Need by Carrie Jones

#10 of 200

Original Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: December 23, 2008
ISBN: 1599903385
Page Count: 320

Zara collects phobias the way other high school girls collect lipsticks. 

Little wonder, since life’s been pretty rough so far. 

Her father left, her stepfather just died, and her mother’s pretty much checked out. 

Now Zara’s living with her grandmother in sleepy, cold Maine so that she stays “safe.” 

Zara doesn’t think she’s in danger; she thinks her mother can’t deal. 

Wrong...

Turns out that guy she sees everywhere, the one leaving trails of gold glitter, isn’t a figment of her imagination. 

He’s a pixie—and not the cute, lovable kind with wings. 

He’s the kind who has dreadful, uncontrollable needs. 

And he’s trailing Zara. 

Carrie Jones’ Need is aiding the effort to provide Young Adult Readers with new forms of supernatural, and romantic, fiction. Zara White is depressed after the death of her Step-Dad, the only Father she has ever known. Her Mother doesn’t know how to handle her and sends her to live with her Step Grandmother in cold, wintry Maine.

The Nostradamus Prophecies by Theresa Breslin

#9 of 200

Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
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Publication Date: March 6, 2008
ISBN: 0552557218
Page Count: 480

When Nostradamus, wild-eyed and trembling, proclaims to the French court his prophecy of a great massacre to take place on the streets of Paris, the young King Charles only laughs. His mother, Catherine de' Medici, pays more heed - she believes Nostradamus can truly see the future. But Nostradamus's prophecies are not only for those who rule; he also has a message for Mélisande, the minstrel's daughter. For he is certain that Fate links him and Mélisande together. And as the Angel of Death approaches, the soothsayer gives into her safekeeping some very special parchments - parchments that the titled heads of France would do anything to see... A rich, dramatic adventure set in the tumultuous years of the late sixteenth century in France - a time of assassination, poisons, seers and the sword. A time when a king must be saved...

Theresa Breslin’s ‘The Nostradamus Prophecies’ follows the turmoil of Melisande, Minstrel’s daughter, after the death of her sister and the imprisonment of her sister. Thirteen year old Mesliande must escape the court of King Charles IX and his widowed Mother, the Regent Catherine de’ Medici. In her terror, confusion and determination to see her sister avenged, Melisande knows only one man who can help her. Michel de Nostradamus. Unfortunately for Melisande, Nostradamus has seen more than just her Father’s rescue in her future.

Forget You by Jennifer Echols

#8 of 200

Original Language: English
Publisher: MTV
Country: USA
Publication Date: July 20, 2010
ISBN: 978-1439178232
Page Count: 304

When swim team captain Zoey wakes up from a car accident with partial amnesia, she is torn between the boy she remembers...and the one she doesn't. There’s a lot Zoey would like to forget. Like how her father has knocked up his twenty-four-year old girlfriend. Like Zoey’s fear that the whole town will find out about her mom’s nervous breakdown. Like darkly handsome bad boy Doug taunting her at school. With her life about to become a complete mess, Zoey fights back the only way she knows how, using her famous attention to detail to make sure she’s the perfect daughter, the perfect student, and the perfect girlfriend to ultra-popular football player Brandon. But then Zoey is in a car crash, and the next day there’s one thing she can’t remember at all—the entire night before. Did she go parking with Brandon, like she planned? And if so, why does it seem like Brandon is avoiding her? And why is Doug—of all people—suddenly acting as if something significant happened between the two of them? Zoey dimly remembers Doug pulling her from the wreck, but he keeps referring to what happened that night as if it was more, and it terrifies Zoey to admit how much is a blank to her. Controlled, meticulous Zoey is quickly losing her grip on the all-important details of her life—a life that seems strangely empty of Brandon, and strangely full of Doug.

Jennifer Echols ‘Forget You’ features Zoey, swim team captain, all round nice girl who is dealing with more than the usual amount of teenage drama. Her father has left her Mother for 24 year old pregnant Ashley, and her Mother attempted suicide. To top it all off, she is in a car accident and loses all memory of the night and when everyone starts acting differently she is determined to know why. Her new boyfriend, Brandon, is barely around, her best friends, twins Keke and Lila, are constantly fighting and Doug, a boy who has visible hated her since his return from juvie in the 9th Grade, is acting like her boyfriend.

What happened that night?