The Monster Variations

Author	Kevin Brooks
ISBN	0545057523

Thoughtful Pete, tough Pauly, twins Eric and Nicole, strange Raymond: As kids they were tight; now they've grown up--and apart. They agree to get together one last time, but, twisted by personal histories and fueled by pharmaceuticals, old jealousies surface. The party's soon over, and the group...

Author	Alan Gratz
ISBN	0803736665

The Scottish Highland Festival in Tennessee is all set to begin, but there’s one problem: Duncan MacRae, founder of the games, has just been murdered. The police arrested Malcolm, Duncan’s son, but is he really the killer? Horatio Wilkes, for one, has doubts. Horatio is attending the festival...

Author	David Klass
ISBN	0374399506

A taut psychological thriller for teens
 
Seventeen-year-old Jeff thought he would never again have to deal with his older brother, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence. But after six years, Troy’s sentence has been overturned on a technicality and he is released from prison....

Author	Beth Ann Bauman
ISBN	0385737351

A wonderful YA debut full of drama for two very different sisters.

It's off-season at the Jersey shore, when the boardwalk belongs to the locals. Rosie is 15 and her sister Skate is 16. Their dad, an amiable drunk, is spending a few weeks in jail while their cousin Angie looks after them in their...

Author	Dave Cousins
ISBN	9780192745

Meet Oz . . . he's got a talent for trouble but his heart's always in the right place (well, nearly always).

Uprooted from his friends and former life, Oz finds himself stranded in the sleepy village of Slowleigh. When a joke backfires on the first day at his new school, Oz attracts the attention...

Author	Adam Rapp
ISBN	0763633658

07 June 2004 UNDER THE WOLF, UNDER THE DOG by Adam Rapp, Candlewick, October 2004, Age 14 and up, ISBN: 0-7636-1818-7

"I was so in love, I went into my room and drank half a bottle of Robitussin."

Reading Adam Rapp's upcoming novel, UNDER THE WOLF, UNDER THE DOG, is like watching a car wreck...

Author	Stefania Bertola
ISBN	8806209787

Olimpia fa la bibliotecaria, è un'amante del cappuccino al bar, e la vera passione - la passione che tutto travolge - l'ha provata solo per tre giorni, nel 1977. Paola è avvocato, si è lasciata un matrimonio alle spalle e indossa vistosi giubbotti da aviatore. Nicola, invece, è un tipo che non si fa...

Author	Carol Snow
ISBN	0061452114

Madison Sabatini thought she knew who she was: an almost-sophomore with a bright future. The newest photographer on her school paper. A shopaholic with great hair and a fabulous wardrobe. Then, in a flash, everything changed.

Now she's stuck in Sandyland, a gloomy beach town in the middle...

Author	Frances Temple
ISBN	0064471365

Every Life
Makes a Story

Djo has a story: Once he was one of "Titid's boys," a vital member of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide's election team, fighting to overthrow military dictatorship in Haiti. Now he is barely alive, the victim of a political firebombing.

Jeremie has a story:...

Author	Mark Jacobson
ISBN	0802143369

In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid them. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians,...

Author	John C. Ford
ISBN	0670010960

Christopher just needed a job to kill time the summer after high school graduation. He didn't expect it to be in the morgue. Or that he would accidentally discover a murder cover-up. Or that his discovery would lead him to a full-blown investigation involving bribery, kidnappings, more murders......

Author

David Rubín

Los mitos heroicos tienen algo que nos atrapa. Sus héroes resuelven con valor los grandes peligros a los que se enfrentan, pero la batalla del héroe es ante todo un viaje iniciático para comprenderse a sí mismo. La batalla de los héroes es un reflejo de las inquietudes humanas. Nos sirven para comprender...

Author	Maurizio de Giovanni
ISBN	8806203428

Natale 1931. Mentre la città si prepara alla prima di Natale in casa Cupiello, dietro l'immagine di ordine e felicità imposta dal regime fascista infieriscono povertà e disperazione. In un ricco appartamento vicino la spiaggia di Mergellina sono rinvenuti i cadaveri di un funzionario della Milizia,...

Author

Pierdomenico Baccalario

El 28 de abril de 1829 nace un niño que podría cambiar la suerte de Inglaterra: es el hijo ilegítimo del rey Jorge IV, y por eso se le ha alejado de la corte. Exiliado a las Indias Orientales, lleva siempre encima un reloj antiguo, el único vínculo con su pasado. James Fry, que así es como se llama, se...

Author	Stefano Benni
ISBN	8807019108

Martin è un maturo professore e poeta che si è ritirato a vivere ai margini di un bosco: è una nuova stagione della vita, vissuta con consapevolezza e arricchita dai ricordi e dalle conversazioni che Martin intrattiene con il cane Ombra e con molti altri animali bizzarri e filosofi. In questa solitudine...

Author	Elsebeth Egholm
ISBN	8703008193

Tredje bind i serien om Århus-journalisten Dicte Svendsen. Der er optøjer mellem ordensmagt og unge indvandrere en hed augustnat. Den nat finder Dicte liget af en ung nøgen kvinde. Hendes underliv er brutalt sprættet op, og det barn, hun bar, er forsvundet.

Inden længe er Dicte dybt...

Author	Chris Crutcher
ISBN	0060502479

Every kid in this group wants to fly. Every kid in this group has too much ballast.

Mr. Nak's Angry Management group is a place for misfits. A place for stories. And, man, does this crew have stories.

There's Angus Bethune and Sarah Byrnes, who can hide from everyone but each other. Together,...

Author

Michael Ende

La Fantasía interminable

Es corto el pasillo del imponente palazzo romano pero jamás alcanzaremos su final. Es ancho el zaguán de la villa magnífica, y ahí lo tenemos, invitándonos a entrar, engañándonos con una oferta de facilidad. Si te lanzas al mundo para aprender la admiración,...

Author	Rachel Fershleiser
ISBN	0061726842

From the editors of the international phenomenon and New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning comes a collection of six-word memoirs created by and for teens.

From cancer to creativity, prom dates to promiscuity, and breaking hearts to breaking laws, the memoirs in this collection...

Author	Marco Malvaldi
ISBN	8838926085

Aldo, Ampelio, Gino e Pilade, i quattro pensionati-detective di Pineta affondano in questa nuova avventura fra un pettegolezzo, una bevuta e quattro risate, rompendo la monotonia della placida vita di provincia con arguzia e ironia. E dimostrando alla fine che la scienza serve, anche tra i tavolini...