FICTION
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl by Barry Lyga
Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Watcha Gonna Do? by Cynthia Voigt
Blister by Susan Shreve
Blue Is For Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci
Changeling by Yasmine Galenorn
Cut by Patricia McCormick
Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies by Elizabeth Chandler
Define “Normal” by Julie Anne Peters
Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Goat Girls by Francesca Lia Block
Green Angel by Alice Hoffman
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
Haters by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill
You by Ally Carter
Lucy the Giant by Sherri L. Smith
Midnight Predator by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Tithe: a Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black
NON-FICTION
33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women’s
History…
(305.4 THI)
Gutsy Girls: Young Women Who Dare
(920 SCH)
The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss
Overnight by Adele Griffin
“Gossip Girl” series by Cecily Von Ziegesar
“Georgia Nicolson” series by Louise Rennison
Here Today by Ann M. Martin
“The Clique” series by Lisi Harrison
Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee
What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya
Sones
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
Love and Other Four-Letter Words by Carolyn
Mackler
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann
Brashares
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Cross My Heart and Hope To Spy by Ally
Carter
Jinx by Meg Cabot
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Great And Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
“The A-List Series” by Zoey Dean
Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates
TTYL by Lauren Myracle
Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Secrets of Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Girl, Nearly 16: Absolute Torture by Sue Limb
Fame, Glory, and Other Things On My To-Do
List by Janette Rallison
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
“Alice” series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
“Anastasia Krupnik” series by Lois Lowry
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy
Blume
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Blubber by Judy Blume
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Goats by Brock Cole
“Goosebumps” series by R.L. Stine
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
“Harry Potter” series by J.K. Rowling
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya
Angelou
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
The “Scary Stories” series by Alvin Schwartz
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Fairy Tales Retold
Before Midnight: A Retelling of “Cinderella” by Cameron
Dokey
Beast by Donna Jo Napoli, (Beauty and the Beast set in
Persia)
Beauty by Robin McKinley (Beauty and the Beast)
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen (sleeping beauty/ holocaust)
Cinderella 2000 by Mavis Jukes
Cinderellis and the Glass Hill by Gail Carson Levine
(Cinderella)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory McGuire
(Cinderella)
Crazy Jack by Donna Jo Napoli (Jack and the Beanstalk)
Down the Rabbit Hole: an Echo Falls Mystery by Peter
Abrahams (Alice in Wonderland)
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Enchantment by Orson Scott Card (Sleeping Beauty)
The Godmother by Elizabeth Scarborough
Just Ella by Margarte Peterson Haddix (Cinderella continued)
Midnight Pearls: A Retelling of “The Little Mermaid by
Debbie Viguie
The Night Dance by Suzanne Weyn (12 Dancing Princesses)
Nightmares & Fairytales by Serena Valentino (graphic novel fairy tale)
Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia
Block
Rose Bride: A Retelling of “The White Bride and the Black
Bride” by Nancy Holder
Snow by Tracy Lynn (Snow White)
Snow White, Rose Red by Patricia Wrede
Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli (Rumpelstiltskin)
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird by
Vivian Van Velde
The Tower Room by Adele Geras (Rapunzel)
“Twice Upon a Time: Rapunzel the One With All the Hair” by Wendy Mass
Wolf at the Door and other Retold Fairy Tales (anthology by well known YA authors)
Zel by Donna Jo Napoli (Rapunzel)
Vampire Romance
Black Dawn, The Chosen, Dark Angel,
Daughters of Darkness, Huntress,
Secret Vampire, Soulmate,
Spellbinder, and Witchlight by Lisa J.
Smith
Boys That Bite by Marianne Mancusi
Companions of the Night by Vivian Van
Velde
The Darkangel by Merideth Pierce
Got Fangs?: Confessions of a Vampire’s
Girlfriend by Katie Maxwell
High School Bites: The Lucy
Chronicles by Liza Conrad
Kiss of a Killer and Tall, Dark, and
Deadly by Kate William
Kiss of the Vampire by Laurie John
The Silver Kiss by Anette Curtis
Klause
Sweetblood by Pete Hautman
Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse by
Stephenie Meyer
Vampire Kisses, Kissing Coffins, and
Vampireville by Ellen Shreiber
The Vampire’s Beautiful Daughter by
S.P. Somtow
Recommended Readings for Romantics:
Author Title
Baker, Jennifer
Bauer, Joan
At Midnight
Thwonk
Canfield, Jack
Cabot, Meg
Cleary, Beverly
Conford, Ellen
Cooney, Caroline
Crew, Linda
Crutcher, Chris
Daly, Maureen
Chicken Soup on Love and Relationships
Princess in Love
Jean and Johnny
Crush
Forbidden
Prisoner of Time
Children of the River
Running Loose
Seventeenth Summer
Gaiman, Neil
Geras, Adele
Jukes, Mavis
Klause, Annette Curtis
McDaniel, Lurlene
Miner, Jane Claypool
Napoli, Donna Jo
Plummer, Louise
Rennison, Louise
Stardust
The Tower Room
Cinderella 2000
The Silver Kiss
Blood and Chocolate
I’ll be Seeing You
Veronica
Sirena
The Unlikely Romance of
Katie Bjorkman
Angus, Thongs, and
Full Frontal Snogging
Sparks, Nicholas
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Wittlinger, Ellen
Zindel, Paul
A Walk to Remember
Flipped
Hard Love
My Darling, my
Hamburger
Classics
Austen, Jane
Bronte, Charlotte
Bronte, Emily
Mitchell, Margaret
Poetry
Fletcher, Ralph J.
Galewitz, Herb
Grimes, Nikki
Sones, Sonia
Turner, Ann Warren
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Gone with the Wind
Buried Alive
Love, a Book of Quotations
Hopscotch Love
What my Mother
Doesn’t Know
A Lion’s Hunger

LOL (laugh out loud)  …
Author
Avi
Cabot, Meg
Cole, Brock
Title
Romeo and Juliet: Together
(and alive!) at Last
The Princess Diaries
Celine
Curtis, C. P.
Dahl, Roald
The Watsons go to Birmingham
Matilda
Danziger, Paula Remember me to Harold Square
Fine, Anne Flour Babies
Gardiner, J. R. Top Secret
Gliori, Debi Pure Dead Magic
Hardman, Ric L. Sunshine Rider: The First
Howe, Norma
Vegetarian Western
Adventures of Blue Avenger
Kiesel, Stanley The War Between the Pitiful
Koertge, Ron
Teachers and the Splendid Kids
Arizona Kid
Korman, Gordon A Semester in the life of a
Garbage Bag
Lally, Soinbhe
Lynch, Chris
No More Dead Dogs
A Hive for the Honeybee
Slot Machine
Manes, Stephen Be a Perfect Person in
Just three Days!
Comedy High
Murphy, Barbara Ace Hits the Big Time
Park, Barbara
Paulsen, Gary
The Kid in the Red Jacket
The Schernoff Discoveries
Peck, Richard A Long Way From Chicago
Plummer, Louise The Unlikely Romance of
Kate Bjorkman
Rennison, Louise Angus, Thongs & Full-frontal
Snogging
Rockwell, Thomas How to Eat Fried Worms
Sachar, Louis
Sieruta, Peter
Wayside School is Falling Down
Heartbeats and other Stories
Sheldon, Dylan Confessions of a Drama Queen
Snicket, Lemony A Series of Unfortunate Events
Stone, Bruce Half Nelson, Full Nelson
Thomas, Rob Green Thumb
Rats Saw God
Thompson, Julian Simon Pure
Townsend, Sue The Adrian Mole Diaries
Young, Karen R. The Beetle and Me: A love Story
Williams-Garcia, R.Like Sisters on the Homefront
Wynn-Jones, Tim Lord of the Fries and Other Stories
Escape Reality with Fantasy Books:
Author
Alexander, Lloyd
Title
The Book of Three
Applegate, K. A.
Barron, T. A.
The Search for Senna
The Lost Years of
Merlin
Bird, Isobel
Colfer, Eoin
Collins, Suzanne
D’Lacey, Chris
DiTerlizzi, Tom
Duane, Diane
So Mote it Be
Artemis Fowl
Gregor the Overlander
The Fire Within
The Field Guide
So You Want to be a
DuPrau, Jeanne
Eddings, David
Jacques, Brian
Jordan, Robert
L'Engle, Madeline
Lee, Tanith
Lewis, C. S.
McCaffrey, Anne
Nimmo, Jenny
Nik, Garth
Paolini, Christopher
Pullman, Phillip
Rowling, J. K.
Sage, Angie
Stroud, Jonathan
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Wrede, Patricia
Wizard
The City of Ember
Pawn of Prophesy
Redwall
From the Two Rivers
A Wrinkle in Time
Wolf Tower
The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe
Dragonsinger
Midnight for Charlie
Bone
The Fall
Eragon
The Golden Compass
Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone
Magyk
The Amulet of
Samarkand
The Hobbit
Dealing With Dragons
SCARY STORIES
Demon In My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Something Upstairs by Avi
The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
The House With a Clock In Its Walls by John
Bellairs
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray
Bradbury
Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
A Cry In the Night by Mary Higgins Clark
Teacher’s Pet by Richie T. Cusick
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle
Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan
Back of Beyond: Stories of the Supernatural by
Sarah Ellis
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Tartabull’s Throw by Henry Garfield
The Burning Baby by John Gordon
Time For Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor
Hugo
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley
Jackson
Playing With Fire by Kathleen Karr
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli
The Haunting by Joan Lowery Nixon
The Oxford Book of Nasty Endings by Dennis
Pepper
Abduction by Rodman Philbrick
Great Tales of Terror by Edgar Allan Poe
Read If You Dare by Read Magazine
“Cirque du Freak” series by Darren Shan
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Darkness Creeping: Tales To Trouble Your
Sleep by Neal Shusterman
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert L. Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Blooding by Patricia Windsor

A PAN -OPLY OF PIRATES
*

*Panoply: a magnificent or impressive array
( PANOPLY : A magnificent or impressive array)
The 13 th Floor: a Ghost Story by Sid Fleischman
Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
The “Bloody Jack” series by L.A. Meyer
Capt. Hook by James V. Hart
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
Coming Storm (“Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack
Sparrow” series) by Rob Kidd
The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
Dead Reckoning by Laurie Lawlor
Drift House: The First Voyage by Dale Peck
The Giant Rat of Sumatra by Sid Fleischman
Jack Black & the Ship of Thieves by Carol Hughes
Peter Pan In Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean
Pirate Diary: the Journal of Jake Carpenter by
Richard Platt
Pirates! By Celia Rees
The Pirate’s Son by Geraldine McCaughrean
“Piratica” series by Tanith Lee
To Catch a Pirate by Jade Parker
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Treasure of Savage Island by Lenore Hart
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley
Pearson
Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie
Peter Raven: Under Fire by Michael Molloy
“Pirate Hunter” series by Brad Strickland
Polly & the Pirates (graphic novel) by Ted Naifeh
Red Sea by Diane Tullson
Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel
“Vampirates” series by Justin Somper
The Wave Walkers Book One: Pirate Curse by Kai
Meyer
Wendy by Karen Wallace
The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence
A Twist in Time
An Acceptable Time by Madeline L’Engle
Anne Frank and Me by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld
Bearing an Hourglass by Piers Anthony
Blood Secret by Kathryn Laskey
“Blossom Culp” series by Richard Peck
Both Sides of Time by Caroline Cooney
The Boy who Reversed Himself by William Sleator
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister by Jenny Nimmo
The Cure by Sonia Levitin
“Danger Boy” series by Mark London Williams
“The Dark is Rising Sequence” by Susan Cooper
“Daughters of the Moon” series by Lynne Ewing
The Deadly Past by Christopher Pike (“Spooksville” series)
The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Here There Be Dragons by James Owen
If I Should Die before I wake by Han Nolan
“The Indian in the Cupboard” series by Lynne Reid Banks
“The Keys to the Kingdom” series by Garth Nix
King of Shadows by Susan Cooper
“The Magic Tree House” series by Mary Pope Osborne
Mr. Was by Pete Hautman
Once Upon a Curse by E. D. Baker
Out of Time by John Marsden
Paint by Magic by Kathryn Reiss
“Pendragon” series by D. J. MacHale
Rewind by Jan Page
Shoeless Joe & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure (series) by
Dan Gutman
Singularity by William Sleator
“Sons of the Dark” series by Lynne Ewing
Strange Attractors by William Sleator
“Stravaganza” series by Mary Hoffman
The Theif Lord by Cornelia Funke
“The Time Warp Trio” series by Jon Sciezka
Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander
Timeline by Michael Crichton
The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
A Well-Timed Enchantment by Vivian Van Velde
“York Trilogy” by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Solve a Mystery…
Author
Avi
Bellairs, John
Bennett, Jay
Bunting, Eve
Coles, William
Title
Wolf Rider
The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie
Sing me a Death Song
Say Hello to the Hit Man
A Sudden Silence
Compass in the Blood
Cooney, Caroline The Face on the Milk Carton
The Terrorist
Dixon, Franklin W. “Hardy Boys” Mysteries
Duncan, Lois Don’t look Behind You
Hobbs, Will
Killing Mr. Griffin
Ghost Canoe
Hoobler, Dorothy Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
Keene, Carolyn “Nancy Drew” Mysteries
Kehret, Peg Don’t Tell Anyone
Kerr, M. E.
Lawrence, Iain
The Books of Fell
The Wreckers
Lowery, Lois Taking Care of Terrific
Mazer, Norma Fox Downtown
Taking Terri Mueller
Nixon, Joan Lowery
A Candidate for Murder
Don’t Scream
The Ghosts of Now
The Internet Escapade
Pullman, Phillip The Ruby in the Smoke
Qualey, Marsha Close to a Killer
Raskin, Ellen The Westing Game
Ryan, Mary Elizabeth
Alias
Snyder, Zilpha K. The Trespassers
Tate, Eleanora Secret of Gumbo Grave
Taylor, Theodore Sniper
The Wierdo
Vande Velde, V. Never Trust a Dead Man
Van Draanen, W. Sammy Keyes Mysteries
Waddell, Martin The Kidnapping of Suzie Q
Werlin, Nancy The Killer’s Cousin
Whitney, Phyllis The Mystery of the Gulls

NOVELS FOR MANGA LOVERS
“5 Ancestors” series by Jeff Stone
“Vampire Hunter D” prose novels by Hideyuki
Kikuchi
“Samurai Girl” series by Carrie Asai
Blue Fingers: a Ninja’s Tale by Cheryl Whitesel
Tokyo Suckerpunch by Isaac Adamson
Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman
Kung Fu Princess: Veil of Secrets by Pamela
Walker
The Kouga Ninja Scrolls by Futaro Yamada
Missing In Tokyo by Graham Marks
Avalon: Circles in the Stream by Rachel Roberts
The “Akiko” prose novels by Mark Crilley
Wandering Warrior by Da Chen
“The Edge Chronicles” by Paul Stewart
Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan
Sonnenblick
Samurai Shortstop by Alan Gratz
Pacific Crossing by Gary Soto
Kiki Strike by Kirsten Miller
Prose Novels from publisher TOKYOPOP:
Chibi Vampire: The Novel
Full Metal Panic (novel) Vol.1
Calling You Vol.1
Chain Mail Vol.1
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (Novel) Vol.1
CLAMP School Paranormal Investigators
(Novel) Vol.1
The One I Love: Vol 1
.HACK// Another Birth (Novel) Vol.1
DEFINE “NORMAL”
Absolutely Positively Not by David LaRochelle
Am I Blue?: Coming Out From the Silence
(anthology)
Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and
Goth Girl by Barry Lyga
Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
The Blue Lawn by William Taylor
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by
Mark Haddon
Deliver Us From Evie by M.E. Kerr
Diary of an Anorexic Girl by Morgan Menzie
Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa
Abdel-Fattah
A Face In Every Window by Han Nolan
Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going
The Flip Side by Andrew Matthews
The Four Dorothys by Paul Ruditis
Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Hesser
The Misfits by James Howe
My Father’s Scar by Michael Cart
My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez
Saint Iggy by K.L. Going
The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake
So Hard To Say by Alex Sanchez
Totally Joe by James Howe
Whistle Me Home by Barbara Wersba

(SUBSTANCE ABUSE FICTION)
The After Life by Daniel Ehrenhaft
The Beast by Walter Dean Myers
Beauty Queen by Linda Glovach
Born Blue by Han Nolan
Bottled Up by Jaye Murray
Candy by Kevin Brooks
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Crosses by Shelley Stoehr
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! by M.E.
Kerr
Falling: What Can You Hold On To? by
Doug Wilhelm
Game by Teresa Toten
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Imani: in Never Say Goodbye by Jack
Hardrick
Junk by Melvin Burgess
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
My Brother’s Keeper by Patricia
McCormick
No Problem by Dayle Campbell Gaetz
Orfe by Cynthia Voigt
Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte
The Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
RX by Tracy Lynn
Saint Iggy by K.L. Going
Six-Pack and a Fake ID by Daniel
Cohen
Smack by Melvin Burgess
Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge
The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey
True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet by Lola Douglas
The White Horse by Cynthia D. Grant