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Watterson, Bill.  The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book.  Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews and McMeel, c1995.  A collection of cartoons from the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes," celebrating the tenth anniversary of the strip's publication.

Bauer, Joan, 1951-.  Thwonk.  New York : Delacorte Press, 1995. A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.

Bradley, Alex.  24 Girls in 7 Days.  1st ed.  New York : Dutton Books, c2005.  Jack Grammar is unaware that his friends placed an ad in the online school newspaper, saying that Jack is seeking a date for prom and listing an email address for replies. Jack is not pleased, until he discovers that 200 girls responded. He decides to date twenty-four of the girls and narrow his selection to the perfect one for prom.  The only problem is that prom is just seven days away.

Cabot, Meg.  All-American Girl.  1st ed.  New York : HarperCollins, c2002.  Sophomore Samantha Madison stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed teen ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son.

Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-.  Al Capone Does My Shirts.  New York : Putnam's, c2004.  A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

Douglas, Lola.  True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet : a  Novel.  New York : Razorbill, c2005.  Teen movie star Morgan Carter retreats to a small Midwestern town to recuperate anonymously after an overdose and rehabilitation, recording her thoughts in a diary.

Ferris, Jean, 1939-.  Love Among the Walnuts.  San Diego, CA : Harcourt Brace, 1998.  Born and raised in isolation in a wealthy, eccentric family, Sandy is shocked when he, his parents, and their servants become victims of a vicious plot by his greedy uncles to incapacitate them and take their money.

Fielding, Helen.  Bridget Jones's Diary : a Novel.  New York : Viking, 1998.  Charts a devastatingly self-aware, hilarious year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton.

Fleischman, Paul.  A Fate Totally Worse than Death.  1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c1995.  In this horror novel parody, three self-centered members of Cliffside High School's ruling clique, who are beginning to age rapidly, become convinced that the beautiful new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before.

Howe, Norma.  The Adventures of Blue Avenger : a Novel.  1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 1999.  On his sixteenth birthday, still trying to cope with the unexpected death of his father, David Schumacher decides--or does he--to change his name to Blue Avenger, hoping to find a way to make a difference in his Oakland neighborhood and in the world.

Korman, Gordon.  Son of the Mob.  1st ed.  New York, NY : Hyperion Books for Children, c2002. Eighteen-year-old Vince Luca, son of mob boss Anthony Luca, goes away to college in southern
California hoping to escape his past, but soon his brother and a series of "uncles" appear at his dorm, and before long he is caught up in criminal activity once again.

Lockhart, E.  The Boyfriend List : (15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs, and Me, Ruby Oliver).  New York : Delacorte Press, 2005.  A Seattle fifteen-year-ol explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance-artist mother and her father, and more.

Lynch, Chris.  Slot Machine.  1st ed.  New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1995.  When overweight thirteen-year-old Elvin Bishop is sent to camp at St. Paul's Seminary Retreat Center, he and his two best friends are forced to try out various sports in order to find out where they belong.

Nodelman, Perry.  Behaving Bradley.  1st ed.  New York : Simon & Schuster Books  for Young Readers, c1998.  Recruited by his best friend to gather student input for the proposed Code of Conduct at his high school, Brad encounters obstinate faculty members, monstrous bullies, spineless student  leaders, and personal agendas.

Paulsen, Gary.  The Schernoff Discoveries.  New York : Delacorte Press, c1997. Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments, the attacks of the football team, and other dangers of junior high school.

Peck, Richard, 1934-.  The Teacher’s  Funeral : a Comedy in Three Parts.  New York : Dial Books, c2004.  In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dream of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew is disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."

Rennison, Louise.  Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging : Confessions of Georgia Nicolson.  1st American ed.  New York : HarperCollins, 2000.  Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie. 

Shusterman, Neal.  The Schwa Was Here.  1st ed.  New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2004.  A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.

Snicket, Lemony.  The Bad Beginning.  1st ed.  New York : HarperCollins, 1999. After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant  relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.

Strasser, Todd.  How I Spent My Last Night On Earth.  1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1998. When a rumor appears on the Internet that a giant asteroid is about to destroy Earth, Legs Hanover scrambles to meet the boy of her dreams, elusive Andros Bliss.

 Ware, Chris.  The Smartest Kid on Earth, Jimmy Corrigan : an Improvisatory Romance, Pictographically Configured.  New York : Pantheon, 2000.  The story of several generations of Corrigan males, including middle-aged Jimmy Corrigan who fantasizes that he is "The smartest kid on Earth." Presented in comic book format.