1. Louisiana Young Readers Choice Award Grades 6 - 8

2. The CallMack MacAvoy, a seriouslyaverage twelve-year-old boy, isfaced with a difficult decisionwhen a three-thousand-year-oldman appears in the boysbathroom and informs him that heis one of the Magnificent Twelveand he needs to find his eleventeammates and save the world.ByMichael Grant 3. The Call- Book Trailer 4. The Dead Boys After moving to a small, remote desert town near a nuclear research facility, Teddy quickly realizes that something weird is happening. His investigation reveals that all of his new friends actually disappeared from the town decades ago and that a giant sycamore tree is somehow responsible. Teddy fights to save himself and the others from theBy trees grasp.Royce Buckingham 5. Heist SocietyFifteen-year-old Kat schemes herway into the best boardingschool, hoping to leave thethieving antics of her familybehind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campusto tell Kat that a powerfulmobster believes her father stoleart from a priceless collection,and in order to save him, Kat willhave to recover the paintings.ByAlly Carter 6. Hide and SeekIn the remote mountains ofArizona where he lives withhis mother, stepfather, andtwo sisters, fourteen-year-oldChase discovers twokidnapped boys and getscaught up in a dangerousadventure when he comes upwith a plan to get them tosafety.ByKaty Grant 7. How to Survive Middle SchoolWhen eleven-year-old DavidGreenbergs best friend makes thestart of middle school even worsethan he feared it could be, Davidbecomes friends with Penny, whoshares his love of televisionshows and posts one of their skitson YouTube, making them wildlypopular--online, at least.ByDonna Gephart 8. The LimitWhen his family exceedsits legal debt limit, thirteen-year-old Matt is sent to theFederal Debt RehabilitationAgency workhouse, wherehe discovers illicit activitiesare being carried out usingthe children who have beenplaced there.ByKristen Landon 9. Little Blog on the Prairie Thirteen-year-old Genevieves summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn into a blog.ByCathleen Davitt Bell 10. Max Cassidy : Escape from Shadow IslandBritish fourteen-year-old MaxCassidy calls on his skills andtraining as a professionalescape artist when he attemptsto clear his mother of murderinghis father, who disappeared twoyears earlier in the CentralAmerican country of SantoDomingo.ByPaul Adam 11. Ninth WardIn New Orleans NinthWard, twelve-year-oldLanesha, who can seespirits, and her adoptedgrandmother have nochoice but to stay andweather the storm asHurricane Katrina bearsdown upon them.ByJewell Parker Rhodes 12. SmileRaina just wants to be a normalsixth grader but one night she tripsand falls, severely injuring her twofront teeth. What follows is a longand frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery,embarrassing headgear, and evena retainer with fake teeth attached.And on top of all that, theres stillmore to deal with.ByRaina Telgemeir 13. The Strange Case of Origami YodaDwight, talks to his classmates thruan origami finger puppet of Yoda.Origami Yoda predicts the date of apop quiz, guesses who stole theclassroom Shakespeare bust, andsaves a classmate from popularity-crushing embarrassment withsome well-timed advice. Dwightsclassmate Tommy wonders howYoda can be so smart when Dwighthimself is so clueless.ByTom Angleberger 14. Theodore Boone : Kid Lawyer Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone, who knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in the small town of Strattenburg, finds himself involved in a murder trial because of knowledge he might have about a cold- blooded killer.ByJohn Grisham