Wishlist: Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie Alender

Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence: dysfunctional like her parents’ marriage; her doll-crazy thirteen-year-old sister, Kasey; and even her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude.

When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction to dangerous. Kasey is acting stranger than ever: her blue eyes go green; she uses odd, old-fashioned language; and she even loses track of chunks of time, claiming to know nothing about her weird behavior. Their old house is changing, too. Doors open and close by themselves, water boils on the unlit stove, and an unplugged air conditioner turns the house cold enough for the girls to see their breath.

Alexis wants to believe it’s all in her head, until these seemingly harmless occurrences become life-threatening–to her, to her family, and to her budding relationship with the student council vice president. Alexis knows she’s the only person who can stop Kasey; but what if that green-eyed girl isn’t even Kasey anymore?

Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH; Reprint edition (June 22, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1423108779
ASIN: B0058M7Q6G
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 4.6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
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Wishlist: You Are My Only by Beth Kephart

Emmy Rane is married at nineteen, a mother by twenty. Trapped in a life with a husband she no longer loves, Baby is her only joy. Then one sunny day in September, Emmy takes a few fateful steps away from her baby and returns to find her missing. All that is left behind is a yellow sock.

Fourteen years later, Sophie, a homeschooled, reclusive teenage girl is forced to move frequently and abruptly from place to place, perpetually running from what her mother calls the “No Good.” One afternoon, Sophie breaks the rules, ventures out, and meets Joey and his two aunts. It is this loving family that gives Sophie the courage to look into her past. What she discovers changes her world forever. . . .

The riveting stories of Emmy and Sophie—alternating narratives of loss, imprisonment, and freedom regained—escalate with breathless suspense toward an unforgettable climax.

I like its cover.

Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: EgmontUSA (October 25, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1606842722
ISBN-13: 978-1606842720
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.4 x 1 inches

Wishlist: You Have Seven Messages by Stewart Lewis

It’s been a year since Luna’s mother, the fashion-model wife of a successful film director, was hit and killed by a taxi in the East Village. Luna, her father, and her little brother, Tile, are still struggling with grief.

When Luna goes to clean out her mother’s old studio, she’s stunned to find her mom’s cell phone there—charged and holding seven unheard messages. As Luna begins to listen to them, she learns more about her mother’s life than she ever wanted to know . . . and she comes to realize that the tidy tale she’s been told about her mother’s death may not be the whole truth.

Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (September 13, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 038574028X
ISBN-13: 978-0385740289
Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 3.5 x 0.8 inches

Wishlist: Storm Born by Richelle Mead

Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants…

Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl’s got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy–one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie’s first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.

Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne’er-do-well, and the ones who don’t want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her…

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Zebra; 3rd Ed edition (August 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1420100963
ISBN-13: 978-1420100969
Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches

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Wishlist: What Happened to Goodbye by Sarrah Dessen

Who is the real McLean? 

Since her parents’ bitter divorce, McLean and her dad, a restaurant consultant, have been on the move-four towns in two years. Estranged from her mother and her mother’s new family, McLean has followed her dad in leaving the unhappy past behind. And each new place gives her a chance to try out a new persona: from cheerleader to drama diva. But now, for the first time, McLean discovers a desire to stay in one place and just be herself, whoever that is. Perhaps Dave, the guy next door, can help her find out.

Combing Sarah Dessen’s trademark graceful writing, great characters, and compelling storytelling, What Happened to Goodbye is irresistible reading.

Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 402 pages
Publisher: Viking Juvenile; 1 edition (May 10, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0670012947
ISBN-13: 978-0670012947
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches

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Wishlist: Outside In by Maria V. Snyder

Me? A Leader? Okay, I did prove that there’s more to Inside than we knew. That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion – between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we’re free. I thought that meant I was off the hook, and could go off on my own again – while still touching base with Riley, of course. He’s the one upper I think I can trust. But then we learned that there’s outside and then there is Outside. And something from Outside wants In.

Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Harlequin; Original edition (February 15, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0373210116
ISBN-13: 978-0373210114
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 1 inches

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Wishlist: Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder

Keep Your Head Down.
Don’t Get Noticed.
Or Else.

I’m Trella. I’m a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I’ve got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck at risk is my own…until I accidentally start a rebellion and become the go-to girl to lead a revolution.

Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Harlequin; Original edition (April 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 037321006X
ISBN-13: 978-0373210060
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches

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