Mount Morris Public Library

 

BEASTLY by Alex Flinn

 

     A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.

 

   

  

AFTER by Amy Efaw

 

     In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder.

 

  

 

  

ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS by Stephanie Perkins

     When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.

 

  

 

 

 HERO by Mike Lupica

 

     Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.

 

 

  

   

MATCHED by Ally Condie

 

     All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?

 

  

   

FRONT AND CENTER by Catherine Perkins Murdock

 

     After five months of sheer absolute craziness D.J. just wants to be in the background again. But it turns out other folks have big plans for D.J. Like her coach. College scouts. All the town hoops fans. A certain Red Bend High School junior who's keen for romance and karaoke. Not to mention Brian Nelson, who she should not be thinking about! Who she is done with, thank you very much. But who keeps showing up anyway . . .

   

   

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.

 

   

 

  SAPPHIQUE by Catherine Fisher

 

     After his escape from the sentient prison, Incarceron, Finn finds that the Realm is not at all what he expected, and he does not know whether he is to be its king, how to free his imprisoned friends, or how to stop Incarceron's quest to be free of its own nature.

 

  

  

PROM KINGS AND DRAMA QUEENS by Dorian Cirrone

 

     When high school junior Emily Bennet is caught between a new relationship with the boy of her dreams and planning an alternative prom with her longtime rival on the student newspaper, it forces her to think about her values and make a difficult decision.

 

 

  

   

FLASH BURNOUT by L.K. Madigan

 

     Telephoto lens. Zoom. In a shutter release millisecond, Blake's world turns upside down. The nameless woman with the snake tattoo is not just another assignment. 'That's my mom!' gasps Marissa. Saturated self-portrait: Blake, nice guy, class clown, always trying to get a laugh, not sure where to focus. Contrast. Shannon, Blake's GF. Total. Babe. Marissa, just a friend and fellow photographer. Shannon loves him; Marissa needs him. How is he supposed to frame them both in one shot?

  

 

  BLOOD ON MY HANDS by Todd Strasser

 

     At a high school party, a girl finds her best friend murdered, only to be discovered holding the weapon and accused of the crime.

 

 

  

 

WORLD WAR Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

 

They survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of them are still haunted by that terrible time? Told in the haunting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, this is the only record of the plague years.