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 | Bauer, Joan | | Rules of the Road | | Jenna has the world’s worst summer job - chauffeuring her elderly, crabby employer from Chicago to Dallas in a last ditch effort to stop a company takeover. |
| | Crutcher, Chris | | Ironman | | Bo’s not about to let possible expulsion or anger management classes keep him from his dream of becoming a triathlete. |
| | Goobie, Beth | | Before Wings | | At summer camp, surrounded by spirits, secrets, and a prescient friend, Adrien discovers there may be more to life than death after all. |
| | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | | Among the Hidden | | In a future where families are allowed only two children, Luke is an illegal third who’s lived his entire life in hiding. Then Luke learns he’s not alone… |
| | Hearn, Julie | | The Minister’s Daughter | | History and fantasy combine in this compelling tale of sisterhood, pregnancy, and witchcraft. |
| | Hobbs, Will | | The Maze | | Rick escapes from juvenile detention only to find himself in even greater danger — there’s more roaming the maze of canyonlands than giant condors and a bird researcher. |
| | Horowitz, Anthony | | Stormbreaker | | 14 year-old Alex Rider discovers his uncle wasn’t a banker, but a spy for British Intelligence and Alex is the only one who can continue his mission. |
| | Koertge, Ron | | The Arizona Kid | | Billy learns about life, love, and growing up during the summer he spends with his uncle at an Arizona racetrack. |
| | Konigsburg, E. L. | | Silent to the Bone | | Wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby sister, Branwell loses the ability to speak. Only Connor, Bran’s best friend, can reach him and uncover the truth. |
| | Korman, Gordon | | Son of the Mob | | Being the son of a Mafia boss, Vince finds romance with an FBI agent’s daughter something of a challenge. |
| | Myers, Walter Dean | | Fallen Angels | | Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. |
| | Nix, Garth | | Sabriel | | To rescue her father, the Necromancer, Sabriel must cross the wall into the magical Old Kingdom and enter the Land of the Dead. |
| | Oppel, Ken | | Airborn | | Matt, a cabin boy on the Zeppelin Aurora, teams up with Kate, a wealthy young socialite, to battle sky pirates and investigate the existence of strange winged creatures. |
| | Philbrick, Rodman | | Freak the Mighty | | A lumbering giant of an 8th grader and a genius trapped in the body of a little kid combine forces to show the world that together they are invincible. |
| | Pratchett, Terry | | The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents | | A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king. |
| | Rosoff, Meg | | how i live now | | This staggering novel, winner of the 2004 Printz Medal, examines a contemporary WWIII through the eyes of the freshest, most honest literary heroine in decades. |
| | Rylant, Cynthia | | God Went to Beauty School | | God gets a dog, catches a cold, and discovers all the wonders and pains of his creation in this beautifully humorous and heartbreaking novel in poems. |
| | Thomas, Rob | | Rats Saw God | | To manage a passing grade in English, Steve agrees to write a 100-page paper chronicling his fall from straight-A student to failing stoner and explaining how Dada, first love, and betrayal helped him on his way. |
| | Trueman, Terry | | Stuck in Neutral | | Shawn McDaniel, bound to a wheelchair with severe cerebral palsy, fears that his father is planning to kill him. |
| | Turner, Megan Whalen | | The Thief | | When Gen’s boasting lands him in the king’s prison, the Magus sends him on a perilous quest that’s more than meets the eye. |
| | Vande Velde, Vivian | | Never Trust a Dead Man | | Wrongly convicted of murder and sealed into the tomb with the dead man, Selwyn enlists the aid of a witch and the ghost of the victim to find the true killer and clear his name. |
| | Werlin, Nancy | | The Killer’s Cousin | | Acquitted of murder, David relocates to Boston But the ghosts of the past refuse to be silenced, and David’s not the only one hiding secrets and a guilty conscience. |
| | Westerfield, Scott | | The Secret Hour | | Born at midnight, Jess and her friends are the only ones capable of entering the secret 25th hour of the day, and the only ones with the powers to fight the dark creatures that live there. |
| | Zevin, Gabrielle | | Elsewhere | | Liz wakes up from her fatal close encounter with a taxi to find herself on a riverboat en route to a new life, elsewhere. |
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