A small sample of titles added to our middle school library collection in Nov. 2010.

1. Slide Show Prepared By:
Paula Trapani-Wiener,
Librarian
Lawrence Road Middle School

2. I Heart You, You
Haunt Me
By: Lisa Schroeder
A verse novel in which 15-
year-old Ava, feeling guilty
over the role she believes
she played in her boyfriend
Jackson's death,
experiences a whole new
range of emotions when
she realizes he is back
from the dead.

3. Accidental Love
By: Gary Soto
After unexpectedly falling
in love with a "nerdy" boy,
14-year-old Marisa works
to change her life by
transferring to another
school, altering some of
her behavior, and losing
weight.

4. Along for the Ride
By: Sarah Dessen
Auden gets a chance to
recapture the carefree teen
life she missed while her
parents were going through a
divorce when she goes to
spend the summer with her
dad and his new family in a
charming beach town and
meets fellow insomniac Eli,
an intriguing loner fighting
demons of his own.

5. Getting Even
By: ReShonda Tate
Billingsley
Best friends Camille, Alexis,
Jasmine, and Angel find their
friendship tested when two of
the girls realize they have
been dating the same guy,
but as they plan their
revenge, they learn
forgiveness is always the
better road to take.

6. Amelia’s Itchy-
Twitchy, Lovey-Dovey
Summer at Camp
Mosquito
By: Marissa Moss
After a rocky start, Amelia
begins having fun at
sleepaway camp, but
things get tense when she
develops her first crush
and discovers that her new
best friend, Carly, likes the
same boy.

7. Amiri & Odette: A
Love Story
By: Walter Dean
Myers
Presents a modern, urban
retelling in verse of the
ballet in which brave Amiri
falls in love with beautiful
Odette and fights evil Big
Red for her on the streets
of the Swan Lake Projects.

8. Boy Trouble
By: Diana G. Gallagher
(from the series: The Complicated Life
of Claudia Cristina Cortez)
Claudia faces a problem
when her longtime crush,
Brad, asks for her help on
his homework and the new,
cute boy at school wants to
take her on a date on the
same night.

9. Emma Jean Lazarus
Fell in Love
By: Lauren Tarshis
Seventh-grader Emma-
Jean Lazarus uses her
logical, scientific mind to
navigate the mysteries of
the upcoming Spring Fling,
her friend Colleen's secret
admirer, and other love-
related dilemmas.

10. Geek Magnet: A Novel in
Five Acts
By: Kieran Scott
17-year-old KJ Miller, nice, smart,
and pretty, has a knack for
attracting socially clueless guys but
cannot seem to grab the attention
of Cameron Richardson, star of the
basketball team. But when Tama
Gold, queen of the popular crowd,
joins her in staging the school play,
she decides that KJ is too nice and
offers to help her get cruel and win
Cameron's heart.

11. The Lonely Hearts
Club
By: Elizabeth Eulberg
Fed up with boys and the
way they have treated her
and her friends, high school
junior Penny Lane--named
after the Beatles song--
forms a club whose
members vow to stop
dating, but the
repercussions are
surprising.