| Best Books for Young Adults |
The Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association presents an annual list of books that are recommended reading for young adults 12 to 18. The following titles are selections from that list, which the library owns.
Non-Fiction
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
In A Long Way Gone , Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.
Tough Boy Sonatas by Curtis L. Crisler
A collection of poems depicts the lives of poverty, crime, despair, and lost innocence of African American teenagers growing up in Gary , Indiana .
Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy by Judith Bloom Fradin & Dennis Brindell Fradin
Drawn from historical documents and archival photographs, a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning social worker and civil rights activist documents her life, achievements, and contributions, revealing why she is considered an American icon.
Town Boy by Lat
Malaysian teenager Lat makes a life-changing move from the quiet kampung where he was born to Ipoh, the rapidly industrializing nearby town. Living far from his rural roots at a boarding school, he discovers bustling streets, modern music, heady literature, budding romance, and through it all his growing passion for art.
The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America by Albert Marrin
Theodore Roosevelt is one of America 's liveliest and most influential figures. He was a scholar, cowboy, war hero, explorer, and a brilliant politician. As president, Roosevelt 's far-reaching policies abroad and at home forever changed both our nation's place in the world and the life of every modern American.
e.e. cummings: A Poet's Life by Catherine Reef
Reef provides a well-rounded portrait of Cummings while examining the culture in which he lived as he developed his craft. This comprehensive biography includes Cummings's original sketches and paintings, quotes from friends and family, photographs, and the poetry of Cummings and his peers.
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis
Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions.
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
Fascinating and inspiring, Born on a Blue Day explores what it's like to be special and gives us an insight into what makes us all human -- our minds.
Fiction
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande
Following her conscience leads high school freshman Mena to clash with her parents and former friends from their conservative Christian church, but might result in better things when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include "Intelligent Design" in lessons on evolution.
Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks
After Odella's mother leaves her, her sisters, and their father in Manitoba and moves to Iceland with another man, she then dies there, and the family finally learns some of the many secrets that have haunted them for two generations.
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
Eighteen-year-old James, who lives in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother, struggles to find a direction for his life.
Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy
Seventeen-year-old Alice , released from prison with a new identity after serving six years for murdering a child, tries to keep her anonymity from the British tabloids, while haunted by memories of her past trauma.
Beige by Cecil Castellucci
Katy, a quiet French Canadian teenager, reluctantly leaves Montréal to spend time with her estranged father, an aging Los Angeles punk rock legend.
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke
As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together.
I Am Rembrandt's Daughter by Lynn Cullen
In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a wealthy suitor.
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
Coolbar , Ireland , is a village of secrets and Shell, caretaker to her younger brother and sister after the death of their mother and with the absence of their father, is not about to reveal hers until suspicion falls on the wrong person.
This is What I Did by Anne Dee Ellis
Bullied because of an incident in his past, eighth-grader Logan is unhappy at his new school and has difficulty relating to others until he meets a quirky girl and a counselor who believe in him.
Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin
After her stepfather is arrested for child abuse, thirteen-year-old Karina's home life improves but while the severity of her older sister's injuries and the urging of her younger sister, their uncle, and a friend tempt her to testify against him, her mother and other well-meaning adults pursuade her to claim responsibility.
Notes for a War Story by Gipi
Three young drifters in a war-torn nation meet Felix, an older thug who soon takes over the group and forms them into an organized gang that performs acts that they never would have in a civilized world.
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill
The author interprets the people, events, influences and art that made up the brief life of Sylvia Plath.
Slam by Nick Hornby
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.
Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins
A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior.
How it Happened in Peach Hill by Marthe Jocelyn
When fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, but to reach their goals they will have to do some serious lying and Annie will have to stand up for herself.
Firestorm by David Klass
After learning that he has been sent from the future for a special purpose, eighteen-year-old Jack receives help from an unusual dog and a shape-shifting female fighter.
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox
Aided by her family and her creation, Nown, Laura investigates the powerful Regulatory Body's involvement in mysterious disappearances and activities and learns, in the process, the true nature of the Place in which dreams are found.
Strays by Ron Loertge
After his parents are killed in a car accident, high school senior Ted wonders whether he will ever feel again or if he will remain numbed by grief.
Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan
The meaning of life and the definition of what it means to be human is captured in a collection of intense short stories set in distant worlds.
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.
Dramarama by E. Lockhart
Spending their summer at Wildewood Academy , an elite boarding school for the performing arts, tests the bond between teens Sadye and her best friend Demi.
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry 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 Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.
Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molestor's release from prison when he finally tells his best friends the whole truth .
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Stumbling into an alternate funhouse version of her home city, twelve-year-old Londoner Deeba finds herself trapped in a world of killer giraffes, animated umbrellas, and ghost children, and must take on the role of savior to prevent utter destruction.
What They Found: Love on 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers
Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.
The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural edited by Deborah Noyes
Vampire romantics, grave stalkers, prankster devil worshippers, and others in the world of the undead are featured in a collection of ten spooky tales for young adults written by diverse authors, including Holly Black and Marcus Sedgwick.
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she instructs her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home.
Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal by Mal Peet
In 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.
Red Glass by Laura Resau
Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico , where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala , where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.
What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau
Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo , Mexico , learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
The seventh and final book in the series about a school that teaches magic to those who go there.
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
My Mother the Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow
Thirteen-year-old Louise uncovers secrets about her family and her neighborhood during the violent protests over school desegregation in 1960 New Orleans .
Peak by Roland Smith
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest .
Notes from the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick
After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.
Freak Show by James St. James
Having faced teasing that turned into a brutal attack, Christianity expressed as persecution, and the loss of his only real friend when he could no longer keep his crush under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen, decides the only way to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.
The New Policeman by Kate Thompson
Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tír na n'Óg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.
Converting Kate by Beckie Weinheimer
After moving from Arizona to Maine , sixteen-year-old Kate tries to recover from her father's death as she resists her mother's dogmatic religious beliefs and attempts to find a new direction to her life.
Story of a Girl by Sara 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.
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle 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.
The Pox Party: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by M. T. Anderson
Diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age 16, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by R. Cohn and D. Levithan
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy
This collection takes readers from deep space to Faerie to just around the corner. It is full of magic, humor, adventure, and the unexpected.
Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini by S. Fleischman
Profiling his early years, personal life, and great accomplishments in show business, the story of magician Harry Houdini comes to life through a review of his greatest tricks and amazing feats.
5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight From Slavery by J. B. & D. B. Fradin
Relates the lives of Ellen and William Craft, who risked their lives to flee their lives as slaves in the South, journey endless miles away from their home, and work to end slavery when they reached their safe destination in the North.
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by R. Freedman
Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses. Freedman brings close the experience of what it was like to be there, on the bus and on the street.
Samurai Shortstop by A. Gratz
While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training, which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.
Surrender by S. Hartnett
As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finnigan.
Last Chance in Texas : The Redemption of Criminal Youth by J. Hubner
A moving story about the children who grow up to inflict on others the violence that they themselves have suffered. It is a story of horror and heartbreak, yet ultimately full of hope.
Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium by C. K. McClafferty
Marie Curie’s life and work are given a fresh telling, one that also explores the larger picture of the effects of radium in world culture, and its exploitation and sad misuse.
Sold by P. McCormick
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Dairy Queen by C. G. Murdock
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
King Dork by F. Portman
High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye " may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life. Part social satire, part mystery, with a healthy dose of rock music.
Wintersmith by T. Pratchett
When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, she requires the help of the six-inch-high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright.
Anahita’s Woven Riddle by M. N. Sayres
In Iran, more than 100 years ago, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers.
The Foreshadowing by M. Sedgwick
Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.
The Trap by J. Smelcer
In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.
Knights of the Hill Country by T. Tharp
In his senior year, high school star linebacker Hampton Greene finally begins to think for himself and discovers that he might be interested in more than just football.
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by C. Thimmesh
From the engineers to the suit testers, the story of the many people in various professions who worked behind-the-scenes to get Apollo 11 on the moon and safely back is presented through quotes, transcripts, national archives, and NASA photos.
The King of Attolia by M. W. Turner
Eugenides, still known as a Thief of Eddis, faces palace intrigue and assassins as he strives to prove himself both to the people of Attolia and to his new bride, their queen.
Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork
Presents nine drawings by a single illustrator, each of which has been translated into a story by two different authors writing about what they imagine is going on in the picture.
Trigger by S. Vaught
Teenager Jersey Hatch must work through his extensive brain damage to figure out why he decided to shoot himself.
It's Kind of a Funny Story by N. Vizzini
A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
The Rules of Survival by N. Werlin
Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother.
American Born Chinese by G. L. Yang
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
The Book Thief by M. 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.
| Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers |
The Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, annually selects books that teens will pick up on their own and read for pleasure. The list is geared to the teenager who, for whatever reason, does not like to read. The following titles are selections from that list, which the library owns.
Fiction
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Beige by Cecil Castellucci
Katy, a quiet French Canadian teenager, reluctantly leaves Montréal to spend time with her estranged father, an aging Los Angeles punk rock legend.
Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
Blokhedz: Book 1 of Genesis by Mark Davis, Mike Davis and Brandon Schultz
Seventeen-year-old Blak, an aspiring rapper whose rhymes shape reality, struggles to cope with the violence and temptations of the street, the machinations of underworld boss Bloko, his nemesis Vulture, and fierce gang rivalries.
Quaking by Kathryn Erskine
In a Pennsylvania town where anti-war sentiments are treated with contempt and violence, Matt, a fourteen-year-old girl living with a Quaker family, deals with the demons of her past as she battles bullies of the present, eventually learning to trust in others as well as herself.
Beastly by Alex Flinn
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
Blood Brothers by S. A. Harazin
With his best friend on life-support after taking drugs at a party, seventeen-year-old Clay, a medical technician, recalls their long friendship, future plans, and recent disagreement, and tries to figure out who is responsible for the accidental overdose.
Choices by Deborah Lynn Jacobs
Overcome with guilt over her brother's death, a teenaged girl shifts between multiple universes in an attempt to find one in which he is alive.
Strays by Ron Koertge
After his parents are killed in a car accident, high school senior Ted wonders whether he will ever feel again or if he will remain numbed by grief.
What They Found: Love on 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers
Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.
Captives by Tom Pow
When two families are kidnapped while vacationing in the Caribbean , they come to understand something of the island's political backdrop and the events that fuel their captors' actions.
Safe by Susan Shaw
When thirteen-year-old Tracy, whose mother died when she was three years old, is raped and beaten on the last day of school, all her feelings of security disappear and she does not know how to cope with the fear and dread that engulf her.
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
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.
Peak by Roalnd Smith
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
Freak Show by James St. James
Having faced teasing that turned into a brutal attack, Christianity expressed as persecution, and the loss of his only real friend when he could no longer keep his crush under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen, decides the only way to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Rucker Park Setup by Paul 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.
Sight by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Sixteen-year-old Dylan uses her psychic abilities to help police solve crimes against children, but keeps her extracurricular activities secret from her friends at school.
Story of a Girl by Sara 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.
Non-Fiction
Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits
Presents a collection of poems in which fifteen-year-old Jessie voices such teenage concerns as making new friends, getting along with an annoying younger brother, finding the right makeup and hairstyle, playing volleyball, and attending school prep rallies.
Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe and Satisfying Choices about Sex by Bronwen Pardes
Great factual information. What most kids are not going to ask about - but should know.
Grace After Midnight : A Memoir by Felicia Pearson and David Ritz
While Felicia is a brilliant actor in a truly chilling role in The Wire, what's most remarkable about "Snoop" is what she has overcome in her life. Snoop was born a three-pound cross-eyed crack baby in East Baltimore . Those streets are among the toughest in the world, but Snoop was tougher.
Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder by Nadia Shivack
The author tells the story of her eating disorder using cartoons to illustrate her internal feelings and battle with bulimia.
Unexplained by J. Allen
A guide to all things strange, weird, and paranormal explores the human obsession with the unexplainable, from hauntings and the power of the mind to physical mysteries such as lost civilizations.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, Vol. 1 by H. Araki
Jotaro is a 17-year-old punk, fighter, delinquent… and possessed by a force beyond his control. To save his mother’s life, he has to tame his dark forces, travel around the world, and battle a hundred-year-old vampire.
Creating Characters with Personality by T. Bancroft
Shows artists how to create a distinctive character, then place that character in context with a script, establish hierarchy, and maximize the impact of pose and expression.
It's Happy Bunny: What's Your Sign? by J. Benton
Astrology is all about YOU! What's not to love? Happy Bunny provides insight into how the signs of the Zodiac and palmistry can reveal your future.
Tyrell by C. 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.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by R. Cohn and D. Levithan
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.
Words to Live By by CosmoGirl
Compiles inspiring quotations for women, covering subjects from friends and family to school and relationships.
Played by D. Davidson
When Ian Striver is dared by "his boys" to sleep with plain Kylie Winship in just three weeks, he is up for the challenge, thinking it will be a breeze, but a series of unexpected events have surprises for both of them.
Blue Bloods by M. de la Cruz
Select teenagers from some of New York City 's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.
What Happened to Cass McBride by G. Giles
After his younger brother commits suicide, Kyle Kirby decides to exact revenge on the person he holds responsible.
Emily the Strange: The Lost Issue by J. Gruner and B. Parker
Read about a mysterious world - a place where kitty friends talk, the ghosts of famous weirdos come out to play and reality is never quite what it seems.
Beating Heart by A. M. Jenkins
Following his parents' divorce, seventeen-year-old Evan moves with his mother and sister into an old house where the spirit of a teenager who died there awakens and mistakes him for her long-departed lover.
Abduction by G. Korman
Aiden works with the FBI in order to rescue his sister Meg, who was kidnapped.
Sold by P. McCormick
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
New Moon by S. Meyer
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is too much for 18- year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
Monsters: A Celebration of the Classics from Universal Studios
A lavishly illustrated book that provides the words and images behind the classic characters that scared audiences.
Street Love by W. D. Myers
This story is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which 17- year-old Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.
Pick Me Up: Stuff You Need to Know
Presents facts and explanations in a work divided into categories, covering such topics as science and technology, history, the human body, and geography.
Hardwear: Jewelry From a Toolbox by H. Rogger and M. Rafter
Explains how to create jewelry from nuts, bolts, washers, s-hooks, tubing, and other readily available hardware, with complete instructions for projects that can be completed in just a few hours and with a minimal budget.
Good Girls by L. Ruby
Sixteen-year-old high school senior Audrey is humiliated when a compromising photograph of her is sent around her school, but she discovers a toughness within her that she never knew she had.
I Don't Want to Be Crazy: A Memoir of Anxiety Disorder by S. Schutz
After going to college and finding the independence she desired difficult to handle, the author begins to suffer from anxiety attacks that change everything she had planned.
Optical Illusions: The Science of Visual Perception by A. Seckel
An intriguing collection of baffling images and shapes that change before your eyes: hidden figures, incredible designs and dazzling graphic patterns.
Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233 by S. Stewart and J. Weisman
Cathy, an aspiring artist who is still getting over her father's death, becomes embroiled in a mystery after discovering that her ex-boyfriend--who appears only a few years older than herself--is actually more than two hundred years old.
A Bad Boy Can be Good for a Girl by T. L. Stone
When a senior boy enters their mix, friends Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva soon find themselves in questionable situations where each girl must make the right decision before their personal sacrifices become too great.
Skin by A. M. Vrettos
When his parents decide to separate, eighth-grader Donnie watches with horror as the physical condition of his sixteen-year old sister, Karen, deteriorates due to an eating disorder.
The Rules of Survival by N. Werlin
Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother.
The Last Days by S. Westerfeld
As an ancient evil stirs beneath the streets of New York City, infecting rats and people like a plague, five quirky teens come together to form a "New Sound" band whose music seems to have paranormal power.
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