THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB, by Elizabeth Eulberg

The story: Penny Lane is tired of guys lying and cheating on their girlfriends. And all her friends are having trouble with their loser boyfriends, too--so when Penny Lane (daughter of Beatles fans) decides to start a club modeled on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club, everyone signs up. Everything's great at first--Saturday night fun with the girls, finding the courage to quit doing what everyone else expects and do what YOU want instead. The only problem...is hottie Ryan Bauer, who's super cute AND super nice AND seems to really like Penny Lane. He's just too good to be true, and there's no way she's going to bail on the club. After all, a trip to a concert with a friend isn't really a date, right? Right?

MY LIFE AS A BOOK, by Janet Tashjian

The story: Derek hates to read, so it really stinks when he realizes his parents are signing him up for "Learning Camp" this summer, instead of his usual round of lazing around, feeding the dog, and hanging with his buddies. Then suddenly a mystery turns up that involves Derek's own life, and just as suddenly, he figures out that reading can be useful if you're trying to solve the mystery of the babysitter who drowned while trying to save YOUR two-year-old life. Maybe reading isn't ALWAYS bad for your health!

THE NAME OF THE STAR (Shades of London, Book 1), by Maureen Johnson

The story: Rory Deveux has just started school in Londdon when a near-death experience changes her life forever. Suddenly, she is now able to see ghosts. And ghosts are everywhere in London. Most of them aren't going to cause any trouble for her, but there's always an exception. A series of Jack-the-Ripper style murders is taking place in London, and one night, Rory sees what could very likely be the murderer at the scene of a crime. The only problem--the person with her doesn't see anything, and Rory realizes that the murderer is a ghost. How can she catch him before he gets to her...permanently?

A SPY IN THE HOUSE (The Agency Mysteries #1), by Y.S. Lee

The story: By the time she was twelve, Mary Quinn was a thief, housebreaker, and lock picker. When she gets caught, she's sentenced to die. But somehow, the ladies from Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls save her neck (quite literally), and she's put into training as an undercover agent in 19th-century London. On her first assignment, she runs into the handsome James Easton, who's intrigued by the fact that a girl has enough get-up-and-go to do detective work. He tries to get to know her better--but Mary is all about her work, and she's not going to let some man get in the way of catching a smuggler...no matter how good-looking that guy might be.

THE SURVIVAL KIT, by Donna Frietas

THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT, by Veronica Rossi

The story: Hundreds of years after a massive atmospheric disturbance, Dwellers live in pods and try to keep their lives together. Outsiders rely on nature--and on the strange mutations that have come from living there--to keep them alive. Each is the other's sworn enemy. When an attempt to contact her mother, missing in the Outside, takes Aria away from the safety of the pods, her world collides with Perry's. She comes to realize he's not a Savage after all--and that there's more to both of them than either could ever have understood alone. But will they survive long enough to test their new powers...much less fall in love?

THE UNWANTEDS, by Lisa McMann

The story: In the desert land of Quill, anyone who shows any kind of artistic or creative talent is Unwanted. (Quillens follow rules, conserve resources, and are strictly logical.) When Alex and Aaron Stowe turn 13, they know that Alex, who just can't seem to keep the rules, will be deemed Unwanted and sent to the Death Farm, while Aaron is on his way to Wanted University to be trained as a future leader of Quill. So imagine Alex's surprise when, instead of a death camp, he finds a community protected by magic, where art and music are valued. Little do they know that the people of Quill already suspect something, and that Alex's own homesickness will bring them to the edge of disaster.