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LIBRARY FOCUS - February 4, 2007
by Cris Adams

NEW NOVELS FOR YOUNG ADULTS INCLUDE SUSPENSE & COMEDY

William Sleator is considered the master of thrillers and science fiction for young people, and his new one is titled Hell Phone. Nick
wants a cell phone so he can talk to his girlfriend after school, but he doesn't have a lot of money. The used phone he buys seems like a bargain until the strange calls begin, day and night. Nick decides to get rid of the phone....but it seems to have a mind of its own.

Then there's All Q, No A: More Tales of a 10th-Grade Social Climber by Lauren Mechling. After a tough first semester, Mimi Schulman is ready to give social climbing a rest and to start over with her friends and reconnect with her dad. But when an assignment for the school paper turns scandalous, she finds little time to enjoy her new and improved life.

Sold is by Patricia McCormick and is a National Book Award finalist. Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. When the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. What she faces will test her willingness to not only survive, but triumph.

After The Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away is by Joyce Carol Oates. Fifteen-year-old Jenna separates her life into two categories: Before The Wreck and After The Wreck. Before, she was leading a normal life with her mom in suburban New York. After, Jenna is alone, trying desperately to forget what happened that day on the bridge.

In Laura Ruby's Good Girls, high school senior Audrey is humiliated when a compromising photograph of her is sent around the school.
That's when she discovers a toughness within her that she never knew she had. This one challenges the stereotypes of what it means to be 'good' while exploring what it means to be true.

Jack and his friends refer to the nurse's office, where they line up daily for their medications, as Club Meds. In Katherine Page's novel by that title, it's what enables Jack and Mary, who have ADHD, and Sam, who suffers from epilepsy, to navigate the treacherous waters of high school. So when a bully forces Jack to turn over his Ritalin, the kids from Club Meds devise a plan that will test their determination and courage.

Author J. K. Rowling said, "It matters not what a person is born, but whom they choose to be."

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