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List created for teens by the Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults committee of YALSA.

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		Wisdom's kiss : a thrilling and romantic adventure, incorporating magic, villany, and a cat Princess Wisdom, who yearns for a life of adventure beyond the kingdom of Montagne, Tips, a soldier keeping his true life secret from his family, Fortitude, an orphaned maid who longs for Tips, and Magic the cat form an uneasy alliance as they try to save the kingdom from certain destruction. Told through diaries, memoirs, encyclopedia entries, letters, biographies, and a stage play. Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. TEEN MURDOCK

		A confusion of princes Battling aliens, space pirates, and competitors, Prince Khemri meets a young woman, named Raine, and learns more than he expected about the hidden workings of a vast, intergalactic Empire, and about himself. Nix, Garth. TEEN NIX

		Z for Zachariah Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape. O'Brien, Robert C. TEEN OBRIEN

		The angel experiment After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose. Patterson, James, 1947- TEEN PATTERS

		The Transall saga While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive. Paulsen, Gary. TEEN PAULSEN

		Hatchet After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Paulsen, Gary. TEEN PAULSEN

		127 hours : between a rock and a hard place Hiking into the remote Utah canyon lands, Aron Ralston felt perfectly at home in the beauty of the natural world. Then, at 2:41 P.M., eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, an eight-hundred-pound boulder tumbled loose, pinning Aron's right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. Through six days of hell, with scant water, food, or warm clothing, and the terrible knowledge that no one knew where he was, Aron eliminated his escape option one by one. Then a moment of stark clarity helped him to solve the riddle of the boulder--and commit one of the most extreme and desperate acts imaginable. Ralston, Aron. 796.5223 RALSTON

		The lightning thief After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. Riordan, Rick. TEEN RIORDAN

		Au revoir, crazy European chick Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan. Schreiber, Joe, 1969- TEEN SCHREIB

		Peak A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest. Smith, Roland, 1951- TEEN SMITH