Summary: Ignoring her parents’ wishes, as well as the customary place of women in Timbuktu society, twelve-year-old Ayisha joins her twin brother in trying to stop a pair of tourists from stealing an ancient manuscript.
Philomel
Trouble in Timbuktu, by Cristina Kessler
July 30, 2009 by Ms. MarthaSky Always Hears Me and the Hills Don’t Mind, by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
July 29, 2009 by Ms. Martha
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Morgan struggles with her growing attraction to a co-worker, her unsatisfactory relationship with her boyfriend, and with her own sexual orientation after a girlfriend is rumored to be gay.
Flux
Breathing, by Cheryl Herbsman
July 24, 2009 by Ms. Martha
Summary: With a new boyfriend, asthma attacks that come when least expected, and a pesky younger brother, fifteen-year-old Savannah’s summer vacation takes many unexpected twists and turns.
Viking
Lipstick Apology, by Jennifer Jabaley
July 24, 2009 by Ms. Martha
Summary: After her parents’ sudden death, sixteen-year-old Emily leaves Pennsylvania for her aunt’s New York City apartment, private school, and disconcerting new relationships, all the while puzzling over her mother’s mysterious apology to her.
Razorbill
The Book of Samuel by Erik Raschke
July 23, 2009 by Ms. Martha
Summary: Living with his religious father, feminist mother, and racist grandmother in Denver, Colorado, during the early 1980s, twelve-year-old Samuel Gerard relates his school adventures and deals with his own prejudices towards Mexican immigrants.
361 pages, St. Martin’s Press
Anatomy of Wings, by Karen Foxlee
July 23, 2009 by Ms. Martha
Summary: After the suicide of her troubled teenage sister, eleven-year-old Jenny struggles to understand what actually happened.
Knopf
The Other Girl: a Midvale Academy novel, by Sarah Miller
July 22, 2009 by Ms. Martha
Summary: At a fancy New England prep school, Molly tries to break up her ex-boyfriend Gideon’s new relationship with sexy classmate Pilar after Molly finds herself inside the head of Pilar, hearing her innermost thoughts.
St. Martins Griffin
City of Screams, by John Brindley
July 22, 2009 by Ms. Martha
Summary: This is the story of Phoenix, earthbound and to her own mind deformed, but who is in love with the image of perfection, the air Agle, Gabriel. What will she risk to be with him? The stakes are high: a delicate balance has been formed between the rodents, raptors and Agles in the rebuilt city. Is Phoenix willing to jeopardise their safety? What chance does she have when the Adults return, claiming civilisation for themselves once and for all.
Orion
Alis, by Naomi Rich
July 20, 2009 by Ms. Martha
Summary: Raised within the strict religious confines of the Community of the Book, Alis flees from an arranged marriage to the much older Minister of her town and her life takes a series of unexpected twists before she returns to accept her fate.
Viking
Eli the Good, by Silas House
July 19, 2009 by Ms. Martha
Summary: In the summer of 1976, ten-year-old Eli Book’s excitement over Bicentennial celebrations is tempered by his father’s flashbacks to the Vietnam War and other family problems, as well as concern about his tough but troubled best friend, Edie.
Candlewick
