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DATE	AUTHOR & BOOK TITLE	LOCATION
2013	Lake, Nick - In Darkness In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.	Available in URSUS
2012	Whaley, John Corey - Where Things Come Back Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.	Available in URSUS
2011	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	Available in URSUS
2010	Bray, Libba - Going Bovine Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt- 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 (description from MaineCat)	Available in URSUS
2009	Marchetta, Melina - Jellicoe Road Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia	YA PZ7.M32855 J45 2008
2008	McCaughrean, Geraldine - The White Darkness Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth	YA PZ7.M1286 W45 2009
2007	Yang, Gene Luen - American Born Chinese Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.	YA PZ7.K678337 A44 2009
2006	Green, John - Looking for Alaska : a novel Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.	YA PZ7.G8233 L66 2005
2005	Rosoff, Meg - How I Live Now To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.	YA PZ7.R71957 H69 2006
2004	Johnson, Angela - The First Part Last Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.	YA PZ7.J629 F5 2003
2003	Chambers, Aidan - Postcards From No Man's Land	YA PZ7.C3557 P67 2007
2002	An, Na - Step From Heaven A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.	YA PZ7.N1243 S74 2002
2001	Almond, David - Kit's Wilderness Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.	YA PZ7.A448.K5 1999
2001	Coman, Carolyn - Many Stones After her sister Laura is murdered in South Africa, Berry and her estranged father travel there to participate in the dedication of a memorial in her name.	YA PZ7.C729 M36 2000
2001	Plum-Ucci, Carol - The Body of Christopher Creed Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.	YA PZ7.P7323 B6 2000
2001	Rennison, Louise - Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.	YA PZ7.R29114 A5 2000
2001	Trueman, Terry - Stuck in Neutral Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.	YA PZ7.T7813 S8 2000
2000	Myers, Walter Dean - Monster While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.	YA PS3563.Y38 M66 2001
2000	Almond, David - Skellig Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.	YA PZ7.A448 S5 1999
2000	Anderson, Laurie Halse - Speak A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.	YA PZ7.A54385 S64 2006
2000	Wittlinger, Ellen - Hard Love After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.	YA PZ7.W78436 H37 2008

All descriptions, unless otherwise noted, are those used in URSUS, the University Maine System library catalog.