Rampant by Diana Peterfreunde

Astrid knows unicorns don't exist. They are mythical beings. But her mom believes that unicorns not only exist, but that they are bloodythirsty, deadly creatures. Her mother is a little crazy, but then Astrid is forced to believe in her mother's stories when her boyfriend is gored by a unicorn and almost dies. As a reward for saving him, Astrid is dumped and humiliated before second period the next day at school. Her mother though is elated to be proven right and sends Astrid off to Rome to train in hunting unicorns.

Astrid quickly discovers that Rome isn't going to be the holiday she was hoping for. The cloisters are in disrepair. Cory, her roommate goes completely psycho whenever she sees their pet unicorn, and the few girls that arrive aren't sure about how to actually kill the unicorns that all of a sudden seem to be everywhere they go in Rome.

Being a unicorn hunter also requires sacrifices. Only virgins may be unicorn hunters and they are required to live in the cloisters like nuns for the rest of their lives. Astrid isn't prepared to make that kind of lifestyle choice, especially not after she meets the handsome and smart Giovanni one night when she sneaks out.

But as much as Astrid isn't sure about her future unicorn hunting, how can she turn back now, when unicorns are once more running Rampant?

We Were Here by Matt de la Pena

Miguel wasn't planning on running away from his group home, but when Mong, this scary, psycho kid asks him, he finally decides to go. After he messed up, his mom won't even talk or look at him, and Miguel really couldn't care less about anything anymore. So what the heck, why not just run away from everything and go to Mexico like Mong wants. His roommate Rondell, huge, black, and illiterate decides to come too.

The three boys get out okay. Miguel even manages to jack $750 from the cash box. But then things go wrong. Mong's cousin drives them north instead of south to the Mexican border. Now they have to travel through most of the state of California. They need to be careful with their stolen money and, most importantly, they have to avoid the cops. Miguel actually welcomes some of the problems. At least it keeps his mind off of what he did. What happened to his family. How his mom hates him now.

But Miguel is about to learn that the old adage is true - you can't run away from your problems. And that crazy as it seems, three unlikely teens may actually become the best of friends, if they can keep out of jail and make it to Mexico.

A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper

Her Highness Sophie, princess of the tiny island of Montmaray has a dilemma. Now that she just turned sixteen years old, she wants to go to England and be presented at court. But she doesn't want to go without her cousin Veronica, who would rather spend time working in the library on her book, A Brief History of Montmaray then going to parties and meeting boys.

Not that there's been any chance to do either in Montmaray. The tiny windswept island located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coats of Spain and France has very few people remaining on it, mainly the royal family, King John (Veronica's father who went insane when his wife left him), Veronica, Sophie, and Sophie's little tomboy sister Henry. As well as the housekeeper and a couple of villagers. The island has no electricity, no radio, no stores, the royal family is broke, and the castle is falling to pieces around them.

Although Montmaray used to play a vital role in European politics, the rest of the world has passed them by. But now it's 1936 and things are about to get more interesting, especially after two German Nazi officers arrive.

As Europe prepares to go up in flames, the history of Montmaray is about to change.

The Compound by S.A. Bodeen

The Compound. For the last 6 years, Eli and his family have been living underground in this huge complex his billionaire father built in case of nuclear war. When war came, the family rushed to the shelter that would protect them. But not everyone made it. After the door closed, Eli realized his twin brother Eddy and his grandmother were still on the outside.

Now 15, Eli has shut himself off from the rest of his family. They all go through the motions, waiting until 15 years are up and they can return to the surface once the radiation has diminshed. Eli's dad has planned for every contingency, food, clothes, even creating a huge library and media room with thousands of books and dvds. But problems occured with the food supply, so that is running out sooner than expected. The alternate plan is too horrendous to even contemplate. Now Eli is beginning to think that his dad is keeping something from them all.

Did anyone survive above in the real world? What is his dad hiding? Eli wants answers, but the only way to get them is to escape the compound and his dad won't let anyone leave.

Eli once had all the time in the world, but now time is running out in the Compound.

Gentlemen by Michael Northrop

Four friends - Micheal, Tommy, Mixer, and Bones. No one seems to care much for them, so they all look out for each other. But then Tommy disappears. He's run off before but not for this long. Meanwhile, the boys' English teacher, Mr. Haberman, is acting very strange. First off there's the matter of the big plastic barrel he had in class. He won't tell what was in it, but it sure seemed like a body. And he's dropping hints in class that he knows what happened to Tommy. The boys are beginning to find it plausible that Haberman murdered Tommy.

But who would believe them and how do they prove it?

Candor by Pam Bachorz

Candor, the perfect town. And Oscar Banks is the perfect son. Or so everyone thinks.

Oscar is class president, straight A student, and Mr. Popular. All the kids in Candor look up to him. He is also the only bad kid in town, not that anyone knows. His dad, the town's founder, controls everyone with subliminal messages, exhorting the residents of Candor to eat healthy, study hard, obey their parents, and "respectful space in every place". Oscar fights the mind control by creating his own messages. He even has his own business helping new teens escape to the real world. And then Nia Silva arrives.

Nia is an artist with a troubled past. She's different from every Candor kid and Oscar falls for her, hard. But as much as she's unconsciously resisting the messages, it won't be long before Nia turns into just another boring Candor clone. And Oscar knows the only way to save her is to lose her.

In Candor, you are what you hear.

King of the Screwups by K.L. Going

Liam Geller has screwed up yet again. His dad found him drunk on top of the desk with an almost naked girl. This time, instead of yelling at him or grounding him, Liam's dad throws him out. There's no way he wants to stay with his military grandparents so his mom arranges for him to stay with his gay uncle in a trailer park.

Liam is not happy to see the uncle he barely knows and his uncle seems to be conflicted about his staying there. On his first day of school he gets in trouble and things go downhill from there. No matter what Liam does, he screws everything up. So he decides to change. His dad doesn't like the fact that he's popular, so, he'll be unpopular and maybe even join an academic club or two. But of course he screws even that up.

The one thing Liam is good at is understanding fashion and modeling, a trait he inherited from his mom, a former international supermodel. He even gets a job at the only clothing store in his uncle's small town. But Liam can't be proud of his success as it makes him even more popular than ever and that is the last thing that will impress his dad.

When will Liam realize that he needs to be true to himself and not his dad, instead of being the King of the Screwups?

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

It is supposed to be Anna and Frankie's Absolutely Best Summer Ever. Frankie's parents are taking Anna with them on the annual family vacation for three weeks to Zanzibar, California. Three weeks of sun and sand, and oh yeah, boys. Frankie is determined that Anna is going to lose her virginity this summer, and to make sure, they need to meet a boy a day, so twenty boys. Anna goes along with the idea, never intending to take it seriously. After all, she's already had a boyfriend although Frankie never knew. Matt asked Anna to keep it a secret until he could tell Frankie at the right moment. Matt was Frankie's brother. Was. He died right before he could tell Frankie.

Anna is trying to be there for Frankie but she's still keeping her relationship with Matt a secret. And now in California all she can think about is him. Until Sam comes on the scene. Sam is sweet, gorgeous, and makes Anna feel very special. She's sure she's falling in love with him, but what will happen to her memories of Matt if she does?

Will Anna's secret destroy her Twenty Boy Summer?

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

The Hate List. Valerie started the Hate List as a way to vent, to write down everything and everyone that was annoying her. Algebra, celebrities, homework, parents fighting, and Christy Bruter, the girl who'd been bothering Val since elementary school. When Val met Nick Levil as a freshman, they bonded over the Hate List, adding more and more names of kids in school who annoyed them or bullied them. Val never thought it was anything more than a way of getting frustration out until the day Nick brought a gun to school and targeted those whose names were on the Hate List.

Now people blame Val for creating the infamous list and she no longer knows who she is. Villain for coming up with the list? Victim for being taken in by Nick? Or Hero for saving the life of a girl she didn't even like and getting shot in the process? She can't shake the momories of the day and trying to move on with her life is difficult. It takes all her strength to go back to school and face her old friends who now hate her. And regardless of what people tell her to think, and what he did, she still misses and cares for Nick.

All this started as a simple joke that became so much more. But how can Val move on and create a new life after the Hate List?

Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon

It's not my fault my father is gay, but sometimes it seems like it. He realized he was gay when I was fourteen, ruining my life and causing my mom to walk out the door. Now, three years later, we're sitting in a small town in Montana of all places, just becasue I made a teny little mistake that got me arrested. Montana, where my dad's boyfriend was from, the same town he was run out of for being gay. How is a punk skater with his hair in spikes going to fit in in this redneck, backwards town?

Things get worse in a hurry. Our neighbor is extremely homophobic and is mad at us for calling the Sheriff on him because he was beating his eleven year old son. Somehow I've made an enemy of the town bully, and I fell in love with a beautiful girl who has a huge, muscular, over-protective borther. To top it all off, there's not a decent place to skateboard in the entire town!

How am I ever going to fit in and survive in a place like this? Honestly, the Last Exit to Normal is anything but!

The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky

Secrets. Secrets can create a bond. Secrets can hide the truth. Secrets can destroy a family.

Grace never saw the man she hit with the car in the pouring rain. Her mother, Deborah, sitting in the passenger seat didn't see him either. Worried about her younger son who was alone, Deborah sent Grace home. The police just assume that Deborah was driving, and in an attempt to protect her daughter, Deborah doesn't bother to correct them. She figures if she and Grace stay silent, everything will be okay.

But the man dies and even though the police find there was no way Deborah and Grace could have avoided him, his widow wishes to press charges. Grace feels like her whole life is falling apart, and her mother, normally so strong and capable of taking care of everything, doesn't know how to fix this. But what her mother also doesn't know is that Grace is hiding a small secret of her own about that night.

A secret between a mother and daughter is usually a good thing. But not the Secret Between Us.

Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

What would you do if the dead don't stay dead? All over America, dead teenagers are coming back to life. Nobody knows why. They are trying to act like regular kids, they go to school and listen to music. But people are not prepared to accept the living impaired or differently biotic. Instead, they call them zombies, corpsicles or dead heads.

Phoebe isn't sure what to think of the differently biotic kids at her school. There's Collette, a former friend of hers whom she hasn't talked to since she died. And then there's Tommy. For some reason, Phoebe can't explain it, she's interested in Tommy Williams. Tommy isn't your regular differently biotic kid. He can talk and move faster and he's trying out for the football team, which goes over real well at prejudiced Oakvale High.

As Phoebe and Tommy become friends, she unknowingly draws her other friends into the tensions surrounding the differently biotic and traditional kids. As the violence against the dead kids grows, Phoebe, Tommy, and their friends try to promote peace and tolerance.

But there are some who believe the dead should stay dead, and they're out to permanently kill all of the Generation Dead.

Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay

Ned Marriner is feeling babied. He's in Provence, France, where his dad, a famous photographer is taking pictures for a book. His mother is in Darfur where she is a doctor with Doctors Without Borders. Normally Ned would love the chance to get out of school and help his dad but he's worried about his mom and he feels that his dad's assistant is treating him like a little child. Melanie has researched all sorts of things for him to do as if he can't take care of himself. But Ned's irritation at Melanie is replaced by fear when he walks into the old chatedral his dad is shooting picures of.

Inside he meets an American exchange student named Kate. And then a strange man climbs out of a grate on the floor, carrying a knife, and tells them to go away because he has killed children before. The weird part is Ned knows things about this man such as where he is when he can't even see him. Then the man follows him and Kate to a cafe the next day where dogs attack them. Needless to say, Ned is getting very freaked out by all this. When his long estranged Aunt Kim shows up, Ned is anxious for answers.

Apparently Ned has been drawn into a story from long ago about two men who are desperate to kill the other in order to have the woman the both love, Ysabel. Even though Ned has been warned, repeatedly, to not get involved, somehow he can't resist. But by trying to find out the answers to what he's feeling, he ends up potentially endangering Kate, his family, and even his dad's assistants. Now, the only way to help them all is to find the mysterious Ysabel, and maybe, just maybe, Ned will also learn the truth about himself.