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Abbott, Tony. The Postcard.
While in St. Petersburg, Florida, to help clean out his recently-deceased
grandmother's house, thirteen-year-old Jason finds an old postcard
which leads him on an adventure that blends figures from an old,
unfinished detective story with his family's past.
FIC ABE
Abelove, Joan. Go and Come Back : a novel.
Alicia, a young tribeswoman living in a Amazonian village in the
Andes, tells about the two American women anthropologists who
arrive to study the way of life of her people.
FIC ACA
Acampora, Paul. Defining Dulcie.
When sixteen-year-old Dulcie's father dies, her mother makes a
decision to move them to California, where Dulcie makes an equally
radical decision to steal her dad's old truck and head back home.
FIC ALD
Aldrich, Bess Streeter. A Lantern in Her Hand.
After marrying Will Deal and moving to Nebraska, Abbie endures the
difficulties of frontier life and raises her children to pursue the
ambitions that were once her own.
FIC ALE
Alegría, Malín. Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico.
When Southern California high school senior Sofi Mendoza lies to her
parents and crosses the border for a weekend party, she has no idea
that she will get stuck in a Mexican village with family she has never
met before, unable to return to the United States and the easy life she
knew.
FIC ALM
Almagor, Gila. Under the Domim tree.
Chronicles the joys and troubles experienced by a group of teenagers,
mostly Holocaust survivors, living at an Israeli youth settlement in
1953.
576.84 ALV
Alvarez, Walter. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom.
Tells the story of the scientific work that went into solving the riddle of
what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, discussing how the theory
that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid has been validated by
the discovery of the giant Chicxulub Crater.
FIC AN
An, Na. The Fold.
Joyce Park, a high school junior who is always compared to her
beautiful and talented older sister, Helen, wants to attract the attention
of John Ford Kang, and wrestles with whether to get plastic surgery as
a gift from her aunt.
FIC AND
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak.
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A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect
on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
FIC AND
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Twisted.
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and
his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new
reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to
go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving
in to his destructive thoughts.
FIC AND
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls.
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from
anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
616.86 ANO
Jay's Journal.
The story of Jay, a sixteen-year-old boy, describing his descent into
drugs, Satanism, and suicide.
FIC ANT
Antieau, Kim. Broken Moon.
When her little brother is kidnapped and taken from Pakistan to race
camels in the desert, eighteen-year-old Nadira overcomes her own past
abuse and, dressed as a boy and armed with knowledge of the
powerful storytelling of the legendary Scheherazade, is determined to
find and rescue him.
FIC AZU
Azuela, Mariano. The Underdogs : a novel of the Mexican Revolution.
Original title: Los de Abajo. Demetrio, a naive, peace-loving Indian, is
forced to side with the rebels to save his family during the Mexican
Revolution.
FIC BAE
Baer, Edith. A Frost in the Night : a novel.
Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl growing up in a city in
southern Germany during the period of Hitler's rise to power.
FIC BAR
Barkley, Brad. Dream factory.
After the character actors at Disney World go on strike, teenagers Ella,
Luke, and Cassie replace them, giving them an opportunity to learn
about the amusement park and themselves.
FIC BAR
Barrett, Tracy. Anna of Byzantium.
In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for
her birthright, the throne to the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will
be taken from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy.
FIC BAU
Bauer, Joan. Backwater.
While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys,
sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain
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wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and
who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.
FIC BAU
Bauer, Joan. Hope was Here.
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move
from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook
in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner
owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
FIC BAU
Bauer, Joan. Peeled.
In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter
Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house
rumored to be haunted.
FIC BAU
Bauer, Joan. Rules of the Road.
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of
successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is
trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents
as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
FIC BAU
Bauer, Joan. Thwonk.
A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a
teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.
FIC BLA
Black, Kat. A Templar's Apprentice.
A fourteenth-century Scottish boy joins a Templar knight on a quest to
locate an ancient relic, while he tries to understand and control his own
gift of prophetic visions.
FIC BLO
Bloor, Edward. Crusader.
After a violent virtual-reality game arrives at the mall arcade where she
works, fifteen-year-old Roberta finds the courage to search out the
person who murdered her mother.
FIC BLO
Bloor, Edward. Tangerine.
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero
brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near
blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged
his eyesight.
FIC BOD
Bodeen, S. A. The Compound.
After spending six years with his parents and his two sisters in an
underground compound built by his father to protect them from a
nuclear holocaust, Eli discovers that his father has perpetrated a
monstrous hoax on them all.
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Bolt, Robert. A Man for all Seasons : a Play in Two Acts.
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A play based on the historical relationship between Henry VIII and
Thomas More whom he appointed Bishop of Canterbury.
FIC BOW
Bowler, Tim. Blade: Playing Dead.
A fourteen-year-old British street person with extraordinary powers of
observation and self-control must face murderous thugs connected
with a past he has tried to forget, when his skills with a knife earned
him the nickname, Blade.
FIC BOW
Bowler, Tim. Frozen Fire.
Fifteen-year-old Dusty gets a mysterious call from a boy who says he is
going to kill himself, and while he claims to have called her randomly,
he seems to know her intimately.
FIC BOW
Bowler, Tim. Midget.
Subject to strange fits, physically abnormal, and psychologically
disturbed from the constant torment and abuse of his older brother,
fifteen-year-old Midget finds himself in control of his life for the first
time when he gets his own sailboat and discovers untapped mental
powers.
FIC BRA
Bradford, Chris. Young Samurai: The Way of the Sword.
In 1611 Japan, English orphan Jack Fletcher continues his difficult
training during his first year at samurai school while Dragon Eye, the
ninja who killed his father, seeks him out to obtain a navigational
logbook, and Jack's only hope of survival rests on his success in an
ancient ritual.
FIC BRA
Bradford, Richard. Red Sky at Morning.
Coming-of-age story of a teenage boy sitting out World War II with his
mother in a small town in New Mexico while his father volunteers his
services to the navy.
FIC BRA
Brashares, Ann. Forever in Blue: the fourth summer of the Sisterhood.
As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen,
and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the
importance of their relationship with each other.
FIC BRA
Bray, Libba. A Great and Terrible Beauty.
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old
Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a
finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and
ability to see into the spirit world.
FIC BRA
Bray, Libba. Rebel Angels.
Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms
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to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.
FIC BRA
Bray, Libba. The Sweet Far Thing.
At Spence Academy, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle continues
preparing for her London debut while struggling to determine how
best to use magic to resolve a power struggle in the enchanted world of
the realms, and to protect her own world and loved ones.
FIC BRE
Breen, M. E. Darkwood.
A clever and fearless orphan endures increasing danger while trying to
escape from greedy, lawless men and elude the terrifying
"kinderstalks"--animals who steal children--before discovering her true
destiny.
FIC BRE
Brennan, Herbie. The Shadow Project.
A young English thief stumbles on, and subsequently is recruited for, a
super-secret operation that trains teenagers in remote viewing and
astral projection techniques in order to engage in spying.
FIC BRO
Brooks, Bruce. All That Remains.
All that remains -- Playing the creeps -- Teeing up. Contains three
stories about young people who are doing their best to handle the loss
of a loved one.
FIC BRO
Brooks, Bruce. The Moves Make the Man: a Novel.
A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina
form a precarious friendship.
FIC BRO
Brooks, Bruce. Vanishing.
Eleven-year-old Alice is unwilling to return to live with her alcoholic
mother and her stern stepfather, so she refuses to eat to the point of
slowly starving herself, in order to remain in the hospital.
FIC BRO
Brooks, Bruce. What Hearts.
After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect
and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his
new world.
FIC BRU
Bruchac, Joseph. March toward the thunder.
Louis Nollette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian, joins the Irish
Brigade in 1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil War.
FIC BRY
Bryant, Jennifer. Kaleidoscope Eyes.
In 1968, with the Vietnam War raging, thirteen-year-old Lyza inherits a
project from her deceased grandfather, who had been using his
knowledge of maps and the geography of Lyza's New Jersey
hometown to locate the lost treasure of Captain Kidd.
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Buck, Pearl S.. East Wind, West Wind.
A traditional Chinese woman is slowly introduced to the ways of the
West after she marries the man to whom she has been betrothed since
her before her birth, but who has been living and studying abroad.
FIC BUR
Burgess, Melvin. Sara's Face.
Seventeen-year-old Sara wants so much to be famous that when a
legendary, plastic-surgery-addicted rock star offers to take her under
his wing and pay for her to have surgery too, she jumps at the chance
despite her misgivings.
FIC BUR
Burgess, Melvin. Smack.
After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers
move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to
find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.
FIC BUR
Burnham, Niki. Royally Jacked.
Valerie, caught in the middle of her parents' divorce, opts to stay with
her father who has just accepted a job as protocol chief for some
European royals, but she is beginning to think she has made the wrong
choice until she meets the prince.
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It Happened to Nancy.
Presents a true story written by an anonymous fourteen-year-old
teenager who reveals how she fell for a handsome college student who
raped her and infected her with the HIV virus.
FIC CAB
Cabot, Meg. Airhead.
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with
a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and
finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen
supermodels.
FIC CAB
Cabot, Meg. Being Nikki.
Studious, socially conscious Emerson Watts learns startling news about
the family of Nikki Howard, the teen supermodel into whose body
Emerson's brain was transplanted by the nefarious Stark corporation.
FIC CAB
Cabot, Meg. The Boy Next Door.
Gossip columnist Melissa Fuller, having found her elderly neighbor in
a coma after suffering an attack, contacts the woman's nephew Max,
who despite a reputation as a womanizer turns out to be kind, funny,
and very lovable, but the growing bond between the two young people
is broken when Melissa discovers he is not who he claims to be.
FIC CAB
Cabot, Meg. Darkest Hour.
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Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who
communicates with the dead, and she tries to solve the murder of Jesse,
a nineteenth-century ghost she is in love with.
FIC CAB
Cabot, Meg. Every Boy's Got One.
Cartoonist Jane Harris is not looking forward to a week in Italy with
Cal Langdon; but when Holly and Mark's wedding plans hit a snag, it
is Jane and Cal who have to try and fix things up.
FIC CAB
Cabot, Meg. Haunted.
Susannah Simon finds herself in a difficult and dangerous situation
when she agrees to go out with Paul Slater in order to keep him from
doing harm to her true love Jesse.
FIC CAB
Cabot, Meg. Jinx.
Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch,
must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell
she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her
cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy
they both like.
FIC CAB
Cabot, Meg. Ninth Key.
Sixteen-year-old Suze is pleased to have a date with a popular boy but
her ability to converse with ghosts is causing her problems.
FIC CAB
Cabot, Meg. Shadowland.
Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon, a liaison between the living and the
dead, hopes to be able to live as a normal teenager after moving from
New York to California with her mom and new stepfather, but on the
first day of school she encounters the very hostile ghost of a girl who
committed suicide over winter break and is out for revenge against her
former boyfriend.
FIC CAB
Cabot, Meg. Teen Idol.
High school junior and columnist for the school newspaper, Jenny
Greenley is good at dispensing advice to others, but when nineteenyear-old film heartthrob Luke Striker pays a visit to research a role, he
creates such havoc that not even Jenny is sure she can fix it.
FIC CAB
Cabot, Meg. Twilight.
Sixteen-year-old Carmel, California teenager Suze Simon is a typical
high school student except for the fact that she is a "shifter" who can
mediate between the living and the dead, and she is in love with a
ghost from the nineteenth century.
FIC CAM
Cameron, Ann. Colibrí.
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Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who
has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan
girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the
parents she can hardly remember.
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Canada, Geoffrey. Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: a Personal History of Violence in
America.
A personal account of inner-city violence and its effect on children.
FIC CAN
Cann, Kate. California Holiday or, How the World's Worst Summer Job
Gave Me a Great New Life.
Rowen travels to America where she lands a summer job as a nanny
with a family she absolutely hates; so she heads out for San Francisco
and meets the handsome Landon on the way.
FIC CAN
Cann, Kate. Grecian Holiday or, How I Turned Down the Best Possible
Thing Only to Have the Time of My Life.
Kelly's summer vacation at a Greek farmhouse is disrupted by the
arrival of her boyfriend, with whom she has recently had a terrible
fight.
FIC CAN
Cann, Kate. Spanish Holiday or, How I Transformed the Worst Vacation
Ever into the Best Summer of My Life.
After months of planning a summer vacation in Spain with her friends
Yaz and Ruth, Laura finds the "perfect getaway" marred by the
presence of Ruth's obnoxious boyfriend who insists on sticking to the
well-beaten tourist track.
FIC CAR
Carter, Alden R. Bull Catcher.
Pete and Jeff continue their friendship and love of baseball as they
progress from ninth grade through high school in their small
Wisconsin town.
FIC CAR
Carter, Alden R. Up Country.
When his mother's drinking problem causes him to spend several
months with country relatives in upstate Wisconsin, sixteen-year-old
Carl begins to build a new life for himself, only to see it threatened by a
serious mistake from his painful past.
FIC CHE
Cheripko, Jan. Imitate the Tiger.
A high school football player has to face his collapsing world brought
on by his drinking problem.
FIC CHO
Chotjewitz, David. Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi.
In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as antiSemitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish,
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threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg,
Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's
reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters.
FIC CLA
Clarke, Judith. One Whole and Perfect Day.
As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's
eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole
perfect day together.
FIC COC
Cochran, Thomas. Roughnecks.
Travis Cody prepares for the final game of his high school football
career, a rematch with his school's chief rival.
FIC COL
Coles, William E. Another Kind of Monday.
When Mark discovers money and a note concealed in the pages of a
copy of Dickens' "Great Expectations," he undertakes a quest with his
classmate Zeena that leads to more money, more clues to follow, and
ultimately more knowledge of himself.
FIC COM
Coman, Carolyn. Many Stones.
After her sister Laura is murdered in South Africa, Berry and her
estranged father travel there to participate in the dedication of a
memorial in her name.
FIC COM
Coman, Carolyn. What Jamie Saw.
Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's
boyfriend tried to throw his baby sister against a wall, nine-year-old
Jamie finds himself living an existence full of uncertainty and fear.
FIC CON
Connelly, Neil O. St. Michael's Scales.
Keegan Flannery, feeling responsible for his twin brother's death and
his mother's mental illness, believes he must atone by committing
suicide before his sixteenth birthday, but he gains new insights when
he joins his school's wrestling team.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Both Sides of Time.
The summer after senior year, Annie, wishing she could have lived a
hundred years ago in a more romantic time, finds herself in the 1890s
and it is indeed romantic--and very painful.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Burning Up: a Novel.
When a girl she had met at an inner-city church is murdered, fifteenyear-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to
uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their
wealthy Connecticut community.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Code orange.
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While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds
an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he
has infected himself and all of New York City.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Diamonds in the Shadow.
The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family
of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and
who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Driver's Ed.
Three teenagers' lives are changed forever when they thoughtlessly
steal a stop sign from a dangerous intersection and a young mother is
killed in an automobile accident there.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Emergency Room.
Volunteers Diana and Seth are eager to help in the hospital emergency
room, but they are completely unprepared for what lies ahead as they
struggle to find their roles in a place unlike any they've ever
experienced.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Family Reunion.
At a family reunion, Shelley comes to terms with her parents' divorce,
her mother's absence, her new stepmother, and being the "stable"
member of her colorful family.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Fatality.
A weekend four years ago that ended in someone's death comes back
to haunt Rose. The police have her diary of that summer and are
questioning her again, and someone else wants to keep her from telling
what really happened--forever.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. The Fire.
In eighteen days, the Shevvingtons will be leaving town forever and
only then will Christina feel safe. Are they trying to make Christina
think she's going crazy or has the Evil taken control of her mind?.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Fog. New York: Scholastic, c1989.
Christina, a boarder along with Anya at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Shevvington, a principal and his wife, becomes alarmed when she
realizes that the seemingly respectable couple are behind the slow
erosion of Anya's sanity.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. For All Time.
The fourth installment in the time travel series finds Annie, a teenager
in 1999, attempting to get back to 1899 Egypt where she hopes to join
her boyfriend, Strat, but she instead ends up in ancient Egypt and in
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FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. A Friend at Midnight.
After rescuing her younger brother abandoned at a busy airport by
their divorced father, fifteen-year-old Lily finds her faith in God sorely
tested as she struggles to rescue herself from the bitterness and anger
she feels.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Hit the Road.
Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her grandmother and
three other eighty-plus-year-old women on a long drive that involves
lies, theft, and kidnappings.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Hush Little Baby.
Kit takes care of a baby of mysterious origin and later must try to save
herself and the baby from desperate people who are after it.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. If the Witness Lied.
Torn apart by tragedies and the publicity they brought, siblings
Smithy, Jack, and Madison, aged fourteen to sixteen, tap into their
parent's courage to pull together and protect their brother Tris, nearly
three, from further media exploitation and a much more sinister threat.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Mummy.
Emlyn and her classmates plan to steal an ancient Egyptian mummy
from a museum.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Out of Time.
Strat, the wealthy boy with whom Annie fell in love during her first
time trip to the 1890s, needs her help when he reveals her real origin
and finds himself confined in a mental asylum.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Prisoner of Time.
Attempting to break free from the oppression of women in the
nineteenth century, sixteen-year-old Devonny steps through time
hoping to find the power to change her fate.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. The Ransom of Mercy Carter.
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, elevenyear-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk
Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold
to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope
to be ransomed.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. The Snow.
The cruel family with which Christina and some other children live
have already destroyed Anya. Now they have selected their next
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victim. Christina wants to save the others, but first she must save
herself from The Evil.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. The Stranger.
Nicoletta is drawn to Jethro from the first moment she set eyes on him.
She is fascinated by his dark, mysterious face and becomes totally
obsessed. Then she learns of his terrifying secret, a secret that no one
must ever know.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. The Terrorist.
Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the
person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has
been killed by a terrorist bomb.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. They Never Came Back.
When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tiny
Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not
expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly
come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Tune in Anytime..
When Sophie's father suddenly decides to divorce Sophie's mother and
marry her sister Marley's college roommate, Sophie feels like she is
trapped in an endless soap opera.
FIC COR
Cormier, Robert. Beyond the Chocolate War : a Novel.
Dark deeds continue at Trinity High School, climaxing in a public
demonstration of one student's homemade guillotine.
FIC COR
Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War : a Novel.
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of
refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing
the wrath of the school bullies.
FIC COR
Cormier, Robert. Heroes: a Novel.
After joining the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a
grenade in a battle in France, Francis returns home to Frenchtown
hoping to find--and kill--the former childhood hero he feels betrayed
him.
FIC COR
Cormier, Robert. In the Middle of the Night.
Sixteen-year-old Denny lives in the shadow of a deadly accident with
which his father was connected when he was Denny's age, a disaster
for which some of the survivors still blame his father.
FIC COR
Cormier, Robert. We all Fall Down.
As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in
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his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in
order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the
daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.
FIC COR
Corrigan, Eireann. Ordinary Ghosts.
Fifteen-year-old prep-school student Emil Simon's life is uneventful
until he finds a key that unlocks every building on campus and begins
to discover truths about his mother's death, missing brother, and
emotionally unavailable father.
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Covey, Sean. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: the Ultimate Teenage
Success Guide.
Describes seven habits teenagers can cultivate to help them improve
their self-images, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve goals,
get along with parents, and make other positive changes in their lives.
FIC COY
Coy, John. Box Out.
High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the
varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his
coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing teamwide
participation.
FIC COY
Coy, John. Crackback.
Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a
new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best
friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.
FIC CRU
Crutcher, Chris. Angry Management: Three Novellas.
A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by
Chris Crutcher.
FIC CRU
Crutcher, Chris. Chinese Handcuffs.
Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old
Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend
Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her stepfather is doing to
her.
FIC CRU
Crutcher, Chris. The Crazy Horse Electric Game.
A high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an
accident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and
physical health by a black benefactor and the people in a special school
where he enrolls.
FIC CRU
Crutcher, Chris. Deadline.
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben
Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose
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and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide
known as "Hey-Soos.".
FIC CRU
Crutcher, Chris. Ironman: a Novel.
While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger
management group at school which leads him to examine his
relationship with his father.
FIC CRU
Crutcher, Chris. Running Loose.
Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about
sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures.
FIC CRU
Crutcher, Chris. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes.
The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of
God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary
issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer
a friend's dramatic cry for help.
FIC CUR
Curry, Jane Louise. A Stolen Life.
In 1758 in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage
and resolution severely tested when she is abducted by "spiriters" and,
after a harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond slave to a
Virginia planter.
FIC DAS
Dashner, James. The Maze Runner.
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a
maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds
himself if he is to escape.
FIC DAV
Davies, Jacqueline. Lost.
In 1911 New York, sixteen-year-old Essie Rosenfeld must stop taking
care of her irrepressible six-year-old sister when she goes to work at the
Triangle Waist Company, where she befriends a missing heiress who is
in hiding from her family and who seems to understand the feelings of
heartache and grief that Essie is trying desperately to escape.
FIC DAV
Davis, Tanita S. Mare's War.
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and
courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother,
who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in
Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army
Corps.
FIC DEA
Deaver, Julie Reece. Say Goodnight, Gracie.
When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has
shared everything from childhood escapades to entering the
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professional theater in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan must find
her own way to cope with his death.
FIC DES
Dessen, Sarah. Along for the Ride : a novel.
Auden gets a chance to recapture the carefree teen life she missed
while her parents were going through a divorce when she goes to
spend the summer with her dad and his new family in a charming
beach town and meets fellow insomniac Eli, an intriguing loner
fighting demons of his own.
FIC DES
Dessen, Sarah. Dreamland.
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that
she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an
abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and
dangerous.
FIC DES
Dessen, Sarah. Just Listen: a novel.
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been
truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate
Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share
what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her
life.
FIC DES
Dessen, Sarah. Keeping the Moon.
Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as
a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and
eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
FIC DES
Dessen, Sarah. Lock and Key: a novel.
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior
Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten
years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to
allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has
something to offer others.
FIC DES
Dessen, Sarah. Someone Like You.
Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend
Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and
Halley's own first serious relationship.
FIC DES
Dessen, Sarah. That Summer.
During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's
wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of
the myths of the past.
FIC DES
Dessen, Sarah. This Lullaby: a novel.
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Remy, a master at getting rid of boyfriends before any emotional
attachments form, finds herself strangely unwilling to free herself from
Dexter, a messy, disorganized, impulsive musician who she suspects
she has come to love.
FIC DES
Dessen, Sarah. The Truth About Forever.
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the
library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but
instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new
friends and finally faces her grief.
FIC DEU
Deuker, Carl. Runner.
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget
Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when
his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that
the money is not worth the risk.
FIC DIA
Diamand, Emily. Raiders' Ransom.
In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast
flooding, piratical raiders kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and
thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat
on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past
computer age tucked in her belt as ransom.
FIC DIC
Dickinson, Peter. A Bone from a Dry Sea.
In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric
tribe becomes instrumental in advancing the lot of her people, and the
daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when
important fossil remains are discovered.
FIC DOL
Dolamore, Jaclyn. Magic Under Glass.
A wealthy sorcerer's invitation to sing with his automaton leads
seventeen-year-old Nimira, whose family's disgrace brought her from a
palace to poverty, into political intrigue, enchantments, and a
friendship with a fairy prince who needs her help.
FIC DOR
Dorfman, Ariel. Burning City.
Sixteen-year-old Heller Highland, who is living with his grandparents
while his parents are away, burns rubber across Manhattan delivering
bad news by bicycle, and as a summer heat wave melts the city, he is
struck by first love.
FIC DOY
Doyle, Brian. Pure Spring.
It's spring in post-World War II Ottawa and Matin has found a true
home. He's also working even though he had to lie about his age to get
the job. Martin is also in love, but his boss is robbing the family of the
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one he loves.
FIC DOY
Doyle, Roddy. Paddy Clarke: ha ha ha.
Patrick Clarke is ten and wants to get out of the Corporation housing
and become a missionary like Father Damien. Before he can, he needs
to decipher some of the things he sees and to understand more about
people and what motivates them.
FIC DRA
Draper, Sharon M. The Battle of Jericho.
A high school junior and his cousin suffer the ramifications of joining
what seems to be a "reputable" school club.
FIC DRA
Draper, Sharon M. Copper Sun.
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured
servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to
Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
FIC DRA
Draper, Sharon M. Fire From the Rock.
Sylvia Patterson's life suddenly changes with the integration of Little
Rock's Central High in 1957 when she is selected to be one of the first
black students to attend the previously all white school.
FIC DRA
Draper, Sharon M. Forged by Fire.
Gerald, a teenager who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister
from their abusive father, must face the prospect of one final
confrontation before the problem can be solved.
FIC DRA
Draper, Sharon M. November Blues.
Shortly after her boyfriend Josh is killed in a pledging accident,
November Nelson learns she is pregnant and fears she has no one to
turn to, until she finds solace in the arms of Josh's cousin Jericho.
FIC DRA
Draper, Sharon M. Romiette and Julio.
Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover
that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the
Internet, but are harassed by a gang whose members object to their
interracial dating.
SC TWI
Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Art.
Presents nine drawings by a single illustrator, each of which has been
translated into a story by two different authors writing about what
they imagine is going on in the picture.
FIC DUD
Duder, Tessa. In Lane Three, Alex Archer..
Fifteen-year-old Alex struggles to overcome personal trauma and
hardship as she competes with her arch rival for a place on the New
Zealand swimming team participating in the 1960 Olympic Games in
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Rome.
FIC DUN
Duncan, Lois. Daughters of Eve.
A high school teacher uses the guise of feminist philosophy to
manipulate the lives of a group of girls, with chilling results.
FIC DUN
Duncan, Lois. Down a Dark Hall.
Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding
school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other
three students at the school were selected.
FIC DUN
Duncan, Lois. Gallows Hill.
When seventeen-year-old Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a
school carnival, she finds that sometimes she can really see the future
in the crystal ball, a talent that disturbs some of the other students and
makes them suspect her of being a witch.
FIC DUN
Duncan, Lois. I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Four teen-agers who have desperately tried to conceal their
responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery
figure seeking revenge.
FIC DUN
Duncan, Lois. Killing Mr. Griffin.
A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English
teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?
FIC DUN
Duncan, Lois. Locked in Time.
Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new
family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.
FIC DUN
Duncan, Lois. Ransom.
Five high school students from a wealthy neighborhood are kidnapped
while on their way home in the school bus and try to find a way to
escape their captors while their parents scrape to meet the ransom
demands.
FIC DUN
Duncan, Lois. Stranger with My Face.
A seventeen-year-old senses she is being spied on and probably
impersonated, but when she discovers what actually is occurring, it is
more unbelievable than she ever imagined.
FIC DUN
Duncan, Lois. Summer of fear.
Soon after the arrival of cousin Julia, insidious occurrences begin that
convince Rachel she is a witch and must be stopped before her total
monstrous plan can be effected.
FIC DUN
Duncan, Lois. They Never Came Home.
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When two teenage boys vanish on a camping trip, a stranger claims
that one owes him $2,000. The boys' sister volunteers to repay the
money while continually looking for clues that he is alive.
FIC DUN
Duncan, Lois. The Third Eye.
High school senior Karen, who worries that her psychic powers will
make her seem different from other people, is frightened when a young
policeman asks her to use her gift to help locate missing children.
FIC DUN
Duncan, Lois. The Twisted Window.
Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a
strange boy, who asks her assistance in "snatching" his half-sister from
her father who has allegedly kidnapped her.
FIC DUN
Dunlap, Susanne Emily. The Musician's Daughter.
In eighteenth-century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a
way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the
murder of her father, a renowned violinist in Haydn's orchestra at the
court of Prince Esterhazy, after his body is found near a gypsy camp.
FIC EAS
Easton, Kelly. Hiroshima Dreams.
Lin O'Neil, a talented but shy girl growing up in Providence, Rhode
Island, develops a close relationship with her Japanese grandmother,
who shares Lin's gift of precognition.
616.85 ALM
Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the
Streets.
The story of a young man's recovery from depression after leaving
home, becoming a member of a gang, and finally being overwhelmed
with his seemingly no-way-out situation.
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Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant teenager.
A day-by-day account of the life of an unnamed, pregnant, teenaged
girl.
FIC FIN
Finding Katie: the Diary of Anonymous, a Teenager in Foster Care.
Katie begins to find her own strength and courage after she ends up in
foster care, away from her angry, abusive father.
616.85 ANO
Treacherous Love: the Diary of an Anonymous Teenager.
Presents the edited diary of a fourteen-year-old girl who has an affair
with her substitute math teacher.
SC EVE
Every Man for Himself: Ten Short Stories About Being a Guy.
The prom prize / by Walter Dean Myers -- Jump away / by René
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Strange powers / by Craig Thompson -- The unbeatable / by Mo
Willems -- Princes / by David Levithan -- Fear / by Terry Trueman -- It's
complicated / by Ron Koertge. An anthology of ten original short
stories about such things as family problems, sexuality, and courage,
written by well-known authors of children's books.
FIC EDW
Edwardson, Debby Dahl. Blessing's Bead.
In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in
their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an
influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves
her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village
where they were born.
FIC ELI
Eliot, George. Silas Marner: the Weaver of Raveloe.
Silas Marner / George Eliot -- excerpt from Who's Who in the Country /
Daniel Pool -- Mary Hamilton -- Acquainted with the Night / Robert
Frost -- How the Lilies Grow -- Midas / Olivia Coolidge -- The Hoard /
J.R.R. Tolkien. In rural nineteenth-century England, a weaver, lonely
and embittered at the unjust treatment he has received from people he
considered to be his friends, finds his only solace in money until he
inadvertently becomes the guardian of an orphaned little girl.
FIC ELL
Ellis, Ann Dee. Everything is Fine.
When her father leaves for a job out of town, Mazzy is left at home to
try to cope with her mother, who has been severely depressed since the
death of Mazzy's baby sister.
FIC ENZ
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. The Number Devil: a Mathematical
Adventure.
Annoyed with his math teacher who assigns word problems and won't
let him use a calculator, twelve-year-old Robert finds help from the
number devil in his dreams.
FIC FEI
Feinstein, John. Cover-Pp.
Fledgling fourteen-year-old sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie
investigate suspicious activities at the Super Bowl after Stevie gets fired
from his co-anchor job on a ground-breaking teen sports show.
FIC FEI
Feinstein, John. Last shot: A Final Four Mystery.
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and
Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they
discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the
final game.
FIC FIN
Finney, Ernest J. California Time.
Three families, the Palestinis, the Brazils, and the Hamadas, struggle to
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survive while working on neighboring farms in California's Great
Central Valley in the years leading up to World War II.
FIC FLE
Fletcher, Susan. Alphabet of Dreams.
Exiled from their home country because of their father's plot against
King Phraates, fourteen-year-old Mitra and five-year-old Babak, who
are of royal descent, live as beggars until it is discovered that the boy
can tell the future through his dreams, and the magus Melchoir and
two other Zoroastrian priests take the children with them to Bethlehem
to witness the coming of a new king.
FIC FLI
Flinn, Alex. Breaking Point.
Fifteen-year-old Paul enters an exclusive private school and falls under
the spell of a charismatic boy who may be using him.
FIC FLI
Flinn, Alex. Fade to Black. 1st ed. New York: HarperTempest, c2005.
An HIV-positive high school student hospitalized after being attacked,
the bigot accused of the crime, and the only witness, a classmate with
Down Syndrome, reveal how the assault has changed their lives as
they tell of its aftermath.
FIC FLI
Flinn, Alexandra. Breathing Underwater.
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to
keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with
Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes
living with his abusive father.
FIC FOR
Forman, Gayle. If I Stay: a Novel.
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her
parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist,
weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
FIC FRE
Freeman, Suzanne. The Cuckoo's Child.
Eleven-year-old Mia refuses to believe that her parents are not coming
back after they're reported lost at sea.
FIC FRI
Friend, Natasha. For Keeps.
Just as sixteen-year-old Josie and her mother finally begin trusting men
enough to start dating seriously, the father Josie never knew comes
back to town and shakes up what was already becoming a difficult
mother-daughter relationship.
FIC FUQ
Fuqua, Jonathon Scott. King of the Pygmies.
After hearing what he believes are other peoples' thoughts, high school
sophomore Penn learns that he may have schizophrenia and makes
some important decisions about how to live his life.
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Galloway, Priscilla. The Courtesan's Daughter: a Novel.
From humble beginnings, Phano rises to become one of ancient Athens'
most powerful citizens through her marriage to Theo, but they both
have powerful enemies who don't share their political views.
FIC GAR
Garfinkle, D. L. Stuck in the 70's.
A spoiled, rich, seventeen-year-old girl is mysteriously transported
from 2006 Los Angeles back to 1978, where she meets Tyler, a supersmart high school senior who promises help her return her to 2006 if
she will give him some lessons on how to be popular.
FIC GAR
Garland, Sherry. Shadow of the Dragon.
High school sophomore Danny Vo tries to resolve the conflict between
the values of his Vietnamese refugee family and his new American way
of life.
FIC GEO
George, Madeleine. Looks.
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese
loner, form an unlikely friendship.
FIC GIB
Gibbons, Kaye. Ellen Foster.
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young
child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a
loving woman with several foster children.
FIC GOI
Going, K. L. Fat Kid Rules the World.
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300
pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who
is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
FIC GOI
Going, K. L. Fat Kid Rules the World. New York: Speak, 2004, c2003.
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly
three hundred pounds, gets a new perspective on life when Curt, a
semi-homeless teen who is a genius on guitar, asks Troy to be the
drummer in a rock band.
FIC GOI
Going, K. L. Saint Iggy.
Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and
spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school,
goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get
involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his
parents.
FIC GOR
Gordon, Sheila. Waiting for the Rain: a Novel of South Africa.
Chronicles nine years in the lives of two South African youths--one
black, one white--as their friendship ends in a violent confrontation
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between student and soldier.
FIC GRA
Gratz, Alan. The Brooklyn Nine: a Novel in Nine Innings.
Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine
generations, beginning in 1845, as they experience American life and
play baseball.
FIC GRE
Greenberg, Joanne. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive,
teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her
relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of selfunderstanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.
FIC GRE
Greene, Bette. Morning is a Long Time Coming.
En route to Germany in search of the maternal love she never had,
eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen lingers in Paris and experiences her
first love affair. A sequel to "Summer of My German Soldier.".
FIC GRE
Greene, Bette-. Summer of My German Soldier.
Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some
shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
FIC HAD
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey.
In the journal she is keeping for English class, sixteen-year-old Tish
chronicles the changes in her life when her abusive father abandons her
and her brother, and her mother follows him.
FIC HAD
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Leaving Fishers.
After joining her new friends in the religious group called Fishers of
Men, Dorry finds herself immersed in a cult from which she must
struggle to extricate herself.
FIC HAD
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Palace of Mirrors.
Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of
Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up
her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters
who challenge her claim.
FIC HAD
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Takeoffs and Landings.
An overweight, timid fifteen-year-old boy and his popular fourteenyear-old sister begin to overcome their guilt over their father's death
and reconnect with each other and their emotionally-distant mother
when they accompany her on a two-week speaking tour.
FIC HAU
Hautman, Pete. All-In.
Having won thousands of dollars playing high-stakes poker in Las
Vegas, seventeen-year-old Denn Doyle hits a losing streak after falling
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in love with a young casino card dealer named Cattie Hart.
FIC HAU
Hautman, Pete. Hole in the Sky.
In a future world ravaged by a mutant virus, sixteen-year-old Ceej and
three other teenagers seek to save the Grand Canyon from being
flooded, while trying to avoid capture by a band of renegade
Survivors.
FIC HAU
Hautman, Pete. Invisible.
Even though they are complete opposites, seventeen-year-old outcast
Doug Hanson and football star Andy Morrow are best friends who
share a secret that bonds them together.
FIC HAU
Hautman, Pete. Mr. Was.
After his dying grandfather tries to strangle him, Jack Lund discovers a
door that leads him fifty years into the past and involves him in events
that determine his own future.
FIC HAU
Hautman, Pete. Rash.
In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free,"
sixteen-year-old Bo's anger management problems land him in a
tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an
artificial intelligence program named Bork.
FIC HAY
Hayes, Daniel. No Effect.
An eighth grader joins the wrestling team and has his first crush on a
teacher.
FIC HEP
Hepler, Heather. The Cupcake Queen.
While longing to return to life in New York City, thirteen-year-old
Penny helps her mother and grandmother run a cupcake bakery in
Hog's Hollow, tries to avoid the beastly popular girls, to be a good
friend to quirky Tally, and to catch the eye of enigmatic Marcus.
FIC HEW
Hewett, Lorri. Dancer.
Sixteen-year old Stephanie struggles to perfect her ballet dancing as her
classes are complicated by the introduction of a new male dancer.
FIC HEW
Hewett, Lorri. Lives of Our Own.
After her wealthy parents divorce, Shawna returns with her father to
the small Georgia town where he grew up, and there she experiences
new attitudes toward race relations, learns something shocking about
her father's past, and discovers a surprising link with one of the
"popular" white girls at school.
FIC HEW
Hewett, Lorri. Soulfire.
A rift develops in the closeness shared by Todd and Ezekiel, two
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African-American cousins, when Ezekiel tries to single-handedly end
the problem of gang violence in his Denver neighborhood.
FIC HIG
Higgins, Jack. Death Run.
A mafia banker with access to a large number of criminal accounts is
willing to give evidence in exchange for help retiring from the mob, but
when spy John Chase assists him, he puts his fifteen-year-old twins,
Rich and Jade, in the line of fire.
FIC HIG
Higgins, Jack. Sharp Shot.
British twins Rich and Jade Chance are back for a third adventure with
their spy father as they try to save the Middle East and the President of
the United States from a terrorist government coup.
FIC HIG
Higgins, Jack. Sure Fire.
Resentful of having to go and live with their estranged father after the
death of their mother, fifteen-year-old twins Rich and Jade soon find
they have more complicated problems when their father is kidnapped
and their attempts to rescue him involve them in a dangerous
international plot to control the world's oil.
302.34 HIN
Hinojosa, Maria. Crews.
Presents a sampling of interviews with gang members. Portrays a
sometimes shocking and sometimes heartening picture of the young
men and women who live on the edge of poverty and violence.
FIC HOR
Hornby, Nick. Slam.
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life
of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes
drastically.
FIC HOR
Horowitz, Anthony. Evil Star.
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru
where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him
to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the
Nazca Lines.
FIC HOR
Horowitz, Anthony. Nightrise.
After telepathic twins Jamie and Scott are attacked by the evil Nightrise
Corporation, one of them is imprisoned while the other escapes, left to
fight with the other three gatekeepers against the evil Old Ones in
order to save his sibling and prevent the destruction of humanity.
FIC HOR
Horowitz, Anthony. Raven's gate.
Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a
troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving
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witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
FIC HOW
Howland, Ethan. The lobster war.
Although he fears being in the water, sixteen-year-old Dain is
determined to be a professional lobsterman, despite pressure from his
older brother and widowed mother that he attend college instead, and
despite the fact that someone is sabotaging his lobster traps.
FIC IRW
Irwin, Hadley. Kim/Kimi.
Despite a warm relationship with her mother, stepfather, and half
brother, sixteen-year-old Kim feels the need to find answers about the
Japanese American father she never knew.
940.53 BIT
Jackson, Livia Bitton. I Have Lived a Thousand Years : Growing Up in the
Holocaust.
A memoir of Elli Friedmann in which she tells about her experiences at
Auschwitz concentration camp where she was taken at the age of
thirteen in 1944 when the Nazis invaded her native Hungary.
FIC JAC
Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House.
Four seekers look for haunting evidence at the abandoned old mansion
called Hill House. Their stay begins as a spooky encounter, but the
house is gathering its powers and will choose one of them to make its
own.
FIC JAM
James, Sabrina. Be Mine.
When she brags that she is entering the competition for the most
romantic couple of the Valentine's Day Dance, Jennifer has only one
problem--she needs a boyfriend.
FIC JOH
Johnson, Angela. The First Part Last.
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father
and must care for his adored baby daughter.
FIC JOH
Johnson, Harriet McBryde. Accidents of Nature.
Having always prided herself on blending in with "normal" people
despite her cerebral palsy, seventeen-year-old Jean begins to question
her role in the world while attending a summer camp for children with
disabilities.
FIC JOH
Johnston, Tim. Never So Green.
In Iowa in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Tex overcomes his selfconsciousness about his deformed right hand to take baseball lessons
from his stepfather and his tomboy stepsister, who harbors a dark
secret.
FIC JOR
Jordan, Sherryl. The Raging Quiet.
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Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their village, the
residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers that the village
madman is not crazy but deaf and she begins to communicate with him
through hand gestures.
FIC KAN
Kantor, Melissa. Girlfriend Material.
Kate's hopes for a summer romance are dashed when her mother
announces plans to stay with wealthy friends in Cape Cod as a ploy to
make Kate's father jealous, but when Kate is introduced to Adam
things begin to look brighter.
FIC KAN
Kantor, Melissa. Invisible I.
Three very different girls from the same high school are selected to be
guides for a new student, but when the girl disappears, leaving behind
a trail of clues, the girls must work together to solve the mystery of
Amanda Valentino.
FIC KAT
Kata, Elizabeth. A Patch of Blue.
A black man, for whom life had been pain, struggle, and sometimes
terror, falls in love with a blind white girl.
FIC KEL
Kellogg, Marjorie. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon.
Three extraordinary people decide to live together after being
discharged from the hospital.
FIC KEL
Kelly, Jacqueline. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to
be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her
six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the
latter of which leads to an important discovery.
FIC KER
Kerr, M. E. Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack.
Many things change in a teenage boy's life when he meets the
overweight girl who answers his ad for the cat he must give away.
FIC Ker
Kerr, M. E. Him She Loves?
When seventeen-year-old Henry Schiller fell in love with Valerie
Kissenwiser, he never suspected that their romance would become
national television's funniest comedy routine.
FIC KER
Kerr, M. E. Slap Your Sides: a novel.
Life in their Pennsylvania hometown changes for Jubal Shoemaker and
his family when his older brother witnesses to his Quaker beliefs by
becoming a conscientious objector during World War II.
FIC KLA
Klass, David. California Blue.
When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of
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butterfly which may necessitate closing the mill where his dying father
works, they find themselves on opposite sides of an environmental
conflict.
FIC KLA
Klass, David. Danger Zone.
When he joins a predominantly African American "Teen Dream Team"
that will be representing the United States in an international
basketball tournament in Rome, Jimmy Doyle makes some unexpected
discoveries about prejudice, racism, and politics.
FIC KLA
Klass, David. Dark Angel.
When his older brother is released from prison, seventeen-year-old
Jeff's family secret is revealed, causing upheaval in his home, school
and love life.
FIC KLA
Klass, David. Home of the Braves.
Eighteen-year-old Joe, captain of the soccer team, is dismayed when a
hotshot player shows up from Brazil and threatens to take over both
the team and the girl whom Joe hopes to date.
FIC KLA
Klass, David. You Don't Know Me : a novel.
Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he
tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a
beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school.
FIC KLA
Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate.
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must
battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide
where she belongs and with whom.
FIC KLA
Klause, Annette Curtis. The Silver Kiss.
A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoë come to
terms with her mother's terminal illness.
FIC Kno
Knowles, John. Peace Breaks Out.
An ex-infantryman and P.O.W. comes to Devon School, a boys prep
school, to teach and rest from the war in 1945.
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Koertge, Ronald. The Brimstone Journals.
In a series of short interconnected poems, students at a high school
nicknamed Brimstone reveal the violence existing and growing in their
lives.
FIC KOR
Korman, Gordon. The Juvie three.
Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way
to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile
detention.
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Krisher, Trudy. Spite Fences.
As she struggles with her troubled relationship with her mother during
the summer of 1960, a young girl is also drawn into the violence,
hatred, and racial tension in her small Georgia town.
FIC LAN
Lanagan, Margo. White Time.
White time -- Dedication -- Tell and kiss -- The queen's notice -- Big
rage -- The night lily -- The boy who didn't yearn -- Midsummer
mission -- Welcome blue -- Wealth. Presents ten short stories, both dark
and hopeful, that journey into the past, the future, and altered versions
of the present.
FIC BLU
Langan, Paul. Blood is Thicker.
Hakeem Randall, already upset by his father's illness, and his family's
move to Detroit, finds his anger reaching a boiling point when he is
forced to share a bedroom with his moody and secretive cousin Savon,
a childhood friend who soon becomes an enemy.
FIC BLU
Langan, Paul. Brothers in Arms.
When his eight-year-old brother is killed in a drive-by shooting,
Hispanic teenager Martin Luna is torn between his thirst for revenge
and the pleas of his mother, teacher, and girlfriend for him to resist
becoming a gangbanger.
FIC BLU
Langan, Paul. The Bully.
Ninth-grader Darrell Mercer and his mother move to the Bluford area
in the middle of the school year where, Darrell quickly becomes a
target for Tyray Hobbs, the freshman class bully.
FIC BLU
Langan, Paul. Payback.
Bluford freshman Tyray Hobbs, the class bully and tormentor of
Darrell Mercer, is determined to get revenge on Darrell, the only boy
who ever stood up to Tyray.
FIC BLU
Langan, Paul. Summer of Secrets.
Lonely without her grandmother and ex-boyfriend, sad about the
troubles in her parents' marriage, and struggling with anxiety after
nearly being raped, Darcy Willis learns that one of her friends is hiding
a difficult secret.
FIC LAR
Larbalestier, Justine. How to Ditch Your Fairy.
In a world in which everyone has a personal fairy who tends to one
aspect of daily life, fourteen-year-old Charlie decides she does not
want hers--a parking fairy--and embarks on a series of misadventures
designed to rid herself of the invisible sprite and replace it with a better
one, like her friend Rochelle's shopping fairy.
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Lee, Marie. Necessary Roughness.
Sixeen-year-old Korean American Chan moves from Los Angeles to a
small town in Minnesota, where he must cope not only with racism on
the football team, but also with the tensions in his relationship with his
strict father.
FIC LEV
Levitin, Sonia. Escape from Egypt: a novel.
When Moses comes to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jesse, a
Hebrew slave, finds his life changed by his growing faith in God and
his attraction to the half-Egyptian, half-Syrian Jennat.
FIC LOC
Lockhart, E. The Boy Book : a Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus
Techniques for Taming them.
A high school junior continues her quest for relevant data on the male
species, while enjoying her freedom as a newly licensed driver and
examining her friendship with a clean-living vegetarian classmate.
FIC LOC
Lockhart, E. The Boyfriend List : (15 guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4
Ceramic Frogs and me, Ruby Oliver).
Ruby Oliver, a moderately popular fifteen-year-old who has suddenly
become a social pariah, begins seeing a psychiatrist and makes a list of
all her past boyfriends in an attempt to understand where her life went
wrong.
FIC LOC
Lockhart, E. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks : a novel.
Frankie Landau-Banks attempts to take over a secret, all-male society at
her exclusive prep school, and her antics with the group soon draw
some unlikely attention and have unexpected consequences that could
change her life forever.
FIC LOC
Lockhart, E. Dramarama.
Spending their summer at Wildewood Academy, an elite boarding
school for the performing arts, tests the bond between teens Sadye and
her best friend Demi.
FIC LOC
Lockhart, E. Fly on the Wall : How One Girl Saw Everything.
When Gretchen Yee, a student at the Manhattan School for Art and
Music, wishes she were a fly on the wall of the boys' locker room, she
never expects her wish to come true in such a dramatic way.
FIC LOC
Lockhart, E. The Treasure Map of Boys : Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch,
Gideon--and me, Ruby Oliver : a Ruby Oliver novel.
A Seattle sixteen-year-old juggles therapy, running a school bake sale,
coping with her performance artist mother, growing distant from an
old friend, and conflicting feelings about her ex-boyfriend and
potential new boyfriends.
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London, Jack. White Fang.
The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf
and how he comes to make his peace with man.
FIC LOV
Love, D. Anne. Picture Perfect.
When her mother leaves her family suddenly to take a new job,
fourteen-year-old Phoebe tries to deal with her own confused feelings
and, in the process, learns some things about love and the complicated
ties that bind families together.
FIC LYN
Lynch, Chris. Extreme Elvin.
As he enters high school, fourteen-year-old Elvin continues to deal
with his weight problem as he tries to find his place among his peers.
FIC LYN
Lynch, Chris. Freewill.
A teenager trying to recover from the tragic death of his father and
stepmother believes himself to be responsible for the rash of teen
suicides occurring in his town.
FIC LYN
Lynch, Chris. Iceman.
Fourteen-year-old Eric, a ruthless hockey player prone to violence on
the ice, tries to reconcile his own needs with those of his parents.
FIC LYN
Lynch, Chris. Slot Machine.
When overweight thirteen-year-old Elvin Bishop is sent to camp at St.
Paul's Seminary Retreat Center, he and his two best friends are forced
to try out various sports in order to find out where they belong.
FIC MAC
Mackler, Carolyn. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things.
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family,
who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia
tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her
disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
FIC MAC
Mackler, Carolyn. Love and Other Four-letter Words.
When she and her mother move to an apartment in New York City
after her parents decide on a trial separation, sixteen-year-old Sammie
learns to deal with her mother's fragile mental state, her best friend's
self-centeredness, several new friendships, and her own budding
sexuality.
FIC MAG
Magoon, Kekla. The Rock and the River.
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict
between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for
African-Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black
Panther Party.
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Marsden, John. A Killing Frost.
Ellie and her friends, a small band of teenagers trying to survive in the
Australian countryside, continue to resist the enemies who have
invaded their country.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John Letters From the Inside.
The relationship between two teenage girls who become acquainted
through letters intensifies as their correspondence reveals some of the
terrible problems of their lives.
FIC MAR
Marsden, John. Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to
discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to
stay alive.
FIC MAR
Martinez, Victor. Parrot in the Oven : Mi Vida : a novel.
Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor
Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to
everyone's struggle.
FIC MAS
Mason, Bobbie Ann. In Country : a novel.
Sam Hughes lives in Hopewell, Kentucky with her Uncle Emmett who
is a Vietnam veteran. Sam's father was killed in Vietnam and she wants
to understand about the war, but Emmett and other vets refuse to tell
her much.
FIC MAS
Mason, Daniel. A Far Country.
Fourteen-year-old Isabel leaves her small rural town to join her brother
in the city; but when she gets there and discovers Isaias is missing, she
sets out on a quest to find him.
FIC MAY
Mayfield, Sue. Drowning Anna.
Brainy, shy Anna Goldsmith, having moved from London to
Yorkshire, is thrilled to be befriended by Hayley Parkin, the most
popular girl in her new school, but over the course of several years it
becomes evident that Hayley's motives are not at all kind.
FIC MAY
Maynard, Joyce. The Usual Rules.
Thirteen-year-old Wendy, grieving the death of her mother in the
collapse of the World Trade Center, is taken to live with her father in
California where she learns important life lessons from a variety of
people before returning home to her stepfather and brother, where she
feels she truly belongs.
FIC MAZ
Mazer, Norma Fox. Girlhearts.
Thirteen-year-old Sarabeth Silver's life is turned upside-down when
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her mother dies suddenly, leaving her orphaned, confused, and at the
mercy of everyone who seems to know what is best for her.
FIC MAZ
Mazer, Norma Fox. The Missing Girl.
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal
with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious
middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he
likes the best.
FIC Maz
Mazer, Norma Fox. Silver.
Despite their different backgrounds, Sarabeth, a teenager living with
her mother in a trailer and transferring to a new school, makes friends
with Grant and her affluent friends, including troubled Patty who
shares a painful secret about her uncle.
FIC MAZ
Mazer, Norma Fox. When She Was Good.
The death of her abusive, manipulative older sister prompts seventeenyear-old Em to remember their unpleasant life together, with their
parents and then later on their own.
FIC MCC
McCormick, Patricia, 1956-. Purple Heart. 1st ed. New York: Balzer + Bray,
c2009.
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury
sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy
struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his tenyear-old friend, Ali.
FIC MCD
McDaniel, Lurlene. Briana's Gift.
When a pregnant seventeen-year-old girl is hospitalized and in a coma,
her younger sister faces several difficult choices while dealing with
loss, love, and life at Christmas time.
FIC MCD
McDaniel, Lurlene. Hit and Run.
Events surrounding the hit and run accident of a popular high school
student are told from the viewpoints of those involved, including the
victim.
FIC MCD
McDonald, Joyce. Shadow People.
When his family moves to a secluded area in western New Jersey after
his brother is murdered, Gabriel finds himself involved with three
other teenagers, each with his or her own problems, in a series of
increasingly violent acts.
FIC MCG
McGowan, Anthony. Jack Tumor.
Fourteen-year-old Hector, suffering from severe headaches, is
diagnosed with a brain tumor which speaks in his head, calling itself
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Jack Tumor and making an effort to improve Hector's home life,
increase his popularity, and win him a girlfriend before the operation
that will mean the end of one or both of them.
FIC MCN
McNamee, Graham. Hate You.
Nursing hatred for the father who choked her and damaged her voice
as a child, seventeen-year-old Alice writes songs she feels she cannot
sing and seeks to reconcile her feelings for herself and her father.
FIC MEC
Mechling, Lauren. Foreign Exposure : the Social Climber Abroad.
Mimi's plans to spend the summer after tenth grade in Berlin with her
mother change suddenly when she runs off to London, moves in with
her school friend Lily and the wealthy and well-connected family she is
staying with, and takes an internship at a gossip magazine.
FIC MIT
Mitchard, Jacquelyn. Now You See Her.
Fifteen-year-old Hope describes events leading her to agree to her
boyfriend's plan to stage her abduction, and the consequences for their
relationship, her family life, and her budding career as an actress.
FIC MYE
Myers, Anna. Time of the Witches.
Orphaned Drucilla finds a home with the beautiful but troubled
Mistress Putnam as accusations of witchcraft start to swirl in Salem
Village.
FIC MYE
Myers, Anna. When the Bough Breaks.
Fifteen-year-old Ophelia, orphaned and emotionally isolated, develops
an unlikely friendship with elderly recluse, Portia McKay, which may
lead to redemption for both.
FIC MYE
Myers, Walter Dean. Harlem Summer.
In 1920's Harlem, sixteen-year-old saxophonist Mark Purvis struggles
to advenace his jazz career while working as a gopher for the new
African-American magazine, "The Crisis," and becoming involved with
mobster Dutch Schultz.
FIC MYE
Myers, Walter Dean. Autobiography of My Dead Brother.
Jesse uses his sketchbook and comic strips to make sense of life in his
home in Harlem and the loss of a close friendship.
FIC MYE
Myers, Walter Dean. Game.
Drew Lawson, counting on basketball to get him into college and out of
Harlem, struggles to keep his cool when the coach brings in two white
players and puts them in positions that clearly threaten Drew's game.
FIC MYE
Myers, Walter Dean. Shooter.
Teachers, therapists, law enforcement officials, and others try to pierce
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together the facts in the aftermath of a tragedy in which Len, a high
school senior fed up with being bullied, shoots and kills a football hero
and then commits suicide.
FIC MYE
Myers, Walter Dean. What they Found: Love on 145th street.
The fashion show, grand opening, and bar-b-que memorial service -What would Jesus do? -- Mama -- The life you need to have -- Burn -Some men are just funny that way -- Jump at the sun -- Law and order - The man thing -- Society for the Preservation of Sorry-Butt Negroes -Madonna -- The real deal -- Marisol and Skeeter -- Poets and plumbers
-- Combat zone. Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of
love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family
business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to
remain celibate until they marry.
FIC MYR
Myracle, Lauren. The Fashion Disaster that Changed my Life.
Seventh-grader Alli describes in her journal the ups and downs of
being in junior high, where she fits in, and what it means to be a real
friend.
FIC MYR
Myracle, Lauren. L8r, g8r.
Throughout their senior year in high school, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela
continue to share "instant messages" with one another about their dayto-day experiences as they consider college, sex, the importance of
prom, and the inevitable end of their inseparable trio.
FIC MYR
Myracle, Lauren. Peace, Love, & Baby Ducks.
Fifteen-year-old Carly's summer volunteer experience makes her feel
more real than her life of privilege in Atlanta ever did, but her younger
sister starts high school pretending to be what she is not, and both find
their relationships suffering.
FIC MYR
Myracle, Lauren. Ttfn..
Now high school juniors, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela continue to share
"instant messages" with one another as one of them experiments with
marijuana, another gets her first boyfriend, and the third moves three
thousand miles away.
FIC MYR
Myracle, Lauren. Ttyl.
Chronicles, in "instant message" format, the day-to-day experiences,
feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they
begin tenth grade.
FIC NA
Na, An. A Step from Heaven.
A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English
and adjust to life in America.
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Na, An. Wait for Me.
As her senior year in high school approaches, Mina yearns to find her
own path in life but working at the family business, taking care of her
little sister, and dealing with her mother's impossible expectations are
as stifling as the southern California heat, until she falls in love with a
man who offers a way out.
FIC NAM
Namioka, Lensey. Ties that Bind, Ties that Break : a novel.
Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper
class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.
FIC NAP
Napoli, Donna Jo. Alligator Bayou.
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin
live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and
anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be
polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at
every turn.
FIC NAY
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Jade Green : a Ghost Story.
While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young
woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small
transgression causes mysterious happenings.
FIC NAY
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Sang Spell.
When his mother is killed in an automobile accident, high-schooler
Josh decides to hitchhike across country, and finds himself trapped in a
mysterious village somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, among a
group of people who call themselves Melungeons.
FIC NEM
Nemeth, Sally. The Heights, the Depths, and Everything in Between.
In 1977, best friends Lucy Small, a seventh grader from Wilmington,
Delaware, who is five feet ten inches tall, and Jake Little, a dwarf, try
unsuccessfully to go unnoticed during their first year of junior high
school.
FIC NEU
Neufeld, John. Lisa, Bright and Dark.
Sixteen-year-old Lisa, smart, attractive, and outwardly successful,
suffers from a nervous breakdown that only her closest friends seem to
notice and care enough about to try to find a way to help her.
FIC NOE
Noel, Alyson. Art Geeks and Prom queens.
Seventeen-year-old Alex struggles to fit in at her new private school in
Southern California until she meets the very popular Kristi; however,
the deeper she becomes immersed in her new crowd, the more she
realizes Kristi is not to be messed with.
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Noël, Alyson. Blue Moon.
Eager to learn everything she can about her new abilities as an
Immortal, Ever turns to her beloved Damen to show her the way, but
just as her powers are increasing, his are in decline, and as she searches
for a way to save him, she finds herself with a wrenching choice to
make.
FIC NOE
Noël, Alyson. Evermore.
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-yearold Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of
her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another
psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.
FIC NOE
Noel, Alyson. Faking 19.
Seventeen-year-old Alex and her best friend M set out to explore the
night-life scene of L.A., pretending to be nineteen so they can get into
the hippest parties and clubs, but Alex soon learns that partying and
lying can lead to more trouble than she can handle.
FIC NOE
Noël, Alyson. Kiss & Blog.
Best friends Winter and Sloane make a pact to do whatever it takes to
get noticed in their sophomore year, but once Sloane is taken up by the
"popular" crowd, she quickly leaves Winter behind, and Winter must
consider the consequences when she decides to take revenge by airing
all of Sloane's secrets on an anonymous blog.
FIC NOE
Noël, Alyson. Laguna Cove.
After moving to Laguna Beach, California, seventeen-year-old Anne
decides to learn to surf in order to fit in, but, her competition, Ellie, still
won't seem to give her a break.
FIC NOE
Noël, Alyson. Saving Zoë.
A year after her older sister Zoë’s murder, fifteen-year-old Echo is still
struggling to put her life back together, but when Zoë’s boyfriend gives
Echo Zoë’s diary, Echo finds a connection with her sister and learns
some surprising secrets Zoë was keeping.
FIC NOE
Noël, Alyson. Shadowland.
Ever and Damen have traveled through countless past lives and fought
off the world's darkest enemies to be together forever, but just as their
long-awaited destiny is finally within reach, a powerful curse threatens
them.
FIC NOL
Nolan, Han. Born Blue.
Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mother's
neglect. Through an unhappy foster home experience, and years of
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feeling that she is unwanted, she keeps alive her dream of someday
being a famous singer.
FIC NOL
Nolan, Han. Born Blue.
Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mother's
neglect. Through an unhappy foster home experience, and years of
feeling that she is unwanted, she keeps alive her dream of someday
being a famous singer.
FIC NOL
Nolan, Han. Dancing on the Edge.
A young girl from a dysfunctional family creates for herself an
alternative world which nearly results in her death but which
ultimately leads her to reality.
FIC NOL
Nolan, Han. A Face in Every Window.
After the death of his grandmother, who held the family together,
teenage JP is left with a mentally challenged father and a mother who
seems ineffectual and constantly sick, and he feels everything sliding
out of control.
FIC NOL
Nolan, Han. A Summer of Kings.
Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young
discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy
Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live
with her family.
FIC OAK
Oaks, J. Adams. Why I Fight : a novel.
After his house burns down, twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves takes off
with his uncle, and the two of them drive from town to town for six
years, earning money mostly by fighting, until Wyatt finally confronts
his parents one last time.
FIC OBR
O'Brien, Johnny. Day of the assassins : a Jack Christie novel.
Fifteen-year-old Jack is sent to 1914 Europe as a pawn in the battle
between his long-lost father, who has built a time machine, and a secret
network of scientists who want to prevent him from trying to use it to
change history for the better. Includes historical notes.
FIC OPP
Oppel, Kenneth. Starclimber.
As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De
Vries journey into outer space on the "Starclimber" and face a series of
catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
FIC ORR
Orr, Wendy. Peeling the onion.
Following an automobile accident in which her neck is broken, a
teenage karate champion begins a long and painful recovery with the
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help of her family.
FIC OSA
Osa, Nancy. Cuba 15 : a novel.
Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student, reluctantly prepares for her
upcoming "quince," a Spanish nickname for the celebration of an
Hispanic girl's fifteenth birthday.
FIC PAR
Parker, Robert B. The boxer and the spy.
Fifteen-year-old Terry, an aspiring boxer, uncovers the mystery behind
the unexpected death of a classmate.
FIC PAR
Parker, Robert B. Edenville Owls.
Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just
after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he
tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new
feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the
mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
FIC PEA
Peacock, Shane. Death in the air.
After losing his mother while solving a brutal murder, young Sherlock
Holmes commits himself to fighting crime. While visiting his father at
work, Sherlock watches a dangerous trapeze performance. When the
troupe's star drops to his death, Sherlock notices something is amiss
and realizes it was foul play.
FIC PEA
Peacock, Shane. Eye of the crow.
A woman is found stabbed to death in London. A young boy is drawn
to the scene to investigate the murder and becomes a suspect himself.
FIC PEA
Peacock, Shane. The secret fiend.
1868, London: When Sherlock's friend Beatrice appears at his door late
at night, claiming to have been attacked by the Spring Heeled Jack--a
fictional, fire-spitting character from the Penny Dreadfuls--Sherlock
assumes she's lying. Soon, however, the Jack attacks again--and
Sherlock is on the case.
FIC PEA
Peacock, Shane. Vanishing girl.
Desperate to prove himself as a master detective, young Sherlock
Holmes searches the countryside, coast, and other haunted locals of
Victorian England to recover the young socialite who vanished from
Hyde Park.
FIC PEA
Pearson, Mary. A Room on Lorelei Street.
To escape a miserable existence taking care of her alcoholic mother,
seventeen-year-old Zoë rents a room from an eccentric woman, but her
earnings as a waitress after school are minimal and she must go to
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Pelzer, David J. A Child Called "It" : One Child's Courage to Survive.
David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history
of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality
and triumphed over his past.
158 PEL
Pelzer, David J. Help Yourself for Teens : Real-Life Advice for Real-Life
Challenges.
Offers practical advice to teenagers on overcoming hardships, facing
problems head-on, and rising about their circumstances to achieve
greatness.
921 PEL
Pelzer, David J. The Lost Boy.
The author tells of his experiences in five foster homes and juvenile
detention, after he was taken away from his abusive mother and
alcoholic father, and discusses how he made it into the Air Force, and
found love and contentment in his life.
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Pelzer, Richard B. A Brother's Journey : Surviving a Childhood of Abuse.
That was then -- Good boy -- Brothers -- No one -- He never said goodbye -- The break -- An ambulance ride -- The gun -- The last betrayal -Christmas -- A crack in the ice -- Full circle -- Saying good-bye to my
hero -- There's life out there -- Dad -- Calistoga -- Welcome back -Letting go. The author describes his childhood filled with nightly
beatings and unspeakable abuse by his mother and how he found the
courage to survive.
FIC PEN
Peña, Matt de la. Mexican Whiteboy.
Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion
of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with
his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San
Diego County, California.
FIC PEN
Peña, Matt De La. We Were Here.
After a judge sentences Miguel to spend a year in a group home and
write in a journal, he makes plans to escape the youth detention center
and go to Mexico, where he can put his past behind him.
FIC PEN
Pennebaker, Ruth. Conditions of Love.
During her freshman year at an elite high school in Dallas, Sarah tries
to come to terms with her own volatile emotions, her changing
relationship with her best friend, feelings about her mother, and new
insights into her dead father whom she idolized.
FIC PEN
Pennebaker, Ruth. Don't ThinkTwice.
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Seventeen years old and pregnant, Anne lives with other unwed
mothers in a group home in rural Texas where she learns to be herself
before giving her child up for adoption.
FIC PER
Perez, Marlene. Dead is the New Black.
Seventeen-year-old Daisy Giordano, daughter and sister of psychics,
attempts to help her mother discover who is behind a series of bizarre
attacks on teenage girls in their little town of Nightshade, California.
FIC PER
Perez, Marlene. Love in the Corner Pocket.
Chloe, a Laguna Beach, California, high school student, sorts out
questions about her parents' separation and her own friendships and
love life as she gets ready to compete in a pool tournament.
FIC PET
Petrucha, Stefan. Teen, Inc.
Fourteen-year-old Jaiden has been raised by NECorp. Since his parents
were killed when he was a baby, so when he discovers that the
corporation has been lying about producing illegal levels of mercury
emissions, he and his two friends decide to try to do something about
it.
796.52 PFE
Pfetzer, Mark. Within Reach : My Everest Story.
The author describes how he spent his teenage years climbing
mountains in the United States, South America, Africa, and Asia, with
an emphasis on his two expeditions up Mount Everest.
FIC PIK
Pike, Christopher. Weekend.
A dream weekend in Mexico at an ocean side mansion turns into a
nightmare of terror when someone wants revenge.
FIC PIK
Pike, Christopher. Bury Me Deep.
Jean's Hawaii vacation gets off to a bad start when the boy in the seat
next to her on the airplane chokes and dies, and her efforts to put the
incident out of her mind are hindered by the reappearance of Mike's
body in her dreams--and on the beach.
FIC PIK
Pike, Christopher. Die softly.
Herb sets up a hidden camera in the girls locker room hoping to get
some nude photographs of cheerleaders, and instead captures a scene
that puts his own life in danger.
FIC PYR
Pyron, Bobbie. The Ring.
Fifteen-year-old Mardie, who cannot seem to measure up to her
father's expectations, finds a girls' boxing club at the local gym, and
when she jumps in the ring, her wise and patient trainer Kitty teaches
her about the value of strategy and mental discipline.
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Qualey, Marsha. Close to a Killer.
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders
that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.
FIC QUA
Quarles, Heather. A Door Near Here.
Four siblings struggle to maintain a semiformal home life when their
single mother's alcoholism becomes debilitating.
FIC QUI
Quick, Barbara. Vivaldi's Virgins : a novel.
Fourteen-year-old Anna Maria Dal Violin, a foundling raised at the
Ospedale della Pieta in Venice, receives training from violin master
and priest Antonio Vivaldi, but even the difficulties of trying to play
Vivaldi's music cannot keep Anna from her quest to search the city for
information about her parents whom she has been told are dead.
FIC RAM
Ramthun, Bonnie. The White Gates.
When his mother becomes the doctor in Snow Park, Colorado, twelveyear-old Tor learns of a curse placed on the town's doctors many years
before by an eccentric Ute woman, but suspects that a villain is hiding
behind that curse.
FIC RAP
Rapp, Adam. Punkzilla.
A runaway teenager, having overcome his addiction to meth, travels
across the country from Portland to Memphis in order to reconnect
with his dying brother and meets a colorful cast of characters along the
way.
FIC REE
Rees, Celia. Witch Child.
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her
voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as
a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
FIC REI
Reinhardt, Dana. Harmless.
Instead of telling the truth about why they are home late, fourteenyear-old private school students Emma, Anna, and Mariah lie and say
a strange man attacked one of them, and the untruth results in a slew
of problems for themselves, their families, their community, and the
wrongly accused man.
FIC REI
Reinhardt, Dana. How to Build a House : a Novel.
Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her
father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her
summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a
tornado.
FIC REN
Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging : confessions of
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Georgia Nicolson.
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-yearold British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad
cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of
handsome hunk Robbie.
FIC REN
Rennison, Louise. Confessions of Georgia Nicolson.
Angus, thongs, and full-frontal snogging -- On the bright side, I'm now
the girlfriend of a sex god.
FIC REN
Rennison, Louise. Dancing in my Nuddy-pants : even further confessions of
Georgia Nicolson.
An English teenager tries to decide whether her musician boyfriend
Robbie, whom she may get the chance to accompany on tour, is her one
and only, or if her ex, Dave the Laugh, could fill his shoes.
FIC REN
Rennison, Louise. Knocked Out by my Nunga-nungas : further, further
confessions of Georgia Nicolson.
The saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson continues as she
travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her
anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of
true friendship.
FIC REN
Rennison, Louise. Love is a Many Trousered Thing : confessions of Georgia
Nicolson.
In a series of diary entries, British teenager Georgia Nicolson describes
her continuing romantic woes as she is pushed toward a decision about
the three boys in her life.
FIC REN
Rennison, Louise. On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God :
further confessions of Georgia Nicolson.
Fourteen-year-old Georgia continues her diary in which she records
her misadventures trying to reclaim the attention of seventeen-year-old
Robbie, while coping with her friends, family, and dog-like cat Angus
at the same time.
FIC REN
Rennison, Louise. Startled by His Furry Shorts: confessions of Georgia
Nicolson.
Teenaged Georgia continues her diary entries as she searches for the
perfect boyfriend among the sexy Italian Massimo, the fun-loving
Dave, and her ex-love Robbie.
FIC REN
Rennison, Louise. Then He Ate my Boy Entrancers : More Mad, Marvy
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson.
After trying to take Hamburger-a-go-go land, also known as the United
States, by storm when her family vacations in Memphis, Tennessee, a
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British teen returns home to deal with the attentions of too many boys,
weird parents, and mad cats.
FIC REX
Rex, Adam. The True Meaning of Smekday.
When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or
"Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the
family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov
mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster.
FIC REY
Reynolds, Marilyn. Beyond Dreams : True-to-Life Series from Hamilton
High.
Presents six short stories that deal with crisis situations faced by
teenagers, including racism, abuse, sense of failure, aging relatives,
drunk driving, and abortion.
FIC REY
Reynolds, Marilyn. Detour for Emmy.
Emmy, whose future had once looked so bright, struggles to overcome
the isolation and depression brought about by being a teen mother
who gets little support from her family or the father of her child.
FIC RIN
Rinaldi, Ann. Broken Days.
In 1811, life with her Aunt Hannah in Salem, Massachusetts, becomes
even more difficult for fourteen-year-old Ebie with the arrival of a halfIndian girl who claims to be the daughter of Hannah's sister, Thankful,
and with the threat of impending war.
FIC RIN
Rinaldi, Ann. The Coffin Quilt : The Feud Between the Hatfields and the
McCoys.
In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible
and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia
Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a
Hatfield.
FIC RIN
Rinaldi, Ann. In My Rather's House.
For two sisters growing up in Appomattox during the Civil War, there
is conflict both outside and inside their home.
FIC RIN
Rinaldi, Ann. A Stitch in Time.
Shortly after the War of Independence, Hannah sees her family being
torn apart by old secrets and new developments, as her sister resolves
to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help start a new
town in the Northwest Territory.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Laura Peyton. Queen B.
Now dating Kevin, high school sophomore Cassie struggles with her
insecurities and learns some lessons about friendship and dating, while
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also trying to direct the school talent show.
FIC ROS
Rosoff, Meg. How I Live Now.
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteenyear-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with
whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the
family while devastating the land.
FIC ROS
Rosoff, Meg. Just In Case.
Convinced that fate is out to get him, fifteen-year-old David Case
assumes a new identity in the hope of avoiding what he believes is
certain doom.
FIC SAI
Saint Exupéry, Antoine de. Night Flight.
The heroism of the men who pilot night mail planes from Patagonia,
Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina is revealed through the perilous
events of one single night.
FIC SAL
Salisbury, Graham. Blue Skin of the Sea : a Novel in Stories.
Growing up in Hawaii between 1953 and 1966, Sonny tries to come to
terms with his feelings for his fisherman father and the vast sea that
dominates his life.
FIC SAN
Sandoz, Mari, 1896-1966. The Horsecatcher.
Unable to kill, a young Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he
chooses to become a horse catcher rather than a warrior.
FIC SCH
Schmidt, C. A. Useful Fools.
A fifteen-year-old Peruvian boy, whose mother runs a clinic for poor
village children, becomes caught up in the war after Senderistas bomb
the clinic, killing his mother and throwing his family into turmoil.
FIC BLU
Schraff, Anne E. Lost and Found.
Darcey Willis does not know where to turn for help when a series of
frightening incidents culminate with the disappearance of her sister
Jamee.
FIC BLU
Schraff, Anne E. A Matter of Trust.
At Bluford High, Darcy Wills and Brisana Meeks, who used to be
friends, become bitter rivals, especially when Darcy finds out the
Brisana wants her boyfriend.
FIC BLU
Schraff, Anne E. Secrets in the Shadows.
When Roylin Bailey falls in love with a new girl in his history class, he
finds that his life starts to fall apart.
FIC BLU
Schraff, Anne E. Someone to Love Me.
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Cindy Gibson, an African-American teenager struggling with her
mother's neglect and her mother's boyfriend's emotional abuse, must
find strength she did not know she had when the boy she thought
would be her savior begins beating her.
FIC BLU
Schraff, Anne E. Until We Meet Again.
Darcy's distress over her boyfriend Hakeem's move to Detroit, her
grandmother's increasing frailness, and other changes in her life, leads
her to make a big error in judgment when she becomes involved with
the brother of a young woman who is employing Darcy as a babysitter.
FIC SCO
Scott, Kieran. A Non-Blonde Cheerleader in Love.
Annisa is thrilled when her cheerleading squad goes coed and her
boyfriend signs up, but she soon finds herself in the middle of a squadwide battle of the sexes.
FIC SEB
Sebestyen, Ouida. The Girl in the Box.
Kidnapped and left in an underground room, Jackie explores her
psychological strengths and limitations as she tries to make contact
with the outside world by writing messages and sending them through
a slit in the door.
FIC SED
Sedgwick, Marcus. The Foreshadowing.
Having always been able to know when someone is going to die,
Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to
locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen
for him.
FIC SEN
Sensel, Joni. The Humming of Numbers.
Aiden, a novice about to take monastic vows in tenth century Ireland,
meets Lana, a girl who understands his ability to hear the sounds of
numbers humming from all living things, and just as he is beginning to
question his religious calling, the two of them are thrown together in a
mission to save their village from invading Vikings.
FIC SHA
Sharenow, Robert. My Mother the Cheerleader: a novel.
Thirteen-year-old Louise uncovers secrets about her family and her
neighborhood during the violent protests over school desegregation in
1960 New Orleans.
FIC SHE
Shepard, Sara. Flawless: a Pretty Little Liars Novel.
After their friend Alison, missing for more than three years, turns up
dead, four former best friends, each of whom had a secret known only
by Alison, begin receiving frightening messages from someone
identified by the letter "A.".
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Shepard, Sara. Perfect : a Pretty Little Liars Novel.
Best friends Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna find themselves under
suspicion when the mysterious stranger named A tries to blame one of
the girls for the death of their friend Alison and threatens to reveal the
girls' darkest secrets.
FIC SHE
Shepard, Sara. Pretty Little Liars.
When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four
high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they
begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know
everything about their past and present secrets.
FIC SHE
Shepard, Sara. Unbelievable : a Pretty Little Liars Novel.
Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily, friends since seventh grade at the
exclusive Rosewood school in Pennsylvania, find their history of telling
small, convenient little lies catching up with them when a mysterious
person named A begins making threats, hinting that he or she knows
what really happened to their murdered friend Alison.
FIC SHE
Shepard, Sara. Wicked : a Pretty Little Liars Novel.
Forgetting the lessons they should have learned after being stalked by
"A," Hanna, Spencer, Emily, and Aria-- high school juniors in
Rosewood, Pennsylvania--return to their wicked, deceitful ways, but
this time the consequences will be deadly.
FIC SMI
Smith, Charles R. Chameleon.
Fourteen-year-old Shawn wonders if he would be better off starting
high school in his mother's neigborhood, away from Compton, but the
idea of leaving all his friends, and the beautiful Marisol, is less
appealing.
362.29 SMI
Smith, Lynn Marie. Rolling Away : My Agony with Ecstasy.
Lynn Smith chronicles her struggles to overcome drug addiction,
describing how her so-called normal life was torn apart by Ecstacy and
how she tried to rebuild it.
FIC SMI
Smith, Roland. Elephant Run.
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's
plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his
father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his
friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives
to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of
war camp.
FIC SNO
Snow, Maya. Sisters of the Sword.
Two aristocratic sisters in ancient Japan disguise themselves as samurai
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warriors to take revenge on the uncle who betrayed their family.
FIC SOR
Sorrells, Walter. First Shot.
As David enters his senior year of high school, a family secret emerges
that could solve the mystery of why his mother was murdered two
years ago.
FIC SOT
Soto, Gary. Buried Onions.
When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to
find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violenceinfested neighborhood of Fresno, California.
FIC SOT
Soto, Gary. Jesse.
Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help
them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor.
FIC KIM
Sparks, Beatrice. Kim : Empty Inside : the Diary of an Anonymous
Teenager.
Seventeen-year-old Kim, feeling the pressure of maintaining an A
average to stay on her college gymnastics team, becomes obsessive
about her weight and develops anorexia.
FIC SPI
Spinelli, Jerry. Love, Stargirl.
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend
Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the
world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
FIC SPI
Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed: a novel.
Follows a young Jewish orphan in the Warsaw ghetto during World
War Two as he slowly understands the horrible reality that surrounds
him and attempts to steal in order to help others survive.
FIC SPI
Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl.
Stargirl, a teen who animates quiet Mica High with her colorful
personality, suddenly finds herself shunned for her refusal to conform.
FIC SPR
Springer, Nancy. The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets.
Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, disguised as a beautiful woman,
finds clues in floral bouquets as she searches for the missing Doctor
Watson, a companion of her famous older brother, Sherlock.
FIC SPR
Springer, Nancy. The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline : an Enola Holmes
Mystery.
In late nineteenth-century London, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes,
much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence
Nightingale for help when her investigation into the disappearance of a
Crimean War widow grows cold.
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Springer, Nancy. The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan.
While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend
Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets
with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference
by the eldest, Mycroft.
FIC SPR
Springer, Nancy. I am Morgan Le Fay : a tale from Camelot.
In a war-torn England where her half-brother Arthur will eventually
become king, the young Morgan le Fay comes to realize that she has
magic powers and links to the faerie world.
FIC SPR
Springer, Nancy. Sky Rider.
Dealing with her mother's death, a back injury that prevents her from
riding, and the imminent destruction of her sick horse, fourteen-yearold Dusty receives physical and spiritual healing from the ghost of a
recently killed boy.
FIC STA
Stahler, David. Truesight.
In a distant frontier world, thirteen-year-old Jacob is uncertain of his
future in a community that considers blindness a virtue and "Seers" as
aberrations.
FIC STO
Stoehr, Shelley. Crosses.
Unhappy at home, Nancy and her friend Katie adopt punk lifestyles
and find relief in cutting themselves, until Nancy is forced to confront
her problems.
FIC STR
Strasser, Todd. Give a Boy a Gun.
Interweaves the voices of students, teachers, friends, and gunmen in a
fictional story about two heavily armed students, Gary and Brendan,
who hold their classmates hostage at a high school dance after being
tormented by football players and teachers. Includes real-life statistics
on guns and violence.
FIC TAY
Taylor, Theodore. Walking Up a Rainbow.
In 1852, a fourteen-year-old orphan and her elderly guardian,
accompanied by a tough drover and his crew, take several thousand
sheep from Iowa to California, returning by ship through the Panama
Canal, to raise money to save the girl's home from a villainous debt
collector.
FIC THO
Thompson, Kate. Creature of the Night.
Bobby recklessly smokes, drinks, and steals cars in Dublin, and when
his mother relocates the family to a small cottage in the countryside,
Bobby believes a certain spookiness lurks in the corners of the new
home.
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Triana, Gaby. Cubanita.
Seventeen-year-old Isabel, eager to leave Miami to attend the
University of Michigan and escape her overprotective Cuban mother,
learns some truths about her family's past and makes important
decisions about the type of person she wants to be.
FIC TRU
Trueman, Terry. Cruise Control.
A talented basketball player struggles to deal with the helplessness and
anger that come with having a brother rendered completely
dysfunctional by severe cerebral palsy and a father who deserted the
family.
FIC TRU
Trueman, Terry. Inside Out.
A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events
surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually
hold him hostage.
FIC TRU
Trueman, Terry. No right turn.
After three years of wanting only to be invisible, sixteen-year-old
Jordan begins to recover from his father's suicide and start living again
when a neighbor's vintage Corvette Stingray opens up new
possibilities for him.
FIC TRU
Trueman, Terry. Stuck in Neutral.
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral
palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family,
and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill
him.
FIC TYA
Tyau, Kathleen. A Little Too Much is Enough.
Portrays the struggles of a young girl discovering herself amid a large
and complicated family, set in and around Honolulu.
FIC UND
Underdahl, S. T. The Other Sister.
After learning she has an older sister whom her parents gave up for
adoption twenty-five years earlier, fifteen-year-old Josey Muller has to
find a way to accept her new sibling and cope with the fact that she is
no longer the only daughter.
FIC VAL
Valentine, Jenny. Me, the Missing, and the Dead.
Sixteen-year-old Londoner Lucas Swain, left in possession of the ashes
of Violet Park, becomes convinced that Violet is communicating with
him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally
confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.
FIC CAR
Vestry, Annabelle. The Carlyles : a Gossip Girl novel.
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Triplets Avery, Baby, and Owen Carlyle have different approaches to
their new life in a Manhattan penthouse and elite private schools, but
soon each has cause to want to return to their home on Nantucket
Island.
FIC VIL
Villaseñor, Victor. Macho!
Chronicles the story of a young man's illegal entry into the United
States from the state of Michoacan, Mexico and his life working in the
vegetable fields of California.
FIC VIL
Villaseñor, Victor. Walking Stars: stories of magic and power.
The Smartest Human I Ever Met: My Brother's Dog Shep -- Midnight
Duke -- Walking Stars -- First Day of School -- Woman's Greatest
Power -- The Hanging -- The Greatest Christmas Gift -- Death of an
Assassin -- Toreando el Tren or Bullfighting the Train.
Autobiographical stories about growing up as the son of Mexican
immigrants in California.
FIC VIZ
Vizzini, Ned. It's Kind of a Funny Story.
A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with
depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
FIC VOL
Volponi, Paul. Black and White.
Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white,
experience the justice system differently after committing a crime
together and getting caught.
FIC VOL
Volponi, Paul. The Hand You're Dealt.
When seventeen-year-old Huck's vindictive math teacher wins the
town poker tournament and takes the winner's watch away from
Huck's father while he is in a coma, Huck vows to get even with him
no matter what it takes.
FIC VOL
Volponi, Paul. Response.
Three boys are charged with a hate crime after an African-American
high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white
neighborhood.
FIC VOL
Volponi, Paul. Rooftop.
Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on
the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is
dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that follows.
FIC VOL
Volponi, Paul. Rucker Park Setup.
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his
best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own
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part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his silence or tell
J.R.'s father and the police what really happened.
FIC VON
Von Ziegesar, Cecily. All I Want is Everything: a Gossip Girl novel.
Gossip Girl shares the scoop on the renewed friendship between Blair
and Serena, two seventeen-year-olds who attend an exclusive private
school in Manhattan, and follow the two and their friends as they party
through the holiday break.
FIC VON
Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Because I'm Worth It: a Gossip Girl novel.
Gossip Girl and her friends turn in their college applications and get
ready to party away the dreary month of February in New York City.
FIC VON
Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Don't You Forget About Me : a Gossip Girl novel.
The Gossip Girl and her friends spend a summer partying before
heading off to college in the fall.
FIC VON
Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Gossip Girl: a novel. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown,
c2002.
Gossip Girl, an unknown narrator, shares the inside scoop on her
friends and foes in a privileged private school in New York City,
focusing on the return of the beautiful Serena van der Woodson, who is
rumored to have been kicked out of boarding school.
FIC VON
Von Ziegesar, Cecily. I like It Like That: a Gossip Girl novel.
Blair, Serena, Georgie, and Nate head to Sun Valley for a vacation, but
their fun could have surprising consequences.
FIC VON
Von Ziegesar, Cecily. It Had to Be You: the Gossip Girl prequel.
Reveals the effects on a trio of bright, attractive, fifteen-year-old
friends--Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, and Nate Archibald-when Serena considers leaving their seemingly-perfect life of luxury in
New York's Upper East Side for boarding school.
FIC VON
Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Nobody Does It Better: a Gossip Girl novel.
Scandal abounds as the uptown girls take "time to shop, drink, eat, and
make merry," winding up their days as Constance Billard students
with a Senior Spa Day that is crashed by The Raves rock group and
assorted other guys.
FIC VON
Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Nothing Can Keep Us Together: a Gossip Girl novel.
Only two weeks remain until graduation and there are more than a few
surprises in store for the senior girls at an exclusive private high school
in New York City, as they fill their last days together with boys, gossip,
parties, and shopping.
FIC VON
Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Only in Your Dreams: a Gossip Girl novel.
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Follows of the lives of Blair, Serena, and their wealthy Manhattan
friends during the summer following high school graduation.
FIC VON
Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Would I lie to you: a Gossip Girl novel.
Blair, Serena, and their wealthy Manhattan friends spend the summer
doing whatever they want.
FIC VON
Von Ziegesar, Cecily. You Know You Love Me: a Gossip Girl novel.
Blair and Serena, who go to an exclusive private school in Manhattan,
are no longer best friends but are still both consumed with thoughts of
boyfriends and college.
FIC VON
Von Ziegesar, Cecily. You're the One That I Want: a Gossip Girl novel.
After an agonizing wait for college acceptance letters, Blair, Serena,
Nate, and their classmates at elite Manhattan prep schools discover
that their college choice depends a lot on relationships--old and new.
FIC WAT
Waters, Dan. Generation Dead.
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at
her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the
phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they
encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.
FIC WAT
Waters, Daniel. Kiss of Life.
The undead population of Oakville band together in a group called the
Sons of Remero, hoping to defy segregation, and when Phoebe
Kendall, who is alive, realizes she has feelings for a zombie, her friend
Adam is murdered and returns from the grave, leading to a bizarre
love triangle.
FIC WEA
Weaver, Will. Full Service.
In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota
farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious
upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
FIC WEA
Weaver, Will. Hard Ball.
A fourteen-year-old Minnesota farm boy has to figure out how to get
along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond,
and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of
their fathers.
FIC WEA
Weaver, Will. Memory Boy: a novel.
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis
home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of
cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their
city.
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Weaver, Will. Super Stock Rookie.
Trace Bonham knows he is fortunate to be offered a chance at being a
paid super stock driver when he is still in high school, but regrets that
he must leave his friends and home track and wonders if the sponsor is
legitimate.
FIC WEL
Welsh, T. K. Resurrection Men.
In London during the 1830s, twelve-year-old orphan Victor begins to
realize that men are purposely infecting children with a sickness so
they can sell the dead bodies to scientists, and sets out to uncover the
man behind the deadly crime.
FIC WHE
Whelan, Gloria. The Disappeared.
Teenaged Silvia tries to save her brother, Eduardo, after he is captured
by the military government in 1970s Argentina.
FIC WHE
Whelan, Gloria. The Pathless Woods.
A fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway's 16th summer, during
which love for his family, need for independence, and responsibility
for decisions vie with each other, moving him from boyhood to
manhood.
FIC WIL
Wilhelm, Doug. Falling.
Fifteen-year-old Matt's life has been turned upside-down, first when
the brother he idolizes turns to drugs, then when a visit to a chat room
leads him to a classmate, Katie, who he likes very much but cannot
trust with his family secret.
FIC WIL
Williams-Garcia, Rita. Every Time a Rainbow Dies.
After seeing a girl raped and becoming obsessed with her, sixteen-yearold Thulani finds motivation to move beyond his interest in his birds
and his grief over his mother's death.
FIC WRE
Wrede, Patricia C. Calling on Dragons.
Queen Cimorene turns to her friends Morwen, Telemain, and Kazul for
help when troublesome wizards make their way back into the
Enchanted Forest and begin to soak up its magic.
FIC WRE
Wrede, Patricia C. Dealing with Dragons.
Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a
group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against
some disreputable wizards.
FIC WRE
Wrede, Patricia C. Mairelon the Magician.
Kim, a London guttersnipe disguised as a boy, finds her life changed
forever as she becomes entangled with the mysterious traveling
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magician, Mairelon.
FIC WRE
Wrede, Patricia C. Searching for Dragons.
With the aid of King Mandanbar, Princess Cimorene rescues the
dragon Kazul and saves the Enchanted Forest from a band of wicked
wizards.
FIC WRE
Wrede, Patricia C. Talking to Dragons.
Queen Cimorene sends her sixteen-year-old son Daystar into the
Enchanted Forest with the only weapon that can combat an evil
wizard's magic in an effort to restore the balance of power in the
kingdom.
FIC WYN
Wynne-Jones, Tim. The Boy in the Burning House.
Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their
rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the
disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
FIC WYN
Wynne-Jones, Tim. A Thief in the House of Memory.
The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home
triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to
make sense of his fragmented dreams, random memories, and
unexplained coincidences, hoping to learn the truth about the mother
who suddenly left when he was ten.
FIC YAN
Yancey, Richard. Alfred Kropp: the Seal of Solomon.
The last descendant of Sir Lancelot, teenage misfit Alfred Kropp is
drawn back into the OIPEP to battle a group of demons bent on freeing
themselves from the confines of an ancient relic.
FIC YEP
Yep, Laurence. Dragon Road.
Cal and Barney, Chinese Americans, are trapped in a world of racial
prejudice in 1939 with no jobs and no future until the Dragons, a
barnstorming basketball team, invites them to join the team.
FIC ZAR
Zarr, Sara. Story of a Girl: a novel.
During the summer after her sophomore year, Deanna Lambert tries to
come to terms with the reputation with which she was slapped in the
eighth grade when she was caught by her father in the backseat of a car
with a high school senior, and struggles with her still-strained
relationship with her father and her changing feelings for her best
friend, Jason.
FIC ZAR
Zarr, Sara. Sweethearts: a novel.
Jennifer Harris, years after being the tormented outsider on the
playground, has reinvented herself into Jenna Vaughn, a popular girl
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with what seems to be the perfect life, but when a childhood friend reenters her life, she is forced to confront the most traumatic event of her
past and question who she really is.
FIC ZEV
Zevin, Gabrielle. Elsewhere.
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds
herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must
adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live.".
FIC ZEV
Zevin, Gabrielle. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.
After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last
four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.
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Zindel, Paul. The Pigman.
Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close
friendship with a lonely old man with a terrible secret.
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