| Author |
Title |
Book Location(s) |
| Bauer, Joan |
Rules of the Road
Sixteen-year-old Jenna Boller's road odyssey with her demanding employer, Madeline Gladstone, becomes a learning experience about driving, business, and family issues. |
Teen Bauer |
| Berg, Elizabeth |
True to Form
Teenaged Katie is having a hard time sorting out friends when she moves from Texas to Missouri after her mother's death. |
Fiction Berg
Teen Berg |
| Christie, Agatha |
And Then There Were None
A killer stalks a group of ten total strangers on an isolated island off the Devon coast, in a suspenseful story of murder and retribution set to a sinister nursery rhyme. |
Mystery Christie
Teen Christie |
| Cormier, Robert |
The Rag and Bone Shop
Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts. Teen. Cormier. |
Teen Cormier |
| Crane, Stephen |
Red Badge of Courage
Henry Fleming, a young Union soldier, struggles with his conflicting emotions about violence, death, and the nature of bravery. Teen. Crane. |
Teen Crane |
Crutcher, Chris |
Ironman
While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father. |
Teen Crutcher |
| Dai, Sijie |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two boys are sent to the country for reeducation, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western literature. |
Fiction Dai
Teen Dai |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan |
The Hound of the Baskervilles
When Sir Charles Baskerville is murdered, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the eerie howling on the moor. |
Mystery Doyle
Teen Doyle |
| Ellison, James W. |
Finding Forrester
A mutually beneficial friendship develops between a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has lived for forty years as an eccentric recluse and a young Black writer whose athletic skills have enabled him to attend a prep school. |
Teen Ellison |
| Freymann-Weyr, Garret |
The Kings Are Already Here
Two teenagers, one obsessed with the world of ballet and the other with that of chess, join together in a quest across Europe and begin to learn not only how to connect with other people, but why. |
Teen Freymann-Weyr |
| Going, K.L. |
Fat Kid Rules the World
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 lbs., gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band. |
Teen Going |
| Halberstam, David |
Firehouse
A portrayal of the men of a Manhattan firehouse who responded to the tragedy of September 11th. |
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Teen 628.92 H128f |
| Hautman, Pete |
Sweetblood
After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the "proto-vampires" she has met online and in person, and most of all with her uncontrolled diabetes. |
Teen Hautman |
| Heinlein, Robert A. |
Red Planet
A young colonist on Mars befriends a strange round creature called Willis who gets him into trouble when he goes away to school, but whose presence and friendship finally enable the colonials to negotiate a treaty with the Martians. |
Teen Heinlein |
| Hoffman, Alice |
Local Girls
An anthology of interconnected short stories captures Gretel Samuelson's journey through betrayal, grief, conflicting loyalties, friendship, and loss. |
Fiction Hoffman
Teen Hoffman |
| Hurston, Zora Neale |
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The odysseys of Janie Crawford, an articulate African-American woman in the 1930s. |
Fiction Hurston |
| McCormick, Patricia |
Cut
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better. |
Teen McCormick |
| Morrison, Toni |
Sula
A portrayal of the divergent lives of two black women from childhood to adulthood. |
Fiction Morrison
Teen Morrison |
| Myers, Walter Dean |
The Beast
A visit to his Harlem neighborhood and the discovery that the girl he loves is using drugs give 17-year-old Anthony Witherspoon a new perspective on both his home and his life at a Connecticut prep school. |
Teen Myers |
| Shimko, Bonnie |
Letters in the Attic
In the early 1960's, Lizzy McMann moves from Arizona to New York and strikes up a friendship with Eva "who looks like Natalie Wood and smokes." |
Fiction Shimko |
| Soto, Gary |
Afterlife
A high school senior lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the bathroom of a club. |
Teen Soto |
| Strasser, Todd |
The Accident
After four of his friends leave a beer party and suffer a fatal accident, eighteen-year-old Matt senses something peculiar about the police investigation and suspects a cover-up to hide the identity of who was really responsible. |
Teen Strasser |
| Trueman, Terry |
Inside Out
A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage. |
Teen Trueman |
| Wittlinger, Ellen |
Razzle
When his retired parents buy a group of tourist cabins on Cape Cod, fifteen-year-old Kenyon Baker's days are filled with repair work until he becomes friends with an eccentric girl and makes her the subject of a series of photographs. |
Teen Wittlinger |
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