ICPL Teens

The White Darkness
by Geraldine McCaughrean
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone-a troubled fourteen year old-discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.

Dreamquake
by Elizabeth Knox
Laura investigates the involvement of the powerful Regulatory Body in mysterious disappearances and learns, in the process, the true nature of the Place in which dreams are found.

One Whole and Perfect Day
by Judith Clarke
As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather’s eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together.

Repossessed
by A.M. Jenkins
A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished.

Your Own Sylvia
by Stephanie Hemphill
A novel in verse. The author interprets the people, events, influences and art that made up the brief life of Sylvia Plath.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
A memoir of a boy soldier recruited for a civil war in Sierra Leone.

Before I Die
Jenny Downham
A terminally ill girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.

Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Stephanie Hemphill
A novel in verse interprets the people, events, influences and art that made up the brief life of Sylvia Plath.

Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones
On an island shattered by war, Mr. Watts sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations.

Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy

When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle’s estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.

Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal
Mal Peet
A girl, grieving her beloved grandfather, begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

American Shaolin
Matthew Polly
Growing up a 98 pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew Polly dreamed of one day becoming the toughest fighter in the world.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel
Brian Selznick
When Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

The Arrival
Shaun Tan
In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.