| 1 | Lolita Files
sex.lies.murder.fame.
A brilliant, handsome, literary and musical genius is also a duplicitous skunk, it turns out, in the Lolita Files novel sex.lies.murder.fame. Penn Hamilton is the skunk's name, and his scheme to become rich and famous depends on a plain-looking high school dropout. |
| 2 | Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper
A teenage girl who has survived a rare form of leukemia now needs a kidney transplant, in Jodi Picoult's novel. There's no trouble finding a perfect match, though, because the girl's parents conceived a little sister for their daughter specifically to provide a donor match. But there is a problem: the little sister, who's 13 now, has decided she would rather not be forced to donate a kidney. And she's hired a lawyer. |
| 3 | Rob Scotton
Russell the Sheep
It's such a cliche: counting sheep to fall asleep. But illustrator Rob Scotton has taken the cliche and turned it on its head in his debut children's book. In Scotton's book, it's Russell, the sheep, who has trouble going to sleep. |
| 4 | Harlan Coben
Tell No One
In this suspense thriller, a young woman is the apparent victim of a serial killer. Eight years pass, and then one day something happens to the husband she left behind that is so startling, so unsettling, his life is turned upside down. |
| 5 | Howell Raines
The One That Got Away
By 2001, veteran newspaperman Howell Raines had reached the top of his profession, with his appointment as executive editor of the New York Times. Within less than two years, Raines was painfully pulled down from that lofty perch by the Jayson Blair scandal at the Times, an episode that forced him to reassess his life and his career. One result of his rumination is his new memoir "The One That Got Away."
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| 6 | Diana Gabaldon
Lord John and the Private Matter
Eighteenth century London is the backdrop for a murder mystery set in the context of a bestselling series of history-adventure novels. Author Diana Gabaldon has won the admiration of millions of readers with her Outlander series of books. This book focuses on the character of Lord John Gray, a minor player in the Outlander books. |
| 7 | Graham Salisbury
Eyes of the Emperor
The start of World War Two marked a harrowing time in Hawaii for the many Japanese-Americans living there. Now in his novel for young readers called Eyes of the Emperor, author and Hawaii native Graham Salisbury shows us how some Japanese-American teenagers dealt with the situation they were handed. |
| 8 | Meg Cabot
All-American Girl
A feisty and rebellious 15-year-old girl saves the President, becomes a national hero, and is appointed teen ambassador to the U-N. It all takes place in this young-adult novel by Meg Cabot, the author of "The Princess Diaries." |
| 9 | Martha Tod Dudman
Augusta, Gone
A teenage girl who seems bent on self-destruction, and a mother who is trying desperately to save her. It's not the plot of a new novel -- it's a true story. Augusta is Dudman's daughter, and she says this is a brutal story of a brutal time in their lives. |
| 10 | Gary Paulsen
How Angel Peterson Got His Name
For three decades Gary Paulsen has been writing autobiographical fiction for young readers, and has built a large and loyal following for his true-to-life stories. His latest book is better than true-to-life, it's true. Paulsen tells stories from his own 13th year, a time when he and his buddies in Minnesota undertook what we would today call "extreme sports" -- but they were just trying to have fun.
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