Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
“I begin with the young…What material! With them I can make a new world.” Adolf Hitler exploited the idealism of millions of Germany’s young people to fuel his evil master plan for global domination.

Upstate
Kalisha Buckhanon
Natasha and Antonio, young lovers, communicate via letters for nine years during his incarceration for murdering his father.

Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story
Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton
California teen Hyder describes three summers (2002-4) he spent with his father who had returned to the Afghanistan to help rebuild his country by serving as spokesman to the president and governor of a border province.

Looking for Alaska
John Green
Miles is looking for the Great Perhaps--and an Alabama boarding school offers the possibility of finding it, especially after he meets the captivating, unpredictable, and utterly alive Alaska.

Inexcusable
Chris Lynch
High school senior and football star Keir Sarafina says, “I hate it when people I love condemn me,” but has Keir done something inexcusable to Gigi Boudakian?

Twilight: A Novel
Stephanie Meyer
Bella's move to rainy Forks, Washington is the most boring move she will ever make, until she meets Edward, the vampire love of her life.

Runaways: Volume 1
Brian K. Vaughan
Six teenagers discover that their parents are super-villains, and after deciding to turn them in, fight for both their own survival and an end to the evil from which they were born.

Peeps
Scott Westerfeld
College freshman Cal comes to NY, spends a night with a beautiful girl-- and becomes a carrier. Now everyone he kisses develops a craving for meat, an aversion to sunlight, and super strength.

Poison
Chris Wooding
When Poison's sister is kidnapped by Phaeries, Poison is determined to get her back but she doesn't realize that she is part of a much larger, darker story.

I Am the Messenger
Markus Zusak
Aimless, amiable 19-year-old cab driver, Ed Kennedy, foils a bank robber and then begins to receive mysterious messages assigning him to intervene in the lives of strangers.