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2009 TAB Picks
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 | Bauer, Joan Peeled 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. | ||
 | Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox When Artemis enlists the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the African lemurs from extinction, he encounters his deadliest foe yet...his younger self. | ||
 | Ekeles, Simone How to Ruin My Teenage Life Living with her Israeli father in Chicago, 17-year-old Amy Nelson-Barak feels like a walking disaster,worried about her "non-boyfriend" in the Israeli army,her parents, and a new boy named Nathan who thinks she is a selfish snob. | ||
 | Flanagan, John The Battle for Skandia In this fifth volume of the Ranger's Apprentice series, Will battles Temujai warriors in a daring rescue attempt and then his kingdom of Skandia joins forces with a rival kingdom to defeat a common foe. | ||
 | Funke, Cornelia Inkdeath As Bluejay—Mo's fictitious double—tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom and demands Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines. | ||
 | Gonzalez, Julie Imaginary Enemy Sixteen-year-old Jane has always put the blame for her slacker ways and bad behavior on an "imaginary enemy," but a new development forces her to decide whether it is time to take responsibility for her actions. | ||
 | Grant, Michael Gone When everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears from a small California town, battle lines are drawn between the remaining residents and local students, as well as between those who have "The Power" and those who do not. | ||
 | Hale, Shannon Rapunzel's Revenge A Wild West setting and a fairy tale heroine who uses her hair to lasso outlaws combine in this swashbuckling graphic novel. | ||
 | Kinney, Jeff Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Greg Heffley describes his summer vacation and tries to keep his older brother, Rodrick, from telling everyone about his most humiliating experience when he returns to middle school. | ||
 | Petersen, David Mouse Guard: Fall 1152: Vol. 1 In this vivid and dramatic graphic novel, three members of the Mouse Guard, who patrol borders and strive to keep the mouse territories free from predators, uncover a plot to attack Lockhaven, home of the Guard. | ||
 | Rex, Adam The True Meaning of Smekday When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (renamed "Smekday" Eve after the Boov invasion),11-year-old Tip heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help Tip and save the planet from disaster. | ||
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 | Asher, Jay Thirteen Reasons Why After his classmate Hannah commits suicide, Clay receives a box of tapes that she recorded and spends a night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recount the events leading up to her death. | ||
 | Bloor, Edward Taken In 2035 kidnapping rich children has become an industry, but when thirteen-year-old Charity Meyers is taken and held for ransom she soon discovers that this particular kidnapping is not what it seems. | ||
 | Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel Follow the adventures of your favorite criminal mastermind as he plots and connives in action-packed, full-color panels. | ||
| Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox When Artemis enlists the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the African lemurs from extinction, he encounters his deadliest foe yet...his younger self. | ||
 | Compenstine, Ying Chang Revolution is Not a Dinner Party Beginning in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling struggles to make sense of the Chinese communists' Cultural Revolution: stores without food, homes without "bourgeois" appliances, and people without laughter. | ||
| Ekeles, Simone How to Ruin My Teenage Life Living with her Israeli father in Chicago, 17-year-old Amy Nelson-Barak feels like a walking disaster,worried about her "non-boyfriend" in the Israeli army,her parents, and a new boy named Nathan who thinks she is a selfish snob. | ||
 | Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he lives in a graveyard and is raised by ghosts after everyone in his family is murdered. | ||
 | Horowitz, Anthony Point Blank: The Graphic Novel Alex Rider, teenage super spy, infiltrates the mysterious Point Blanc Academy armed with only a false ID and a set of disguised gadgets. Can he alert the world to what he uncovers before it's too late? | ||
| Kinney, Jeff Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Greg Heffley describes his summer vacation and tries to keep his older brother, Rodrick, from telling everyone about his most humiliating experience when he returns to middle school. | ||
 | Riordan, Rick The Battle of the Labyrinth When demonic cheerleaders invade his school, Percy Jackson and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. | ||
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| Asher, Jay Thirteen Reasons Why After his classmate Hannah commits suicide, Clay receives a box of tapes that she recorded and spends a night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recount the events leading up to her death. | ||
 | Cashore, Kristin Graceling In a world where some are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying power, the Grace of killing. | ||
 | Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games In a future North America, where the rulers maintain control through an annual televised survival competition to the death, 16-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the ultimate test. | ||
| Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he lives in a graveyard and is raised by ghosts after everyone in his family is murdered. | ||
 | Green, John Paper Towns Just before graduating from high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in his predictably boring life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman takes him on a midnight adventure before mysteriously disappearing. | ||
 | Marchetta, Melina Jellicoe Road Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia in this Printz Award winning book. | ||
 | Pratchett, Terry Nation After a tsunami destroys all they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, along with a small band of refugees, set about creating a new world and salvaging all the things that are important in their lives. | ||
 | Pratchett, Terry The Bromeliad Trilogy After generations of existing in a human-run Store where seasons are defined by Christmas Sales and Spring Fashions, a group of four-inch-high nomes sets out to discover their true nature and origin, with the help of a black square called the Thing. | ||
 | Ziegler, Jennifer How Not to Be Popular Seventeen-year-old Sugar Magnolia Dempsey is tired of leaving friends behind every time her hippie parents decide to move, but her plan to be unpopular at her new school backfires when other students join her on the path to "supreme dorkdom." | ||
 | Zusak, Markus The Book Thief Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel, a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding. | ||
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| Asher, Jay Thirteen Reasons Why After his classmate Hannah commits suicide, Clay receives a box of tapes that she recorded and spends a night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recount the events leading up to her death. | ||
 | Bodeen, S. A. The Compound After spending six years with his parents and two sisters in the state-of-the-art bomb shelter built by his billionaire father, 15-year-old Eli begins to question his father's motives. | ||
| Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox When Artemis enlists the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the African lemurs from extinction, he encounters his deadliest foe yet...his younger self. | ||
| Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games In a future North America, where the rulers maintain control through an annual televised survival competition to the death, 16-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the ultimate test. | ||
| Hale, Shannon Rapunzel's Revenge A Wild West setting and a fairy tale heroine who uses her hair to lasso outlaws combine in this swashbuckling graphic novel. | ||
 | Kibuishi, Kazi The Stonekeeper (Amulet, Book 1) When Emily's and Narvin's mother is kidnapped and dragged into a strange and magical world, it's up to the children to set things right and save their mother's life. | ||
| Kinney, Jeff Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Greg Heffley describes his summer vacation and tries to keep his older brother, Rodrick, from telling everyone about his most humiliating experience when he returns to middle school. | ||
 | Meyer, Stephenie Breaking Dawn In the fourth and final book in the teen vampire Twilight Saga, questions are answered and the fate of Bella and Edward is revealed. | ||
| Riordan, Rick The Battle of the Labyrinth When demonic cheerleaders invade his school, Percy Jackson and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. | ||
 | Soo, Kean Jellaby Soon after Portia moves to a new town, she discovers a huge purple monster she names Jellaby. Along with classmate Jason, the two search for a way to find Jellaby's true home—a search that may connect Portia to her missing father. | ||
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| Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox When Artemis enlists the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the African lemurs from extinction, he encounters his deadliest foe yet...his younger self. | ||
| Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games In a future North America, where the rulers maintain control through an annual televised survival competition to the death, 16-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the ultimate test. | ||
| Flanagan, John The Battle for Skandia In this fifth volume of the Ranger's Apprentice series, Will battles Temujai warriors in a daring rescue attempt and then his kingdom of Skandia joins forces with a rival kingdom to defeat a common foe. | ||
| Funke, Cornelia Inkdeath As Bluejay—Mo's fictitious double—tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom and demands Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines. | ||
| Kinney, Jeff Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Greg Heffley describes his summer vacation and tries to keep his older brother, Rodrick, from telling everyone about his most humiliating experience when he returns to middle school. | ||
 | Larson, Hope Chiggers When Abby returns to the same summer camp she always goes to, she is dismayed to find that her old friends have changed, and the only person who wants to be her friend is the strange new girl, Shasta. | ||
 | Murdock, Catherine Gilbert Princess Ben Defying the strictures of life in a royal court, Ben transforms herself into her own definition of a ruler and becomes Crown Princess Benevolence: competent, compassionate, and well-versed in magic. | ||
 | Myers, Walter Dean Sunrise Over Fallujah Following 9/11, Harlem-born Robin Perry feels compelled to join the army rather than attend college as his parents had hoped. He is deployed to Iraq in 2003 where his experiences change him profoundly. | ||
 | Sonnenblick, Jordan Zen and the Art of Faking It When 13-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out. His knowledge of Zen Buddhism provides the answer—and the need to quickly become a convincing Zen master. | ||
| Soo, Kean Jellaby Soon after Portia moves to a new town, she discovers a huge purple monster she names Jellaby. Along with classmate Jason, the two search for a way to find Jellaby's true home—a search that may connect Portia to her missing father. | ||
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 | Bertagna, Julie Exodus In the year 2100, as her island is about to be covered by water, 15-year-old Mara discovers the existence of New World, a place safe from the rising waters, and convinces her people to travel to one of these sky cities to save themselves. | ||
| Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox When Artemis enlists the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the African lemurs from extinction, he encounters his deadliest foe yet...his younger self. | ||
| Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games In a future North America, where the rulers maintain control through an annual televised survival competition to the death, 16-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the ultimate test. | ||
| Horowitz, Anthony Point Blank: The Graphic Novel Alex Rider, teenage super spy, infiltrates the mysterious Point Blanc Academy armed with only a false ID and a set of disguised gadgets. Can he alert the world to what he uncovers before it's too late? | ||
| Kinney, Jeff Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Greg Heffley describes his summer vacation and tries to keep his older brother, Rodrick, from telling everyone about his most humiliating experience when he returns to middle school. | ||
| Meyer, Stephenie Breaking Dawn In the fourth and final book in the teen vampire Twilight Saga, questions are answered and the fate of Bella and Edward is revealed. | ||
 | Myers, Walter Dean Game If Harlem high school senior, Drew Lawson, is going to realize his dream of playing in the NBA, he will have to improve at being a team player, which proves difficult after a new student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him. | ||
 | Patterson, James The Final Warning: A Maximum Ride Novel While on a mission to save the world from global warming, 14-year-old Maximum Ride and other members of the Flock—a band of genetically modified children—are pursued by their creator who intends to auction them off to the highest bidder. | ||
 | Reeve, Philip Here Lies Arthur When her village is attacked and burned, Gwyna seeks protection from the bard Myrddin, who uses Gwyna in his plan to transform young Arthur into a heroic King. | ||
| Riordan, Rick The Battle of the Labyrinth When demonic cheerleaders invade his school, Percy Jackson and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. | ||
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| Bodeen, S. A. The Compound After spending six years with his parents and two sisters in the state-of-the-art bomb shelter built by his billionaire father, 15-year-old Eli begins to question his father's motives. | ||
 | Colfer, Eoin Airman In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy, he is branded a traitor and imprisoned. Will his plans to design and build a flying machine lead to escape? | ||
| Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox When Artemis enlists the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the African lemurs from extinction, he encounters his deadliest foe yet...his younger self. | ||
| Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games In a future North America, where the rulers maintain control through an annual televised survival competition to the death, 16-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the ultimate test. | ||
 | Flinn, Alex Beastly In this modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form. | ||
| Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he lives in a graveyard and is raised by ghosts after everyone in his family is murdered. | ||
| Horowitz, Anthony Point Blank: The Graphic Novel Alex Rider, teenage super spy, infiltrates the mysterious Point Blanc Academy armed with only a false ID and a set of disguised gadgets. Can he alert the world to what he uncovers before it's too late? | ||
| Kinney, Jeff Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Greg Heffley describes his summer vacation and tries to keep his older brother, Rodrick, from telling everyone about his most humiliating experience when he returns to middle school. | ||
| Meyer, Stephenie Breaking Dawn In the fourth and final book in the teen vampire Twilight Saga, questions are answered and the fate of Bella and Edward is revealed. | ||
| Patterson, James The Final Warning: A Maximum Ride Novel While on a mission to save the world from global warming, 14-year-old Maximum Ride and other members of the Flock—a band of genetically modified children—are pursued by their creator who intends to auction them off to the highest bidder. | ||
| Riordan, Rick The Battle of the Labyrinth When demonic cheerleaders invade his school, Percy Jackson and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. | ||
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