Best Foot Forward: Bauer, Joan[KR HB BL PW SL VO BC]{Ages
12 and up,-Fic-,OCLC57454712} -- Putnam Juvenile : 5/2005 0399234748
After a life-altering summer on the road, Jenna Boller is dripping with
new found maturity. She's got a great job at a shoe store, a best friend
who makes her laugh...and then a handsome hunk with a police record
walks into her life. TR 1 16.99
Criss Cross: Perkins, Lynne Rae[KR* SL HB* SL* VO
BL* PW]{Ages 10 - 14,-Fic-,OCLC56324543} -- Greenwillow : 9/2005 0060092734
Cover title. On board pages. Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s
experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect,
and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love. LB 1
17.89
Elsewhere: Zevin, Gabrielle[BL* KR PW HB* SL VO SL*
BC]{Ages 12 and up,-Fic-,OCLC56367608} -- Farrar Straus Giroux : 9/2005,
288p 0374320918 After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and
killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth,
where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
TR 1 16.00
Flush: Hiaasen, Carl[PW KR BL SL HB VO BC]{Ages 10
- 17,-Fic-,OCLC} -- ALFRED A. KNOPF : 9/2005, 272p 0375821821 Noah's
dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing
raw sewage into the harbor, which has made taking a dip at the local
beach like swimming in a toilet. Noah and his sister Abbey try to help
him prove it. TR 1 16.95
Inexcusable: Lynch, Chris[BL* PW* KR PW KR* SL SL*
HB* VO]{Ages 13 and up,-Fic-,OCLC} -- ATHENEUM : 11/2005, 192p 0689847890
High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself
on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose
date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong. TR 1 16.95
Just Like That: Qualey, Marsha[SL KR VO BC PW HB BL]{Ages
12 and up,-Fic-,OCLC56825317} -- Dial : 5/2005, 240p 0803728409 A tragic
accident ending with the death of two people her own age changes life
forever for an eighteen-year-old woman. TR 1 16.99
Looking For Alaska: Green, John[SL PW SL* KR* KR HB
BL VO]{Ages 14 and up,-Fic-,OCLC} -- DUTTON : 3/2005, 160p 0525475060
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School
in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by
the search for answers about life and death. TR 1 15.99
Love, Cajun Style: Les Becquets, Diane[KR BL* SL VO
BC]{Ages 14 - 17,-Fic-,OCLC60414237} -- Bloomsbury : 9/2005, 300p 1582346747
Lucy finds herself with a very complicated love life during the summer
between her junior and senior years of high school. TR 1 16.95
Prom: Anderson, Laurie Halse[BL* SL PW BC KR* HB VO
KR]{Ages 12 and up,-Fic-,OCLC} -- VIKING : 3/2005 0670059749 Anderson's
frank, open style provides the perfect voice for Ashley, a high school
senior, who seems to be the only girl in her class not consumed by prom.
This YA novel is a funny, honest look at the rite of passage that is
prom night. TR 1 16.99 10
The Sledding Hill: Crutcher, Chris[KR KR* PW SL VO
BL BC HB SL*]{Ages 12 and up,-Fic-,OCLC} -- Greenwillow : 5/2005, 224p
0060502436 After passing away, Billy keeps an eye on his best friend
and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher
who is orchestrating a censorship challenge. TR 1 15.99
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie: Lubar, David[VO BL KR
SL SL* PW]{Ages 12 and up,-Fic-,OCLC56753031} -- Dutton Juvenile : 7/2005,
160p 0525473114 While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting
the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains
some unlikely new ones. His chronicle of the freshman year is both laugh-aloud
funny and touchingly wise. TR 1 16.99
The Tequila Worm: Canales, Viola[KR VO BL* BC PW]{Ages
12 and up,-Fic-,OCLC56809702} -- Wendy Lamb Books : 8/2005, 176p 0385746741
Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in Mcallen,
Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an
Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family
and her "comadres.". TR 1 15.95
Totally Joe: Howe, James[BL KR PW KR* SL VO BC]{Ages
10 - 14,-Fic-,OCLC56621916} -- Atheneum : 10/2005, 176p 068983957X As
a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old boy writes an alphabiography--life
from A to Z--that explores issues of friendship, family, school, and
the difficulties of being a gay teenager. TR 1 15.95
List courtesy of www.bwibooks.com
1/25/2006
