There are a few new series coming out in 2010. Louise Rennison kicks off a new series with possibly the best title ever - Withering Tights (July).

I can barely contain my excitement at the new series Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare starting with The Clockwork Angel (September). And talented young Melbourne author Alexandra Adornetto also commences a new series with Halo (August).

(http://www.readings.com.au/product/9780734411273/heist-society) I am a big fan of Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series. She has a new stand-alone book out this month called Heist Society, and it's a fantastic comic action story with oodles of cat burglary.

In a dream literary pairing, authors John Green and David Levithan go chapter-for-chapter in Will Grayson, Will Grayson (May), about two very different boys with the same name, and what happens when their worlds collide.

Lauded Australian authors Simmone Howell and Randa Abdel-Fattah both have new as-yet-untitled novels out in October and November repectively.

One of the most-anticipated debut YA novels will be psychological thriller Beautiful Malice by Australian Rebecca James (May), which ignited bidding wars around the globe, and led to comparisons with JK Rowling!

There's an abundance of sequels and series titles from our favourite authors coming out in 2010. Recent releases include:

• Henderson Boy's: Secret Army by Robert Muchamore - third book
• Lord Sunday by Garth Nix - the seventh and final instalment in the Keys to the Kingdom series
• Contact by Chris Morphew - second book in the Phoenix Files series
• Hourglass by Claudia Gray - third book in the Evernight series

And for the rest of the year:

March

• Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days by Derek Landy

May

• Monsters Of Men by Patrick Ness - third book in the Chaos Walking trilogy
• Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr - fourth book in the Wicked Lovely series
• Spells by Aprilynne Pike - sequel to Wings

August

• The Hunger Games Book 3 by Suzanne Collins
• Linger by Maggie Stiefvater - sequel to Shiver

October

• Torment by Lauren Kate - sequel to Fallen

Strangely, there seems to be a lot of military history and memoir being published this year for teens. Somme Mud (April) is a young readers’ edition of the memoir of 18-year-old soldier Private Edward Lynch on the WWI's Western Front.With archival photographs, glossary, and editor Will Davies' explanatory chapter introductions, this is going to be a fascinating book. Equally compelling will be Zero Hour: the Anzacs on the Western Front (March) by Leon Davidson. Davidson is the author of the best-selling and multi-award-winning Scarecrow Army: the Anzacs at Gallipoli and Red Haze: Australians & New Zealanders in Vietnam, so this promises to be a meticulously researched and interesting read.

Dangerous Days: The True Story of a Digger’s Great Escape (April) tells the life story of 89 year-old Geelong resident Ern Brough: from his daring escape from an Austrian POW camp during WWII to his life after the War.

And on a completely different topic, Your Skirt's Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice (April), a young adult's edition of Emily Maguire's Princesses and Pornstars. Maguire draws on her own adolescence, and the experiences of teens today, to discuss feminism,sexuality, gender, and other issues relevant to teenagers.