ALIEN INVESTIGATION: SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT UFOS AND ALIENS
by Kelly Milner Halls
Kelly Milner Halls investigated stories of eyewitnesses from around the world. She explored UFO sightings, landings, crashes, aliens, and even a few hoaxes. She also interviewed several of the world's UFO experts. Examine her findings and decide for yourself whether visitors from other worlds are real.

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MYSTERIES OF THE MUMMY KIDS
by Kelly Milner Halls
Learn about child mummies from the Incas and other ancient civilizations around the world, plus a Civil War-era mummy from the United States.

BODIES FROM THE ASH: LIFE AND DEATH IN ANCIENT POMPEII
by James M. Deem
In ancient times, Pompeii was one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire. Its 20,000 inhabitants lived in the shadow of Vesuvius, which they believed was nothing more than a mountain. But Vesuvius was a volcano. And on the morning of August 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius began to erupt. Within twenty-four hours, the entire city of Pompeii – and many of its citizens – had been utterly annihilated. It was not until hundreds of years later that Pompeii saw daylight again, as archaeological excavations began to unearth what had been buried under layers of volcanic rubble. Digging crews found something unexpected: the imprints of lost Pompeiians, their deaths captured as if by photographic images in volcanic ash.

IRON HEARTED VIOLET
by Kelly Regan Barnhill
Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good, particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being – called the Nybbas – imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true – not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon, may hold the key to the Nybbas's triumph...or its demise.

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UNDERTOWN
by Melvin Jules Bukiet
Middle schoolers Timothy Murphy and Jessamyn Hazard careen downhill on a sailboat which was being towed through Manhattan and fall into the sewers, where they meet interesting characters before being caught by the evil "queen" of this underground society.

GREGOR THE OVERLANDER
by Suzanne Collins
Gregor, a kid from New York City, falls out of his laundry room into a fantastical subterranean world called the Underland. Accompanied by his toddler sister, Boots, he encounters giant talking creatures–cockroaches, bats, spiders and rats–and an unusual society of humans.

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THE SEARCH FOR WONDLA
by Tony DiTerlizzi
Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like her.

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ON THE DAY I DIED: STORIES FROM THE GRAVE
by Candace Fleming
In a lonely Illinois cemetery one cold October night, teen ghosts recount the stories of their deaths in different time periods, from 1870 to the present, to sixteen-year-old Mike, who unknowingly picked up a phantom hitchhiker.

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HOOT
by Carl Hiaasen
New to Florida and Trace Middle School, Ray Eberhardt is at the mercy of the local bully but he is intrigued by a strange unschooled kid whose passion for the local wildlife leads them both into a crusade against a new pancake shop that will displace a colony of burrowing owls.

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THE FALSE PRINCE
by Jennifer A. Nielsen
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.

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SHADOW ON THE MOUNTAIN
by Margi Preus
In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy.

ABOVE WORLD
by Jenn Reese
In a future of high technology and genetic modification, the Coral Kampii, like legendary mermaids, live isolated from the Above World. But when the devices that allows them to breathe underwater start to fail, thirteen-year-old Aluna and her friend Hoku go to that forbidden place to find help.

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HOLES
by Louis Sachar
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.

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LIAR & SPY
by Rebecca Stead
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.

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TUNNELS
by Roderick Gordon
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.

KIKI STRIKE: INSIDE THE SHADOW CITY
by Kirsten Miller
Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world.

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THE BLACK PEARL
by Scott O'Dell
In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.

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SAILOR TWAIN: OR, THE MERMAID IN THE HUDSON
by Mark Siegel
One hundred years ago on the foggy Hudson River, a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the waters of the busiest port in the United States. A wildly popular – and notoriously reclusive – author makes a public debut. A French nobleman seeks a remedy for a curse. As three lives twine together and race to an unexpected collision, the mystery of the Mermaid of the Hudson deepens.

THE UNDERWATER WELDER
by Jeff Lemire
As an underwater welder on an oil rig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife and their unborn son. Then one night, deep in the icy solitude of the ocean floor, something unexplainable happens. Jack has a mysterious and supernatural encounter that will change the course of his life forever.

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TEEN DREAM POWER: UNLOCK THE MEANING OF YOUR DREAMS
by M.J. Abadie
When you dream, you uncover your inner self, process your hopes and fears, and explore your hidden potential. Teen Dream Power is the first complete guide to dream interpretation written specifically for teens. It shows you how to unlock the meaning of your dreams, which can tell you a lot about yourself.

THE COMPOUND
by S.A. Bodeen
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.

AFTER THE SNOW
by S. D. Crockett
Fifteen-year-old Willo Blake, born after the 2059 snows that ushered in a new ice age, encounters outlaws, halfmen, and an abandoned girl as he journeys in search of his family, who mysteriously disappeared from the freezing mountain that was their home.

THE MAZE RUNNER
by James Dashner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

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SECRET SOCIETY
by Tom Dolby
Three Manhattan teens, Phoebe, Nick, and Lauren, are initiated into an age-old secret society that offers them the fulfillment of their wildest dreams but demands their undying loyalty, while Nick's friend Patch, an aspiring filmmaker, tries to document the society's activities.

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HAPPYFACE
by Stephen Emond
After going through traumatic times, a troubled, socially awkward teenager moves to a new school where he tries to reinvent himself.

DARK LIFE
by Kat Falls
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME
by Madeleine George
School outsider Jesse, a lesbian, is having secret trysts with Emily, the popular student council vice president, but when they find themselves on opposite sides of a major issue and Jesse becomes more involved with a student activist, they are forced to make a difficult decision.

THE WHOLE STUPID WAY WE ARE
by N. Griffin
During a cold winter in Maine, fifteen-year-old Dinah sets off a heart-wrenching chain of events when she tries to help best friend and fellow misfit Skint deal with problems at home, including a father who is suffering from early onset dementia.

SERAPHINA
by Rachel Hartman
When the death of a royal prince threatens the fragile peace between humans and dragons in Goredd, court musician Seraphina is drawn into the murder investigation. But even as she aids Prince Lucian in his mission to uncover the murderer, Seraphina conceals a dangerous secret of her own – her half-human, half-dragon heritage.

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SPLINTERED
by A. G. Howard
A descendant of the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, sixteen-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother until she finds that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice's mistakes, she may save her family from their curse.

EVERY DAY
by David Levithan
Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.

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HOLD ME CLOSER, NECROMANCER
by Lish McBride
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.

MONSTER
by Walter Dean Myers
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

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RED GLASS
by Laura Resau
Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.

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THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH
by Carrie Ryan
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.

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RENEGADE
by J. A. Souders
Trained since the age of three to be Daughter of the People, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters believes her underwater world of Elysium is perfect until Gavin Hunter, a surface Dweller, stumbles into Elysium and she realizes that everything she knows is a lie perpetrated by "Mother."

LUCID
by Adrienne Stoltz and Ron Bass
Sloane is a straight-A student from a small coastal town. Maggie is a glamorously independent up-and-coming actress in New York. The two girls couldn't be more different – except for one thing. At night, they dream they're each other. They live each other's lives, they know each other's secrets. They each fall in love. But their two lives have never converged – until now. Which life is just a dream? Which is real? Eventually, they will have to figure out the answer, or risk spiraling into insanity. But for one girl, that means giving up everything – her life, her love, herself – just when she finally has something worth holding on to.

CODE NAME VERITY
by Elizabeth Wein
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

UGLIES
by Scott Westerfeld
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.

THE WATCH THAT ENDS THE NIGHT: VOICES FROM THE TITANIC
by Allan Wolf
Recreates the 1912 sinking of the Titanic as observed by millionaire John Jacob Astor, a beautiful young Lebanese refugee finding first love, "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, Captain Smith, and others including the iceberg itself.