| Author |
Title |
Book Location(s) |
| Banks, Lynne Reid |
Tiger, Tiger
Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar’s daughter and the other becomes a man-eating “entertainment act” at the Colosseum. |
Teen
Banks |
| Bauer, Joan |
Best Foot Forward
Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.
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Teen Bauer |
| Bondoux, Anne-Laure |
The Killer’s Tears
A young boy, Paolo, and the man who killed his parents, Angel, gradually become like father and son as they live and work together on the remote Chilean farm where Paolo was born. |
Teen Bondoux |
| Castellucci, Cecil |
Boy Proof
Feeling alienated from everyone around her, Los Angeles High school senior and cinephile Victoria Jurgen hides behind the identity of a favorite movie character until an interesting new boy arrives at school and helps her realize that there is more to life than just the movies. |
Teen Castellucci |
| Cheripko, Jan |
Sun, Moon, Stars, Rain
When Danny Murtaugh catches his girlfriend with another guy, he quits the prestigious music school he attends, and goes home. He’s clueless about what he wants to do until he meets Stephanie, a young woman with a past – and a daughter. |
Teen Cheripko |
| Cisneros, Sandra |
House on Mango Street
A young girl growing up in the poverty-stricken part of Chicago tries to rise above the hopelessness. |
Fiction Cisneros & Teen Cisneros |
| Coy, John |
Crackback
Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined, constantly criticized by his father, and lured to take performance-enhancing drugs. |
Teen Coy |
| Fensham, Elizabeth |
Helicopter Man
Peter Sinclair cares for his father, who is mentally ill, and tries to make the most of their homeless life together. |
Teen Fensham |
| Fuqua, Jonathan Scott |
The Willoughby Spit Wonder
In 1950’s Norfolk, Virginia, as Carter and his sister watch their dying father struggle to remain cheerful, Carter decides to emulate Prince Namor, comic superhero, in order to inspire his father to stay alive. |
Teen Fuqua |
| Gantos, Jack. |
Hole In My Life
An account of how the author overcame drug addiction, illegal smuggling, prison, and eventually attended college and became a writer. |
Teen B G158h |
| Garfinkle, Debra |
Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl
Michael “Storky” Pomerantz’s journal of his freshman year of high school details his experiences, from dealing with his mother’s dating his dentist to his attempts to win the heart of the girl he loves. |
Teen Garfinkle |
| Gates, Susan |
Dusk
Sharing both human and hawk genes, a young girl escapes from her cage at a top secret laboratory where she was conceived by military scientists in a botched experiment designed to create stronger soldiers. |
Teen Gates |
| Godfrey, Rebecca |
The Torn Skirt
Yearning for guidance and friendship, Sara, a troubled and vulnerable teenager, embarks on a dangerous odyssey into the dark underworld of violence, drugs, prostitution, and murder as she searches for Justine, a mysterious young girl in a torn skirt. |
Fiction Godfrey |
| Greenway, Alice |
White Ghost Girls
The children of a war-photographer father and beautiful but remote mother, Frankie and Kate, two American sisters, grow up in Hong Kong during the turmoil of the Maoist revolution of the late 1960s. |
Fiction Greenway |
| Griffin, Adele |
Where I Want to Be
Two teen-aged sisters, separated by death but still connected, work through their feelings of loss and finally make peace with each other. |
Teen Griffin |
| Griffin, John Howard |
Black Like Me
A groundbreaking work on race that describes the author’s experiences of transforming himself with aid of dye and medication from a white man to a black man living in the Deep South in the late 1950’s. |
305.800973 G875b 1976 |
| Hartnett, Sonya |
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
Satchel O-Rye, devoted son of an impoverished couple in a dying rural town, must weigh in balance the life of his most cherished dog and the freedom of a mysterious rare animal. |
Teen Hartnett |
| Hautman, Pete |
Invisible
Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever. |
Teen Hautman |
| Hersey, John |
Hiroshima
The compelling, timely story of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. |
940.5425 H439h |
| Iweala, Uzodinma |
Beasts of No Nation: A Novel
Recruited by a unit of guerrilla fighters after the brutal murder of his father by militants, a West African student falls under the spell of his dangerous commander, and finds his new life increasingly contrasting with his former existence. |
Teen Iweala |
| Kaysen, Susanna |
Girl, Interrupted
A powerful memoir of the author’s two year hospitalization in a psychiatric ward for teenage girls. |
B K184g Kaysen, Susanna |
| Kincaid, Jamaica |
Annie John
The theme of lost childhood remains constant in this short fictional narrative of rebellious Annie John's coming of age on the small island of Antigua. |
Fiction Kincaid & Teen Kincaid |
| Kincaid, Jamaica |
Lucy
Lucy, a nineteen-year-old girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair and observes the unhealthy realities of the seemingly happy family that employs her, in a new edition of the acclaimed coming-of-age novel. |
Fiction Kincaid |
| Lester, Julius |
Day of Tears
Lester draws on historical sources to fictionalize a real event: the biggest slave auction in American history, which took place in Savannah, Georgia , in 1859. |
Teen Lester |
| Minot, Susan |
Monkeys
The Vincents, a New England family of nine, struggle to keep up appearances amidst the underlying tensions of seven children, an alcoholic father, and an unstable marriage. |
Fiction Minot |
| Murphy, Rita |
Looking for Lucy Buick
Following the death of her favorite adoptive aunt, Lucy goes searching for her biological family, who abandoned her in an old Buick eighteen years before. |
Teen Murphy |
| Paulsen, Gary |
The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer
The author recalls his experiences as a migrant laborer and carnival worker after he ran away from home at age sixteen. |
Teen B P285b |
| Shusterman, Neal |
Dread Locks
Accustomed to a carefree existence, fifteen-year-old Parker Baer meets the girl next door and finds his life taking a menacing turn as he begins to absorb some of her terrible powers. |
Teen Shusterman |
| Thomson, Sarah L. |
The Manny
A sixteen-year-old New Yorker looks forward to his summer job as a manny, or "male nanny," to an affluent couple's four-year-old in the Hamptons. |
Teen Thomson |
| VanOosting, James |
Walking Mary
To escape problems with both of her parents throughout her childhood in the 1940s and 50s, Pearl Harbor Keenan reaches out to Walking Mary, a strange old woman who meets every single passenger train that pulls into the Framburg depot. |
Teen VanOosting |
| Watson, Larry |
Montana 1948: A Novel
An account of the life-altering events experienced by a twelve-year-old. |
Fiction Watson |
| Whyman, Matt |
Boy Kills Man
Two thirteen-year-old boys, blood brothers and best friends, get drawn into a dangerous, violent world on the streets of a troubled Colombian city. |
Teen Whyman |
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