Ellie Morgan's life would be almost perfect if she could just get her potentially prize-winning pumpkin, Max, to put on about two hundred more pounds, and if she could lose twenty herself. With the extra weight, Max would win at the Rock River Pumpkin Weigh-In. With less weight, Ellie would have the courage to approach Wes, the new boy in town. But with unpredictable weather threatening Max, pumpkin thieves running rampant, and other girls eyeing Wes, the pressure is great as Ellie gets ready to take on the world.  (M,J,S)

When Con, an American teenager living in Austria, learns that Vienna is a center of international intrigue, his search for a spy entangles him in a mystery that leads back to the Holocaust.  (M,J)

Bernadette Terrell has always known the right thing to do. Not the most popular girl in school, her focus has always been on academic, not social, success. When her favorite teacher names her to Wickham High School's state championship quiz bowl team, she believes that she has reached the pinnacle of her high school academic career. However, her elation quickly fades as she begins to suspect that perhaps someone cheated to get Wickham into the contest and is cheating still.  (J,S)

Cammie may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's beginning her most dangerous mission - falling in love.  (M,J,S)

Born with a rare and dangerous allergy to sunlight, Lila's spent her life staying covered up and indoors until dark, only venturing outside after the sun has set and the moon's cool light shines. At night, she's visited by two girls who wear tutus over their jeans and costume fairy wings, and the three of them dance and tell wonderful stories. But while Lila adores her family and her new friends, still she longs to feel the sun's touch...can her mysterious friends help her?  (M)

Flip doesn't think she'll ever fit in at her new Swiss boarding school. Besides being homesick for her father, she isn't sophisticated like the other girls, and discussions about boys leave her tongue-tied. When Flip meets a French boy, Paul, things begin to change for her. But despite her newfound happiness, there are times when Paul seems a stranger to her, and Flip must help Paul to confront his troubled past and find a future.  (J,S)

Chad finds a whole new summer occupation - he wants to be the Bozo, the clown who sits inside the dunk tank and goads people into taking a shot. What could be better than using his razor-sharp wit against a random stranger? But Chad soon discovers he's entered a strange and twisted world where humor packs a loaded punch.  (J,S)

In medieval England, fourteen-year-old Terence finds his tranquil existence suddenly changed when he becomes the squire of the young Gawain of Orkney and accompanies him on a long quest, proving Gawain's worth as a knight and revealing an important secret about his own true identity.  (M,J)

Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.  (M,J,S)

When head cheerleader Samantha Taylor does poorly on the SAT exam, she determines that her only hope for college admission is to win the election for student body president, but her razor wit and acid tongue make her better suited to dishing out insults than winning votes. When she brashly bets her classmate Logan that she can go two weeks without uttering a single insult, Samantha immediately realizes that she may have bitten off more than she can chew.  (S)

In her first year at a suburban New Jersey high school, New York transplant Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself "Lola," sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school.  (M,J)

The first time Juli Baker saw Bryce Loski, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was in the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down. And just as he’s thinking there’s more to her than meets the eye, she’s thinking that he’s not quite all he seemed.  (M,J)