GEORGIA PEACH BOOKS2016-2017

WHEN BY VICTORIA LAURIEWhen Maddie Fynn was small and drew pictures, the people in her drawings always had numbers on their foreheads. When her father, a police officer, died on duty her mother realized the dates were Maddie saw were the dates on which people were to die. Always short of money, her mother made her use her strange gift to make extra money.

Maddie gets tangled up in a homicide investigation. The police think she may have been involved. Was she? Or was she a target too? Read When to solve the mystery.

NONE OF THE ABOVE BY I. W. GREGORIO

When Kristin Lattimer is voted homecoming queen, she is thrilled. Even though her mother passed away when she was younger, her life is going pretty well. She is a cheerleader, champion hurdler with a college scholarship already in the offing, and thinks she is madly in love with her boyfriend. But then she learns she is intersex, meaning she outwardly looks like a girl but has male chromosomes. Her issues become common knowledge at school and her great life is turned upside down on every front.

DIME BY E. R. FRANKTeen prostitution and human trafficking seem like something that shouldn’t and couldn’t happen in America. But Dime’s foster mother is only after the check and doesn’t much care what Dime does. She gradually slips into a life with ‘daddy’ and two other women. Before she knows it, school is a distant memory and Dime is a working girl helping pay the bills. When another young girl becomes part of the ‘family,’ Dime starts to question her life and wonders if she has the courage to escape…or even if it is possible.

HOW IT WENT DOWN BY KEKLA MAGOON

Sixteen year old African-American Tariq Johnson is shot to death by a white man and his community struggles to make sense of it all. Everyone who witnessed the tragedy has something different to say about it. Tariq’s friends and family as well as the community try to understand exactly ‘how it went down’. Given news stories of the past year or two, this book is a timely exploration of how events and reasons that seem obvious can be obscure.

SUGAR BY DEIDRE RIORDAN HALLMercy Legowski-Gracia, known as Sugar, considers herself the ‘fat Puerto-Rican-Polish girl who doesn’t feel like she belongs in her skin, or anywhere else for that matter’. Ridiculed wherever she goes because of her size, she takes care of her even heavier mother who rarely gets out of bed any more. When Even, a new boy, moves to town, they become friends, despite her size. Sugar’s new relationship with Even has her rethinking her life.

AN EMBER IN THE ASHES BY SABAA TAHIR

Set in a fantasy empire similar to ancient Rome, Laia and her family manage to survive. When Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia becomes a spy to try to save him. It is a militaristic world and Elias is considered one of the finest soldiers at the military academy. Laia works as a slave at the academy to learn about her brother and encounters Elias. The two connect and learn maybe they aren't so different after all. This book has action, a little romance, and rebellion. The sequel, A Torch Against the Night, comes out in August, 2016.

THE BOOK OF IVY BY AMY ENGELAfter devastating nuclear war, the world has changed and the survivors have an uneasy truce with one another. Sons and daughters of feuding families are to marry one another. Ivy is to kill her new husband so her family will become powerful. Can she do it?

UNDER A PAINTED SKY BY STACEY LEE

Disguising themselves as boys, runaway slave Annamae and Chinese orphan Samantha run from the authorities in Missouri and head West on the Oregon Trail. It’s not safe for girls to travel alone in the 1840s and the country is gripped with Gold Rush fever so the trail is crowded and the girls are being tracked by the long arm of the law.

WRITTEN IN THE STARS BY AISHA SAEEDNaila has grown up in Florida but her Pakistani parents have forbidden her to date or even be friends with a boy. After she sneaks out to go to the prom and gets caught, the family whisks her off to Pakistan—she isn’t even allowed to go to her high school graduation. The vacation keeps getting extended and then Naila discovers her parents have arranged a marriage for her. Immediately. And she will stay in Pakistan. Read the book to find out if she manages to escape before it’s too late!

EVERY LAST WORD BY TAMARA IRELAND STONE

Samantha appears to ‘have it all’ and be well adjusted. She’s popular and always invited to all the big events at school. But she is hiding a secret from her friends. She has OCD and sees her psychiatrist regularly. When she finds a new friend named Caroline, she visits Poet’s Corner with her—a hidden room at school full of ‘misfits’ who love poetry. Sam starts to write poetry and feel more at ease with herself…until she discovers that she has mislead herself. Then she really begins to wonder if she is sane.

SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDABY BECKY ALBERTALLISimon is gay, but it’s his secret. He’s in the school musical and has some good friends. When his secret is leaked by someone who is blackmailing him, Simon has to decide how to handle it all while at the same time keeping his friends.Simon didn’t expect to be outed and has an interesting time dealing with the consequences without ruining his life. (Read it before it gets made into a movie…the book is always better!)

X: A NOVEL BY ILYASAH SHABAZZ AND KEKLA MAGOONWritten in part by the daughter of Malcom X,

this novel based tells of his early life. He dreamed of becoming a lawyer, but with his father murdered and a mother institutionalized, he ends up in the murky and dangerous underworlds of New York City and Boston. At the age of twenty, he finds himself sentenced to ten years in prison. He uses the time to educate himself and converts to the Muslim religion. This fictionalized story of his life, unlike most accounts, tells of his childhood.

WE ARE ALL MADE OF MOLECULESBY SUSIN NEILSEN Meet Stewart. He’s geeky, gifted and sees things a

bit differently to most people. His mum has died and he misses her all the more now he and Dad have moved in with Ashley and her mum.

Meet Ashley. She’s popular, cool and sees things very differently to her new family. Her dad has come out and moved out – but not far enough. And now she has to live with a freakazoid step-brother.

Stewart can’t quite fit in at his new school, and Ashley can’t quite get used to her totally awkward home, which is now filled with some rather questionable decor. And things are about to get a whole lot more mixed up when these two very different people attract the attention of school hunk Jared. . .

THE SACRED LIES OF MINNOW BLY BY STEPHANIE OAKESMinnow moves with her parents to a religious cult

when she is five years old. When she is seventeen, Kevin, the cult leader and prophet, is murdered and the camp set on fire, Minnow is put in juvenile detention and questioned by the FBI. She has to adjust to a totally different way of life than she has learned. If she tells what she knows, she may be able to make a deal and get out of detention. Then she will just have to learn to live in the ‘real world’. And adjust to everyone seeing she has no hands.

CON ACADEMY BY JOE SCHREIBER It's his senior year and Will Shea has conned his way into

one of the country's most elite prep schools. But he soon runs into Andrea, a fellow con-artist. With the school not big enough for the both of them, they make a bet that whoever can con Brandt Rush, the richest, most privileged student in the school out of $50K, gets to stay at the school. Will starts setting up his con (an online poker scam) with his uncle who's one of the best grifters in the business, but also with the unwanted help of his father.. The plot thickens as Will starts falling for fellow student Gatsby, and some of Will's lies start to catch up with him.

In this twisty tale of scams, secrets, lies and deception, it hard to figure out who's conning who!

I AM PRINCESS X BY CHERIE PRIEST AND KALI CIESEMIERLibby and May were fifth grade best friends in Seattle

who wrote and drew comics together about their imaginary heroine, Princess X. After Libby and her mom are killed in a car accident, May gives up Princess X. At sixteen, May starts to see Princess X stickers, patches, and even a website. The ONLY other person who knew anything about Princess X was Libby, but she was dead…wasn’t she?I am Princess X is a bit of a hybrid book with elements of graphic novels as well as the more traditional format. It is a fun mystery read.

THE NOVICE: SUMMONER BY TARAN MATHARUThe first book in a trilogy, orphaned Fletcher is working as a blacksmith’s apprentice when he realizes he can summon demonic creatures from another world. When Fletcher must flee his village of Pelt after he and his demon attack the local bully, he encounters a mage and ends up in a special school being trained as a Battlemage to help wage war against the orcs. This book is a fast-paced read with a lot of action.

PAPERWEIGHT BY MEG HASTON

Tackling the subject of eating disorders, this book is about seventeen year old Stevie who is confined to a treatment center on the outskirts of the New Mexico desert. She is accompanied everywhere by nurses and therapists who are encouraging her to gain weight.Stevie feels responsible for her brother’s death and plans to take her own life on the anniversary of his death. Her mother has left the family and moved to Paris. Back home in Atlanta, her father has her signed in for sixty days. But Stevie knows she only has 27 days until the anniversary of Josh’s death.

THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY

BY MARIA ANDREUM.T. looks like the other blondish, American girls in her New Jersey high school, but she is really an illegal immigrant named Monserrat Thalia. She’s a senior in high school with great grades who knows her hopes for college aren’t going to work out. As the year progresses, M.T. become hopeless and angry and doesn’t feel she fits with her American friends, or her Argentinian family any more. This book is based on the author’s personal experience.

I’LL MEET YOU THERE BY HEATHER DEMETRIOS

Josh got out of Creek View by joining the Marines. But he’s back and working at the Paradise Motel after losing a leg in Afghanistan. Skylar is planning on getting out of the small California town too by going to art school in San Francisco. She’s been saving forever. But when Skylar’s mother loses her job at Taco Bell, Skylar is afraid she will have to stay home to help financially.Skylar starts working at the Paradise Motel too where she and Josh fall for each other and have to figure out what kind of relationship they will have. And where.