After a suspicious suicide, members of a high school cheerleading squad and their new coach are drawn into the investigation. As they try to unravel the mystery of a missing classmate, the ultimate bully takes aim at the school. Period 8 has always been a safe haven for Paulie "The Bomb" Baum, but as friends and a teacher try to solve the mystery, the bully threatens the whole school.

1. After a suspicious
suicide, the
members of a high
school cheerleading
squad, along with
their new, perfectly
cool coach, Colette
French, are drawn
into the
investigation.

2. Contains "Flowers in the Attic" in which four children are locked into the attic
of their grandmother's home after the death of their father, and "Petals
on the Wind" in which Cathy discovers that she has the power to revenge
those childhood years locked in an attic with her brothers and sister.
A classic read!

3. Tells the story--in
the form of a suicide
note from a
teenaged boy to his
unborn sister--of
how a ninth-grader
comes to accept his
less than ideal life
after witnessing the
struggles of a friend
with serious
depression.

4. Sixteen-year-old
Alex awakens to find
that six months have
gone by and he
seems to be living in
another boy's body,
and as Alex tries to
figure out what
happened, he
wonders if he will
ever be able to
return to the life he
once knew.

5. Seventeen-year-old Evie
O'Neill is thrilled when she
is exiled from small-town
Ohio to New York City in
1926, even when a rash of
occult-based murders
thrusts Evie and her uncle,
curator of The Museum of
American Folklore,
Superstition, and the
Occult, into the thick of the
investigation.

6. Fifteen-year-old Brooklyn
Pierce is tired of making
bad decisions, so she
starts a blog where she
puts her readers in charge
of her life and leaves the
choices to them, but she
soon learns there are some
things in life that simply
cannot be chosen by other
people--like who she
should fall in love with--and
soon things are more
screwed up than ever.

7. Scarlet, an introverted high
school junior surrounded by
outcasts who find her a
good listener, learns to
break old patterns and
reach for hope when her
pregnant sister moves
home with her new
husband, with whom
Scarlet feels an instant
connection.

8. After Mickey witnesses his
father's death and his mother's
admission into rehab, he is sent
to live with his estranged uncle
and change high schools, but
when Mickey's new girlfriend,
Ashley, suddenly disappears
Mickey refuses to let another
person walk out of his life and
follows clues that reveal truths
about both Ashley and Mickey's
father.

9. Lani and Jason, who
is her best friend's
boyfriend, fall in
love, causing Lani
tremendous anguish
and guilt.

10. What were once just
boys' games
become matters of
life and death as
Petros and his older
brother Zola each
wonder if, like their
resistance-fighter
cousin, they too can
make a difference in
a Nazi-occupied
Greece.

11. Period 8 has always been a
safe haven and high school
senior Paulie "The Bomb"
Baum a constant attendee,
but as Paulie, Hannah,
their friends, and a
sympathetic teacher try to
unravel the mystery of a
missing classmate, the
ultimate bully takes aim at
the school.

12. In the early 1990s, when
gay teenager Cameron
Post rebels against her
conservative Montana
ranch town and her family
decides she needs to
change her ways, she is
sent to a gay conversion
therapy center.

13. Seventeen-year-old
Tony Antioch finds
an escape from his
troubled home life in
his Mixed Martial
Arts classes.

14. In the spring of 1929,
eighteen-year-old Cordelia
Grey and her stage-struck
friend Letty Larkspur run
away from their small Ohio
town to seek their fortunes
in New York City and soon
find themselves drawn into
situations and
relationships, particularly
with the dazzling Astrid
Donal, that change their
lives forever.

15. In Massachusetts,
eighteen-year-old Lyn, who
has grown up in the public
eye as the daughter of
seven gladiators, wants
nothing less than to follow
her mother's path, but her
only way of avoiding
marriage to the warrior who
killed her last stepfather
may be to face him in the
arena.

16. Just before his sixteenth
birthday, Felton Reinstein has
a sudden growth spurt that
turns him from a small, jumpy,
picked-on boy with the
nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a
powerful athlete, leading to
new friends, his first love, and
the courage to confront his
family's past and current
problems.

17. When her parents
check sixteen-year-old
Janie into Golden
Slopes to help her
recover from her
bulimia, she discovers
that she must talk
about things she has
admitted to no one--
not even herself.

18. Just before the most
important violin
competition of her
career, seventeen-year-
old prodigy Carmen
faces critical decisions
about her anti-anxiety
drug addiction, her
controlling mother, and a
potential romance with
her most talented rival.

19. After falling through
the ice of a frozen
lake and being
resuscitated by her
best friend Decker,
seventeen-year-old
Delaney begins
experiencing a
strange affinity for
the dead and
wonders whether
she is predicting
death or causing it.

20. After her mother dies,
sixteen-year-old Kara
and her father move to
Japan, where he
teaches and she attends
school, but she is
haunted by a series of
frightening nightmares
and deaths that might be
revenge--or something
worse.

21. Dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden,
traveling to Mithral Hall for
the crowning of the king,
finds himself standing alone
against the enemy when he
is separated from his
companions during a
skirmish with what he
erroneously believed to be a
small band of orcs.

22. Nathan
Moore, lacrosse star
in the making, has
earned his place at
a top school for teen
athletes, but finds
problems of his own
at Podium Sports
Academy.

23. Selene, having
grown up in a palace
with her
parents, Cleopatra
and Mark Antony, is
forced by war to
build a new life in
the household of
Roman emperor
Octavianus, where
she finds herself
torn between two
young men and two
possible destinies.

24. Seventeen-year-old
Seven McKnight's
dreams fall apart when
her relationship with
Stiles University's hottest
basketball player Josiah
Whitaker ends, but Zaire
St. James, who has
been waiting for his
chance, quickly steps in
to claim Seven's heart
and she is nearly won
over when Josiah
decides he wants her
back.

25. During a summer
internship at a living
history museum in
Maine, fashion-
conscious Libby
runs afoul of her
roommate, investiga
tes a haunted
ship, and seeks a
romantic hero like
those in the
historical novels she
loves.

26. When a virus deadly
to adults infects their
high school,
brothers David and
Will and the other
students soon break
into gangs that fight
each other for
survival and the
hope of escaping
their quarantine.

27. After the 1st wave, only
darkness remains. After the
2nd, only the lucky escape.
And after the 3rd, only the un
lucky survive. After the 4th
wave, only one rule applies:
trust no one. Now, it's the
dawn of the 5th wave, and on
a lonely stretch of highway,
Cassie runs from Them.

28. Now get out there
and READ!