Collins, Suzanne                     Gregor the Overlander                                              COL j

When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.

Crutcher, Chris                      Crazy Horse Adventure game                       CRU ppb YA

A high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after anaccident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.

McDonell, Nick                                             Twelve                                                McD

Shusterman, Neal                  Downsiders: A Novel                                     SHU YA

When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures.

Wolff, Virginia Euwer                        Make Lemonade                  Wol YA ppb     In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.