THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLUE AVENGER NORMA HOWE
Trying to cope with the unexpected death of his father, David decides –or does he—to change his name to Blue Avenger, hoping to make a difference in his neighborhood and the world.
KIRKUS-POINTER REVIEW
BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KRUEGER
Former Sherrif O’Conner is hired to find Shilo, a singer running from her enemies.
THE BOYFRIEND CLINIC MELANIE MANNARIO
Advice to teenage girls about how to get a boyfriend, and what to do once you’ve got one.
CHECKER JOHN MARSDEN
Speaking from a mental hospital, a teenage girl recounts the tremendous media pressure that preceded the breaking scandal of her father’s unethical business dealings.
THE CURE SONIA LEVITIN
A boy living with the past when he finds himself in Strasburg in 1348, confronting the anti-Semitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague.
DON’T DRINK THE WATER SUSAN COOPER
While on vacation in the Caribbean, Pugh is called upon to solve some untimely "accidents".
FADED COAT OF BLUE OWEN PARRY
Able Jones has been chosen to act as a confidential agent to a Union army general, where his first assignment is to investigate the death of a young captain.
THE HAUNTING JOAN NIXON LOWERY
When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the house in the Louisiana countryside, Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it. FOUR–TIME EDGAR AWARD WINNING AUTHOR
IN A DRY SEASON PETER ROBINSON
When a small village is revealed by the receding waters of Thornfield Resevoir, the bones of a young woman are uncovered, and Alan Banks is required to find her murderer. NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK.
IN MY ENEMY’S HOUSE CAROL MATAS
When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in order to survive.
MIDNIGHT HOUR ENCOUNTERS BRUCE BROOKS
A sixteen-year-old cellist and musical prodigy travels cross country with her father to meet her mother who abandoned her as a baby.
THE MOONSTONE JEAN THESMAN
While helping her mother clean out the family home, Jane must deal with her hateful aunt and difficult cousin, a romance that cannot last, and secrets from her mother’s past.
ROANOKE: A NOVEL OF THE LOST COLONY SONIA LEVITIN
An English youth and an Indian girl are caught up in the events leading to the mysterious disappearance of the colony at Roanoke Island.
THE RULES FOR TEEN: HOW TO KEEP YOUR CRUSH CRUSHING ON YOU AND OTHER TIPS ON DATING,BOYS AND RELATIONSHIPS. MEG SCHNEIDER
Provides sound advice on romance in over 25 simple tips.
SOLDIER’S HEART: A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR GARY PAULSEN
Eager to enlist, Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both physical and mental horrors of Civil War combat. ALA BEST BOOK, PUBLISHERS’ WEEKLY BEST BOOK
TEN LITTLE BLOODHOUNDS VIRGINIA LANIER
While awaiting the imminent birth of ten new bloodhound puppies, dog trainer Jo Beth Sidden agrees to help find a rich lady’s lost cat. SELECTION OF THE MYSTERY GUILD
TIME ENOUGH FOR DRUMS ANN RINALDI
Jem and her servant struggle to keep things going at home when the family men join the war. ALA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS
TRUTH OR DAIRY CATHERINE CLARK
Courtney, a high school senior, is dumped by her boyfriend Dave after he goes away to college.
WOLF RIDER: A TALE OF TERROR AVI
After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming he has committed murder, Andy finds his relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.
ZEBRA AND OTHER STORIES CHAIM POTOK
A collection of stories about six different young people who each experience a life changing event. KIRKUS- POINTER REVIEW, BOOKLIST- STARRED
3 NBS OF JULIAN DREW DEEM, JAMES M
The journals of a troubled boy who lives with his father and emotionally and physically abusive stepmother and her children after the death of his own mother years ago.
ANGEL OF HOPE MCDANIEL, LURLENE
After her older sister Heather, enthusiastic about changing the world, returns from doing medical missionary work in Uganda, seventeen-year-old Amber feels ignored and confused about her own future and decides to go back to Africa in Heather’s place.
Brothers Thompson, Julian F.
When his idolized older brother leaves college for a mental health facility and then disappears, seventeen-year-old Chris follows him to the compound of an anti-government militia group and tries to rescue him.
FOR THE LOVE OF VENICE NAPOLI, DONNA JO
Spending the summer in Venice with his family turns confusing for Percy when he meets a beautiful, politically radical Venetian girl who wants him to help sabotage his father’s engineering project in order to drive tourists out of the city. BOOKLIST –BOXED REVIEW
HALINKA PRESSLER, MIRJAM
While living in a home for emotionally disturbed girls in Germany just after World War II, Halinka carefully hides her thoughts, feelings, and even her hopes.
HEAVEN JOHNSON, ANGELA
Fourteen-year-old Marley’s seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents. CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD WINNER, KIRKUS-POINTERED REVIEW
HOW I SPENT MY LAST NIGHT ON EARTH STRASSER, TODD
When a rumor appears on the Internet that a giant asteroid is about to destroy Earth, Legs Hanover scrambles to meet the boy of her dreams, elusive Andros Bliss.
MIDGET BOWLER, TIM
Physically abnormal, and psychologically disturbed from the constant torment and abuse of his older brother, Midget finds himself in control of his life when he gets his own sailboat and discovers untapped mental powers. CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNING AUTHOR
MUMMY COONEY, CAROLIE B.
Emlyn, a model student, wonders what it would be like to commit a crime and get away with it.
MY LIFE AS A GIRL MOSIER, ELIZABETH
During her last summer in Phoenix, Arizona, before going to an eastern college, eighteen-year-old Jaime works two waitress jobs and plans her escape from a life forever changed by her father’s prison sentence.
SKY RIDER SPRINGER, NANCY
Dealing with her mother’s death, a back injury that prevents her from riding, and the imminent destruction of her sick horse, fourteen-year-old Dusty receives physical and spiritual healing from the ghost of a recently killed boy.
STEPHEN FAIR WYNNE-JONES, TIM
At the age of fifteen Stephen begins having nightmares like the ones that drove his older brother away from home, and eventually the dreams lead to a discovery that is shocking but that ultimately allows his family to come back together.
TREACHEROUS LIVE: THE DIARY OF AN ANONYMOUS TEENAGER SPARKS, BEATRICE
Fourteen-year-old Jennie’s life’s loneliness is temporarily assuaged by her growing relationship with one of her teachers which turns out badly.
WHITECHURCH LYNCH, CHRIS
Describes the stresses and strains in the triangular relationship of tow aimless teenage boys and a girl living in a small town. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY-STARRED, KIRKUS REVIEWS-POINTER
AMERICAN THUNDER: THE GARTH BROOKS STORY SGAMMATO, JO
The behind-the-scenes story of the one-man musical phenomenon who took country music by storm.
BORDER PREY SPEART, JESSICA
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agent Rachel Porter tracks down primate smugglers and finds herself the hunted, rather than the hunter.
DELTA FORCE: THE ARMY’S ELITE CONTERTERRORIST UNIT BECKWITH, CHARLIE A.
Discussed the Army’s role in the Iran Hostage Crisis, among other events that has shaped the Delta Force in the most elite.
GUINNES WORLD RECORDS 2000: MILLENNIUM EDITION
The unmatched authoritative collection of world-class facts, figures, and feats from around the globe.
IN HIS EYES: THE JULIO IGLESIAS JR. STORY FURMAN, LEAH
A well written biography of this popular singer.
THE PATRIOT: A NOVEL MOLSTAD, STEPHEN
Based on the screenplay written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.
A DANCE FOR THREE PLUMMER, LOUISE
When fifteen-year-old Hannah becomes pregnant and her rich, popular boyfriend claims he is not responsible, she is forced to face some hard facts about her life.
MAYA ANGELOU: THE POETRY OF LIVING COURTNEY-CLARKE, M.
THE PAIN TREE, AND OTHER TEENAGE ANGST-RIDDEN POETRY WATSON, ESTHER, ED.
SAVION!: MY LIFE IN TAP GLOVER, SAVION
Examines the life and career of the young tap dancer who speaks with his feet and who choreographed the Tony Award-winning Broadway show "Bring in da noise, Bring in da Funk."
WHEN KAMBIA ELAINE FLEW IN FROM NEPTUNE WILLIAMS, LORI
A story that shows how complicated life can get when children are forced to grow up too quickly.
MEELY LA BAUVE WELLS, KENNETH
A rich, poignant and often hilarious look at life on the Catahoula Bayou through the eyes of a fifteen-year-old boy as he deals with his relationship with his father.
NIGHT HOOPS DEUKER, CARL
While trying to prove that he is good enough to be on his high school’s varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents’ divorce and erratic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.
PEREGRINE GOODMAN, JOAN E.
In 1144, fifteen-year-old Lady Edith, having lost her husband and child and anxious to avoid marrying a man she detests, sets out from her home in Surrey to go on a pilgrimage of Jerusalem.
PERFECT FAMILY OUGHTON, JERRIE
When Welcome, a fifteen-year-old girl living in a small town in North Carolina during the 1950’s, finds out that she is pregnant, she faces some important decisions.
SPLIT IMAGE: A PORTRAIT IN POEMS GLENN, MEL
A series of poems reflect the thoughts and feelings of various people—students, the librarian, parents, the principal, and others—about the seemingly perfect Laura Li and her life inside and out of Tower High School.
CLOSE TO A KILLER QUALEY, MARSHA
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother’s hair salon.
CRASHING THE NET TURCO, MARY
The U.S. Woman’s Hockey team and the road to gold.
HATE YOU MCNAMEE, GRAHAM
Nursing hatred for the father who choked her and damaged her voice as a child, seventeen-year-old Alice writes songs she feels she cannot sing and seeks to reconcile her feeelings for herself and her father.
HEARTPRINTS ALDRICH, SANDRA P.
Celebrates the power of a simple touch in stories about ordinary women who’ve had an extraordinary impact of others.
PLAYING FOR KEEPS: MICHAEL JORDAN AND THE WORLD HE MADE HALBERSTAM, DAVID.
LOCKED INSIDE WERLIN, NANCY
After she is kidnapped from the exclusive boarding school she attends, heiress Marnie Skyedottir must rethink her idealized relationship with her mother, her own sense of who she is, and her relationships with others.
PLAYING BOTTICELLI NELSON, LIZA
A free wheeling single mother, her runaway daughter, and a wanted man play hide-and-seek with their identities in this coming of age story.
THE LIKES OF ME PLATT, RANDALL BETH
In 1918, having run away from the Washington State lumber camp she calls home, a fourteen-year-old half-Chinese albino named Cordy makes her way to Seattle and finds work in a carnival.
WHAT’S IN A NAME WITTLINGER, ELLEN
Each of ten teenagers living in Scrub Harbor, Massachusetts, explores his or her identity at the same time that the local residents consider changing the name of their town.
145TH STREET STORIES MYERS, WALTER DEAN
Ten stories portray life on a block in Harlem.
BELIEVING IS SEEING JONES, DIANA WYNNE
The sage of Theare—The master—Enna Hittims—The girl who loved the sun—Dragon reserve, home eight—What the cat told me—nad and Dan and Quaffy
BEYOND PARADISE HERTENSTEIN, JANE
Within months of arriving in the exotic Philippines from Upper Sandusky, Ohio to live with her missionary parents on the island of Panay, fourteen-year-old Louise finds herself a prisoner of war in an internment camp when the Japanese invade her new country in 1941.
CRAZY JACK NAPOLI, DONNA JO
In this version of the traditional tale of the young boy who climbs a beanstalk, Jack searches for his father, falls in love with Flora, and learns the value of real treasure.
ELSKE VOIGT, CYNTHIA
Thirteen-year-old Elske escapes rape and certain death at the hands of the leaders of her barbaric society and later becomes handmaiden to a rebellious noblewoman whose rightful throne together they reclaim.
ROMIETTE & JULIO DRAPER, SHARON M.
Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.
DARE TRUTH OR PROMISE BROCK, PAULA
Louie Angelo, a Woodhaugh High prefect who plans to be a lawyer, falls in love with a girl who lives in a pub and just wants to get through her exams so she can become a chef.
FRENCHTOWN SUMMER CORMIER, ROBERT
A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938.
STOP PRETENDING, WHAT HAPPENED WHEN MY BIG SISTER WENT CRAZY SONES,
SONYA
A younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown.
VIOLET & CLAIRE BLOCK, FRANCESCA LIA
In search of material for a screenplay they are developing, seventeen-year-old Violet and her new friend Claire try to make life a movie as they chase their dreams through dangerously beautiful Los Angeles.
WITCHES AND WITCH-HUNTS, A HISTORY OF PERSECUTION MELTZER, MILTON
Traces the origins and progression of hysteria, fear, and persecution associated with witches and witchcraft in western societies.
BURGER WUSS ANDERSON, MATTHEW T.
Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O’Dermott’s.
CHINESE CINDERELLA MAH, ADELINE YEN
CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN SHELDON, DYAN
In her first year at a suburban New Jersy high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself "Lola," sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school.
DANCER HEWETT, LORRI
Sixteen-year-old Stephanie struggles to perfect her ballet dancing as her classes are complicated by the introduction of a new male dancer.
HARD LOVE WITTLINGER, ELLEN
After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents’ divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.
I’M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF BRYSON, BILL
Recounts Bryson’s sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. Chronicles the quirkiest aspects of life in America.
INTO THE CANDLELIT ROOM MCKEAN, TOM
In a series of letters and diary entries, five young people describe their experiences with evil and the supernatural, including encounters with a demon, a ghost, and a fortuneteller.
NOBODY ELSE HAS TO KNOW TOMEY, INGRID
Fifteen-year-old Webber must either live with guilt or tell the truth about who was driving his grandfather’s car when it struck and seriously injured a little girl.
PLACES I NEVER MEANT TO BE BLUME, JUDY, ed.
With an introduction by Judy Blume. Short stories written by writers who have had some of their previously published work censored.
ZACK BELL, WILLIAM
The son of a Jewish father and black mother, high school senior Zack has never been allowed to meet his mother’s family, but after doing a research project on a former slave, he travels from his home in Canada to Natchez, Mississippi to find his grandfather.
1863: THE REBIRTH OF A NATION STEVENS, JOSEPH E.
A year unparalleled in our national experience: twelve months of searing brutality and ennobling sacrifice as the tide of the Civil War turned inexorably from the Confederacy to the Union.
DARKNESS, BY MY FRIEND MARSDEN, JOHN
As survivors of an enemy invasion of their homeland, Ellie and her friends return to Australia as guides for soldiers from New Zealand who plan an attack on the Wirrawee airfield.
THE LIMITS OF PRIVACY ETZIONI, AMITAI
Argues that increasing concern with privacy, while in some cases merited, is causing Americans to defend privacy even in situation in which doing so has a negative impact on public health and safety.
MISSING METZGER, LOIS
Carrie moves in with her grandmother, becomes friends with an indrawn classmate, and comes to terms with her mother’s death.
SHIPWRECK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD: THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF SHACKLETON AND THE ENDURANCE ARMSTRONG, JENNIFER
Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.
SUMMER HAWK SAVAGE, DEBORAH
When her rescue of a baby hawk takes fifteen-year-old Taylor to a raptor rehabilitation center in rural Pennsylvania, their offer of a summer public relations job seems a step toward her dream of becoming a journalist.
WEREWOLVES IN THEIR YOUTH CHARBON, MICHAEL
Contents: Werewolves in their youth—House hunting—Son of the wolfman—Green’s book—Mrs. Box—Spikes—The Harris Fetko story—That was me—In the black mill.
BACKWATER BAUER, JOAN
While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.
BREAKING RANK RANDLE, KRISTEN D.
Seventeen-year-old Casey has some of her preconceived notions challenged when she begins to tutor Baby, a member of a ganglike non-conformist society called the Clan.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE: A MYSTERY IN POEMS GLENN, MEL
A series of poems reflect the thoughts of various people—town residents young and old, teachers, and some students visiting from the city—caught up in the events surrounding the murder of a beautiful high school student who had recently moved to the small lake-side community of Hudson Landing.
GO FOR THE GOAL: BA CHAMPION’S GUIDE TO WINNING IN SOCCER AND LIFE HAMM, MIA
Mia Hamm, at the forefront of a new generation of women athletes, reveals the secrets of her success on and off the soccer field.
JUNETEENTH: A NOVEL ELLISON, RALPH
In Washington, D.C., in the 1950’s, a race-baiting senator is mortally wounded by an assassin’s bullet and spends his remaining time with an old black minister who, it turns out, raised the Senator.
LINCOLN AND SLAVERY BURCHARD, PETER
A biography of the sixteenth president which focuses on the issue of slavery and the importance it had throughout Lincoln’s life from his early days as a lawyer through his presidency.
RUNDOWN CADNUM, MICHAEL
As a game, sixteen-year-old Jennifer pretends that she has been attacked by a serial rapist, but then she finds herself getting more attention than she wanted, from the police and her parents.
SAFE AT SECOND JOHNSON, SCOTT
Paulie Lockwood’s best friend Todd Bannister is destined for the major leagues until a line drive to the head causes him to lose an eye and they both must find a new future for themselves.
WHO ARE YOU? NIXON, JOAN LOWERY
When the police discover that a man who has been shot has been keeping a file of her entire life, sixteen-year-old Kristi, an aspiring artist, suspects a connection with the possible theft of a painting from a museum.
THE GREATEST GENERATION SPEAKS BROKAW, TOM
Contains lessons and insights gained by those who lived through the depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and returned home to begin building the world we have today.
POSTCARDS TO FATHER ABRAHAM LEWIS, CATHERINE
When sixteen-year-old Meghan loses her leg to cancer and her brother to Vietnam, she expresses intense anger in postcards which she writes to idol, Abraham Lincoln.
THE TINY ONE MINOT, ELIZA
Captures a single day in the life of an eight-year-old child grappling with immeasurable grief and loss after she is notified of her mother’s death in a car wreck.
THE VOYAGE CAPUTO, PHILIP
On a June morning a father orders his three teenaged sons to sail from their Maine home and not return until September. This is the story of that voyage and the reasons behind the father’s actions.
WHAT JANIE FOUND COONEY, CAROLINE
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.
BORROWED LIGHT FIENBERG, ANNA
A sixteen-year-old feels alienated from her family while struggling with the difficult decisions surrounding her unplanned pregnancy.
DREAMLAND: A NOVEL DESSEN, SARAH
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER POUPENEY, MOLLIE
During the Depression era of the 1930’s Maggie grows up in logging camps and small towns of Oregon while living in the midst of a troubled family with an abusive father.
LORD BROCKTREE JACQUES, BRIAN
The mountain of Salamandastron needs the help of Brocktree the Badger Lord when evil comes in the form of the Blue Hordes of Ungatt Trunn, the Earth Shaker.
REDHANDED CADNUM, MICHAEL
Since he cannot depend on his father, Stephen feels as though his only chance to make it to the big boxing tournament is to go along with the dangerous plan of a local tough guy to whom he has been introduced by a thrill-seeking friend.
THE ROSE AND THE BEAST: FAIRY TALES RETOLD BLOCK, FRANCESCA LIA
Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, magical landscapes and retold with a twist.
SKIN AND OTHER STORIES DAHL, ROALD
Contents: Skin—Lamb to the slaughter—The sound machine—An African story—Galloping Foxley—The wish—The surgeon—Dip in the pool—The champion of the world—Beware of the dog—My lady love, my dove. Annotation: Introduces teenagers to the adult short stories of Roald Dahl.
STARGIRL SPINELLI, JERRY
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
THE STERKARM HANDSHAKE PRICE, SUSAN
Having traveled to a sixteenth century border clan in England through a tunnel created by a twenty-first century company, Andrea must decide in which era she will live.
WOMEN IN VIETNAM STEINMAN, RON
The collected testimonies of sixteen remarkable women who served in various capacities during the Vietnam War.
ANGUS, THONGS AND FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING: CONFESSIONS OF GEORGIA NICOLSON RENNISON, LOUISE
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.
DANCING WITH AN ALIEN LOGUE, MARY
A teenage boy from outer space travels to earth on a mission to help save his planet, and ultimately he falls in love, causing his mission to fail.
NOBODY’S THERE NIXON, JOAN LOWERY
Following an act of vandalism against her father’s girlfriend a seventeen-year-old girl is paired by the court with an eccentric senior citizen whose hobby as a sleuth turns deadly.
ON THE EDGE: STORIES AT THE BRINK DUNCAN, LOIS, ed.
A collection of twelve stories by different writers and different genres in each of which a young person is physically and/or emotionally on the edge.
PLAYING SOLITAIRE ANTLE, NANCY
Living with her grandfather in a small Oklahoma town, fourteen-year-old Ellie is in constant fear that she will be approached by her father, who is running from the police because he attacked her and mutilated her hand.
REAL BOYS’ VOICES POLLACK, WILLIAM S.
Takes us into the daily worlds of boys not only to show how society’s outdated expectations force them to mask many of their true emotions, but also allow us to hear how boys themselves describe their lives.
RIVER BOY BOWLER, TIM
Knowing that he is dying, Jess’s grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.
SHADOW BABY MCGHEE, ALISON
Eleven-year-old Clara is struggling to find the truth about her missing father and grandfather and her twin sister, dead at birth, but her mother refuses.
TIMON’S TIDE BUTLER, CHARLES
Haunted by the thought that he may have been responsible for his older brother Timon’s death six years earlier, sixteen-year-old Daniel struggles to come to terms with his own self-doubts, his new step-family, and the sudden reappearance of Timon in his life.
WOLF TOWER LEE, TANITH
When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.
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