Abdel-fattah, Randa.
Does my head look big in this?
New York : Orchard Books, c2005, 2007.
An exclusive prep school in Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it’s complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.
YA ABDEL-FATTAH
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Forge.
New York :Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010.
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
J ANDERSON
Bacigalupi, Paolo. Shipbreaker.
New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
YA BACIGALUPI
Bruchac, Joseph.
Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two.
New York : Dial Books, c2005.
After being taught that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II.
YA BRUCHAC
Cottrell Boyce, Frank. Cosmic.
New York, NY : Walden Pond Press, 2010.
Super-sized, eleven-year-old Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space.
JSF NEW COTTRELL BOYCE
(also available as a downloadable e-book)
Christopher, Lucy. Stolen.
New York : Chicken House, 2010.
16-year-old Gemma is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.
YA CHRISTOPHER
Gonzalez, Christina Diaz. The red umbrella.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, 14-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them.
J GONZALEZ
Gleitzman, Morris. Once.
Square Fish, c2011.
Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. Morris Gleitzman takes a painful subject and expertly turns it into a story filled with love, friendship, and even humor.
YA GLEITZMAN
Kephart, Beth. The heart is not a size.
New York :HarperTeen, 2010.
15-year-old Georgia learns a great deal about herself and her best friend Riley when they become part of a group of teenagers that go to a squatters village in the border town of Juarez, Mexico, for a community construction project.
YA KEPHART
David, Keren. When I was Joe.
London : Frances Lincoln Books, c2010.
After Ty and his mother are placed in a witness protection program because he can identify his friend's murderers, he finds himself adjusting, but when his grandmother is hurt in a deliberate attack designed to get him to return to London, he knows he must make a choice.
YA DAVID
Mcbride, Lish. Hold me closer, necromancer.
New York : Henry Holt, 2010.
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.
YA MCBRIDE
Na, An. The fold.
New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2008.
Korean American student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for the better.
YA NA
Peet, Mal. Keeper.
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2005,.
In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a renowned soccer star.
YA PEET
Perkins, Lynne Rae. As easy as falling off the face of the earth.
New York :Greenwillow Books, c2010.
A teen encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck.
YA PERKINS
Perkins, Mitali. Bamboo people.
Watertown, MA :Charlesbridge, c2010.
Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.
J PERKINS
Richards, Jame. Three rivers rising : a novel of the Johnstown flood.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010.
16-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below.
YA RICHARDS
Sedgwick, Marcus. Revolver.
Square Fish, c2011.
In an isolated cabin in an Arctic wilderness, 14-year-old Sig is alone with a corpse--his father, who fell through the ice of the lake and froze to death only hours earlier.
YA SEDGWICK
Stuber, Barbara. Crossing the tracks.
Simon & Schuster, c2011.
At 15, Iris is a hobo of sorts--no home, no family, no plan. Beautifully realized characters and settings illuminate a story suffused with humor, warmth, and tear-jerking drama.
YA STUBER
Ward, Rachel. Numbers.
New York : Chicken House/Scholastic, 2010.
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they'll die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
YA WARD
Whytock, Cherry. My scrumptious Scottish dumplings : the life of Angelica Cookson Potts.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2003, 2004.
14-year-old Angel Cookson Potts is a food-loving cooking enthusiast and worried weight watcher. She enlists her friends to help her Scottish father prove that London's famous department store, Harrods, is unknowingly selling inferior haggis. Includes recipes.
YA WHYTOCK
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