| Author |
Title |
Book Location(s) |
| Aaron, Chester |
Home to the Sea
How can Marian, who has never had a swimming lesson, be known world-wide, wooed by college swim coaches and Sports Illustrated magazine as a world-class Olympic swimmer? Why does she hear inhuman voices calling her to the sea? What on earth is happening to her? |
Teen Aaron |
| Adoff, Jaime |
Names Will Never Hurt Me
On the first anniversary of a shooting death at their school, four students narrate the events and attempt to make sense of it.
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Teen Adoff |
| Albert, Louise |
Less Than Perfect
Fifteen year old Laura finds her life complicated when she meets an interesting boy and her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. |
Teen Albert |
| Albom, Mitch |
Tuesdays With Morrie
A tribute to a wise mentor by his student. |
B Sch951A &
Teen Albom |
| Allen, Will |
Swords for Hire
In the ancient kingdom of Parmall, sixteen-year-old Sam Hatcher and an eccentric Royal Guard set out on a mission to rescue the rightful king who has been imprisoned in a faraway dungeon by his evil brother. |
Teen Allen |
| Beard, Philip |
Dear Zoe: a novel
Tess DeNunzio tries to deal with the death of her younger sister, Zoe, by writing her a letter, as she moves from her mother and stepfather's family to live with her real father, and begins a romance with a boy who lives next door. |
Fiction Beard |
| Bradbury, Ray |
Martian Chronicles
The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by the earthmen who have come to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed earth. |
Science Fiction Bradbury |
| Camus, Albert |
The Stranger
An ordinary man is unwittingly caught up in a senseless murder in Algeria. |
Fiction Camus |
| Frank, Hillary |
I Can’t Tell You
When Jake says something he regrets during a fight over a girl with his best friend, he begins communicating only through notes and letters, but when he wants to tell the girl how he really feels about her, his silence and penchant for puns get in the way. |
Teen Frank |
| Gardner, Graham |
Inventing Elliot
Elliot, a victim of bullying, invents a calmer, cooler self when he changes schools in the middle of the year, but soon attracts the wrong kind of attention from the Guardians who “maintain order” at the new school. |
Teen Gardner |
| Giles, Gail |
Playing in Traffic
Shy and unremarkable, seventeen-year-old Matt Lathrop is surprised and flattered to find himself singled out for the sexual attentions of the alluring Skye Colby, until he discovers the evil purpose behind her actions. |
Teen Giles |
| Grisham, John |
Bleachers
A story showing the worship of high school football in a small Texas town. |
Fiction Grisham |
| Hobbs, Will |
Leaving Protection
Sixteen-year old Robbie Daniels, happy to get a job aboard a troller fishing for king salmon off southwestern Alaska, finds himself in danger when he discovers that his mysterious captain is searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the Northwest. |
Teen Hobbs |
| Khadra, Yasmina |
Swallows of Kabul
Their lives as a diplomat and lawyer frozen by the ascendancy of the Taliban, Moshen and Zunaira find their situation becoming a nightmare when Zunaira is arrested and condemned to death. |
Fiction Khadra |
| Koertge, Ron |
Margaux with an X
Margaux, known as a “tough chick” at her Los Angeles high school, makes a connection with Danny, who, like her, struggles with the emotional impact of family violence and abuse. |
Teen Koertge |
| Lloyd, David |
Boys: Stories and a Novella
Set in 1966, these stories re-create the world of adolescent boys coming of age in upstate New York. |
Fiction Lloyd
& Teen Lloyd |
| Lynch, Chris |
The Gravedigger’s Cottage
When fourteen-year-old Sylvia McLuckie, her ten-year-old brother Walter, and their quirky father move to a cottage by the sea, their new home’s eerie reputation forces them to confront some surprising ghosts from their past. |
Teen Lynch |
| Martin, Nora |
A Perfect Snow
Seventeen-year-old Ben must deal with a violent white-supremacist hate group in his small Montana town because his father and his friends are involved in it. |
Teen Martin |
| Neenan, Colin |
Idiot!
Sixteen year old Jim O’Reilly auditions for a part in Midsummer Night’s Dream, falls in love with a would-be gossip columnist, and conducts a torrid, though anonymous, love affair with her (by e-mail). |
Teen Neenan |
| Nilsson, Per |
Heart’s Delight
As a sixteen-year-old looks at and systematically destroys each of his mementos of Ann-Katrin, he replays scenes from their relationship and realizes that it was not the great romance he believed it to be. |
Teen Nilsson |
| Ortiz Cofer, Judith |
The Meaning of Consuelo
A coming of age story set in Puerto Rico in the 1950’s. |
Fiction Ortiz Cofer &
Teen Ortiz Cofer |
| Rand, Ayn |
Anthem
Equality 7-2521 dares to defy the ideals of collectivism in a futuristic state. |
Fiction Rand (2) |
| Rawles, Nancy |
My Jim
Sadie, the abandoned wife of the slave Jim from Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," details her life with Jim, his decision to run away with a white boy named Huck Finn, and the bleak repercussions of that decision for her. |
Fiction Rawles & Teen Rawles |
| Rinaldi, Ann |
Sarah’s Ground
In 1861, eighteen-year-old Sarah Tracy comes to work at Mount Vernon, the historic Virginia home of George Washington, where she tries to protect the safety and neutrality of the site during the Civil War, and where she meets her future husband, Herbert Upton. |
Teen Rinaldi |
| Rosoff, Meg |
How I Live Now
To get away from her pregnant step-mother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. |
Teen Rosoff |
| Sleator, William |
The Boy Who Couldn’t Die
When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away. |
Teen Sleator |
| Strasser, Todd |
Can’t Get There From Here
Tired of being cold, hungry, and dirty from living on the streets of New York City with a tribe of other homeless teenagers who are dying, one by one, a girl named Maybe ponders her future and longs for someone to care for her. |
Teen Strasser |
| Trueman, Terry |
Cruise Control
A talented basketball player struggles to deal with the helplessness and anger that come with having a brother rendered completely dysfunctional by severe cerebral palsy and a father who deserted the family. |
Teen Trueman |
| Wallace, Rich |
Restless: A Ghost’s Story
Frank, a teenaged ghost who has not been able to move on to a higher realm in the afterlife, tries to connect with his younger brother Herbie, a high school senior who was eight years old when Frank died. |
Teen Wallace |
| Woods, Brenda |
Emako Blue
Monterey, Savannah, Jamal and Eddie have never had much to do with each other until Emako Blue shows up at chorus practice, but just as the lives of the five Los Angeles high school students become etwined, tragedy tears them apart. |
Teen Woods |
| Woodson, Jacqueline |
Behind You
After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by the police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that Miah is watching over them. |
Teen Woodson |
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