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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.]
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	@AMAZON
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, therešs 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 teenageršs life, giving hope even in the bleakest of hours.]
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Alcott, Louisa May More Story Illustrations	The Inheritance - previously unpublished Little Women	@AMAZON @AMAZON
10-13 YA	Almond, David [Interview]	Skellig [man, bird, or angel?] Kit's Wilderness	@AMAZON @AMAZON
* *	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 ...

	Anaya, Rudolfo	Bless Me, Ultima	@AMAZON
YA	Anderson, Laurie Halse	Speak [A Freshman Must Read] Catalyst	@AMAZON @AMAZON

YA	Angelou, Maya	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	@AMAZON
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
	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)	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON

12+	Bagdasarian, Adam [Interview]	Forgotten Fire [Lesson Plan] First French Kiss: And Other Traumas [autobiographical]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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	------ @AMAZON
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]	------ @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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.	@AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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
YA	Bray, Libba	A Great and Terrible Beauty (Book 1) Rebel Angels (Book 2) The Sweet Far Thing (Book 3)	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Sue Ellen Bridgers	Notes From Another Life Keeping Christiana Home Before Dark
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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 tensionnot 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 Americaand 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?	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON ------
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON
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
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Carlip, Hillary	Girl Power:Young Women Speak Out Zine Scene: The Do It Yourself Guide to Zines	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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
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

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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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)	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Collier, James Lincoln and Christopher	My Brother Sam is Dead The Clock Jump Ship to Freedom (scroll)	Library
YA	Coman, Carolyn	Bee and Jacky	@AMAZON
YA	Conly, Jane Leslie	Crazy Lady	@AMAZON
	Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)	Lord Jim Heart Of Darkness Victory	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
	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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Cooper, Susan	The Dark is Rising The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Silver on the Tree/the Grey King/Greenwitch/the Dark Is Rising/over Sea, Under Stone/Boxed	@AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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.]
	Crane, Stephen	Red Badge of Courage
10-14 10-14 10-14	Creech, Sharon	Walk Two Moons Absolutely Normal Chaos Replay	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Crew, Linda	Children of the River Fire On The Wind	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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]	Click here for all Crutcher books.
YA	Cushman, Karen [see also]	Catherine Called Birdy The Midwife's Apprentice Ballad of Lucy Whipple Matilda Bone	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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 anythingand 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
YA	Deloria, Ella Cara	Waterlily [Plains Indian Dakota culture and Sioux Nation is told through the life of Waterlily]	@AMAZON
YA	Carl Deuker	Night Hoops Painting the Black	@AMAZON @AMAZON
	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]

	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]
YA	Dickinson, Peter	The Ropemaker AK Eva	@AMAZON @AMAZON @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
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
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.]
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA 9-12 YA YA YA YA	Fleischman, Paul [See Special Collection] [See Newbery]	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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON

YA	Fleischman, Sid [See Newbery]	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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
14 Up 12 Up	Freymann-Weyr, Garret	Stay With Me [a quest to understand a sister's suicide] My Heartbeat [2003 Printz Honor Winner]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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 possibleat 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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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)	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
	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	------ @AMAZON @AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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
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	@AMAZON ------
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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]
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	@AMAZON ------ @AMAZON
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
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.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	DESCRIPTIONS INTERVIEW ORDER INFO
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 [futuristic2028] 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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA-A	Hawthorne,Nathaniel	The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Bibliography, Life, Writings, Criticisms	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA-A	Hemingway, Ernest	The Old Man And The Sea A Farewell To Arms The Sun Also Rises For Whom the Bell Tolls	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Hertenstein, Jane	Beyond Paradise	@AMAZON
YA	Hewes, Agnes	Glory of the Seas	@AMAZON
YA YA 11 Up	Hesse, Karen [See also Newbery Award]	Phoenix Rising A Time of Angels Witness: A Novel [Vermont 1924 - KKK moves in]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Hesser, Terry Spencer	Kissing Doorknobs [Obsessive Compulsive Disorder]	@AMAZON
YA	Hillman, Laura	I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor	@AMAZON
YA	Hinton, S.E.	The Outsiders [Lesson Plans]	@AMAZON
YA	Hobbs, Valerie	Tender [overcoming fears] Letting Go of Bobby James: Or How I Found My Self of Steam	@AMAZON @AMAZON
9-12 YA	Hobbs, Will [Author Site with extensive lesson plans]	The Big Wander Down the Yukon Far North River Thunder The Maze Changes in Latitudes	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA+ YA	Hoffman, Alice	Green Angel [search for healing] Indigo [coming of age] [Discussion Guide] Aquamarine [Discussion Guide] Incantation [journey of loss and rebirth inspired by historical fact (Spanish Inquisition)]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Hoffman, Mary	Stravaganza: City of Masks [First of Trilogy][traveling between two worlds] Stravaganza: City of Stars (Book 2) Stravaganza: City of Flowers (Book 3)	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
11 Up	Hokenson, Terry	The Winter Road [mourning loss of brother and approval of father/plane crash/gritty survival-adventure narrative/	@AMAZON
YA-A	Holland, Barbara	Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: The Care for Cows, Orchards, Fairs and Bake Sales	@AMAZON

YA	Holman, Felice	Slake's Limbo	@AMAZON
YA	Holt, Kimberly Willis	Keeper of the Night [mother commits suicide/daughter is holding the family together/breakdown of communications/determination to keep on going facing overwhelming loss and responsibilities]	@AMAZON
	Homer	The Odyssey The Illiad

YA	Hornbacher, Marya	Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia	@AMAZON
YA	Howe, James (Editor)	The Color of Absence: 12 Stories about Loss and Hope	@AMAZON
	Hughes, Langston
YA	Hunt, Irene	Across Five Aprils [Civil War, Coming of Age] Up A Road Slowly - Newbery	@AMAZON
YA	Hurwin, Davida Wills	A Time for Dancing [Upcoming movie]	@AMAZON
	Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World