimed her life and the lives of more than 1000 other passengers.
	Fight Game		YA FIC Wild, K
		Wild, Kate
		Fifteen-year-old Freedom Smith is a fighter, just like all of his relatives who have the "Hercules gene," which leads him to a choice between being jailed for attempted murder or working with a covert law enforcement agency to break up a mysterious, illegal fight ring.
	Storm the Infinity Code		YA FIC Young
		Young, E.L.
		In London, the teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, uncover plans for a deadly weapon and race to find and dismantle it, then confront the corrupt scientist behind the scheme.