| ANDERSON, Laurie Halse |
Speak |
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
YA
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| ANDERSON, Matthew T. |
Burger Wuss |
Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's.
YA
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| BENNETT, Cherie |
Life in the Fat Lane |
Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes a fat girl.
YA
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| BLOCK, Francesca Lia |
Violet & Claire |
In search of material for a screenplay they are developing, seventeen-year-old Violet and her new friend Claire try to make life a movie as they chase their dreams through dangerously beautiful Los Angeles.
YA
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| BLUME, Judy (ed.) |
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers |
A collection of short stories accompanied by short essays on censorship by twelve authors whose works have been challenged in the past.
YA
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| BURGESS, Melvin |
Smack |
After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.
YA
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| CHBOSKY, Stephen |
The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
The coming of age of teenage Charlie, who has to contend not only with being somewhat of an outsider, but with the suicide of his best friend.
YA
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| CORMIER, Robert |
Frenchtown Summer |
A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938.
YA
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| CROSS, Gillian |
Tightrope |
When she begins receiving bizarre threatening messages from someone who seems to know her every move, teenage Ashley, after seeking help from the neighborhood tough guy, comes to realize that she alone can end the stalker's reign of terror.
YA
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| GARDEN, Nancy |
The Year They Burned the Books |
While trying to come to terms with her own lesbian feelings, Jamie, a high-school senior and editor of the school newspaper, finds herself in the middle of a battle with a group of townspeople over the new health education curriculum.
YA
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| GOLDEN, Christopher |
Immortal: a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Novel |
Buffy faces off against Veronique, an ancient vampire sorceress whose long-dormant soul will achieve a form of immortality if she can find a human host to occupy.
YA
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| HADDIX, Margaret Peterson |
Just Ella |
In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots her escape.
YA
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| HERRERA, Juan Felipe |
CrashBoomLove |
After his father leaves home, sixteen-year-old Cesar Garcia lives with his mother and struggles through the painful experiences of growing up as a Mexican American high school student in California.
YA
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| HITE, Sid |
Cecil in Space |
Seventeen-year-old Cecil tries to help his best friend Isaac, who is under suspicion of having vandalized the welcome sign at the edge of their small Virginia town, and pursues his interest in Isaac's sister Isabel.
YA
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| HOWE, Norma |
The Adventures of the Blue Avenger |
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.
YA
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| LYNCH, Chris |
Whitechurch |
The stresses and strains in the triangular relationship of two aimless teenage boys and a girl living in a small town.
YA
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| MARTINEZ, Victor |
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida |
Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle.
YA
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| MIKAELSEN, Ben |
Petey |
In 1922, Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.
YA
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| MYERS, Walter Dean |
Monster |
While on trial as an accomplice to murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
YA
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| NAPOLI, Donna Jo |
Spinners |
Elaborates on the events recounted in the fairy tale, "Rumpelstiltskin," in which a strange little man helps a miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
YA
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| NICHOLSON, Joy |
The Tribes of Palos Verdes |
Young Medina Mason turns to surfing to vent her anger as her parent's marriage disintegrates, and struggles to help herself and her twin brother survive the forces pulling the family apart.
YA
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| POWELL, Randy |
Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star |
For a tribute to his mother, a dead rock star, fifteen-year-old Grady returns to Seattle, where he faces his mixed feelings for his retarded younger half-brother Louie while pondering his own future.
YA
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| RANDLE, Kristen D. |
Breaking Rank |
Seventeen-year-old Casey has some of her preconceived notions challenged when she begins to tutor Baby, a member of a gang-like non-conformist society called the Clan.
YA
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| RENNISON, Louise |
Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson |
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.
YA
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| ROTTMAN, S.L. |
Hero |
Abused by his mother and neglected by his father, ninth-grader Sean is headed for trouble until he is sent to do community service at a farm owned by an old man who teaches him that he can take control of his own life.
YA
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| SONES, Sonya |
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy |
A young girl has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown.
YA
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| TAYLOR, William |
The Blue Lawn |
A fifteen-year-old boy acknowledges his attraction to an older rugby teammate, as he also begins to break out of the preconceived notions his family and others have about him.
YA
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| THOMAS, Rob |
Rats Saw God |
In hopes of graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page writing assignment which helps him to sort out his relationship with his famous astronaut father and the events that changed him from promising student to troubled teen.
YA
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| WITTLINGER, Ellen |
Hard Love |
After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier outlook.
YA
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| 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 people's reactions.
YA
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