Gr 5—9—When listeners last met 14-year-old Max Murphy in Jon and Pamela Voelkel's Middleworld (Smith & Sons, 2007), he had just made a deal with the Mayan Death Lords, promising them a favor in return for releasing his parents from captivity in Xibalba, the Mayan underworld...
Gr 9 Up—Infernal and celestial forces collide over the fate of a girl's soul in the first title (Tor Teen, 2010 pap...
Gr 9 Up—Andi Alpers is from Brooklyn Heights, NY, and is trying to come to terms with her scientist father's abandonment, her mother's mental illness, and her bother's tragic death which caused it all...
Gr 2—4—Judy Moody is a huge fan of super sleuth Nancy Drew, and in this latest installment (Candlewick, 2010) of Megan McDonalds's series, Judy solves three mysteries, Nancy Drew style...

Gr 6—9—Tristan's journey with the Holy Grail comes to its thrilling conclusion in the final title (Putnam, 2010) in Michael Spradlin's trilogy...
Gr 4—7—Eleven-year-old Oscar and his father share a love for model trains and they set up an elaborate layout in their basement...
Gr 7 Up—Edgy teen novels with weighty issues are the order of the day, with far ranging titles like Sarah Littman's Purge (bulimia) and The Knife That Killed Me (school violence) by Anthony McGowan...
Gr 4—6—As in the previous three books in the series, Pseudonymous Bosch delivers a witty mystery adventure (Little, Brown, 2010) that is sure to keep listeners smiling...
Gr 8 Up—Fourteen years after First Night, when America was overrun with the dead who reanimated, 15-year-old Benny Imura joins his half-brother, Tom, in the family business of "closure" or zombie bounty hunting in Jonathan Maberry's novel (S & S, 2010)...