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Abelove, Joan. Go and Come Back.
Alicia, a young tribeswoman living in a Amazonian village in the Andes, tells about the two American women anthropologists who arrive to study the way of life of her people.

Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Arthur Dent, a refugee from the late planet Earth, and his pal from the planet Betelgeuse, Ford Prefect, thumb their way through comic misadventures throughout the universe.

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak.
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect of Melinda's freshman year in high school.

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's.

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
Jane Austen's pre-Victorian tale of British country society, in which Mrs. Bennett is faced with the task of marrying off her five daughters. The eldest, intelligent and witty Elizabeth, becomes involved in a tempestuous relationship with the proud sophisticate Mr. D'Arcy, before all ends well.

Bagdasarian, Adam. The Forgotten Fire
A privileged teenager faces the genocide of Armenians in Turkey during World War I.

Block, Francesca Lia. Weetzie Bat and others.
Stories about teens growing up in the surreal world of Los Angeles.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
The story of a time when being a fireman meant starting them, not putting them out.

Brooks, Martha. True Confessions of a Heartless Girl.
A confused 17-year-old girl, single mother and her young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a small Manitoba town and find a way to a better future.

Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game.
One of a group of children bred to be military geniuses and save Earth from an inevitable attack by aliens, Ender Wiggin becomes unbeatable in war games and seems poised to lead Earth to triumph.

Chambers, Aidan. Postcards from No Man's Land
Alternates between two stories--comtemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.

Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
High school freshman Charlie copes with the difficulties of his life by writing letters to an anonymous "Dear Friend."

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street.
Short stories about growing up in Chicago.

Conway, Jill Ker. The Road from Coorain.
Autobiography from Jil Ker Conway, noted historian and the first woman president of Smith College, with an emphasis on her childhood in the Australian outback.

Cook, Karen. What Girls Learn.
Two sisters must cope with their mother's battle against breast cancer while adjusting to a new stepfather and new home at the same time.

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 wrath of the school bullies.

Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park.
A wealthy man has created an island amusement park filled with dinosaurs cloned from fossilized DNA. When he invites experts to endorse it, nature takes over.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities.
Dicken's tale of love, politics, and the aristocracy during the French revolution.

Donnelly, Jennifer. A Northern Light.
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.

Dumas, Alexander. The Count of Monte Crisco
Young sailor Edmond Danté escapes after of being unjustly imprisoned for 15 years on charges of having helped the exiled Napoleon and plots his revenge on his enemies.

Flinn, Alex. Breathing Underwater.
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.

Frank, E.R. Life Is Funny.
The lives of a number of young people of different races, economic backgrounds, and family situations living in Brooklyn, New York, become intertwined over a seven year period.

Garden, Nancy. Annie on My Mind.
Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.

Going, K.L. Fat Kid Rules the World.
Seventeen-year-old, six-foot-one, three hundred pound Troy Billings is standing on the edge of the subway platform contemplating the reaction his suicide would have on the kids at his high school, when he is interrupted by Curt MacCrae. Emaciated, unwashed, semi-homeless Curt is a punk guitar legend at Troy’s lower Manhattan high school. “I saved your life,” Curt tells Troy. “You owe me lunch.”

Green, John. Looking for Alaska
Mile's first year at boarding school is full of great pranks and laughs but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.
A black satire of the American air war in Italy.

Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders.
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

Hopkins, Ellen.  Crank 
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.

Jenkins, A. M. Damage.
Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special.

Johnson, Angela. The First Part Last
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes when he becomes a father and must care for his beloved baby girl.

Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon.
Story of a retarded adult who after neurosurgery begins to see his intelligence increase at a remarkable rate.

Knowles, John. A Separate Peace.
Presents a novel about a friendship that develops between two boys during a summer vacation at the Devon school during World War II.

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.
About two sensitive, intelligent children who witness violence and hatred for the very first time when a lynching almost takes place. Set in a southern town in the mid 1930's.

Le Guin, Ursula. Tales from Earthsea
Explores the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of events which occurs before or after the time of the original novels, as well as an essay on the people, languages, history, and magic of the place.

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.

Martel, Yann. The Life of Pi.
When the ship carrying Pi, his zookeeper parents and their animals sinks, only Pi survives along with several animals. He faces incredible hardships on the high seas together with a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

McKinley, Robin. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast.
Kind 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.

Morpurgo, Michael. Private Peaceful
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye.
Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her and her world will be different.

Myers, Walter Dean. Monster.
While on trial as an accomplice to a 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.

Na, An. A Step from Heaven
A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.

Oates, Joyce Carol. Big Mouth & Ugly Girl.
When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid.

O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction.
Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam through interrelated stories about the men of Alpha Company.

Opdyke, Irene Gut. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer.
The memoirs of Irene Gut Opdyke, a teenager and Christian who defied the Nazis during World War II by rescuing and hiding Jews in Poland.

Philbrick, Nathaniel. Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex.
The story of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a spermwhale and how the crew survived against great odds.

Plum-Ucci, Carol. The Body of Christopher Creed.
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.

Porter, Connie May. Imani All Mine.
A teenager, the victim of a rape, discovers that she is pregnant and struggles to raise her baby in the inner city.

Portman, Frank.  King Dork  
High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life.

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.
The story of Holden Caulfield, troubled teen.

Sones, Sonya. Stop Pretending.
A younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown.

Shelley, Mary W. Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus.
A gothic tale of terror first published in 1818 in which Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with the secret of life, creates an eight-foot man from cadavers. Though he intended him to be beautiful, Victor finds him to be revolting.

Silverstein, Ken. The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and his Homemade Nuclear Reactor.
While working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, this suburban Detroit teen a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation.

Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Story of life in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn slums, as seen from the eyes of a bright young girl who is charmed by her drunken father.

Stratton, Allan. Chanda’s Secrets.
A girl struggles with shame and stigma following death of her mother and sister amid the African AIDs pandemic.

Tan, Amy. Joy Luck Club.
The stories of four native-born Chinese women and their American-born daughters, showing the influence each has on the others' lives, and how they are the same and different.

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.

Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds.
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the Earth.

White, Ellen Emerson. The Road Home.
Rebecca, a young nurse stationed in Vietnam during the war, must come to grips with her wartime experiences once she returns home to the United States.

White, T. H. The Once and Future King.
Arthur becomes king of the Britons under the guidance of Merlin.

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 personality.

Wittlinger, Ellen. What's in a Name.
Each of ten teenagers living in Scrub Harbor, Massachusetts, explores his or her identity at the same time that the local residents consider changing the name of their town.

Wollff, Virgina Euwer. Make Lemonade.
IIn order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn bbabysits for a teenage mother.

X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
The story of the most dynamic and controversial black leader in American history. Malcolm X tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister.

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