After moving to

Baltimore and enrolling in a private school, high school senior Beatrice befriends a quiet loner with a troubled family history.

A runaway teenager, having overcome his addiction to meth, travels across the

country from Portland to Memphis in order to reconnect with his

dying brother and meets a colorful cast of characters along

the way.

Sixteen-year-old Katrina's

kindness to a man she finds

sleeping behind her

grandmother's coffeehouse leads to a

strange reward as Malcolm, who

is actually a teenage

guardian angel, insists on

rewarding her by granting her deepest wish.

Devon Davenport is a straight-A student and prominent player on her school's soccer team, but when she is linked to an abandoned baby found in the trash she is accused of attempted murder.

Fifteen-year-old amateur

photographer Blake gains self-awareness

through his relationships with a

girlfriend and a friend who he helps come to terms with her feelings about her

homeless, methamphetamine-

addicted mother.

Fed up with boys and the way they

have treated her and her friends, high school junior Penny Lane--named after the Beatles song– forms a club whose members vow to stop dating, but the repercussions are surprising.

Cammie Morgan questions the loyalty of

her classmates and

friends after she learns that one of her most trusted allies is

actually a double-agent, and now danger follows her

everywhere.

Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-

year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has

escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds

up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await

him.

When someone steals her purse and her identity, high-school junior and reluctant girl sleuth Lulu Dark

investigates.

Seventeen-year-old Isabel, eager to leave Miami to attend the University of Michigan and escape her

overprotective Cuban mother, learns some

truths about her family's past and makes important decisions about

the type of person she

wants to be.

Nonfiction- John and Jenny document their lives with a Labrador retriever named Marley. Describes Marley's puppy disasters, obedience school training, and his boundless loyalty to his family. Includes stories of the family's miscarriage and pregnancies, a neighborhood stabbing, Marley shutting down a public beach, and his landing a role in a feature-length movie.

Consumed with emailing, online video games, and the many

distractions of her electronic gadgets,

hyper-frenetic Columbia University freshman Veronica,

known as Very LeFreak, enters a rehab facility

for the technology-addicted after her

professors and classmates stage an

intervention.

A young woman discovers an ancient book and a cache of old letters in her father's library, and thus begins her adventurous quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, a search that will span continents and generations, and a confrontation with the darkest powers of evil.

Arrested on a minor offense a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island while waiting for his case to go to court.

High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts.

On the night of her sweet 16 birthday party, self-centered snob Teagan Phillips receives a visit from a special person who tries to convince the teenager to change the way she lives her life.

When three brilliant nerds- -Max Kim, Eric Roth, and Isaac "The Professor" Schwarzbaum—bet $20,000 that they can get anyone into Harvard, they take on the Ivy League in their quest for popularity, money, and love of a beauty queen valedictorian.

Four girls from different backgrounds--one with a police record, one with a frightening secret, one with a tough exterior, and one from high society--meet at a church youth group and learn firsthand the value of honoring their parents.

After their best friend Ross dies, English teenagers Blake, Kenny, and Sim plan a proper memorial by taking his ashes to Ross, Scotland, an adventure-filled journey tests their loyalty to each other and forces them to question what friendship means.

Paul Faustino, South America's best soccer journalist, reports on the series of events that hurl Otello from the heights of being a beloved and successful soccer star, happily married to the pop singer Desdemona, into a downward spiral, in this novel loosely based on Shakespeare's play, Othello.

In one cataclysmic moment, millions around the globe disappear. Vehicles, suddenly unmanned, careen out of control. People are terror stricken as loved ones vanish before their eyes. In the midst of global chaos, airline captain Rayford Steele must search for his family, for answers, for truth. As devastating as the disappear- ances have been, the darkest days may lie ahead.

Nonfiction-- Details English explorer Percy Fawcett's exploration for a lost city in the jungles of South America and relates efforts made by the author and other individuals to find out what happened to him.

Nonfiction- Tells the dramatic

story of U.S. Army scientists and soldiers who

worked to stop the outbreak of a

deadly and extremely

contagious virus in 1989.