Fifth Rule

Author	Alex Flinn
ISBN	0060874163

I am a beast.

A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright—a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.

You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity,...

Author

Caroline B. Cooney

The face on the milk carton looks like an ordinary little girl: hair in tight pigtails, a dress with a narrow white collar, a three-year-old who was kidnapped more than twelve years ago from a shopping mall in New Jersey.

As fifteen-year-old Janie Johnson stares at the milk carton, she feels...

Author

Esther M. Friesner

In this rousing sequel to Nobody’s Princess, young Helen of Sparta is not about to be left behind when her older brothers head off to join the quest for the Golden Fleece. Accompanied by her friend Milo, and disguised as a boy herself, Helen sets out to join the crew of heroes aboard the massive ship known...

Author	Charles Forsman
ISBN	1606996673

'At 16, I pretended to fall in love with Alyssa.'

Meet James and Alyssa, two teenagers facing the fears of coming adulthood. As their story is told through chapters which alternate each character's perspective, however, this somewhat familiar teenage experience takes a more nihilistic...

Author	Margaret Buffie
ISBN	1554532094

In this 20th-anniverary edition of the novel by Margaret Buffie, it's going to be a long, hot summer for 15-year-old Lizzie. Normally a vacation at her grandmother's northern Manitoba cottage is the highlight of the year, but this summer the whole family is going along, including her new stepfather...

Author	Patrick Ness
ISBN	0763676179

We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men...

Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has...

Author	Sheree Fitch
ISBN	0385660731

“An odd shaped shell caught my eye. . . . I turned it over. . . . It was a tiny, perfect skull.”

In the wake of a family tragedy, twelve-year-old Minn Hotchkiss is sent to spend the summer with her sour grandmother in the tiny seaside town of Boulder Basin, Nova Scotia. Almost as soon as she arrives,...

Author

Norah McClintock

With the third book in this series, things took a bit of a darker turn. For the first time, Robyn's investigations really landed her in trouble. Nick's secrets nearly cost her her life. And I have to say, her dad was a bit blase about it, all in all. Not sure if I completely buy that, but I guess her relationship...

Author	Norah McClintock
ISBN	0439952298

Robyn's scared of dogs—like, really scared. But she agrees to spend her summer working at an animal shelter anyway. (It's a long story.) Robyn soon discovers that many juvenile offenders also volunteer at the shelter—including Nick D'Angelo, a boy from Robyn's past. A boy she hoped to never see...

Author	Norah McClintock
ISBN	0545997291

Robyn has a new substitute teacher, Ms. Denholm, who appears to be the victim of a stalker. All is not as it seems, however, including Ms. Denholm’s true identity, and Robyn has to figure out what to believe as evidence that Ms. Denholm is fabricating the entire threat begins to stack up against her....