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Alexander, Jill	Paradise	YA FIC ALEXANDER
Teenaged Paisley Tillery dreams a career as a professional drummer will take her out of her small Texas town, but when her country rock band gets a handsome new lead singer from Paradise, Texas, those dreams may change.
Almond, Steve	Candyfreak : A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America	338.4766 ALMOND
The appropriately named Almond goes beyond candy obsession to enter the realm of "freakdom." Right up front, he reveals that he has eaten a piece of candy "every single day of his entire life," "thinks about candy at least once an hour" and "has between three and seven pounds of candy in his house at all times."
Alphin, Elaine Marie	The Perfect Shot	YA FIC ALPHIN
Brian uses basketball to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family who were gunned down a year ago, but the upcoming murder trial and a high school history assignment force him to face the past and decide how far he should go to see justice served.
Alsenas, Linas	Gay America : struggle for equality	YA 306.766097 ALSENAS
A survey of homosexuality in pre-modern America begins this outline of twentieth-century gay and lesbian life, ending with the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts in 2004.
Anderson, Laurie Halse	Chains	YA FIC ANDERSON
Set in New York City at the beginning of the American Revolution, this book addresses the price of freedom, both for a nation and for individuals. Isabel was sold with her sister to a cruel Loyalist family even though the girls were to be set free upon the death of their former owner. She has hopes of finding a way to freedom and becomes a spy for the rebels, but soon realizes that it is difficult to trust anyone.
Anderson, Laurie Halse	Wintergirls	YA FIC ANDERSON
Eighteen-year-old Lia is haunted by her best friend's death from bulimia, as she struggles with her own eating disorder.
Anderson, M.T.	Feed	YA FIC ANDERSON
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Anderson, M.T.	The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing : Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1. Pox Party	YA FIC ANDERSON
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War (part one of a two volume series).
Anderson, R. J.	Ultraviolet	YA FIC ANDERSON
Almost seventeen-year-old Alison, who has synesthesia, finds herself in a psychiatric facility accused of killing a classmate whose body cannot be found.
Asher, Jay	Thirteen Reasons Why	YA FIC ASHER
When Clay receives a package of cassette tapes that explain his classmate’s suicide, he is forced to consider how his own actions, and those of others, may have contributed to her decision.
Asinof, Eliot	Eight Men Out : the Black Sox and the 1919 World Series	YA 796.357 ASINOF
Recounts the shocking baseball-fixing scandal of the Chicago Black Sox.
Austen, Catherine	All Good Children	YA FIC AUSTEN
In the not-too-distant future, Max tries to maintain his identity in a world where the only way to survive is to conform and obey.
Averett, Edward	The Rhyming Season	YA FIC AVERETT
Loss marks Brenda's senior year in high school: her brother died the year before; her basketball coach leaves; and the local mill, the backbone of her town's economy, closes. When her eccentric English teacher takes over the basketball team, he establishes poets and their poetry as metaphors for basketball and individual personalities, with all triumphing as winners in this satisfying story.
Bacigalupi, Paolo.	Ship Breaker	YA FIC BACIGALUPI
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Bass, Ellen & Kaufman, Kate	Free Your Mind : the Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth - and their allies	YA 305.235 BASS
The book's six sections address topics like self-discovery and coming out, dealing with friends and first love, dealing with family, defending and asserting oneself in school, finding solace in spirituality, and locating community support. There are also chapters for parents and friends.
Beah, Ismael	A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier	YA 966.404 BEAH
Ismael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone, picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, and served as a soldier.
Beam, Cris	Transparent : Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers	YA 306.768083 BEAM
A Los Angeles transgender school volunteer traces her work with four students whose otherwise typical teen experiences were uniquely shaped by their circumstances, in an account that describes their efforts to resolve identity challenges.
Berne, Emma Carlson	Still Waters	YA FIC BERNE
When seventeen-year-old Hannah and her eighteen-year-old boyfriend sneak off to a broken-down old cottage at a deserted lake for the weekend, things do not go at all as planned.
Bick, Ilsa	Ashes	YA FIC BICK
Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.
Bily, Cynthia A.	Homosexuality: Opposing Viewpoints	YA 306.766 HOMOSEXU
What are the causes of homosexuality? -- Should gay men and women serve in the military? -- Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry? -- What should schools teach about homosexuality?
Bissinger, H.G.	Friday Night Lights : a Town, a Team, and a Dream	YA 796.33262 BISSINGE
This true story follows the 1988 season of the Permian Panthers, a high school football team in Odessa, Texas, whose quest for the championship dramatically impact this small town.
Bjorkman, Lauren	My Invented Life	YA FIC BJORKMAN
During rehearsals for Shakespeare's "As You Like It," sixteen-year-old Roz, jealous of her cheerleader sister's acting skills and heartthrob boyfriend, invents a new identity, with unexpected results.
Black, Holly	The Poison Eaters, and other stories	YA FIC BLACK
A collection of spooky short stories that includes two dark tales set in the world of Tithe, a tour of a fairy market, and the story of a girl who challenges the devil to a competitive eating match.
Blume, Judy	Then Again, Maybe I Won't	YA FIC BLUME
Ever since his dad got rich from an invention and his family moved to a wealthy neighborhood on Long Island, Tony Miglione’s life has been turned upside down. For starters, there’s his new friend, Joel, who shoplifts. Then there’s Joel’s sixteen-year-old sister, Lisa, who gets undressed every night without pulling down her shades. And there’s Grandma, who won’t come down from her bedroom. On top of all that, Tony has a whole bunch of new questions about growing up. . . .
Blundell, Judy	What I Saw and How I Lied	YA FIC BLUNDELL
When Evie's stepfather returns home from World War II, he brings her and her beautiful mother to Florida where a handsome army buddy enters their lives and sweeps Evie off her feet. In this mystery/coming of age story, a disappointing and potentially devastating love triangle ensues.
Booth, Coe	Tyrell	YA FIC BOOTH
Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.
Booth, Coe	Bronxwood	YA FIC BOOTH
Tyrell's father is just out of jail, his brother is in foster care and his mother is no help whatsoever. Now there's another thing up in his face. Tyrell's father has plans of his own, and doesn't seem to care whether or not Tyrell wants to go along with them. Tyrell can see the crash that's coming - with his dad, with the rest of his family, with the girls he's seeing - but he's not sure he can stop it.
Boyne, John	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas	YA FIC BOYNE
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Bradbury, Jennifer	Shift	YA FIC BRADBURY
When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.
Bray, Libba	A Great and Terrible Beauty: Gemma Doyle Trilogy 1	YA FIC BRAY
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
Brennan, Sarah Rees	The Demon's Lexicon	YA FIC BRENNAN
Sixteen-year-old Nick and his family have battled magicians and demons for most of his life, but when his brother, Alan, is marked for death while helping new friends Jamie and Mae, Nick's determination to save Alan leads him to uncover a devastating secret. This is the first book in a trilogy.
Bronte, Emily	Wuthering Heights	YA FIC BRONTE
An intriguing tale of revenge in which the main characters are controlled by consuming passions.
Brooks, Kevin	Road of the Dead	YA FIC BROOKS
Ruben Ford, 14, feels things. When his sister is murdered on the English moors, he knows she's dead even though he's home in London. He and his brother, Cole, 17, are freakishly linked by Ruben's power to feel what Cole feels. This is the story of the boys' journey from their half-gypsy home on a London junk lot to the ghostly moors of Devon, where they hope and fear to find the truth about their sister's death.
Brown, Jennifer	Hate List	YA FIC BROWN
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
Bryson, Bill	A Short History of Nearly Everything	YA 500 BRYSON
In his typically witty style, Bill Bryson takes his reader on an eye-opening tour of science from the Big Bang to the 21st century.
Caine, Rachel	Morganville Vampires: Glass Houses: Book 1	YA FIC CAINE
It's a small college town filled with quirky characters. But when the sun goes down, the bad comes out.
Carey, Janet Lee	Dragonswood	YA FIC CAREY
In A.D. 1192 on Wilde Island, Tess, the daughter of a cruel blacksmith, is accused of witchcraft and must flee, but when she meets a handsome and enigmatic warden of Dragonswood who offers her shelter, she does not realize that he too harbors a secret that may finally bring about peace among the races of dragon, human, and fairy.
Carle, Megan	Teens Cook : How to Cook What You Want to Eat	YA 641.5 CARLE
Written by two teens who know what teens do and don’t know about cooking, TEENS COOK is an instructional cookbook that teaches young adults how to make great meals—and be confident and independent in the kitchen.
Carter, Nikki	Doing My Own Thing: Fab Life Novel	YA FIC CARTER
With a smash album and her own reality show, Sunday Tolliver has finally arrived. But success brings a whole new set of challenges including a diva cousin and a bad-boy rapper who are trying to get payback by wrecking her reputation, a gifted new collaborator who is trying to sabotage her follow-up album, and a more complicated love life.
Carter, Timothy	Evil?	YA FIC CARTER
Stuart Bradley, a gay teenager living in a conservative Christian town in Ontario, Canada, dabbles in several forbidden activities, and when word gets out, he and some other teens face grave danger from the fallen angels that are inciting hatred and extremism in the community.
Cashore, Kristin	Graceling: Seven Kingdoms Trilogy	YA FIC CASHORE
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
Cast, P.C.	Marked : House of Night Series	YA FIC CAST
Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire--that is, if she makes it through the Change.
Castle, Jennifer	The Beginning of After	YA FIC CASTLE
In the aftermath of a car accident that killed her family, sixteen-year-old Laurel must face a new world of guilt, painful memories, and the possibility of new relationships.
Chbosky, Stephen	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	YA FIC CHBOSKY
15-year-old Charlie talks about his life in a series of letters to an unnamed recipient. An outcast, Charlie finds refuge in a group of older teens who take him under their wing. Included in the group is a boy who is gay and having his first love relationship with a closeted fellow student.
Chevalier, Tracy	Girl With a Pearl Earring	YA FIC CHEVALIER
The life of sixteen-year-old Griet is transformed forever when she goes to work as a maid in the home of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, who develops a fascination for his new maid.
Clare, Cassandra	City of Bones: Mortal Instruments Series: Book 1	YA FIC CLARE
Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
Cohn, Rachel	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist	YA FIC COHN
When Nick asks a total stranger in a New York punk club to be his girlfriend for five minutes, a chaotic night of music and romance ensues.
Collins, Suzanne	The Hunger Games	YA FIC COLLINS
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol, where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death. 24 will enter, only one will come out alive...
Collins, Yvonne	Love, Inc.	YA FIC COLLINS
When three fifteen-year-old Austin, Texas, girls who met in group therapy discover that they are all dating the same boy, they first get revenge and then start a wildly successful relationship consulting business.
Cook, Eileen	Unraveling Isobel	YA FIC COOK
When seventeen-year-old Isobel's mother marries a man she just met and they move to his gothic mansion on an island, strange occurrences cause Isobel to fear that she is losing her sanity as her artist father did.
Cormier, Robert	Heroes	YA FIC CORMIER
After joining the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a grenade in a battle in France, Francis returns home to Frenchtown hoping to find--and kill--the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.
Crocker, Nancy	Billie Standish Was Here	YA FIC CROCKER
When the river jeopardizes the levee and most of the town leaves, Miss Lydia, an elderly neighbor, and Billie form a friendship that withstands tragedy and time.
Cronn-Mills, Kirstin	The Sky Always Hears Me and the Hills don't Mind	YA FIC CRONNMIL
Sixteen-year-old Morgan struggles with her growing attraction to a co-worker, her unsatisfactory relationship with her boyfriend, and with her own sexual orientation after a girlfriend is rumored to be gay.
Crowley, Suzanne	The Stolen One	YA FIC CROWLEY
After the death of her foster mother, sixteen-year-old Kat goes to London to seek the answers to her parentage, and surprisingly finds herself invited into Queen Elizabeth's court.
Culbertson, Kim A	Instructions for a Broken Heart	YA FIC CULBERTS
While high school junior Jessa is on a Drama Academy trip to Italy with ex-boyfriend Sean and his new girlfriend, she opens her heart to change by following all of the outrageous instructions in her best friend's care package.
Cullen, Dave	Columbine	YA 373.7888 CULLEN
This definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history, written by an award-winning journalist, offers insight inside the minds of the killers.
Damico, Gina	Croak Trilogy: Book 1	YA FIC DAMICO
Lex has recently descended into delinquency, and her parents have had enough. At the end of her junior year, she is sent to stay with her Uncle Mort in upstate New York. She discovers that the people of Croak are dedicated to releasing souls at the moment of death and ushering them to the Afterlife.
Daniels, Babygirl	16 on the Block: Babygirl Drama Book 1	YA FIC DANIELS
When she is expected to pay back her sister's old debt, sixteen-year-old Summer must take to the streets, learning hard, fast lessons about survival, loyalty, and love. Original.
Dashner, James	The Maze Runner Trilogy: Book 1	YA FIC DASHNER
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Davidson, Dana	Jason & Kyra	YA FIC DAVIDSON
Handsome and popular Jason tries to come to terms with his irascible, often absent father and his growing attraction to the quiet, studious Kyra.
Davidson, Dana	Played	YA FIC DAVIDSON
When one of Ian's boys dares him to get plain-faced Kylie Winship to sleep with him in just three weeks, he thinks it will be a breeze. If he succeeds in playing Kylie, he'll be down with the most popular crew in his high school.
Davis, Sampson	We Beat the Street : How a Friendship Pact Led to Success	YA 610.922 DAVIS
"What started out as skipping class turned out to be the most significant experience of our lives," says George Jenkins, who, together with Sampson Davis and Rameck Hunt, made a teenage pact to leave their impoverished New Jersey neighborhood, attend medical school, and become doctors.
De la Cruz, Melissa	Blue Bloods Series: Book 1	YA FIC DELACRUZ
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.
De la Pena, Matt	Ball Don't Lie	YA FIC PENA
Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream.
De la Pena, Matt	Mexican Whiteboy	YA FIC PENA
Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San Diego County, California.
Delany, Shannon	A Werewolf's Tale: A 13 to Life Novel: Book 1	YA FIC DELANY
Jessica Gillmansen, a high school junior, is hiding information about her mother's death when she meets Pietr Rusakova, a new student with a family secret of his own, and the two bond as she investigates local news stories about werewolves and the Russian mafia.
Deuker, Carl	High Heat	YA FIC DEUKER
When sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the star pitcher's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart.
Deuker, Carl	Heart of a Champion	YA FIC DEUKER
Jimmy Winter is a born star on the baseball field, and Seth Barnam can only dream of being as talented. Still, the two baseball fanatics have the kind of friendship that should last forever. But when Seth experiences an unthinkable loss, he's forced to find his own personal strength--on and off the field.
Deuker, Carl	Gym Candy	YA FIC DEUKER
Groomed by his father to be a star player, football is the only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick Johnson, who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social life.
Deuker, Carl	Payback Time	YA FIC DEUKER
Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.
Deuker, Carl	Painting the Black	YA FIC DEUKER
After a disastrous fall from a tree, senior Ryan Ward wrote off baseball. But he is swept back into the game when cocky, charismatic Josh Daniels--a star quarterback with the perfect spiral pass as well as a pitcher with a mean slider--moves into the neighborhood.
Diepen, Allison van	Snitch	YA DIEPEN
Julia DiVino tries hard not to get mixed-up with the gangs at South Bay High School, but when Eric Valienté enters into her life, everything changes.
Diver, Lucienne	Vamped: Vamped Series: Book 1	YA FIC DIVER
After being turned into a vampire, Gina realizes that she, along with many other students from her high school, have become pawns in an uprising within the vampire world.
Donnelly, Jennifer	A Northern Light	YA FIC DONNELLY
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.
Downham, Jenny	Before I Die	YA FIC DOWNHAM
A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
Dowswell, Paul	The Auslander	YA FIC DOWSWELL
German soldiers take Peter from a Warsaw orphanage, and soon he is adopted by Professor Kaltenbach, a prominent Nazi, but Peter forms his own ideas about what he sees and hears and decides to take a risk that is most dangerous in 1942 Berlin.
Draper, Sharon	Just Another Hero	YA FIC DRAPER
This concluding volume in the trilogy that began with The Battle of Jericho (2003) and November Blues (2007), both Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books, continues the stories of a group of resilient urban high-school students.
Draper, Sharon	Double Dutch	YA FIC DRAPER
Three eighth-grade friends, preparing for the International Double Dutch Championship jump rope competition in their home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, cope with Randy's missing father, Delia's inability to read, and Yo Yo's encounter with the class bullies.
Draper, Sharon M.	Copper Sun	YA FIC DRAPER
Two fifteen-year-old girls, one a slave and the other an indentured servant, escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Draper, Sharon M.	November Blues: Jericho Trilogy 2	YA FIC DRAPER
In this sequel to The Battle of Jericho, in which a tragic hazing accident caused Josh's death, his girlfriend, November, finds out she's pregnant. Without the support of her friends, November doesn't know what to do. Josh's parents and their lawyer offer to take custody of the baby and to pay for all of November's college expenses.
Dudley, David	Caleb's Wars	YA FIC DUDLEY
Fifteen-year-old Caleb's courageous commitment to justice grows as he faces a power struggle with his father, fights to keep both his temper and self-respect, and puzzles over the German prisoners of war brought to his rural Georgia community during World War II.
Efaw, Amy	After	YA FIC EFAW
In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder.
Ehrenreich, Barbara	Nickel and Dimed : On (Not) Getting By in America	YA 305.569092 EHRENREI
To find out if individuals can survive on the "wages available to the unskilled," journalist Ehrenreich spent 12 months working at a variety of minimum-wage jobs. Her experiences offer a gritty glimpse into the world of day-to-day work, a stark picture of living from hand to mouth, and a personal perspective on the politics of welfare.
Elliott, L.M.	A Troubled Peace	YA FIC ELLIOTT
World War II may be ending, but for nineteen year old pilot Henry Forester the conflict still rages.
Emond, Stephen	Winter Town	YA FIC EMOND
Evan and Lucy, childhood best friends who grew apart after years of seeing one another only during Christmas break, begin a romance at age seventeen but his choice to mindlessly follow his father's plans for an Ivy League education rather than becoming the cartoonist he longs to be, and her more destructive choices in the wake of family problems, pull them apart.
Ferguson, Alane	The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery: Forensic Mysteries Book 1	YA FIC FERGUSON
On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.
Fisher, Catherine	Relic Master Series: The Dark City: Book 1	YA FIC FISHER
Sixteen-year-old Raffi, Master Galen, and a mysterious traveler, Carys, enter the ruined city of Tasceron seeking a relic that may save the world, while evading the Watch, a brutal organization opposed to the Order to which Raffi and Galen belong.
Fisher, Catherine	Incarceron	YA FIC FISHER
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
Fletcher, Christine	Ten Cents a Dance	YA FIC FLETCHER
In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult.
Forman, Gayle	If I Stay	YA FIC FORMAN
While in a coma after her family is killed in a car accident, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, struggles to decide whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
Friend, Natasha	Lush	YA FIC FRIEND
Unable to cope with her father's alcoholism, thirteen-year-old Sam corresponds with an older student, sharing her family problems and asking for advice.
Gantos, Jack	Hole in My Life	YA BIO GANTOS
Jack Gantos sought his own real-life adventure after leaving high school, so he agreed to help smuggle a shipment of drugs from Florida to New York without considering the consequences. He was caught and sent to federal prison for six years where he began to look for role models and guidance in the pages of the books he read.
Garcia, Kami	Beautiful Creatures	YA FIC GARCIA
Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps, and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Geerling, Marjetta	Fancy White Trash	YA FIC GEERLING
Fifteen-year-old Abby Savage hopes that her five rules for falling in love will keep her from making the same mistakes as her mother and two older sisters--all unwed mothers who have slept with the same man, among others--while she also tries to help her best friend Cody admit that he is gay, and decide how she really feels about Cody's older brother, Jackson.
Gladwell, Malcolm	Outliers : The Story of Success	302 GLADWELL
Writer Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and brightest, the most famous and successful. He asks the question : what makes high-achievers different? His answers can be surprising.
Gladwell, Malcolm	The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference	YA 302 GLADWELL
This book presents a new way of understanding why change frequently happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does. It is because ideas, behaviors, messages, and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease. They are social epidemics and this book strives to examine the social epidemics that surround us.
Godbersen, Anna	The Luxe: Luxe Series: Book 1	YA FIC GODBERSE
In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best-laid plans of parents and others.
Golden, Arthur	Memoirs of a Geisha	YA FIC GOLDEN
Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a geisha, discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of World War II forces an end to the only life she has ever known.
Grant, Michael	Gone: A Gone Novel: Book 1	YA FIC GRANT
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.
Gray, Claudia	Evernight: Evernight Series: Book 1	YA FIC GRAY
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Lucas, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.
Green, John & Levithan, David	Will Grayson, Will Grayson	YA FIC GREEN
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
Gruen, Sara	Water for Elephants	YA FIC GRUEN
This novel traces a pivotal time in the life of Jacob, a young man who runs away with the circus after the death of his parents.
Hallaway, Tate	Almost to Die For: A Vampire Princess Novel: Book 1	YA FIC HALLAWAY
Caught between two worlds, Ana always thought she would join her mother's coven as a True Witch. But in true fairy-tale style, on her 16th birthday she finds out that she is not who or what she thought she was. She is a dhampyr princess—half-human and half-vampire. Her mom clings to the hope that Ana can still be a witch, but the teen crosses several boundaries toward becoming a blood-drinker.
Halliday, Gemma	Deadly Cool	YA FIC HALLIDAY
When sixteen-year-old Hartley Featherstone finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her, she goes to his house to confront him and suddenly finds herself embroiled in a murder mystery.
Halpern, Julie	Don't Stop Now	YA FIC HALPERN
Recent high school graduates Lil and Josh leave Illinois for Oregon seeking Lil's sort-of friend Penny, who faked her own kidnapping to escape problems at home and an abusive boyfriend, but Lil also wants to find out if she and Josh are meant to be more than friends.
Hartinger, Brent	Geography Club	YA FIC HARTINGER
A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at their high school.
Haugen, David	Social Justice	YA 303.372 SOCIAL
Discusses topics relating to social justice in the United States, including economic inequality, social justice for minorities, and policies promoting global justice.
Haugen, David, and Musser, Susan	Africa	YA 960 AFRICA
Opposing View Points Series
Hazuka, Tom	Last Chance First	YA FIC HAZUKA
Robbie Fielder is intrigued by Pet, the new girl who challenges the school's magazine drive. He is annoyed by his parents who see his valedictorian, football-playing brother as perfect and Robbie, the soccer-playing salutatorian, as a slacker. And despite his team's winning record, he is concerned about Coach Reynolds, his sadistic soccer coach.
Hegamin, Tonya	M+O 4EVR	YA FIC HEGAMIN
Opal, an African American high school senior, reexamines her life after her best friend (and first love) Marianne commits suicide. A touching if uneven debut about friendship, family and race.
Heiligman, Deborah	Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith	YA 576.82092 DARWIN
Provides an account of Charles Darwin's life and evolutionary theory, examining how his personal life affected his work and vice versa because of his wife's strong religious beliefs.
Heller, Joseph	Catch 22	YA FIC HELLER
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron in the Mediterranean area. It is a story of a bomber named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him.
Hemingway, Ernest	For Whom the Bell Tolls	YA FIC HEMINGWAY
This Hemingway classic tells the story of a young American, Robert Jordan, who fights alongside the guerillas during the Spanish Civil War and falls in love with a young revolutionary. It reflects Hemingway's feelings about the nature of war and the meaning of loyalty, drawing on his own experiences with the war.
Herbach, Geoff	Stupid Fast	YA FIC HERBACH
In his sophomore year, Fenton Reinstein's voice drops, he begins to grow hair all over his body, and he becomes "stupid fast." Previously indifferent to sports, he instantly becomes a star sprinter and is touted as the next savior of the football team before he has ever played a down.
Herlong, M.H.	The Great Wide Sea	YA FIC HERLONG
Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended sailing trip off the Florida Keys and have a harrowing adventure at sea.
Heron, Ann	Two Teenagers in Twenty : Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth	YA 305.90664 TWO
A collection of 24 stories that focuses on feelings about being homosexual, reactions of friends and family, and first encounters with other gay people. .
Hersey, John	Hiroshima	YA 940.544 HERSEY
This account of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, from the viewpoint of the people who lived through it, provides graphic descriptions of the effect of nuclear weapons.
Hoban, Julia	Willow	YA FIC HOBAN
Sixteen-year-old Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her parents, copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a smart and sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.
Hopkins, Ellen	Glass	YA FIC HOPKINS
Kristina is determined to defeat her crystal-meth addiction in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
Hopkins, Ellen	Fallout	YA FIC HOPKINS
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
Hopkins, Ellen	Crank	YA FIC HOPKINS
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.
Hopkins, Ellen	Burned	YA FIC HOPKINS
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
Hosseini, Khaled	A Thousand Splendid Suns	FIC HOSSEINI
This novel, set against the civil war and Taliban oppressions in Afghanistan, tells the story of Mariam and Laila, two women who grow close despite their nineteen year age difference and abusive husband.
Hosseini, Khaled	The Kite Runner	YA FIC HOSSEINI
The Kite Runner is an unforgettably moving story about loyalty and betrayal involving two boyhood friends growing up in war-torn Afghanistan.
Hubbard, Jennifer R.	The Secret Year	YA FIC HUBBARD
Reading the journal of the high-society girl he was secretly involved with for a year helps high school senior Colt cope with her death and come closer to understanding why she needed him while continuing to be the girlfriend of a wealthy classmate.
Hubbard, Jennifer R.	Try Not to Breathe	YA FIC HUBBARD
The summer Ryan is released from a mental hospital following his suicide attempt, he meets Nicki, who gets him to share his darkest secrets while hiding secrets of her own.
Huegel, Kelly	GLBTQ : the Survival Guide For Queer and Questioning Teens	YA 306.766 HUEGEL
Written in hip language and style, the book covers the basics in GLBTQ 101, then moves chapter by chapter through the primary issues and questions such as coming out; dating and sexuality; religion; and life at school, work, and home. Each chapter contains sidebar quotes from gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and descriptions of appropriate resources such as books, organizations, and Web sites.
Hurston, Zora Neale	Their Eyes Were Watching God	YA FIC HURSTON
Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person - no easy feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and a journey back to her roots.
Hurwin, Davida Wills	Freaks and Revelations	YA FIC HURWIN
Tells, in two voices, of events leading up to a 1980 incident in which fourteen-year-old Jason, a gay youth surviving on the streets as a prostitute, and seventeen-year-old Doug, a hate-filled punk rocker, have a fateful meeting in a Los Angeles alley.
Jaffe, Michele	Rosebush	YA FIC JAFFE
The morning after an epic Memorial Day party on the Jersey shore, Jane Freeman wakes up paralyzed, lying in a rosebush after a hit-and-run. Everyone believes it was an accident, but as friends come to visit in the hospital, Jane's memories begin to surface, not just from the party but from deeper in her past, including the night her best friend Bonnie died.
Jay, Stacey	Juliet Immortal	YA FIC JAY
For seven hundred years, the souls of Romeo and Juliet have repeatedly inhabited the bodies of newly deceased people to battle to the death as sworn enemies, until they meet for the last time as two Southern California high school students.
Jennings, Kevin editor	Becoming Visible : A Reader in Gay & Lesbian History for High School & College Students	YA 305.90664 BECOMING
Jinks, Catherine	The Reformed Vampire Support Group	YA FIC JINKS
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them - until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.
Johnson, Angela	The First Part Last	YA FIC JOHNSON
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
Johnson, Maureen	The Bermudez Triangle	YA FIC JOHNSON
The friendship of three high school girls and their relationships with their friends and families are tested when two of them fall in love with each other.
Jones, Carrie	Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend	YA FIC JONES
Belle is a high school junior who expects to marry her long-term boyfriend one day, until he tells her and their entire small Maine town that he is gay, and both face prejudice and violence even as they enter new relationships and try to remain friends.
Jordan, Dream	Hot Girl	YA FIC DREAM
Kate, a fourteen-year-old Brooklyn girl and former gang member, risks losing her first good foster family when she adopts the risqué ways of her flirtatious new friend, Naleejah.
Kafka, Tina	Gay Rights	YA 323.326409 KAFKA
This is a great book for students writing reports and for those who have an interest in the topic. Kafka does a fine job of presenting differing opinions-and historical background-on such subjects as whether or not homosexuality is inborn or mutable, gay marriage, and so on, although the argument for gay rights comes across more strongly.
Kashyap, Keshni	Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary	YA GRAPHIC KASHYAP
Tina Malhotra, a sophomore at the Yarborough Academy in Southern California, creates an existential diary for an honors English assignment in which she tries to determine who she is and where she fits in.
Katcher, Brian	Almost Perfect	YA FIC KATCHER
Eighteen-year-old Logan feels alone and unloved until a new student arrives at his small-town Missouri high school, with a big secret that could change everything.
Keneally, Thomas	Schindler's List	FIC KENEALLY
The true story of a man who took incredible risks and spent his considerable fortune to build a factory camp to protect Jews during World War II.
Kephart, Beth	You Are My Only	YA FIC KEPHART
Tells, in their separate voices and at a space of fourteen years, of Emmy, whose baby has been stolen, and Sophie, a teenager who defies her nomadic, controlling mother by making friends with a neighbor boy and his elderly aunts.
Kidd, Sue Monk	The Secret Life of Bees	YA FIC KIDD
Lily and her caretaker, Rosaleen, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers. They find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina, at the home of three bee-keeping sisters.
Kluger, Steve	Last Days of Summer	FIC KLUGER
Joey Margolis, a young boy whose father has deserted the family, begins writing to baseball player Charlie Banks and forms a relationship with the third baseman that changes both of their lives for the better.
Knowles, Johanna	Lessons from a Dead Girl	YA FIC KNOWLES
After her former friend Leah dies in an automobile accident, Laine remembers their troubled relationship, dating back to elementary school when Leah convinced Laine to "practice" in the closet with her, and Leah controlled her every thought.
Knowles, Johanna	Jumping off Swings	YA FIC KNOWLES
Tells, from four points of view, the ramifications of a pregnancy resulting from a "one-time thing" between Ellie, who feels loved when boys touch her, and Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life.
Koertge, Ron	The Arizona Kid	YA FIC KOERTGE
From the moment sixteen-year-old Billy steps off the train in Tucson, he knows this will be a summer unlike any he's seen in small-town Bradleyville, Missouri. For starters, he's staying with his cool gay uncle, who has managed to get him a job at the racetrack caring for horses.
Koertge, Ron	Boy Girl Boy	YA FIC KOERTGE
Three troubled high school seniors, who plan to run away together from Illinois to California after graduation, try to figure out who they are who they want to be.
Konigsberg, Bill	Out of the Pocket	YA FIC KONIGSBE
As Bobby Framingham, quarterback of his high school football team, finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay, events start to spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed in the student newspaper and then in the local press, and he learns that his father has cancer.
Krakauer, Jon	Into Thin Air	796.522095 KRAKAUER
In his attempt to "tell what happened on the mountain accurately and honestly in a sensitive, respectful manner," Krakauer introduces each chapter with philosophical writings of other climbers.
Krakauer, Jon	Where Men Win Glory : The Odyssey of Pat Tillman	BIO TILLMAN
In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11 and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan.
Krovatin, Christopher	Venomous	YA FIC KROVATIN
Since age eight, New York City high school junior Locke Vinetti has experienced bouts of overpowering anger, but now that he has friends who accept him and a true girlfriend, "the venom" threatens to destroy all that he loves.
Kuklin, Susan	No Choirboy : Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row	YA 364.660922 KUKLIN
A collection of essays in which inmates at American prisons who were sentenced to death while still in their teens share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up in prison and how they feel about capital punishment.
LaCour, Nina	The Disenchantments	YA FIC LACOUR
Colby's post-high school plans have long been that he and his best friend Beth would tour with her band, then spend a year in Europe, but when she announces that she will start college just after the tour, Colby struggles to understand why she changed her mind and what losing her means for his future.
LaCour, Nina	Hold Still	YA FIC LACOUR
Ingrid didn't leave a note. Three months after her best friend's suicide, Caitlin finds what she left instead: a journal, hidden under Caitlin's bed.
LaFevers, Robin	Grave Mercy: His Fair Assassin	YA FIC LAFEVERS
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts, and a violent destiny.
Lahiri, Jhumpa	The Namesake	INTERNET
Awkwardness is Gogol's birthright. He grows up a bright American boy, goes to Yale, has pretty girlfriends, becomes a successful architect, but like many second-generation immigrants, he can never quite find his place in the world.
Lake, Nick	In darkness	YA FIC LAKE
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
Larkin, Jillian	Vixen	YA FIC LARKIN
It's the Jazz Age, and 17-year-old Gloria Carmody wants to live it up. But that's not easy, as she is already engaged to the stuffy Sebastian Grey. Her inner flapper wins out, though, and Gloria is soon hanging out at a boozy Chicago club, attracted to the piano player, Jerome, who just happens to be black.
Lecesne, James	Absolute Brightness	YA FIC LECESNE
In the beach town of Neptune, New Jersey, Phoebe's life is changed irrevocably when her gay cousin moves into her house and soon goes missing.
Lee, Harper	To Kill a Mockingbird	YA FIC LEE
One of the best-loved classics of all time, this book centers around a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy. Lawyer Atticus Finch defends a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.
Leleux, Robert	The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy	YA 306.8743 LELEUX
If he is, he owes it to his madcap mother, a kind of Auntie Mame on steroids who is clearly the star of this memoir of the author's teenage years, coming-of-age as a self-styled "serious sissy" in Petunia and nearby Houston, Texas.
Levithan, David	Boy Meets Boy	YA FIC LEVITHAN
When Paul falls hard for Noah, he thinks he has found his one true love, but when Noah walks out of his life, Paul has to find a way to get him back and make everything right once more.
Levithan, David	Love is the Higher Law	YA FIC LEVITHAN
Three New York City teens express their reactions to the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and its impact on their lives and the world.
Levitt, Steven D., and Dubner, Stephen J.	Freakonomics	330 Levitt
Offers an alternative view of how the economy really works, examining issues from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing, offering a very different view on what really matters and what really drives the economy.
Lieberman, Leanne	Gravity	YA FIC LIEBERMA
Ellie Gold is an orthodox Jewish teenager living in Toronto in the late eighties. Ellie has no doubts about her strict religious upbringing until she falls in love with another girl at her grandmother's cottage. Aware that homosexuality clashes with Jewish observance, Ellie feels forced to either alter her sexuality or leave her community.
Lindsey, Mary	Shattered Souls	YA FIC LINDSEY
When a Texas high school student starts hearing voices she assumes she is schizophrenic like her father, but instead she finds out that she is a "Speaker," who can communicate with the dead in order to help their troubled souls find resolution.
Lo, Malinda	Ash	YA FIC LO
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
Lockhart, E.	Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver	YA FIC LOCKHART
Now a senior at her Seattle prep school, Ruby continues her angst-filled days coping with the dilemmas of boyfriends, college applications, her parents' squabbling, and realizing that her "deranged" persona may no longer apply.
Lowry, Lois	Number the Stars	YA FIC LOWRY
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Ludwig, Elisa	Pretty Crooked	YA FIC LUDWIG
High school sophomore Willa and her artist mother move to Arizona where Willa starts attending an elite prep school after her mother finally sells some paintings, and Willa attempts to even things out by stealing from the rich students and giving to the poor ones.
Lupica, Mike	Hero	YA FIC LUPICA
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until the "Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
Lyga, Barry	The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl	YA FIC LYGA
A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Goth Girl Kyra, who helps change his outlook on almost everything - including himself.
Machiavelli, Niccolo	The Prince	YA 320.1 MACHIAVELLI
Renaissance statesman, Machiavelli, sets forth to accomplish seizing a country while avoiding being hated and despised.
Mackler, Carolyn	Tangled	YA FIC MACKLER
After a short stay at a Caribbean resort, the lives of four very different teenagers become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined.
Madigan, L.K.	Flash Burnout	YA FIC MADIGAN
When he snapped a picture of a street person for his photography homework, fifteen-year-old Blake never dreamed that the woman in the photo was his friend Marissa’s long-lost meth addicted mom. The drama that ensues opens up a world of trouble for both him and Marissa.
Malkin, Nina	Swear	YA FIC MALKIN
In Swoon, Connecticut, seventeen-year-old Dice's life is returning to normal after Sinclair stole her heart and disappeared, but when her best friend's boyfriend goes missing Dice finds that Sinclair and an old promise are involved and she must, reluctantly, use her special abilities again.
Malloy, Brian	Twelve Long Months	YA FIC MALLOY
From the end of her senior year at Minnesota's Le Seur High School through her first year as a physics major at Columbia University, Molly Swain finds the inner strength and good friends to help her cope with huge challenges, including learning that the boy she loves is gay.
Malone, John	21st Century Gay	YA 305.90664 MALONE
Introducing a specious middle-of-the-road construct, he investigates the impact of various issues on lesbians and gay men in America: AIDS, coming out, marriage, adoption, religion, violence, and politics.
Marchetta, Melina	Froi of the Exiles: Lumatere Chronicles (2)	YA FIC MARCHETTA
Fiercely loyal to the Queen and Finnikin, Froi has been taken roughly and lovingly in hand by the Guard sworn to protect the royal family but is soon sent on a secretive mission to the kingdom of Charyn where he must unravel both the dark bonds of kinship and the mysteries of a half-mad princess.
Marchetta, Melina	Finnikin of the Rock: Lumatere Chronicles (1)	YA FIC MARCHETT
Now on the cusp of manhood, Finnikin, who was a child when the royal family of Lumatere was brutally murdered and replaced by an imposter, reluctantly joins forces with an enigmatic young novice and fellow-exile, who claims that her dark dreams will lead them to a surviving royal child and a way to regain the throne of Lumatere.
Marino, Alfred C.	Pinned	YA FIC MARINO
Alternating story lines converge to introduce two very different, talented but flawed high school athletes whose sports careers peak when they meet in the finals of the 129-pound division of the New Jersey State Wrestling Championship.
Martino, Alfred C.	Over the End Line	YA FIC MARTINO
After scoring the winning goal in the county soccer championship, New Jersey high school senior Jonny finally attains some of the popularity enjoyed by his best friend Kyle, until a devastating event changes everything.
Mayer, Julia	Eyes in the Mirror	YA FIC MAYER
Samara is a troubled and lonely adolescent prone to cutting, and desperately craves both intimacy and escape from her unfulfilled life, until she meets her reflection, Dee, the seeming answer to all her problems.
Mazer, Harry	Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am	YA FIC MAZER
Wounded in Iraq while his Army unit is on convoy and treated for many months for traumatic brain injury, the first person Ben remembers from his earlier life is his autistic brother.
Mazer, Harry	The Last Mission	YA FIC MAZER
In 1944 a 15-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel in the West but instead, enlists in the United States Air Corps and is subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans.
McCormick, Patricia	Sold	FIC MCCORMIC
A novel in vignettes in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India.
McDonald, Abby	Getting Over Garrett Delaney	YA FIC MCDONALD
Seventeen-year-old Sadie Allen has spent the last two years pining for her best friend, Garrett, but when he heads off to literary camp for the summer without her, she decides to kick her unrequited crush for good, with the help of her co-workers, another boy, and her own summer twelve-step program.
McNeil, Gretchen	Possess	YA FIC MCNEIL
Enlisted to help in dangerous cases of demonic possession, a teenaged exorcist discovers a race of part-demons intent on raising their forefathers to the earth in human form.
Medina, Nico	The Straight Road to Kylie	YA FIC MEDINA
He's seventeen, out and proud, and ready to party through senior year with his posse of best girlfriends. But the year starts off with the wrong kind of bang when Jonathan -- in an inebriated lapse of judgment -- sleeps with a friend of his...a girl friend!
Medley, Linda	Castle Waiting	YA GRAPHIC CASTLE
A long time ago in the happy kingdom of Putney, a king and a queen accidentally snub the local wicked witch. The result is the standard curse: a 100-year sleep brought on, you guessed it, when the princess pricks her finger on a needle. But what happens after the princess awakes and goes off with her charming prince?
Medley, Linda	Castle Waiting Volume 2	YA GRAPHIC CASTLE
This volume begins with the arrival of Tolly and Dayne, two dwarfs visiting their friend Henry, the castle's smith. The clever and kindhearted Tolly quickly befriends the castle's younger inhabitants, leading simple Simon and young mother Jain on adventures through lost rooms and secret passages.
Melville, Herman	Moby Dick	YA FIC MELVILLE
The saga of Captain Ahab and his unrelenting pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him during their last encounter.
Merrell, Billy	Talking in the Dark : a Poetry Memoir	YA 811.6 MERRELL
A memoir told in verse involving a recollection of the author's faltering family life as well as his acceptance of his own homosexuality.
Mezrich, Ben	Bringing Down the House : The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions	YA 364.172 MEZRICH
A group of mathematically-gifted MIT students join an underground blackjack club and manage to legally take several Las Vegas casinos for more than three million dollars.
Miller, Mary Beth	On the Head of a Pin	YA FIC MILLER
While drinking alcohol and playing with a loaded gun at a party, a teenage boy accidentally shoots and kills another student and then tries to conceal her death.
Milner, Kelly	Girl Meets Boy: Because There are Two Sides to Every Story (Short Stories)	YA FIC GIRLS
Twelve authors of young adult fiction collaborate on this collection of paired stories told alternately from the point of view of the boy and the girl.
Mitchard, Jacquelyn	All We Know of Heaven	YA FIC MITCHARD
When Maureen and Bridget, two sixteen-year-old best friends who look like sisters, are in a terrible car accident and one of them dies, they are at first incorrectly identified at the hospital, and then, as Maureen achieves a remarkable recovery, she must deal with the repercussions of the accident, the mix-up, and some choices she made while she was getting better.
Moore, Perry	Hero	YA FIC MOORE
At the same time that he's coming to terms with his sexual orientation, basketball star Thom Creed is trying to figure out exactly what his untrained superpowers can do. In an attempt to break away from his seemingly non-understanding father (an ex-hero with something to hide) and homophobic community, Thom runs away, only to find himself in the middle of a multi-hero rescue operation.
Morris, Paula	Dark Souls	YA FIC MORRIS
Sixteen-year-old Miranda Tennant arrives in York, England, with her parents and brother, trying to recover from the terrible accident that killed her best friend, and while in the haunted city she falls in love for the first time as two boys, one also suffering from a great loss and the other a ghost, fight for her attentions.
Morrison, Toni	Sula	YA FIC MORRISON
The intense friendship shared by two Black women raised in an Ohio town changes when one of them leaves to roam the countryside and returns ten years later.
Moskowitz, Hannah	Invincible Summer	YA FIC MOSKOWITZ
Over the course of several summers on the Atlantic coast, Chase struggles with his feelings for his best friend's sisters in the beach house next door while trying to get his own family through seemingly insurmountable problems.
Myers, Jason	Dead End	YA FIC MYERS
Dru and Gina are young, in love, and can’t wait to get out of Marshall, Nebraska, a town where bloodline means everything and whoever has the money makes the rules. But all their dreams are shattered when Gina has a monstrous run-in with the son of the richest man in Marshall—an incident that leaves her broken, battered, and violated.
Myers, Walter Dean	Dope Sick	YA FIC Myers
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
Myers, Walter Dean	Game	YA FIC MYERS
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
Myers, Walter Dean	Hoops	YA FIC
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.
Myers, Walter Dean	Handbook for Boys	YA FIC MYERS
Sixteen-year-old Jimmy, on probation for assault, talks about life with three old men in a Harlem barbershop and hears about the tools he can use to get what he wants.
Myers, Walter Dean	Autobiography of my Dead Brother	YA FIC MYERS
Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend.
Myers, Walter Dean	Bad Boy: A Memoir	YA BIO MYERS
In this memoir Walter Dean Myers travels back to his roots in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Here is the story of one of the strongest voices in young people's literature today.
Myers, Walter Dean	Carmen	YA FIC MYERS
A policeman's obsessive love for a tempestuous wig factory worker ends in tragedy in this updated version of Bizet's Carmen, set in Spanish Harlem, and told in screenplay format.
Myers, Walter Dean	Street Love	YA FIC MYERS
With its dazzling, graffiti-esque cover and rap-like rhythms, the novel transforms the Romeo and Juliet story into an episode from the here and now.
Myers, Walter Dean	Slam!	YA FIC MYERS
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.
Myers, Walter Dean	Riot	YA FIC MYERS
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
Myers, Walter Dean	Scorpions	YA FIC MYERS
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.
Myers, Walter Dean	Shooter	YA FIC MYERS
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
Myers, Walter Dean	The Beast	YA FIC MYERS
A visit to his Harlem neighborhood and the discovery that the girl he loves is using drugs give sixteen-year-old Anthony Witherspoon a new perspective both on his home and on his life at a Connecticut prep school.
Myers, Walter Dean	Monster	YA FIC MYERS
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.
Nelson, Jandy	The Sky is Everywhere	YA FIC NELSON
In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.
Nix, Garth	Shade's Children	YA FIC NIX
One day, in the not-too-distant future, everyone over the age of 14 simply disappears. The remaining children are rounded up to live in dormitories. Once they reach their "Sad Birthday" they are sent to the "Meat Factory," where they are dismantled and used to make up the horrible half-human, half-mechanical creatures that fight the violent, ritualistic battles of the seven warlords who have taken over Earth.
Obama, Barack	Dreams From My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance	YA 305.896073 OBAMA
A memoir by United States President Barack Obama, published in July 1995, as he was preparing to launch his political career.
O'Brien, Tim	The Things They Carried	YA FIC OBRIEN
In this short story collection, weapons and good-luck charms carried by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam represent survival, lost innocence, and the war's legacy.
Oliver, Lauren	Delirium	YA FIC OLIVER
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
Oliver, Lauren	Before I Fall	YA FIC OLIVER
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
Oliver, Lauren	Pandemonium	YA FIC OLIVER
After falling in love, Lena and Alex flee their oppressive society where love is outlawed and everyone must receive "the cure"--an operation that makes them immune to the delirium of love-- but Lena alone manages to find her way to a community of resistance fighters, and although she is bereft without the boy she loves, her struggles seem to be leading her toward a new love.
Orwell, George	Animal Farm	YA FIC ORWELL
The motto of the animal community that satirizes communism is, "all pigs are equal, but some pigs are more equal." The farm is taken over by its overworked and mistreated animals, who set out to create a paradise of progress, justice and equality.
Orwell, George	1984	YA FIC ORWELL
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "Negative Utopia" - a startingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world where Big Brother is watching you.
Otsuka, Julie	When the Emperor Was Divine	YA FIC OTSUKA
A novel in which the members of a Japanese-American family present their unique perspectives on the experience of being forced into an internment camp during World War II.
Paine, Thomas	Common Sense	YA 973.311 PAINE
Clearly and persuasively argues for American separation from Great Britain and paves the way for the Declaration of Independence.
Paolini, Christopher	Eragon: Inheritance (1)	YA FIC PAOLINI
In Alagaẽsia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Papademetriou, Lisa & Tebbetts, Chris	M or F?	YA FIC PAPADEME
Gay teen Marcus helps his friend Frannie chat up her crush online, but then becomes convinced that the crush is falling for him instead.
Paton, Alan	Cry, the Beloved Country	YA FIC PATON
A deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people driven by racial injustice. It is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance.
Patterson, James	Maximum Ride Series 1: The Angel Experiment	YA FIC PATTERSO
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose
Patterson, James	the Dangerous Days of Daniel X: Daniel X Series: Book 1	YA FIC PATTERSO
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.
Patterson, James	Witch and Wizard Series 1: Witch and Wizard	YA FIC PATTERSO
This is the astonishing testimonial of Wisty and Whit Allgood, a sister and brother who were torn from their family in the middle of the night, slammed into prison, and accused of being a witch and wizard. They are not alone in their terrifying predicament. Thousands of young people have been kidnapped. Some have been accused ; many others remain missing. Their fate is unknown, and the word is feared.
Pearce, Jackson	Sweetly: Fairy Tale Retellings (2)	YA FIC PEARCE
When the owner of a candy shop molds magical treats that instill confidence, bravery, and passion, eighteen-year-old Gretchen's haunted childhood memories of her twin sister's abduction by a witch-like monster begin to fade - until girls start vanishing at the annual chocolate festival.
Pearce, Jackson	Sisters Red: Fairy Tale Retelling (1)	YA FIC PEARCE
After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son.
Peet, Mal	Tamar : a Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal	YA FIC PEET
n England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
Peet, Mal	Keeper	YA FIC PEET
When acclaimed South American journalist Paul Faustino begins his interview with World Cup soccer star El Gato, he expects to be recording the thoughts of a goalkeeper at the height of his career. He never envisioned hearing about a young, lonely boy growing up in the middle of a rain forest, who wandered upon a mysterious soccer field and an apparition that appeared to him daily and trained him to become the greatest goalkeeper ever known.
Pena, Matt de la	Ball Don't Lie	YA FIC PENA
Sticky is a white foster kid who realizes that his talent at street basketball might help him escape from the misery of growing up poor in an inner city slum.
Peters, Julie Ann	By the Time you Read this, I'll be Dead	YA FIC PETERS
High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.
Peters, Julie Ann	Far From Xanadu	YA FIC PETERS
In a small Kansas town, sixteen-year-old Mary-Elizabeth "Mike" Szabo tries to come to terms with her father's suicide and her own homosexuality.
Peters, Julie Ann	Grl2grl : Short Fictions	YA PETERS
The complexities of love, romance, and dating for gay teenage girls are explored in this collection of short stories.
Peters, Julie Ann	Keeping You a Secret	YA FIC PETERS
As she begins a very tough last semester of high school, Holland finds herself puzzled about her future and intrigued by a transfer student who wants to start a Lesbigay club at school.
Peters, Julie Ann	Luna	YA FIC PETERS
Regan has always been there for her transgender brother, Liam, sacrificing her needs for his, but when he announces that he is ready to "transition" into Luna permanently, Regan is not sure she can handle the consequences.
Peters, Julie Anne	Luna: A Novel	YA FIC PETERS
With the help of his sister, Liam secretly transforms himself into a girl when evening falls, but although he wants to present his female persona to the world, he fears the reaction of the rest of his family.
Picoult, Jodi	Nineteen Minutes	YA FIC PICOULT
The people of Sterling, New Hampshire, are forever changed after a shooting at the high school leaves ten people dead. The judge presiding over the trial tries to remain unbiased, even though her daughter witnessed the events and was friends with the assailant.
Plath, Sylvia	The Bell Jar	YA FIC PLATH
This is a semi-autobiographical account of the poet, Sylvia Plath, and the nervous breakdown she suffered during her week in New York as an award-winning intern for a major women's magazine.
Polito, Frank Anthony	Drama Queers!	YA FIC POLITO
Meet Bradley Dayton -- a wickedly funny high school senior whose woefully uncool life always seems to be full of drama, even in the sorry little suburb of Hazel Park, Michigan. It's 1987, the era of big hair, designer jeans, and Dirty Dancing. George Michael has "Faith" and Michael Jackson still has anose. Brad, on the other hand, has a thing for acting, and while his friends are trying to get laid, Brad's trying to land the lead in Okla-homo!
Pollan, Michael	The Omnivore's Dilemma : a Natural History of Four Meals	394.12 POLLAN
Pollan, in his critical portrayal of the environmental and health flaws of the American diet, suggests ways to help us examine what it is we should be having for dinner.
Popescu, Petru	Weregirls: Birth of the Pack	YA FIC POPESCU
Sixteen-year-old Lily Willison becomes involved in a long-running struggle between magical forces of good and evil when the school soccer club she and her friends have organized is hijacked by a willful, overprivileged classmate
Price, Charlie	Desert Angel	YA FIC PRICE
In the California desert, fourteen-year-old Angel is on the run from the man who abused her, killed her mother, and intends to kill her too.
Quick, Mathew	Boy 21	YA FIC QUICK
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
Rachel, T. Cole, Costello, Rita D.	Bend don’t Shatter: Poets on the Beginning of Desire	YA 811.008 BEND
Up-Created with the intent of addressing "what it means to come of age as gay, lesbian, transgender, or-totally confused and freaked out," this rich collection brings together 59 poems replete with GLBT teenage angst, confusion, fear, titillation, and joy.
Rallison, Janette	All's Fair in Love, War, and High School	YA FIC RALLISON
When head cheerleader Samantha Taylor does poorly on the SAT exam, she determines that her only hope for college admission is to win the election for student body president, but her razor wit and acid tongue make her better suited to dishing out insults than winning votes.
Reed, Amy	Clean	YA FIC REED
A group of teens in a Seattle-area rehabilitation center form an unlikely friendship as they begin to focus less on their own problems with drugs and alcohol by reaching out to help a new member, who seems to have even deeper issues to resolve.
Reiss, Johanna	The Upstairs Room	YA FIC REISS
In this Newbery Honor book, Reiss writes a stirring, fictionalized account of her own experiences as a Jewish girl during World War II.
Remarque, Erich Maria	All Quiet on the Western Front	FIC REMARQUE
This classic novel depicts the experiences of a group of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of World War I.
Roach, Mary	Stiff : the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers	YA 611 ROACH
This book is a journey into the afterlife of human cadavers. The author gives a humorous, yet touching, respectful and poignant look at how scientists utilize every precious element of the human body.
Rodriguez, Luis J.	Always Running : La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.	364.1092 RODRIGUEZ
The author tells the story of his painful childhood, growing up in poverty in Los Angeles, his encounters with racism in school and on the streets, his attraction to gang life, and his success at finding an alternative to that violent existence.
Rooney, Frances [edited by]	Hear Me Out: True Stories of Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia: A Project of Planned Parenhood of Toronto.	YA 306.766 HEAR
Twenty-two young people involved in a Toronto organization talk about the experiences that led them to T.E.A.C.H. (Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia), as well as their ups and downs as program volunteers and counselors-and beyond.
Rothenberg, Jess	The Catastrophic History of You and Me	YA FIC ROTHENBE
Shortly before her 16th birthday, Brie Eagan dies of a broken heart (literally) when her boyfriend, Jacob, tells her that he doesn't love her. What happens after her death, as narrated by Brie, carries readers to a complex afterlife full of surprises and challenges.
Rudetsky, Seth	My Awful Popularity Plan	YA FIC RUDETSKY
Chubby, Jewish, and gay high school sophomore Justin Goldblatt plans to become popular by the end of the year, but instead of dating the star quarterback he catches the eye of Becky, the quarterback's girlfriend, while his best friend, Spencer, stops speaking to him.
Ryan, Sara	Empress of the World	YA FIC RYAN
While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing.
S., Tina and Bolnick, Jamie Pastor	Living at the Edge of the World : a Teenager's Survival in the Tunnels of Grand Central Station	YA 362.74 PASTOR
Between the ages of 16 and 20, Tina S. lived in the endless labyrinth of tunnels beneath Grand Central Station, where she panhandled, robbed and sometimes prostituted herself for money for food, liquor and drugs.
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire	Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe	YA FIC SAENZ
In the summer of 1987 in El Paso, TX, two 15-year-old loners meet when Dante offers to teach Ari to swim, and they have a laugh over their unusual names. Though polar opposites in most aspects other than age and Mexican heritage, the teens form an instant bond and become inseparable.
Sanchez, Alex	The God Box	YA FIC SANCHEZ
High school senior Paul has dated Angie since middle school. But when a new boy, Manuel, transfers to their school, Paul has to rethink his life. Manuel is the first openly gay teen anyone in their small town has ever met, and yet he says he's also a committed Christian.
Savin-Williams, Ritch C.	The New Gay Teenager	YA 305.235 SAVINWIL
Gay, straight, bisexual: how much does sexual orientation matter to a teenager's mental health or sense of identity? In this down-to-earth book, filled with the voices of young people speaking for themselves, Ritch Savin-Williams argues that the standard image of gay youth presented by mental health researchers--as depressed, isolated, drug-dependent, even suicidal--may have been exaggerated even twenty years ago, and is far from accurate today.
Schreiber, Ellen	Once in a Full Moon	YA FIC SCHREIBE
Seventeen-year-old Celeste Parker finds herself falling for Brandon, a boy from the wrong side of their small, midwestern town, even though she suspects that he is a werewolf.
Schroder, Monika	My Brother's Shadow	YA FIC SCHRODER
In 1918 Berlin, Germany, sixteen-year-old Moritz struggles to do what is right on his newspaper job, in his relationship with his mother and sister who are outspoken socialists, and with his brother, who returns from the war physically and emotionally scarred.
Schroeder, Lisa	The Day Before	YA FIC SCHROEDE
Sixteen-year-old Amber, hoping to spend one perfect day alone at the beach before her world is turned upside down, meets and feels a strong connection to Cade, who is looking for his own escape, for a very different reason.
Schwab, Victoria	The Near Witch	YA FIC SCHWAB
Sixteen-year-old Lexi, who lives on an enchanted moor at the edge of the village of Near, must solve the mystery when, the day after a mysterious boy appears in town, children start disappearing.
Scott, Elizabeth	Living Dead Girl	YA FIC SCOTT
Kidnapped and raped when she was ten years old, Alice, now fifteen and still held captive, is forced to lure a child to be her successor.
Scott, Elizabeth	As I Wake	YA FIC SCOTT
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Scott, Elizabeth	Between Here and Forever	YA FIC SCOTT
When her older, "perfect" sister Tess has a car accident that puts her in a coma, seventeen-year-old Abby plans to bring her back with the help of Eli, a gorgeous boy she has met at the hospital, but her plans go awry when she learns some secrets about both Tess and Eli, enabling her to make some decisions about her own life.
Sewell, Earl	Keysha's Drama	YA PAP KIMANI
African-American sixteen-year-old Keysha Kendall takes up with a bad crowd as she struggles to adjust to life in her affluent father's home after her mother is arrested.
Sharon, Flake	Money Hungry	Internet
Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is starved for money. She will do just about anything legal to get her hands on the almighty dollar--wash cars, sell rotten candy, skip lunch, clean houses. She is obsessed. She is driven. She is afraid. Memories of being homeless, sleeping in the streets, and eating handouts keep Raspberry's eye on the only prize that matters to her: cold, hard cash.
Shea, John	A Kid From Southie	YA FIC SHEA
Desperate to help his unemployed mother, seventeen-year-old Aiden O'Connor reluctantly begins working for the Irish mob in tough South Boston, despite his coach's efforts to convince him he could be a professional boxer.
Shiraz, Yasmin	Retaliation	YA FIC SHIRAZ
When seventeen-year-old Tashera Odom is brutally attacked by group of high school girls, the Odom family and the entire Washington, D.C. community responds to the senseless act of violence.
Sijie, Dai	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress	YA FIC DAI
When two young friends are taken from their homes and exiled to the countryside during China's repressive Cultural Revolution, they fall in love with the beautiful daughter of the local tailor.
Simone, Ni Ni	Shortie Like Mine	YA FIC SIMONE
Sixteen-year-old Seven McKnight is immersed in drama when her friend Deeyah decides to play her boyfriend Josiah against his worst enemy, setting in motion a disastrous chain of events that threatens to tear their clique apart.
Simone, Ni-Ni	Upgrade U	YA FIC SIMONE
"Life is poppin' and seventeen-year-old Seven McKnight is rockin' Stiles University's hottest baller, Josiah Whitaker, on her arm when it all falls apart. With groupies threatening her basketball wife status and Josiah's dreams of the NBA blowing up his ego, Seven finds herself in a tailspin...should she stay or leave?
Sinclair, Upton	The Jungle	YA FIC SINCLAIR
As one of the greatest social novels ever written, it serves as a moving tribute to the millions of immigrants who were ready to work for their slice of the American Dream, and who managed to survive despute being swindled, stolen from, lied to, oppressed, turned out, ignored, and abused from the very first step they took into the United States. This novel also brought awareness to the grisly underworld of the meat-packing industry that ultimately lead to major reform.
Sitomer, Alan Lawrence	The Hoopster	YA FIC SITOMER
On the neighborhood basketball court, Andre Anderson jockeys for position among his multicultural group of buddies, but, off the court, the African-American teen's writing talent puts him in the spotlight. Given the opportunity to write a feature article on racism for the national magazine where he works as an intern, he addresses his feelings honestly. As a result, he is brutally attacked by a group of racists, hoping to silence his pen by symbolically crushing his hand.
Sittenfeld, Curtis	Prep	YA FIC SITTENFE
Self-conscious outsider Lee Fiora leaves South Bend, Indiana, for Boston's posh Ault boarding school where she must navigate the choppy waters of adolescence. Lee sees herself as "one of the mild, boring, peripheral girls" among her privileged peers and soon develops a social-climbing obsession with a need to be liked and accepted by her classmates.
Skovron, Jon	Misfit	YA FIC SKOVRON
Seattle sixteen-year-old Jael must negotiate normal life in Catholic school while learning to control the abilities she inherited from her mother, a demon, and protect those she loves from Belial, the Duke of Hell.
Sloan, Brian	A Really Nice Prom Mess	YA FIC SLOAN
Gay high school senior Cameron Hayes endures a disastrous prom night when forced to take a girl as his date, and after fleeing the dance in disguise, he finds himself involved in a surprising on-stage performance, a high-speed police chase, and unexpected revelations.
Smith, L. J.	The Vampire Diaries 1-2: The Awakening and The Struggle	YA FIC SMITH
Presents the first two volumes in the Vampire Diaries series, in which popular and beautiful high school senior Elena finds herself torn between two vampire brothers, the dark and brooding Stefan who wants to protect her from the horrors of his past and the dangerously attractive Damon, who is determined to use her to get revenge on his brother.
Smith, L. J.	The Vampire Diaries 3-4: The Fury and Dark Reunion	YA FIC SMITH
Collects the final two volumes of "The Vampire Diaries," in which Elena sacrifices an immortal love to end the constant strife between two vampire brothers who love her, and then raises them from the dead to save her town from an unknown evil.
Smith, L. J.	Vampire Diaires: The Hunters: Moonsong 9	YA FIC SMITH
Rayna and Skylar are sisters born of different nations and united by the sweeping force of love. Theirs is a story of passionate desires, powerful dreams, and the demands of destiny. Rayna and Meade are passionately in love, but can he forfeit his dreams of a peaceful homestead and follow her sensuous beauty into the wilderness?
Smith, L. J.	Vampire Diaries: The Hunters: Phantom 8	YA FIC SMITH
Elena Gilbert and her friends saved Fell's Church from evil spirits bent on destroying it, but the town's freedom came at a price: Damo Damon Salvatore's life. Damon' death changes everything. He and his vampire brother, Stefan, had been locked in a vicious battle for Elena's heart.
Smith, L. J.	Vampire Diaries: The Return: Midnight 7	YA FIC SMITH
Eighteen-year-old Elena Gilbert's latest battle against the demons that have taken over her hometown of Fell's Church is complicated by the fact that Damon is a mortal since he, his brother Stefan, and Elena returned from the Dark Dimension.
Smith, L. J.	Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall 5	YA FIC SMITH
After returning from the afterlife, Elena is forced to battle an ancient evil when Stefan, her vampire boyfriend, goes missing.
Smith, L. J.	Vampire Diaries: The Return: Shadow Souls 6	YA FIC SMITH
Eighteen-year-old Elena Gilbert journeys to the Dark Dimension with Damon and Matt in hopes of rescuing her vampire boyfriend, Stefan Salvatore, from imprisonment, and once again they face the sinister Shinichis.
Spillebeen, Geert	Kipling's Choice	YA FIC SPILLEBE
This fictionalized biography begins as Lt. John Kipling, age 18, lies dying in France during his first, and ultimately last, World War I battle.
Spotswood, Jessica	Born Wicked	YA FIC SPOTSWOO
Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse : they're witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship - or an early grave.
Springer, Kristina	Just Your Average Princess	YA FIC SPRINGER
Working in her family's pumpkin patch every year, seventeen-year-old Jamie has dreamed of two things--dating co-worker Danny and being crowned Pumpkin Princess--but her beautiful and famous cousin Milan's visit may squash all of her hopes.
Steinbeck, John	The Grapes of Wrath	YA FIC STEINBEC
A family must leave its farm in Oklahoma after the 10-year Dust Bowl drought to become part of the thousands of migrant farmers struggling to feed their families in Depression-Era California.
Stiefvater, Maggie	Shiver	YA FIC STIEFVAT
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who also has been watching her with increasing intensity.
Stockett, Kathryn	The Help	FIC STOCKETT
Set during the civil rights movement, Eugenia Skeeter Phelan is home from college in Mississippi. Anxious to become a writer, she is advised to begin by writing about what disturbs her. The budding social activist begins to collect the stories of the black maids who are terribly mistreated.
Thomas, Piri	Down These Mean Streets	YA 974.71 THOMAS
The author recalls his early experiences with poverty and discrimination, his involvement with drugs and gangs, and his prison sentence for armed robbery which led to his rehabilitation and work with street gangs and drug addicts
Thoreau, Henry David	Walden	818.303 THOREAU
This American classic reflects Thoreau's personal declaration of independence and his voyage of spiritual discovery, which reads as a manual for self-reliance that parallels America's 19th-century developing identity.
Trigiani, Adriana	Viola in Reel Life	YA FIC TRIGIANI
While they are filming a documentary in Afghanistan, Viola's parents send their daughter to Prefect Academy for Young Women. Away from her home and friends in Brooklyn, Viola has resolved to be miserable. Her only comfort is her personal video diary, "The Viola Reels." Viola enters a film competition, and through the help and support of her friends and family, "The Viola Reels" could just be the short film of her dreams.
Trope, Zoe	Please don't Kill the Freshman	YA 305.235 TROPE
A memoir of the then-fifteen-year-old author's high school experience to that point, in which diary entries reflect her struggles, angst, and rebellion.
Trueman, Terry	Seven Days at the Hot Corner	YA FIC TRUEMAN
Scott's world is thrown into disarray when his best friend, Travis, reveals that he's gay during the citywide baseball tournament. Now, in addition to worrying about playing well in the seven-day tournament, Scott anxiously awaits the results of an HIV test that he gets in secret: he fears he may have contracted AIDS after a batting cage incident, in which he wound up with Travis's blood on his hands. When Travis's parents kick their son out of the house, thinking he may influence his younger brother, Travis moves in with Scott's family, causing additional tension between the two best friends.
Turner, Ann	Hard Hit	YA FIC TURNER
Tenth-grader Mark Warren is a golden boy: good friends, a gorgeous girlfriend, and an awesome pitching arm, an arm that his dad has cultivated since Mark was small. Yet all turns gray and meaningless when Mark learns that his father has pancreatic cancer.
Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	YA FIC TWAIN
Huck, a young boy running from a murderous father, and his friend Jim, fleeing slavery, find a raft that they pilot down the Mississippi in this classic tale of friendship and adventure.
Valentine, Jenny	Double	YA FIC VALENTIN
When sixteen-year-old Chap is mistaken for a missing boy, he leaves the home where he has been living temporarily and takes on this new identity, not knowing that it is as dangerous and uncertain as the life he has left behind.
Valentine, Jenny	Broken Soup	YA FIC VALENTIN
A photographic negative and two surprising new friends become the catalyst for healing as fifteen-year-old Rowan struggles to keep her family and her life together after her brother's death.
Van de Mieroop, Marc	The Ancient Mesopotamian City	YA 935.009732 VANDEMIE
Urban history starts in ancient Mesopotamia. In this volume Marc Van de Mieroop examines the evolution of the very earliest cities which, for millennia, inspired the rest of the ancient world.
Vandiepen, Allison	Snitch	YA FIC VANDIEPE
Julia DiVino tries hard not to get mixed-up with the gangs at South Bay High School, but when Eric Valienté enters into her life, everything changes.
Various	The Bluford Series	YA PAP BLUFORD
A paperback series of Urban Fiction novels for teen readers
Various	Kimani Tru Series	YA PAP KIMANI
A series of Urban Fiction for young adult readers.
Vernick, Shirley Reva	The Blood Lie	YA FIC VERNICK
It's 1928, on the eve of Yom Kippur, and 16-year-old Jack Pool is unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight when a young girl vanishes. Unscrupulous smugglers in need of a distraction blame Jack and the rest of the Jewish community in their small upstate New York town, prompting illegal searches and persecution.
Volponi, Paul	Rucker Park Setup	YA FIC VOLPONI
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his silence or tell J.R.'s father and the police what really happened.
Volponi, Paul	Black and White	YA FIC VOLPONI
Long Island City High School basketball stars Marcus Brown and Eddie Russo, aka "Black and White," turn to robbery to get easy money for shoes and senior fees.
Volponi, Paul	Crossing Lines	YA FIC VOLPONI
High school senior Adonis struggles to do the right thing when his fellow football players escalate their bullying of a new classmate, Alan, who is transgendered.
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de	Candide	FIC VOLTAIRE
Satirizes social injustices in 18th century France through the disastrous adventures in Candide, as the hero attempts to reunite with his lost love. (Recommended by colleges for high school reading.)
Vrettos, Adrienne Maria	Burnout	YA FIC VRETTOS
Months after coming out of alcohol and drug rehab, high school student Nan wakes up on the subway the day after Halloween wearing a torn Halloween costume, her long hair cut, and "HELP ME" scrawled across her chest, feeling sick and having no idea how she got there.
Walker, Alice	The Color Purple	YA FIC WALKER
Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, this story focuses on a circle of black women in the 1930s as they battle racism, abuse, marital dysfunction, and poverty.
Walker, Brian F.	Black Boy White School	YA FIC WALKER
When fourteen-year-old Anthony "Ant" Jones from the ghetto of East Cleveland, Ohio, gets a scholarship to a prep school in Maine, he finds that he must change his image and adapt to a world that never fully accepts him, but when he goes home he discovers that he no longer truly belongs there either.
Weintraub, Stanley	Silent Night : The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce	YA 940.4144 WEINTRAU
Tells the true story of the truce that spontaneously arose between German and British soldiers manning the trenches on Christmas Eve in 1914, just weeks after the start of the Great War.
Wells, Dan	Partials	YA FIC WELLS
Humans engineered Partials for defense, but these creatures turned against their creators, setting off a virus that killed most of the world's population. Eleven years later, sixteen year-old Kira, a nurse-medic in training, and her friends capture a Partial, which Kira wants to study for a cure. Wells presents a frighteningly familiar world and realistic characters but saps the tension with lengthy scientific passages.
Weyr, Garret Freymann	My Heartbeat	YA FIC WEYR
As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.
Wharton, Edith	The Age of Innocence	YA FIC WHARTON
This novel is about rigid requirements of New York high society in the late 19th century and the effect of those structures on the lives of three people.
Whitman, Walt	Leaves of Grass	811 WHITMAN
This 19th century poetry collection, written by Walt Whitman, the father of modern American poetry, is notable for its delight in and praise of the senses during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral.
Wiess, Laura	Leftovers	YA FIC WIESS
Two teenagers, Blair and Ardith, lose their innocence in more ways than one as they are transformed from happy ninth-graders to high school sophomores determined to secure justice for their families and friends, whatever the cost.
Wiess, Laura	Such a Pretty Girl	YA FIC WIESS
Haunted by flashbacks, fifteen-year-old Meredith learns that three years in prison has not changed the abusive father who molested her.
Williams, Carol Lynch	The Chosen One	YA FIC WILLIAMS
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
Williams, Stanley "Tookie"	Life in Prison	YA 365.60973 WILLIAMS
The author, imprisoned on Death Row since 1981, describes life in prison, warning young readers not to make the mistakes he made.
Williams-Garcia, Rita	Jumped	YA FIC WILLIAMS
The lives of Leticia, Dominique, and Trina are irrevocably intertwined through the course of one day in an urban high school after Leticia overhears Dominique's plans to beat up Trina and must decide whether or not to get involved.
Wilson, Martin	What They Always Tell Us	YA FIC WILSON
Written in alternating chapters using the voices of two very different brothers. Sixteen-year-old Alex feels so disconnected from his friends that he starts his junior year at a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high school by attempting suicide, but soon, a friend of his older brother draws him into cross-country running and a new understanding of himself.
Windmeyer, Shane	The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students	YA 306.76 WINDMEYE
A college guide for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students includes profiles of the top LGBT-friendly institutions in the United States, tools for choosing a college, and advice for students and college officials.
Wittlinger, Ellen	Love & Lies : Marisol's Story	YA FIC WITTLING
When Marisol, a self-confident eighteen-year-old lesbian, moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work and try to write a novel, she falls under the spell of her beautiful but deceitful writing teacher, while also befriending a shy, vulnerable girl from Indiana. (sequel to "Hard Love")
Wittlinger, Ellen	Parrotfish	YA FIC WITTLING
Grady, a transgendered high school student, yearns for acceptance by his classmates and family as he struggles to adjust to his new identity as a male.
Wolff, Tobias	Old School	FIC WOLFF
A young man at a prestigious New England preparatory school, who has spent his entire school career hiding his real self in order to fit in, finds his facade and his world falling apart during his senior year.
Wolff, Tobias	This Boy's Life	BIO WOLFF
Wolff's account of his boyhood and the process of growing up include paper routes, scouting, fistfights, friendship, betrayal, and America in the fifties.
Woods, Teri	Dutch	YA FIC WOODS
When the novel opens, a zealous district attorney is trying to convict Bernard James, aka "Dutch," for a series of brutal murders. Flashbacks reveal Dutch's ruthless rise through the ranks of New Jersey organized crime, but his sense of nobility blurs lines between good and evil.
Woods, Teri	Dutch II	YA FIC WOODS
After Dutch's crime lieutenants, Angel and One-Eyed Roc, are released from prison on a technicality, each takes a different path--Angel sets out to take back the streets, while converted Muslim One-Eyed Roc aims to right the wrongs he committed, threatening the destruction of the empire that Dutch has built. By the author of True to the Game.
Woolston, Blythe	Catch & Release	YA FIC WOOLSTON
Eighteen-year-old Polly and impulsive, seventeen-year-old Odd survive an deadly outbreak of flesh-eating bacteria, but resulting wounds have destroyed their plans for the future and with little but their unlikely friendship and a shared affection for trout fishing, they set out on a road trip through the West.
Wright, Bil	Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy	YA FIC WRIGHT
Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
Wulffson, Don	Soldier X	YA FIC WULFFSON
In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences the horrors of war when he is drafted into the German army and sent to fight on the Russian front.
X, Malcolm	The Autobiography of Malcom X	YA BIO X
Malcolm X, the charismatic Black Muslim leader and anti-integrationist, recounts his transformation - from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist - to veteran writer and journalist Alex Haley.
Yates, Bart	Leave Myself Behind	YA FIC YATES
Noah is 17 when his father dies and his mother moves them from Chicago to a rural New England town, where while renovating their house, they discover within the crumbling walls little time capsules, clues to the disappearance of the woman who lived there before. Meanwhile, Noah finds himself drawn to the teenage boy down the street.
Yee, Paul	Money Boy	YA FIC YEE
Young immigrant Ray Liu is struggling to adjust to North American life. When his father discovers Ray has been cruising gay websites, the teen is kicked out of the family home. He heads to downtown Toronto, where the harsh reality of street life hits him.
Young, Janet Ruth	The Babysitter Murders	YA FIC YOUNG
Dani Solomon, 17, has a rare form of obsessive-compulsive disorder and is plagued by disturbing thoughts that play over and over in her mind. She thinks about outing her gay best friend, groping her music teacher, insulting her mother, and, worst of all, hurting the little boy she babysits for. When she confesses her thoughts to the child's mother so she will understand why she cannot babysit anymore, Dani becomes the subject of vicious gossip and rumors and eventually the target of a vigilante group.
Zarr, Sara	Story of a Girl	YA FIC ZARR
In the three years since her father caught her in the back seat of a car with an older boy, sixteen-year-old Deanna's life at home and school has been a nightmare, but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his family, she discovers the power of forgiveness.
Zevin, Gabrielle	Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac	YA FIC ZEVIN
After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.
Ziegler, Jennifer	Sass and Serendipity	YA FIC ZIEGLER
Unlike her romantic sister, Gabby is down-to-earth and does not put her trust in relationships. But when the richest boy in school befriends her, she discovers that emotional barriers might actually be getting in the way of her happiness.
Zusak, Markus	The Book Thief	YA FIC ZUSAK
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel, a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Zusak, Markus	I am the Messenger	YA FIC ZUSAK
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.