The Big Ones:
Books with LOTS of pages

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300 - 349 pages
Abbott, Ellen Jensen. Watersmeet
14-year-old Absina escapes the escalating violence, prejudice, and religious fervor of her home town, Vranille, and sets out with a dwarf, Haret, to seek the father she has never met in a place called Watersmeet. (YA Fic SF  Abbott) [341 p.]

Alender, Katie. Bad Girls Don't Die
When fifteen-year-old Lexi's younger sister Kasey begins behaving strangely and their old Victorian house seems to take on a life of its own, Lexi investigates and discovers some frightening facts about previous occupants of the house, leading her to believe that many lives are in danger. (YA Fic M  Alender) [346 p.]

Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl. (YA Fic SF  Bacigalupi) [326 p.]

Benway, Robin. Audrey, Wait!
While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, 16-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts. (YA Fic  Benway) [313 p.]

Berry, Julie. The Amaranth Enchantment
Orphaned at age five, Lucinda, now fifteen, stands with courage against the man who took everything from her, aided by a thief, a clever goat, and a mysterious woman called the Witch of Amaranth, while the prince she knew as a child prepares to marry, unaware that he, too, is in danger. (YA Fic SF  Berry) [308 p.]

Berry, Julie. Secondhand Charm
On her journey to the royal university to become a doctor, 15-year-old Evie, wearing potent gypsy charms, learns of her monstrous inheritance. (YA Fic SF  Berry) [342 p. ]

Black, Holly. The White Cat. (Curse Workers, #1)
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them. (YA Fic SF  Black) [310 p.] Followed by: Red Glove [325 p.]

Blundell, Judy. Strings Attached
When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him. (YA Fic  Blundell) [310 p.]

Brennan, Sarah Rees. The Demon's Lexicon (The Demon's Lexicon Trilogy, #1)
16-year-old Nick and his family have battled magicians and demons for most of his life, but when his brother, Alan, is marked for death while helping new friends Jamie and Mae, Nick's determination to save Alan leads him to uncover a devastating secret. (YA Fic SF  Brennan) [322 p.] Followed by: The Demon's Covenant [440 p.]; The Demon's Surrender [387 p.]

Burd, Nick. The Vast Fields of Ordinary
The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, 18-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love. (YA Fic  Burd) [309 p.]

Cabot, Meg. Abandon. (Abandon trilogy, #1)
A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld. (YA Fic M  Cabot) [304 p.]

Cabot, Meg. Airhead.
16-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels. (YA Fic  Cabot) [340 p.] Followed by: Being Nikki [336 p.]; Runaway [320 p.]

Calame, Don. Swim the Fly
15-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time--quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl out on a date. But catching a girl in the buff starts to look easy compared to Matt's other summertime aspiration: to swim the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known to God or man) as a way to impress Kelly West, the sizzling new star of the swim team. (YA Fic  Calame) [345 p.]

Caletti, Deb. Stay
In a remote corner of Washington State where she and her father have gone to escape her obsessive boyfriend, Clara meets two brothers who captain a sailboat, a lighthouse keeper with a secret, and an old friend of her father who knows his secrets. (YA Fic  Caletti) [313 p.]

Carroll, Michael Owen. Super Human
A ragtag group of young superheroes takes on a powerful warrior who is transported from 4,000 years in the past to enslave the modern world. (YA Fic SF  Carroll) [325 p.]

Cast, P. C. Marked. (House of Night, #1)
The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampires have always existed. In this first book in the series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire--that is, if she makes it through the Change. Not all of those who are chosen do. It's tough to begin a new life, away from her parents and friends, and on top of that, Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampire Goddess, Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite club, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny--with a little help from her new vampire friends. (YA Fic M  Cast) [306 p.] Followed by: Betrayed [310 p.]; Chosen [307 p.]; Untamed [338 p.]; Hunted [323 p.]; Tempted [319 p.]; Burned [323 p.]; Awakened [290 p.]

Childs, Tera Lynn. Forgive My Fins
17-year-old Lily, half-mermaid and half-human, has been living on land and attending high school, where she develops a crush on a boy but is afraid to tell him of her true destiny as the ruler of the undersea kingdom of Thalassinia. (YA Fic SF  Childs) [304 p.]

Crawford, Brent. Carter Finally Gets It
Awkward freshman Will Carter endures many painful moments during his first year of high school before realizing that nothing good comes easily, focus is everything, and the payoff is usually incredible. (YA Fic  Crawford) [300 p.] Followed by: Carter's Big Break [231 p.]

Cross, Sarah. Dull Boy
Avery, a teenaged boy with frightening super powers that he is trying to hide, discovers other teenagers who also have strange powers and who are being sought by the icy and seductive Cherchette, but they do not know what she wants with them. (YA Fic SF  Cross) [308 p.]

Crossley-Holland, Kevin. Crossing to Paradise
When 15-year-old Gatty, an illiterate field-girl who sings beautifully, is selected for a pilgrimage, she travels from her home on an English estate to London, Venice, and eventually Jerusalem, and experiences great changes in her circumstances and in herself. (YA Fic  Crossley-Holland) [339 p.]

Crouch, Katie. The Magnolia League
After the death of her free-spirited mother, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Lee is forced to move from Northern California to Savannah, Georgia, to live with her wealthy grandmother, who expects Alex to join a long-standing debutante society, which, Alex learns, has made a pact with a legendary Hoodoo family. (YA Fic M  Crouch) [348 p.]

Cypess, Leah. Nightspell
Sent by her father, the king of Raellia, who is trying to forge an empire out of warring tribes, Darri arrives in Ghostland and discovers that her sister, whom she planned to rescue, may not want to leave this land where the dead mingle freely with the living. (YA Fic SF  Cypess) [326 p.]

De la Cruz, Melissa. Blue Bloods. (Blue Bloods, #1)
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines. (YA Fic M  de la Cruz) [302 p.] Followed by Masquerade [311 p.], Revelations [264 p.]; The Van Alen Legacy [264 p.]; Misguided Angel [264 p.]; Bloody Valentine [264 p.]

Deebs, Tracy. Tempest Rising
On her seventeenth birthday, Tempest must decide whether to remain a human and live on land or submit to her mermaid half, like her mother before her, and enter into a long-running war under the sea. (YA Fic SF  Deebs) [344 p.]

D'Lacey, Chris. The Fire Within. (Dragon fire series, #1)
When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career. (YA Fic SF  D'Lacey) [340 p.] Followed by: Icefire [421 p.]; Fire Star [549 p.]; The Fire Eternal [506 p.]; Dark Fire [567 p.]

Dogar, Sharon. Annexed
A fictional account of life with Anne Frank hidden in the secret annex from Peter's point-of-view, following as he becomes closer with Anne, begins to question his own religion, and is forced to suppress his own desires to join the fight. (YA Fic  Dogar) [341 p.]

Dogar, Sharon. Waves.
Hal feels eerily connected to his comatose older sister as she hovers between life and death in a hospital. Hal believes his sister is trying to communicate with him as he tries to solve the mystery of her accident. (YA Fic M  Dogar) [325 p.]

Duff, Hilary. Elixir
Clea Raymond, a talented young photojournalist who has spent her life in the spotlight, and her best friends, Rayna and Ben, travel the globe trying to unravel a centuries-old mystery that could reveal her soulmate's identity and the secret of her father's disappearance. (YA Fic M  Duff) [330 p.]

Elkeles, Simone. Leaving Paradise
In alternating chapters, 17-year-olds Caleb and Maggie relate the difficulties of readjusting to school, and changing relationships with family, friends, and one another, a year after a drunk driving accident sent her to the hospital with a crippling leg injury and him to prison. (YA Fic Elkeles) [303 p.] Followed by: Return to Paradise [302 p.]

Falkner, Brian. Brain Jack
In a near-future New York City, fourteen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the AT&T network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world. (YA Fic SF  Falkner) [349 p.]

Falkner, Brian. The Tomorrow Code
Two New Zealand teenagers receive a desperate SOS from their future selves and set out on a quest to stop an impending ecological disaster that could mean the end of humanity. (YA Fic SF  Falkner) [349 p.]

Freymann-Weyr, Garret. After the Moment
When 17-year-old Leigh changes high schools his senior year to help his stepsister, he finds himself falling in love with her emotional disturbed friend, although he is still attached to a girl back home. (YA Fic  Freymann-Weyr) [328 p.]

Gensler, Sonia. The Revenant
When seventeen-year-old Willemina Hammond fakes credentials to get a teaching position at a school for Cherokee girls in nineteenth-century Oklahoma, she is haunted by the ghost of a drowned student. (YA Fic M  Gensler) [322 p.]

Gill, David Macinnis. Black Hole Sun
On the planet Mars, sixteen-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders. (YA Fic SF  Gill) [340 p.]

Grabenstein, Chris. The Crossroads.
When 11-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past. (YA Fic M  Grabenstein) [325 p. ]

Gray, Claudia. Evernight. (Evernight series, #1)
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Lucas, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world. (YA Fic M  Gray) [327 p.] Followed by: Stargazer [329 p.]; Hourglass [339 p.]; Afterlife [360 p.]

Haines, Kathryn Miller. The Girl is Murder
In 1942 New York City, 15-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet. (YA Fic M  Haines) [342 p.]

Haines, Lise. Girl in the Arena: A Novel Containing Intense Prolonged Sequences of Disaster and Peril
In Massachusetts, 18-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena. (YA Fic SF  Haines) [324 p.]

Hale, Shannon. Book of a Thousand Days.
15-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her 16-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids. (YA Fic SF  Hale) [305 p.]

Hamilton, K. R. Tyger Tyger: A Goblin Wars Book
Soon after the mysterious and alluring Finn arrives at her family's home, 16-year-old Teagan Wylltson and her disabled brother are drawn into the battle Finn's family has fought since the thirteenth century, when Fionn MacCumhaill angered the goblin king. (YA Fic SF  Hamilton) [305 p.]

Hawkins, Rachel. Hex Hall
When Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, she is exiled to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters. (YA Fic M  Hawkins) [323 p.] Followed by: Demonglass [359 p.]

Healey, Karen. Guardian of the Dead
18-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of creatures from Maori myth and legend that is plotting to kill millions of humans in order to regain their lost immortality. (YA Fic SF  Healey) [345 p.]

Herbach, Geoff. Stupid Fast
Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy with the nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to confront his family's past and current problems. (YA Fic  Herbach) [311 p.]

Hoffman, Mary. Stravaganza: City of Masks
While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city. (YA Fic SF  Hoffman) [344 p.] Followed by: Stravaganza: City of Stars [457 p.]; Stravaganza: City of Flowers [488 p.]; Stravaganza: City of Secrets [382 p.]; Stravaganza: City of Ships [356 p.]

Holt, Kimberly Willis. The Water Seeker
Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own. (YA Fic  Holt) [309 p.]

Hughes, Mark Peter. Lemonade Mouth.
A group of high school freshmen thrown together in detention form a band to play at a school talent show and end up competing with a wildly popular local rock band. (YA Fic  Hughes) [338 p.]

Hurley, Tonya. Ghostgirl
After dying, high school senior Charlotte Usher is as invisible to nearly everyone as she always felt, but despite what she learns in a sort of alternative high school for dead teens, she clings to life while seeking a way to go to the Fall Ball with the boy of her dreams. (YA Fic M  Hurley) [328 p.]

Jones, Frewin. The Faerie Path. (The Faerie Path, #1)
Anita, an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl, is transported from modern-day London to the realm of Faerie where she discovers that she is Princess Tania, the long-lost daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania. (YA Fic SF  Jones) [312 p.] Followed by: The Lost Queen [335 p.]; The Sorcerer King [324 p.]; The Immortal Realm [341 p.]; The Enchanted Quest [356 p.]; The Charmed Return [355 p.]

Jordan, Sophie. Firelight
When sixteen-year-old Jacinda, who can change into a dragon, is forced to move away from her community of shapeshifters and start a more normal life, she falls in love with a boy who proves to be her most dangerous enemy. (YA Fic SF  Jordan) [326 p.]

Juby, Susan. Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery
Ninth-grader Sherman Mack investigates the "Defilers," a secret group at his British Columbia high school that marks certain female students as pariahs, at first because he is trying to protect the girl he has a crush on, but later as a matter of principle. (YA Fic M  Juby) [341 p.]

Klein, Lisa M. Cate of the Lost Colony
When her dalliance with Sir Walter Ralegh is discovered by Queen Elizabeth in 1587, lady-in-waiting Catherine Archer is banished to the struggling colony of Roanoke, where she and the other English settlers must rely on a Croatoan Indian for their survival. Includes author's note on the mystery surrounding the Lost Colony. (YA Fic  Klein) [329 p.]

Lackey, Mercedes. Legacies. (Shadow Grail, #1)
After her family is killed, Spirit White is taken to Oakhurst Academy, a combination orphanage and school for those with magical powers, where she and her new friends investigate when students start mysteriously disappearing. (YA Fic SF  Lackey) [320 p.]

Lane, Andrew. Death Cloud. (Young Sherlock Holmes, #1)
In 1868, with his army officer father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously "unwell," 14-year-old Sherlock Holmes is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire, where he uncovers his first murder and a diabolical villain. (YA Fic M  Lane) [311 p.]

Larbalestier, Justine. How to Ditch Your Fairy
In a world in which everyone has a personal fairy who tends to one aspect of daily life, 14-year-old Charlie decides she does not want hers - a parking fairy - and embarks on a series of misadventures designed to rid herself of the invisible sprite and replace it with a better one, like her friend Rochelle's shopping fairy. (YA Fic SF  Larbalestier) [307 p.]

Lee, Y. S. A Spy in the House. (The Agency, #1)
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships. (YA Fic M  Lee) [335 p. ] Followed by: The Body at the Tower [337 p.]

Livingston, Lesley. Wondrous Strange
When seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow meets Sonny Flannery, she discovers he is a changeling who guards the gate between the faerie Otherworld and the mortal realm, and also that her mother had otherworldly powers that she has passed on to Kelley. (YA Fic SF  Livingston) [327 p.] Followed by: Darklight [312 p.]

Lyga, Barry. The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
A 15-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself. (YA Fic  Lyga) [311 p.] Followed by Goth Girl Rising [390 p.]

Mackler, Carolyn. Tangled
The lives of four very different teenagers become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined after a short stay at a Caribbean resort. (YA Fic  Mackler) [308 p.]

Madigan, L. K.  Flash Burnout
15-year-old amateur photographer Blake gains self-awareness through his relationships with a girlfriend and a friend who he helps come to terms with her feelings about her homeless, methamphetamine-addicted mother. (YA Fic  Madigan) [332 p.]

Marr, Melissa. Wicked Lovely
17-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance. (YA Fic SF  Marr) [328 p.] Followed by Ink Enchange [325 p.]; Fragile Eternity [389 p.]; Radiant Shadows [340 p.]; Darkest Mercy [327 p.]

Matson, Morgan. Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student, and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt. (YA Fic  Matson) [343 p.]

McBride, Lish. Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
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. (YA Fic M  McBride) [342 p.]

Mead, Richelle. Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots. (YA Fic M  Mead) [332 p.] Followed by Frostbite [327 p.], Shadow Kiss [444 p.], Blood Promise [503 p.]; Spirit Bound [489 p.]; Last Sacrifice [594 p.]

Mebus, Scott. Gods of Manhattan. (Gods of Manhattan, #1)
13-year-old Rory discovers a spirit world that thrives alongside his contemporary New York City, filled with fantastical creatures and people from the city's colorful past who have become gods and goddesses and who have chosen Rory to perform a dangerous mission. (YA Fic SF  Mebus) [340 p.] Followed by Spirits in the Park [372 p.]; The Sorcerer's Secret [371 p.]

Miller, Dawn. The Prophecy (Watchers chronicles, # 1)
Five gifted teenagers find themselves in the middle of a battle for mankind between the angelic forces of heaven and hell. (YA Fic SF Miller) [344 p.]

Mlynowski, Sarah. Gimme a Call
After accidentally dropping her cell phone into a fountain at the mall, fourteen-year-old Devi Banks starts to get phone calls--and an earful of advice on how to live her life to avoid making disastrous choices--from her seventeen-year-old self. (YA Fic  Mlynowski) [301 p.]

Moriarty, Jaclyn. The Murder of Bindy MacKenzie.
Class brain Bindy Mackenzie has alienated her entire high school but when she realizes someone is trying to kill her, she has to make friends to get help. (YA Fic  Moriarty) [338 p.]

Morris, Paula. Ruined
Rebecca moves to New Orleans to stay with her aunt in a scary old house while her father is traveling, and while most kids at school treat her poorly, a mysterious girl named Lisette shows her the hidden nooks of the city and reveals shocking truths about Rebecca's own history. (YA Fic M  Morris) [309 p.]

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Princess Ben: Being a Wholly Truthful Account of Her Various Discoveries and Misadventures, Recounted to the Best of Her Recollection, In Four Parts.
A girl is transformed, through instruction in life at court, determination, and magic, from sullen, pudgy, graceless Ben into Crown Princess Benevolence, a fit ruler of the kindgom of Montagne as it faces war with neighboring Drachensbett. (YA Fic SF  Murdock) [344 p.]

Murray, Liz. Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey From Homeless to Harvard
Liz Murray, who was homeless at the age of 15 and had drug-addicted parents, reflects on how she overcame obstacles and eventually attended Harvard University. (YA 362.74  Murray) [334 p.]

Noel, Alyson. Evermore. (The Immortals, #1)
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries. (YA Fic M  Noel) [306 p.] Followed by: Blue Moon [289 p.]; Shadowland [339 p.]; Dark Flame [320 p.]; Night Star [302 p.]; Everlasting [320 p.]

Nolan, Han. A Summer of Kings.
During the summer of 1963, 14-year-old Esther discovers the passion within her when 18-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family. (YA Fic  Nolan) [334 p.]

Ockler, Sarah. Fixing Delilah
When Delilah Hannaford, her mother, and her aunt spend the summer in Vermont settling Delilah's estranged grandmother's estate, long-held family secrets are painfully brought to light and Delilah finally learns some difficult truths about her family's past. (YA Fic  Ockler) [308 p.]

Patterson, James. Witch and Wizard. (Witch & Wizard novels, #1)
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books. (YA Fic SF  Patterson) [314 p.] Followed by: The Gift [341 p.]

Pearce, Jackson. Sisters Red
After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son. (YA Fic M  Pearce) [328 p.]

Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Life As We Knew It. (Last Survivors, #1)
Miranda's journal entries describe her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing tsunamis, earthquakes & volcanic eruptions. (YA Fic  Pfeffer) [337 p.] Followed by: The Dead and the Gone [321 p.]; This World We Live In [239 p.]

Preus, Margi. Heart of a Samurai: Based on the True Story of Nakahama Manjiro
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, 14-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States. (YA Fic  Preus) [301 p.]

Ryan, Carrie. The Forest of Hands and Teeth.
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. (YA Fic SF  Ryan) [310 p.] Companion to The Dead-tossed Waves [407 p.]; The Dark and Hollow Places [376 p.]

Scott, Elizabeth. Stealing Heaven
18-year-old Dani has been trained by her mother to steal things. But they have never stayed in one location long enough for Dani to have connections, real friends, and a real life. In the town of Heaven, everything changes for Dani. Suddenly she must question where her loyalties lie: with the life she's always known, or the one she's always wanted. (YA Fic  Scott) [307 p.]

Scott, Inara. The Candidates. (Delcroix Academy, book 1.)
15-year-old Dancia is recruited by a boarding school for teenagers with special abilities, where she makes friends for the first time, is attracted to a popular junior, and becomes involved with a dangerous classmate. (YA Fic SF  Scott) [304 p.]

Sepetys, Ruta. Between Shades of Gray
In 1941, 15-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family. (YA Fic  Sepetys) [344 p.]

Shepard, Sara. The Lying Game. (Lying Game, #1)
17-year-old Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife. (YA Fic M  Shepard) [307 p.] Followed by: Never Have I Ever [309 p.]

Shulman, Polly. The Grimm Legacy
New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods. (YA Fic SF  Shulman) [325 p.]

Shusterman, Neal. Bruiser
Inexplicable events start to occur when 16-year-old twins Tennyson and Bronte? befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody. (YA Fic M  Shusterman) [328 p.]

Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Tantalize. (Tantalize series, #1)
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect. (YA Fic M  Smith) [310 p.] Followed by: Eternal [3-7 p.]; Blessed [462] p.]

Smith-Ready, Jeri. Shade
16-year-old Aura of Baltimore, Maryland, reluctantly works at her aunt's law firm helping ghosts with wrongful death cases file suits in hopes of moving on, but it becomes personal when her boyfriend, a promising musician, dies and persistently haunts her. (YA Fic M  Smith-Ready) [309 p.]

Snyder, Maria V. Inside Out
Trella, a laborer in the lower level of a world that is socially and physically divided, spies on the people living in the upper level by traveling through the pipes of the environmental control system and accidently becomes the lead in a revolution while trying to help a friend find a gateway to the outside world. (YA Fic SF  Snyder) [315 p.]

Somper, Justin. Demons of the Ocean. (Vampirates, # 1.)
When twins Connor and Grace's ship is wrecked in a storm and Connor is rescued by pirates, he believes that Grace has been taken aboard the mythical Vampirate's ship, and he is determined to find her. (YA Fic M  Somper) [330 p.] Followed by Tide of Terror [459 p.], Blood Captain [569 p.], Black Heart [504 p.].

Stiefvater, Maggie. Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
On the day of an important music competition, talented but painfully introverted and nervous Deirdre Monaghan is helped to perform by the compelling and enigmatic Luke Dillon and finds herself inexorably drawn into the mysteries and dangers of the faerie world. (YA Fic SF  Stiefvater) [325 p.] Followed by Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie [353 p.]

Suma, Nova Ren. Imaginary Girls
Two years after 16-year-old Chloe discovered classmate London's dead body floating in a Hudson Valley reservoir, she returns home to be with her devoted older sister Ruby, a town favorite, and finds that London is alive and well, and that Ruby may somehow have brought her back to life and persuaded everyone that nothing is amiss. (YA Fic M  Suma) [348 p.]

Terrell, Heather. Fallen Angel (Fallen Angel series, #1)
Ellie and Michael, two teenagers with supernatural powers, feel drawn to each other, and when they discover more about their powers and who they are, they find themselves in the middle of an ancient conflict. (YA Fic M  Terrell) [310 p.]

Tharp, Tim. Badd
A teenaged girl's beloved brother returns home from the Iraq War completely unlike the person she remembers. (YA Fic  Tharp) [308 p.]

Van Draanen, Wendelin. The Running Dream
When a school bus accident leaves 16-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again. (YA Fic  Van Draanen) [336 p.]

Violi, Jen. Putting Makeup on Dead People
Donna's discovery, that she wants to be a mortician, helps her come into her own and finally understand that moving forward doesn't mean forgetting someone you love. (YA Fic  Violi) [326 p.]

Voigt, Cynthia. Homecoming.
The four Tillerman children, abandoned by their mother, walk from New England to their grandmother's Maryland farm in search of a place to call home. (YA Fic  Voigt) [312 p.] Followed by Dicey's Song [211 p.], A Solitary Blue [189 p.], The Runner [181 p.], Come a Stranger [190 p.], Sons From Afar [219 p.], Seventeen Against the Dealer [209 p.]

White, Kiersten. Paranormalcy
When a dark prophecy begins to come true, sixteen-year-old Evie of the International Paranormal Containment Agency must not only try to stop it, she must also uncover its connection to herself and the alluring shapeshifter, Lend. (YA Fic M  White) [335 p.] Followed by: Supernaturally [342 p.]

Wrede, Patricia C. Thirteenth Child. (Frontier magic, #1)
18-year-old Eff must finally get over believing she is bad luck and accept that her special training in Aphrikan magic, and being the twin of the seventh son of a seventh son, give her extraordinary power to combat magical creatures that threaten settlements on the western frontier. (YA Fic SF  Wrede) [344 p.]

Yang, Dori Jones. Daughter of Xanadu
Emmajin, the 16-year-old eldest granddaughter of Khublai Khan, becomes a warrior and falls in love with explorer Marco Polo in thirteenth-century China. (YA Fic  Yang) [336 p.]

Yovanoff, Brenna. The Replacement
16-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant, and when a friend's sister disappears he goes against his family's and town's deliberate denial of the problem to confront the beings that dwell under the town, tampering with human lives. (YA Fic SF  Yovanoff) [343 p.]

350 - 399 pages
Abdel-Fattah, Randa. Does My Head Look Big in This?
Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style. (YA Fic)  Abdel-Fattah [360 pages]

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
In early 19-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. (YA Fic  Austen) [392 p.]

Armstrong, Kelley. The Gathering. (Darkness Rising, #1)
16-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets. (YA Fic M  Armstrong) [359 p.]

Armstrong, Kelley. The Summoning. (Darkest powers, #1)
After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger. (YA Fic M  Armstrong) [390 p.] Followed by The Awakening [360 p.]; The Reckoning [391 p.]

Anderson, M.T. The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)
Diaries, letters, and manuscripts tell the experiences of young African American Octavian from birth to age 16 as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years before the Revolutionary War. (YA Fic  Anderson) [368 p.] Followed by The Kingdom on the Waves [561 p.]

Beddor, Frank. The Looking Glass Wars. (The Looking Glass Wars, #1)
When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne. (YA Fic SF  Beddor) [358 p.] Followed by: Seeing Redd [371 p]; ArchEnemy [370 p.]

Billingsley, Franny. Chime
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, 17-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about. (YA Fic SF  Billingsley) [361 p.]

Boie, Kirsten. The Princess Plot
Believing that she is on a film set after auditioning and winning the role of a princess, fourteen-year-old Jenna becomes the unsuspecting pawn in a royal conspiracy. (YA Fic  Boie) [378 p.] Followed by: The Princess Trap [405 p.]

Bracken, Alexandra. Brightly Woven
Sixteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabel, an unusually talented weaver, must master her mysterious power and join a young wizard in stopping an imminent war in her land. (YA Fic SF  Bracken) [354 p.]

Bray, Libba. Beauty Queens
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition. (YA Fic  Bray) [396 p.]

Bunce, Eliz. A Curse Dark as Gold
Upon the death of her father, 17-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price. (YA Fic SF  Bunce) [394 p.]

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. (The Hunger Games trilogy, #1)
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, 16-year-old Katniss' skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. (YA Fic SF  Collins) [374 p.] Followed by Catching Fire [391 p.]; Mockingjay [398 p.]

Condie, Allyson. Matched
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? (YA Fic SF  Condie) [369 p.]

Dashner, James. The Maze Runner (Maze Runner trilogy, #1)
16-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. (YA Fic SF  Dashner) [375 p.] Followed by: The Scorch Trials [361 p.]

DeStefano, Lauren. Wither. (The Chemical Garden trilogy, #1)
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world. (YA Fic SF  DeStefano) [358 p.]

Dessen, Sarah. Along For the Ride
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating. (YA Fic  Dessen) [383 p.]

Dessen, Sarah. Just Listen.
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, Annabel finds an ally in Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life. (YA Fic  Dessen) [371 p.]

Elkeles, Simone. Perfect Chemistry. (Perfect Chemisty, #1)
When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates--and others. (YA Fic  Elkeles) [360 p.] Followed by: Rules of Attraction [326 p.]; Chain Reaction [308 p.]

Elliott, Patricia. Ambergate
Unable to tell friend from enemy, Orphan Number 102 tries to hide the identifying scar on her arm as she evades Protectorate soldiers who are trying to return her to the Capital and a certain death. (YA Fic M  Elliott) [390 p.] Companion to Murkmere [344 p.]

Fantaskey, Beth. Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
17-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her. (YA Fic M  Fantaskey) [354 p.]

Fisher, Catherine. The Dark City. (Relic Master, #1)
16-year-old Raffi, Master Galen, and a mysterious traveler, Carys, enter the ruined city of Tasceron seeking a relic that may save the world, while evading the Watch, a brutal organization opposed to the Order to which Raffi and Galen belong. (YA Fic SF  Fisher) [376 p.] Followed by: The Lost Heiress [375 p.]; The Hidden Coronet [414 p.]; The Margrave [445 p.]

Fitzpatrick, Becca. Hush, Hush (Hush series, #1)
High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts. (YA Fic M  Fitzpatrick) [391 p.] Followed by: Crescendo [427 p.]

Friesner, Esther M. Sphinx's Princess. (Sphinx's Princess, #1)
Although she is a dutiful daughter, Nefertiti's dancing abilities, remarkable beauty, and intelligence garner attention near and far, so much so that her family is summoned to the Egyptian royal court, where Nefertiti becomes a pawn in the power play of her scheming aunt, Queen Tiye. (YA Fic  Friesner) [370 p.] Followed by: Sphinx's Queen [352 p.]

Godbersen, Anna. Bright Young Things
In the spring of 1929, 18-year-old Cordelia Grey and her stage-struck friend Letty Larkspur run away from their small Ohio town to seek their fortunes in New York City and soon find themselves drawn into situations and relationships, particularly with the dazzling Astrid Donal, that change their lives forever. (YA Fic  Godbersen) [389 p.]

Goldman, William. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, the "Good Parts" Version
The most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince in the world. (YA Fic SF  Goldman) [398 p.]

Hale, Shannon. Forest Born
When her beloved forest no longer gives her comfort and her brother Razo invites Rinna to the city to be one of Queen Ani's waiting women, she happily accepts, only to discover her own strength comes from places both expected and unexpected. (YA Fic SF  Hale) [389 p.]

Hardy, Janice. The Shifter. (The Healing Wars, #1)
Nya, a 15-year-old war orphan, becomes a pawn in a bigger political game when her uncanny--and dangerous--ability to draw out people's pain and then give it to someone else turns out to be the only weapon she has to save her sister. (YA Fic SF  Hardy) [370 p.] Followed by: Blue Fire [373 p.]

Harland, Richard. Worldshaker
16-year-old Col Porpentine is being groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite families live on the upper decks while the Filthies toil below, but when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, he discovers how ignorant heis of his home and its residents. (YA Fic SF  Harland) [388 p.]

Jinks, Catherine. The Reformed Vampire Support Group
15-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime. (YA Fic M  Jinks) [362 p.]

Johnson, Maureen. Suite Scarlett
15-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in New York City for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project improve her outlook. (YA Fic  Johnson) [353 p.] Followed by: Scarlett Fever [336 p.]

Kagawa, Julie. The Iron King. (Iron Fey, #1)
Sixteen-year-old Meghan, who has felt like something in her life has been slightly off since her father disappeared when she was six, learns that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king, becomes involved in a deadly war, and tries to find love with a young prince. (YA Fic SF  Kagawa) [363 p.] Followed by: The Iron Daughter [359 p.]; The Iron Queen [358 p.]

Knox, Elizabeth. Dreamhunter. (Dreamhunter duet, #1)
In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a 15-year-old girl is training to be a dreamhunter when her father disappears, leaving her to carry on his mysterious mission. (YA Fic SF  Knox) [365 p.] Followed by Dreamquake [449 p.]

Kostick, Conor. Epic.
On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families. (YA Fic SF  Kostick) [364 p.]

Lake, Nick. Blood Ninja
After his father is murdered and a ninja saves his life, Taro discovers the connection between ninjas and vampires and finds himself being dragged into a bitter conflict between the rival lords ruling Japan. (YA Fic M  Lake) [369 p.] Followed by: The Revenge of Lord Oda [377 p.]

Landy, Derek. Skulduggery Pleasant.
When 12-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones. (YA Fic M  Landy) [392 p.] Followed by: Playing With Fire [389 p.], The Faceless Ones [422 p.]

MacLean, Sarah. The Season.
Showing no interest in the sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties, and country weekends enjoyed by the rest of early nineteenth-century London society, 17-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford seeks adventure as she investigates the puzzling murder of the Earl of Blackmoor, father of devilishly handsome Gavin. (YA Fic  MacLean) [343 p.]

Mantchev, Lisa. Eyes Like Stars
13-year-old Bertie strives to save Theater Illuminata, the only home she has ever known, but is hindered by the Players who magically live on there, especially Ariel, who is willing to destroy the Book at the center of the magic in order to escape into the outside world. (YA Fic SF  Mantchev) [356 p.] Followed by: Perchance to Dream

Marchetta, Melina. Finnikin of the Rock
Now on the cusp of manhood, Finnikin, who was a child when the royal family of Lumatere was brutally murdered and replaced by an imposter, reluctantly joins forces with an enigmatic young novice and fellow-exile, who claims that her dark dreams will lead them to a surviving royal child and a way to regain the throne of Lumatere. (YA Fic SF Marchetta) [399 p. ]

Myracle, Lauren. Shine
When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town. (YA Fic  Myracle) [359 p.]

Nicholson, William. The Wind Singer. (The Wind on Fire #1)
After Kestrel Hath rebels against the stifling rules of Amaranth society and is forced to flee, she, along with her twin brother and a tagalong classmate, follow an ancient map in quest of the legendary silver voice of the wind singer, in an attempt to heal Amaranth and its people. (YA Fic SF  Nicholson) [358 p.] Followed by Slaves of the Mastery [434 p.] and Firesong [408 p.]

Oppel, Kenneth. Airborn.
Matt, a cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures said to live hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. (YA Fic SF  Oppel) [355 p.] Followed by Skybreaker [369 p.] and Starclimber [390 p.].

Oppel, Kenneth. Half Brother
In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project--an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills--he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his 13-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother. (YA Fic  Oppel) [375 p.]

Perkins, Lynne Rae. As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth
A teenaged boy encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck. (YA Fic Perkins) [352 p.]

Perkins, Stephanie. Anna and the French Kiss
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. (YA Fic  Perkins) [372 p.]

Peterson, Will. Triskellion.
After their parents' divorce, Rachel and Adam are sent to live with their grandmother in the English village of Triskellion, where they find danger and paranormal activity as they discover hidden secrets that some will kill to keep buried. (YA Fic M  Peterson) [365 p.] Followed by The Burning [461 p.]; The Gathering [366 p.]

Revis, Beth. Across the Universe
Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her. (YA Fic SF  Revis) [398 p.]

Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
16-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive. (YA Fic M  Riggs) [352 p.]

Scott, Michael. The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life. (YA Fic SF  Scott) [375 p.] Followed by: The Magician [464 p.]; The Sorceress [501 p.]; The Necromancer [403 p.]; The Warlock [376 p.]

Skovron, Jon. Misfit
Seattle 16-year-old Jael must negotiate normal life in Catholic school while learning to control the abilities she inherited from her mother, a demon, and protect those she loves from Belial, the Duke of Hell. (YA Fic M  Skovron) [362 p.]

Sloan, Holly Goldberg. I'll Be There
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time. (YA Fic  Sloan) [392 p.]

Stiefvater, Maggie. Shiver. (Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity. (YA Fic M  Stiefvater) [392 p.] Followed by: Linger [362 p.]; Forever [390 p.]

Wade, Rebecca. The Theft & the Miracle.
On a stormy day, Hannah takes refuge in Gloucester Cathedral, where she feels compelled to draw a picture of the church's famous carving of Mary and Jesus. Soon after, the small statue is stolen and Hannah plunges into the question of who took it and why. (YA Fic M  Wade) [351 p.]

Wasserman, Robin. Skinned. (Skinned series, #1)
To save her from dying in a horrible accident, Lia's wealthy parents transplant her brain into a mechanical body. (YA Fic SF  Wasserman) [361 p.] Followed by: Crashed [440 p.]; Wired [383 p.]

Waters, Daniel. Generation Dead. (Generation Dead, #1)
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. (YA Fic M  Waters) [392 p.] Followed by: Kiss of Life [410 p.]; Passing Strange [386 p.]

Werlin, Nancy. Extraordinary
Phoebe, a member of the wealthy Rothschilds family, befriends Mallory, an awkward new girl in school, and the two become as close as sisters, but Phoebe does not know that Mallory is a faerie, sent to the human world to trap the ordinary human girl into fulfilling a promise made by her ancestor Mayer to the queen of the faeries. (YA Fic SF  Werlin) [393 p.]

Whitcomb, Laura. The Fetch.
After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian Revolution, to Heaven. (YA Fic M  Whitcomb) [379 p.]

Wiles, Deborah. Countdown. (Sixties trilogy, #1)
As 11-year-old Franny Chapman deals with drama at home and with her best friend in 1962, she tries to understand the larger problems in the world after President Kennedy announces that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba. Features historic quotations and photographs. (YA Fic  Wiles) [377 p.]

Wooding, Chris. Malice. (Malice series, #1)
Once you get into the story, there's no way out. Everyone's heard the rumors. If you gather the right things and say the right words, you'll be taken to Malice, a world that exists inside a horrifying comic book. It's a world that few kids know about ... and even fewer survive. Seth and Kady think it's all a silly myth. But then their friend, Luke, disappears and suddenly the rumors don't seem silly after all. Malice is real. Malice is deadly. And Seth and Kady are about to be trapped inside it. (YA Fic SF  Wooding) [377 p.] Followed by: Havoc [396 p.]

400 - 449 pages
Adams, Richard. Watership Down.
A group of rabbits searches for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace. (YA Fic  Adams) [429 p.]

Banner, Catherine. The Eyes of a King
In Malonia, 15-year-old Leo North finds a mysterious book that slowly reveals information about his family's history, the history of his war-torn country, and glimpses of two other teenagers living in a country called England, which Malonians think is make-believe. (YA Fic SF  Banner) [435 p.]

Barnes, Jennifer. Raised by Wolves (Raised by Wolves, #1)
A girl raised by werewolves must face the horrors of her past to uncover the dark secrets that the pack has worked so hard to hide. (YA Fic M  Barnes) [418 p.] Followed by: Trial By Fire [357 p.]

Cave, Patrick. The Selected
Adeline, a flawed clone, learns from a set of diaries written in 2023 by Dominic, one of her forebears, that she may be the savior the people have awaited, if only she has the courage and ingenuity to outwit the forces ranked against her. (YA Fic SF  Cave) [406 p.] Prequel and sequel to: Sharp North

Chima, Cinda Williams. The Warrior Heir. (The Heir series, #1)
After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, 16-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards. (YA Fic SF  Chima) [426 p.] Companion to The Wizard Heir [458 p.], The Dragon Heir [499 p.]

Cornish, D. M. Foundling. (Monster Blood Tattoo, #1)
After surviving growing up in a home for foundlings and having a girl's name, Rossamünd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has adventures along the way, meeting people and monsters who are more complicated than he thought. (YA Fic SF  Cornish) [434 p.] Followed by Lamplighter [717 p.]; Factotum [684 p.]

Craft, Eliz. Footfree and Fancyloose
Harper Waddle, Sophie Bushell, and Kate Foster committed the ultimate suburban sin: bailing on college to pursue their dreams. Their best friend, Becca Winsberg, took a more traditional path, but she's got dreams of her own. Now the year is halfway through and the girls' dreams seem within reach. (YA Fic  Craft) [423 p.]

Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape. (YA Fic SF ) [442 p.]

Friesner, Esther M. Nobody's Princess.
Determined to fend for herself in a world where only men have real freedom, headstrong Helen, who will be called queen of Sparta and Helen of Troy one day, learns to fight, hunt, and ride horses while disguised as a boy, and goes on an adventure throughout the Mediterranean world. (YA Fic  Friesner) [305 p.] Followed by: Nobody's Prize [306 p.]

Fukui, Isamu. Truancy
In the City, where an iron-fisted Mayor's goal is perfect control through education, 15-year-old Tack is torn between a growing sympathy for the Truancy, an underground movement determined to bring down the system at any cost, and the desire to avenge a death caused by a Truant. (YA Fic SF  Fukui) [429 p.]

Godbersen, Anna. The Luxe. (A Luxe novel, #1.)
In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best-laid plans of parents and others. (YA Fic  Godbersen) [433 p.] Followed by: Rumors [423 p.]; Envy [405 p.]; Splendor [391 p.]

Hand, Cynthia. Unearthly. (Unearthly series, #1)
16-year-old Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that danger and heartbreak come with her powers. (YA Fic M  Hand) [435 p.]

Harper, Suzanne. The Juliet Club
When high school junior Kate wins an essay contest that sends her to Verona, Italy, to study Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" over the summer, she meets both American and Italian students and learns not just about Shakespeare, but also about star-crossed lovers--and herself. (YA Fic Harper) [402 p.]

Harrison, Mette. The Princess and the Hound.
George has always felt burdened by his princely duties, and even more by the need to hide the magic through which he speaks with animals, but when he is betrothed to the strange princess of a neighboring kingdom, his secret, and the persecution of people like himself, must come to an end. (YA Fic SF  Harrison) [410 p.]

Hemphill, Stephanie. Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
A fictionalized account, told in verse, of the Salem witch trials, told from the perspective of three young women living in Salem in 1692--Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam, Jr. (YA Fic  Hemphill) [408 p.]

Higson, Charles. The Enemy. (Enemy series, #1)
After a disease turns everyone over sixteen into brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group of teenagers leave their shelter and set out of a harrowing journey across London to the safe haven of Buckingham Palace. (YA Fic M  Higson) [440 p.] Followed by: The Dead [485 p.]

Houck, Colleen. Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga, #1)
17-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who is actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all. (YA Fic SF  Houck) [402 p.]

Hunter, C. C. Born at Midnight. (ShadowFalls, #1)
16-year-old Kylie Galen thinks her misbehavior in the wake of her grandmother's death and her parents' separation are the reasons she has been sent to Shadow Falls Camp, but learns it is a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other "freaky freaks," of which she may be one. (YA Fic M  Hunter) [406 p.]

Kluger, Steve. My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park.
A story about friendship, first loves, the families we are born with, and the families we choose, told through journal entries, emails, chats, newspaper articles and posters. There is sports, music, dancing, acting, political action, discovery of sexual orientation, sign-language and, yes, Julie Andrews. A fantastic novel of acceptance and encouragement. And it’s funny! (YA Fic  Kluger) [403 p.]

Larkin, Jillian. Vixen. (The Flappers, #1)
In 1923 Chicago, 17-year-old Gloria Carmody rebels against her upcoming society wedding by visiting a speakeasy, while her Pennsylvania cousin, Clara, hides similar tastes and her best friend, Lorraine, makes plans of her own. (YA Fic  Larkin) [421 p.]

Lore, Pittacus. I Am Number Four. (Lorian Legacies, #1)
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a 15-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien. (YA Fic SF  Lore) [440 p.] Followed by: The Power of Six [406 p.]

Malkin, Nina. Swoon
In rural Connecticut, when seventeen-year-old Dice tries to exorcise a seventeenth-century man who is possessing her cousin Pen, she inadvertently makes him corporeal--and irresistible. (YA Fic M  Malkin) [421 p.]

Marillier, Juliet. Wildwood Dancing
Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood. (YA Fic SF  Marillier) [407 p.] Companion to: Cybele's Secret [432 p.]

McKinley, Robin. Pegasus
Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pegasi, Princess Sylvi is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own pegasus, on her twelfth birthday, but the closeness of their bond becomes a threat to the status quo and possibly to the safety of their two nations. (YA Fic SF  McKinley) [404 p.]

Mead, Richelle. Bloodlines (Bloodlines series, #1)
When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California. But at their new school, the drama is only just beginning. (YA Fic M  Mead) 421 p.]

Miller, Kirsten. The Eternal Ones
17-year-old Haven Moore leaves East Tennessee to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she meets playboy Iain Morrow, whose fate may be tied to hers through a series of past lives. (YA Fic M  Miller) [411 p.]

Miller, Sarah Elizabeth. The Lost Crown
In alternating chapters, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia tell how their privileged lives as the daughters of the tsar in early twentieth-century Russia are transformed by world war and revolution. (YA Fic  Miller) [412 p.]

Nicholson, William. Seeker. (The Noble Warriors #1)
Having been rejected by the Nomana - the revered warrior-monk order they long to join - 16-year-olds Seeker and Morning Star, along with a curious pirate named Wildman, attempt to prove that they are worthy of joining the community, after all. (YA Fic SF  Seeker) [413 p.] Followed by Jango [409 p.], Noman [362 p.]

Oliver, Lauren. Delirium
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love. (YA Fic SF  Oliver) [441 p.]

Patterson, James. The Angel Experiment. (Maximum Ride #1)
After the mutant Erasers abduct a member of their group, the "birdkids," the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose. (YA Fic SF  Patterson) [422 p.] Followed by School's Out - Forever [409 p.]; Saving the World & Other Extreme Sports [405 p.]; The Final Warning [256 p.]; Max [309 p.]; Fang [304 p.]; Angel [291 p.]

Peet, Mal. Tamar.
15-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and the events that forever cast a shadow on his life. (YA Fic M  Peet) [424 p.]

Peterfreund, Diana . Rampant. (Killer Unicorns, #1)
After sixteen-year-old Astrid Llewelyn survives a vicious unicorn attack, she learns that she is a descendant of the most famous unicorn hunter of all time and she must travel to Rome, Italy, to train in the ancient arts in order to carry on her family legacy and save the world from the threat posed by the reemergence of lethal unicorns. (YA Fic SF  Peterfreund) [402 p.] Followed by: Ascendant [392 p.]

Portman, Frank. Andromeda Klein
High school sophomore Andromeda, an outcast because she studies the occult and has a hearing impairment and other disabilities, overcomes grief over terrible losses by enlisting others' help in her plan to save library books--and finds a kindred spirit along the way. (YA Fic  Portman) [424 p.]

Rees, Celia. Sovay
In 1794 England, the rich and beautiful Sovay, disguised as a highwayman, acquires papers that could lead to her father's arrest for treason, and soon her newly-awakened political consciousness leads her and a compatriot to France during the Revolution. (YA Fic  Rees) [404 p.]

Robinson, A. M. Vampire Crush
16-year-old journalist Sophie McGee's junior year is filled with unexpected drama--and romance--when she discovers that her new classmates are hiding a dark secret, while the "boy next door" from her childhood re-enters her life. (YA Fic M  Robinson) [404 p.]

Salerni, Dianne K. We Hear the Dead
Based on actual events, "We Hear the Dead" reveals the secret of how in the 19th century the Fox sisters faked rapping sounds and their motives for inventing the seance and founding spiritualism. (YA Fic Salerni) [422 p.]

Scarrow, Alex. TimeRiders
Rescued from imminent death, teens Maddy, Liam, and Sal join forces in 2001 Manhattan to correct changes in history made by other time travelers, using a "time bubble" surrounding the attack on the Twin Towers to hide their journeys. (YA Fic SF  Scarrow) [405 p.]

Showalter, Gena. Intertwined
Most 16-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him: one can time travel, one can raise the dead, one can tell the future, and one can possess another human...and then he meets a girl who quiets the voices... (YA Fic M  Showalter) Followed by: Unraveled [572 p.]

Taylor, Laini. Blackbringer. (Dreamdark, #1)
Magpie Windwitch, faerie, devil hunter, and granddaughter of the West Wind, must defeat an ancient evil creature, the Blackbringer, who has escaped from his bottle and threatens to unmake all of creation. (YA Fic SF  Taylor) [437 p.] Followed by Silksinger [449 p.]

Tiernan, Cate. Immortal Beloved. (Immortal Beloved trilogy, #1)
After seeing her best friend, a Dark Immortal called Incy, torture a human with magick, Nastasya, a spoiled party girl, enters a home for wayword immortals and finally begins to deal with life, even as she learns that someone wants her dead. (YA Fic M  Tiernan) [407 p.]

Voigt, Cynthia. Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?
As new ninth-graders eager only to survive high school, Mikey and Margalo must deal creatively with stolen money and cheating on the tennis courts. (YA Fic  Voigt) [442 p.]

Weatherly, Lee. Angel Burn
In a world where angels are fierce stalkers whose irresistible force allows them to feed off humans and drain them of their vitality, a ruthless teenaged assassin of angels falls in love with a half-angel half-human girl, with devastating consequences. (YA Fic M  Weatherly) [449 p.]

Westerfeld, Scott. Leviathan
In an alternate 1914 Europe, 15-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. (YA Fic SF  Westerfeld) [440 p.] Followed by Behemoth [485 p.]

Zombies Vs. Unicorns
Twelve short stories by a variety of authors seek to answer the question of whether zombies are better than unicorns. (YA Fic SF  Zombies) [415 p.]

450 - 499 pages
Augarde, Steve. X-Isle
Baz and Ray, survivors of an apocalyptic flood, win places on X-Isle, an island where life is rumored to be better than on the devastated mainland, but they find the island to be a violent place ruled by religious fanatic Preacher John, and they decide they must come up with a weapon to protect themselves from impending danger. (YA Fic SF  Augarde) [476 p. ]

Bray, Libba. Going Bovine
Cameron Smith, a disaffected 16 year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure. (YA Fic  Bray) [480 p.]

Cashore, Kristin. Graceling.
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. (YA Fic SF  Cashore) [471 p.] Companion to: Fire [461 p.]

Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones. (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. (YA Fic SF  Clare) [485 p.] Followed by: City of Ashes [453 p.]; City of Glass [541 p.]; City of Fallen Angels [424 p.]

Clare, Cassandra. Clockwork Angel. (The Infernal Devices, #1)
When 16-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother. (YA Fic SF  Clare) [479 p.]

Cremer, Andrea R. Nightshade. (Nightshade series, #1)
Calla and Ren have been raised knowing it is their destiny to mate with one another and rule over their shape-shifting wolf pack, but when a human boy arrives and vies for Calla's heart, she is faced with a decision that could change her whole world. (YA Fic M  Cremer) [454 p.] Followed by: Wolfsbane [391 p.]

Croggon, Alison. The Naming. (Pellinor, #1)
A manuscript from a lost civilization tells of Maerad, an orphan gifted in the magic & power of the Bards, as she escapes from slavery & learns how to use her Gift to stave off the Darkness that threatens to consume her world. (YA Fic SF  Croggon) [466 p.] Followed by The Riddle [490 p.], The Crow [511 p.], The Singing [470 p.]

Fletcher, Charlie. Stoneheart (The Stoneheart Trilogy, #1)
When 12-year-old George accidentally decapitates a stone statue in London, England, he falls into a parallel dimension where he must battle ancient "live" statues and solve a dangerous riddle. (YA Fic SF  Fletcher) [450 p.] Followed by Ironhand [386 p.], Silvertongue [464 p.]

Holder, Nancy. Crusade. (Crusade trilogy, #1)
An international team of six teenaged vampire hunters, trained in Salamanca, Spain, goes to New Orleans seeking to rescue team-member Jenn's younger sister as the vampires escalate their efforts to take over the Earth. (YA Fic M  Holder) [470 p.]

Jinks, Catherine. Evil Genius.
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy. (YA Fic  Jinks) [486 p.] Followed by Genius Squad [436 p.]; The Genius Wars [378 p.]

Kate, Lauren. Fallen
Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, 17-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her. (YA Fic M  Kate) [452 p.] Followed by: Torment [452 p.]; Passion [420 p.]

Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Infinity. (Chronicles of Nick, #1)
After 14-year-old Nick makes enemies of his friends for refusing to mug an innocent tourist, he takes up with Kyrian of Thrace, a vampire slayer and Dark-Hunter who introduces Nick to a dangerous world where he must find strength within himself to survive battles with demons. (YA Fic M  Kenyon) [464 p.] Followed by: Invincible [420 p.]

Kirk, Daniel. The Low Road. (Elf Realm, #1)
When Matt and his family move to a new development, they stumble into the miidle of massive upheaval in the fairy world, and as the elves' territory disintegrates and the dark factions try to seize control, an apprentice mage sees in Matt the key to saving the realms from destruction. (YA Fic SF  Kirk) [498 p.] Followed by: The Road's End [474 p.]

Kittredge, Caitlin. The Iron Thorn
In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted 15-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her father and the Land of Thorn. (YA Fic SF  Kittredge) [493 p.]

Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight.
When 17-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. (YA Fic M  Meyer) [498 p.] Followed by New Moon [563 p.], Eclipse [629 p.], Breaking Dawn [754 p.]

Moriarty, Jaclyn. The Ghosts of Ashbury High
Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s. (YA Fic M  Moriarty) [480 p.]

Moulton, Courtney Allison. Angelfire
A 17-year-old girl discovers she has the reincarnated soul of an ancient warrior destined to battle the reapers--monstrous creatures who devour humans and send their souls to Hell. (YA Fic M  Moulton) [453 p.]

Ness, Patrick. The Knife of Never Letting Go. (Chaos Walking, #1)
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World. (YA Fic SF  Ness) [479 p.] Followed by: The Ask and the Answer [519 p.]; Monsters of Men [603 p.]

Oliver, Lauren. Before I Fall
After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself. (YA Fic  Oliver) [470 p.]

Ono, Fuyumi. Sea of Shadow. (The Twelve Kingdoms #1)
Yoko is an ordinary high school girl with nightmares when a golden-haired young man tells her she's in dream-foreshadowed danger. Soon she is flying to a kingdom in another world, where she learns she is destined for a throne. (YA Fic SF  Ono) [459 p.]

Reichs, Kathy. Virals
Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage 'sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever. (YA Fic SF  Reichs) [454 p.]

Roth, Veronica. Divergent
In a future Chicago, 16-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. (YA Fic SF  Roth) [487 p.]

Shan, Darren. The Thin Executioner
In a nation of warriors where weakness is shunned and all crimes, no matter how minor, are punishable by beheading, young Jebel Rum, along with a slave who is fated to be sacrificed, sets forth on a quest to petition the Fire God for invincibility, but when the long and arduous journey is over, Jebel has learned much about fairness and the value of life. (YA Fic M  Shan) [483 p.]

Woon, Yvonne. Dead Beautiful
After her parents die under mysterious circumstances, sixteen-year-old Renee Winters is sent from California to an old-fashioned boarding school in Maine, where she meets a fellow student to whom she seems strangely connected. (YA Fic M  Woon) [456 p.]

Over 500 pages
Applegate, Katherine. Tan Lines: A Summer Novel
Summer can't wait to get back to the Florida Keys. She, Marquez, and Diana have already decided to get an apartment so they can spend the whole summer together. But even with her friends by her side, Summer is in for more boy trouble.Summer's boyfriend, Seth, is ready to take their relationship to the next level, but he's all the way across the country in California. Enter Austin, the hottie from spring break whom Summer hasn't stopped thinking about.With Austin flirting 24/7 and Seth hundreds of miles away, Summer is about to learn about true love... (YA Fic  Applegate) [539 p.]

Barnes, John. Tales of the Madman Underground: (An Historical Romance 1973)
In September 1973, as the school year begins in his depressed Ohio town, high-school senior Kurt Shoemaker determines to be "normal," despite his chaotic home life with his volatile, alcoholic mother and the deep loyalty and affection he has for his friends in the therapy group dubbed the Madman Underground. (YA Fic  Barnes) [532 p.]

Card, Orson Scott. Pathfinder
13-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him. (YA Fic SF  Card) [662 p.]

Chabon, Michael. Summerland.
Ethan Feld, the worst player in the history of baseball, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy. (YA Fic SF  Chabon) [500 p.]

Chima, Cinda Williams. The Demon King. (Seven Realms, #1)
Former street gang leader Han Alister takes possession of an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and headstrong Princess Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court. (YA Fic SF  Chima) [506 p.] Followed by: The Exiled Queen [586 p.]

Creagh, Kelly. Nevermore
When cheerleader Isobel Lanley is assigned to work with goth, Edgar Allen Poe fan Varen Nethers on an English project, she is swept into a horrific dream world that he has created in his mind. (YA Fic M  Creagh) [543 p.]

DeVita, James. The Silenced.
Consigned to a prison-like Youth Training Facility because of her parents' political activities, Marena organizes a resistance movement to combat the restrictive policies of the ruling Zero Tolerance party. (YA Fic SF  DeVita) [504 p.]

Enthoven, Sam. The Black Tattoo.
When his best friend, Charlie, is possessed by an ancient demon, fourteen-year-old Jack, accompanied by a girl with superhuman powers, battles all over London and into Hell to save him. (YA Fic SF  Enthoven) [503 p.]

Goodman, Alison. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn.
Sixteen-year-old Eon hopes to become an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune and learn to be its main interpreter, but to do so will require much, including keeping secret that she is a girl. (YA Fic SF  Goodman) [531 p.] Followed by: Eona: The Last Dragoneye [637 p.]

Garcia, Kami. Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1)
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, 16-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her 16th birthday. (YA Fic M  Garcia) [563 p.] Followed by: Beautiful Darkness [503 p.]

Grant, Michael. Gone
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not. (YA Fic SF  Grant) [558 p.] Followed by Hunger [590 p.]; Lies [447 p.]; Plague [512 p.]

Hill, Will. Department 19
After he is rescued by an enormous man named Frankenstein, Jamie Carpenter is brought to Department 19, where he is pulled into a secret organization responsible for policing the supernatural, founded more than a century ago by survivors of Dracula. (YA Fic M  Hill) [540 p.]

Hopkins, Ellen. Crank. (Crank series, #1)
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life. (YA Fic  Hopkins) [537 p.] Followed by: Glass [681 p.]; Fallout [665 p.]

Hopkins, Ellen. Tricks
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love. (YA Fic  Hopkins) [627 p.]

Miyabe, Miyuki. Brave Story.
In order to bring his family back together, 10-year-old Wataru voluntarily enters a fantasy world to gain the attention of a goddess who has the ability to change destiny, and may grant his wish. (YA Fic SF  Miyabe) [816 p.]

Pierce, Tamora. Terrier. (Beka Cooper, #1.)
When 16-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of Provost Guards "Dogs," she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help solve the case of a murdered baby. (YA Fic SF  Pierce) [581 p.] Followed by Bloodhound [551 p.]

Verday, Jessica. The Hollow. (Hollow series, vol. 1.)
High-school junior Abbey struggles with the loss of her best friend Kristen, who vanished on a legendary bridge, but her grief is eased by Caspian, an attractive and mysterious stranger she meets in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery. (YA Fic M  Verday) [509 p.] Followed by The Haunted [467 p.]

Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the Borderlands
Stories and poems set in the urban land of Bordertown, a city on the edge of the faerie and human world, populated by human and elfin runaways. (YA Fic SF  Welcome) [517 p.]

Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief.
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death tells of Liesel, a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding. (YA Fic  Zusak) [552 p.]

8/24/11
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