2010-11 White Pine Official Selections

Borderline by Allen Stratton

Despite the strained relationship between them, teenaged Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot.

Fear the Worst by Lynwood Barclay

After failing to come home after work one night, Tim begins looking for his seventeen year old daughter only to discover that no one at her work has ever met her. Tims normal life is thrown upside-down when he realizes he didn't know his daughter as well as he thought, and the suburban Connecticut town where he lives has a much darker side.

Fishtailing by Wendy Phillips

In a novel in verse, four troubled students--half-Japanese Tricia, Miguel, a Latin American refugee, Natalie, a new student with a painful past, and Kyle, a talented working-class boy--try to cope in spite of the responses of their poetry teacher.

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent

As if being in high school and dealing with teachers, crushes and best friends isn't hard enough, Sue "Sioux" is mistaken as Marie, an elderly woman's youngest daughter. She tries to explain, but Mabel insists that she is the girl's mother. Sioux feels compelled to play along and to check in on Mabel and ends up developing a close bond with the woman. The relationship begins to impact her life at home and at school, but if she tried to explain, would anyone understand?

Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey

As her momentous sixteenth birthday approaches, Solange Drake, the only born female vampire in 900 years, is protected by her large family of brothers and her human best friend Lucy from increasingly persistent attempts on her life by the powerful vampire queen and her followers.

The Monkeyface Chronicles by Richard Scarsbrook

Philip Skyler learned early in life that his face was going to get him into trouble and that there was nothing he could do about it. Born with an extreme facial deformity, Philip was an easy target for stares, sneers, and bullying. Though medical scientists named his condition Van der Woude syndrome, his classmates - especially the bullies - just called him "Monkeyface".

The Second Trial by Rosemarie Boll

When his father's sentencing for domestic abuse isn't enough to protect them, Danny and his family are put into protective custody.

Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers

Regina, a high school senior in the popular--and feared--crowd, suddenly falls out of favor and becomes the object of the same sort of vicious bullying that she used to inflict on others, until she finds solace with one of her former victims.

Swim the fly by Don Calame

Swim team members and best friends Matt, Sean, and Coop, set themselves the summertime goal of seeing a live girl naked, and while the chances of that happening seem very dim, Matt's personal goal to swim the one-hundred-yard butterfly to impress the new girl on the team seems even less likely to happen.

The Worst Thing She Ever Did by Alice Kuipers

Sixteen-year-old Sophie struggles to find normalcy after an incident she chooses not to remember took her sister's life, and by keeping a journal, making a new friend, and seeing a therapist she finally begins to recover.