Title
Summary
Achebe,
Chinua
Things Fall Apart
A deceptively simple story about the
rise and fall of Okonkwo, a Nigerian
man caught between his warrior
ancestors and British administrators
infiltrating his village.
Alexie,
Sherman
Junior, an artist and basketball player,
leaves his school on the reservation to
The Absolutely True attend an all-white school in town. A
Diary of a Part-Time heartbreaking but funny story of trying
to overcome the worst.
Indian
Author
Alten, Steve
The Loch
Anderson,
Laurie
Catalyst
Anderson,
Laurie Halse
Prom
Anderson,
Laurie Halse
Wintergirls
Zachary Wallace realizes he holds the
key to unlocking the mystery of the
Loch Ness monster, but as his
memories drive him to madness, he
searches for anything that can help him
reclaim his life and career.
Eighteen-year-old Kate, who
sometimes chafes at being a
preacher's daughter, finds herself
losing control in her senior year as she
faces difficult neighbors, the possibility
that she may not be accepted by the
college of her choice, and an
unexpected death.
Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to
do with senior prom, but when disaster
strikes and her desperate friend, Nat,
needs her help to get it back on track,
Ash's involvement transforms her life.
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms
with her best friend's death frm
anorexia as she struggles with the
same disorder.
Anderson,
M.T.
Diaries and letters chronicle the
The Astonishing Life experiences of Octavian, as he is
of Octavian Nothing, brought up as part of a science
Traitor to the Nation experiment in the years leading up to
and during the Revolutionary War.
(Volume 1 or 2)
In the future, most people have
computer implants in their heads to
control their environment and sell them
things. A boy meets an unusual girl
Anderson,
who is in serious trouble.
M.T.
Feed
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in
sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya
Angelou writes from the heart and
The Complete
Collected Poems of celebrates life as only she has
discovered it.
Angelou, Maya Maya Angelou
West Of Kabul,
East Of New York:
An Afghan
Ansary, Tamin American Story
Armstrong,
It’s Not About the
Lance
Bike
Aronson,
Marc, and
Patty
Cambpell
War Is...:Soldiers,
Survivors, and
Storytellers Talk
About War
Ansary, son of an Afghan father and
American mother, describes living in
Afghanistan and in America, where he
has lived since he was 16. On Sept.
12, 2001 he emailed his friends to
express his feelings about the Taliban,
and gained worldwide attention.
Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong
describes his triumph over cancer.
Is war noble? Or is it delusional?
Aronson and Campbell have
commissioned and edited nearly
twenty pieces of fiction and nonfiction
as varied and complex as war itself.
Barker, Clive
Black, Holly
Blais,
Madeleine
Abarat
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown,
Minnesota, journeys to the Abarat, an
archipelago filled with strange
wonders, and has a curious revelation:
she has been here before, and it is her
responsibility to save the mysterious
place from the evil forces that threaten
it.
Sixteen-year-old Kaye finds herself an
unwilling pawn in an ancient power
struggle between two rival faerie
Tithe (or other
kingdoms - a struggle that could very
books in trilogy:
well mean her death.
Valiant, Ironside)
Chronicles one basketball season of a
In These Girls Hope girls' high school team in Amherst,
Is a Muscle
Massachusetts.
What I Saw and
Blundell, Judy How I Lied
In 1947, with her stepfather Joe back
from the war and family life returning to
normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the
handsome young ex-GI who seems to
have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself
caught in a complicated web of lies
whose devastating outcome will
change her life and that of her family
forever.
Bondoux,
Anne-Laure
A young boy, Paolo, and the man who
murdered his parents, Angel, gradually
become like father and son as they live
and work together on the remote
Chilean farm where Paolo was born.
The Killer’s Tears
Bragg, Rick
Bray, Libba
All Over But The
Shoutin’
The author recalls his poverty-stricken
youth in Alabama in the 1960s and
70s, focusing on the extraordinary
efforts of his mother to protect her
sons from the violence of their father, a
man scarred by war, and telling of the
sacrifices she made so her children
could have a better life.
A Great and
Terrible Beauty (or
sequel: Rebel
Angels)
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 powers and her ability to see into
the spirit world.
Brooke,
Michael
Concrete Wave:
The History Of
Skateboarding
Brooks,
Martha
True Confessions
Of a Heartless Girl
The amazing history of an exhilarating
sport, from the early years of clay
wheels in the 1950s through the
modern technology of the 1990s.
Features interviews with some of the
world's top skaters.
A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a
single mother and her young son, two
elderly women, and a sad and lonely
man, with their own individual tragedies
to bear, come together in a small
Manitoba town and find a way to a
better future.
Bunce,
Elizabeth C.
Caletti, Deb
Upon the death of her father,
seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles
to keep the family's woolen mill running
in the face of an overwhelming
mortgage and what the local villagers
believe is a curse, but when a man
capable of spinning straw into gold
appears on the scene she must decide
Curse Dark as Gold if his help is worth the price.
Fortunes of Indigo
Skye
Eighteen-year-old Indigo is looking
forward to becoming a full-time
waitress after high school graduation,
but her life is turned upside down by a
large check given to her by a customer
who appreciates that she cares
enough to scold him about smoking.
Cashore,
Kristen
Graceling (or
sequel: Fire)
In a world where some people are
born with extreme and often-feared
skills called Graces, Katsa struggles
for redemption from her own horrifying
Grace of killing and teams up with
another young fighter to save their land
from a corrupt king.
Chang, Jeff
Can't Stop, Won't
Stop: A Visual
Exploration of Every
Known Atom in the
Universe
The epic story of hip-hop, from its
intellectual roots in cultural and political
movements to the emergence of hiphop activism. Based on interviews with
pioneers of the movement, from DJ
Kool Herc to Chuck D.
ClementMoore,
Rosemary
Colfer, Eoin
Conroy, Pat
Cormier,
Robert
Cox, Lynne
Coy, John
Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer but even
smarter. Maggie Quinn, girl reporter,
honors student, newspaper staffer,
yearbook photographer. Six weeks
from graduation and all she wants to
do is get out of Avalon High in one
Prom Dates from
Hell (or sequel: Hell piece, but fate seems to have different
plans. Involving demons.
Week)
In the 1890s on an island off the Irish
coast, Conor Broekhart is falsely
imprisoned and passes the solitary
months by scratching designs of flying
machines into the walls, including one
for a glider with which he dreams of
escape.
Airman
The author reflects on his days as a
basketball player at the Citadel.
Though the team went 8-17 his senior
year, Conroy writes that sometimes
you learn more by losing than by
My Losing Season winning.
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
In the Middle of the some of the survivors still blame his
Night
father.
Distance swimmer Lynne Cox
describes her emotional and spiritual
Swimming To
need to swim and about the mythical
Antarctica
act of swimming itself.
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.
Crutcher,
Chris
Ironman
Crutcher,
Chris
Whale Talk
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.
T.J., is good-looking, talented,
multiracial, and adopted. He hates
everything about organized sports at
his high school, but agrees to form a
swim team -- only to recruit some of
the school's least popular and least
athletic students.
Deadline
Given the diagnosis of one year to live,
high school senior Ben Wolf decides to
fulfill his greatest fantasies and figure
out his life's legacy.
Crutcher,
Chris
Davis, Tanita
S.
De la Cruz,
Melissa
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 African American in 1940s
Alabama and serving in Europe during
World War II as a member of the
Women's Army Corps.
Mare's War
Blue Bloods
Schuyler Van Alen, a loner at a
prestigious New York City private
school, sets out to learn the secrets of
the Blue Bloods, an ancient group of
vampires.
Dessen, Sarah Lock and Key
Ruby is used to taking care of herself.
But now she's living in a fancy new
house with her sister Cora, who she
hasn't seen in ten years, and her
husband Jamie. She's attending
private school, wearing new clothes,
and for the first time, feels the promise
of a future that includes college and
family. So why is she so wary?
Dessen, Sarah Along for the Ride
When Auden impulsively goes to stay
with her father, stepmother, and new
baby sister the summer before she
starts college, all the trauma of her
parents' divorce is revived, even as
she is making new friends and having
new experiences such as learning to
ride a bike and dating.
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
Dessen, Sarah Someone Like You first serious relationship
Doctorow,
Cory
Little Brother
Marcus and his friends find themselves
caught in the aftermath of a major
terrorist attack on San Francisco. In
the wrong place at the wrong time,
Marcus and his crew are arrested and
use their tech skills to fight back.
Dolamore,
Jaclyn
A wealthy sorcerer's invitation to sing
with his automaton leads seventeenyear-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.
Magic Under Glass
While running away from a London
foster home just before her fifteenth
birthday, Holly has ample time to
consider her years of residential care
and her early life with her Irish mother,
Dowd, Siobhan Solace of the Road whom she is now trying to reach.
Dowd, Siobhan Bog Child
In 1981, the height of Ireland's
"Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is
distracted from his upcoming exams
by his imprisoned brother's hunger
strike, the stress of being a courier for
Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered
girl whose body he discovered in a
bog.
Draper,
Sharon
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 Mose,
Florida, a Spanish colony that gives
sanctuary to slaves.
Copper Sun
Dwyer, Jim
Tells of the men and women who
saved themselves and others in the
final minutes before the World Trade
Towers collapsed on September 11,
102 Minutes: The
Untold Story Of The 2001, with testimonies from workers in
the buildings, police and fire personnel,
Fight To Survive
a construction manager, and a window
Inside The Twin
washer.
Towers
Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his
own twins during a snowstorm in 1964
with only a nurse to help him, makes a
decision that has far-reaching effects:
his infant daughter is born with Down
Syndrome and he orders the nurse to
The Memory
Edwards, Kim Keeper’s Daughter take the baby to an institution.
Engle,
Margarita
Ferguson,
Alane
Ferris, Jean
In the 19th century, Cuba fought a
series of three wars for independence.
In this novel in verse, acclaimed poet
Margarita Engle creates a lyrical,
The Surrender
powerful portrait of these struggles,
Tree: Poems of
Cuba's Struggle for seen through the eyes of Rosa, a
nurse and healer.
Freedom
On the payroll as an assistant to her
coroner father, seventeen-year-old
Cameryn Mahoney uses her
knowledge of forensic medicine to
catch the killer of a friend while putting
The Christopher
herself in terrible danger.
Killer
Of Sound Mind
Tired of interpreting for his deaf family
and resentful of their reliance on him,
high school senior Theo finds support
and understanding from Ivy, a new
student who also has a deaf parent.
Flake, Sharon Bang!
A teenage boy must face the harsh
realities of inner city life, a
disintegrating family, and destructive
temptations as he struggles to find his
identity as a young man.
Forman, Gayle If I Stay
Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is
starved for money. She is afraid.
Memories of being homeless, sleeping
in the streets, and eating handouts
keep Raspberry's eye on the only prize
that matters to her, cold, hard cash.
In a coma following a horrific
automobile accident, seventeen-yearold Mia, a gifted cellist, relives
moments from her life as she tries to
decide if she can live with all she has
lost.
Frazier,
Charles
Thirteen Moons
Will Cooper is sent to work a trading
post on the edge of the Cherokee
Nation's land, where he spends his life
learning about and defending the lives
of Native Americans and falling in love
with the wife of a successful Cherokee
landowner and patriarch.
Freedom
Writers
From the moment they named
themselves "The Freedom Writers", in
honor of the Civil Rights leaders, the
Freedom Writers
Freedom Riders, the students of room
Diary: How a
203 changed from a group of
Teacher and 150
Teens Used Writing apathetic, frustrated students to a
closely knit, motivated family. This is a
to Change
Themselves and the true story of strength, courage, and
World Around Them achievement in the face of adversity.
Flake, Sharon Money Hungry
Gallo, Don
What Are You
Afraid Of? Stories
About Phobias
Gantos, Jack
Hole in My Life
George,
Madeleine
Ten short stories by well-known
authors featuring teenagers with
phobias, including fear of gaining
weight, fear of clowns, and fear of cats.
The true story of Jack Gantos's early
life, when his involvement in an illadvised drug smuggling plot led to
years in federal prison, where he finally
began to realize his dream of
becoming a writer.
Two high school girls, one an anorexic
poet and the other an obese loner,
form an unlikely friendship.
Looks
Tells the life stories of 19th century
actors and brothers Edwin and John
Good Brother, Bad Wilkes Booth, chronicling John's
Brother: The Story assassination of Abraham Lincoln and
Giblin, James of Edwin Booth and the impact of the crime on the Booth
John Wilkes Booth family for decades afterward.
Cross
Rob, the charismatic leader of the
senior class, provokes unexpected
violence when he turns the school nerd
Giles, Gail
Shattering Glass
into Prince Charming.
Godberson,
Anna
The Luxe (or other
books in quartet:
Rumors, Envy,
Splendor)
Going, K. L.
Fat Kid Rules the
World
In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of
different social classes lead
dangerously scandalous lives, despite
the strict rules of society and the bestlaid plans of parents.
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed,
suicidal, and weighing nearly three
hundred pounds, gets a new
perspective on life when Curt, a semihomeless teen who is a genius on
guitar, asks Troy to be the drummer in
a rock band.
The Bee Season
Eliza Naumann is used to being the
unremarkable member of her family,
but when she wins a series of spelling
bees, her once distant family begins to
lavish praise on her, bringing about
surprising complications.
Kicked Out
No one loves Dime -- or so she thinks.
Acting out and defying every parental
rule become a daily routine, until the 15
year-old's parents decide that she is
out of control and agree to let her live
with her older brother, who is a
quadriplegic.
Samurai Shortstop
While obtaining a Western education at
a prestigious Japanese boarding
school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo
also receives traditional samurai
training which has profound effects on
both his baseball game and his
relationship with his father.
Goldberg,
Myla
Goobie, Beth
Gratz, Alan
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, the new girl at
Evernight boarding school, is drawn to
another outsider -- Jared -- but dark
forces threaten to tear them apart and
destroy Bianca's entire world.
Gray, Claudia Evernight
The photographs in this book are the
most complete representation
The Elements: A
Visual Exploration of available of every single element in the
Gray,
Every Known Atom universe. Based on five years of
research.
Theodore
in the Universe
Green, John
An Abundance Of
Katherines
Green, John
Paper Towns
Halam, Ann
Siberia
Having been dumped for the
nineteenth time by a girl named
Katherine, recent high school graduate
and former child prodigy Colin sets off
on a road trip with his best friend to find
new direction in life while also trying to
create a mathematical formula to
explain his relationships.
One month before graduating from his
Central Florida high school, Quentin
"Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable
boringness of his life until the beautiful
and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman,
Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him
on a midnight adventure and then
mysteriously disappears.
After spending two years at a prison
school, thirteen-year-old Sloe sets off
on a trek across frozen wastelands,
tending to the secret "seeds" of wild
animals her mother left in her care,
trying to reach a new life for all of
them.
Heinlein,
Robert
Starship Troopers
Follows an army recruit of the future
through the toughest boot camp of the
Universe--and into battle with the
Terran Mobile Infantry against
mankind's most alarming enemy.
A history and celebration of the Harlem
Harlem Stomp! A
Renaissance, a period of intellectual,
Cultural History Of artistic, literary, and political
Hill, Laban
The Harlem
blossoming for African-Americans in
Carrick
Renaissance
New York and across the U.S.
A novel, presented in comic book
format, of "The 9/11 Commission
Report," and the results of the
investigation of the September 11,
The 9/11 Report: A 2001 terrorist attacks on the United
Jacobson, Sid Graphic Adaptation States.
Seventeen-year-old football hero
Austin, trying to understand the
inexplicable depression that has
drained his interest in life, thinks that
he has found relief in a girl who seems
very special.
Jenkins, A.M. Damage
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has
been stuck for fifty-one years in a
boring support group for vampires, and
nothing exciting has ever happened to
them - until one of them is murdered
The Reformed
Jinks,
Vampires Support and the others must try to solve the
crime.
Catherine
Group
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes
forever when he becomes a father and
Johnson,
must care for his adored baby
Angela
The First Part Last daughter.
Johnson,
Maureen
When seventeen-year-old Ginny
receives a packet of mysterious
envelopes from her favorite aunt, she
leaves New Jersey to criss-cross
Thirteen Little Blue Europe on a scavenger hunt that
transforms her life.
Envelopes
Jones, Frewin Faerie Path
Jones, Patrick Nailed
The Boy Who
Kamkwamba, Harnessed the
William
Wind
Kantor,
Melissa
Kass, Pnina
Moed
Anita, an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl,
is transported from modern-day
London to the realm of Faerie where
she discovers that she is Princess
Tania, the long-lost daughter of King
Oberon and Queen Titania.
An outcast in a school full of jocks,
sixteen-year-old Bret struggles to keep
his individuality through his interest in
drama and music, while trying to
reconnect with his father.
The author details how he ignored
naysayers and was able to bring
electricity and running water to his
Malawian village when he built a
makeshift windmill out of scrap metal
and spare parts.
High school sophomore Lucy Norton's
life is turned upside down when her
father remarries and moves Lucy to
Long Island, where she finds herself
trapped in a Cinderella story with a
wicked stepmother, two evil
If I Have a Wicked stepsisters, and a dashing prince who
could make all Lucy's dreams come
Stepmother,
Where’s My Prince? true.
Real Time
A suicide bomb on a crowded bus, told
from the viewpoints of the passengers
and their families and friends.
Katz, Jon
Geeks: How Two
Lost Boys Rode the
Internet out of Idaho
Katz, Jon
A Dog Year, Twelve
Months, Four Dogs,
and Me
Tells the true story of Jesse and Eric,
nineteen-year-old roommates in the
small town of Caldwell, Idaho who
changed their lives and built a new
future for themselves with the power of
the Internet.
Jon Katz describes the experiences he
and his dogs had as they adjusted to
the newest member of their family, a
two-year-old border collie named
Devon.
Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland, lost in
the woods after she wanders off to
escape the bickering between her
mom and her brother, boosts her
courage by imagining that her hero,
Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Tom
The Girl Who Loved Gordon, is with her, helping her survive
an unknown enemy.
King, Stephen Tom Gordon
Justin spends time with Jinsen, the
unusual and artistic new student whom
the school bullies torment and call
Buddha Boy, and ends up making
choices that impact Jinsen, himself,
and the entire school.
Koja, Kathe
Buddha Boy
High school senior Leo Caraway, a
conservative Republican, learns that
his biological father is a punk rock
legend.
Korman,
Gordon
Born to Rock
Kuklin, Susan No Choirboy
Takes readers into American prisons
and allows inmates sentenced to death
as teenagers to speak for themselves.
Kurson,
Robert
Tells the story of the discovery in 1991
Shadow Divers: The of a World War II German U-boat,
True Story Of Two sunk sixty miles off the coast of New
Jersey, by deep sea divers John
Americans Who
Risked Everything Chatterton and Richie Kohler, and their
six year obsession with identifying the
To Solve One Of
The Last Mysteries submarine which sank with its crew
onboard.
Of World War II
Lahiri, Jhumpa The Namesake
Lanagan,
Margo
Black Juice
Lester, Julius
Day of Tears: A
Novel In Dialogue
Link, Kelly
Pretty Monsters
Lockhart, E.
The Boy Book
A young man born of Indian parents in
America struggles with issues of
identity from his teens to his thirties.
Provides glimpses of the beauty of the
human spirit through ten short stories
that explore significant moments in
people's lives, events leading to them,
and their consequences.
Based on the true story of Emma, a
slave, who was sold as part of the
largest slave auction in American
history in Georgia in 1859 in order to
help a master pay off his gambling
debts.
Nine grotesque, startling, and weirdly
funny short stories about ghosts,
werewolves, ghosts, magic, blood, and
monsters.
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.
The Disreputable
History of Frankie
Landau-Banks
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.
Lyga, Barry
The Astonishing
Adventures of
Fanboy and Goth
Girl
A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a
list of the high school jocks and others
who torment him, and pours his energy
into creating a great graphic novel,
encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps
change his outlook on almost
everything, including himself.
Mackler,
Carolyn
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
The Earth, My Butt, with her self-image, her first physical
relationship, and her disillusionment
and Other Big
with some of the people closest to her.
Round Things
Maguire,
Gregory
Mirror, Mirror
A retelling of Snow White, set in 16thcentury Italy. Bianca de Nevada's
beloved father is sent on an errand by
Cesare Borgia, leaving her in the care
of Borgia's sister Lucrezia, a decadent
woman who orders the child killed.
Maraniss,
David
A biography of major league baseball
player Roberto Clemente, chronicling
Clemente: The
Passion and Grace his childhood in Nicaragua, his
of Baseball’s Last eighteen distinguished seasons, his
charity work, and his tragic death.
Hero
Lockhart, E.
Five adventurous sisters. Four dark
creatures. Three magical gifts. Two
forbidden lovers. One enchanted frog.
Wildwood Dancing Cross the threshold into the Wildwood,
(or sequel: Cybele's and enter a land of magic, daring,
betrayal and true love.
Marillier, Juliet Secret)
Fifteen-year-old Tristan deals with
intensified criticism about his weight
when the nutrition-obsessed daughter
of his mother's boyfriend, Frank,
moves in.
Marino, Peter Dough Boy
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has
the rare ability to see fairies, is drawn
against her will into a centuries-old
battle by Keenan, the terrifying but
alluring Summer King, who determines
that she must become his queen and
save summer from perishing.
Marr, Melissa Wicked Lovely
Martel, Yann
Life of Pi
Martino, Alfred
C.
Pinned
Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic
childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the
son of a zookeeper sets off with his
family at the age of sixteen to start
anew in Canada, but his life takes a
marvelous turn when their ship sinks in
the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft
with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for
company.
Dealing with family problems, girls, and
their own competitive natures, high
school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby
Zane face each other in the final match
of the New Jersey State Wrestling
Championship.
McBride,
James
McCaffrey,
Anne
McCormick,
Patricia
McKernan,
Victoria
The Color of Water:
A Black Man’s
An African-American male tells of his
Tribute to His White mother, a white woman, who refused
Mother
to admit her true identity.
Lessa of Pern, sole survivor of the
Dragonflight (or any noble Ruathan hold, plots to regain her
birthright and finds her place as
book in the
Weyrwoman to the golden dragon,
Dragonriders of
Ramoth.
Pern series)
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 ten-yearold friend, Ali.
Purple Heart
In 1866, fifteen-year-old Aidan and his
thirteen-year-old sister Maddy,
penniless orphans, leave droughtstricken Kansas on a wagon train
hoping for a better life in Seattle, but
find there are still many hardships to be
Devil's Paintbox
faced
Wake (or other
books in trilogy:
McMann, Lisa Gone, Fade)
McNamee,
Graham
Bonechiller
Ever since she was eight years old,
high school student Janie Hannagan
has been uncontrollably drawn into
other people's dreams, but it is not until
she befriends an elderly nursing home
patient and becomes involved with an
enigmatic fellow-student that she
discovers her true power.
Four high school students face off
against a soul-stealing beast that has
been making young people disappear
in their small Ontario, Canada, town for
centuries
Melling, O.R.
Michaelis,
Antnoia
Moodley,
Ermila
Two teenage cousins, one Irish, the
other from the United States, set out to
find a magic doorway to the Faraway
Country, where humans must bow to
The Hunter’s Moon the little people.
Tiger Moon
Path to My African
Eyes
Myers, Walter The Greatest:
Dean
Muhammad Ali
Myers, Walter
Dean
Monster
Sold to be the eighth wife of a rich and
cruel merchant, Safia, also called
Raka, tries to escape her fate by telling
stories of Farhad the thief, his
companion Nitish the white tiger, and
their travels across India to retrieve a
famous jewel that will save a
kidnapped princess from becoming the
bride of a demon king
Fourteen-year-old Thandi Sobukwe
must say goodbye to all her friends
and family in South Africa when her
father accepts a position in Buena
Vista, California; but adjusting to a new
life in a different culture proves to be
difficult for the young girl.
An illustrated biography of boxing great
Muhammad Ali that addresses his
politics, his fight against Parkinson's
disease, and the dangers of boxing.
While on trial as an accomplice to
murder, sixteen-year-old Steve
Harmon records his experiences in
prison and in the cortroom in the form
of a film script as he tries to come to
terms with the course his life has
taken.
Myers, Walter Sunrise Over
Dean
Fallujah
Instead of heading to college, Harlem
teen Robin Perry joins the army and is
sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of
the Civil Affairs Battalion, and his time
there profoundly changes him.
Na, An
Wait For Me
Approaching her senior year of high
school, Mina is stifled as much by the
California heat as by working at the
family business, taking care of her little
sister, and dealing with her mother's
impossible expectations, until she falls
in love with a man who offers a way
out.
A Step From
Heaven
On her first airplane ride, from Korea to
the U.S., Young Ju believes she is on
her way to heaven, where she hopes to
be reunited with her grandparents, but
her family's destination turns out to be
anything but calm.
Na, An
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 antiimmigration sentiment is strong, so
despite his attempts to be polite and to
follow American customs, disaster
dogs his family at every turn
Nelson,
Marilyn
A Wreath For
Emmett Till
Nolan, Han
If I Should Die
Before I Wake
This book is a memorial to the young
African American boy who was brutally
murdered in 1955 for supposedly
whistling at a white woman in
Mississippi. The author reminds us of a
boy whose fate helped spark the civil
rights movement. This wise book is
both haunting and memorable.
As Hilary, a Neo-Nazi initiate, lies in a
coma, she is transported back to
Poland at the onset of World War II
into the life of a Jewish teenager.
Norman,
Elizabeth
We Band Of
Angels: The Untold
Story Of American
Nurses Trapped On
Bataan By The
Japanese
Chronicles the experiences of ninetynine Army and Navy nurses who were
captured when the Japanese Imperial
Navy attacked the American bases
located in the Philippines.
Northrop,
Michael
Gentlemen
When three high school boys suspect
that their English teacher is responsible
for their friend's disappearance, they
must navigate a maze of assorted
clues, fraying friendships, violence, and
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
before learning the truth.
November
Firebirds Rising: An
Anthology of
Original Science
Fiction and Fantasy
Sixteen science fiction and fantasy
stories by highly regarded writers from
Tamora Pierce to Kara Dalkey to
Charles de Lint.
Nye, Naomi
Shihab
A collection of poems and short prose
pieces that reflect on the topics that
are most important to people, including
love, memories, war, and the planet.
Honeybee
In My Hands:
Recounts the experiences of the author
Memories Of A
who, as a young Polish girl, hid and
Opdyke, Irene Holocaust Rescuer saved Jews during the Holocaust.
The Puerto Rican-born author shares
recollections of the bilingual, bicultural
childhood she experienced, moving
between her island home and New
Jersey as a result of her father's Navy
Ortiz Cofer,
career.
Judith
Silent Dancing
Partridge,
Elizabeth
John Lennon: All I
Want Is The Truth
Presents a biography of musician John
Lennon, chronicling his life and times
from his troubled childhood in
Liverpool, England, through his career,
writing, recording, and performing as a
member of the Beatles.
Full of fear and excitement, a young
woman journeys to a distant castle on
the back of a great white bear, only to
find that her journey has just begun.
Pattou, Edith
East
In the not-to-distant future, seventeenyear-old Jenna wakes up from a
Adoration of Jenna serious accident and begins to suspect
that she isn't who she used to be.
Pearson, Mary Fox
The final entry in a trilogy of memoirs
in which Dave Pelzer, brutally abused
as a child, discusses the struggles he
faced as an adult, and his
determination to have a meaningful life.
Pelzer, Dave
A Man Named Dave
Pena, Matt de
la
Ball Don’t Lie
Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play
basketball at school and at Lincoln
Recreation Center in Los Angeles and
is headed for the pros, but he is
unaware of the many dangers-including his own past--that threaten
his dream.
Pena, Matt de
la
We Were Here
Haunted by the event that sentences
him to time in a group home, Miguel
breaks out with two unlikely
companions and together they begin
their journey down the California coast
hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
Picoult, Jodi
Pierce,
Tamora
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived
specifically to provide blood and bone
marrow for her sister Kate who was
diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia
at the age of two, decides to sue her
parents for control of her body when
her mother wants her to donate a
My Sister's Keeper kidney to Kate.
Beka Cooper:
Terrier (or sequel:
Beka Cooper:
Bloodhound)
When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes
apprenticed to the Provost's Guards,
she uses her police training, natural
abilities, and a touch of magic to help
them solve the case of a murdered
baby in Tortall's Lower City.
The Botany of
Desire: A Plant'sEye View of the
Pollan, Michael World
Traces the history of four domesticated
species -- the apple, the tulip,
marijuana, and the potato -- from the
plant's point of view and discusses how
they have been cultivated to fill human
needs and desires
Go undercover in the supermarket.
Delve behind the scenes of your dinner
-- by the time you've digested the last
page you'll have put together the
The Omnivore's
Dilemma: A Natural fascinating (and sometimes disturbing)
puzzle of what's on your plate and how
History of Four
it got there.
Pollan, Michael Meals
Quindlen,
Anna
Rosoff, Meg
Blessings
Lives are changed forever when a
teenaged couple leave the baby they
cannot keep in a box on the grounds of
the Blessings estate, and caretaker
Skip Cuddy, aided by matriarch Lydia
Blessing, decides to keep and raise
the infant.
How I Live Now
A post-apocalyptic survival story.
Fifteen-year-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.
Runyon, Brent The Burn Journals
The true story of Brent Runyon, who at
fourteen set himself on fire and
sustained burns over eighty percent of
his body, and was forced to spend
months in painful rehabilitation while
attempting to understand his life.
Ryan, Carrie
The Forest of
Hands and Teeth
Salisbury,
Graham
Eyes Of the
Emperor
Scott,
Elizabeth
Love You, Hate
You, Miss You
Mary's village is surrounded by a
fence. Outside the fence is the Forest
of Hands and Teeth, full of the zombielike Unconsecrated. Mary, no longer
content to live by the rules of the
Sisterhood that govern the village, is
forced to seek what lies beyond.
A sixteen-year-old Japanese American
boy enlists in the army before Pearl
Harbor, and, despite intense racism,
learns to train an experimental K-9 unit.
How do you survive after killing your
best friend? Sixteen-year-old Amy
sorts out conflicting emotions about her
best friend Julia's death in a car
accident for which she feels
responsible.
David Sedaris describes the struggles
he has had in life due to his voice
problems, discussing how his voice
Me Talk Pretty One has affected his personal relationships,
his career, and his family life.
Sedaris, David Day
Recounts the author's experiences
while staying with a bookseller named
Sultan Khan and his family in
Seierstad,
The Bookseller Of Afghanistan just after the fall of the
Taliban in 2003.
Asne
Kabul
This riveting portrait reveals the life
story of Harper Lee, the author of To
Kill a Mockingbird, one of the most
I Am Scout:
Shields,
Biography of Harper widely read novels in American
literature.
Charles
Lee
The Truth Teller’s
Shinn, Sharon Tale
Twins Eleda, who can tell only the
truth, and Adele, who cannot reveal
others' secrets, are tested by the
arrival of a pair of handsome dance
instructors who seem to harbor a deep
secret.
Shull, Megan
Teen superstar Grace Kincaid
telephones her mother that she wants
out of the multi-million dollar
endorsements and celebrity, and soon
she finds herself in hiding with a new
name and a new identity.
Amazing Grace
The Hoopster (or
other books in
trilogy: Hip Hop
Sitomer, Alan High School,
Homeboyz)
Lawrence
Follows African American teenagers
throughout four years in an inner-city
high school, starting with a vicious
attack on Andre Anderson, who loves
to play basketball but must question
everything, even his deadly jumpshot.
Smith, Sherri
L.
Flygirl
During World War II, a light-skinned
African American girl "passes" for
white in order to join the Women
Airforce Service Pilots.
The Afterlife
A ghost story with a twist. Dead for no
good reason, East Fresno HS senior
Chuy lives on as a ghost after his
brutal murder in the restroom of a club
where he went to dance.
Soto, Gary
A Gathering of
Stahler, David Shades
Having moved with his mother to a
remote corner of Vermont after his
father's death, sixteen-year-old Aidan
learns much about his family, including
that ghosts inhabit an ancient orchard
on the family farm, sustained by his
grandmother.
Staples,
Suzanne
Fisher
A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends
an American woman, Nusrat in
Peshawar, Pakistan, after Najmah
flees her native Afghanistan during the
2001 war; and together they begin a
long journey to located their missing
loved ones after the war ends.
Under the
Persimmon Tree
In all the years she has watched the
wolves in the woods behind her house,
Grace has been particularly drawn to
an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his
turn, has been watching her with
increasing intensity.
Stiefvater,
Maggie
Shiver (or sequel:
Linger)
Stork,
Francisco X.
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-yearold boy on the high-functioning end of
the autistic spectrum, faces new
challanges, including romance and
injustice, when he goes to work in the
Marcelo in the Real mailroom of his father's corporate law
firm.
World
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.
Eugenides, still known as a Thief of
Eddis, faces palace intrigue and
assassins as he strives to prove
himself both to the people of Attolia
Turner, Megan
Whalen
The King Of Attolia and to his new bride, their queen.
Emperors And
Idiots: The HundredYear Rivalry
The story of the hundred-year rivalry
Between The
between the Yankees and Red Sox,
Yankees And The from the very beginning to the end of
the curse.
Vaccaro, Mike Red Sox
When a series of chance events
leaves him in possession of an urn of
ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner,
Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that
its occupant, Violet Park, is
communicating with him, initiating a
voyage of self-discovery that forces
him to finally confront the events
surrounding his father's sudden
Valentine,
Me, the Missing,
disappearance.
Jenny
and the Dead
A photographic negative and two
surprising new friends become the
catalyst for healing as fifteen-year-old
Rowan struggles to keep her family
and her life together after her brother's
death.
Valentine,
Jenny
Broken Soup
New York City teenager Craig Gilner
succumbs to academic and social
pressures at an elite high school and
It’s Kind Of A Funny enters a psychiatric hospital after
attempting suicide.
Vizzini, Ned
Story
A car accident causes fifteen-year-old
Izzy to lose one leg and face the need
to start building a new life as an
amputee.
Voight, Cynthia Izzy, Willy-Nilly
Volponi, Paul
Walker, Alice
Walters, Eric
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.
The Color Purple
Tells the story of two African American
sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa,
and Celie, a child-wife living in the
South, in the medium of their letters to
each other and in Celie's case, the
desperate letters she begins, "Dear
God."
When Elephants
Fight
Provides true accounts of the lives of
five children growing up in the midst of
war in Sri Lanka, Uganda, Sarajevo,
Afghanistan, and the Sudan, and
examines the history of each conflict.
When he and his high-school
basketball teammates steal from a
fraternity house in their small Indiana
town, Nate contends with his guilt, his
loyalty to his friends, and his desire to
help his older brother who comes
Waltman,
Kevin
Learning the Game under suspicion for the crime.
Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts
his attempts, starting at a young age,
to free himself and his sisters from the
grip of their emotionally abusive
The Rules Of
mother.
Werlin, Nancy Survival
Whelan, Gloria The Disappeared
In the future, when everyone turns
sixteen they get an operation to "make
them pretty." Tally is faced with a
difficult choice when her new friend
Shay decides to risk life on the outside
rather than submit to the operation.
The Pretty world is not all it appears.
Teenaged Silvia tries to save her
brother, Eduardo, after he is captured
by the military government in 1970's
Argentina.
WilliamsGarcia, Rita
The lives of Leticia, Dominique, and
Trina are irrevocably intertwined
through the course of one day in an
urban high school after Leticia
overhears Dominique's plan to beat up
Trina and must decide whether or not
to get involved.
Westerfeld,
Scott
Uglies (or other
books in quartet:
Pretties, Specials,
Extras)
Jumped
Wittlinger,
Ellen
Hard Love
Wooding,
Chris
Storm Thief
Woodson,
Jacqueline
Behind You
After starting to publish a magazine in
which he writes his secret feelings
about his lonely life and his parents'
divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets
an unusual girl and begins to develop a
healthier personality.
Two teenagers try to survive on the
city island of Orokos, where
unpredictable probability storms
continually change both the landscape
and the inhabitants.
After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is
mistakenly shot by police, the people
who love him struggle to cope with
their loss as they recall his life and
death, unaware that Miah is watching
over them.
Wynne-Jones,
Tim
The Uninvited
Zevin,
Gabrielle
Elsewhere
After a disturbing freshman year at
New York University, Mimi is happy to
get away to her father's remote
Canadian cottage only to discover a
stranger living there who has never
heard of her or her father and who is
convinced that Mimi is responsible for
leaving sinister tokens around the
property.
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."
Zusak, Marcus The Book Thief
Trying to make sense of the horrors of
World War II, Death relates the story
of Liesel--a young German girl whose
book-stealing and story-telling talents
help sustain her family and the Jewish
man they are hiding, as well as their
neighbors.
I Am The
Zusak, Marcus Messenger
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen
year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins
receiving mysterious messages that
direct him to addresses where people
need help, and he begins getting over
his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
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