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| Title |
Author |
Summary |
| Adoration of Jenna Fox |
Pearson, Mary E. |
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence. |
| Adventures of Johnny Bunko |
Pink, Daniel |
Shares six secrets of career success through a manga story about Johnny Bunko, a young man stuck in a dead-end job--thanks to the advice and expectations of his parents, teachers, and counselors--who is able to break out of his rut with help from the beautiful Diana, an unlikely career advisor. |
| Angela's Ashes |
McCourt, Frank |
In this extraordinary memoir, the author transforms the story of an Irish-Catholic childhood lived in poverty, misery, and despair into a mesmerizing tale filled with wit, love, and forgiveness. |
| Bad Boy: A Memoir |
Myers, Walter Dean |
Author Walter Dean Myers describes his childhood in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, discussing his loving stepmother, his problems in school, his reasons for leaving home, and his beginnings as a writer. |
| Beast |
Napoli, Donna Jo |
Elaborates on the tale of "Beauty and the Beast," told from the point of view of the beast and set in Persia. |
| Black Like Me |
Griffin, John |
Journalist John Howard Griffin chronicles his six weeks posing, with the aid of skin-darkening medication, as an African-American in the segregated South. |
| Chinese Cinderella |
Mah, Adeline Yen |
The daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman describes her very difficult childhood and the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother. |
| Cry in the Night |
Clark, Mary Higgins |
Married and suddenly wealthy, Jenny was about to unearth a terrifying past |
| Cuba 15 |
Osa, Nancy |
Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student, reluctantly prepares for her upcoming "quince," a Spanish nickname for the celebration of an Hispanic girl's fifteenth birthday. |
| Dawn |
Wiesel, Elie |
The story of a young Israeli freedom fighter and a captured English officer waiting for his execution at dawn. |
| Dragonsong |
McCaffrey, Anne |
On the planet Pern, after her father forbids her to indulge in music in any way, fifteen-year-old Menolly, runs away and takes shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her. |
| Fat Kid Rules the World |
Going, Kelly |
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band. |
| Geeks |
Katz, John |
How Two Lost Boys Ride The Internet Out Of Idaho;the story of how Jesse and Eric--and others like them--used technology to try and change their lives and alter their destiny. |
| Girl in Hyacinth Blue |
Vreeland, Susan |
Eight linked stories tracing the history of a painting by the 17th century Dutch artist, Vermeer. In one, he paints his daughter to pay off debts, a second story describes the loss of the ownership papers, a third takes place on the eve of its theft by the Nazis. |
| Grendel |
Gardner, John |
Instead of lauding the hero Beowulf, the spotlight shines on Grendel, whose grotesque body and blood thirst condemn him to the life of an outlaw, but whose soul delights in dark humor, dramatic pirouettes and pranks. |
| Haunting of Hill House |
Jackson, Shirley |
Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon call haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, the lonely, homeless girl acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. |
| Hunger Games |
Collins, Suzanne |
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. |
| If You Come Softly |
Woodson, Jacqueline |
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with peoples' reactions. |
| Inherit the Wind |
Lawrence, Jerome |
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's 1951 play based on the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, July 1925, which opened the debate over the teaching of creationism and evolution. |
| Invasion |
Cook, Robin |
A shooting star and a series of exploding electrical devices herald the arrival of a mysterious outbreak of strange symptoms that defy diagnosis. |
| Ironman |
Crutcher, Chris |
While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father. |
| It's Not About the Bike |
Armstrong, Lance |
The amazing story of Armstrong's long, hard climb from inauspicious beginnings through early success, near-fatal cancer, recovery, victory in the Tour de France, marriage, and first-time fatherhood.
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| Journey Back |
Reiss, Johanna |
After spending three years hiding from the Nazis, a Jewish family is reunited and begins the job of rebuilding their country and family. |
| King's Shadow |
Alder, Elizabeth |
Historical novel set in early Britain about a Welsh serf who becomes a squire to King Harold. |
| Kite Runner |
Hosseini, Khaled |
Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, and attempts to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official. |
| Luna |
Peters, Julie Ann |
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. |
| Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold |
Brooks, Terry |
Ben Holiday purchases the magical kingdom of Landover for a million dollars only to learn that Iron Mark, lord of the demons, expects him to fight a duel to the death. |
| Mister Pip |
Jones, Lloyd |
Thirteen-year-old Matilda watches as all the foreigners flee her homeland--all but one, the white man Mr. Watts. Amidst the ruins of the town schoolhouse, Watts reads Dickens' Great Expectations to the children, thus sparking their imaginations and giving them hope in a chaotic world. |
| My Sister's Keeper |
Picoult, Jodi |
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decision about her own body. |
| Paper Towns |
Green, John |
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night, dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows her. Margo's always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she's always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q; until day breaks and she vanishes. |
| Pastwatch |
Card, Orson Scott |
Taguri, one of a group of scientists and historians living in a post-apolcalyptic world, views the past through a machine and discovers one of the women she is studying can see her, too. The discovery sets off a debate over whether the past can be changed to save the future. |
| Persepolis |
Satrapi, Marjane |
After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, a free-spirited teenager is sent to school in Austria and eventually makes the decision to return to Iran despite the tyrannical powers that rule her country. |
| Prom |
Anderson, Laurie Halse |
Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life. |
| Riding the Bus with My Sister |
Simon, Rachel |
Two sisters on a life-changing journey together, full of laughter, tears and new understanding. |
| Samurai's Garden |
Tsukiyama, Gail |
Set in Japan just before WWII, Tsukiyama's novel tells of a young Chinese man's encounters with four locals while he recuperates from tuberculosis.
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| So Yesterday |
Westerfield, Scott |
Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture. |
| Stardust |
Gaiman, Neil |
In the quiet English hamlet of Wall, Tristran Thorn embarks on a remarkable journey through the world of Faerie to recover a fallen star for his lover, the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester. |
| Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers |
Roach, Mary |
A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility. |
| Sunrise Over Fallujah |
Myers, Walter Dean |
Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him. |
| They Came From Below |
Blake, Nelson |
While vacationing on Cape Cod, best friends Emily, age sixteen, and Reese, seventeen, meet Steve and Dave, who seem too good to be true, and whose presence turns out to be related to a dire threat of global pollution. |
| Timeline |
Crichton, Michael |
A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present. His colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War. |
| Unwind |
Shusterman, Neal |
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives. |
| Wedding |
West, Dorothy |
The Wedding is a wise and heartfelt story about the shackles of race and class we all wear -- and the price we pay to break them.
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| Wyrd Sisters |
Pratchett, Terry |
Granny Weatherwax finds it more difficult to stir up trouble in the castle than she imagined and resorts to some unexpected spells. |
| Year of Wonders |
Brooks, Geraldine |
When an infected bolt of cloth carries the plague from London to a remote village in the year 1666, a housemaid named Anna emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. |
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