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Princess Academy By Shannon Hale Call #: YF Hale While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland. |
All-American Girl By Meg Cabot Call #: YF Cabot A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son. |
Uglies By Scott Westerfield Call #: YF Westerfield Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. Not for her license — for turning pretty. In Tally’s world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time.Tally’s new friend Shay isn’t sure she wants to be pretty. She’d rather risk life on the outside. What’s wrong with that? |
Into The Dark : An Echo Falls Mystery By Peter Abrahams Call #: YF Abrahams Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather’s name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm. |
Sabriel By Garth Nix Call #: YF Nix Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead. |
Fairest By Gaile Carson Levine Call #: YF Levine In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is. |
Flipped By Wendy Van Draanen Call #: YF Thompson In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years. |
Duchessina By Carolyn Meyer Call #: YF Meyer While her tyrannical family is out of favor in Italy, young Catherine de Medici is raised in convents, then in 1533, when she is fourteen, her uncle, Pope Clement VII, arranges for her marriage to prince Henri of France, who is destined to become king. |
Girl In a Cage By Jane Yolen Call #: YF Yolen As English armies invade Scotland in 1306, eleven-year-old Princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by England’s King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on public display. |
Leaving Protection By Will Hobbs Call #: YF Hobbs Sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels, happy to get a job aboard a troller fishing for king salmon off southeastern Alaska, finds himself in danger when he discovers that his mysterious captain is searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the Northwest. |
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