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More Young Adult in:
Fairy/Folk/Legend/Myth
Some of these authors also appear in 9-12 Section |
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| YA | Abeel, Samantha | My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir [Samantha Abeel couldn't tell time, remember her locker combination, or count out change at a checkout counter -- and she was in seventh grade. For a straight-A student like Samantha, problems like these made no sense. She dreaded school, and began having anxiety attacks. In her thirteenth winter, she found the courage to confront her problems -- and was diagnosed with a learning disability.] |
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| YA | Abelove, Joan | Saying It Out Loud | @AMAZON |
| YA | Adams, Lenore | Baby Girl [a pregnant teen searches for love and acceptance.] | @AMAZON |
| A | Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | @AMAZON |
| Adams, Richard | Watership
Down
Original Map |
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| YA | Adoff, Jaime
[Interview] |
Names Will Never Hurt You [In this gripping story, set on the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of a student; four very different teens reveal their deepest feelings and fears during a day in which the hurts and struggles of high school escalate dangerously... ]
The Death of Jayson Porter [Sixteen-year-old Jayson Porter wants to believe things will get better. But the harsh realities of his life never seem to change. Living in the inland-Florida projects with his abusive mother, he tries unsuccessfully to fit in at his predominately white school, while struggling to maintain even a thread of a relationship with his drug-addicted father. As the pressure mounts, there¹s only one thing Jayson feels he has control over -- the choice of whether to live or die. This powerful, gripping novel explores the harsh reality of a teenager¹s life, giving hope even in the bleakest of hours.] |
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| YA/A | Albert, Susan Wittig | The Tale of Hill Top Farm: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Hill Top Farm: The Tale of Holly How |
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| YA | Alcott, Louisa May
MoreStory Illustrations |
The Inheritance
- previously unpublished
Little Women |
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| YA | Alexie, Sherman | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian [the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written. Chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.] | |
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YA |
Almond, David | Skellig [man, bird, or angel?]
Kit's Wilderness |
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Anonymous | Go Ask Alice [This powerful real-life diary of a teenager's struggle with the seductive -- often fatal -- world of drugs and addiction tells the truth about drugs in strong and authentic voice. Tough and uncompromising, honest and disturbing -- and even more poignant today -- Go Ask Alice is page-turning and provocative reading.] | @AMAZON
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| Anaya, Rudolfo | Bless Me, Ultima | @AMAZON | |
| YA | Anderson, Laurie Halse | Speak [A Freshman Must Read]
Catalyst |
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| YA | Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | @AMAZON |
| 12 up | Armstrong, Kelley | Darkest Powers Trilogy
The Summoning (Book One) [ My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again. All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me. Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems.] (2008) |
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| YA | Aronson, Sarah | Head Case ["One mistake. One bad night. One too many drinks." Frank Marder is a head, paralyzed from the neck down, and it's his fault. He was drinking. He was driving. Now Frank can't walk he can't move, he can't feel his skin. He needs someone to feed him to wash him, to move his body. When you're a head, do you ever feel like a whole person? Will Frank ever get to forgive himself? | @AMAZON |
| 14 up | Asher, Jay | Thirteen Reasons Why [...Hannah Baker commits suicide after leaving behind tapes and a map for thirteen people detailing the circumstances that lead to her choice. Actions have consequences. Original. Emotional. Compelling. | @AMAZON |
| Atwood, Margaret |
Susanna |
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| Austin, Jane | Pride and Prejudice [About the Book] | ||
| YA | Avi [Lesson Plans] | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Nothing But The Truth The Fighting Ground The Barn Beyond the Western Sea (Book 1) Lord Kirkle's Money (Book 2) |
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| 12+ | Bagdasarian, Adam [Interview] | Forgotten Fire [Lesson Plan]
First French Kiss: And Other Traumas [autobiographical] |
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| YA | Bauer, Marion [Teacher Resource File ] | On My Honor [Read Aloud Lesson Plan] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Bennett, Jay | Say Hello to the Hit Man: A Mystery
Sing Me a Death Song |
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| YA | Berman, Steve (Editor) | Magic in the Mirrorstone: Tales of Fantasy [In this anthology for teen readers, fifteen best-selling and acclaimed authors--including Holly Black, Cecil Castellucci, Cassandra Clare, Eugie Foster, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and Gregory Frost--weave all-new stories filled with magic. Comic and dark, epic and entertaining Young Adult fantasy.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Blacker, Terence [Interview] | The Angel Factory [good/evil, free-will/control, trust/betrayal] | ------
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| YA | Blackman, Malorie | Naughts & Crosses [The premise--what would happen if societal roles were reversed. Race relations/Romance in segregated society/Friendship.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Blank, Jessica | Almost Home [Riveting, Haunting, Heart-breaking story about an unlikely band of characters who form their own dysfunctional family, complete with love and belonging, abuse and betrayal. Each will make their way home, wherever it may be.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Block, Francesca Lia | Dangerous Angels:The Weetzie Bat Books [Interview]
ECHO The Hanged Man The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories Zine Scene |
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| YA | Bloor, Edward | Tangerine [Paul Fisher (legally blind) can see what others cannot. He can see that his parents' constant praise of his brother is to cover up something that is terribly wrong. But no one listens to Paul--until his family moves to Tangerine. Paul the geek finds himself adopted into the toughest group around: the soccer team at his middle school. This new start helps Paul finally see the truth about his past--and give him the courage to face up to his terrifying older brother.
Includes a reader's guide and an afterword by the author. |
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| YA | Blumberg, Rhoda | Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad | @AMAZON |
| YA | Blume,
Judy
[Resource File] |
Forever...
Here's to You, Rachel Robinson |
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| YA | Book, Rick | Necking with Louise | @AMAZON |
| YA | Booth, Coe | TYRELL ["You don't hardly get to have no kinda childhood in the hood." African American teen who can't get a break. He's living (for now) with his spaced-out mother and little brother in a homeless shelter. His father's in jail. His girlfriend supports him, but he doesn't feel good enough for her - and seems to be always on the verge of doing the wrong thing around her. A girl at the homeless shelter is also after him, although the desires there are complicated. Tyrell feels he needs to score some money to make things better. Will he end up following in his father's footsteps? | @AMAZON |
| YA | Bowler, Tim | Firmament [music/gangs/mixed genres]
River Boy (1998 Carnegie Melon Award) [gently illustrates the fear of a loved one's passing by using a river's timeless flow as a metaphor for the journey of life.] |
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| 13 Up | Bowsher, Melodie | My Lost and Found Life [coming of age story will resonate with every daughter who ever took her mother for granted, and every young woman who must step out on her own and not just survive, but thrive.] | @AMAZON |
| 12 up | Bradbury, Jennifer
[Interview] |
SHIFT [Cross-country bike tour/Some friends fade away....Others disappear/explore the depths of loyalty, the depths of friendship, and the unknowable depths of another person.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Bray, Libba | A Great and Terrible Beauty (Book 1)
Rebel Angels (Book 2) The Sweet Far Thing (Book 3) |
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| YA | Sue Ellen Bridgers | Notes From Another Life
Keeping Christiana Home Before Dark |
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| YA | Brink, Carol Ryrie | Buffalo Coat [love and loss] | @AMAZON |
| Brontë,Charlotte | Jane Eyre [Everything Jane Eyre] | ||
| YA | Brooks, Bruce | Midnight Hour Encores
All That Remains [Three novellas] What Hearts [Four short stories about relationships] The Moves Make the Man [Sports metaphor] |
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| YA | Brooks, Kevin | Candy [Average Joe meets Candy-prostitute-drug addict and experience the turmoil and mechanics of drug addiction] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Bryant, Jen | Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial [1925 Dayton, Tennessee/A small town is faced with astonishing, nationwide publicity: reporters, lawyers, scientists, religious leaders, and tourists. But amidst the circus-like atmosphere is a threatening sense of tension–not only in the courtroom, but among even the strongest of friends. This compelling novel in poems chronicles a controversy with a profound impact on science and culture in America–and one that continues to this day. | @AMAZON |
| YA/A | Buck, Pearl | The Good Earth | @AMAZON |
| YA | Buffie, Margaret | Out of Focus [teen girl becomes responsible for taking care of her siblings while her mother binges on alcohol.] | @AMAZON |
| All
8-12 YA |
Bunting, Eve | Fly Away Home [homeless]
The Summer of Riley Jumping the Nail [peer pressure] A Sudden Silence If I Asked You, Would You Stay? |
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| YA | Bunce, Elizabeth C. | A Curse Dark as Gold [thoughtful retelling of Rumpelstiltskin tale] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Burgess, Melvin | SMACK 1998 | @AMAZON |
| YA | Cadnum, Michael | Taking It
Edge |
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| YA | Caletti, Deb | The Nature of Jade [I am not my illness. "Girl with Anxiety," "Trauma of the Week" -- no. The one thing my illness did make me realize is how necessary it is to ignore the dangers of living in order to live. And how much trouble you can get into if you can't.] | |
| A | Campbell, Joseph | The Hero's Journey:
Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work
[Create Your Own Journey] |
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| YA | Camus, Albert | The Stranger | @AMAZON |
| YA | Cameron, Ann | The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods | @AMAZON |
| 14 up | Cameron, Peter | Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You [the pain that comes with growing up, leaving childhood, and becoming your own person] | @AMAZON |
| 11-14 | Carlson, Lori Marie (Editor0 | Voices in First Person: Reflections on Latino Identity [Wanting to belong. Wanting to go home. Love. Regret. Family. Dreams. Revenge. This eclectic, gritty, and groundbreaking collection of short monologues features twenty-one of the most respected Latino authors writing today. Their fictional narratives give voice to what it's like to be a Latino teen in America.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Carmody, Isobelle | The Gathering | @AMAZON |
| Carroll, Lewis Extensive | ON LINE TEXTS - extensive | ||
| YA+ | Cart, Michael (Editor) | Love and Sex: 10 Stories of Truth [contains some graphic content] | @AMAZON |
| YA
YA |
Carter, Alden R. | Between a Rock
and a Hard Place
Ball Catcher Dogwolf Growing Season Wart Son of Toad Sheila's Dying Up Country |
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| YA | Carlip, Hillary | Girl Power:Young
Women Speak Out
Zine Scene: The Do It Yourself Guide to Zines |
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| 10-14 | Carmi, Daniella | Samir and Yonatan 2000 (Life on West Bank) | @AMAZON |
| YA | Chan, Gillian | The Turning [graphic language/ father-son relationship/new start in life after death of mother] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Chbosky, Stephen | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | @AMAZON |
| YA | Choi, Sook Nyul | Year of Impossible
Goodbyes
Echoes of the White Giraffe Gathering of Pearls |
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| YA+ | Crist-Evans, Craig | Amaryllis [a wrenching novel of a family whose internal battles chase one son away - into the clutches of the Vietnam war and an enemy he could never have imagined. Told both from a soldier's view and by the brother he leaves behind, Amaryllis is an ideal choice for students learning about the Vietnam era, or for any reader curious about the reality of war.] Powerful read. | @AMAZON |
| Cisneros, Sandra | Loose Woman: Poems
The House on Mango Street My Wicked Wicked Ways Americas Review Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories |
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| 11-15 | Clements, Andrew | Things Not Seen [teen's search for independence and individuality] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Cody, Robin | Ricochet River | @AMAZON |
| YA | Cole, Brock [ALAN Review] | The Facts Speak
for Themselves
The Goats Celine |
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| 12 Up | Coleman, Evelyn | Born in Sin | @AMAZON |
| 12 Up | Colfer, Eoin [Interview] | AIRMAN [1890's Irish coast/military coup/murder]
Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (Book 2) Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (Book 3) Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (Book 4) Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (Book 5) Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox (Book 6) |
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| YA | Collier, James Lincoln and Christopher | My
Brother Sam is Dead
The Clock Jump Ship to Freedom (scroll) |
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| YA | Coman, Carolyn | Bee and Jacky | @AMAZON |
| YA | Conly, Jane Leslie | Crazy Lady | @AMAZON |
| Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) | Lord Jim
Heart Of Darkness Victory |
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| YA/A | Conn, Peter J. | Pearl S. Buck : A Cultural Biography | @AMAZON |
| YA | Cooke, Kaz | Real Gorgeous: The Truth About Body and Beauty | @AMAZON |
| YA | Cooney, Caroline B. | The Ransom of
Mercy Carter [1704 French
and Indian War]
Burning Up What Child Is This? Driver's Ed The Face on the Milk Carton Whatever Happened to Janie? The Voice on the Radio |
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| Cooper, James Fenimore [Bio/plot summaries] | The Last of the Mohicans [ N. C. Wyeth (Illustrator) ] 2002
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales I: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie |
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| YA | Cooper, Susan | The
Dark is Rising
The Dark Is Rising
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| YA
9-12 |
Cormier,
Robert
[1983 Biography] Interview Loving Goodbye |
The Chocolate
War
Heroes [Teacher's Guide] Fade Take Me Where the Good Times Are I am the Cheese In the Middle of the Night We All Fall Down Tenderness |
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| 11 Up | Coville, Bruce [editor] | Half-Human [10 stories from various authors] | @AMAZON |
| 10-14 | Cox, Clinton | Houdini [About Houdini] | @AMAZON |
| 14 Up | Coy, John | Crackback [a successful high school football player discovers his teammates are using steroids--and one of them is his best friend--he's faced with a tough decision: Is he willing to do what it takes to win?/father/son/girl relationships]
BOX OUT (Ages 12 up) [Liam has just been bumped up to starter on the varsity basketball team, and the pressure's on. With the girls' team heading to State, the boys' team is under even greater scrutiny than usual in Liam's small midwestern town. When the team's coach starts counting on the power of prayer---and enforcing teamwide participation---Liam finds himself in a spotlight that's more nerve-racking than any trip to the free-throw line. In trying to stand up for what's right, Liam is forced to stand up for himself---against his teammates, his fellow students, and even his parents.] |
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| 10-14
10-14 10-14 |
Creech, Sharon | Walk Two Moons
Absolutely Normal Chaos Replay |
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| YA | Crew, Linda | Children
of the River
Fire On The Wind |
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| YA | Crutcher, Chris [Includes Interview]
[Teacher Resource Files] |
The Sledding Hill (2005) [READ IT!]
Ironman [Sports, Losing the truth, Anger Management, feelings, relationships] Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes [High school misfit] The Crazy Horse Electric Game [Understanding and Finding Human Dignity] Stotan! [Chaos, Team Work/Friendship] Whale Talk [dignity and acceptance] |
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| YA | Cushman, Karen [see also] | Catherine Called
Birdy
The Midwife's Apprentice Ballad of Lucy Whipple Matilda Bone |
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| 14 Up | Davidson, Dana | Played [When one of Ian's boys dares him to sleep with plain-faced, nobody Kylie Winship, he thinks it will be a snap. If he succeeds, he'll be down with the most popular crew in his school. For him, love is just a game . . . ] Every girl should read this book. | @AMAZON |
| YA | Davis, Deborah [Interview] | Not Like You [alcoholic mother/teen daughter. Loving someone else enough to stay with her through anything—and loving yourself enough to let her go.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Dean, Claire
[Interview] |
GIRLWOOD [Polly Greene has always been considered strange, a girl who can see a person's true colors, a thirteen-year-old more comfortable foraging in the woods with her eccentric grandmother than hanging out with friends. But all that is about to change when Polly's older sister, Bree, vanishes into the woods. Hope. Strength. Empowering. Real. Fanciful. | @AMAZON |
| 12 up | Dellasega, Cheryl | NUGRL90 (Sadie) Bloggrls, Book One [real teens, parents divorce, new school/new friends, change, difficult decisions, anger management (boyfriend), smart choices] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Deloria, Ella Cara | Waterlily [Plains Indian Dakota culture and Sioux Nation is told through the life of Waterlily] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Deuker, Carl | Night Hoops
Painting the Black Gym Candy [football/insecurity/steroids/consequences/on-field action/locker-room drama/emotion] |
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| Dickens, Charles | [Biography,
Bibligography,Chronology]
[The Dickens Project of the University of California [Brown University. Extensive collection of bibliographical, biographical and critical materials] [Teacher Cyberguide] |
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| Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) | See
The
Mouse of Amherst for young readers.
[Emily Dickinson's Letters] [The Emily Dickinson Journal] [Columbia University's Project Bartleby - The Complete Poems] |
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| YA | Dickinson, Peter | The Ropemaker
AK Eva |
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| YA | Doctorow, Cory | LITTLE BROTHER [Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is a seventeen years old computer geek who figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system until his whole world changes when he and his friends are caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco and apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. This is a techno-geek rebellion with an important message about civil liberties.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Dogar, Sharon
Interview |
WAVES [coming-of-age story about first love and first loss; about a family drowning in sorrow, and the remarkable son who is struggling against the tide to save them.] | @AMAZON |
| 11-14 | Doherty, Berlie | The Girl Who Saw Lions [compelling and parallel stories that eventually tangle together bringing a message of hope and what it means to be a family. AIDS/adoption/Tanzania/selling children] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Donnelly, Jennifer | A Northern Light [Based on a 20th century murder case] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Dorfman, Joaquin | Playing it Cool [mystery/romance/coming-of-age story full of red herrings and elaborate schemes.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Doyle, Malachy | Georgie [orphaned boy finds sense of self/overcoming rage and anger/one person can make a difference] | |
| Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | [full text of the 56 Sherlock Holmes
short stories and the 4 novels plus graphics]
[The Sherlock Holmes Museum] The Hound of the Baskervilles - Eerie illustrations enhance a blood-curdling edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most-celebrated Sherlock Holmes mystery - Candlewick 2006 |
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| YA
14 Up |
Draper, Sharon
[All Study Guides] |
Copper Sun [Slaves and indentured servants/1738 in the south]
Forged by Fire [young man struggling to protect his little sister from a drug-addicted mother and an abusive father.] The Battle of Jericho [Jericho and his cousin are psyched when invited to pledge for the Warriors of Distinction. But as the secret initiation rites grow increasingly humiliating and force Jericho to make painful choices, he starts to question whether membership is worth it. How far will he have to go to wear the cool black silk Warriors jacket? How high a price will he have to pay to belong? The answers are devastating.] November Blues [This sequel to The Battle of Jericho but can stand alone. When November Nelson loses her boyfriend, Josh, to a pledge stunt gone horribly wrong, she finds out she's pregnant. This is a tough look at teen pregnancy and the consequences of unprotected sex.] |
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| 12+ | Dubarsosky, Ursula | The Red Shoe [Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally unstable and largely absent, their mother is possibly in the thrall of his brother, and a headline-making Russian spy defection is taking place next door. Punctuated by the headlines of the times, The Red Shoe depicts how the large events of the world can impinge on ordinary lives.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Duncan, Lois | Killing Mr. Griffin
Summer of Fear |
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| YA | Dygard, Thomas J | Game Plan | @AMAZON |
| YA | Eckert, Allan W. | Incident at Hawk's Hill | @AMAZON |
| YA | Edut, Ophira | Adios, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity | @AMAZON |
| Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965) | What the Thunder Said - Site dedicated to all things T.S. Eliot - Time Line, Works and Resources | ||
| YA | Ewing, Lynn | Party Girl | @AMAZON |
| YA/A | Faust, Drew Gilpin | Mothers
of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil
War
Southern Stories |
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| YA | Feelings, Tom | The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo [picturebook for adults] | @AMAZON |
| YA/A | Felder, Deborah | The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time : A Ranking Past and Present | @AMAZON |
| YA | Ferris, Jean | BAD
Of Sound Mind [ASL] |
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| YA | Fields, Terri | HOLDUP [a novel with nine unforgettable points of view, in four astonishing parts--will leave the reader wondering about luck and life's strange surprises.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby | @AMAZON |
| YA | Flake, Sharon G. [Teacher Resource]
[Teacher Guides] |
BANG! [BANG! Guns really sound like that, you know. BANG! And people bleed from everywhere, ... ] powerful read. [Lesson Plan]
The Skin I'm In [Quest for Identity Unit] Money Hungry [CSK Award] [breaking the cycle of poverty] Begging for Change (stand alone sequel) [mixed race/absent parents] Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives [Lesson Plan] |
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9-12 YA YA
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Fleischman, Paul | Mind's Eye
By the Great Horn Spoon Whirlygig [Lesson Plan] [Lesson Plan] Bull Run [Lesson Plan] Time Train [Lesson Pan] Dateline: Troy [Lesson Plan] Saturnalia |
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| YA | Fleischman,
Sid
[See
Newbery]
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The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life | @AMAZON |
| YA | Flinn, Alex
[Bio/Interview, Lesson Plans] |
Breaking Point [bully, fitting in, school violence, teen social life]
Breathing Underwater [dating violence] Nothing to Lose [domestic violence] [Study Guide] Fade to Black [HIV, hate crime, bullying, family relationships. Three people, three perspectives -- one truth.] [Teacher Guide] [Discussion Guide] |
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| 11-14 | Fogelin, Adrian | The Big Nothing [painful transitions of adolescence/dysfunctional family/a character on the edge of life--in his home, at school, and with friends/discovering hidden talents] | @AMAZON |
| 14 up | Ford, Michael Thomas | Suicide Notes [Compelling, witty, and refreshingly real/darkly humorous/ examines that fuzzy line between "normal" and the rest of us/gay issues/identity] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Frank, E. R. [Interview] | WRECKED [I was the driver of the "other" car. ...In one split second. Upside down and shattered. Just like that. Wrecked.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Franklin, Kristine L. | Dove Song [Bobbie Lynn's father is reported missing in action in Vietnam, she and her thirteen-year-old brother must learn to cope with their own despair, as well as their mother's breakdown.] | @AMAZON |
| YA
10+ |
Freedman, Russell | Life and Death
of Crazy Horse
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery [Lesson Plans +] Lincoln: A Photobiography Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor |
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| 14 Up
12 Up |
Freymann-Weyr, Garret | Stay With Me [a quest to understand a sister's suicide]
My Heartbeat [2003 Printz Honor Winner] |
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| 13 Up | Fukui, Isamu | Truancy [In an alternate world, in a nameless totalitarian city, the autocratic Mayor rules the school system with an iron fist, with the help of his Educators. Fighting against the Mayor and his repressive Educators is a group of former students called the Truancy, whose goal is to take down the system by any means possible—at any cost. Insightful. High Recommended for all. Reluctant Reader.] Look for the prequel by this 17 year-old author. | @AMAZON |
| YA-Adult | Gaines, Ernest | A Lesson Before Dying [Lesson Plan] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Gallo, Donald R. (Editor) | On The Fringe
What Are You Afraid Of?: Stories About Phobias |
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| YA
10+ |
Gantos, Jack [Includes Interview] | Hole In My Life [autobiography... "the bleakest year of my life."]
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key [ADHD] (1998) Joey Pigza Loses (2000) Control What Would Joey Do? (2002) |
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| Garcia, Marquez Gabriel | One Hundred Years of Solitude | @AMAZON | |
| YA | Garcia, Rita Williams | Every Time a Rainbow Dies | @AMAZON |
| YA | Garden, Nancy | Good Moon Rising
Annie on My Mind Dove and Sword: a Novel of Joan of Arc |
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| YA | Garsee, Jeannine | Before, After, and Somebody In Between ["a gritty and realistic tale of a girl trying to escape her parent's poor choices and make a life for herself. " | @AMAZON |
| YA | Gaskins, Pearl Fuyo | What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People | @AMAZON |
| YA | Gavin, Jamila | Coram Boy | @AMAZON |
| YA | Giles, Gail [Interview] | Playing in Traffic
Shattering Glass What Happened to Cass McBride? (November 2006) Dead Girls Don't Write Letters [Lesson Plan] Right Behind You [When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready for a fresh start] |
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| YA 14 Up | Going, K.L. | Saint Iggy [I am not so bad a person once you get to know me. A young man's tragic search for meaning in a world that to him makes no sense. /Reluctant Reader] | @AMAZON |
| 11-14 | Golding, Julia | The Diamond of Drury Lane (Book 1) Mystery, Treasure, Life on Stage. | @AMAZON |
| YA | Golding, William | Lord of the Flies [Religious Imagery] [Law and Order] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Gordon, Sheila | Waiting for the
Rain: A Novel of South Africa
The Middle of Somewhere: A Story of South Africa |
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| YA | Greenberg, Jan (Editor) | Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art | @AMAZON |
| YA | Greene, Bette | Summer of My German Soldier
The Drowning of Stephen Jones |
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| YA-A | Gregerson, Judy | Bad Girls Club [Tackles the issue of children dealing with mentally ill and neglectful parents, childhood trauma, and dysfunctional families.] Riveting read. | @AMAZON |
| YA | Griffin, Adele
[Interview] |
Where I Want to Be [a tender and spellbinding book, told in the alternating voices of two very different sisters dwelling on opposite sides of life and death, who are bravely trying to overcome the void and bring light to each other]
My Almost Epic Summer [a summer of self-discovery] |
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| YA | Grindley, Sally | Spilled Water [modern-day China, 11 year old girl sold as slave/culture where to be born a girl is worth nothing more than spilled water] | @AMAZON |
| YA-A | Guest, Judith | Ordinary People | @AMAZON |
| YA | Guy, Rosa | The Disappearance
And I Heard a Bird Sing Ruby |
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| 11 Up | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Uprising: Three Young Women Caught in the Fire that Changed America [Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911/beginning of the organized labor movement/teen immigrants] | @AMAZON |
| 12 up | Hahn, Mary Downing | Deep and Dark and Dangerous: A Ghost Story | @AMAZON |
| 11 Up | Hale, Shannon [Interview]
[Lesson Plan] |
The Goose Girl
Enna Burning [[companion volume to The Goose Girl 2004] River Secrets [stand-alone] Austenland Book of a Thousand Days [Grimms fairy tale reimagined, reset on the central Asian steppes/unique retelling with adventure and romance, drama and disguise.] |
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| YA
10+ |
Hamilton, Virginia [author site]
[Links and Lesson Plans] |
Sweet
Whispers, Brother Rush
Plain City Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales M.C. Higgins the Great |
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| YA | Hansberry, Lorraine (1930-1965) | A Raisen in the Sun [Study Black Actors in American Cinema] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Hartinger, Brent
[Interview] |
Geography Club
The Order of the Poison Oak The Last Chance Texaco Grand & Humble |
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| 14 Up | Harazin, S.A.
[Interview] |
Blood Brothers [Blood brothers/drug overdose/"Don't die, don't die, don't die. Can't you hear me? You can't die when we're doing all we can to save you./A moving and compelling read.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Hautman, Pete | Hole in the Sky [futuristic—2028]
Godless [protagonist creates his own religion as an act of rebellion] Invisible [poignant novel about inner demons and how far one boy will go to control them] RASH [satirical look at an antiseptic future 2070] |
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| YA-A | Hawthorne,Nathaniel | The Complete
Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter Bibliography, Life, Writings, Criticisms |
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| YA-A | Hemingway, Ernest | The
Old Man And The Sea
A Farewell To Arms The Sun Also Rises For Whom the Bell Tolls |
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| YA | Henry, Marguerite | King of the Wind | @AMAZON |
| YA | Heneghan, James | The Grave | @AMAZON |
| 10+ | Henkes, Kevin
[Teacher
Resource]
[See Picturebooks] |
Words of Stone [overcoming fear]
Protecting Marie Olive's Ocean (Newbery Honor) [discovering family, first love, and self] Bird Lake Moon [Two boys experience loss: divorce/death of sibling. Quiet and delicate. Friendship.] |
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| YA | Hertenstein, Jane | Beyond Paradise | @AMAZON |
| YA | Hewes, Agnes | Glory of the Seas | @AMAZON |
| YA
11 up 11 Up |
Hesse, Karen [See also Newbery Award] | Phoenix Rising
Witness: A Novel [Vermont 1924 - KKK moves in] A Time of Angels (Paperback 2008) [Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family |
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| YA | Hesser, Terry Spencer | Kissing Doorknobs [Obsessive Compulsive Disorder] | @AMAZON |
| 12 up | Hijuelos, Oscar | Dark Dude [He didn't say good-bye. He didn | |