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	Author	Title	Published	Description	Type
Type : Fiction ‎(82)
	Adams, Douglas	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	1980	The hilarious journey of Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect, a space hitchhiker, who escape from earth seconds before it is demolished and travel to a variety of galactic civilizations while gathering information for a hitchhiker's guidebook.	Fiction
	Adams, Richard	Watership Down	1974	Follow the epic Tolkienesque adventures of Fiver, Hazel, and a ragtag lapin band. Rabbits will never seem the same again.	Fiction
	Anonymous	Go Ask Alice	1971	The painful diary of a young girl when she accidentally falls into the contemporary drug scene.	Fiction
	Atwood, Margaret	Handmaid's Tale	1986	Offred, a handmaid living in a near-future time, endures life in a society in which women able to bear children are used for procreation.	Fiction
	Avi	Blue Heron	1993	A solitary blue heron becomes a symbol of strength and peace for 13-year-old Maggie when she discovers a change has come over her father and his new family.	Fiction
	Avi	Nothing but the Truth	1992	It's against regulations to hum the national anthem in school. Philip decides to disobey the rule, and the whole nation watches what happens.	Fiction
	Bachman, Richard	Long Walk	1979	Of the 100 boys who begin a grueling marathon walk, 99 will die--and one will have his every wish granted. Or will he?	Fiction
	Bauer, Joan	Rules of the Road	1999	Seventeen-year-old Jenna's job at crusty Mrs. Gladstone's shoe store leads to her driving Mrs. Gladstone across country to Texas to prevent a company takeover.	Fiction
	Block, Francesca Lia	Weetzie Bat	1990	Lanky lizards! Punk teens Weetzie and Dirk search for love in a modern fairy tale that is funny, moving, and unlike any book you've read before.	Fiction
	Bloor, Edward	Tangerine	1998	Is Tangerine, Florida, like the Bermuda Triangle? A sinkhole swallows the middle school, lightning strikes repeatedly, underground fires burn endlessly--and all newcomer Paul Fisher wants to do is play soccer, despite his thick glasses, his parents' indifference, and his evil brother.	Fiction
	Brooks, Bruce	The Moves Make the Man	1985	As Jerome, a black athlete, shares his skills and interest in basketball with Bix, a white baseball player, their friendship grows and the game becomes a reflection of both their lives	Fiction
	Brooks, Terry	Magic Kindom for Sale - Sold!	1986	In a funny fantasy adventure, disillusioned sorrowing widower Ben buys a magic kingdom for $1,000,000 only to find a run-down castle operated by a motley group of inept courtiers.	Fiction
	Card, Orson Scott	Ender's Game	1985	Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, a young genius in Battle School, where he is training to fight the alien Buggers, has to put his skills to the ultimate test much sooner than he expected.	Fiction
	Childress, Alice	Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich	1973	Benjie, a 13-year-old in Harlem, cannot face the reality of his drug addiction or the realization that someone cares for him.	Fiction
	Cooney, Caroline B.	Flight #116 is Down	1993	A 747 crashes on the grounds of her family's estate, and 16-year-old Heidi, alone and terrified, pulls herself together to help rescue the survivors.	Fiction
	Cormier, Robert	After the First Death	1979	Ben tries unsuccessfully to balance his father's betrayal and his own failure after a busload of children is hijacked by a group of ruthless terrorists.	Fiction
	Cormier, Robert	Fade	1988	One boy in each generation of the Moreaux family inherits the power--and the curse--of invisibility.	Fiction
	Cormier, Robert	I Am the Cheese	1977	A victim of amnesia, and under the influence of drugs administered by mysterious and unidentified questioners, teenager Adam searches through haunting memories that must not be recalled or revealed if he is to survive.	Fiction
	Cormier, Robert	The Chocolate War: A Novel	1974	"Sweets" abound at Trinity High while a schoolmaster feasts on his students' fear--a bitter story of one student's resistance and the high price he pays.	Fiction
	Crutcher, Chris	Athletic Shorts: 6 Short Stories	1992	Tales of love, death, bigotry and heroism are of real people with the courage to stand up to a world that often puts them down.	Fiction
	Crutcher, Chris	Chinese Handcuffs	1990	A winning triathlete's need to understand his older brother's suicide is complicated by memories and daring challenges.	Fiction
	Crutcher, Chris	Ironman	1996	When he calls his teacher an asshole in class, Bo is forced to attend an anger management program, where he learns to deal with his real problem--his cruel father.	Fiction
	Crutcher, Chris	Running Loose	1983	Louie takes a stand against his coach and playing dirty football, falls in love, and loses his girlfriend in a fatal accident--all in his senior year.	Fiction
	Crutcher, Chris	Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes	1994	When the horrific truth about Sarah's past is revealed, only her true friend Eric ("Moby") Calhoun can help her come to terms with her family and plan for her future.	Fiction
	Cushman, Karen	Catherine, Called Birdy	1995	Fighting fleas, unsuitable suitors, and her mother's attempts to make a lady of her, Catherine writes in her diary about her frustrations with her life as a young noblewoman in medieval times.	Fiction
	Cushman, Karen	The Midwife's Apprentice	1996	Beetle, a homeless girl, is found in a dung heap and apprenticed to the village midwife in this sensitive 14th-century tale set in England.	Fiction
	Deuker, Carl	On the Devil's Court	1990	Seventeen-year-old Joe Faust must decide if it's worth selling his soul to the devil for one perfect season of basketball.	Fiction
	Dickinson, Peter	Eva	1990	After a violent auto accident, 13-year-old Eva wakes up in a hospital to find she must learn how to live as a chimpanzee.	Fiction
	Draper, Sharon M.	Tears of a Tiger	1996	High-school senior Andy Jackson is overcome by guilt after his best friend dies in an automobile accident that happened when Andy was driving drunk.	Fiction
	Farmer, Nancy	A Girl Named Disaster	1997	When her family arranges her marriage to a cruel man with three wives, Nhamo escapes by canoe to seek a better future.	Fiction
	Farmer, Nancy	The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm	1995	When General Matsika's three children are kidnapped after they leave the safety of their armed compound, their mother hires the best detective team available in 2194 Zimbabwe--the appropriately named mutant partners--the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm.	Fiction
	Fleischman, Paul	Bull Run	1994	Sixteen individuals voice their hopes and fears in this interwoven collage of "snapshots" set during the first battle of the Civil War.	Fiction
	Fleischman, Paul	Whirlygig	1999	After killing a girl when driving drunk, Brent Bishop learns a lot about himself and life when he's forced to pay for his crime by traveling to the four corners of the U.S. to build whirligigs in her memory.	Fiction
	Gallo, Donald (ed.)	Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults	1984	School, friendship, family, and love are all found within this unusual collection of humorous and serious short stories.	Fiction
	Garden, Nancy	Annie on my Mind	1982	Lisa and Annie meet at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, fall in love, and then find that a public declaration is too threatening to their friends and relatives.	Fiction
	Gurney, James	Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time	1993	A newly discovered, illustrated journal reveals life on the lost island of Dinotopia, where shipwrecked human survivors work and play in harmony with dinosaurs.	Fiction
	Guy, Rosa	Disappearance	1979	Released from jail in the custody of the Aimsley Family, Imamu Jones immediately becomes a prime suspect when Perk, their youngest daughter, disappears.	Fiction
	Guy, Rosa	The Friends	1973	Rejected by her classmates because she "talks funny," Phyllisia Cathy, a young West Indian girl, is forced to become friends with poor, frazzled Edith, the only one who will accept her.	Fiction
	Hesser, Terry Spencer	Kissing Doorknobs	1999	Tara struggles to live with her obsessive-compulsive behavior, but before her condition is diagnosed, her relationships with family and friends begin to crumble.	Fiction
	Hobbs, Will	Downriver	1992	Fifteen-year-old Jesse and other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival team abandon their adult leader, steal his van and rafts, and run the dangerous whitewaters of the Grand Canyon.	Fiction
	Hobbs, Will	Far North	1997	Stranded in the Canadian wilderness, two boys endure a brutal sub arctic winter of bear, wolf, and moose attacks while they repeatedly struggle to escape.	Fiction
	Hurwin, Davida Wills	A Time for Dancing	1996	Seventeen-year-old best friends Juliana and Samantha share a passion for dance, for life, and for each other--then Jules is diagnosed with cancer and must travel a path Sam cannot follow.	Fiction
	Kindl, Patrice	Owl in Love	1995	Girl by day, owl by night, 14-year-old Owl Tycho finds life is complicated--not only by a crush on her science teacher, but also by the presence of a deranged boy in the woods.	Fiction
	Klause, Annette Curtis	The Silver Kiss	1991	Feeling alienated from everyone during her mother's terminal illness, Zoe comes under the spell of Simon, a vampire doomed to live until he avenges the death of his mother 300 years earlier.	Fiction
	Koertge, Ron	The Arizona Kid	1988	Working one summer at a racetrack, living with his gay uncle, and falling madly in love make wimpy, short, tenth-grader Billy Kennedy more self-confident and wiser in the ways of the world.	Fiction
	Laird, Elizabeth	Kiss the Dust	1993	It's Iraq, and Tara's family are Kurds. "He" has put out the word, and they must flee for their lives.	Fiction
	Lowry, Lois	The Giver	1994	When he turns 12, Jonas is given his life assignment from the committee of elders--to become the receiver of memories from far-past times--and discovers the horrible secret that his society has hidden for the "safety and happiness" of its citizens.	Fiction
	Magorian, Michelle	Good Night, Mr. Tom	1982	A badly battered and frightened young boy evacuated from London during World War II fills an empty void in the heart of a dour old man.	Fiction
	Mahy, Margaret	The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance	1984	With the help of an older boy who loves her, Laura "changes over" into a witch to fight the evil forces that are attacking her little brother.	Fiction
	Marsden, John	Tomorrow, When the War Began	1996	When they return from a wilderness camping trip, Ellie and her friends are shocked to discover Australia has been invaded and soon find fighting and surviving have become their way of life.	Fiction
	McCaffrey, Anne	Dragonsinger	1977	With the help of Master-harper, Menolly and her fire lizards overcome the prejudice against a woman's becoming a harper the planet Pern.	Fiction
	McDonald, Joyce	Swallowing Stones	1998	Depression, guilt, and fear plague Michael's dreams after a stray bullet from his rifle kills a man.	Fiction
	McKinley, Robin	Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast	1978	Fantasy and romance are beautifully blended in an evocative, much-expanded version of the classic fairy tale.	Fiction
	McKinley, Robin	Blue Sword	1982	Harry Crewe, bored with her dull and sheltered life, finds new magic, love, and her destiny as a woman warrior when kidnapped by a handsome king who has mysterious powers.	Fiction
	Myers, Walter Dean	Fallen Angels	1988	Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry's stint in Vietnam brings home to him the agony and futility of war as he learns to kill and watches his comrades die.	Fiction
	Myers, Walter Dean	Hoops	1981	Lonnie and the rest of his Harlem ghetto basketball team learn the fine art of playing and winning like pros from Cal, who once was one.	Fiction
	Myers, Walter Dean	Slam	1997	"Slam" Harris is a talented basketball player whose dreams of fame and fortune in the NBA can come true--if he can control his anger.	Fiction
	Myers, Walter Dean	Somewhere in the Darkness	1993	Jimmy is shocked when an unexpected visitor turns out to be his father, who has been in prison for eight years and now wants Jimmy to drive with him to Chicago.	Fiction
	Nelson, Theresa	Earthshine	1995	Twelve-year-old Slim must face the truth that her beloved, irreplaceable father is dying from AIDS.	Fiction
	Nix, Garth	Sabriel	1997	Sabriel makes a desperate quest through the Gates of Death to free her necromancer father from the strengthening powers of the spirits of the dead.	Fiction
	O'Brien, Robert C.	Z for Zachariah	1975	In a peaceful valley, two survivors of an atomic holocaust are brought together--one a self-sufficient young girl, the other a killer bent on killing again.	Fiction
	O'Brien, Tim	Things They Carried	1991	In these candid short stories based on O'Brien's Vietnam experiences, pictures, heartaches, dreams and terror are the things soldiers in Vietnam carry.	Fiction
	Orr, Wendy	Peeling the Onion	1998	Anna struggles to recover her health and her life after a car accident shatters her body and leaves her brain damaged.	Fiction
	Paterson, Katherine	Jacob Have I Loved	1980	While growing up among the "water people" on an island off the coast of eastern Maryland during the 1940s, Louise searches for her identity and fights the jealousy she feels toward her talented, fragile, and beautiful twin sister.	Fiction
	Paterson, Katherine	Lyddie	1992	Unable to pay off the debt on the family farm, feisty, single-minded Lyddie survives the dangers of the textile mills in 1840s Massachusetts, determined not to forfeit her dreams.	Fiction
	Paulsen, Gary	Soldier's Heart	1999	After facing the reality of fighting in the Civil War, Charlie realizes that war is hell on earth--both mentally and physically.	Fiction
	Plath, Sylvia	The Bell Jar	1971	During a queer, sultry summer in New York, Esther Greenwood works as a junior editor on MADEMOISELLE, quarrels with her mother and boy friend, and is gradually aware of her descent into madness.	Fiction
	Potok, Chaim	The Chosen	1967	Two Jewish boys growing to manhood in Brooklyn discover that differences can strengthen friendship and understanding.	Fiction
	Pullman, Philip	The Golden Compass	1997	With the aid of friends, witches, and armored polar bears, 12-year-old Lyra fights the evil that is stealing children and conducting horrible experiments on them.	Fiction
	Pullman, Philip	The Ruby in the Smoke	1987	Sally, 16 and an orphan, must find her way through a maze of 19th-century villains to claim her inheritance and her independence.	Fiction
	Rowling, J.K.	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	1999	With only a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead as a clue to his true identity, Harry Potter, by a twist of fate, leaves his unloving foster family for a life of wizardry and celebrity.	Fiction
	Sachar, Louis	Holes	1999	Stanley Yelnats is sentenced to Camp Green Lake, where he finds a treasure and puts an end to a long-running curse on his family.	Fiction
	Sleator, William	House of Stairs	1974	Five 16-year-old orphans find themselves alone in an experimental nightmare where stairs and landings stretch as far as the eye can see and a weird red light trains them to dance for their food.	Fiction
	Staples, Suzanne Fischer	Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind	1990	Torn between allegiance to her family and her growing independence and strength, Shabanu tells the story of her life as a member of a nomadic tribe in the Pakistani desert.	Fiction
	Stewart, Mary	The Crystal Cave	1970	Merlin, the base-born son of royalty in 5th-century Britain, uses magic to outwit his enemies until he sets the stage for the birth of Arthur, the future king.	Fiction
	Tan, Amy	The Joy Luck Club	1990	Chinese American daughters find conflict, love and connection with their mothers, who are haunted by their early lives in China.	Fiction
	Voigt, Cynthia	Runner	1985	Bullet, a 17-year-old cross country runner, finds that compromise is sometimes necessary if an athlete is going to be the best.	Fiction
	White, Robb	Deathwatch	1972	Ben's hunting expedition for bighorn sheep becomes a deathwatch in the desert -- with hope of survival 45 minutes away.	Fiction
	Wolff, Virginia Euwer	Make Lemonade	1994	High-school student LaVaughn, determined to earn money for college, baby-sits for Jolly, an unwed teenage mother of two, and matures in the process.	Fiction
	Woodson, Jaqueline	If You Come Softly	1999	Jeremiah, who is white, and Ellie, who is African American, feel an immediate connection and then must cope with the reactions to their relationship by the people around them.	Fiction
	Wrede, Patricia C.	Dealing with Dragons	1991	Unconventional Cimorene, fed up with her dull life as a princess, runs away to join the dragons in this fun book that turns fairy tales upside down.	Fiction
	Yolen, Jane	Briar Rose	1993	Grandmother Gemma always told the story of Briar Rose, and after she dies, her granddaughter discovers that Gemma was a real-life Sleeping Beauty--a Holocaust survivor.	Fiction

Type : Non-Fiction ‎(18)
	Angelou, Maya	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	1970	This remarkable, poetic and frank autobiography of a black girl who grew up in Arkansas, St. Louis and San Francisco is for mature readers.	Non-Fiction
	Ashabranner, Brent	Always to Remember: The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial	1988	The story of Vietnam veteran Jan C. Scruggs's struggle to build a national monument honoring Americans who died or are missing in the Vietnam War.	Non-Fiction
	Boas, Jacob	We Are Witnesses: The Diaries of Five Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust	1996	The compelling and poignant diaries of five teenagers who died during the Holocaust tell their tragic, courageous stories.	Non-Fiction
	Bodanis, David	Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend Our Nights and Days	1986	The microbiological drama found within a house is explored from early-morning to late- evening.	Non-Fiction
	Brooks, Polly Schoyer	Beyond the Mtyh: The Story of Joan of Arc	1991	Condemned as a witch but later canonized as a saint, young Joan, inspired by her love of France, leads her countrymen in their battle against the English.	Non-Fiction
	Cleary, Beverly	Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir	1988	An honest and humorous account of the Depression-era childhood and adolescence of Beverly Cleary in Oregon, where she encountered many of the same situations that teens do today.	Non-Fiction
	Edelman, Bernard	Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam	1985	In their personal letters, soldiers and civilians reveal the pain, frustration, confusion, and anger that were part of their daily lives in Vietnam.	Non-Fiction
	Freedman, Russell	Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery	1994	A compelling photo-biography of Eleanor Roosevelt relates the remarkable story of a shy, lonely girl who grows up to be a powerful force in the fight for world peace and equality and an inspiration to millions of people.	Non-Fiction
	Freedman, Russell	Lincoln: A Photobiography	1988	This skillfully written, appealing overview of Lincoln's life from boyhood to death, is accompanied by carefully chosen photographs and prints.	Non-Fiction
	Freedman, Russell	Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane	1992	Freedman tells the fascinating story of how two self-taught bicycle mechanics solve the problems that had baffled generations of scientists and engineers.	Non-Fiction
	Janeczko, Paul B.	Place My Words Are Looking For: What Poets Say About and Through Their Work	1991	Writers share their poems and give insights into their craft and life.	Non-Fiction
	McCall, Nathan	Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America	1995	McCall remembers his journey from a working-class African American neighborhood to prison to a prestigious position on the WASHINGTON POST.	Non-Fiction
	McKissack, Patricia C. and McKissack, Fredrick L.	Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts	1997	Exciting profiles of heroic men and women tell accounts of those who rebelled against slavery in North America.	Non-Fiction
	Paulsen, Gary	Woodsong	1991	Through his dogsledding adventures in the Minnesota wilderness where there are wolves, deep snow, and minus-30-degree temperatures, the author comes to understand nature's ways and harrowing surprises.	Non-Fiction
	Spiegelman, Art	Maus: A Survivor's Tale	1986	In a comic book of revolutionary graphic design, a cartoonist juxtaposes his frustration with his father's insensitivity today and his father's desperate struggle to stay alive 40 years earlier during the Holocaust.	Non-Fiction
	Spiegelman, Art	Maus: A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began	1992	This graphic novel, the sequel to MAUS, recreates Vladek and Anja's agonizing struggles to survive in the concentration camp.	Non-Fiction
	Stoll, Cliff	The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage	1991	A young astrophysicist turns detective as he embarks on the trail of an elusive computer hacker who has managed to break into top-secret government and military data banks.	Non-Fiction
	Zindel, Paul	Pigman and Me	1993	Zindel recounts his bizarre adventures growing up on Staten Island, when his neighbor's father becomes his personal "pigman" and teaches him to cope with his rootless family.	Non-Fiction

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	Title	Author	Published	Description	Type
Type : Fiction ‎(82)
	A Girl Named Disaster	Farmer, Nancy	1997	When her family arranges her marriage to a cruel man with three wives, Nhamo escapes by canoe to seek a better future.	Fiction
	A Time for Dancing	Hurwin, Davida Wills	1996	Seventeen-year-old best friends Juliana and Samantha share a passion for dance, for life, and for each other--then Jules is diagnosed with cancer and must travel a path Sam cannot follow.	Fiction
	After the First Death	Cormier, Robert	1979	Ben tries unsuccessfully to balance his father's betrayal and his own failure after a busload of children is hijacked by a group of ruthless terrorists.	Fiction
	Annie on my Mind	Garden, Nancy	1982	Lisa and Annie meet at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, fall in love, and then find that a public declaration is too threatening to their friends and relatives.	Fiction
	Athletic Shorts: 6 Short Stories	Crutcher, Chris	1992	Tales of love, death, bigotry and heroism are of real people with the courage to stand up to a world that often puts them down.	Fiction
	Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast	McKinley, Robin	1978	Fantasy and romance are beautifully blended in an evocative, much-expanded version of the classic fairy tale.	Fiction
	Blue Heron	Avi	1993	A solitary blue heron becomes a symbol of strength and peace for 13-year-old Maggie when she discovers a change has come over her father and his new family.	Fiction
	Blue Sword	McKinley, Robin	1982	Harry Crewe, bored with her dull and sheltered life, finds new magic, love, and her destiny as a woman warrior when kidnapped by a handsome king who has mysterious powers.	Fiction
	Briar Rose	Yolen, Jane	1993	Grandmother Gemma always told the story of Briar Rose, and after she dies, her granddaughter discovers that Gemma was a real-life Sleeping Beauty--a Holocaust survivor.	Fiction
	Bull Run	Fleischman, Paul	1994	Sixteen individuals voice their hopes and fears in this interwoven collage of "snapshots" set during the first battle of the Civil War.	Fiction
	Catherine, Called Birdy	Cushman, Karen	1995	Fighting fleas, unsuitable suitors, and her mother's attempts to make a lady of her, Catherine writes in her diary about her frustrations with her life as a young noblewoman in medieval times.	Fiction
	Chinese Handcuffs	Crutcher, Chris	1990	A winning triathlete's need to understand his older brother's suicide is complicated by memories and daring challenges.	Fiction
	Dealing with Dragons	Wrede, Patricia C.	1991	Unconventional Cimorene, fed up with her dull life as a princess, runs away to join the dragons in this fun book that turns fairy tales upside down.	Fiction
	Deathwatch	White, Robb	1972	Ben's hunting expedition for bighorn sheep becomes a deathwatch in the desert -- with hope of survival 45 minutes away.	Fiction
	Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time	Gurney, James	1993	A newly discovered, illustrated journal reveals life on the lost island of Dinotopia, where shipwrecked human survivors work and play in harmony with dinosaurs.	Fiction
	Disappearance	Guy, Rosa	1979	Released from jail in the custody of the Aimsley Family, Imamu Jones immediately becomes a prime suspect when Perk, their youngest daughter, disappears.	Fiction
	Downriver	Hobbs, Will	1992	Fifteen-year-old Jesse and other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival team abandon their adult leader, steal his van and rafts, and run the dangerous whitewaters of the Grand Canyon.	Fiction
	Dragonsinger	McCaffrey, Anne	1977	With the help of Master-harper, Menolly and her fire lizards overcome the prejudice against a woman's becoming a harper the planet Pern.	Fiction
	Earthshine	Nelson, Theresa	1995	Twelve-year-old Slim must face the truth that her beloved, irreplaceable father is dying from AIDS.	Fiction
	Ender's Game	Card, Orson Scott	1985	Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, a young genius in Battle School, where he is training to fight the alien Buggers, has to put his skills to the ultimate test much sooner than he expected.	Fiction
	Eva	Dickinson, Peter	1990	After a violent auto accident, 13-year-old Eva wakes up in a hospital to find she must learn how to live as a chimpanzee.	Fiction
	Fade	Cormier, Robert	1988	One boy in each generation of the Moreaux family inherits the power--and the curse--of invisibility.	Fiction
	Fallen Angels	Myers, Walter Dean	1988	Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry's stint in Vietnam brings home to him the agony and futility of war as he learns to kill and watches his comrades die.	Fiction
	Far North	Hobbs, Will	1997	Stranded in the Canadian wilderness, two boys endure a brutal sub arctic winter of bear, wolf, and moose attacks while they repeatedly struggle to escape.	Fiction
	Flight #116 is Down	Cooney, Caroline B.	1993	A 747 crashes on the grounds of her family's estate, and 16-year-old Heidi, alone and terrified, pulls herself together to help rescue the survivors.	Fiction
	Go Ask Alice	Anonymous	1971	The painful diary of a young girl when she accidentally falls into the contemporary drug scene.	Fiction
	Good Night, Mr. Tom	Magorian, Michelle	1982	A badly battered and frightened young boy evacuated from London during World War II fills an empty void in the heart of a dour old man.	Fiction
	Handmaid's Tale	Atwood, Margaret	1986	Offred, a handmaid living in a near-future time, endures life in a society in which women able to bear children are used for procreation.	Fiction
	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	Rowling, J.K.	1999	With only a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead as a clue to his true identity, Harry Potter, by a twist of fate, leaves his unloving foster family for a life of wizardry and celebrity.	Fiction
	Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich	Childress, Alice	1973	Benjie, a 13-year-old in Harlem, cannot face the reality of his drug addiction or the realization that someone cares for him.	Fiction
	Holes	Sachar, Louis	1999	Stanley Yelnats is sentenced to Camp Green Lake, where he finds a treasure and puts an end to a long-running curse on his family.	Fiction
	Hoops	Myers, Walter Dean	1981	Lonnie and the rest of his Harlem ghetto basketball team learn the fine art of playing and winning like pros from Cal, who once was one.	Fiction
	House of Stairs	Sleator, William	1974	Five 16-year-old orphans find themselves alone in an experimental nightmare where stairs and landings stretch as far as the eye can see and a weird red light trains them to dance for their food.	Fiction
	I Am the Cheese	Cormier, Robert	1977	A victim of amnesia, and under the influence of drugs administered by mysterious and unidentified questioners, teenager Adam searches through haunting memories that must not be recalled or revealed if he is to survive.	Fiction
	If You Come Softly	Woodson, Jaqueline	1999	Jeremiah, who is white, and Ellie, who is African American, feel an immediate connection and then must cope with the reactions to their relationship by the people around them.	Fiction
	Ironman	Crutcher, Chris	1996	When he calls his teacher an asshole in class, Bo is forced to attend an anger management program, where he learns to deal with his real problem--his cruel father.	Fiction
	Jacob Have I Loved	Paterson, Katherine	1980	While growing up among the "water people" on an island off the coast of eastern Maryland during the 1940s, Louise searches for her identity and fights the jealousy she feels toward her talented, fragile, and beautiful twin sister.	Fiction
	Kiss the Dust	Laird, Elizabeth	1993	It's Iraq, and Tara's family are Kurds. "He" has put out the word, and they must flee for their lives.	Fiction
	Kissing Doorknobs	Hesser, Terry Spencer	1999	Tara struggles to live with her obsessive-compulsive behavior, but before her condition is diagnosed, her relationships with family and friends begin to crumble.	Fiction
	Long Walk	Bachman, Richard	1979	Of the 100 boys who begin a grueling marathon walk, 99 will die--and one will have his every wish granted. Or will he?	Fiction
	Lyddie	Paterson, Katherine	1992	Unable to pay off the debt on the family farm, feisty, single-minded Lyddie survives the dangers of the textile mills in 1840s Massachusetts, determined not to forfeit her dreams.	Fiction
	Magic Kindom for Sale - Sold!	Brooks, Terry	1986	In a funny fantasy adventure, disillusioned sorrowing widower Ben buys a magic kingdom for $1,000,000 only to find a run-down castle operated by a motley group of inept courtiers.	Fiction
	Make Lemonade	Wolff, Virginia Euwer	1994	High-school student LaVaughn, determined to earn money for college, baby-sits for Jolly, an unwed teenage mother of two, and matures in the process.	Fiction
	Nothing but the Truth	Avi	1992	It's against regulations to hum the national anthem in school. Philip decides to disobey the rule, and the whole nation watches what happens.	Fiction
	On the Devil's Court	Deuker, Carl	1990	Seventeen-year-old Joe Faust must decide if it's worth selling his soul to the devil for one perfect season of basketball.	Fiction
	Owl in Love	Kindl, Patrice	1995	Girl by day, owl by night, 14-year-old Owl Tycho finds life is complicated--not only by a crush on her science teacher, but also by the presence of a deranged boy in the woods.	Fiction
	Peeling the Onion	Orr, Wendy	1998	Anna struggles to recover her health and her life after a car accident shatters her body and leaves her brain damaged.	Fiction
	Rules of the Road	Bauer, Joan	1999	Seventeen-year-old Jenna's job at crusty Mrs. Gladstone's shoe store leads to her driving Mrs. Gladstone across country to Texas to prevent a company takeover.	Fiction
	Runner	Voigt, Cynthia	1985	Bullet, a 17-year-old cross country runner, finds that compromise is sometimes necessary if an athlete is going to be the best.	Fiction
	Running Loose	Crutcher, Chris	1983	Louie takes a stand against his coach and playing dirty football, falls in love, and loses his girlfriend in a fatal accident--all in his senior year.	Fiction
	Sabriel	Nix, Garth	1997	Sabriel makes a desperate quest through the Gates of Death to free her necromancer father from the strengthening powers of the spirits of the dead.	Fiction
	Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind	Staples, Suzanne Fischer	1990	Torn between allegiance to her family and her growing independence and strength, Shabanu tells the story of her life as a member of a nomadic tribe in the Pakistani desert.	Fiction
	Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults	Gallo, Donald (ed.)	1984	School, friendship, family, and love are all found within this unusual collection of humorous and serious short stories.	Fiction
	Slam	Myers, Walter Dean	1997	"Slam" Harris is a talented basketball player whose dreams of fame and fortune in the NBA can come true--if he can control his anger.	Fiction
	Soldier's Heart	Paulsen, Gary	1999	After facing the reality of fighting in the Civil War, Charlie realizes that war is hell on earth--both mentally and physically.	Fiction
	Somewhere in the Darkness	Myers, Walter Dean	1993	Jimmy is shocked when an unexpected visitor turns out to be his father, who has been in prison for eight years and now wants Jimmy to drive with him to Chicago.	Fiction
	Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes	Crutcher, Chris	1994	When the horrific truth about Sarah's past is revealed, only her true friend Eric ("Moby") Calhoun can help her come to terms with her family and plan for her future.	Fiction
	Swallowing Stones	McDonald, Joyce	1998	Depression, guilt, and fear plague Michael's dreams after a stray bullet from his rifle kills a man.	Fiction
	Tangerine	Bloor, Edward	1998	Is Tangerine, Florida, like the Bermuda Triangle? A sinkhole swallows the middle school, lightning strikes repeatedly, underground fires burn endlessly--and all newcomer Paul Fisher wants to do is play soccer, despite his thick glasses, his parents' indifference, and his evil brother.	Fiction
	Tears of a Tiger	Draper, Sharon M.	1996	High-school senior Andy Jackson is overcome by guilt after his best friend dies in an automobile accident that happened when Andy was driving drunk.	Fiction
	The Arizona Kid	Koertge, Ron	1988	Working one summer at a racetrack, living with his gay uncle, and falling madly in love make wimpy, short, tenth-grader Billy Kennedy more self-confident and wiser in the ways of the world.	Fiction
	The Bell Jar	Plath, Sylvia	1971	During a queer, sultry summer in New York, Esther Greenwood works as a junior editor on MADEMOISELLE, quarrels with her mother and boy friend, and is gradually aware of her descent into madness.	Fiction
	The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance	Mahy, Margaret	1984	With the help of an older boy who loves her, Laura "changes over" into a witch to fight the evil forces that are attacking her little brother.	Fiction
	The Chocolate War: A Novel	Cormier, Robert	1974	"Sweets" abound at Trinity High while a schoolmaster feasts on his students' fear--a bitter story of one student's resistance and the high price he pays.	Fiction
	The Chosen	Potok, Chaim	1967	Two Jewish boys growing to manhood in Brooklyn discover that differences can strengthen friendship and understanding.	Fiction
	The Crystal Cave	Stewart, Mary	1970	Merlin, the base-born son of royalty in 5th-century Britain, uses magic to outwit his enemies until he sets the stage for the birth of Arthur, the future king.	Fiction
	The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm	Farmer, Nancy	1995	When General Matsika's three children are kidnapped after they leave the safety of their armed compound, their mother hires the best detective team available in 2194 Zimbabwe--the appropriately named mutant partners--the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm.	Fiction
	The Friends	Guy, Rosa	1973	Rejected by her classmates because she "talks funny," Phyllisia Cathy, a young West Indian girl, is forced to become friends with poor, frazzled Edith, the only one who will accept her.	Fiction
	The Giver	Lowry, Lois	1994	When he turns 12, Jonas is given his life assignment from the committee of elders--to become the receiver of memories from far-past times--and discovers the horrible secret that his society has hidden for the "safety and happiness" of its citizens.	Fiction
	The Golden Compass	Pullman, Philip	1997	With the aid of friends, witches, and armored polar bears, 12-year-old Lyra fights the evil that is stealing children and conducting horrible experiments on them.	Fiction
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Adams, Douglas	1980	The hilarious journey of Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect, a space hitchhiker, who escape from earth seconds before it is demolished and travel to a variety of galactic civilizations while gathering information for a hitchhiker's guidebook.	Fiction
	The Joy Luck Club	Tan, Amy	1990	Chinese American daughters find conflict, love and connection with their mothers, who are haunted by their early lives in China.	Fiction
	The Midwife's Apprentice	Cushman, Karen	1996	Beetle, a homeless girl, is found in a dung heap and apprenticed to the village midwife in this sensitive 14th-century tale set in England.	Fiction
	The Moves Make the Man	Brooks, Bruce	1985	As Jerome, a black athlete, shares his skills and interest in basketball with Bix, a white baseball player, their friendship grows and the game becomes a reflection of both their lives	Fiction
	The Ruby in the Smoke	Pullman, Philip	1987	Sally, 16 and an orphan, must find her way through a maze of 19th-century villains to claim her inheritance and her independence.	Fiction
	The Silver Kiss	Klause, Annette Curtis	1991	Feeling alienated from everyone during her mother's terminal illness, Zoe comes under the spell of Simon, a vampire doomed to live until he avenges the death of his mother 300 years earlier.	Fiction
	Things They Carried	O'Brien, Tim	1991	In these candid short stories based on O'Brien's Vietnam experiences, pictures, heartaches, dreams and terror are the things soldiers in Vietnam carry.	Fiction
	Tomorrow, When the War Began	Marsden, John	1996	When they return from a wilderness camping trip, Ellie and her friends are shocked to discover Australia has been invaded and soon find fighting and surviving have become their way of life.	Fiction
	Watership Down	Adams, Richard	1974	Follow the epic Tolkienesque adventures of Fiver, Hazel, and a ragtag lapin band. Rabbits will never seem the same again.	Fiction
	Weetzie Bat	Block, Francesca Lia	1990	Lanky lizards! Punk teens Weetzie and Dirk search for love in a modern fairy tale that is funny, moving, and unlike any book you've read before.	Fiction
	Whirlygig	Fleischman, Paul	1999	After killing a girl when driving drunk, Brent Bishop learns a lot about himself and life when he's forced to pay for his crime by traveling to the four corners of the U.S. to build whirligigs in her memory.	Fiction
	Z for Zachariah	O'Brien, Robert C.	1975	In a peaceful valley, two survivors of an atomic holocaust are brought together--one a self-sufficient young girl, the other a killer bent on killing again.	Fiction

Type : Non-Fiction ‎(18)
	Always to Remember: The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial	Ashabranner, Brent	1988	The story of Vietnam veteran Jan C. Scruggs's struggle to build a national monument honoring Americans who died or are missing in the Vietnam War.	Non-Fiction
	Beyond the Mtyh: The Story of Joan of Arc	Brooks, Polly Schoyer	1991	Condemned as a witch but later canonized as a saint, young Joan, inspired by her love of France, leads her countrymen in their battle against the English.	Non-Fiction
	Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam	Edelman, Bernard	1985	In their personal letters, soldiers and civilians reveal the pain, frustration, confusion, and anger that were part of their daily lives in Vietnam.	Non-Fiction
	Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery	Freedman, Russell	1994	A compelling photo-biography of Eleanor Roosevelt relates the remarkable story of a shy, lonely girl who grows up to be a powerful force in the fight for world peace and equality and an inspiration to millions of people.	Non-Fiction
	Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir	Cleary, Beverly	1988	An honest and humorous account of the Depression-era childhood and adolescence of Beverly Cleary in Oregon, where she encountered many of the same situations that teens do today.	Non-Fiction
	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Angelou, Maya	1970	This remarkable, poetic and frank autobiography of a black girl who grew up in Arkansas, St. Louis and San Francisco is for mature readers.	Non-Fiction
	Lincoln: A Photobiography	Freedman, Russell	1988	This skillfully written, appealing overview of Lincoln's life from boyhood to death, is accompanied by carefully chosen photographs and prints.	Non-Fiction
	Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America	McCall, Nathan	1995	McCall remembers his journey from a working-class African American neighborhood to prison to a prestigious position on the WASHINGTON POST.	Non-Fiction
	Maus: A Survivor's Tale	Spiegelman, Art	1986	In a comic book of revolutionary graphic design, a cartoonist juxtaposes his frustration with his father's insensitivity today and his father's desperate struggle to stay alive 40 years earlier during the Holocaust.	Non-Fiction
	Maus: A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began	Spiegelman, Art	1992	This graphic novel, the sequel to MAUS, recreates Vladek and Anja's agonizing struggles to survive in the concentration camp.	Non-Fiction
	Pigman and Me	Zindel, Paul	1993	Zindel recounts his bizarre adventures growing up on Staten Island, when his neighbor's father becomes his personal "pigman" and teaches him to cope with his rootless family.	Non-Fiction
	Place My Words Are Looking For: What Poets Say About and Through Their Work	Janeczko, Paul B.	1991	Writers share their poems and give insights into their craft and life.	Non-Fiction
	Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts	McKissack, Patricia C. and McKissack, Fredrick L.	1997	Exciting profiles of heroic men and women tell accounts of those who rebelled against slavery in North America.	Non-Fiction
	Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend Our Nights and Days	Bodanis, David	1986	The microbiological drama found within a house is explored from early-morning to late- evening.	Non-Fiction
	The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage	Stoll, Cliff	1991	A young astrophysicist turns detective as he embarks on the trail of an elusive computer hacker who has managed to break into top-secret government and military data banks.	Non-Fiction
	We Are Witnesses: The Diaries of Five Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust	Boas, Jacob	1996	The compelling and poignant diaries of five teenagers who died during the Holocaust tell their tragic, courageous stories.	Non-Fiction
	Woodsong	Paulsen, Gary	1991	Through his dogsledding adventures in the Minnesota wilderness where there are wolves, deep snow, and minus-30-degree temperatures, the author comes to understand nature's ways and harrowing surprises.	Non-Fiction
	Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane	Freedman, Russell	1992	Freedman tells the fascinating story of how two self-taught bicycle mechanics solve the problems that had baffled generations of scientists and engineers.	Non-Fiction

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