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YA	Abeel, Samantha	My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir [Samantha Abeel couldn't tell time, remember her locker combination, or count out change at a checkout counter -- and she was in seventh grade. For a straight-A student like Samantha, problems like these made no sense. She dreaded school, and began having anxiety attacks. In her thirteenth winter, she found the courage to confront her problems -- and was diagnosed with a learning disability.]
YA	Abelove, Joan	Saying It Out Loud	@AMAZON
YA	Adams, Lenore	Baby Girl [a pregnant teen searches for love and acceptance.]	@AMAZON
A	Adams, Douglas	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	@AMAZON
	Adams, Richard	Watership Down Original Map	@AMAZON
YA	Adoff, Jaime [Interview]	Names Will Never Hurt You [In this gripping story, set on the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of a student; four very different teens reveal their deepest feelings and fears during a day in which the hurts and struggles of high school escalate dangerously... ] The Death of Jayson Porter [Sixteen-year-old Jayson Porter wants to believe things will get better. But the harsh realities of his life never seem to change. Living in the inland-Florida projects with his abusive mother, he tries unsuccessfully to fit in at his predominately white school, while struggling to maintain even a thread of a relationship with his drug-addicted father. As the pressure mounts, thereąs 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 teenagerąs life, giving hope even in the bleakest of hours.]
YA/A	Albert, Susan Wittig	The Tale of Hill Top Farm: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter The Tale of Hill Top Farm: The Tale of Holly How	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Alcott, Louisa May More Story Illustrations	The Inheritance - previously unpublished Little Women	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Alender, Katie	Bad Girls Don't Die [Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her parents' marriage; her doll-crazy twelve-year-old sister, Kasey; and even her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude. When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction into danger.]
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Amnesty International	Free?: Stories About Human Rights [Free? is a reminder of what a huge leap was taken when someone wrote down our rights and the world agreed. And we want children to realize that the rights most of us can take for granted were won and struggled for." — David Almond. What does it mean to be free? A boy who thinks that school is "slavery" learns the true meaning of the word when he stumbles on a secret child-labor factory. A Palestinian boy, mute from trauma, releases kites over a wall to a hilltop settlement, each bearing a message of peace. This inspiring, engaging anthology gathers an international roster of authors to explore such themes as asylum, law, education, and faith — from a riveting tale of an attempt to find drinking water after Hurricane Katrina; to a chilling look at a future where microchips track every citizen’s every move; to a hilarious police interrogation involving the London Tower, the Crown Jewels, and a Ghanaian boy with a passion for playing marbles. Features an introduction by British writer Jacqueline Wilson. With stories by: David Almond Ibtisam Barakat Malorie Blackman Theresa Breslin Eoin Colfer Roddy Doyle Ursula Dubosarsky Jamila Gavin Margaret Mahy Patricia McCormick Michael Morpurgo Sarah Mussi Meja Mwangi Rita Williams-Garcia.]
* *	Anonymous	Go Ask Alice [This powerful real-life diary of a teenager's struggle with the seductive -- often fatal -- world of drugs and addiction tells the truth about drugs in strong and authentic voice. Tough and uncompromising, honest and disturbing -- and even more poignant today -- Go Ask Alice is page-turning and provocative reading.]	@AMAZON ...

	Anaya, Rudolfo	Bless Me, Ultima	@AMAZON
YA	Anderson, Laurie Halse	Speak [A Freshman Must Read] Catalyst Wintergirls [In her most emotionally wrenching, Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia’s descent into the powerful vortex of anorexia, and her painful path toward recovery.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA/Adult	Anderson, M. T.	The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume 1: The Pox Party [Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers -- but it is only after he opens a forbidden door that learns the hideous nature of their experiments, and his own chilling role them. Set in Revolutionary Boston, M. T. Anderson’s mesmerizing novel takes place at a time when Patriots battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim.] The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves [In the summer of 1775, fleeing from a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, escape through rising tides and pouring rain to find shelter in British-occupied Boston. Sundered from all he knows Octavian hopes to find safe harbor. But in the midst of war, no place is safe. The city of Boston itself is under siege. What follows is a tale of skirmish and flame, flight and fury, and battle on sea and land. Seeking both the truth of his past and some hope for his future, Octavian encounters generous thieves, pious carpenters, delicate lords, noble cowherds, bedazzled scientists, and murderous rebels–as this astonishing narrative escalates to its startling climax.]

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)
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
	Austen, Jane	Pride and Prejudice [About the Book] Emma and the Vampires (Jane Austen Undead Novel 1)[Retelling of Austen's classic Emma by Screenwriter Wayne Josephson for a modern-day audience. The Regency-era comedy of manners finds Jane Austen's beloved title character, Emma Woodhouse, attempting to arrange the affairs of the young ladies and gentleman vampires.]
YA	Avi [Lesson Plans]	The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Nothing But The Truth The Fighting Ground The Barn Beyond the Western Sea (Book 1) Lord Kirkle's Money (Book 2)	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
11 up		Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel [Ninth-grade student Philip Malloy was suspended from school for singing along to The Star-Spangled Banner in his homeroom, causing what his teacher, Margaret Narwin, called "a disturbance." But was he standing up for his patriotic ideals, only to be squelched by the school system? Was Ms. Narwin simply trying to be a good teacher? Or could it all be just a misunderstanding gone bad — very bad? What is the truth here? Can it ever be known?] Recommended for adults as well.

12+	Bagdasarian, Adam [Interview]	Forgotten Fire [Lesson Plan] First French Kiss: And Other Traumas [autobiographical]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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	Beam, Matt	Last December [Fifteen-year-old Steven needs to explain something— everything—to his sister, Sam. She needs to know about Jenny from his new high school, and how the freckles on her arm make his synapses go crazy. She needs to know about eighteen-year old dropout Byron, all his fascinating ideas about chaos and coolness and trying to keep it together. And she definitely needs to know about what drastic measures Steven is now considering and why. He needs to get this all down, so that some day Sam'll know what happened to him—to all of them—last December.]
YA	Beck, Ian	Pastworld [What if all of London were really an amusement park—a whole city returned to Victorian times to entertain visitors from the twenty-first century? That's the wildly original premise of Pastworld, a high-stakes mystery set in a simulated past. Exposes the human experience of the past, of violence, of technology, and of entertainment.]
YA	Berman, Steve (Editor)	Magic in the Mirrorstone: Tales of Fantasy [In this anthology for teen readers, fifteen best-selling and acclaimed authors--including Holly Black, Cecil Castellucci, Cassandra Clare, Eugie Foster, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and Gregory Frost--weave all-new stories filled with magic. Comic and dark, epic and entertaining Young Adult fantasy.]	@AMAZON
YA	Blacker, Terence [Interview]	The Angel Factory [good/evil, free-will/control, trust/betrayal]	------ @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Bloor, Edward	Tangerine [Paul Fisher (legally blind) can see what others cannot. He can see that his parents' constant praise of his brother is to cover up something that is terribly wrong. But no one listens to Paul--until his family moves to Tangerine. Paul the geek finds himself adopted into the toughest group around: the soccer team at his middle school. This new start helps Paul finally see the truth about his past--and give him the courage to face up to his terrifying older brother. Includes a reader's guide and an afterword by the author.	@AMAZON
YA	Blumberg, Rhoda	Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad	@AMAZON
YA	Blume, Judy [Resource File]	Forever... Here's to You, Rachel Robinson	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Blundell, Judy	What I Saw and How I Lied [Post WWII who dunnit/coming of age/lies that change a family]. Gives good sense of life during and after WWII, including racial and religious discrimation. The Sight ((Premonitions Series)[Judy Blundell (writing as Jude Watson) takes readers on a suspenseful journey where premonitions become a matter of life and death.]
14+	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? Kendra [High schooler Kendra longs to live with her mother who, unprepared for motherhood at age fourteen, left Kendra in the care of her grandmother, with the understanding that once she was done, mother and daughter would find a place of their own. Highlights the struggles young teens face involving sex, drugs, and poverty.]
YA	Bowler, Tim	Firmament [music/gangs/mixed genres] River Boy (1998 Carnegie Melon Award) [gently illustrates the fear of a loved one's passing by using a river's timeless flow as a metaphor for the journey of life.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
13 Up	Bowsher, Melodie	My Lost and Found Life [coming of age story will resonate with every daughter who ever took her mother for granted, and every young woman who must step out on her own and not just survive, but thrive.]	@AMAZON
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)	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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
YA	Brink, Carol Ryrie	Buffalo Coat [love and loss]	@AMAZON
	Brontë,Charlotte	Jane Eyre [Everything Jane Eyre]
YA	Brooks, Bruce	Midnight Hour Encores All That Remains [Three novellas] What Hearts [Four short stories about relationships] The Moves Make the Man [Sports metaphor]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Brooks, Kevin	Candy [Average Joe meets Candy,prostitute-drug addict, and 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.]
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 11-14	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? The Presence: A Ghost Story [A brutal car accident that claimed the life of her best friend has left seventeen-year-old Catherine in a state of shock and severe depression. She longs to move forward with her life, but feels she can’t until she is somehow assured of her friend’s forgiveness.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON ------
YA	Bunce, Elizabeth C.	A Curse Dark as Gold [thoughtful retelling of Rumpelstiltskin tale]	@AMAZON
YA	Burgess, Melvin	SMACK 1998	@AMAZON
YA	Cadnum, Michael	Taking It Edge	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Caletti, Deb	The Nature of Jade [I am not my illness. "Girl with Anxiety," "Trauma of the Week" -- no. The one thing my illness did make me realize is how necessary it is to ignore the dangers of living in order to live. And how much trouble you can get into if you can't.]
A	Campbell, Joseph	The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work [Create Your Own Journey]	@AMAZON
YA	Camus, Albert	The Stranger	@AMAZON
YA	Cameron, Ann	The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods	@AMAZON
14 up	Cameron, Peter	Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You [the pain that comes with growing up, leaving childhood, and becoming your own person]	@AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Carlip, Hillary	Girl Power:Young Women Speak Out Zine Scene: The Do It Yourself Guide to Zines	@AMAZON @AMAZON
10-14	Carmi, Daniella	Samir and Yonatan 2000 (Life on West Bank)	@AMAZON
YA	Chan, Gillian	The Turning [graphic language/ father-son relationship/new start in life after death of mother]	@AMAZON
YA	Chbosky, Stephen	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	@AMAZON
YA	Choi, Sook Nyul	Year of Impossible Goodbyes Echoes of the White Giraffe Gathering of Pearls
14+	Christopher, Lucy	Stolen [Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. Before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.] [Captivity and Enlightenment/Haunting and Powerful]
YA+	Crist-Evans, Craig	Amaryllis [a wrenching novel of a family whose internal battles chase one son away - into the clutches of the Vietnam war and an enemy he could never have imagined. Told both from a soldier's view and by the brother he leaves behind, Amaryllis is an ideal choice for students learning about the Vietnam era, or for any reader curious about the reality of war.] Powerful read.	@AMAZON
	Cisneros, Sandra	Loose Woman: Poems The House on Mango Street My Wicked Wicked Ways Americas Review Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

11-15	Clements, Andrew	Things Not Seen [teen's search for independence and individuality]	@AMAZON
YA	Cody, Robin	Ricochet River	@AMAZON
YA	Cole, Brock [ALAN Review]	The Facts Speak for Themselves The Goats Celine	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
12 Up	Coleman, Evelyn	Born in Sin	@AMAZON
12 up	Cofer, Judith Ortiz	An Island Like You [twelve lively short stories about Puerto-Rican American teenagers caught between two cultures. Tolerance.]
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)	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Collier, James Lincoln and Christopher	My Brother Sam is Dead The Clock Jump Ship to Freedom (scroll)	Library
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA/A	Conn, Peter J.	Pearl S. Buck : A Cultural Biography	@AMAZON
YA	Cooke, Kaz	Real Gorgeous: The Truth About Body and Beauty	@AMAZON
YA	Cooney, Caroline B.	The Ransom of Mercy Carter [1704 French and Indian War] Burning Up What Child Is This? Driver's Ed The Face on the Milk Carton Whatever Happened to Janie? The Voice on the Radio	@AMAZON @AMAZON
	Cooper, James Fenimore [Bio/plot summaries]	The Last of the Mohicans [ N. C. Wyeth (Illustrator) ] 2002 James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales I: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Cooper, Susan	The Dark is Rising The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Silver on the Tree/the Grey King/Greenwitch/the Dark Is Rising/over Sea, Under Stone/Boxed	@AMAZON
YA 9-12	Cormier, Robert [1983 Biography] Interview Loving Goodbye	The Chocolate War Heroes [Teacher's Guide] Fade Take Me Where the Good Times Are I am the Cheese In the Middle of the Night We All Fall Down Tenderness	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Corrigan, Eireann	Accomplice [Finn and Chloe have it all figured out. Their school guidance counselor has told everyone that it's not enough to get good grades or do community service anymore - kids like that are everywhere, and colleges are bored of them. So what do you do? Chloe decides they should get attention another way. She and Finn will stage her own disappearance - and then Finn will be the only who finds and saves her. What college wouldn't want them after that kind of attention? It seems like a good plan -- until things start going very wrong....the destruction of another life.]
11 Up	Coville, Bruce [editor]	Half-Human [10 stories from various authors]	@AMAZON
10-14	Cox, Clinton	Houdini [About Houdini]	@AMAZON
14 Up	Coy, John	Crackback [a successful high school football player discovers his teammates are using steroids--and one of them is his best friend--he's faced with a tough decision: Is he willing to do what it takes to win?/father/son/girl relationships] BOX OUT (Ages 12 up) [Liam has just been bumped up to starter on the varsity basketball team, and the pressure's on. With the girls' team heading to State, the boys' team is under even greater scrutiny than usual in Liam's small midwestern town. When the team's coach starts counting on the power of prayer---and enforcing teamwide participation---Liam finds himself in a spotlight that's more nerve-racking than any trip to the free-throw line. In trying to stand up for what's right, Liam is forced to stand up for himself---against his teammates, his fellow students, and even his parents.]
	Crane, Stephen	Red Badge of Courage
10-14 10-14 10-14	Creech, Sharon	Walk Two Moons Absolutely Normal Chaos Replay	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Crew, Linda	Children of the River Fire On The Wind	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Crutcher, Chris [Includes Interview] [Teacher Resource Files]	The Sledding Hill (2005) [READ IT!] Ironman [Sports, Losing the truth, Anger Management, feelings, relationships] Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes [High school misfit] The Crazy Horse Electric Game [Understanding and Finding Human Dignity] Stotan! [Chaos, Team Work/Friendship] Whale Talk [dignity and acceptance]	Click here for all Crutcher books.
YA	Cushman, Karen [see also]	Catherine Called Birdy The Midwife's Apprentice Ballad of Lucy Whipple Matilda Bone	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
14 Up	Davidson, Dana	Played [When one of Ian's boys dares him to sleep with plain-faced, nobody Kylie Winship, he thinks it will be a snap. If he succeeds, he'll be down with the most popular crew in his school. For him, love is just a game . . . ] Every girl should read this book.	@AMAZON
YA	Davis, Deborah [Interview]	Not Like You [alcoholic mother/teen daughter. Loving someone else enough to stay with her through 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 MarĂa 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] Payback Time [Through the eyes of a distinctly non-athletic protagonist—a fat high school journalist named Mitch—veteran sports novelist Deuker reveals the surprising truth behind a mysterious football player named Angel.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
	Dickens, Charles	[Biography, Bibligography,Chronology] [The Dickens Project of the University of California [Brown University. Extensive collection of bibliographical, biographical and critical materials] [Teacher Cyberguide]

	Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)	See The Mouse of Amherst for young readers. [Emily Dickinson's Letters] [The Emily Dickinson Journal] [Columbia University's Project Bartleby - The Complete Poems]
YA	Dickinson, Peter	The Ropemaker AK Eva	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	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
12 up	Dolamore, Jaclyn	Magic Under Glass [Nimira is a foreign music-hall girl forced to dance for mere pennies. When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires her to sing with a piano-playing automaton, Nimira believes it is the start of a new and better life. In Parry's world, however, buried secrets are beginning to stir. Unsettling below-stairs rumors swirl about ghosts, a madwoman roaming the halls, and Parry's involvement with a league of sorcerers who torture fairies for sport. Then Nimira discovers the spirit of a fairy gentleman named Erris is trapped inside the clockwork automaton, waiting for someone to break his curse. The two fall into a love that seems hopeless, and breaking the curse becomes a race against time, as not just their love, but the fate of the entire magical world may be in peril.] Unique debut novel. Perhaps a sequel?
YA	Donnelly, Jennifer	A Northern Light [Based on a 20th century murder case]	@AMAZON
YA	Dorfman, Joaquin	Playing it Cool [mystery/romance/coming-of-age story full of red herrings and elaborate schemes.]	@AMAZON
YA	Doyle, Malachy	Georgie [orphaned boy finds sense of self/overcoming rage and anger/one person can make a difference]
	Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan	[full text of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories and the 4 novels plus graphics] [The Sherlock Holmes Museum] The Hound of the Baskervilles - Eerie illustrations enhance a blood-curdling edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most-celebrated Sherlock Holmes mystery - Candlewick 2006
YA 14 Up	Draper, Sharon [All Study Guides]	Copper Sun [Slaves and indentured servants/1738 in the south] Forged by Fire [young man struggling to protect his little sister from a drug-addicted mother and an abusive father.] The Battle of Jericho [Jericho and his cousin are psyched when invited to pledge for the Warriors of Distinction. But as the secret initiation rites grow increasingly humiliating and force Jericho to make painful choices, he starts to question whether membership is worth it. How far will he have to go to wear the cool black silk Warriors jacket? How high a price will he have to pay to belong? The answers are devastating.] November Blues [This sequel to The Battle of Jericho but can stand alone. When November Nelson loses her boyfriend, Josh, to a pledge stunt gone horribly wrong, she finds out she's pregnant. This is a tough look at teen pregnancy and the consequences of unprotected sex.] Just Another Hero (Conclusion) [Suppose someone showed up in YOUR classroom carrying an AK-47. You have a split second: To think. To act. To be a hero. But what is a hero?]
12+	Dubarsosky, Ursula	The Red Shoe [Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally unstable and largely absent, their mother is possibly in the thrall of his brother, and a headline-making Russian spy defection is taking place next door. Punctuated by the headlines of the times, The Red Shoe depicts how the large events of the world can impinge on ordinary lives.]	@AMAZON
YA	Duncan, Lois	Killing Mr. Griffin Summer of Fear	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Dygard, Thomas J	Game Plan	@AMAZON
YA	Eckert, Allan W.	Incident at Hawk's Hill	@AMAZON
YA	Edut, Ophira	Adios, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity	@AMAZON
	Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965)	What the Thunder Said - Site dedicated to all things T.S. Eliot - Time Line, Works and Resources
14+	Eulberg, Elizabeth	The Lonely Hearts Club [Penny is sick of boys and sick of dating. So she vows: no more. It's a personal choice. . .and, of course, soon everyone wants to know about it. And a few other girls are inspired. A movement is born: The Lonely Hearts Club (named after the band from Sgt. Pepper). Penny is suddenly known for her nondating ways . . . which is too bad, because there's this certain boy she can't help but like. . . . ]
YA	Ewing, Lynn	Party Girl	@AMAZON
YA/A	Faust, Drew Gilpin	Mothers of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War Southern Stories	@AMAZON
YA	Feelings, Tom	The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo [picturebook for adults]	@AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Fields, Terri	HOLDUP [a novel with nine unforgettable points of view, in four astonishing parts--will leave the reader wondering about luck and life's strange surprises.]	@AMAZON
YA	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] You Don't Even Know Me: Stories and Poems about Boys [In 9 stories and 13 poems, Flake gives readers insight into the minds of a diverse group, adolescent African American males.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA 9-12 YA YA YA YA	Fleischman, Paul [See Special Collection] [See Newbery]	Mind's Eye By the Great Horn Spoon Whirlygig [Lesson Plan] [Lesson Plan] Bull Run [Lesson Plan] Time Train [Lesson Pan] Dateline: Troy [Lesson Plan] Saturnalia	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON

YA	Fleischman, Sid [See Newbery]	The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life	@AMAZON
YA	Flinn, Alex [Bio/Interview, Lesson Plans]	Breaking Point [bully, fitting in, school violence, teen social life] Breathing Underwater [dating violence] [Teacher's Guide] Nothing to Lose [domestic violence] [Study Guide][Discussion Guide] Fade to Black [HIV, hate crime, bullying, family relationships. Three people, three perspectives -- one truth.] [Discussion Guide]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
11-14	Fogelin, Adrian	The Big Nothing [painful transitions of adolescence/dysfunctional family/a character on the edge of life--in his home, at school, and with friends/discovering hidden talents]	@AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
14 Up 12 Up	Freymann-Weyr, Garret	Stay With Me [a quest to understand a sister's suicide] My Heartbeat [2003 Printz Honor Winner]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
13 Up	Fukui, Isamu	Truancy [In an alternate world, in a nameless totalitarian city, the autocratic Mayor rules the school system with an iron fist, with the help of his Educators. Fighting against the Mayor and his repressive Educators is a group of former students called the Truancy, whose goal is to take down the system by any means 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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA 10+	Gantos, Jack [Includes Interview]	Hole In My Life [autobiography... "the bleakest year of my life."] Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key [ADHD] (1998) Joey Pigza Loses (2000) Control What Would Joey Do? (2002)	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Garcia, Kami and Margaret Stohl	Beautiful Creatures [Gothic romance. Twilight readers will enjoy this.]	@AMAZON
	Garcia, Marquez Gabriel	One Hundred Years of Solitude	@AMAZON
YA	Garcia, Rita Williams	Every Time a Rainbow Dies	@AMAZON
YA	Garden, Nancy	Good Moon Rising Annie on My Mind Dove and Sword: a Novel of Joan of Arc	------ @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Garsee, Jeannine	Before, After, and Somebody In Between ["a gritty and realistic tale of a girl trying to escape her parent's poor choices and make a life for herself. "	@AMAZON
YA	Gaskins, Pearl Fuyo	What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People	@AMAZON
YA	Gavin, Jamila	Coram Boy	@AMAZON
YA	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.] Princess of Glass (Sequel)	@AMAZON
YA	Giles, Gail [Interview]	Playing in Traffic Shattering Glass What Happened to Cass McBride? (November 2006) Dead Girls Don't Write Letters [Lesson Plan] Right Behind You [When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready for a fresh start]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA 14 Up	Going, K.L.	Saint Iggy [I am not so bad a person once you get to know me. A young man's tragic search for meaning in a world that to him makes no sense. /Reluctant Reader]	@AMAZON
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.	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Golding, William	Lord of the Flies [Religious Imagery] [Law and Order]	@AMAZON
11 up	Golds, Cassandra	The Museum of Mary Child [Heloise finds a mysterious doll and is forced to runaway,ending up in an orphanage. But one day, she must return to the house where the devastating secret of her past awaits. Modern fairy tale/Gothic horror/weird, fun, creepy, romance, mystery]
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	@AMAZON ------
YA	Greenberg, Jan (Editor)	Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art	@AMAZON
YA	Greene, Bette	Summer of My German Soldier The Drowning of Stephen Jones	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA-A	Gregerson, Judy	Bad Girls Club [Tackles the issue of children dealing with mentally ill and neglectful parents, childhood trauma, and dysfunctional families.] Riveting read.	@AMAZON
YA	Griffin, Adele [Interview]	Where I Want to Be [a tender and spellbinding book, told in the alternating voices of two very different sisters dwelling on opposite sides of life and death, who are bravely trying to overcome the void and bring light to each other] My Almost Epic Summer [a summer of self-discovery]
11 up	Grimly, Gris (Illustrator)	Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Death and Dementia [stories of lost love, lost ways...and lost minds. A companion to Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness, this second installment of perennial Poe favorites includes The Tell-Tale Heart, The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether, The Oblong Box, and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar. Pen, ink and watercolor illustrations. Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness ["The Black Cat," "The Masque of the Red Death," "Hop-Frog," and "The Fall of the House of Usher."].
YA	Grindley, Sally	Spilled Water [modern-day China, 11 year old girl sold as slave/culture where to be born a girl is worth nothing more than spilled water]	@AMAZON
YA-A	Guest, Judith	Ordinary People	@AMAZON
YA	Guy, Rosa	The Disappearance And I Heard a Bird Sing Ruby	@AMAZON ------ @AMAZON
11 Up	Haddix, Margaret Peterson	Uprising: Three Young Women Caught in the Fire that Changed America [Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911/beginning of the organized labor movement/teen immigrants]	@AMAZON
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.]
11 Up	Hale, Shannon [Interview] [Lesson Plan]	The Goose Girl Enna Burning [[companion volume to The Goose Girl 2004] River Secrets [stand-alone] Austenland Book of a Thousand Days [Grimms fairy tale reimagined, reset on the central Asian steppes/unique retelling with adventure and romance, drama and disguise.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA 10+	Hamilton, Virginia [author site] [Links and Lesson Plans]	Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Plain City Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales M.C. Higgins the Great	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Hansberry, Lorraine (1930-1965)	A Raisen in the Sun [Study Black Actors in American Cinema]	@AMAZON
YA	Hartinger, Brent [Interview]	Geography Club The Order of the Poison Oak The Last Chance Texaco Grand & Humble	DESCRIPTIONS INTERVIEW ORDER INFO
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.}
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] How To Steal A Car [A thrilling, scary ride through one suburban girl's turbulent life - one car theft at a time.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA-A	Hawthorne,Nathaniel	The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Bibliography, Life, Writings, Criticisms	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Henry, Marguerite	King of the Wind	@AMAZON
YA	Heneghan, James	The Grave	@AMAZON
10+	Henkes, Kevin [Teacher Resource] [See Picturebooks]	Words of Stone [overcoming fear] Protecting Marie Olive's Ocean (Newbery Honor) [discovering family, first love, and self] Bird Lake Moon [Two boys experience loss: divorce/death of sibling. Quiet and delicate. Friendship.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Hesser, Terry Spencer	Kissing Doorknobs [Obsessive Compulsive Disorder]	@AMAZON
13 up	High, Linda Oatman	Planet Pregnancy [sexual activity, the challenge to a pro-life upbringing, the meaning of motherhood, and the role of the teen father.]
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.]
YA	Hillman, Laura	I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor	@AMAZON
YA	Hinton, S.E.	The Outsiders [Lesson Plans]	@AMAZON
YA	Hobbs, Valerie	Tender [overcoming fears] Letting Go of Bobby James: Or How I Found My Self of Steam	@AMAZON @AMAZON
9-12 YA	Hobbs, Will [Author Site with extensive lesson plans]	The Big Wander Down the Yukon Far North River Thunder The Maze Changes in Latitudes	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA+ YA	Hoffman, Alice	Green Angel [search for healing] Green Witch [Sequel. life, love, and loss in a post-disaster world] Indigo [coming of age] [Discussion Guide] Aquamarine [Discussion Guide] Incantation [journey of loss and rebirth inspired by historical fact (Spanish Inquisition)]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Hoffman, Mary	Stravaganza: City of Masks [First of Trilogy][traveling between two worlds] Stravaganza: City of Stars (Book 2) Stravaganza: City of Flowers (Book 3)	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
11 Up	Hokenson, Terry	The Winter Road [mourning loss of brother and approval of father/plane crash/gritty survival-adventure narrative/	@AMAZON
YA-A	Holland, Barbara	Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: The Care for Cows, Orchards, Fairs and Bake Sales	@AMAZON

YA	Holman, Felice	Slake's Limbo	@AMAZON
YA	Holt, Kimberly Willis	Keeper of the Night [mother commits suicide/daughter is holding the family together/breakdown of communications/determination to keep on going facing overwhelming loss and responsibilities]	@AMAZON
YA	Hooper, Mary	Newes from the Dead [WRONGED. HANGED. ALIVE? (AND TRUE!)	@AMAZON
	Homer	The Odyssey The Illiad

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	House, Silas	Eli the Good [The summer of 1976 is the one that threatened to tear Eli's family apart. There is his distant mother; his traumatized Vietnam vet dad; his wild sister; his former warprotester aunt; and his tough yet troubled best friend, Edie, the only person with whom he can be himself. As tempers flare and his father’s nightmares rage, Eli watches from the sidelines, but soon even he cannot escape the current of conflict.]
YA	Howe, James (Editor)	The Color of Absence: 12 Stories about Loss and Hope	@AMAZON
	Hughes, Langston
YA	Susan Hughes	Virginia [Fourteen-year-old Ivy is flabbergasted when her childhood friend Virginia claims that she has been visited by an angel who has asked her to bear the child of God. Ivy uncovers apocalyptic plot being devised by Virginia's weird brother, Paul. Ivy suspects Paul's activities must connect in some way to Virginia's claim but she's uncertain how. Ivy finds herself caught up in a chain of events she has no control over.]
YA	Hunt, Irene	Across Five Aprils [Civil War, Coming of Age] Up A Road Slowly - Newbery	@AMAZON
YA	Hurwin, Davida Wills	A Time for Dancing [Upcoming movie]	@AMAZON
	Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World	@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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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.] Books 2 and 3	@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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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. Captivate (Book Two) - There's a new king in town. A turf war is imminent, since the new pixie king, Astley, is moving in quickly. Nick nearly killed him in the woods on day one, but Zara came to his rescue. Astley swears that he and Zara are destined to be together, that he's one of the good guys. Nick isn't buying it, though Zara isn't as sure -- despite herself, she wants to trust the new king. But it's a lot more than her relationship with Nick that is at stake. It's her life -- and his.
YA	Jones, Diana Wynne	Castle in the Air Dogsbody Hexwood Dark Lord of Derkholm Year of the Griffin	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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."]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Jordon, June	His Own Where Soldier: A Poet's Childhood	------ @AMAZON
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
10-14	Kaye, Marilyn	Gifted: Nine teens, nine secrets Out of Sight, Out of Mind Better Late Than Never Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Finders Keepers
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Klause, Annette Curtis	Alien Secrets The Silver Kiss Blood and Chocolate	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
13+	Klein, Lisa	Ophelia [In this re-imagining of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, it is Ophelia who takes center stage. A rowdy, motherless girl, she grows up at Elsinore Castle to become the queen’s most trusted lady-in-waiting. She catches the attention of the captivating, dark-haired Prince Hamlet, and their love blossoms in secret. But bloody deeds soon turn Denmark into a place of madness, and ultimately, Ophelia must choose between her love for Hamlet and her own life. In desperation, Ophelia devises a treacherous plan to escape from Elsinore forever . . . with one very dangerous secret, she is pregnant with Hamlet’s child. Sharp and literary, dark and romantic, this dramatic story holds readers in its grip until the final, heartrending scene.] Lady Macbeth's Daughter [The daughter Macbeth might have had, if Shakespeare had thought to create her… Albia has grown up with no knowledge of her mother of her father, the powerful Macbeth. Instead she knows the dark lure of the Wychelm Wood and the moors, where she’s been raised by three strange sisters. It’s only when the ambitious Macbeth seeks out the sisters to foretell his fate that Albia’s life becomes tangled with the man who leaves nothing but bloodshed in his wake. She even falls in love with Fleance, Macbeth’s rival for the throne. Yet when Albia learns that she has the second sight, she must decide whether to ignore the terrible future she foresees—or to change it.
YA	Knobbe, D. E.	Runaway Series Runaway Storm (Book One) [Wilderness Adventure. Nate stole the kayak . . . sort of. His parents don't know where he is. He's made it to the chain of sparsely populated islands off the coast of Vancouver. He hadn't counted on meeting a goth runaway, or cops chasing him into a wild and deadly storm, or planned to shipwreck on a deserted island, or to have a run-in with a crazed drug smuggler.
13+	Knowles, Jo	Jumping Off Swings [One pregnancy. Four friends. It all adds up to a profound time of change in this poignant, sensitively written YA novel. Dysfunctional families/lost innocence/choices/change. Told alternately from each characters point of view.]
YA	Koertge, Ron	Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright: A Novel Margaux with an X	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
13 up	Krech, Bob	REBOUND [Prejudice can be defined in many ways as Ray finds out when he crosses the line as a white Polish-American boy who wants to play on his high school's black basketball team.] Reluctant Reader.
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.]
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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
14+	Larbalestier, Justine	LIAR [A compulsive liar becomes a suspect in her boyfriend's murder. Takes listeners deep into the psyche of a young woman who will say just about anything to convince them — and herself — that she’s finally come clean. A bone-chilling thriller that will have listeners seesawing between truths and lies right up to the end.]
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] Hannah (Daughters Of The Sea) Bk. 1 - [Daughters of the Sea tells the story of 3 mermaid sisters who are separated at birth by a storm and go on to lead three very different lives. Book 1 is about Hannah, who spent her early days in an orphanage and is now a scullery maid in the house of rich, powerful family. She is irresistibly drawn to the sea and through a series of accidents and encounters discovers her true identity. Hannah relizes that she must keep the truth a secret but she also knows that soon she will have to make the choice - to be a creature of the land or the sea.]

YA	Lee, Harper [Bio #2]	To Kill a Mockingbird [Lesson Plan] [Plot and Characterization] [Pre-reading assignment] [Test]	@AMAZON
YA Adult	Lester, Julius [Interview] [Resource File]	To Be a Slave And All Our Wounds Forgiven Othello, A Novel	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Levitin, Sonia	Escape from Egypt The Return	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA 11-14	Lisle, Janet Taylor	Afternoon of the Elves The Crying Rocks [ethnic identity and heritage/facing past and present]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Lipsyte, Robert	The Contender [see also: Covering Ali, Discovering an Era ] The Brave The Chief	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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"] The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon--and me, Ruby Oliver [Ruby struggles to secure some sort of mental health, to understand what constitutes a real friendship, and to find true love—if such a thing exists.]
11 up	Lord, Gabrielle	Conspiracy 365 Series - A fast-moving world of mystery, intrigue and danger. From the opening sentence, this monthly book series written as serial drama draws readers into the life of Callum Ormond, a 15-year-old whose year unfolds with daily dangers and challenges. Book One opens just as his ordinary teen life spins out of control - with a world that seems to be against him and puts his very survival at stake. Conspiracy 365 January Conspiracy 365 February Conspiracy 365 March Conspiracy 365 April Conspiracy 365 May Conspiracy 365 June Conspiracy 365 July Conspiracy 365 August
YA YA	Lowry, Lois [Teacher Resource] See Newbery Section See 9-12 Books	Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye A Summer to Die The Giver	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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.	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	Mariott, Zoe	The Swan Kingdom [Inspired Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans, this is the entrancing tale of a girl with powerful healing gifts —- and the courage to use them to save her ailing kingdom.]
YA	Marsden, John	Letters from the Inside Tomorrow When the War Began Hamlet [retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy.... In this dark, erotically charged, beautifully crafted novel, John Marsden brings one of Shakespeare’s most riveting characters to full-blooded life in a narrative of intense psychological complexity.] Bravo!	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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)	CLICK HERE
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]	@AMAZON ------ @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	McDonald, Joyce	Swallowing Stones Comfort Creek	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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	------ @AMAZON
YA	McKinley, Robin	Rose Daughter Deerskin The Hero and the Crown A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
13+	McKissack, Jr., Frederick	Shooting Star [football/steroids/gritty/smart read/profanity]	@AMAZON
YA	McKissack, Patricia & Frederick	A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter	@AMAZON
9-12	McKissack, Patricia C. [See Books for 9-12]	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.
	Mellville, Herman	Moby Dick Bilbliography - Electronic Texts	@AMAZON
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)
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.	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
	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
14+	Mitchell, Todd	The Secret to Lying [Teen social and mental health issues/importance of being yourself and being okay with it]
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Moriarty, Jaclyn [Interview]	Feeling Sorry for Celia [written in letters and regriferator notes... finding out who you are]	@AMAZON
YA	Morris, Paula	RUINED: A Ghost Story [real horror and the delicious flavor of New Orleans]
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
13+	Mourlevat, Jean-Claude	Winter's End [dystopian novel/four teenagers risk impossible odds to fight against tyranny in a world of dangerous choices — and reemerging hope. Milena, Bartolomeo, Helen, and Milos have left their prison-like boarding schools far behind. Fleeing from a terrifying pack of dog-men sent to hunt them down, they are determined to take up the fight against the despotic government that murdered their parents years before. Only three will make it safely to the secret headquarters of the resistance movement. The fourth is captured and forced to participate in a barbaric game for the amusement of the masses — further proof of the government’s horrible brutality.
YA	Murphy, Clair Rudolf	Free Radical [guilt, redemption, making amends]	@AMAZON
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY Also see Black History	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.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Nadol, Jen	The Mark [“Am I Cassie Renfield, descendant of the gods, or just a girl at the end of a long line of crazy people?” Cassandra Renfield has always seen the mark—a glow around certain people reminiscent of candlelight. But the one time she mentioned it, it was dismissed as a trick of the light. Until the day she watches a man awash in the mark die. After searching her memories, Cassie realizes she can see a person’s imminent death. Not how or where, only when: today.] Thought-provoking/unique/grief/isolation.
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
14+	Nayeri, Daniel and Dina	Another Faust [This contemporary reimagining of the Faustian bargain is a compelling tale of ambition, consequences, and ultimate redemption.]
YA	Nelson, R.A.	Days of Little Texas [What happens when you summon more than just the Holy Spirit? Explores the boundaries between the real world and the spiritual world.]
14+	Ness, Patrick	The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, Book One) [A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard — and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret.] The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, Book Two)
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)	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON Series
YA	Nolan, Han	Born Blue [Reactive Attachment Disorder] Dancing on The Edge [Book Review] Send Me Down A Miracle A Face in Every Window	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
15+	Northrop, Michael	Gentlemen [Micheal, Tommy, Mixer, and Bones aren't just from the wrong side of the tracks--they're from the wrong side of everything. Except for Mr. Haberman, their remedial English teacher, no one at their high school takes them seriously. Haberman calls them "gentlemen," but everyone else ignores them--or, in Bones's case, is dead afraid of them. When one of their close-knit group goes missing, the clues all seem to point in one direction: to Mr. Haberman. Gritty, fast-paced, and brutally real, this debut takes an unflinching look at what binds friends together--and what can tear them apart.]

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	Omololu, C. J.	Dirty Little Secrets [Everyone has a secret. But Lucy’s is bigger and dirtier than most. It’s one she’s been hiding for years—that her mom’s out-of-control hoarding has turned their lives into a world of garbage and shame. When her mom dies suddenly in their home, Lucy hesitates to call 911 because revealing their way of life would make her future unbearable. This is an hour-by-hour account of Lucy’s desperate attempt at normalcy and to set her life right.]
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 See Newbery section	Jacob Have I Loved [Lesson Plan] Preacher's Boy The Great Gilly Hopkins Lyddie JIP: His Story	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
11 up	Parkkola, Seita	The School of Possibilities [a haunting mixture of reality and fantasy... and follows the (mis)adventures of Storm Steele, a kid whom everyone dismisses as "impossible." Storm is being forced to attend the School of Possibilities for troubled youth. But Storm notices that something strange is going on at his new school. The students are not...normal.]
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
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Peck, Robert Newton	A Day No Pigs Would Die A Part of the Sky	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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.] Exposure [A searing look at the world of soccer and pop-celebrity culture — and the lives of three street kids caught in its glare. Inspired by Shakespeare's OTHELLO, this modern tragedy of desire and betrayal, incisively and compassionately told, is a truly enthralling work of crossover fiction. ]
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	------ @AMAZON
YA	Phelan, Matt	The Storm in the Barn [Tall tale. Thriller. Gripping historical fiction. Artful, sparely told graphic novel — a tale of a boy in Dust Bowl America, Kansas 1937]
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON
YA	Powell, Randy	Run If You Dare [Father/son relationship/aspirations] Three Clams and an Oyster [succeeding, maturity, male adolescent relationships, character]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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) The Subtle Knife (Book 2) The Amber Spyglass (Book 3)	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
14+	Porter, Bobbie	THE RING [Plagued by slipping grades and a budding criminal record, at 15, Mardie's heading down a path of self-destruction she can't seem to avoid. Unlike her perfect older brother Michael, who does everything right according to their father, Mardie can't measure up. But when she discovers a girls' boxing club at the gym, Mardie's drawn in by the fighters' fearlessness and strength. Having already lost her parents' trust, and shunned by her boyfriend and friends, the ring is the only place left where no one judges Mardie. Angry and hurt, Mardie can't wait to start throwing punches. But Kitty, her wise and patient trainer, a former boxer who's coached her share of troubled girls, shows Mardie that boxing isn't just about fighting--it's also about strategy and mental discipline--the things that make a fighter into a winner.]
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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).
13+	Reeve, Philip	Fever Crumb [Fever Crumb is a girl who has been adopted and raised by Dr. Crumb, a member of the order of Engineers, where she serves as apprentice. In a time and place where women are not seen as reasonable creatures, Fever is an anomaly, the only female to serve in the order. Soon though, she must say goodbye to Dr. Crumb-nearly the only person she's ever known-to assist archeologist Kit Solent on a top-secret project. As her work begins, Fever is plagued by memories that are not her own and Kit seems to have a particular interest in finding out what they are. Fever has also been singled out by city-dwellers who declare her part Scriven. The Scriveners, not human, ruled the city some years ago but were hunted down and killed in a victorious uprising by the people. If there are any remaining Scriven, they are to be eliminated. All Fever knows is what she's been told: that she is an orphan. Is Fever a Scriven? Whose memories does she hold?]
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON

YA	Rosenberg, Liz	Light-Gathering Poems	@AMAZON
YA	Rostkowski, Margaret I.	After the Dancing Days Moon Dancer	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON ------ ------
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]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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)
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Shandler, Sara	Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self	@AMAZON
11-13	Sheinmel, Courtney	Positively [Since the day Emerson Pressman and her mother were diagnosed as HIV positive, nothing has been the same. When her mother dies of AIDS, Emmy has to go live with the father and stepmother she barely knows, and she feels more alone than ever. Now she has to take pills by herself, and there is no one left who understands what it's like to be afraid every time she has a cold. But when her father decides to send her to Camp Positive, a camp for HIV-positive children, Emmy begins to realize that she's not alone after all, and that sometimes, opening up to other people can make all the difference in the world.]
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.] Bruiser [novel about the power of unconditional friendship, the complex gear workings of a family, and the sacrifices we endure for the people we love.]
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?]
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
12 Up 11 up	Sonnenblick, Jordon	Zen And The Art Of Faking It [New town/new school/a plan to be totally different.] Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie [Steven has a totally normal life until his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia. Steven's world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with his brother's illness and his parents' attempts to keep the family in one piece.] Great for reluctant readers. After Ever After (2010) [Jeffrey isn't a little boy with cancer anymore. He's a teen who's in remission, but life still feels fragile. The aftereffects of treatment have left Jeffrey with an inability to be a great student or to walk without limping. His parents still worry about him. His older brother, Steven, lost it and took off to Africa to be in a drumming circle and "find himself." Jeffrey has a little soul searching to do, too, which begins with his escalating anger at Steven, an old friend who is keeping something secret, and a girl who is way out of his league but who thinks he's cute.] Stand-alone novel, but would recommend reading Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie for the pleasure of it. 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.]
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.]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Spooner, Michael	Daniel's Walk [1844 Oregon Trail]	@AMAZON
13+	Standiford, Natalie	How To Say Goodbye In Robot [After moving to Baltimore and enrolling in a private school, high school senior Beatrice befriends a quiet loner with a troubled family history.] Kid on the fringe/no happy ending/purposeful not-love story.
YA	Staples, Suzanne Fisher	Shiva's Fire Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Haveli	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA-A	Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)	Cannery Row The Pearl Of Mice And Men The Grapes of Wrath	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
13+	Stiefvater, Maggie	Shiver (Wolves of Mercy Falls, Book 1) [For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf--her wolf--is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again. Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human--or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever. Linger Wolves of Mercy Falls, Book 2) [In Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Linger is a spellbinding love story that explores both sides of love -- the light and the dark, the warm and the cold.]
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.
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
14+	Stork, Francisco X.	Marcelo In The Real World [Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear--part of the autism-like impairment no doctor has been able to identify--and he's always attended a special school where his differences have been protected. But the summer after his junior year, his father demands that Marcelo work in his law firm's mailroom in order to experience "the real world." He learns about competition and jealousy, anger, desire, suffering, injustice. This is a love story, a legal drama, and a celebration of the music each of us hears inside.] The Last Summer Of The Death Warriors [When Pancho arrives at St. Anthony's Home, he knows his time there will be short: If his plans succeed, he'll soon be arrested for the murder of his sister's killer. But then he's assigned to help D.Q., whose brain cancer has slowed neither his spirit nor his mouth. D.Q. tells Pancho all about his "Death Warrior's Manifesto." A candid novel about finding authentic faith and choosing higher love.]
11-14	Sturtevant, Katherine	At the Sign of the Star A True and Faithful Narrative [Sequel]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Sweeney, Joyce	Shadow: A Novel Piano Man The Tiger Orchard Free Fall	@AMAZON ------ @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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.]	------
YA	Thompson, Joyce	Conscience Place	------
YA	Thompson, Julian	Brothers (sibling mental illness) The Trials of Molly Sheldon Gypsyworld Grounding of Group 6	@AMAZON @AMAZON ------ @AMAZON
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?]
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)	@AMAZON
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....]

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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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]
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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	Warman, Jessica [Interview]	Breathless [A semi-autobiographical novel of love, secrets, and the ties that cut and bind. Breathless is a stunning debut that explores illness and health, love and lust, friends and enemies, and the moneyed world of prep school with a deft, expert hand.]
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	White, Amy Brecount	Forget-Her-Nots [Something—some power—is blooming inside Laurel. She can use flowers to do things. Like bringing back lost memories. Or helping her friends ace tests. Or making people fall in love. Laurel suspects her newfound ability has something to do with an ancient family secret, one that her mother meant to share with Laurel when the time was right. But then time ran out. Can Laurel piece everything together quickly enough to control her power, which is growing more potent every day?
YA 10+	White, Ruth	Sweet Creek Holler Weeping Willow Belle Prater's Boy	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
14+	White, Tracy	How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story [How do you know if you’re on the verge of a nervous breakdown? For seventeen-year-old Stacy Black, it all begins with the smashing of a window. After putting her fist through the glass, she checks into a mental hospital. Stacy hates it there but despite herself slowly realizes she has to face the reasons for her depression to stop from self-destructing. Based on the author’s experiences, this is a frank portrait of what it’s like to struggle with self-esteem, body image issues, drug addiction, and anxiety.]
	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	@AMAZON @AMAZON ------
YA	Williams-Garcia, Rita	Every Time a Rainbow Dies Like Sisters on the Homefront Blue Tights Fast Talk on a Slow Track	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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
13+	Wolf, Allan	Zane's Trace [Zane Guesswind has just killed his grandfather, or so he believes. So he steals the 1969 Plymouth Barracuda his father left behind and takes off on a manic trip to his mother’s grave to kill himself. Armed with a six-pack of Mountain Dew, a jumbo pack of Sharpies, and a loaded gun in the trunk, he’s headed to Zanesville, Ohio, with no rearview mirror and no more worries. On the way, he meets Libba, a young hitchhiker who shares his destination, and other mystic and mysterious characters. With each encounter and every mile marker, Zane gets farther from the life he knows —but closer to figuring out who he really is.] Glimpse into the world of depression.
YA	Wolff, Virginia Euwer	Probably Still Nick Swansen Make Lemonade [Bk.1 of Trilogy] True Believer [Bk. 2][Adolescents coming of age]	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	------ @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Wrede, Patricia	Dealing With Dragons Book 1 Searching for Dragons Book 2 Callling on Dragons Book 3 Talking To Dragons Book 4
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON
	Verne, Jules	20,000 Leagues Under The Sea [North American Jules Verne Society, Inc.]	@AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Ward, Rachel	NUMBERS [Ever since she was child, Jem has kept a secret: Whenever she meets someone new, no matter who, as soon as she looks into their eyes, a number pops into her head. That number is a date: the date they will die. Burdened with such awful awareness, Jem avoids relationships. Until she meets Spider, another outsider, and takes a chance. The two plan a trip to the city. But while waiting to ride the Eye ferris wheel, Jem is terrified to see that all the other tourists in line flash the same number. Today's number. Today's date. Terrorists are going to attack London. Jem's world is about to explode!]
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	Yee, Lisa	Absolutely Maybe [Meet Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut, named for two Miss Americas and her mother Chessy's favorite brand of mascara. Chessy teaches the students in her charm school her Seven Select Rules for Young Ladies, but she won't tell Maybe who her real father is -- or protect her from her latest scuzzball boyfriend. So Maybe grabs a ride to California with her friends Hollywood and Thammasat Tantipinichwong Schneider (aka Ted) -- and what she finds there is funny, sad, true, and inspiring .
YA	Zevin, Gabrielle	Elsewhere [the afterlife/humorous/fascinating/provacative] Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac [complexity of memory and identity/love/family/sensitive/excellent read]	@AMAZON @AMAZON
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	@AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON @AMAZON
YA	Zink, Michelle	Prophecy of the Sisters (Book 1 of Trilogy) [Twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe have just become orphans. They have also become enemies. As they discover their roles in a prophecy that has turned generations of sisters against each other, the girls find themselves entangled in a mystery that involves a tattoo-like mark, their parents' deaths, a boy, a book, and a lifetime of secrets.]
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.]
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

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