A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love. Be careful what you wish for!  (J,S)

Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.  (M,J,S)

Ivy and Ray accompany their con-artist parents on a trip to the Florida Everglades in search of their only living relative, a distant cousin who, according to their great-grandfather's memoirs, absconded with a valuable, if unspecified, item.  (M)

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watson's, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.  (M,J)

The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off to an icky older man.  (M,J)

When thirteen-year-old Brad, a baseball hero, gets a job as a fashion model, he must come to terms with his ideas of what it is to be a real guy.  (M)

In this horror novel parody, three self-centered members of Cliffside High School's ruling clique, who are beginning to age rapidly, become convinced that the beautiful new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before.  (J,S)

To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.  (M)

Eighth graders Tyler and Lymie mastermind a hoax in which they imitate the sculptures of a famous artist who once lived in their town, but they find themselves in big trouble when art critics accept their work as genuine.  (M)

Dogbreath, Tim's alternative Seattle grunge rock band, enters a major battle of the bands contest, but is beaten by The Angry Housewives, a new group fronted by Tim's mother.  (M,J)

Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters.  (M,J)

Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis."  (J,S)

John creates a sort of alternate reality in order to endure his problems, which include algebra class, a tuba that just won’t cooperate, a one-sided crush on a pretty girl, and an abusive home life. This book is disturbing at times, but it’s also a very funny look inside the head of a bright, sarcastic, imaginative teen.  (M,J,S)

Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well. (M)

Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.  (J,S)

Like any self-respecting girl her age, Jess wants to be devastatingly gorgeous, popular, and intelligent. But unfortunately, her best friend, Flora, has beaten her to it. Now Jess needs a new focus. The stunningly gorgeous Ben Jones seems the obvious choice. But can Ben Jones focus on anything that takes longer than a free kick? Perhaps Fred, who's sweet and clever but really needs a haircut, will help Jess through her teen-life crisis. But what of Flora's long-held secret crush? With her particular combination of charm and insanity, Jess heroically tries to keep it all together—with hilarious results.  (S)

What do you do if you hate sports but accidentally wind up at a sports summer camp filled with psycho jocks? Overweight Elvin decides to fail miserably at every sport, thus preventing the sadistic coaches from putting him into a sports “slot.” Sarcastic, irreverent, and funny, Elvin is an inspiration to smart-aleck outsiders everywhere. (J)

Australian teen Elizabeth deals with boys, her father’s unexpected reappearance, and her best friend Celia, who has just run away. The book is a collection of letters to and from various people in Elizabeth’s life. There are also very funny imaginary letters to Elizabeth from groups like “The Association of Teenagers,” which picks on her for being a loser and disappointing teens everywhere.  (S,A/YA)

Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.  (J,S)

Vickie Marotti, an accomplished street magician, gets the brilliant idea that she can protect herself and her misfit friends from bullies by pretending to be a curse-slinging witch. When the guy of her dreams finds out her little secret, Vickie is plunged into a series of misadventures, including one involving the school mascot, a recalcitrant goat.  (S)

Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments, the attacks of the football team, and other dangers of junior high school.  (M)

In his first week at Riverview High, Robert is accused of being either a commie or a fairy by his homeroom teacher, informed of an international Jewish conspiracy by his English teacher, and finds himself sitting at the geek table at lunch. Soon he's cutting classes, and to head off imminent transfer to reform school, Robert persuades his parents to enroll him at Wheaton, a small private school with a decidedly looser approach to learning. Robert soaks up contemporary thought and culture as he hangs out with teachers and classmates at movie houses, the local greasy spoon, a beat bookstore, and the public library; attends college lectures armed with a fake ID; and makes excellent money helping a schoolmate deliver furniture.  (S)

Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.  (M,J)

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.  (M,J,S)

Percy tells us at the outset of this book that he’s following in the footsteps of his late anthropologist father by cataloging high school culture. He and best pal Elissa make hilarious observations on various “tribes,” including the Jock Tribe, the Logo Tribe, and the Lipstick/Hairspray Tribe. Percy’s got some sad secrets, but this is still a funny look at high school life.  (S)

After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.  (M)

Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.  (M)

Franklin Delano Donuthead, a fifth-grader obsessed with hygiene and safety, finds an unlikely friend and protector in Sarah Kervick, the tough new student who lives in a dirty trailer, bonds with his mother, and is as "irregular" as he is.  (M)

Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.  (M,J,S)

Seventeen-year-old Josh, an anti-consumerist loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a web site that is receiving national attention.  (J,S)

Angelica Cookson Potts has the most divine life: Divine friends. Divine family. Divine housekeeper. True, her friends can be so perfect it hurts, and her mother is an annoyingly skinny ex-model type. But they are all so delightful that Angel forgives them their "perfections." What is not so delightful is that Angel feels like a big wobbly whale whenever she is around said friends and family. And with the school fashion show quickly approaching, Angel is determined to make Life Changes by starting a healthy new diet. If Angel can just get school hottie Adam to notice her, she knows he'll fall hopelessly in love, and realize that Angelica is rather divine herself!  (M,J)