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YA Anderson          Burger Wuss  Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O’Dermott’s.  (1999)

 

YA Bradley            24 Girls in 7 Days  When the love of his life rejects his invitation to the senior prom, Jack Grammar's so-called best friends pose as Jack and run a personal ad in the online school newspaper soliciting a date. The result is a hilarious adventure as Jack tries to speed-date 24 girls in 7 days.

 

YA Dodd               Beatnick Rutabagas from Beyond the Stars is a chance to witness amazing battles, travel to strange and distant planets—and meet a giant talking thumb!  Read this book now!  You won’t regret it.  Probably.  (2001)

 

YA Elish               Born Too Short:  the confessions of an eighth-grade basket case  Matt Greene is 5'1", a nerd, invisible to girls, and has a best friend who's the biggest stud at Hannaford School in New York City.   You will LOL at this first-person account of how Matt deals with his jealousy toward his studly best friend.  (2002)

 

J Fic Ferris           Love Among the Walnuts  Sandy’s entire wealthy family, including the servant and family pet, Attila the hen, go into comas after Sandy’s uncles serve up a poisoned birthday cake.  Those striken are moved next door to Walnut Manor, a “looney  bin” for the weathly.  (1998)

 

YA Gliori              Pure Dead Magic  When their father is kidnapped and danger looms, the Strega-Borgia children, their mysterious new nanny, and a giant tarantula use magic and actual trips through the Internet to bring peace to their Scottish castle.  (2001)

 

YA Keller              The Amazon Papers  Fifteen-year-old Iris gets into hilarious trouble when mother goes on vacation and leaves her alone.  (1996)

 

YA Korman            Son of the Mob  Romeo and Juliet meet The Sopranos.  As son of a powerful mafia boss, Vince’s life is continually complicated by the fact that he’s in love with an FBI agent’s daughter!  (2002)

 

YA Lubar              Hidden Talents  When thirteen-year-old Martin arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself.  (1999)

 

J McManus            Never Cry Arp!  “…varnished, stretched, and embroidered” boyhood tales and adventures of growing up in Idaho.  An adolescent humor classic.  (1996)

 

YA Paulsen             The Schernoff Discoveries  Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments, the attacks of the football team, and other dangers of middle school.  (1998)

 

YA Sheldon            Planet Janet  If Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging was your kind of book, you are going to l…o…v…e…Janet’s  angst-tinged comedy.  (2002)

 

YA Strasser          Girl Gives Birth to Own Prom Date  When Brad asks someone else to the senior prom, Nicole resorts to desperate measures—she decides to make her next-door neighbor over into a dream date.  (1996)

 

YA Thomas            Green Thumb  While spending the summer in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil doing botanical research, thirteen-year-old Grady discovers a secret language used by the trees to communicate with each other and falls afoul of dictatorial Dr. Carter, whose motives seem questionable.  (1999)

 

YA Tolan               Surviving the Applewhites  Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for homeschooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family’s Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.

 

 

 

RSH 6/2004

 

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