Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children / by Ransom Riggs

While sixteen-year-old Jacob's grandfather Abe lies dying from a mysterious attack, he pleads with Jacob to travel to a remote island off the coast of Wales to find the orphanage where Abe grew up and discover its peculiar inhabitants who appear to be trapped in time.


Subjects:
Orphanages-Wales-Fiction
Photographs-Fiction
Islands
Mystery Fiction 

Impossible by Nancy Werlin

Subjects:
Magic Fiction.
Elves Fiction.
Pregnancy Fiction.
Teenage mothers Fiction

NIX PIX- An fairly interesting genre-bending story with typical YA themes.

Publishers Weekly (July 28, 2008)
Werlin (The Rules of Survival) melds fantasy and suspense in a contemporary setting for a romance with plenty of teen appeal. Lucy Scarborough, raped on prom night, is pregnant. Committed to keeping the baby, she nonetheless sees disturbing parallels to her mentally ill mother, Miranda, who had Lucy as a teen, then left her in the care of the Markowitzes--Soledad, a nurse-midwife, and her husband, Leo. Boy-next-door-type Zach, home from college and living with the Markowitzes, happens upon Mirandaís teenage diary, which outlines a curse placed on Lucyís family generations earlier by the evil Elfin Knight: the women all give birth as teens before descending into madness.
Lucy can break the curse only by performing three impossible tasks set forth in a variant of the ballad "Scarborough Fair." None of her forebears have come even close, but then none of them had help from the selfless Markowitzes, the love-struck and self-sacrificing Zach or the Internet, where items like goat horns can be easily located: Lucy is the luckiest accursed girl ever. Werlin disguises the retro elements by creating feminist male leads, and even though the outcome is never in doubt, she builds nail-biting tension. Ages 12-up. (Sept.) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.

Insurgent / Veronica Roth

"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"-- Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

Science Fiction

Girls and Women

Courage

Families

Identity

Social Classes

Adolescence

Hedy's folly : the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world by Richard Rhodes.

I love this book because we don't often hear about super intelligent women and their inventions particularly ones who are also movie stars!
Presents the life of legendary film star Hedy Lamarr, including her involvement in the breakthrough invention spread-spectrum radio alongside composer George Antheil. c2011
Subjects:
Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000.
Actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Spread spectrum communications.

WHAT IS SPREAD-SPECTRUM RADIO? Spread-spectrum techniques are methods by which a signal (e.g. an electrical, electromagnetic, or acoustic signal) generated in a particular bandwidth is deliberately spread in the frequency domain, resulting in a signal with a wider bandwidth. These techniques are used for a variety of reasons, including the establishment of secure communications, increasing resistance to natural interference, noise and jamming, to prevent detection, and to limit power flux density (e.g. in satellite downlinks).
from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.  c2011
Subjects:
Fantasy Fiction.
Racing. -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Horses -- Fiction.
Love -- Fiction.

Virals by Kathy Reichs.

Reichs makes a solid YA debut with this spinoff of her Bones series. -Publishers Weekly
 
The niece of famed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, fourteen-year-old Tory and her three friends are exposed to a rare strain of canine parvovirus that gives them special powers which they use to try to solve a murder. c2011

Subjects: Supernatural -- Fiction.

Wolfdogs -- Fiction.

Virus diseases. -- Fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Single-parent families -- Fiction.

Islands -- Fiction.
Science fiction.
Morris Island (S.C.) -- Fiction.

The Rule of Won by Stefan Petrucha

Caleb Dunne, the quintessential slacker, is pressured by his girlfriend to join a high school club based on The Rule of Won, which promises to fulfill members' every "crave," but when nonbelievers start being ostracized and even hurt, Caleb must act. c2008
Subjects:
Success. -- Fiction.
Supernatural -- Fiction.
Clubs -- Fiction.
Social groups. -- Fiction.
High school -- Fiction.
Books and reading -- Fiction.