True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet by Lola Douglas

Recently release from rehab after overdosing on drugs, 16 year old movie star Morgan Carter has been sent to live in Fort Worth Indiana.  Staying with an old high school friend of her mother, Morgan will be attending the local high school for the next year long with attending Narcotic Anonymous meetings.  As Claudia, Morgan is expected to live as a normal teenager, something Morgan has never done.  Morgan has a hard time fitting in, the teachers give her a hard time, and her only friends are twins, Emily and Eli.  During her year in Fort Worth, Morgan is keeping a journal of her experience, which her agent and her mother hope will be published and be Morgan’s way to return to Hollywood. 

This book was recommended to by a student who told me it was the best book she read this summer.  The book is written is a diary format, which made it a quick and enjoyable read.

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Finn is a prisoner of Incarceron, a prison that only one man, Sapphique, has escaped.  Even though other people in Incarceron don't believe there is anywhere else to go, Finn plans to escape.  With no memory of his life, Finn believes that he was born outside of the prison. The outside world becomes more real when he discovers a crystal that leads him to Claudia.  Claudia claims to live on the outside and is the daughter of the warden of Incarceron.  Their story is told by the characters in alternating chapters with an introduction from Sapphique's Journal.  The book is full of surprises and twists.

I found this book a little confusing in the beginning, but couldn't put it down once the story became clearer. It is truly fascinating.
Readers who would like this are those who have read the Maze Runner, Uglies series and Hunger Games.  The second book called Sapphique is due out Dec 28, 2010.

Jump by Elisa Carbone

P.K.'s  parents are just not listening to her. Before they can send her to a boarding school, she is leaving, heading west to climb. After trying to commit suicide, Critter's parent have him committed to a psych ward. Critter escapes from the hospital. They meet behind the climbing gym,Critter and P.K and they have decided to escape.  Hopping the first bus out of town, the two set off on an adventure climbing in Yosemite National Park, with the cops following close behind them.

A realistic fiction that appeals to readers who like adventure and are interested in rock climbing.