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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- previously unpublished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.] | |
| 10-13
YA |
Almond, David | Skellig [man, bird, or angel?]
Kit's Wilderness The Savage [see Bully section] |
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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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| 14 up | Baskin, Nora Raleigh | All We Know of Love [A boldly original tale about a girl who journeys through love and loss to find her mother — and discovers that everyone has a story to tell, including herself.] | @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 |
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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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| 12 up | Bertagna, Julie | EXODUS [futuristic tale of global warming and environmental disaster/In a drowned world, can refuge be found? Less than a hundred years from now, the world as we know it has disappeared beneath the sea. Only fifteen-year-old Mara has the vision and the will to lead her people in search of a new beginning in this harsh, unfamiliar world. ] | @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 |
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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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| 14 up | Brescia, Leigh | One Wish [desire to be popular/fitting in/eating disorders/find true self]. | @AMAZON |
| 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 experiences the turmoil and mechanics of drug addiction]
Black Rabbit Summer [explores the ways sex, love, class, and celebrity can forever change—or—end friendships.] |
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| 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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| 12 up | Collins, Suzanne | The Hunger Games [In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.] To be continued. | |
| 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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| Crane, Stephen | Red Badge of Courage | ||
| 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 |
| YA | Delacre, Lulu | Alicia Afterimage [Sixteen-year-old Alicia MarÃa Betancourt was killed in a car accident. Popular, happy, fun-loving Alicia daughter, sister, and friend to so many gone in an instant. How would those left behind cope with such a sudden, devastating loss? ] | |
| 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 |
| 12 up | Fehler, Gene | Beanball [It's the last inning. Center fielder Luke "Wizard" Wallace steps up to the plate--and is hit by a beanball, a wild pitch that shatters his skull, destroys the vision in his left eye, and changes his life forever. The pivotal moment is recounted through free-verse monologues by 28 different voices. Friendshipis. Recovery. Unusual format. Gripping subject matter. Thought-provoking. Fast paced. ] | @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 | Fink, Mark | Stepping Up [More than basketball/teen angst/consequences of peer pressure] | @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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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 |
| 12 up | Galante, Cecilia | The Patron Saint of Butterflies [religion/cults from the perspective of a believer and non-believer/lesson is the importance of thinking for yourself.] | @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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| 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 | George, Jessica Day | Princess of the Midnight Ball [George's take on the Grimms’ tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Magic, humor, romance, witchcraft and evil.] | @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.
Cat Among the Pigeons (Book 2). A mission for justice. Den of Thieves (Bk. 3) Takes readers to Paris on a covert mission. |
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| YA | Golding, William | Lord of the Flies [Religious Imagery] [Law and Order] | @AMAZON |
| 14 up | Gonzalez, Ann | Running for My Life [family/dealing with mental illness/learning to survive] | @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 | Hagerup, Klaus | Markus + Diana [Markus is afraid of everything. But when he writes fan mail to famous people, he becomes somebody else.]
Markus + the Girls [teen angst and the next girl of his dreams.] |
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| 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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| YA | Hartnett, Sonya | The Ghost's Child [enchanting fable of a young woman and a wild boy/ haunting meditation on the nature of love and loss.]
Surrender [a mesmerizing psychological and dark thriller] The Silver Donkey [fable of a lost soldier, heroic children, and a steadfast donkey.] Thursday's Child [A young woman, looking back on her childhood, recounts her farm family's poverty, her father's cowardice, and her younger brother's obsession for digging tunnels and living underground.} |
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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 | Headley, Justina Chen | North of Beautiful [fractured family, falling in love, travel, and the meaning of true beauty.] | @AMAZON |
| 14 up | Hearn, Julie | Ivy [Ivy's used to being overlooked. The youngest in a family of thieves, scoundrels, and roustabouts, the girl with the flame-colored hair and odd-colored eyes is declared useless by her father from the day she is born./Dickensian novel. Both artists are self-involved and pretentious, and the only prince is a dog… /a page-turner infused with Ivy's determination to fashion her own happily-ever-after.] | @AMAZON |
| 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
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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 |
| 14 up | Herrick, Steven | Cold Skin [historical fictio/fathers and sons/murder/courage/revenge] | @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 |
| YA | Hewes, Agnes | Glory of the Seas | @AMAZON |
| 12 up | Hijuelos, Oscar | Dark Dude [He didn't say good-bye. He didn't leave a phone number. And he didn't plan on coming back - ever. In Wisconsin, Rico could blend in. His light hair and lighter skin wouldn't make him the "dark dude" or the punching bag for the whole neighborhood. The Midwest is the land of milk and honey, but for Rico Fuentes, it's really a last resort. Trading Harlem for Wisconsin, though, means giving up on a big part of his identity. A journey of identity, misidentity, and all that we take with us when we run away.] | @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 |
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| 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 |
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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)] |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
| YA | Hooper, Mary | Newes from the Dead [WRONGED. HANGED. ALIVE? (AND TRUE!) | @AMAZON |
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| YA | Hornbacher, Marya | Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia | @AMAZON |
| YA | Horvath, Polly | The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane [four characters deal with loss in different ways/rich and complicated story about loss and the possibility— and impossibility—of beginning again.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Howe, James (Editor) | The Color of Absence: 12 Stories about Loss and Hope | @AMAZON |
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| YA | Hunt, Irene | Across
Five Aprils [Civil War, Coming of Age]
Up A Road Slowly - Newbery |
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| YA | Hurwin, Davida Wills | A Time for Dancing [Upcoming movie] | @AMAZON |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | @AMAZON | |
| YA | Ingold, Jeanette | HITCH [Moss Trawnley is in desperate need of work, and heads out west as a member of Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps to help protect Montana’s wildlife from devastating erosion and wildfires. Despite the grueling work, he rediscovers what he almost lost in the Great Depression: himself. | @AMAZON |
| Jarrell, Randall | The Animal Family
The Bat Poet |
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| 12 Up | Jinks, Catherine | Evil Genius [engrossing thriller with darkness and humor, freaks and geeks. Explores the fine line between good and evil in a strange world of manipulations and subterfuge where nothing is as it seems.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Johnson, Angela | The First Part Last [male side of teen pregnancy] powerful/teen and parent read] [Teachers Guide]
Heaven [adoption/turning pain into joy] |
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| 12 up | Johnson, Maureen | Suite Scarlett [hilarious, thought-provoking, and fun/the value of family] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Johnson, Varian | My Life as a Rhombus [Choices. Unlikely friendships. Tough decisions. Unplanned pregnancy. Not preachy. No advice. Excellent.] | @AMAZON |
| 12 up | Jones, Carrie | Need - Zara collects phobias the way other high school girls collect lipsticks. Little wonder, since life’s been pretty rough so far. Her father left, her stepfather just died, and her mother’s pretty much checked out. Now Zara’s living with her grandmother in sleepy, cold Maine so that she stays “safe.” Zara doesn’t think she’s in danger; she thinks her mother can’t deal. Wrong. Turns out that guy she sees everywhere, the one leaving trails of gold glitter, isn’t a figment of her imagination. He’s a pixie—and not the cute, lovable kind with wings. He’s the kind who has dreadful, uncontrollable needs. And he’s trailing Zara. | |
| YA | Jones, Diana Wynne | Castle in the Air
Dogsbody Hexwood Dark Lord of Derkholm Year of the Griffin |
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| 12 Up | Jones, Traci L.
[Interview] |
Standing Against the Wind [excerpt] [a girl with grit she never knew she had, and a boy so inspired by her that he begins to take pride in his own abilities.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Jones, Patrick | Things Change [abusive father/teen love/abusive relationships/self-medicating depression with alcohol]
Nailed ["The nail that sticks out the farthest gets hammered hardest." For any teen who feels that standing out is harder than just conforming. Nailed is about the high price of hiding one’s true self. ] Chasing Tail Lights ["difficult-to-read,difficult-to-put-down novel of drugs, poverty, and violence."] |
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| YA | Jordon, June | His Own Where
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood |
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| 12 up | Kadohata, Cynthia [see Newbery] | Outside Beauty ["My mother had four daughters by four different men." Finding beauty in unexpected places/bonds of sisterhood/family and love/the difference between beauty and perfection/families come in different packages/don't mess with what works.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Kass, Pnina Moed | Real Time [Sixteen-year-old is on a mission: to find out what his grandfather, a Nazi officer, did during World War II./work on a kibbutz/terrorist attack/minute-by-minute account of a catastrophic incident/deadly cycle of sacrifice and destruction/chilling, suspenseful, and frighteningly real]. | @AMAZON |
| YA | Keizer, Garret | God of Beer [Beer Rebellion or SUDS: Students Undermining a Drunk Society | @AMAZON |
| 12 Up | Kelleher, Victor | DOGBOY [He is born on a bare hillside near the end of the Dry Time. Abandoned by his mother, cared for and suckled only by a dog, he becomes a creature of the wilds. He proves to be a survivor. Against the odds, and despite his savage upbringing, he grows into a “special” child—someone destined to change the lives of all who cross his path. | @AMAZON |
| 12 up | Kephart, Beth | Undercover [Like a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac, Elisa ghostwrites love notes for the boys in her school.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Kerr, M. E. | Slap Your Sides [WWII conscientious objector/ religion, war, and morality.]
Books of Fell Hello, I Lied: A Novel Gentlehands Night Kites Deliver Us From Evie |
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| YA | Keyes, Daniel | Flowers for Algernon [Review and Analysis] | @AMAZON |
| 11 up | Keaney, Brian | The Hollow People- Book 1 The Promises of Dr. Sigmundus trilogy [On the island of Tarnagar there is an asylum where dreaming will get you locked up and branded a lunatic, a danger to society and to all who know you. In this doomed and repressive place, two teens that were never meant to meet or share their dreams, cross paths and set in motion that which rips them from the lives they were meant to lead. Together they join forces with a ragtag group of rebel forces bent on breaking the grip of lies and illusions their countrymen have accepted without question.] | |
| YA | Klass, David [Interview] | Home of the Braves [soccer/bullies]
Wresting With Honor Danger Zone [basketball/acceptance] Screen Test [making choices] California Blue [teen's battle between environmentalists and the timber industry.] You Don't Know Me [portrait of an angst-ridden adolescent.] Dark Angel [biochemical, societal, and religious theories regarding the roots of evil.] Powerful! Firestorm: The Caretaker Trilogy: Book 1 |
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| YA | Klause, Annette Curtis | Alien Secrets
The Silver Kiss Blood and Chocolate |
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| YA | Koertge, Ron | Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright : A Novel
Margaux with an X |
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| YA | Koja, Kathe | Buddha Boy [new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy]
The Blue Mirror Going Under [Through the alternating voices of sister and brother,Hilly and Ivan, and drawing on the myths of Persephone and Narcissus, Kathe Koja explores the souls of two teenagers caught in a world where love takes you deeper than you ever dreamed you’d go.] |
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| YA | Korman, Gordon | Don't Care High
Losing Joe's Place Son of the Mob [Sopranos without violence and foul language] Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle The Juvie Three [three boys serving time in juvenile detention get second chance in experimental half way house] |
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| YA | Krisher, Trudy | FALLOUT [Set against the background of the cold war, Senator McCarthy’s anticommunist crusade, and one of the most active hurricane seasons on record, this historical novel portrays a community battling nature and social change through the eyes of an unusually observant young woman.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Kuklin, Susan | Trial: The Inside Story [Kidnapping] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Lanagan, Margo
Interview |
White Time
Black Juice [10 fantasy short stories/strange, terrifying, intriguing, shocking, delightful, powerful/ the dark side of civilization and the beauty of the human spirit] |
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| 12 up | Landman, Tanya | I am Apache [A young woman seeks to avenge her brother's death by becoming an Apache warrior — and learns a startling truth about her own identity. Draws on historical accounts to imagine the Black Mountain Apache as a tribe in a fight for survival against the devastating progress of nations.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Lasky, Kathryn | Blood Secret [child abandonment/religious persecution during the Spanish inquisition] [Lesson Plan]
Beyond the Burning Time [see also "The Crucible " - Teaching with the Movie] |
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| YA | Lee, Harper [Bio #2] | To Kill a Mockingbird [Lesson Plan]
[Plot and Characterization] [Pre-reading assignment] [Test] |
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| YA
Adult |
Lester,
Julius [Interview]
[Resource File] |
To Be a Slave
And All Our Wounds Forgiven Othello, A Novel |
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| YA | Levitin, Sonia | Escape from Egypt
The Return |
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| YA
11-14 |
Lisle, Janet Taylor | Afternoon of the Elves
The Crying Rocks [ethnic identity and heritage/facing past and present] |
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| YA | Le Guin, Ursula | A Wizard of Earthsea
[Review and Analysis] [Trilogy Review]
The Tombs of Atuan The Left Hand of Darkness Voices [haunting/gripping coming-of-age story/violence, intolerance, magic] Gifts [young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"—a violent talent shared by members of his family—he upsets the balance of power among rival, feuding families, each having a deadly talent of their own.] |
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| YA | Lipsyte, Robert | The Contender
[see also: Covering Ali, Discovering an Era ] The Brave The Chief |
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| 12 up | Lockhart, E. | The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks [more than a coming-of-age story, it's a "fresh approach to gender politics"] | @AMAZON |
| YA
YA |
Lowry, Lois
[Teacher Resource] |
Find a Stranger, Say
Goodbye
A Summer to Die The Giver |
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| YA-A | Lund, Doris | ERIC [Beating the odds with life threatening illness/choosing life] | @AMAZON |
| 10 Up
YA |
Lynch, Chris | Gold Dust [1975/baseball/racial tension/busing]
Freewill Slot Machine Extreme Elvin Iceman Gypsy Davey Shadow Boxer Blue-Eyed Son Trilogy All the Old Haunts [10 stories][some graphic content] |
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| YA | Lynch, Janel Nichols | Messed Up [A fifteen-year-old Mexican American has experienced a series of tough breaks before finding himself completely on his own. He decides to try to keep his lack of a home a secret from his school while working hard and staying out of trouble.] | |
| YA | Lyon, George Ella | With
a Hammer for My Heart: A Novel
Where I'm From (Writers' & Young Writers' Series #2) Gina.Jamie.Father.Bear. |
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| YA | Lyons, Mary E. | Keeping Secrets
The Girlhood Diaries of Seven Women Writers
Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs |
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| YA | Lundgren, Mary Beth | Love, Sara [Incest, foster child, friendship, teen pregnancy, teen suicide... email exchange and journals] | @AMAZON |
| 15 up | MacLeod, J. E. | Waiting to Score [learning to fit in and survive/bullying/anger/hormones/more than spors/hockey] Reluctant reader. | @AMAZON |
| 11-13 | Macphail, Catherine | Dark Waters [family loyalty vs. truth/reluctant readers] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Mahy, Margaret | 24 HOURS [teen
drinking/reckless driving/24 hours in a teen's life] [Mahy Interview]
Memory [grief/loss] The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance |
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| YA | Mandabach, Brian
[2007 Interview] |
...OR NOT? [Feeling completely misunderstood, Cassie dedicates herself to recording the most trying year of her life in her journal and looking for answers in the writing of Hemingway, Tolkien, Kurt Cobain, and others. She discovers, though, that the answer will have to be her own creation—if there is an answer at all. Or Not isn't simply the story of girl discovering who she wants to be; it's an intimate, hilarious, poignant portrait of a girl as she decides whether she wants to be at all. Or not. | @AMAZON |
| YA | Marcus, Leonard (Compiled by) | The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy | @AMAZON |
| YA | Marsden, John | Letters from the Inside
Tomorrow When the War Began |
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| YA | Martini, Clem | The Trilogy Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles [Book descriptions, Teacher Resources and Interview]
The Mob: Book 1 (2004) The Plaque: Book 2 (2005) The Judgment: Book 3 (2006) |
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| YA | Matcheck, Diane | The Sacrifice | @AMAZON |
| YA | Mathis, Sharon Bell | Listen for the Fig Tree | @AMAZON |
| YA
10-14 |
Mazer,Norma Fox [Interview] | After the Rain
D, My Name is Danita [Lesson Plan] When She Was Good Out of Control Shhhh! [Resource File] |
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| 10-14 | Mead, Alice | Girl of Kosovo [Serbian-Albanian conflict] | @AMAZON |
| YA | McCaffrey, Anne | Black Horses for the King
The Ship Who Sang Series The Dragonriders of Pern Series |
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| YA | McCaffrey, Laura Williams | Water Shaper [Margot is the daughter of a king, but she is beloved by neither his court nor his kingdom. She has "water in her blood," a trait associated with magic and looked upon with distaste and suspicion.]. | @AMAZON |
| YA | McCormick, Patricia
[Interview] |
My Brother's Keeper [self-destructive behavior/drugs/absent father] [Lesson Plan]
Cut [teen "cutting"/finding help in residential treatment facility//need for friendship] SOLD [Written in spare and evocative vignettes, this powerful novel chronicles the story of one girl's struggle to maintain her sense of self against all odds—sexual slavery ] [Discussion Guide] |
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| 12 Up | McDonald, Janet | Spellbound [teens having babies - getting out of ghetto]
Chill Wind [Afraid that she will have no where to go when her welfare checks are stopped, nineteen-year-old high school dropout Aisha tries to figure out how she can support herself and her two young children.] |
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| YA | McDonald, Joyce | Swallowing Stones
Comfort Creek |
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| YA | McNeil, J. D. | The Last Codfish [Debut novel/moving story of friendship, loss, and survival] | @AMAZON |
| YA | McGuigan, Mary Ann | Where You Belong: A Novel
Morning in a Different Place [sturggle of doing what's right vs. being popular. Tackels uncomfortable social issues. Circa JFK era] |
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| 14 up | McKenzie, C. Lee | Sliding on the Edge [desperate teen/cutting/second chance for a normal life] | @AMAZON |
| YA | McKillip, Patricia | The Riddle Master
of Hed
Book of Atrix Wolfe |
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| YA | McKinley, Robin | Rose Daughter
Deerskin The Hero and the Crown A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories |
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| YA | McKissack, Patricia & Frederick | A Long Hard Journey:The Story of the Pullman Porter | @AMAZON |
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Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural | @AMAZON |
| 10-14 | McMullan, Margaret [Interview] | When I Crossed No-Bob [Reader's Guide] [Life as an O'Donnell is all twelve-year-old Addy knows, and life as an O'Donnell means trouble. Tucked away in a gray patch of woods called No-Bob, the O'Donnell clan has nothing but a bad reputation. So when Addy's mama abandons her on the afternoon of Mr. Frank Russell's wedding celebration, nobody is very surprised. A reluctant Mr. Frank and his new wife take Addy in, and Addy does everything she can to prove that at least one O'Donnell has promise. But one day, Addy witnesses a terrible event that brings her old world crashing into the new. As she finds herself being pulled back into No-Bob and the grips of her O'Donnell kin, Addy is faced with the biggest decision of her life. Can she somehow find the courage to do what's right, even if it means betraying one of her own?]
Cashay (Ages 12 and up) [In her fourteen years living in a Chicago housing project, Cashay has never ridden in a taxi cab, seen the city lit up at night, or set foot in a museum. She’s not pretty, or graceful, or bubbly like her little sister, Sashay. She gets her family by on a couple of dollars and food stamps every week. No, Cashay has never felt much like a treasure. “Your name doesn’t signify who you are,” Cashay tells her sister. But that was before Sashay was killed. Before her mother started using again. Before her mentor, Allison, showed Cashay a bigger piece of the world, and encouraged her to finally, finally step into it. |
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| Mellville, Herman | Moby Dick
Bilbliography - Electronic Texts |
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| 12 up | Meyer, Stephenie | The Twilight Saga - vampires, werewolfs, love, romance, suspense. HARDCOVER BOXED SET (October 2008) [This stunning set, complete with all four hardcover books as well as four collectible prints, makes the perfect gift for fans of the bestselling vampire love story.]
Twilight (Book 1), New Moon (Book 2), Eclipse (Book 3), Breaking Dawn (Book 4) |
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| YA-Up | Meltzer, Milton | Langston Hughes, an Illustrated Edition | @AMAZON |
| 12+
11+ YA |
Mikaelsen, Ben | Touching Spirit
Bear [For more Bully Books][Reluctant Reader]
Red Midnight [survival, fear, courage, Military massacres, Central America 1980s] Tree Girl [based on a true story told to the author by the real Tree Girl about the unspeakable massacre and the ravages of guerrilla warfare in Guatemala. |
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| Miller, Arthur | The Crucible [The Crucible Project Resources] | @AMAZON | |
| 12 Up | Miller, Sarah [Interview] | Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller | @AMAZON |
| YA | Minchin, Adele | The Beat Goes On [HIV/careless mistake/unprotected sex/awareness/non graphic or explicit/well written/fast paced] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Monninger, Joseph | BABY [An abandoned teeen in the foster system is faced with two options: juvenile detention or making a new life for herself.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Moran, Katy | Bloodline (Bk. 1) [Warring kingdoms, bloody feuds, and a boy’s battle for survival. Step back into the Dark Ages] | @AMAZON |
| 12-16 | Morgan, Nicola | Highwayman's Footsteps ["I felt cold metal on the side of my skull before I heard the voice. I knew at once what it was. A pistol. Resting on the bone just behind my ear. The favorite place for murderers, robbers, highwaymen — because, by angling the pistol slightly inward, they could be sure to blow a man’s brains out before he might have time to scream." Inspired by "The Highwayman," the famous poem by Alfred Noyes.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Morgenroth, Kate | Jude [traces a young man's quest for acceptance and his incredible capacity for hope and resilience.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Mori, Kyoko | Shizuko's Daughter
[Teacher
Resource]
One Bird |
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| YA | Moriarty, Jaclyn
[Interview] |
Feeling Sorry for Celia [written in letters and regriferator notes... finding out who you are] | @AMAZON |
| YA Up | Morrison, Toni | The Bluest Eyes | @AMAZON |
| YA | Mosher, Richard | Zazoo [WWII, Vietnam, Intergenerational, Adoption, forgiveness] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Mosley, Walter | 47 [Walter Mosley weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom. 47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed until he meets a mysterious runaway slave, Tall John.] | @AMAZON |
| 12 up | Moses, Shelia P. | Joseph [Life is tough. Tough because of Mama's addiction to drugs and alcohol. Tough because Daddy is away with the army fighting in Iraq. Tough because it looks like there's no way out once you're living in a homeless shelter in a North Carolina ghetto neighborhood. And tough because Joseph is enrolled in yet another new school where he doesn't know anyone and has to keep what's going on in his life a secret. Can a boy who's only fifteen years old win his daily battle to survive?] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Murphy, Clair Rudolf | Free Radical [guilt, redemption, making amends] | @AMAZON
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| 11-14 | Mussi, Sarah | The Door of No Return [Zac Baxter's grandfather has always told him that he's the descendant of African kings, whose treasure was stolen when his ancestors were sold into slavery. Of course, Zac brushes this off as a tall tale -- until his grandfather is murdered and their apartment is completely ransacked. Clearly somebody is after something. Heeding his grandfather's dying words, Zac is off to Ghana to track down his family's history. But what did his grandfather mean when he said that Zac had the map to the treasure? Following every clue he can find, Zac begins to suspect that the treasure is real, and hidden in one of Ghana's old slave forts.] | @AMAZON |
| 10 Up
YA |
Myers, Walter Dean | Handbook for Boys: A Novel
The Greatest Muhammad Ali Fallen Angels [Finding virtue in the Viet Nam War] Hoops [basketball/bad grades/drugs] Monster [a sixteen year old wrestles with his conscience while on trial for felony murder] Bad Boy: A Memoir [Growing up in Harlem and everyday struggles] 145th Street: Short Stories A Time To Love: Stories From the Old Testament (2003) Autobiography of My Dead Brother [surviving the violence, drive-by shootings, drugs, "fronting cool," and hopelessness rooted in gangs, inner-cities] (2005) The Beast [The Beast-Drugs/addiction] Sunrise Over Fallujah [Teens/young men and women/WAR/soldiers soon find their definition of "winning" ever more elusive and their good intentions being replaced by terms like "survival" and "despair. "Caught in the crossfire, Myers' richly rendered characters are just beginning to understand the meaning of war in this powerful, realistic novel of our times.] |
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| YA | Naidoo, Beverly | The
Other Side of Truth
Web of Lies (Sequel to The Other Side of Truth) [racism, gangs, savage bullying] Chain of Fire No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope [50 years of apartheid/includes timeline] |
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| YA
YA YA YA 10 Up 12 up |
Napoli, Donna Jo | Stones in the Water
The Magic Circle Zel Song of the Magdalene Bound [Chinese/Cinderella/Stepmother/Footbinding] Alligator Bayou [based on true story/1899 Reconstruction/lynching of 5 Italian immigrants] |
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| YA
12 up |
Nix, Garth | Shade's Children
Sabriel (Book 1 Abhorsen Trilogy) Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (Book 2 Abhorsen Trilogy) Abhorsen (Book 3 Abhorsen Trilogy) |
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| YA | Nixon, Jean Lowery
[Author of over 110 books, best known for her mysteries- only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery] [Died June 28, 2003] |
The Stalker
Spirit Seeker Orphan Train Adventures [Lesson Plan and Activities] Ellis Island Stories |
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| YA | Nolan, Han | Born Blue [Reactive
Attachment Disorder]
Dancing on The Edge [Book Review] Send Me Down A Miracle A Face in Every Window |
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| YA | Nye, Naomi Shihab | See Special Book Section | |
| YA | Oaks, J. Adams | Why I Fight [Since he turned twelve and a half, Wyatt Reaves' been living with his uncle, a traveling salesman of mysterious agenda and questionable intent. Soon, Uncle Spade sees the potential in "kiddo" to earn cash. And that's enough to keep the boy around for nearly six years. But what life does Wyatt deserve? Alcohol? Drugs? Bare-fisted fights? Tattoos? No friends? No role models? Living in a car? It's not a pretty road Wyatt has traveled, but growing up rarely is.] Violence/coming of age/reluctant readers. | |
| YA | O'Brien, Robert | Z for Zachariah [gripping, thought-provoking story about life after a nuclear holocaust,] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Okutoro, Lydia | Quiet Storm: Voices from Young Black Poets | @AMAZON |
| YA | Orr, Wendy | Peeling the Onion: How Many Layers Hide the Person You Really Are? | @AMAZON |
| YA | Paton, Alan | Cry, The Beloved Country | @AMAZON |
| YA | Paterson, Katherine | Jacob Have I
Loved [Lesson
Plan]
Preacher's Boy The Great Gilly Hopkins Lyddie JIP: His Story |
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| ALL | Paraskevas, Betty | Junior Kroll [Poetry] | @AMAZON |
| 11-14 | Park, Linda Sue | When My Name Was Keoko: A Novel of Korea in World War II
A Single Shard |
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| YA | Parrish, Anne | Floating Island | @AMAZON |
| YA | Paulsen,
Gary
[Author Site] |
Soldier's Heart
Hatchet The Cookcamp,The Monument Nightjohn,Sisters/Hermanas The Crossing The Tent The Rifle Winterdance My Life in Dog Years Schernoff Discovery |
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| YA | Pearson, Mary E. | A Room on Lorelei Street [Zoe is struggling to shed the suffocating responsibility of alcoholic mother/controlling guilt of grandmother/grabbing for control of her own future. | @AMAZON |
| YA | Peck, Richard | Are You in the
House Alone?
Remembering the Good Times The Last Safe Place on Earth [hate groups and censorship] |
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| YA | Peck, Robert Newton | A Day No Pigs
Would Die
A Part of the Sky |
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| YA | Peet, Mal | Keeper [story of a poor and gawky kid who mysteriously becomes the world's greatest goalkeeper — a seamless blend of magic realism and exhilarating soccer action.]
The Penalty (companion to 2005 The Keeper] [San Juan's teenage soccer prodigy, El Brujito, vanishes without a trace -- right after he misses a penalty kick and loses a big game for his team. Paul Faustino, South America’s top sports reporter, is reluctantly drawn into the mystery of the athlete’s disappearance. As a story of corruption and murder unfolds, Faustino is forced to confront the bitter history of slavery and the power of the occult.] Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal [When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy, and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War — and unraveling it is about to transform Tamar’s life forever.] |
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| YA | Perl, Lila and Marion Blumenthal Lazan | Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story | @AMAZON |
| YA | Pfeffer, Susan Beth | Family of Strangers
The Ring of Truth |
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| 12+ | Philbrick, Rodmam | Freak the Mighty | @AMAZON |
| YA | Pierce, Tamora | The Immortals: Wild Magic Book I
The Immortals: Wolf-Speaker Book II The Immortals: Emperor Mage Book III The Immortals: The Realms of the Gods Book IV Songs of the Lioness Quartet: Alanna: The First Adventure Book I Songs of the Lioness Quartet: In the Hand of the Goddess Book II Songs of the Lioness Quartet: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man Book III Songs of the Lioness Quartet: Lioness Rampant Book IV |
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| YA | Pixley, Marcella | FREAKS [This riveting first novel introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine, an outsider who dares to confront the rigid conformity of junior high, and in the process manages not only to save herself but to inspire and transform others./Bullying] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Potok, Chaim | Zebra & Other
Stories
Bibliography |
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| YA | Powell, Randy | Run If You Dare
[Father/son relationship/aspirations]
Three Clams and an Oyster [succeeding, maturity, male adolescent relationships, character] |
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| YA
10-14 |
Pratchett, Terry | The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
The Wee Free Men [Discworld] A Hat Full of Sky [Discworld] Wintersmith [Discworld Three] |
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| 12 Up | Prose, Francine | After [loss of freedom/rights after school shooting]
Bullyville [what happens when school bullying goes too far/grief, rage and violence] |
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| YA | Pullman, Philip | The Tin Princess
A Ruby in the Smoke The Broken Bridge The White Mercedes The His Dark Materials Series The Golden Compass (Book 1) |
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| YA | Raab, Margo | Cures for Heartbreak ["With almost unbearable poignancy, Mia talks about how to grow up, survive loss and family history, and heal her heart: 'If grief had a permanence, then didn't also love?' Readers will cherish this powerful debut."] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Rabin, Staton | The Curse of the Romanovs [a movingly authentic look at royalty and revolution in the days of the tsars.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Randle, Kristen D. | Breaking Rank [non-violent/traditional gang] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Rapp, Adam | Missing the Piano [Making the best of a bad situation]
The Copper Elephant [Futuristic - children are defective] |
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| 11-14 | Rees, Celia | Witch Child [Welcome to the world of young Mary Newbury, a world where simply being different can cost a person her life. Hidden until now in the pages of her diary, Mary’s startling story begins in 1659, the year herbeloved grandmother is hanged in the public square as a witch. Mary narrowly escapes a similar fate, only to face intolerance and new danger among the Puritans in the New World. ]
Sorceress (Sequel) [400 years later] (Ages 12/13 up). |
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| YA | Reiss, Johanna | The Upstairs Room | @AMAZON |
| Remarque, Erich Marie (1898-1970) | All Quiet On The Western Front | @AMAZON | |
| YA | Rinaldi, Ann
[More about Rinaldi] More books in History Section |
Time Enough For
Drums
Wolf By Ears The Last Silk Dress Acquaintance with Darkness In My Father's House The Secret of Sarah Revere Hang a Thousand Trees With Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley [First Black Poet] Finishing Becca: A Story About Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold The Second Bend in the River A Break With Charity: A Story About the Salem Witch Trials Quilt Trilogy |
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| YA | Rosenberg, Liz | Light-Gathering Poems | @AMAZON |
| YA | Rostkowski, Margaret I. | After the Dancing
Days
Moon Dancer |
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| YA | Rottman, S. L. | Shadow of a Doubt [family dynamics/runaway/second chances] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Ruby, Lois | Steal Away Home
Skin Deep Arriving At a Place You've Never Been Miriam's Well |
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| YA | Russell, Barbara Timberlake | The Taker's Stone | @AMAZON |
| YA | Rylant, Cynthia [see also] | A Fine White
Dust
Soda Jerk Missing May I Had Seen Castles Something Permanent [Great Depression despair/courage. Poetry] I Had Seen Castles [coming of age/love story/anti-war message] |
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| YA | Sachar, Louis
[Resource File] |
HOLES | @AMAZON |
| YA | Saenz, Benjamin Alire | He Forgot to Say Goodbye ["I mean, it's not as if I want a father. I have a father. It's just that I don't know who he is or where he is. But I have one."] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Salinger, J. D.
[Great Resource] |
The Catcher In The Rye [Banning] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Sargent, Pamela | Earthseed | @AMAZON |
| YA | Schmidt, Gary D. | Mara's Stories [Tales from the concentration camps] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Schutz, Samantha | I Don't Want to be Crazy [This is a true story of growing up, breaking down, and coming to grips with a psychological disorder (anxiety attacks). The hard road of discovery and coping, powerfully rendered in this poetry memoir.] | @AMAZON |
| 12 up | Scott, Elizabeth | Stealing Heaven ["My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember." Breaking family ties/Dani must question where her loyalties lie: with the life she's always known—or the one she's always wanted.] (Ages 12 and up)
Living Dead Girl [When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends -- her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her. This is Alice's story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget. Dark and disturbing.] Ages 16 and up) |
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| 12 up | Scott, Michael | The Alchemyst (Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel) [The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. But only because he has been making the elixir of life for centuries. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protects—the Book of Abraham the Mage. It's the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. That's exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won't know what's happening until it's too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Sebestyen, Ouida | Words By Heart
(learning forgiveness)
Out of Nowhere |
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| YA | Shandler, Sara | Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self | @AMAZON |
| YA | Sheth, Kashmira | Keeping Corner [a heartfelt and evocative portrait of a child turned widow in Gandhi-era India.] | @AMAZON |
| YA/A | Shiraz, Yasmin | Retaliation: A Novel [What would you do if.... Violence runs rampant on the streets of Washington, DC, and on one seemingly quiet day, the Odom family finds its world destroyed when seventeen-year-old Tashera is brutally attacked by a group of high school girls. Retaliation exposes the corrupting existence of violence in our communities and the retaliatory measures families go through to protect themselves and their children.] Reluctant Reader. | @AMAZON |
| YA | Shusterman, Neal | EVERLOST [It begins with an accident. Nick and Allie don't survive the crash, and now their souls are stuck halfway between life and death in a sort of limbo called Everlost. It's a magical yet dangerous place, where bands of lost souls run wild and anyone who stands in the same spot too long sinks to the center of the Earth.]
UNWIND [In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would "unwind" them. Readers' ideas are challenged about life -- not just where life begins, and where it ends, but what it truly means to be alive.] | |
| YA | Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle | @AMAZON |
| YA | Singer, Marilyn | Stay True: Short Stories for Girls | @AMAZON |
| YA | Singer, Nicky | Gem X [futuristic thriller about the disastrous results of genetic engineering] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Sitomer, Alan Lawrence | HOMEBOYZ [When Teddy Anderson's little sister Tina is gunned down randomly in a drive-by shooting, the gangstas who rule the streets in the Anderson family's rapidly deteriorating neighborhood dismiss the incident as just another case of RP, RT—wrong place, wrong time. According to gangsta logic, Tina doesn't even count as a statistic.] Reluctant Readers.
The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez [Sonia Rodriguez was born in the United States, but her parents are Mexican immigrants who came to California before she was born. Her father has three Social Security numbers, her mother is pregnant (again), and neither of them speaks English. Choices: Family/school/both?] |
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| YA | Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows In Brooklyn | @AMAZON |
| 12 up | Smith,Jr., Charles R. | Chameleon [Shooting the breeze with his boys. Tightening his D on the court. Doing a color check (no gang colors). Summer. Shawn is headed to high school. Making decisions/freedom/friendship/shifting moods/coming of age/first love.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Sones,
Sonya
[Bio and Interview] |
Stop Pretending:
What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
What My Mother Doesn't Know What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know |
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| 12 Up
YA |
Sonnenblick, Jordon | Zen And The Art Of Faking It [New town/new school/a plan to be totally different.]
Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie [great for reluctant readers] Notes From The Midnight Driver [mother on a first date/Alex gets drunk, steals her car/drives to his father's home for revenge/Result:damaged car, decapitated gnome, drunk driving charge, community service.] |
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| 9-12
YA |
Soto, Gary | Baseball in April
Summer on Wheels Local News Living Up the Street Jesse Snapshots from the Wedding Buried Onions [Eddie's father, two uncles, and best friend are all dead, and it's a struggle for him not to end up the same way.] |
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| YA | Spooner, Michael | Daniel's Walk [1844 Oregon Trail] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Staples, Suzanne Fisher | Shiva's Fire
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Haveli |
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| YA-A | Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) | Cannery Row
The Pearl Of Mice And Men The Grapes of Wrath |
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| YA | Stevenson,
Robert L.
[Learn About N.
C. Wyeth]
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Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Kidnapped Treasure Island [Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Pirates] |
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| YA | Strasser, Todd | Give A Boy A Gun [documentary novel/America's gun culture
Can't Get There From Here [downward spiral of street teens/graphic, not vulgar] BOOT CAMP horrifying violence and injustices experienced by teens sent to a disciplinary boot camp at the request of their parents.] If I Grow Up ["WHEN YOU GREW UP IN THE PROJECTS, THERE WERE NO CHOICES. NO GOOD ONES, AT LEAST." In the Frederick Douglass Project where DeShawn lives, daily life is ruled by drugs and gang violence. Many teenagers drop out of school and join gangs, and every kid knows someone who died. Gunshots ring out on a regular basis. DeShawn is smart enough to know he should stay in school and keep away from the gangs. But while his friends have drug money to buy fancy sneakers and big-screen TVs, DeShawn's family can barely afford food for the month. How can he stick to his principles when his family is hungry? Here is a window into the life of a teenager struggling with right and wrong under the ever-present shadow of gangs.] 12 and up. Drugs/Gangs/Teen Pregancy. |
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| 12 up | Steele, J. M. | The Market [Kate Winthrop stumbles upon the Millbank Social Stock Market (the MSSM) horrified to discover that out of the 140 girls in her class, she’s ranked a bleak 71/"stock" rise/moral descent/losing herself and friends/obsession with fitting-in and cool] | @AMAZON |
| 11-14 | Sturtevant, Katherine | At the Sign of the Star
A True and Faithful Narrative [Sequel] |
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| YA | Sweeney, Joyce | Shadow: A Novel
Piano Man The Tiger Orchard Free Fall |
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| YA | Taylor, Mildred [Resouce File] | The Land (Prequel to
Roll of Thunder)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry [See Newbery] Let the Circle Be Unbroken Mississippi Bridge The Road to Memphis |
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| YA | Tashjian, Janet | The Gospel According To Larry | @AMAZON |
| YA | Temple, Frances | Taste of Salt:
A Story of Modern Haiti
Grab Hands and Run The Ramsay Scallop |
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| YA | Thomas, Joyce Carol | When the Nightingale Sings [Gospel music takes center stage/African American Cinderella story
Marked By Fire - 25th Anniversary Edition [restoring faith in God and Self.] Joyce Carol Thomas: Collected Novels for Teens [In these four acclaimed novels, Thomas evocatively captures the triumph and struggles of teens as they come of age, and break and bond with their families.] |
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| YA | Thompson, Julian | Brothers
(sibling mental illness)
The Trials of Molly Sheldon Gypsyworld Grounding of Group 6 |
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| 12 up | Todd, Pamela | The Blind Faith Hotel [portrait of a girl looking for her own true self and a place she can call home.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Tolan, Stephanie S. | Ordinary Miracles [genetic engineering/Science/God/ tampering with God's creation/everyday ordinary miracles] | @AMAZON |
| 13 up | Trent, Tiffany | HALLOWMERE - Historical fantast series for girls
In the Serpent’s Coils (Bk. 1) [Ever since her parents died in the Civil War, Corrine's dreams have been filled with fairies warning her of impending peril. When she's sent to live at Falston Manor, she thinks she's escaped the danger stalking her. Instead the dreams grow stronger, just as girls begin disappearing from school.] By Venom’s Sweet Sting (Bk. 2) [Following the destruction of Falston, Corrine and her schoolmates embark for Scotland to chase Rory and the stolen rathstone. On the moors of Kenmore, tensions mount between the friends as a new love interest comes into Corrine's life. In the layers of lies and secrets, who can she trust?] Between Golden Jaws (Bk. 3) [Corrine and her friends race to London, in the hopes of finding a rathstone that will help them end this terrible war with the Fey. The girls search the Victorian city only to find that their plan has led to more danger than ever before. With the girls' lives on the line, the Fey Prince offers Corrine a deal: become his consort and her friends can go in peace. Will Corrine fall into the Prince's arms to save her friends? Or can she find another way?] |
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| 12 Up | Trueman, Terry | Stuck in Neutral | @AMAZON |
| YA | Turner, Ann | Learning to Swim: A Memoir [shame of sexual molestation] | @AMAZON |
| Twain, Mark
[The Mark Twain Papers and Project, The Bancroft Library U.C. Berkeley] |
Mark Twain: Four
Complete Novels: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Huckleberry
Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and his
Autobiography.
THE ANNOTATED HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain, Michael Patrick Hearn (Editor), E. W. Kemble (Illustrator) |
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| 12 up | Vail, Rachel | Lucky [Lucky begins a powerful sisterhood trilogy, comprised of one book for each of the three fascinating Avery sisters, with all their secrets laid bare during the year that completely changes their lives. Phoebe is the youngest; her story combines first love and flip-flops, friendship and sisterhood, humor and tears. Breezy, witty, and poignant.] | @AMAZON |
| 14 Up | van Diepen, Allison
[Interview] |
Street Pharm [If a brother wanna get ahead, he gotta use every minute to better himself. Everything I did made me better -- tougher, stronger, richer, smarter -- or I didn't do it.
Take high school. A waste of time. Nobody there taught me what I needed to survive on the streets.... SNITCH [In a school run by gangs, staying out was harder than joining. We knew who our friends were, and were careful what we said. If people thought we were haters, it would only be a matter of time....] |
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| 9-12 | Verne,
Jules
[The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography] |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | @AMAZON |
| YA | Velde, Vivian Vande | Being Dead [Short Stories]
Companions of the Night Magic Can Be Murder There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around Never Trust a Dead Man |
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| YA | Vivian, Siobhan | Same Difference [Emily is ready for a change. She's been in the same town with the same friends for a long time...and none of them really understand her art. But when she goes to Philadelphia for a summer art institute, she suddenly finds like-minded people. One in particular, Fiona, intrigues and challenges her. But there are some things Emily is going to have to find out for herself -- like what the balance is between life and art, and which is more important when push comes to shove.] | |
| YA
and 10-14 |
Voight, Cynthia
[See Newbery] |
Elske
The Vandemark Mummy Jackaroo It's Not Easy Being Bad Dicey's Song [Teaching, Learning, and Archetypes] [Classroom Guide] The Homecoming Come A Stranger The Runner A Solitary Blue Izzy Willy-nilly Wings of a Falcon Orfe When She Hollers Bad Girls Bad, Badder, Baddest |
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| YA | Volponi, Paul | The Hand You're Dealt [A coming-of-age story set at a card table. Grief. Family. Poker.] Reluctant reader. | @AMAZON |
| YA-A | Vonnegut,
Kurt
[Everything Vonnegut] |
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| YA | Vrettos, Adrienne Maria | SKIN [This powerful story is about Donnie, who, from his funny and painfully honest point of view, describes a harrowing year that leaves both him and his family forever changed./the family side of eating disorders.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Walker, Paul Robert | Hoop Dreams
Pride of Puerto Rico: The Life of Roberto Clemente |
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| 12 up | Walsh, Marissa, Editor | Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? [Fourteen authors/anthology/Fat, Ugly, Skinny, Round, Stacked or Flat, Bad or Good? We're all surrounded by weight and discussion of weight. In this collection, YA writers sound off on body image., self-esteem, diets, eating disorders, boys, fashion magazines, and why trying on jeans is a bad experience for everyone. Includes: Relevant books, movies, songs and Web sites. | @AMAZON |
| YA | Walter, Virginia | Making Up Megaboy | @AMAZON |
| YA | Waltman, Kevin | Learning the Game [poor decisions and left to struggle with the consequences.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Wasserman, Robin | SKINNED [Lia Kahn was perfect: rich, beautiful, popular -- until the accident that nearly killed her. Now she has been downloaded into a new body that only looks human. Questions who we really are inside] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Werlin, Nancy | Are You Alone on Purpose | @AMAZON |
| YA | Wersba, Barbara | Carnival in My
Mind
Whistle Me Home The Wings of Courage |
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| YA | Westall, Robert | Demons and Shadows: The Ghostly Best Stories of Robert Westall | @AMAZON |
| Wharton, Edith | Novels, Novellas, Short Stories, Fiction, Poetry | ||
| YA | Whelan, Gloria
[a conversation] |
Homeless Bird | @AMAZON |
| YA
10+ |
White, Ruth | Sweet Creek Holler
Weeping Willow Belle Prater's Boy |
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| YA/A | White, Terence Hanbury
(1906-1964) [Bibliography] |
The Once and Future King
The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to the Once and Future King The Sword in the Stone |
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| Whitman, Walt | Biography, Works, Letters, Manuscripts, Reviews | ||
| 14Up | Whyman, Matt | Boy Kills Man [In the South American town of Medellín, where drug dealers rule and hope is scarce, young assassins are in large supply. Take Shorty and Alberto: two hardened best friends from poor homes whose biggest dream is to see a live soccer match. These boys understand that the one true power they will ever possess comes in the form of a fully loaded Smith & Wesson. Pulling the trigger may not be a way out . . . but it's the only way to the top.] Haunting and real. | @AMAZON |
| 14Up | Wild, Margaret | JINX [novel in verse/graphic content/family dynamics/from the depths of despair] | @AMAZON |
| 12 Up | Wilhelm, Doug | Raising the Shades [a son's confrontation with alcoholic father] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Willey, Margaret | The Bigger Book
of Lydia
Saving Lenny The Melinda Zone |
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| YA | Williams-Garcia, Rita | Every Time a
Rainbow Dies
Like Sisters on the Homefront Blue Tights Fast Talk on a Slow Track |
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| 10 Up | Wilson, Nancy Hope | Mountain Pose [child and spousal abuse/forgiveness] | @AMAZON |
| 12 Up | Wittlinger, Ellen | Blind Faith [grief, love, and faith have no easy answers] [Lesson Plan] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Wolff, Virginia Euwer | Probably Still Nick Swansen
Make Lemonade [Bk.1 of Trilogy] True Believer [Bk. 2][Adolescents coming of age] |
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| YA | Woodson, Jacqueline | The Dear One
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This The House You Pass on the Way |
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| YA | Wrede, Patricia | Dealing
With Dragons Book 1
Searching for Dragons Book 2 Callling on Dragons Book 3 Talking To Dragons Book 4 |
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| YA | Wynne-Jones, Tim | The Boy in the Burning House | @AMAZON |
| YA | Yates, Eleanor | Amos Fortune, Free Man | @AMAZON |
| YA
and 9-12 |
Yep, Laurence | Dragon's Gate
Child of the Owl Ribbons The Case of the Goblin Pearls Thief of Hearts The Star Fisher When the Circus Came to Town Sea Glass: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1970 |
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| YA | Yolen, Jane
[Resource File] |
Armageddon
is Here
The Dragon's Boy: A Tale of Young King Arthur (The Dragon's Trilogy) See Special BookSection |
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| Verne, Jules | 20,000 Leagues
Under The Sea
[North American Jules Verne Society, Inc.] |
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| 14 up | Vincent, Erin | Grief Girl: My True Story [Coming of age story/loss of both parents in car accident/nature of grief and the grief process/no quick fixes] | @AMAZON |
| YA-A | Voight, Cynthia | The Kingdom
Series [Medieval]
Jackaroo On Fortune's Wheel The Wings of a Falcon Elske |
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| YA | Weaver, Will | DEFECT [Maybe it was bad karma. Maybe it was just bad luck. Whatever the reason, fifteen-year-old David was born defective. His bug eyes, pinched face, and hearing aids are obvious, but there is a secret David keeps from everyone, even his foster parents. Because of a thin layer of skin hidden under each arm, David can fly—well, glide is more like it. Terrified of doctors, wary of letting down his guard, David is determined to hide his secret at any cost. But then David meets Cheetah, a girl whose own defect doesn’t diminish her spirit, and suddenly his life begins to take wing.] [conformity/self-acceptance/differences/tolerance] | @AMAZON |
| 10 up | Wenberg, Michael | Seattle Blues [When Maya finds a trombone in the attic, she's mesmerized. She learns to play as her grandmother gradually unravels details of her past: Maya's grandfather was a famous jazz trombone player who died in a car crash, and her grandmother was once a top jazz singer—who now only sings in church. After saving an elderly man from a riot, Maya adjusts to the prospect of life without her father (MIA in Vietnam), helps to mend her mom's relationship with her grandmother, and takes the first steps to becoming an accomplished musician.] | |
| YA | Zevin, Gabrielle | Elsewhere [the afterlife/humorous/fascinating/provacative]
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac [complexity of memory and identity/love/family/sensitive/excellent read] |
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| YA | Zindel, Paul
[Teacher Resource File] |
The Gadget
Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball [overcoming fear] The Pigman The Pigman and Me David & Della The Doom Stone Loch Raptor |
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| 14 Up | Zubli, Rita De Clercq | Disguised: A Wartime Memoir [With the Japanese army poised to invade their Indonesian island in 1942, Rita la Fontaine’s family knew that they and the other Dutch and Dutch-Indonesian residents would soon become prisoners of war. Fearing that twelve-year-old Rita would be forced to act as a "comfort woman" for the Japanese soldiers, the family launched a desperate plan to turn Rita into "Rick," cutting her hair short and dressing her in boy’s clothes. Rita’s aptitude for languages earned her a position as translator for the commandant of the prisoner camp, and for the next three years she played a dangerous game of disguise while advocating against poor conditions, injustice, and torture. Sixty-five years later, Rita describes a war experience like no other -- a remarkable tale of integrity, fortitude, and honor.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Zuckerman, Linda | A Taste for Rabbit [a ferocious look at siblings, friendship, the price of honor, and what it means to be . . . human.] | @AMAZON |
| YA | Zusak, Markus | Fighting Ruben Wolfe [sibling relationships, family dynamics] | @AMAZON |
Last Update: June 30, 2009