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Cokie Roberts. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation. From School Library Journal. Adult/High School–Focusing mainly on the wives, daughters, sisters, and mothers of the Founding Fathers, this lively and engaging title chronicles the adventures and contributions of numerous women of the era between 1740 and 1797. Roberts includes a surprising amount of original writings, but uses modern language and spellings to enable readers to enjoy fully the wit and wisdom of these remarkable individuals.

Andrew Grant. Die Twice. From Booklist. British agent David Trevellyan left a bit of a    mess in New York after his last assignment, and it’s time to get out of Dodge. He heads for Chicago, where he will he be assigned to his next mission and where his contact is Richard Fothergill, a former field agent who has evolved into a well-dressed bureaucrat more concerned with the appearance of competence than its real-world application. A rogue agent accused of stealing a deadly biological weapon has.......

Young Adult

Rae Mariz. The Unidentified. Fifteen-year-old Katey (aka Kid) goes to school in the Game—a mall converted into a “school” run by corporate sponsors. As the students play their way through the levels, they are also creating products and being used for market research by the sponsors, who are watching them 24/7 on video cameras.
Kid has a vague sense of unease but doesn’t question this existence until one day she witnesses a shocking anticorporate prank. She follows the clues to uncover....

Katie Williams, The Space Between Trees. From School Library Journal. Grade 8 Up—Sixteen-year-old Evie is an outsider with a vivid imagination. She makes up stories for herself and others to make life in her small Midwestern town tolerable. When a childhood friend, Zabet McCabe, is murdered, Evie is thrust into a story beyond her wildest imaginings. Her little habitual deceptions, usually so harmless, get her......

JuvenileFiction

Meg Cabot. Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls, Book #2. From School Library Journal. Grade 3–5—At first, nine-year-old Allie Finkle seems rather unlikable. She's hard on her best friend (who is very quick to tears) and acts bratty when her parents tell her the family will be moving. And even though she's promised a kitten, and prefers her new school and the more engaging friend she'll have next door once they move, she's......

Karen Cushman. Alchmy and Meggy Swann. From School Library Journal.  Grade 5–8—Cushman adds another intrepid, resourceful, courageous girl to her repertoire in this tale set in 16th-century London. Meggy Swann, deformed since birth, walks with a halting gait using two sticks. Many believe she is cursed by the devil. The 13-year-old has lived in a small village over an alehouse run by her mother and has only ever felt love from her deceased grandmother. Now she has been sent ....

The Best in Teen Reading

Teens! Check out the teenreads.com ULTIMATE Reading List for the best in teen reading.  Many of the pictured titles are now available in the library.  Hear author interviews, read reviews, and find out what other teens love to read!
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