Hanging on to Max by Margaret Bechard

When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone.

Call number: F BEC (LA IMC)

Bechard, Margaret. Hanging on to Max. Brookfield, Conn.: Roaring Brook Press, 2002.

Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.

Call number: F WAT (LA IMC)

Waters, Daniel. Generation Dead. New York: Hyperion, 2008.

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers, in place of her younger sister, to become a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a horrifyingly grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Call number: F COL (LA IMC)

Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008.

Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead

Shadow-kissed Rose is hunted by the immortal undead that are seeking vengeance on her for her Strigoi kills, which puts her in a terrible position that could result in the death one of the two people she values most, her best friend Lissa, or her tutor Dimitri Belikov, the man she loves.

Call number: F MEA (LA IMC)

Mead, Richelle. Shadow Kiss. New York: Razorbill, 2008.

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson

Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.

Call number: F PAT (LA IMC)

Patterson, James. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X. New York: Little Brown, 2008.

Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke

As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, and demands that Bluejay either surrender or doom the children to slavery in the silver mines.

Call number: F FUN (LA IMC)

Funke, Cornelia. Inkdeath. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2008.

Drawing Dynamic Hands by Burne Hogarth

Describes the step-by-step process of drawing the human hand.

Call number: 743 HOG (LA IMC)

Hogarth, Burne. Drawing Dynamic Hands. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1988.