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= YARP Teen Reads List 2012-13 =

If you have any books that you would like to recommend for the Teen Reads list for 2012-13, please insert the information here instead of by email. If you want, you can assign your name to any of the books you have added to the list. By putting this list online, every member can see who is recommending books and how many books we have for each list. Also, you can see which books have already been added, so you don't have to recreate what someone else has already done. Finally, this can help members guide which books they are reading and purchasing throughout the year. Every month, I will organize the list by age level and author, so we can be sure we have equal amounts to create our lists. This wiki will make our recommendations process paperless since we can view the list and assign viewers on the wiki. If you have any questions, please contact Kerri Smith.

Rebecca Brown couldn’t feel more out of place in New Orleans, where she comes to spend the year. She’s staying in a creepy old house with her Aunt Claudia, who reads tarot cards for a living. And at the snooty prep school, the filthy-rich girls treat Rebecca like she’s invisible. Only gorgeous unavailable Anton Grey seems to give Rebecca the time of day, but she wonders if he’s got a hidden agenda. || Cara R. ||  ||   ||
 * Author || Title || List: M, B, or H || Summary || Reviewer 1 || Reviewer 2 || Reviewer 3 ||
 * Ford, Michael Thomas || Z || H || Josh is the best zombie Torcher around—at least, he is in his virtual-reality zombie-hunting game. But luckily, zombies exist only in the virtual world. The real zombie war is now more than fifteen years in the past. Charlie, a top-ranked player in the game, asks him to join the underground gaming league that takes the virtual-reality game off the screen and into the streetBut the more involved he gets, the more he realizes that not everything is what it seems. And then there's the matter of a mysterious drug called Z. . . . || Kerri S. ||  ||   ||
 * Deucker, Carl || Payback Time || H || When Angel shows up Lincoln High, he seems to have no past—or at least not one he is willing to discuss. Though Mitch, a high school reporter, gets a glimpse of Angel's incredible talent off the field, Angel rarely allows himself to shine on the field. Is he an undercover cop, wonders Mitch? Or an ineligible player? In pursuit of a killer story, Mitch decides to find out just who this player is and what he's done. In the end, the truth surprises everyone. || Kerri S. || Mary P. ||  ||
 * Condie, Ally || Matched || H || Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. The Society tells her it's a glitchbut Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice. || Kerri S. || Ali ||  ||
 * Morris, Paula || Ruined || B? || (Supernatural Thriller)
 * Maccoll, Michaela || Prisoners in the Palace: A Novel of Intrigue and Romance About How Princess Victoria Became Queen with the Help of a Maid, a Newspaperman, and a Scoundrel || B || Sixteen-year-old Liza becomes a lady's maid to Princess Victoria and finds that the gossipy world of the palace servants gives her the chance to determine her own fate and help Victoria become queen. || Ali ||  ||   ||
 * Gail Giles || Dark Song || H || Ames is not the person she was after her father lost his job, and her family starts crumbling apart. Now, all she has is Marc. Marc, who loves her more than anything. Marc, who owns a gun collection. And he'll stop at nothing--even using his guns--to get what he wants. Ames feels her parents have betrayed her with their lies and self-absorption, but is she prepared to make the ultimate betrayal against them? || Mary P. ||  ||   ||
 * Todd Strasser || Blood on my Hands ||  || At a party, Callie is asked by her friends to help seach for Katherine, a girl who has gone missing from the party. The kids spread out to look for her and Callie finds her, lying on a path, with a big, bloody fake knife in her (or at least she thinks it is fake). She reaches for the knife and raises it, only to discover, to her horror, that it is real. At that moment, another of the search party stumbles on them, and takes a photo of Callie holding the bloody knife. Now she is the suspect in a grisly murder. How can she prove her innocence - and find the true murderer? || Mary P. ||   ||   ||
 * Andy Mulligan || Trash ||  || In an unnamed Third World city, Rat, Raphael, and Gardo live with thousands of other kids like them in a garbage dump, where they dig through the detritus looking for anything that could be profitable. When an important person loses something valuable in the refuse, the three boys embark on an engrossing, sobering mystery characterized by stealing, lying, and police brutality as well as generosity, trust, and ingenuity. || Jeanne C. ||   ||   ||
 * Alex Van Helsing || Vampire Rising ||  || Trouble seems to follow Alex Van Helsing wherever he goes. First, the 14-year-old got kicked out of school for fighting. Then, after being transferred to Switzerland’s Glenarvon Academy, he slays what appears to be a vampire in the surrounding woods. And he swears none of it has anything to do with his famous vampire-hunter surname. Right. Soon Alex’s English teacher reveals that he is part of the Polidorium, a stealth quasi-military vampire-tracking organization with its eye on the Icemaker—a vampire clan lord who, incidentally, is actually the poet Lord Byron. || Jeanne C. || Mary P ||   ||

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