Boy Proof

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Boy Proof

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by Cecil Castellucci

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Virgina "Egg" Jurgen is the smartest girl in her class... at least she thinks so. She's different from everyone else around her... in her opinion. No one could ever understand her. No one knows her. No one is worth knowing.

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She only looks up to one person, and that person is Egg from the new sci-fi movie, Terminal Earth. She changes her name, shaves her head, and wears costumes from the movie. And she doesn't mind the fact that everyone talks about her, but few people talk to her. Boys stay away? That's ok. She's now boy proof.

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But things go awry when she meets Max, who seems to understand her like no one else does. He changes the way she sees the people around her, but will it be too late? Has she already destroyed the few friendships she had? And is being a loner the same as being lonely?

Diary of a Fairy Godmother

Diary of a Fairy Godmother

by Esme Raji Codell

Hunky Dory isn't really hunky dory. After one hundred years perfecting her badness in charm school and being the top of her class, Hunky Dory suddenly begins to feel un-witchy. After seeing some F.G.s (Fairy Godmothers) in action, she even starts to think about granting wishes instead of curses.
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What's a poor, misunderstood, confused witch to do?
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Runaway from home (or get kicked out... it's really the same thing in the end, right?) and try wish-granting (just to see what it's like).
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Will Hunky Dory be an outcast forever? Or will she be able to find a balance between wishing and witching?

I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You

I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You
by Ally Carter

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Cameron Morgan, a.k.a. Cammie the Chameleon, could be your average, ordinary, 15-year-old girl at school. She could be... if she wasn't attending the most exclusive school in the world. She could be... if that school's sole purpose wasn't to train future spies. And she could be... if her parents hadn't been the best spies in the business.
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Things really couldn't be better for Cammie. She's got the lineage. She's got the grades. And, most of all, she's got the talent to be the best spy the school has seen in generations.
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What she doesn't have is a working knowledge of the teenage boy's mind.
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So when she meets Josh -- cute, kind, cute, nice, cute, polite, and (did we mention?) cute, Josh -- all of Cammie's plans for the best sophomore year ever go quickly down the drain.
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Complicating matters are her mother, who runs the school, the new Covert Ops teacher, who is gorgeous, but seems to know little too much about Cammie and her mom, and Josh's best friend, who is determined to find out everything he can about Cammie.
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What's a future deep undercover spy to do?

Fever, 1793

Fever, 1793

by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Matilda "Mattie" Cook is living during one of the hottest summers on record in Philadelphia. Instead of being able to lounge around and try to keep cool in the heat, Mattie must help her mother and grandfather run their coffeehouse, which is the only income they have since her father died in a freak accident years before.
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It's hard work, but Mattie hasn't really known hard work until the fever starts. Over the next three months, Mattie watches as everyone around her seems to go crazy with the fear of Yellow Fever. Stores close up shop. Households pack up and run for the countryside. Families dump their sick relatives on the streets to be picked up by the wagon for the dead.

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And though she and her family live just blocks from the residence of President George Washington, even his close proximity cannot protect her and her family.

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With this book, you'll not only see the events that took place surrounding the Yellow Fever outbreak of 1793, you'll live through them and even begin to worry if you'll survive.