Troubled Teens
After
Amy Efaw
Grades 9-12
In complete denial
that she is pregnant,
straight-A student and
star athlete Devon
Davenport leaves her
baby in the trash to
die, and after the baby
is discovered, Devon
is accused of
attempted murder.
Two young
Aboriginal sisters are
removed from their
family.
April Raintree
Beatrice Mosionier
Grades 9-12
Bad
Jean Ferris
Grades 9-11
In an attempt to please
her friends, sixteenyear-old Dallas goes
along with their plan
to rob a convenience
store and she is
sentenced to six
months in the Girls'
Rehabilitation Center
Begging for Change
Sharon Flake
Grades 9-11
Burn Journals
Brent Runyon
Grades 9-12
Raspberry Hill tries to
sort out her confused
feelings of disgust,
shame, and love for
her homeless, drug
addicted father and
worries that she may
have inherited his
lying and stealing
ways.
A true story of when
Brent set himself on
fire at the age of
fourteen.
Cruddy: an
Lynda Barry
Grades 9-12
On a September night
in 1971, a few days
after getting busted
for dropping acid, a
sixteen-year-old curls
up in the corner of her
ratty bedroom and
begins to write.
illustrated Novel
Dancing Naked
Shelley Hrdlitschka
Grades 9-12
Story about 16-yearold Kia, whose life is
about to change
forever as she learns
she is pregnant
Dirty Little Secrets
CJ Omololu
Grades 9-10
Give a Boy a Gun
Todd Strasser
Grades 9-11
When her unstable
mother dies
unexpectedly, sixteenyear-old Lucy must
find a way to keep the
secret of her mother's
hoarding from being
revealed.
Story of bullying,
guns, and hostage
situation at a school
dance.
Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
Grades 9-12
Kissing Doorknobs
Terry Spencer Hesser
Grades 9-11
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
Grades 9-12
The writer, Jeanette
Walls, is one of four
children brought up
by parents who are
totally eccentric and
often dangerously
neglectful.
Fourteen-year-old
Tara describes how
her increasingly
strange compulsions
begin to take over her
life and affect her
relationships with her
family and friends.
Susie relates the awful
events of her death
and her own
adjustment to the
strange new place she
finds herself.
Lullabies for Little
Criminals
Heather O’Neill
Grades 9-12
Me Myself and Ike
K.L. Denman
Grades 9-11
My book of life by
Angel
Martine Leavitt
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
Grades 9-12
Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Grades 9-12
Perfect
Ellen Hopkins
Grades 10-12
Runaway Devil
Robert Remington
Grades 10-12
Silent to the Bone
E.L. Konigsburg
Grades 9-10
Baby’s mother is
dead; her father, Jules,
is scarcely more than
a child himself, and
always on the lookout
for his next score
Seventeen-year-old
Kit is paranoid,
confused and alone,
but neither he nor his
family and friends
understand what is
happening to him.
A school shooting
changes the lives of
everyone in this small
town.
The struggle of three
brothers to stay
together after their
parent's death and
their quest for identity
among the conflicting
values of their
adolescent society.
Four teenagers tell of
their very different
paths toward
perfection and how
their goals change
when tragedy strikes.
Murder in Medicine
Hat.
When he is wrongly
accused of gravely
injuring his baby halfsister, Branwell loses
his power of speech
and only his friend is
able to reach him and
uncover the truth
about what really
happened
A traumatic event
near the end of the
summer has a
devastating effect on
Melinda's freshman
year in high school
Hidden and intimate
stories of the struggles
faced by the teens of
64 Wilnut Street.
Sixteen-year-old
Dylan is living on the
streets, trying hard to
understand how he
got there.
Speak
Laurie Halse
Anderson
Grades 9-12
Take the Stairs
Karen Krossing
Grades 9-10
Theories of Relativity
Barbara HaworthAttard
Grades 9-11
Thirteen Reasons
Why
Jay Asher
Grades 9-12
Clay Jenkins receives
a box in the mail
containing thirteen
cassette tapes
recorded by his
classmate Hannah,
who committed
suicide.
Trigger
Susan Vaught
Grades 9-12
Wherever Nina Lies
Lynn Weingarten
Grades 9-12
Jersey Hatch must
work through his
extensive brain
damage to figure out
why he decided to
shoot himself
Two years after the
disappearance of her
older sister, sixteenyear-old Ellie goes on
a quest to find her.
Wintergirls
Laure Halse Anderson Grades 9-12
Eighteen-year-old Lia
Upgrade U
Ni Ni Simone
Grades 9-12
comes to terms with
her best friend's death
from anorexia as she
struggles with the
same disorder.
"Life is poppin' and
seventeen-year-old
Seven McKnight is
rockin' Stiles
University's hottest
baller, Josiah
Whitaker, on her arm
when it all falls apart.