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**Isinglass Teen Read Nominees 2010-2011 ** **//The Adoration of Jenna Fox// by Mary Pearson (Futuristic)** In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

**//Define Normal// by Julie Anne Peters** ** (Realistic Fiction) ** When she agrees to meet with Jasmine as a peer counselor at their middle school, Antonia never dreams that this girl with the black lipstick and pierced eyebrow will end up helping her deal with the serious problems she faces at home and become a good friend.

//**The Devil's Breath**// **By David Gilman (Adventure)**  When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed.

**//Diary of a Witness// by Catherine Tyan Hyde (Realistic Fiction)**  Ernie, an overweight high school student and long-time target of bullies, relies on his best friend Will to watch his back until Will, overwhelmed by problems at home and guilt over his brother's death, seeks a final solution.

// **Hurt Go Happy**// **by Ginny Rorby (Realistic Fiction)** Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis, deaf since the age of six, is used to being left out of conversations because her mother never allowed her to learn sign language. Everything changes when Joey meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, Sukari, but as Joey's world blooms with possibilities, the everything changes again.

**//If I Stay// by Gayle Forman (After Death Experience)** While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

**//Killer Pizza// by Greg Taylor (Horror)**  While working as summer employees in a local pizza parlor, three teenagers are recruited by an underground organization of monster hunters.

**//The Last Thing I Remember// by Andrew Klavan (ActionThriller)** Charlie West lived the life of an ordinary teenager—good student, black belt in karate, motivated—until he wakes up strapped in a chair next to a table of blood-splattered instruments of torture. He manages to escape from his unknown captors only to discover that an entire year has passed, of which he remembers nothing. Finding himself pursued by those he perceived as the "good guys," he must run to save himself and to discover the truth. Yet when Charlie learns of a plot to assassinate a government official, he risks all to save a stranger.

 In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
 * //[[image:leviathanusfinalsmall.jpg width="102" height="163" align="left"]] Leviathan// by Scott Westerfeld (Steampunk)**

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.
 * //[[image:maze-runner.jpg width="102" height="147" align="left"]]The Maze Runner// by James Dashner (Fantasy)**

Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
 * //[[image:million_dollar_throw_lupica.jpg width="102" height="151" align="left"]] Million Dollar Throw// by Mike Lupica (Sports Fiction) **

**//The Pretty One// by Cheryl Klam (Realistic Fiction)** Megan, 16, and her older sister, Lucy, attend the Chesapeake School of the Arts in Baltimore. Lucy is the beautiful and talented school darling, majoring in drama. Megan is a techie, one of the unattractive nerds majoring in set design. On the night of the school's fall festival, Megan overhears Lucy making negative comments about her looks and overstuffed dress. Overwhelmed with feelings of betrayal, anger, and grief, she runs out of the building, stopping only when she is hit by an oncoming car. Months later, the bandages come off and she is well enough to return to school—as one of the beautiful people. Her secret wishes are coming true, but at what price? **//Rapunzel's Revenge// by Dean and Shannon Hale (Graphic Novel)** Rapunzel is raised in a grand villa surrounded by towering walls. Rapunzel dreams of a different mother than Gothel, the woman she calls Mother. She climbs over the wall and finds out the truth. Her real mother, Kate, is a slave in Gothel's gold mine. In this Old West retelling, Rapunzel uses her hair as a lasso and to take on outlaws--including Gothel.

**//The Roar// by Emma Clayton (Science Fiction)** In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.

//**The Schwa Was Here**// **by Neal Schusterman (Realistic Fiction)** A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.

**//The Secrets of Truth and Beauty// by Megan Frazer (Realistic Fiction)** Dara Cohen, a junior pageant princess turned chubby teenager, reconnects with an estranged older sister whom her parents have disowned for mysterious reasons.

**//Totally Joe// by James Howe (Realistic Fiction)** As a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old boy writes an alphabiography--life from A to Z--and explores issues of friendship, family, school, and the challenges of being a gay teenager.

**//Unwind// by Neal Shusterman (Futuristic)** In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.

**//Waiting For Normal// By Leslie Connor (Realistic Fiction)** Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.

**//Wild Girls// by Pat Murphy (Realistic Fiction)** When thirteen-year-old Joan moves to California in 1972, she becomes friends with Sarah, who is timid at school but an imaginative leader when they play in the woods, and after winning a writing contest together they are recruited for an exclusive summer writing class that gives them new insights into themselves and others.