| F
Ada |
Adams,
Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic
freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey
through the galaxy. |
| F
Ada |
Adams,
Richard. Watership Down.
Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a
safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace. |
| F
Go |
Anonymous.
Go ask Alice.
A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape
the pull of the drug world. |
| F
Atw |
Atwood,
Maargaret. Handmaid's Tale.
Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical
theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new
social order.
|
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Avi.
Blue Heron. |
| |
Avi.
Nothing but the Truth |
| |
Bachman,
Richard. Long Walk. |
| F
Bau |
Bauer,
Joan. Rules of the Road.
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a
chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront
the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way
Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to
face her alcoholic father. |
| F
Blo |
Block,
Francesca Lia. Weetzie Bat.
Follows the wild adventures of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles friends,
Dirk, Duck, and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man. |
| F
Blo |
Bloor,
Edward. Tangerine.
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero
brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near
blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged
his eyesight. |
| F
Bro |
Brooks,
Bruce. The Moves Make the Man : a Novel.
A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina
form a precarious friendship. |
| F
Bro |
Brooks,
Terry. Magic Kingdom for Sale--Sold!
For one million dollars Ben Holiday purchases an island--a magical
island complete with fairies, wizards and dragons. He must prove
his right to be king by fighting the lord of the demons.
|
| F
Car |
Card,
Orson Scott. Ender's Game.
Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the
military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.
|
| F
Chi |
Childress,
Alice. A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich.
The life of a thirteen-year-old Harlem youth on his way to becoming
a confirmed heroin addict is seen from his viewpoint and from that
of several people around him. |
| |
Cooney,
Caroline B. Flight #116 is down |
| F
Cor |
Cormier,
Robert. After the First Death.
Events of the hijacking of a bus of children by terrorists seeking
the return of their homeland are described from the perspectives
of a hostage, a terrorist, an Army general involved in the rescue
operation, and his son, chosen as the go-between. |
| F
Cor |
Cormier,
Robert. The Chocolate War.
A high school freshman discovers the devastating
consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising
drive and arousing the weath of the school bullies. |
| F
Cor |
Cormier,
Robert. Fade.
Paul Moreaux, the thirteen-year-old son of French Canadian
immigrants, inherits the ability to become invisible, but this power
soon leads to death and destruction. |
| F
Cor |
Cormier,
Robert. I Am the Cheese : a Novel.
A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows
he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive. |
| F
Cru |
Crutcher,
Chris. Athletic Shorts : Six Short Stories.
A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier
books by Chris Crutcher. Contents: A Brief Moment in the Life of
Angus Bethune.--The Pin.--The Other Pin.--Goin' Fishin'.--Telephone
Man.--In the Time I Get. |
| F
Cru |
Crutcher,
Chris. Chinese Handcuffs.
Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old
Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend
Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her stepfather
is doing to her. |
| F
Cru |
Crutcher,
Chris. Ironman : a Novel.
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. |
| F
Cru |
Crutcher,
Chris. Running loose.
Louie takes a stand against his coach and
playing dirty football, falls in love, and loses his girlfriend
in a fatal accident--all in his senior year. |
| F
Cru |
Crutcher,
Chris. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes : a Novel.
Class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God,
abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary
issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to
answer a friend's dramatic cry for help. |
| F
Cus |
Cushman,
Karen. Catherine, Called Birdy.
The daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which
she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for
adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid
being married off. |
| F
Cus |
Cushman,
Karen. Catherine, Called Birdy.
The daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which
she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for
adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid
being married off. |
| F
Cus |
Cushman,
Karen. The Midwife's Apprentice.
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by
a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship,
eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly,
a contented heart, and a place in this world.
|
| F
Deu |
Deuker,
Carl. On the Devil's Court.
Struggling with his feelings of inadequacy and his failure to
make the basketball team at his new school, seventeen-year-old
Joe Faust finds himself willing to trade his soul for one perfect
season of basketball.
|
| F
Dic |
Dickinson,
Peter . Eva.
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that
she has been given the body of a chimpanzee. |
| F
Dra |
Draper,
Sharon M. (Sharon Mills). Tears of a Tiger.
The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile
accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving
the car, and many others in the school. |
| |
Farmer,
Nancy. A Girl Named Disaster. |
| |
Farmer,
Nancy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. |
| |
Fleischman,
Paul. Bull Run. |
| F
Fle |
Fleischman,
Paul. Whirligig.
While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig
in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-year-old Brian
finds forgiveness and atonement. |
| F
Six |
Gallo,
Donald (ed.) Sixteen : Short Stories by Outstanding
Writers for young adults.
Hungry Hannah Cassandra Glen/Morma Fox Mazer--May I Have Your Autograph?/Marjorie
Sharmat--Midnight Snack/Diane Duane--Pigeon Humor/Susan Beth Pfeffer--Priscilla
and the Wimps/Richard Peck--Welcome/Ouida Sebestyen--Future Tense/Robert
Lipsyte--Turmoil in a Blue and Beige Bedroom/Judie Angell--Furlought-1944/Harry
Mazer--Do You Want My Opinion?/M.E. Kerr--Fourth of July/Robin F.
Brancato--Three People and Two Seats/Kevin Major--An Ordinary Woman/Bette
Greene--The Gift-Giving/Joan Aiken--She/Rosa Guy--In the Heat/Robert
Cormier. Sixteen short stories, dealing with teenage concerns, written
especially for this collection by well-known authors of young adult
novels such as the Mazers, M.E. Kerr, Robert Cormier, Bette Greene,
and Richard Peck. Biographical
sketches for each author are included, as well as follow-up
activities for the reader. |
| F
Gur |
Gurney,
James. Dinotopia.
In 1862, after being shipwrecked in uncharted seas, Professor Arthur
Denison and his twelve-year-old son Will find themselves washed
up on a strange island where people and dinosaurs live together
peacefully. |
| F
Guy |
Guy,
Rosa. The Disappearance.
The disappearance of the seven-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn family
casts suspicion on a juvenile offender from Harlem who has recently
come to live with them. |
| F
Guy |
Guy,
Rosa. The Friends.
Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride rather
than her mother's death and her father's tyrannical behavior created
the gulf between her and her best friend.
|
| F
Hes |
Hesser,
Terry Spencer. Kissing Doorknobs.
Fourteen-year-old Tara describes how her increasingly strange compulsions
begin to take over her life and affect her relationships with her
family and friends. |
| F
Hob |
Hobbs,
Will. Downriver.
Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members
of a wilderness survival school team try to run the dangerous white
water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. |
| F
Hob |
Hobbs,
Will. Far North.
After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe
and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the
wilderness of the Northwest Territories of Canada. |
| F
Hur |
Hurwin,
Davida. A Time for Dancing.
Seventeen-year-old best friends,Samantha and Juliana tell their
stories in alternating chapters after Juliana is diagnosed with
cancer. |
| F
Kin |
Kindl,
Patrice. Owl In Love.
A fourteen-year-old girl, who can transform into an owl, has a
crush on her science teacher which leads her into interesting new
relationships with both humans and owls. |
| F
Kla |
Klause,
Annette Curtis. The Silver Kiss.
A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come
to terms with her mother's terminal illness. |
| F
Koe |
Koertge,
Ronald. The Arizona Kid.
Sixteen-year-old Billy spends the summer with his gay uncle in Tucson
and works at a racetrack where he falls in love with an outspoken
horse exerciser named Cara Mae. |
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Laird,
Elizabeth. Kiss the Dust. |
| F
Low |
Lowry,
Lois. The Giver.
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas
becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in
his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society
in which he lives. |
| F
Mag |
Magorian,
Michelle. Good Night, Mr. Tom.
A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an
old man in the English countryside during the Second World War.
|
| F
Mah |
Mahy,
Margaret. The Changeover : a Supernatural
Romance.
When her baby brother seems to become possessed by an evil spirit,
fourteen-year-old Laura seeks the help of the strangely
compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has
supernatural powers. |
| F
Mar |
Marsden,
John. Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush
to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide
to stay alive. |
| F
Mcc |
McCaffrey,
Anne. Dragonsinger.
Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under
the Masterharper learning that more is required than a facility
with music and a clever way with words. Sequel to Dragonsong.
|
| F
Mcd |
McDonald,
Joyce. Swallowing Stones.
Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael
MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique
Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school
classmate Jenna Ward. |
| 398.2
Mck |
McKinley,
Robin. Beauty : a Retelling of the Story of
Beauty &
the Beast.
Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled
to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had
turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast. |
| F
Mck |
McKinley,
Robin. The Blue Sword.
Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing
colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped
by a native king with mysterious powers. |
| F
Mye |
Myers,
Walter Dean. Fallen Angels.
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school,
enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating
year on active duty in Vietnam. |
| F
Mye |
Myers,
Walter Dean. Hoops.
A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by
a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because
of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes
from repeating his mistake. |
| F
Mye |
Myers,
Walter Dean. Slam!
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy
basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him
a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
|
| F
Mye |
Myers,
Walter Dean. Somewhere in the Darkness.
A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently
escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be a time of,
often painful, discovery for them both.
|
| F
Nel |
Nelson,
Theresa. Earthshine : a Novel.
Slim watches over her father, a disarmingly charismatic man, as
his struggle with AIDS reaches its climax.
|
| F
Nix |
Nix,
Garth. Sabriel.
Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into
the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from
the Land of the Dead. |
| F
Obr |
O'Brien,
Robert C. Z for Zachariah.
Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old
girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes
he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape. |
| F
Obr |
O'Brien,
Tim. The Things They Carried : a Work of Fiction.
Related short stories with recurring characters and an interwoven
plot and theme as told by a foot soldier recreating his Vietnam
War
experience. |
| F
Orr |
Orr,
Wendy. Peeling the Onion.
Following an automobile accident in which her neck is broken, a
teenage karate champion begins a long and painful recovery with
the help of her family. |
| F
Pat |
Paterson,
Katherine. Jacob Have I Loved.
Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and
even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find
her identity. |
| F
Pat |
Paterson,
Katherine. Lyddie.
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain
her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts,
in the 1840s. |
| F
Pau |
Paulsen,
Gary. Soldier's Heart.
Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart
after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish
of Civil War combat. |
| F
Pla |
Plath,
Sylvia. The Bell Jar.
Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant,
beautiful, talented and successful young woman. |
| F
Pot |
Potok,
Chaim. The Chosen.
Two
Jewish boys living in Williamberg section of Brooklyn struggle through
the joys and sorrows of growing up. |
| F
Pul |
Pullman,
Philip. The Golden Compass.
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her
best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject
of gruesome experiments in the Far North. |
| F
Pul |
Pullman,
Philip. The Ruby in the Smoke.
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan
becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby. |
| F
Row |
Rowling,
J. K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young
boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts
School for Wizards and Witches. |
| F
Sac |
Sachar,
Louis. Holes.
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute
to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish
correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real
friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. |
| F
Sle |
Sleator,
William. House of Stairs.
Five sixteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics
are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects
for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response. |
| F
Sta |
Staples,
Suzanne Fisher. Shabanu : Daughter of the
Wind.
When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the
Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage
to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she
must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences
of defying her father's wishes. |
| F
Ste |
Stewart,
Mary. The Crystal Cave.
Merlin, the son of a Welsh princess, survives a perilous childhood.
On his way to fulfill his destiny as a mentor, advisor and friend
to King Authur. |
| F
Tan |
Tan,
Amy. The Joy Luck Club.
In 1949, four Chinese women began meeting in San Francisco to play
mah jong. They called their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Forty years
later they look back and remember. |
| F
Voi |
Voigt,
Cynthia. The Runner.
As a dedicated runner, a teenage boy has always managed to
distance himself from other people until the experience of coaching
one of his teammates on the track team gradually
helps him see the value of giving and receiving. |
| F
Whi |
White,
Robb. Deathwatch.
Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on
a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life. |
| F
Wol |
Wolff,
Virginia Euwer. Make Lemonade.
In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits
for a teenage mother. |
| F
Woo |
Woodson,
Jacqueline. If You Come Softly.
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old
Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie,
who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love
and then try to cope with peoples' reactions. |
| F
Wre |
Wrede,
Patricia C. Dealing With Dragons.
Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live
with a
group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting
against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the
dragons' kingdom. |
| F
Yol |
Yolen,
Jane. Briar Rose.
The tale of Sleeping Beauty and the dark tale of the Holocaust
twined together in a story of darkness and redemption. |
| |
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Non-Fiction
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| B
Ang |
Angelou,
Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
The
author tells of her painful childhood and adolescence, and how she
grew out of childhood fantasy that she was an enchanted white girl
to self-acceptance today. |
| 959.704
Ash |
Ashabranner,
Brent K. Always To Remember : the Story of
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Discusses the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the
controversies that have surrounded it, and some human
interest stories connected with it. |
| 920
We |
Boas,
Jacob We Are Witnesses : Five Diaries of Teenagers
Who Died in the Holocaust.
Excerpts from five diaries written by Jewish teenagers about their
families' experiences during World War II. |
| 500
Bod |
Bodanis,
David. The Secret House : 24 Hours in the
Strange and
Unexpected World in Which We Spend Our Nights and Days. Eighty
photographs, employing sophisticated photographic techniques, reveal
the true physical nature of the contents of a home. |
| B
Joa |
Brooks,
Polly Schoyer. Beyond the Myth : the Story
of Joan of Arc.
Places the life of the fifteenth-century girl who has become a French
national symbol within the social, religious, and political context
of her time. |
| B
Cle |
Cleary,
Beverly. A Girl from Yamhill : a Memoir.
Follows the popular children's author from her childhood years in
Oregon through high school and into young adulthood, highlighting
her family life and her growing interest in writing.
|
| 920
Dea |
Edelman,
Bernard. Dear America : Letters Home from
Vietnam. Contains letters and poems written to families and
friends by soldiers expressing their homesickness and the horrors
of war. |
| B
Lin |
Freedman,
Russell. Lincoln : a Photobiography.
Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President. |
| 629.13
Fre |
Freedman,
Russell. The Wright Brothers : How They Invented
the
Airplane.
Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they
developed the first airplane. |
| 811
Pla |
Janeczko,
Paul B. The Place My Words Are Looking For
: What Poets Say About and Through Their Work.
Thirty-nine
United States poets share their poems, inspirations, thoughts, anecdotes,
and memories. |
| B
Mcc |
McCall,
Nathan. Makes Me Wanna Holler : A Young Black
Man in
America.
Washington Post reporter Nathan McCall recounts the story of
his journey from troubled youth to professional journalist, providing
insight into what it's like to be a young black
man in America. |
| 306.3
Mck |
McKissack,
Pat. Rebels Against slavery : American Slave
Revolts.
Story of the men and women, slaves and free blacks, Northerners
and Southerners, whites and Native Americans, who rebelled
against the system of slavery, often giving up their lives in the
process. |
| B
Pau |
Paulsen,
Gary. Woodsong.
For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota
is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that
make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's
first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska. |
| 940.53
Spi |
Spiegelman,
Art. Maus : a Survivor's Tale.
A
memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewishsurvivor of Hitler's Europe,
and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with
his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews
as mice, Nazis as cats.
|
| 940.53
Spi |
Spiegelman,
Art. Maus II : a Survivor's Tale : and Here
My
Troubles Began.
Tells, in cartoon format, the continuing story of Vladek Spiegelman,
from the barracks of Auschwitz to life in the Catskills with his
son, Art. |
| 364.1
Sto |
Stoll,
Clifford. The Cuckoo's Egg : Tracking a Spy
Through the
Maze of Computer Espionage.
The account of the author stalking a methodical "hacker"
who
was prowling the nation's computer networks to gain unauthorized
access to American files. |
| B
Zin |
Zindel,
Paul. The Pigman & Me.
An account of Paul Zindel's teenage years on Staten Island, when
his life was enriched by finding his own personal pigman, or mentor. |
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