Burger Wuss

Author	Pete Hautman
ISBN	0763674184

A world within a world…

Twelve square miles of paradise, surrounded by an eight-foot-high chain-link fence: this is Nodd, the land of the Grace. It is all Jacob knows. Beyond the fence lies the World, a wicked, terrible place, doomed to destruction. Only the Grace will be spared.

But...

Author	Gigi Amateau
ISBN	0763633119

1. Author's Background
Gigi Amateau wrote this novel, because she needed a way to express herself. Georgia Tate’s character is based off of Gigi. Each of the characters go through some of the same obstacles.

2. Literary Time Period
This novel was written in modern times. This book...

Author	Catherine Jinks
ISBN	0763620203

Catherine Jinks's follow-up to PAGAN'S CRUSADE is another tale with special appeal for boys -- filled with action, featuring a witty young narrator, and loaded with down-and-dirty details of medieval life.

The year is 1188, and Jerusalem is in the hands of the Infidel. Upstanding Crusaders...

Author	Barry Lyga
ISBN	0545196493

Critically acclaimed YA author Barry Lyga makes his Scholastic middle-grade debut with a superhero story turned on its head.

Kyle Camden knows exactly where he was the night Mighty Mike arrived: sneaking around the fallow field behind Bouring Middle School, preparing one of his most ingenious...

Author	Adam Rapp
ISBN	0763630314

An award-winning writer and playwright hits the open road for a searing novel-in-letters about a street kid on a highstakes trek across America.

For a runaway boy who goes by the name "Punkzilla," kicking a meth habit and a life of petty crime in Portland, Oregon, is a prelude to a mission: reconnecting...

Author	Robert Wilder
ISBN	0997020709

A Booklist Best Young Adult Book of 2016 and Top 10 Romance for Youth.

Being a teenager is hard enough without your mother in rehab and your slightly inept stepfather doing his best not to screw things up. But at least Coy has Monroe. Coy is a quirky teenage boy and his best friend, Monroe, is a girl...

Author	Gary Soto
ISBN	0152060227

On his thirteenth birthday, Ronnie woke up feeling like a chimp--all long armed, big eared, and gangly. He's been muddling through each gawky day since. Now his best friend, Joey, has turned thirteen, too--and after Joey humiliates himself in front of a cute girl, he climbs a tree and refuses to come...

Author	Ron Koertge
ISBN	0763621501

For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft — a kid with cerebral palsy, no parents, and an overprotective grandmother — the closest thing to happiness is hunkering alone in the back of the Rialto Theatre and watching Bride of Frankenstein for the umpteenth time. The last person he wants to run into is drugged-up...

Author	Carolee Dean
ISBN	0618138463

Nothing ever happened here. Nothing ever would.

Fifteen-year-old Kenny Wilson wants nothing more than to get out of Comfort, Texas—fast. Only three things stand in his way: getting enough money together, convincing Cindy Blackwell to go with him, and escaping the clawlike grip of his...

Author	Mary Beth Lundgren
ISBN	0805067973

"From the computer files of Sara J. Reichert:
My life, from the last day of summer vacation,
to almost spring of my Junior year.
No matter what you might have heard,
this is the real story."

Love, Sara is the story of two teenage best friends, Sara and Dulcie. Sara, the narrator,...

Author	Melvin Burgess
ISBN	1842701800

Sara is going to have a face transplant. She has allowed herself to be drawn into the orbit of a highly manipulative and ruthless pop-star. He is going to take her discarded face to cover his own scarred and damaged one. But as the time of the operation approaches, those closest to her suspect that Sara is...

Author	Russell Hoban
ISBN	1406329916

So many people really like this book and perhaps it didn't help my copy being in black and white ( many reviews mention a change of colour as the story progresses which sounds like a nice idea ) but I found this story confusing.

Soonchild is an unborn child who is due to be born but is suspected to be...

Author	Bruce Hale
ISBN	0152025154

Most folks know him as the best lizard detective at Emerson Hicky Elementary, but it's not all knuckles and know-how with Chet Gecko. He's also got his artistic side.
If it wasn't for his art, he might never have been sent to Principal Zero's office, where he stumbled onto the mystery of Mr. Nice....

Author	Edward Hogan
ISBN	1406337188

"Perhaps we're here to save a few people. Maybe that's the gift."

When fifteen-year-old Frances is sent down to the coast to Helmstown, to live with her aunt, uncle and cousin, she meets and befriends Peter Kennedy, a somewhat tramp-like character who lives in a beach hut along the seafront....

Author

Eireann Corrigan

From the remarkable author of the PUSH bestseller YOU REMIND ME OF YOU, a searing novel in poems about a family falling apart after a violent assault.

It's about the aftermath. It's about what happens after a stranger breaks into a house and attacks a family. It's about the sisters who must barricade...

Author	Jaime Adoff
ISBN	0142404578

During one day at school, the paths of four teens will cross in ways they never imagined. There's Kurt, the "freek" who tries desperately to escape bullying; Tisha, who doesn't feel she fits in with anyone; Ryan, the football jock who rules the hallways while losing control of his life; and Floater, who...

Author	David Yoo
ISBN	0385731922

Nick Park loves girls.

Drumstick legs, cherry-colored lips, dumpling cheeks . . . everything about them he wants to eat up. But he’s dateless and has been since he discovered girls in the third grade, and he’s convinced himself that this is solely based on the fact that he’s the only Korean...

Author	Jean Ferris
ISBN	0152015906

Sandy Huntington-Ackerman's life becomes increasingly complicated when his bungling, moneygrubbing uncles try to shanghai the family fortune by poisoning a birthday cake. Luckily, those conniving uncles prove yet again that they can't do anything right. Instead of bumping off the whole family,...

Author	Dyan Sheldon
ISBN	9781406340

Paloma Rose is living the dream.
A TV star and Teen Icon, she has everything most girls could ever want. On the other side of town, Dona Ginness is far from living the dream as you can get without actually being in a nightmare.

Normally the paths of Paloma and Dona would never cross. But there...

Author	Sonia Maasik
ISBN	0312431333

OK, I'm not into pop culture anyway. Besides, I can think of 100s of things that are more interesting than "Credit Card Babrie," "The Semiotics of Home Decor," "Reality TV meets Plastic Surgery," "So You Wanna Be A Gansgsta," "The Science of Shopping," or even "Funky White Boys and Honorary Soul Sisters."...

Author	Shiho Sugiura
ISBN	3551765367

Appearing as a projection through a flower field of light, the Ayame prince assembles his people for a new prophecy. He foretells of a world full of disasters, but that those who kneel down to him will escape this terrible future. Of course, Rakan, Chigusa, and the rest of their comrades refuse to kneel...at...

Author	Kazurou Inoue
ISBN	1591169062

The continuation of this unique romantic comedy in which our bickering couple become attached in more ways than one...

At heart, tough guy Seiji Sawamura is a softy, and all he wants is to end his romantic losing streak. Then one day, Seiji wakes up to discover his "devil's right hand" has turned...

Author	Kenjiro Hata
ISBN	1421508524

Hardworking Hayate has a plan to pay the yakuza--who are now the legal owners of his vital organs--back: he'll kidnap someone and ransom them for a mountain of money. But things get tricky when his would-be kidnappee--who as luck would have it is the daughter of a mind-bogglingly wealthy family--mistakes...