Gr 7 Up—Sacred Scars (2009) continues the compelling dark fantasy world first introduced in Kathleen Duey's National Book Award Finalist, Skin Hunger (2007, both Atheneum)...
Gr 7—10—In the fourth book (Delacorte, 2010) of Michael Scott's fantasy series, twins Josh and Sophie Newman are asked to exercise some of their newly awakened magical skills to help stop the nefarious Dr...
Gr 7—10—Sherrilyn Kenyon's book (St...
Gr 9 Up—Ancient Maori myth and tradition meet contemporary teens and teen problems in this engaging debut novel (Little, Brown, 2010) by Karen Healey...
Gr 4—9—Pam Munoz Ryan's fictionalized biography (Scholastic, 2010) of Chilean Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda is lovingly read by Tony Chiroldes...

Gr 9 Up—In the blink of an eye, popular high school student Samantha Kingston loses her life...
Gr 7—10—Picking up two months after Cammie's attempted kidnapping in Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Hyperion, 2009; Brilliance 2009), Ally Carter's next installment (Hyperion, 2010) brings on more danger, betrayals, secrets, and potential romance...

Gr 6—10—This gripping story (Farrar, Straus, 2009) by Helen Frost about two neighboring families during the Great War relates personal perspectives on the war, the struggle for women's suffrage in the U...
Gr 7—10—The final volume (Scholastic, 2010) in Meg Cabot's Airhead trilogy wraps up the story of Em Watts, whose brain has been transplanted into America's top model and who, at the opening of the book, finds herself the prisoner of Brandon Stark, son of one of the world's wealthiest and most evil men...