Adlington, L. J. (Lucy J.), 1970-. The diary of Pelly D. 1st American ed. New York : Greenwillow, 2005.
Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, and he begins to question his own beliefs.

Anderson, M. T. Feed. 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick, 2002.
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

Bauer, Joan, 1951-. Backwater. New York : Puffin, 2000, c1999.
While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.

Clements, Andrew, 1949-. Things not seen. New York : Philomel Books, c2002.
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.

Coy, John, 1958-. Box out. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing teamwide participation.

Crossley-Holland, Kevin. The seeing stone. 1st American ed. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2001.
Arthur, a thirteen-year-old boy in late twelfth-century England, tells how Merlin gave him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.

Green, John, 1977-. Paper towns. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Books, 2008.
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

Hite, Sid. The journal of Rufus Rowe : a witness to the Battle of Fredricksburg. New York : Scholastic, c2003.
In 1862, sixteen-year-old Rufus Rowe runs away from home and settles in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he documents in his journal the battle he watches unfold there.

Hoffman, Alice. Green angel. New York : Scholastic Press, c2003.
Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.

Ibbitson, John. The landing : a novel. Toronto, ON : KCP Fiction, c2008.
Ben, who manages to grab some practice on his violin between chores at his Uncle Henry's business at Cooks Landing, gets a job fixing the grand old cottage on Pine Island and meets Ruth, a rich, cultured woman from New York who introduces Ben to a new, more liberating world until a storm on Lake Muskoka changes everything.

Lasky, Kathryn. Dreams in the golden country : the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl. New York : Scholastic, 1998.
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.

Levitin, Sonia, 1934-. The cure. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 2000, c1999.
A young boy living in 2407 collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg in 1348 confronting the antisemitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague.

Mussi, Sarah. The door of no return. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2008, c2007.
Zac Baxter travels to Africa after his grandfather is brutally murdered, hoping to learn the truth about his family's dark past and discover why someone was willing to kill his grandfather to learn the family secret.

Nicholson, William. Noman. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando, Fla : Harcourt, 2008, c2007.
Seeker, who is obsessed with his increasingly perilous quest to kill the last of the Old Ones, finds that his mission has placed him at odds with a new leader who preaches peace and joy.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Playing for keeps. New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, [2003], c2001.
On a Caribbean cruise, sixteen-year-old Rosie meets a teenage Cuban baseball player seeking political asylum in the United States and tries to help him escape a charge of murder.

Park, Barbara. The graduation of Jake Moon. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, c2000.
Fourteen-year-old Jake recalls how he has spent the last four years of his life watching his grandfather descend slowly but surely into the horrors of Alzheimer's disease.

Patterson, James, 1947-. School's out-- forever. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006.
After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or not.

Richardson, Bill, 1955-. After Hamelin. Toronto ; : Annick Press ;, [2002], c2000.
Penelope awakens on her eleventh birthday to discover she can no longer hear, but her unexplained deafness is the only thing that saves her when the Pied Piper returns to Hamelin to claim the town's children with his magical music, leaving her free to try and rescue them.

Sleator, William. Parasite Pig. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Book, c2002.
Sixteen-year-old Barney, infected by an alien parasite, is taken to the planet J'koot, along with his friend Katie, by extraterrestrials intent on playing the dangerous game known as Interstellar Pig.

Stroud, Jonathan. The Amulet of Samarkand. 1st ed. New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion Books For Children, c2003.
Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland.

Werlin, Nancy. Double helix. New York : Dial Books, c2004.
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.