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Title: Arson

Author: Estevan Vega

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Pub. Date: May 4th 2010

ARSON GABLE FEELS LIKE A FREAK. HE CAN CREATE FIRE. HE NEVER ASKED FOR IT. HE NEVER WANTED IT. BUT HE CAN’T SHUT IT OFF.
Before now, three things were true: he both loved and despised his grandmother; his life was going nowhere; and he was alone. But when a strange girl-who feels more normal behind a mask than inside her own skin-moves in next door, Arson hopes to find something he’s never had: purpose. Using what he fears the most about himself, Arson must face his consuming past and confront the nightmare that is present as he walks the fine line between boy and monster. Dark, moody, and breathtakingly relevant, Arson, the chilling chronicle of an isolated boy with unimaginable ability, is sure to ignite the hearts and minds of a new generation.

If interested in participating in the Arson arc tour, please email Drea or Sara.

Mailed 3/12 DC: 03092880000175517891

1. Laurie T (NY) Rc’d 03/15, Mailed 03/22
   DC: 03093220000146640628
2. Keyona (NY) Rc’d 3/24, Mailed 4/1
   DC: 420117799102128882300088809968
3. Sandy (NY) Rc’d 04/07, Mail by 04/15
   DC: 0309 1140 0002 1721 9044
4. Maria (NY) Rc’d 4/19, Mailed 4/26
   DC: 03082690000208989282
5. ReaganStar (ME) Rc’d 5/1, Mailed 6/11
   DC: 0309 2880 0000 5239 2184
6. Kate (CT) Rc’d 6/14, Mail by 6/22
   DC: 9102 1501 3471 1227 3186 46
7. Lili (FL) Rc’d 6/26, Mailed 7/7
   DC: 0310 0480 0002 6699 6334
8. Stacy (TX) Rc’d 7/9, Mailed 7/16
   DC: 03101230000192966924
9. Danielle (CA) Rc’d 7/23, Mailed 08/3
   DC: 0309 3220 0001 2208 0400

Title: The Tensions of Opposites
Author: Kristina McBride
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Release Date: May 2010
Donated by: Kristina/EgmontUSA

It’s been two years since Noelle disappeared. Two years since her bike was discovered, sprawled on a sidewalk. Two years of silence, of worry, of fear.

For those two long years, her best friend Tessa has waited, living her own life in a state of suspended animation. Because how can she allow herself to enjoy a normal high school life if Noelle can’t? How dare she have other friends, go to dances, date boys, without knowing what happened to the girl she thought she would share everything with?

And then one day, someone calls Noelle’s house. She’s alive.

A haunting psychological thriller taken straight from the headlines, The Tension of Opposites is a striking debut that explores the emotional aftermath of a kidnapping on the victim, and on the people she left behind.

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Mailed 3/12 DC: 03092880000175517884

1. Hope (MI) Rc’d 03/16, Mailed 03/23
   DC: 03083390000152498755
2. April (NY) Rc’d 03/31, Mailed 04/5
   DC: 03091830000195126231
3. Sharon (NY) Rc’d 4/15, Mailed 4/24
   DC: 0304 1560 0004 3396 9865
4. Laurie T (NY) Rc’d 03/26, Mailed 05/04
   DC: 0309 3220 0001 4664 9997
5. Jennifer (NY) Rc’d 5/08, Mailed 05/17 (extension given, personal)
   DC: 9102128882300158843632
6. Kate (CT) Rc’d 5/20, Mail 5/27
   DC: 9102 1501 3471 1192 5283 23
7. Jenn (VA) Rc’d 06/02, Mailed 06/08
   DC: 03080660000086265404
8. Emily (NH) Rc’d 6/15, Mailed  6/23
   DC: 03092880000229514302
9. Allison (AZ)  Rc’d 6/25, Mailed 7/2
   DC: 0307 1790 0004 0402 7217
10. Kristen H (IL) Rc’d 7/12, Mailed 7/19
    DC: 0310 0480 0000 4414 3059

    Sent back to Sara to give to author

Title: Life, After
Author: Sarah Darer Littman
Publisher: Scholastic
Release Date: July 2010
Donated by: Sharon

Everything changes for Dani and her family when a truck loaded with explosives detonates outside the AMIA building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing her beloved aunt and unborn cousin. Because of the ensuing political upheaval, economic hardship, and emotional toll, Dani’s family moves to the U.S. It is a terrifying place–new school, new language, new hardships–and Dani’s angry father is turning into a stranger, more so everyday. Just when Dani thinks she is about to lose it, she befriends Jessica, one of the girls who has been cruelly teasing her since she arrived.

It is the most unlikely of friendships. Jessica is wealthy, groomed, spoiled. But Jessica has a past that only Dani can understand. She lost her father in 9/11. It is a friendship that allows them both to heal in unexpected and surprising ways, and changes them and their families forever.

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1. Carrie (NY) Rc’d 03/16, Mailed 03/22
   DC: 0309 2880 0000 6582 0254
2. Laurie (NY) Rc’d 3/42, Mailed 3/31
   DC: 0306 1070 0001 2621 7822
3. Abby (VA) Rc’s 4/3, Mailed 4/07
   DC: 0309 2880 0000 3090 1179
4. Hope (MI) Rc’d 4/10, Mailed 4/20 (multi-book extension)
   DC: 03083390000152498182
5. Katie (IL) Rc’d 4/24, Mailed 5/01
   DC: 0307 1790 0001 2538 9663
6. Drea (IL) Rc’d 5/03

Title: The Witchy Worries of Abbie Adams
Author: Rhonda Hayter
Publisher: Dial
Release Date: April 2010
Dontated by: Rhonda

Abbie Adams and her family come from a long line of witches, and she’s having a tough time keeping it a secret from her best friend and the rest of her school, especially the day her little brother morphs into a wolf and tries to eat his teacher. That’s also the day her father brings home a kitten.

But when Abbie looks into the kitten’s eyes, she realizes there’s a boy in there! He’s under a spell and soon the whole family bands together to rescue him.

They are shocked to realize he’s none other than the young Thomas Edison, and if they don’t save him fast, he’ll never change the world with his inventions.

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1. Danielle (CA) Rc’d 03/03, Mailed 3/11
   DC: 03081400000121819415
2. Jenn (VA) Rc’d 3/13, Mail by 3/15
   DC: 03091830000241049729
3. Emily (NH) Rc’d 3/17, Mailed 3/19
   DC: 03092880000202499275
4. Kristen H (IL) Rc’d 3/22, Mailed 3/28
5. Drea (IL) Rc’d 3/28

Sent back to Rhonda on 4/16; DC: 0309 3220 0001 1451 3862

Title: A Golden Web
Author: Barbara Quick
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: April 2010
Dontated by: Michelle

Alessandra is desperate to escape—from her stepmother, who’s locked her away for a year; from the cloister that awaits her if she refuses the marriage plans that have been made for her; from the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There’s no tolerance in her village for her keen intelligence and her unconventional ideas.

In defiant pursuit of her dreams, Alessandra undertakes an audacious quest, her bravery equaled only by the dangers she faces. Disguised and alone in a city of spies and scholars, Alessandra will find a love she could not foresee—and an enduring fame.

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Michelle sent on 03/02

1. Crystal (NC) Rc’d 03/05, Mailed 03/13
   DC: 9102 1480 0860 0631 0389 32
2. Carrie (NY) Rc’d 03/23, Mailed 03/30
   DC: 03083390000167608712
3. Sandy (NY) Rc’d 04/01, Mailed 04/08
   DC: 0309 1140 0002 1721 9020
4. Laurie (NY) Rc’d 4/14, Mailed 4/22 (multi-book extension)
   DC: 0306 1070 0001 2621 7938
5. Kristen H (IL) Rc’d 4/26, Mailed 05/03
   DC: 0310 0480 0000 4406 0745
6. Lori (TN) Rc’d 5/08, Mailed 5/13
   DC: 03082690000099870300
7. Andrea (LA) Rc’d 5/15, Mailed 5/18
   DC: 0496 9002 4390 0704 0249
8. Melissa (UT) Rc’d 5/20, Mailed 5/27
   DC:  03092880000196644040
9. Hope (MI) Rc’d 6/3, Mailed 6/22
   DC: 03100480000112792653
10. Sara (MI) Rc’d 6/24, Mail by 7/1

Title: Perchance to Dream
Author: Lisa Mantchev
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Release Date: May 2010
Dontated by: Drea

The stuff that dreams are made on.

Act Two, Scene One

Growing up in the enchanted Thèâtre Illuminata, Beatrice Shakespeare Smith learned everything about every play ever written. She knew the Players and their parts, but she didn’t know that she, too, had magic. Now, she is the Mistress of Revels, the Teller of Tales, and determined to follow her stars. She is ready for the outside world.

Enter BERTIE AND COMPANY

But the outside world soon proves more topsy-turvy than any stage production. Bertie can make things happen by writing them, but outside the protective walls of the Thèâtre, nothing goes as planned. And her magic cannot help her make a decision between—

Nate: Her suave and swashbuckling pirate, now in mortal peril.

Ariel: A brooding, yet seductive, air spirit whose true motives remain unclear.

When Nate is kidnapped and taken prisoner by the Sea Goddess, only Bertie can free him. She and her fairy sidekicks embark on a journey aboard the Thèâtre’s caravan, using Bertie’s word magic to guide them. Along the way, they collect a sneak-thief, who has in his possession something most valuable, and meet The Mysterious Stranger, Bertie’s father—and the creator of the scrimshaw medallion. Bertie’s dreams are haunted by Nate, whose love for Bertie is keeping him alive, but in the daytime, it’s Ariel who is tantalizingly close, and the one she is falling for. Who does Bertie love the most? And will her magic be powerful enough to save her once she enters the Sea Goddess’s lair?

Once again, LISA MANTCHEV has spun a tale like no other—full of romance, magic, adventure, and fairies, too—that readers won’t want to put down, even after the curtain has closed.

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Drea sent 02/17
DC: 0309 1140 0000 6470 2201

1. Karin (OK) Rc’d 2/25, Mailed 03/04
   dc: 03080070000055999326
2. Sab (TX) Rc’d 03/08, Mailed 03/16
   dc:03091830000119117192
3. Stacy W  (TX) Rc’d 3/18, Mailed 3/23
   DC: 03091830000234778636
4. Andrea  (LA) Rc’d 3/27, Mailed 3/31
   DC: 04041016007007039196
5. Andrea (FL) Rc’d 4/2, Mail by 4/12 (extension give/sickness)
   DC: 03090330000180926394
6. Cate (NC) Rc’d 4/15, Mailed 4/22
   DC: 0309 0330 0001 2999 9717
7. Emily (NH) Rc’d 4/24, Mailed 5/03
   DC: 03073330000156132456
8. Laurie (NY) Rc’d 5/5, Mailed 5/12
   DC: 0309 3220 0001 4665 0009
9. Kristen (IL) Rc’d 5/14, Mailed 5/24
   (given to Drea to send to Lisa)

Title: Forgive My Fins
Author: Tera Lynn Childs
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Release Date: June 2010
Donated by: Sharon

Lily Sanderson has a secret, and it’s not that she has a huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Unrequited love is hard enough when you’re a normal teenage girl, but when you’re half human, half mermaid like Lily, there’s no such thing as a simple crush.

Lily’s mermaid identity is a secret that can’t get out, since she’s not just any mermaid – she’s a Thalassinian princess. When Lily found out three years ago that her mother was actually a human, she finally realized why she didn’t feel quite at home in Thalassinia, and she’s been living on land and going to Seaview high school ever since, hoping to find where she truly belongs. Sure, land has its problems – like her obnoxious, biker boy neighbor Quince Fletcher – but it has that one major perk – Brody. The problem is, mermaids aren’t really the casual dating type – when they “bond,” it’s for life.

When Lily’s attempt to win Brody’s love leads to a tsunami-sized case of mistaken identity, she is in for a tidal wave of relationship drama, and she finds out, quick as a tailfin flick, that happily-ever-after never sails quite as smoothly as you planned.

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Sharon Mailed on 02/25
DC: 0304 1560 0004 3397 9925

1. Keyona (NY) Rc’d 2/27, Mailed 03/06
   DC: 420117799102150134711093447563
2. Sandy (NY) Rc’d 03/10, Mailed 03/17
   dc: 0309 1140 0002 1721 8559
3. Steph Su (PA) Rc’d 3/25, Mailed 04/01
   dc: 0308 3390 0001 4989 9732
4. Lauren (PA) Rc’d 4/09, Mailed  4/10
   DC: 03092880000125900940
5. Jenn (VA) Rc’d 4/13, Mailed 4/17
   DC: 04799941765006125537
6. Lori (TN) Rc’d 4/22, Mailed 4/28
   DC: 0308 2690 0000 9987 0218
7. Andrea (FL) Rc’d 5/03, Mailed 5/05
   DC: 0309 0330 0001 8092 6486
8. Lili (FL) Rc’d 5/07, Mailed 5/20
   DC: 0309 1830 0000 6813 9689
9. Andrea (LA) Rc’d 5/24, Mailed 6/1
   DC: 0496 9002 4390 0704 0584
10. Lena (TX) Rc’d 6/3, Mailed 6/9
    DC: 0310 0480 0001 5962 7819
11. Amber (MO) Rc’d 6/12, Mailed 6/17
    DC: 03082690000143182861
12. Kristen (IL) Rc’d 6/21, Mailed 6/28
    DC: 0310 0480 0000 4412 2818

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Title: The Rise of Renegade X
Author: Chelsea Campbell
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Release Date: May 2010
Donate by: Chelsea Campbell

Sixteen-year-old Damien Locke has a plan: major in messing with people at the local supervillain university and become a professional evil genius, just like his supervillain mom. But when he discovers the shameful secret she’s been hiding all these years, that the one night stand that spawned him was actually with a superhero, everything gets messed up. His father’s too moral for his own good, so when he finds out Damien exists, he actually wants him to come live with him and his goody-goody superhero family. Damien gets shipped off to stay with them in their suburban hellhole, and he only has six weeks to prove he’s not a hero in any way, or else he’s stuck living with them for the rest of his life, or until he turns eighteen, whichever comes first.

To get out of this mess, Damien has to survive his dad’s “flying lessons” that involve throwing him off the tallest building in the city—despite his nearly debilitating fear of heights—thwart the eccentric teen scientist who insists she’s his sidekick, and keep his supervillain girlfriend from finding out the truth. But when Damien uncovers a dastardly plot to turn all the superheroes into mindless zombie slaves, a plan hatched by his own mom, he discovers he cares about his new family more than he thought. Now he has to choose: go back to his life of villainy and let his family become zombies, or stand up to his mom and become a real hero.

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Chelsea mailed on 2/16

1. Sarah (WA) Rc’d 2/20, Mailed 2/27
   DC: 0309 3220 0002 1591 4704
2. Pat (CA)Rc’d 3/02, Mailed 3/09
   UPS: 1Z4E897E0357754469
3. Nikki (CA) Rc’d 03/10, Mailed 03/17
   dc: 03092880000169985309
4. Karin (OK) Rc’d 3/19, Mailed  3/26
   DC: 0309 1830 0001 9570 1445
5. Valerie (MI) Rc’d 3/30, Mailed 04/06
   DC: 0308 0660 0000 1579 2933
6. Hope (MI) Rc’d 4/08, Mailed 4/20 (multi-book extension)
   DC: 03083390000152498175
7. Danielle (NJ) Rc’d 4/23, Mailed 5/04
   No DC
8. Jennifer G (NC) Rc’d 5/08, Mailed  5/14
   DC: 0310 0480  0002 7213 7998
9. Back to Drea to send to Chelsea

Title: Something Like Fate
Author: Susane Colasanti
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Release Date: May 2010
Donated by: Drea

Lani and Erin are bonded for life. One thing that connects them is their fascination of fate. Lani wonders how much of our lives has already been decided and how much we can actually influence. Since the Unknown can unexpectedly change our lives forever, how much can we really control?

From the minute Lani meets Jason, she can’t deny the intense connection they share. It feels like she’s known him forever. She’s not sure if he feels it, too. But it doesn’t matter. Because Jason is Erin’s boyfriend. Lani is determined to ignore her feelings for Jason, no matter how powerful they are, rather than risk hurting her best friend.

How long can Lani keep running from the boy who might be her destiny?

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Drea sent on 02/17
DC: 0309 1140 0000 6470 2218

1. Kim (CA)Rc’d 3/03, Mail by 3/10
   DC: 03091830000115468793
2. Lena (TX) Rc’d 03/16, Mailed 03/23
   DC: 0309 1830 0002 3545 6854
3. Kathy (IN) Rc’d 03/29, Mailed 04/05
   DC: 03093220000088285970
4. Laurie (NY) Rc’d 4/09, Mailed 4/20 (extension given, illness)
   DC: 0306 1070 0001 2621 7907
5. ReganStar (ME) Rc’d 4/22, Mailed 4/30
   DC: 0309 2880 0000 5239 2115
6. Kate (CT) Rc’d 05/04, Mailed 5/06
   DC: 0310 0480 0003 6856 0495
7. Jen (VA) R’cd 5/10, Mailed 5/12
   DC: 04969010243031066309
8. Monica (MD) Rc’d 5/14, Mailed 5/18
   DC: 0309 2880 0001 8911 0040
9. Andrea (FL) Rc’d 5/20, Mailed 5/27
   DC: 9102128882300174618795
10. Sara (MI) Rc’d 5/29

Sara mailed to Susan