Teens Titles and Tate
Author Nikki Tate recommends books for younger readers.

March 29 -  On the Run
\No Safe Place by Deborah Ellis (Groundwood)
Pluto's Ghost by Sheree Fitch (Doubleday)

March 22  - Historical Fiction
Hunger Journeys by Maggie de Vries (Harper Trophy)*
Written in Blood by John Wilson (Orca Book Publishers)

March 15 - Awakening the Powers Within
The Painted Boy - Charles de Lint (Viking)
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (Book One) by
Michael Scott (Random House)

March 8 - Thrillers For Teens: Kidnapping Stories
Ransom by Lois Duncan (Laurel Leaf)
Taken by Norah McClintock (Orca)
The Limit by Kristen Landon (Aladdin)

March 1 -  Lost at Sea: Stories of Ghosts and Watery Graves
Ghosts of the Titanic by Julie Lawson (Scholastic)
Liars and Fools by Robin Stevenson (Orca)

February 22 - Memoirs with Unusual Formats
Smile by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic)
I Don't Want to be Crazy by Samantha Schutz (PUSH/Scholastic)

February 15 - Dreams, Altered States, and Horses
Seeing Red by Anne Louise MacDonald (Kids Can Press)
Made That Way by Susan Ketchen (Oolichan Books)

February 8 - Black History
Crossing to Freedom by Virginia Frances Schwartz (Scholastic)
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic).

February 1 - Vampires and Werewolves
The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks (Harcourt)
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic)

January 25
Free as a Bird by Gina McMurchy-Barber (Dundurn)
The Ballad of Knuckles McGraw by Lois Peterson (Orca Book Publishers)

January 18 - Survival Stories
My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Downriver - Will Hobbs
The Middle of Everywhere - Monique Polak
Outback (Orca Soundings) - Robin Stevenson