Josh Lieb

YF LIE

In Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.

Chris Crutcher

YF CRU

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, they will embark on a road trip full of haunting endings and glimmering beginnings. And Montana West, who doesn't step down from a challenge. Not even when the challenge comes from her adoptive dad, who's leading the school board to censor the article she wrote for the school paper. And straightlaced Matt Miller, who had never been friends with outspoken genius Marcus James. Until one tragic week-a week they'd do anything to change-brings them closer than Matt could have ever imagined. --Global Books In Print.

Josh Berk

YF BER

When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a popular football player in his class.

 

Lia Hills

YF HIL

Seventeen year old Will is in turmoil after the sudden death of his mother. His father drifts and his older brother, Adam, stays away from home. Isolated and angry, Will begins a search for the answers he craves. He uses his mum's old camera to document the experience and scrambles to find an idea for which he can live and die. And as if things weren't complicated enough, he falls for sixteen year old Taryn. His final exams are looming, but how will he get through the tangle of grief and philosophy, sex and love?

David Metzenthen

YF MET

Awkward, funny and poignant, Jarvis 24 places the reader in the mind of 16-year-old Marc Jarvis, who tries to step outside the boundaries of his private school life by taking on work experience for two weeks in a car yard.

 

 

Sharon Flake

Y 813 FLA

Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant--and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in next door--well, that's a different kind of problem. In these and twenty-two other short stories and poems, readers plumb the inner lives of African American teenage boys.

50 Cent (Musician)

Y 780.92 FIF

From 'pieces' to 'weight' -- from a life of guns and crime to bling-bling jewellery -- this is the sensational life story of rap music's hottest star, 50 Cent.

Mike Loder

NZ Y 305.235 LOD

This laugh-out-loud handbook tackles some of the big ones - how to get a job, find a flat, have a party - and some of the smaller, but still important, issues - how to change a tyre, barbecue, breathe. Whether you are starting out in life, have lost your way, or are just clueless, The guide will give you the confidence to take a huge stride into the great big world and a push towards achieving your dreams.

Tricia Kreitman

Y 612.6 KRE

Using their years of experience, Mizz agony aunt Tricia Kreitman and paediatric consultants Neil Simpson and Rosemary Jones offer reassuring advice to allay boys' anxieties and answer the questions they may be too embarrassed to ask.

Barzak

JGN NEI

When a shadowy government agency pursues its ceaseless war with Ali Baba and The Dirty Deeds to southern California, they bring with them pain and suffering for the locals. But they also bring skateboards: skateboards with mysterious and incredible abilities! With these boards, a troubled teen, a pro skater, a malcontent and an overachiever embark on a quest to rid the world of this evil!'--Back cover.

Dan Abnett

YGN ABN

On a hundred-mile front across the northern fringes of the empire begins the quest of Greatsword Sergeant Franz Vogel. Will Vogel and his band find deliverance, or eternal damnation? This is the action-packed tale of Vogel as he unites his disparate band of men, mages and dwarves to take on the forces of chaos.

Alexander (Alexander C.) Irvine

YGN IRV

Prohibition-era Hell's Kitchen is Kingpin territory, and until now, his only problem has been the masked vigilante known as Daredevil. When gangster Orville Halloran arrives on the scene, fresh from a stretch in Sing Sing and eager to stretch his wings, Hell's about to get hotter. For P. I. Foggy Nelson and his loyal assistant Matt Murdock, it all starts when a desperate woman comes to their office with an irresistible story about her and Halloran. To Foggy, she's a client -- to Murdock, she's enough to make Halloran Daredevil's next target. But Murdock is about to find out that half-truths are poison truths, and that the Kitchen is full of history that will put him on a collision course with both the old Kingpin and the man who wants to replace him -- from publisher's web site.

Daniel Way

YGN WAY

For decades he treated Logan like an animal, a feral beast tied to a leash and forced to do his bidding. He stole Logan's child, ripping him from his dead mother's womb and raising him as a savage. He twisted that child into a killing machine even more lethal than his father. He formed a band of feral champions, ready to kill on command. And now the time has come. The time when Wolverine finally meets the man who made him who he is! And there shall be a reckoning! This is it! Logan finally lays eyes on the man who made him the best there is at what he does: Romulus! --Publisher description.

J. M DeMatteis

YGN DEM

The Joker has finally done the impossible: dispatched his archnemesis Batman in the most despicable way possible. Putting his life of crime - and trademark look - behind him, the Joker settles intot he simple life, even finding time for a little romance. Now, there's nothing stopping the Joker froma life of normalcy...except there's no escaping the Bat - is there?

 

David Klass

YF KLA

On a secret mission to evaluate whether the human race should be annihilated, a space alien inhabits the body of a bullied fourteen-year-old boy.

Brent Hartinger

YF HAR

A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the Geography Club at their high school.

Jay Asher

YF ASH

When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

Jake Wizner

YF WIZ

Shakespeare Shapiro navigates a senior year fraught with feelings of insecurity while writing the memoir of his embarrassing life, worrying about his younger brother being cooler than he is, and having no prospects of ever getting a girlfriend.

Louis Sachar

YF SAC

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.