2010 Quick Picks Nominations
Updated Nov. 6, 2009
Fiction
Anderson, Jessica Lee. Border Crossing. 2009. Milkweed Editions, $17.00 (978-1-57131-689-9). Manz lives on the wrong side of the tracks. With an alcoholic mother and a best friend that hits him, he finds comfort in the voices inside him.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls. 2009. Viking Juvenile, $17.99 (978-0-6700-1110-0). Dying to be thin: painful to read, impossible to ignore.
Baratz-Logsted, Lauren. Crazy Beautiful. 2009. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's aBook Group, $16.00 (978-0-547-22307-0). Beauty meets "The Beast", 2010 style.
Bell, Taryn. America's Next Top Model (series): Novel #1: Face Value. 2009. Scholastic, $8.99 (978-0-5451-4111-6). Wanna be on top?
Bell, Taryn. America's Next Top Model (series): Novel #2: Eye Candy. 2009. Scholastic, $8.00 (978-0-5451-4112-3). The competition to win at America's Next Top Model Academy is fierce -- who will be on top?
Chmakova, Svetlana. Nightschool volume 1. 2009. Yen Press, $10.99 (978-0-7595-2849-4). Boarding school for a different crowd: vampires, demons and witches. The lights may be off but the learning is still going on.
Choyce, Lesley. The Book of Michael. 2008. Red Deer Press, $11.01
(978-0-8899-5417-5). After being wrongly convicted for his girlfriend's murder, Michael struggles to move on with his life.
Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. 2009. $17.99 (978-0-439-02349-8). The capitol is not happy with the way Katniss and Peeta played the Hunger Games and has a new plan that may yet kill them.
Daniels, Babygirl. 16 on the Block. 2009. Urban Books, $11.95 (978-1-60162-184-9). Summer gets involved in a lifestyle she's not sure she can handle.
Daniels, Babygirl. 16 1/2 on the Block. 2009. Urban Books, $11.95
(978-1-60162-183-2). The story behind Latina's current sentence of three years in Detroit's Detention Home for Girls.
Daniels, Babygirl. Sister, Sister. 2009. Urban Books, $9.95
(9781601621542). Identical twins, yet one gets all the attention.
de la Pena, Matt. We Were Here. 2009. Random House, $17.99 ( 9780385736671). Miguel did something awful, something so awful he ended up in Juvie before being sent to live in a group home.
Divine, L. Drama High: Courtin' Jayd. 2008. Dafina/Kensington, $9.95 (978-0-7582-2536-8). Will Jayd get back together with Rah or Jeremy? Who is Mickey's baby daddy, and will she tell the truth or play them off? Jayd needs to catch up on her spiritual work and focus on her hair skills, but will the drama take her off track?
Divine, L. Hustlin.' 2009. Dafina/Kensington, $9.95 (978-0-7582-3105-5). The ups and downs of Jayd with family, friends, school and life in general.
Divine, L. Drama High: Keep it Movin' 2009. Dafina/Kensington, $9.95 (9780758231079. Jayd has a semi-broken set of wheels, a somewhat growing income and two guys fighting for her time.
Draper, Sharon M. Just Another Hero. 2009. Simon & Schuster/Antheneum, $16.99 (978-1-4169-0700-80). Who is stealing? Who is setting off the school fire alarm? Will Kofi get off drugs? Will Arielle ever feel at home with her controlling stepfather? Will anyone step up to be a true hero?
Efaw, Amy. After. 2009. Viking Juvenile, $12.23 (978-0-6700-1183-4). A teenage mother who didn't realize she was pregnant, and the devastating choice she makes in a split second.
Elkeles, Simone. Perfect Chemistry. 2008. Walker Books, $9.99 (978-0-802-79822-0). It's not exactly love at first sight between Alex Fuentes: gang member and Brittany Ellis: pretty, privileged and with a seemingly perfect life.
Fahy, Thomas. Sleepless. 2009. Simon and Schuster. $12.47 (978-1-4169-5901-4). Something is giving the teens of Saint Opportuna High nightmares. And making them kill in their sleep...
Ferguson, Alane. The Dying Breach: A Forensic Mystery. 2009. Penguin/Viking, $16.99 (978-0-670-06314-7) Will the "killer" get to Cammie before forensic science finds him first?
Forman, Gail. If I Stay. 2009. Dutton Children's Books, $16.99 (978-0-525-42103-0 ). A car accident kills Mia’s parents and younger brother. While in the hospital, Mia has an out of body experience and must decide whether she wants to join her family or live.
Franco, Betsy. Metamorphosis: junior year. 2009. Candlewick Press, $16.99 (978-0-7636-3765-1). Drugs, shoplifting, cheating, and Roman myths.
Gasteier, Matthew. F. U. Penguin: Telling Cute Animals What’s What. 2009. Villard, $15.00 (978-0345518163). For all those who incite ooh's and ahh's, the jig is up! Funny and cheeky, this is a book that’s sure to put all those cute animal books in their place.
Griffin, Paul. Orange Houses. 2009. Dial Books, $16.99 (978-0-8037-3346-6). Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
Halpern, Julie. Into the Wild Nerd Yonder. 2009. Feiwel & Friends/ Macmillian, $16.99 (978-0-312-38252-0). When Jessie's former best friends ditch her to become punk rock wannabes, she finds herself hanging out with costume wearing geeks. Sure it's nice, but does she really want to spend her nights sitting around the D&d table?
Harmon, Michael. Brutal. 2009. Knopf, $16.99 (978-0-3759-4099-6 ). Poe Holly discovers violence and cruelty she never expected when sent to live in a cute tourist town with her dad.
Happycat, Professor and icanhascheezburger.com. I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun. 2008. Gotham, $8.00 (978-1592404094). Dis buk iz rilly funnee! Hilarious pictures of cats and even funnier captions. Guaranteed to make you LOL!
Happycat, Professor and icanhascheezburger.com. How to Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLcat Guide 2 Winning. 2009. Gotham, $8.82 (978-1-5924-0516-9). Lolcats r bak to take ovur teh wurld!
Hawthorne, Rachel. Dark Guardian #1: Moonlight. 2009. HarperTeen, $8.99 (978-0-0617-0955-5). Nature-loving Kayla is drawn to the mysterious and incredibly gorgeous Lucas...who also happens to be a werewolf.
Hawthorne, Rachel. Dark Guardian #: Dark of the Moon. 2009. HarperTeen, $8.99 (9780061709579). Brittany, raised among Shifters, doesn't want anyone to know she is human.
Hopkins, Ellen. Tricks. 2009. Simon & Schuster, $18.99 (978-1-4169-5007-3). Five teens, each with only one choice left.
Horvath, David. Ugly Guide to Being Alive and Staying that Way: Hi! It's the Uglydoll. 2009. Random House, $5.99 (978-0-375-85702-7). A guide to living a successful monster's life. Learn the secrets of school, college, jobs, and everyday life in the Ugly world.
Inoue, Takehiko. Real: vol 1. 2008. Viz , $12.99 (978-1-4215-1989-0 ). Kids stricken by tragedy and manga ~ perfect match.
Johnston, Antony and Wilson Tortosa. Wolverine 1: The Prodigal Son. 2009. Random House/Del Rey, $12.99 (978-0-345-50516-3). X-Men's Wolverine, a.k.a. Logan, is a teenage rebel with a real good reason for having a real bad attitude.
Johnson, LouAnne. Muchacho. 2009. Random House/Knopf, $15.99 (978-0-375-96117-5). Eddie makes a mistake and gives his mom a certificate for her birthday saying he is going to stay in school and graduate. Trouble is, he's in alt ed and really angry.
Jones, Carrie. Need. 2008. Bloomsbury, $11.55 (978-1-5999-0338-5). Zara is falling in love with a sexy werewolf and being pursued by a dangerous pixie king (who is definitely not like Tinkerbell!).
Kaye, Marilyn. Gifted: Better Late Than Never 2009. Kingfisher, $7.99
(9780753463000). While Jenna's mom is in rehab, a man claiming to be her dad shows up. Too good to be true?
Knowles, Jo. Jumping Off Swings. 2009. Candlewick Press, $16.99 (978-0-763-63949-5). One pregnancy seen through the eyes of four friends.
Kaye, Marilyn. Gifted: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow. (series). 2009. Kingfisher, $7.95 (9780753463109). Kidnapped to commit crimes, can super powers save them?
Kaye, Marilyn. Gifted: Out of Sight, Out of Mind. (series). 2009. Kingfisher, $7.95 (9780753416495. Amanda, the Queen of Mean, is trapped in the life of unfashionable, unpopular Tracey.
Koford, A. The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out. 2009. Harry N Abrams Inc./Abrams ComicArts, $12.95 (978-0-8109-9571-0). Contemporary cat comics.
Lee, Darrien. Denim Diaries Book 1: Sixteen Going on Twenty-One. 2009. Urban Renaissance, $9.95 (978-1-933967-71-4). Dre and Denim finally hook up, after loving each other since kindergarten.
Lennon, Stella. Invisible i. The Amanda Project: Book One. 2009. HarperCollins/HarperTeen $16.99, (978-0-0617-4212-5). - When Amanda goes missing her friends come together to find her but there is more to Amanda and her disappearance than they first realize.
Lynch, Janet Nichols. Messed Up. 2009. Holiday House, $17.95 (978-0-8234-2185-5). Can fifteen-year-old R.D. make it on his own? He never knew his father, his mother is in prison, his grandmother has run off with a trucker, and his step-grandfather just died.
Mac, Carrie. Jacked. 2009. Orca Book Publishers, $9.99 (978-1-55469-184-5). Sneaking away from work was a bad idea.
McCaffrey, Kate. In Ecstasy. 2009. Annick Press, $21.95 (978-1-55451-175-4). Sophie and Mia are best friends and tell each other about sex, drugs, and everything else. When best friends lie to each other, though, unexpected things happen.
McClintock, Norah. Taken. 2009. Orca Book Publishers, $12.95 (978-1554691524), Girls go missing. One is found dead. Stephanie is next.
McDaniel, Lurlene. Breathless. 2009. Delacorte Press, $10.99 (987-0-385-73459-2). Four friends face the toughest decision ever - life or death.
Malkin, Nina . Swoon. 2009. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (978-1-4169-7434-5). Ghosts set on revenge.
Mawji, Nasim, Chris Doherty, and Burt Jensen. Hollywoof! Celebrity Dogs Bite Back. 2008. DK Books, $9.95. (978-0-756-63682-1). If you were Paris Hilton’s dog, what would you be thinking?
Millner, Denene and Miller, Mitzi. What Goes Around: a Hotlanta Novel. 2009. Scholastic/Point, $9.99 (978-0-545-00310-0). Cartier, Gucci, Nike, Jermaine, Marco, Jason… and more drama!
Montaquila, Christine. Frenemies: Cats, Dogs, and Lessons in Getting Along. 2009. Stewart, Tabori, & Chang/Harry N. Abrams, $12.95 (978-1-5847-9753-1). The rules of friendship in black and white.
Myers, Walter Dean. Dope Sick. 2009. Amistad, $16.99 (978-0061214776). Life on the streets with a supernatural twist.
Northrop, Michael. Gentlemen. 2009. Scholastic, $16.99 (978-0-545-09749-9). One of Micheal's friends is missing. Does his English teacher have something to do with it?
Paulsen, Gary. Notes From the Dog. 2009. Random House/Wendy Lamb, $15.99 (9780385738453). Finn's life as a loner is changed by a dog and a new neighbor.
Reger, Rob and Jessica Gruner. Emily the Strange: the lost days. 2009. HarperCollins, $16.99 (978-0-06-145229-1). Emily has amnesia - and that's not her only problem.
Renn, Crystal. Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves. 2009. Simon and Schuster,
$16.50 (978-1439101230). A model's success doesn't require starvation, after all.
Ryan, Darlene. Five Minutes More. 2009. Orca, $12.95 (978-1-55469-006-0). D'Arcy's dad commits suicide.
St. Crow, Lili. Strange Angels. 2009. Penguin/Razorbill, $9.99 ( 978-1-59514-251-1). Knife wielding female demon killer meets a hot goth wolf-boy and a hot blue-eyed vampire. Action ensues.
Salley, Marketa et al. Teenage Bluez III: A Collection of Urban Stories 2009. Life Changing Books, $10.99 (9781934230978) From the N-word to Truth Behind Lies, short stories that tell it like it is.
Scott, Elizabeth. Something, Maybe. 2009. Simon Pulse, $16.99 (978-1-4169-7865-7). Imagine if Hugh Hefner is your dad and one of his sexy "bunnies" is your mom.
Sewell, Earl. Lesson Learned (Kimani Tru series). 2009. Kimani Press, $9.99 (978-0-373-83116-6). Alternating chapters tell the stories of Keysha whose mom has just gotten out of jail and wants to reunite with her and Mike, her 15 year brother, trying on his player game.
Shan, Darren and Takahir Arai. Cirque du Freak: the manga Vol 1. 2009. Yen Press, $10.99 (978-0-7595-3041-6). One visit to a freak show lands a boy in a world of vicious vampires.
Shaw, A.R. Twenty-Thr23: A Novel. 2009. Almont media, $19.95 (978-0-9789733-0-4). Minus Hall learns a lot through his experience of desire to own a pair of the latest 23s.
Simone, Ni-Ni. If I Was Your Girl. 2008. Dafina, $11.95 (978-0-7582-2841-3). From the hottest girl around to 17 year old mom of a baby boy.
Simone, Ni-Ni. A Girl Like Me. 2008. Kensington/Dafina, $9.95 (9780758228437). Elite has opportunities to leave the hard life she is living and live her dream with her talent.
Singleton, Linda Joy. Dead Girl Walking (series). 2008. Llewellyn/Flux, $9.95 (978-0-7387-1405-9). Hit by a truck and waking up in the wrong body, Amber races time to save her own brain-dead body from being unplugged.
Smith, Alexander Gordon. Lockdown: Escape from Furnace. 2009. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $14.99 (978-0-374-32491-9). Furnace Penitentiary is buried a mile beneath the earth's surface and Alex is sent there for a life sentence for a murder he did not, technically, commit.
Smith, Roland. Tentacles. 2009. Scholastic, $16.99 (9780545166888). Marty, Grace, Wolfe, and others are off to find a giant squid while targeted by assassins.
Sniegoski, Thomas. Legacy. 2009. Delacorte, $18.99 (978-0-385-90648-7). Delacorte, $15.99, (978-0-385-73714-2). Lucas never suspected that his father was actually billionaire Clayton Hartwell, and he really never suspected that his father was The Raptor - the costumed superhero protecting Seraph City. After his mother is killed in a trailer park massacre, Lucas goes to live with his father, while also training to take over the crime-fighting mantle. However, Clayton has more secrets that Lucas has yet to uncover.
Stiefvater, Maggie. Shiver. 2009. Scholastic, $17.99 (9780545123266). When Grace (human) meets Sam (werewolf) love follows.
Stolarz, Laurie Faria. Deadly Little Secret. 2008. Hyperion/Disney, $15.99 (978-1-4231-1144-3). 16-year-old Camelia's life is fairly mundane until mysterious Ben starts at her high school, her life becomes anything but ordinary.
Sweeney, Joyce. The Guardian. 2009. Henry Holt, $16.99
(9780805080193). Hunter's prayers seem to be answered with the appearance of motorcycle riding Gabriel.
Tilly, Met. First Time. 2008. Orca Soundings, 9.95 (9781551439440) . Halley's mother is in love with Larry but Larry seems to believe Halley is trying to seduce him.
Volponi, Paul. Response. 2009. Penguin/Viking, $15.99 (978-0-670-06283-6). Sure, he was planning on stealing a car, but does that justify a brutal beating that is racially motivated?
Williams, Carol Lynch. The Chosen One. 2009. St. Martin's/Griffin, $16.95 (978-0-312-55511-5). Can thirteen-year-old Kyra save herself from having to become her sixty-year-old uncle's seventh wife?
Williams-Garcia, Rita . Jumped. 2009. HarperCollins/Amistad, $16.99 (978-0-06-076092-2). Keeping quiet has a price. Trina gets jumped.
Wollman, Jessica. Second Skin. 2009. Delacorte, $ 8.99 (978-0385736015). Sam discovers a magical second skin that makes her the most popular girl in school. But it turns out being popular isn't all that it's cracked up to be...
Nonfiction
Beckwith, Lois . The Dictionary of High School B.S.: From Acne to Varsity, All the Funny, Lame, and Annoying Aspects of High School Life. Orange Avenue Publishing, $10.95 (978-0979017391). Great look at high school that cuts through the crap.
Blackshaw, Ric and Farrelly, Liz. Street Art Book : 60 Artists in their own words. 2009. HarperCollins, 29.95 (978-0-06-153732-5). Graffiti artists talk life, art and inspiration.
Borgenicht, David. The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Middle School. 2009. Chronicle Books, $10.99 (978-0-81-186864-8). Step by step instructions on surviving school.
Bright, J.E. America's Next Top Model: Fierce Guide to Life: The Ultimate Source of Beauty, Fashion, and Model Behavior. 2009. Universe, $24.95 (978-0-7893-1859-6). Model wannabes find advice on how to be fierce. WHY = Builds off of the global success of America's Next Top Model.
Brown, Marvelyn. The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive. 2008. Amistad, $14.95 (978-0-0615-6239-6). How 19 year old Marvelyn contracted HIV and lives to talk about it.
Bull, Martin. Banksy. 2009. PM Press, $20.00 (978-1-60486-060-3). Check out London's streets through the work of guerilla art icon Banksy.
Cliver, Sean. The Disposable Skateboard Bible. 2009. Gingko Press, $39.95 (978-1-5842-3327-5). The ultimate guide of Skateboard decks.
Conley, Erin Elisabeth; Macklin, Karen and Miller, Jake. Crap: How to deal with annoying teachers, bosses, backstabbers, and other stuff that stinks. 2009. Orange Avenue Publishing, $9.99 (978-0-9790173-5-1). Life is crappy but it doesn't have to wreck your day.
Cooper, Martha and Henry Chalfant. Subway Art: 25th Anniversary Edition. 2009. Chronicle Books, $40.00 (978-0-8118-6887-7). It's big and it's beautiful. Subway Art from New York.
Crowley, Michael. 08: a Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail. 2009. Random House/Three Rivers Press, $17.95 (978-0-307-40511-1). Humor, sarcasm, and tragedy all blend together perfectly, leading to the election of Barak Obama.
Davidson, Tony. One-track Mind: a Revealing Insight into the Obsessed Minds of Men. 2009. Random House/Virgin, $12.95 (978-0-753-51690-4). Most teenagers, whether they are male or female, spend an enormous amount of time obsessing over the size, shape, and appeal of two specific features.
Ferris, Julie and Jim Green(Art Editor). Take Me Back: to the beginning 2008 . Dorling Kindersley Limited, $24.99 (978-0-7566-4090-3). History has been given the Do Not Open treatment!
Gasteier, Matthew. F. U. Penguin: Telling Cute Animals What’s What. 2009. Villard, $15.00 (978-0345518163 . For all those who incite ooh's and ahh's, the jig is up! This a book thats puts all those cute animal books in their place.
Garza, Mario. Stuff on my Mutt. 2009. Chronicle Books, $12.95 (978-0-8118-6897-6). Wigs, easter eggs, tiaras - what else could you put on your mutt?
Gavin, Francesca. Hell Bound: New Goth Art. 2008. Laurence King, $24.95 (978-9-8105-7563-3). The art of the darker sides of life.
Girdler, Chris. The Travel Book A Journey Through Every Country in the World. 2008. Lonely Planet Publications, $24.99 (978-1-7410-4005-0). Photos from every country in the world, plus how to say hello in different languages.
Gray, Amy. How to Be a Vampire: A Fangs-on Guide for the Newly Undead. 2009. Candlewick/Weldon Owen Inc., $14.99 (9780763649159). The Dos and Don'ts of becoming the Undead
Hardwicke, Catherine. Twilight Director's Notebook. 2009. Little Brown, $17.99 (978-0-3160-7052-2). The director of Twilight explains all in her on-set journal.
Hart, Carey and Chris Palmer. Inked. 2008. Artisan/Workman Publishing, $35.00 (978-1-5796-5335-4) Everyone's skin has a story.
Heimber, Justin, and David Gomberg. Would You Rather….? Gross Out: Over 300 Disgusting Dilemmas Plus Extra Pages to Make Up Your Own! 2008. Falls Media, $9.95 (978-193473411-7). Would you rather gargle blue cheese dressing every night instead of mouthwash? Or wear liver scented deodorant?
Hodapp, Tim. Itty Bitty Kitty Ditties. 2009. Abrams Image/Harry N. Abrams, $9.95 (978-0-8109-9639-7). Covering cats from A to Z.
Innes-Smith, James. Hew, Screw, and Glue: How Stuff Is Made. 2009 Henrietta Webb/Abrams, $12.95 (9780810982598). What really goes into making things we use everyday.
Jacoby, Annice. Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo. 2009. Harry N. Abrams, Inc, $35.00 (978-0-8109-9635-9). From Altered Billboards to Day of the Dead to Graffiti to Murals - and more.
Janic, Susan. Jonas Brothers Forever: The Unofficial Story of Kevin, Joe and Nick. 2009. ECW Press, $ 14.95 (978-1-5502-2851-9). All you need to know about Kevin, Joe and Nick and then some.
Jenisch, Josh. Art of the Video Game. 2008 .Quirk, $40.00 (978-159-474-2774). The digital artistry of all your favorite video games.
Karg, Barb. Girl's Guide to Vampires: All You Need to Know about the Original Bad Boys. 2009. Adams Media, $8.95 (978-1-60550-819-1). Learn the history and allure of everyone's favorite creature of the night.
Komanoya, Rico. Gothic Lolita. 2009. Collins Design, $24.99 (978-0-0611-4995-5). A showcase of artists from Japan's Gothic Lolita Punk movement.
Lanting, Frans . Eye to Eye: Intimate Encounters with the Animal World. 2009. Taschen, $19.99 (978-3-83650-894-0). Animals eye to eye.
Miller, Kerry. Passive Aggressive Notes : Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings from Shared Spaces the World Over. 2008. Harper Collins, $13.95 (978-0-0616-3059-0) Little situations take on a whole new meaning when posted as a note.
Minguet, Eva. Tattoo Delirium. 2009. Collins Design, $29.99 (978-0-0617-4032-9). The title says it all.
Nardone, Tom. Extreme Pumpkins II: take back Halloween and freak out a few more neighbors. 2008. Penguin Group/Home Book, $13.95 (978-1-55788-533-3). Tired of the traditional jack-o-lantern? Make an alien, a booger filled pumpkin, and more!
O'Meara, Stephen James. Are You Afraid Yet? The Science Behind Scary Stuff. 2009. Kids Can Press, $17.95 (978-1-5545-3294-0 9). Uncover the scientific truth about King Kong, severed heads, vampires, werewolves, and more.
Oser, Bodhi. Fuck the World. 2009. Chronicle Books, $16.95 (978-0-8118-6645-3). Signs all over the world - with one F-word added.
Pahlow, Mark. Who Would Buy This? The Archie McPhee Story. 2008. Accoutrements Publishing Co, $24.95 (978-0-9786-6497-8). The best and worst products from Archie McPhee.
Palladini, Doug. Vans: Off the Wall: Stories of Sole from Vans Originals. 2009. Abrams, $24.95 (978-0-8109-8375-5). All the art and dirt on Vans.
Radtke, Oliver Lutz. More Chinglish: Speaking in Tongues. 2009. Gibbs-Smith, $7.99 (978-1-4236-0584-3). Leaning on the poor prohibited. If we don't protect the forest, we will find only dingy around without another color. Have a cool vegetable of domestic life: binaural infected cucumber. Yum!
Seventeen Magazine. Mega traumarama! Real Girls and Guys Confess More of Their Most Mortifying Moments!. 2009. Hearst, $7.95 (9781588167309). It's funny because it's not you.
Sims, Michael. In the Womb: Animals. 2009. National Geographic Society, $ 26.00 (978-1-4262-0175-2). Incredible photos of dogs, kangaroos, elephants and sharks in the womb. See where no eyes have seen before!
Smith, John. Inked: Clever, Odd and Outrageous Tattoos. 2008. teNeues , $19.95 (978-3-8327-9280-0). Inked is outrageous.
Smith, Larry and Rachel Fershleiser. I Can't Keep my Own Secrets: Six-word memoirs by teens famous and obscure. 2009. Harper Collins/HarperTeen, $8.99, (978-0-06-172684-2). Hit and ran. Crashed and burned. And other great life stories.
Smith, Larry and Rachel Fershleiser. Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak by Writers Famous and Obscure. 2009. Harper Perennial, $10.00 (978-0061714627). "He posted our sex tape online." And more.
Smith, Lauren and Derek Fagerstrom. Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know Instructions for Life From the Everyday to the Exotic. 2008. Collins Design, $24.95 (978-0-0616-6257-1). Hands-on, simplified directions for doing everything from fighting a shark to hemming jeans.
Shields, Brian and Kevin Sullivan. WWE Encyclopedia: the definitive guide to World Wrestling Entertainment. 2009. Brady Games DK, $45.00 (978-0-7566-4190-0). 50 years of World Wrestling Entertainment.
Stenning, Paul. The Robert Pattinson Album. 2009. Plexus Publishing, $16.95 (978-0-8596-5438-8) A biography of one of the hottest vampires ever, Robert Pattinson.
Stutts, Ryan. The Skateboarding Field Manual. 2009. Firefly, $19.95 (978-1-55407-362-7). Skateboarding 101: Evolution of the Sport, Tricks, Skatepark Etiquette and dealing with the law.
Su, Lac. I Love Yous are for White People: a memoir. 2009. Harper Perennial, $14.00 (978-0-06-154366-1). Fleeing Vietnam, landing in the gritty streets of West Hollywood, Lac endures violence at home and on the streets.
Turner, Tracey. Deadly Perils: and how to avoid them. 2009. Walker & Company, $9.99 (978-0-8027-8738-5). Solutions to perils such as being struck by frozen toilet waste and more.
Von D, Kat. High Voltage Tattoo. 2009. HarperCollins, $29.99 (978-0-06-168438-8). Famed L.A. tattoo artist talks ink and rock-n-roll.
Willams, Mel. Robert Pattinson: Fated for Fame. 2009. Simon& Schuster/Simon Pulse, $16.99 (978-0-06174212-5). There's more to actor and Twilight star RPatz than his trademark hair.
Willin, Melvyn. Paranormal Caught on Film. 2008. David and Charles, $16.99 (978-0715329801) Are they real, or aren't they?
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