Adam & Eve & Pinch-Me*

15-year-old Sara Moone, abandoned at birth and shunted from one foster home to another, finds that she cannot remain aloof from her latest family.

Alone At Ninety Foot*

Am I Blue?

BAUER, M (ed.)

Sixteen short stories about gay adolescent experiences.

Annie's Baby: The Diary Of An  Anonymous Pregnant Teenager

SPARKS, C (ed.)

Diary of 14-year-old Annie, who writes her most private thoughts as she becomes pregnant and faces responsibilities beyond her years.

Another Way To Dance

SOUTHGATE, M

Black ballet dancer Vicki is certain she loves to dance, but can she contend with racism and doubt surrounding her talents?

Anything To Win

Cam Potter is a high school senior and captain of the football team, When his coach tells him that an athletic scholarship is available at State if he can put on thirty pounds, Cam succumbs to a program of anabolic steroids.

Bad*

Sentenced to six months in the Girls Rehabilitation Center for her participation in a convenience store robbery, Dallas acknowledges her responsibility for her actions and is insightful about how her low self-esteem and need for love has driven her to delinquency.

Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress

During the Cultural Revolution in China, two teenagers are sent to the countryside for "re-education". They are assigned the revolting task of carrying buckets of excrement up a hillside for the peasant farmers. When they discover a wealth of forbidden Western books, life on the hillside takes a brighter turn.

Begonia For Miss Applebaum

Because of the impending death of their favorite teacher, two teenagers realize that it is not dying that is important, but living, and the legacy one leaves behind.

Bell Jar

Autobiographical novel about a young woman on the brink of madness and suicide.

Best Little Girl In The World*

LEVENKROM, S

A revealing novel of a young girl's battle with anorexia and her triumph over it.

Beyond The Mango Tree

While living in Liberia with her possessive, diabetic and often absent father, Sarina longs for a friend with whom to experience the world beyond her yard.

Blue Rapture*

A friend's suicide leads TJ to rethink both his motives and his actions in helping his learning-disabled but athletically gifted friend Tyrone through the college recruitment process.

Bodega Dreams

Powerful, darkly funny, novel that brilliantly evokes the trials of Chino, a smart, promising young man who finds himself over his head in an urban underworld of switchblades and violence.

Border

When Rosa's papa and sister crossed the border from Mexico to America, a guardian spirit named Luz took care of Rosa. Now she must cross the border on her own. And when she is hurt, Luz will cross into Rosa's body, and touch - and change forever - her new family in America.

Boy Who Drank Too Much

A realistic and dramatic portrayal of a young man torn by alcoholism and the conflicting demands of his father, hockey and his own values.

Breaking Rank*

17-year-old Casey has some of her preconceptions challenged when she tutors Baby, a member of the Clan, a gang-like society in her school.

Breath, Eyes, Memory

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village in Haiti to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti.

Brian's Song

Two football players conquer the differences of race, personality and place of birth to support each other.

Bride Price

EMECHETA, B

A story about a Nigerian girl who is allowed to finish her education because a diploma will enhance her bride price, who then rebels against traditional marriage customs.

Brothers*

When his idolized older brother leaves college for a mental health facility and then disappears, 17-year-old Chris follows him to the compound of an anti-government militia group and tries to rescue him.

Buffalo Tree

Sura and his cell mate Coly Jo try to do their time and evade sadistic games within the Juvenile Detention. As things turn bad for Coly Jo, Sura determines to escape with body and spirit intact - if he can.

Buried Onions*

19-year-old Eddie just wants to get by and leave his past behind, but finds himself inexorably drawn back into the violence of Fresno's mean streets.

But What About Me?

Can't Hear You Listening

Cat*

Cat's mother has always told her to hide her figure and she has lived her life shrouded in secrets. When she finally demands the truth, she finds her secrets are the most shocking and dark of all four girls.

Caucasia

A sensitive coming-of-age story about two sisters whose parents are an inter-racial couple, and the way the world perceives each girl as a result of her skin color.

Cay*

A prejudiced, blind white boy is stranded on a Caribbean Island with an old black man.

Chinese Handcuffs

Dillion Hemingway must pick up the pieces of his own life after his brother's suicide, plus deal with girlfriend problems and peer pressure.

Chocolate War

High school politics, cruelty and conformity sparked by the annual fundraising event.

Clover

Clover Hill, who is a shrewd South Carolina orphan, is raised by her stepmother, a white woman frowned upon by Clover's black kinfolk.

Come A Stranger

After returning to a Connecticut dance camp, her former friends treat Mina differently, and she becomes aware for the first time that she is the only black girl there.

Conditions Of Love*

A realistic and witty portrayal of high school freshman Sarah Morgan's struggle to survive the trauma of losing her father while coping with the pitfalls of adolescence.

Confessions Of A Teenage Baboon

ZINDEL, P

Chris Boyd, a teenage outcast, learns about life from a 30-year-old misfit.

Crazy Horse Electric Game

Willie, a baseball hero who is brain-damaged in an accident, runs away from home when his family and friends shun him.

Dance For Three*

15-year-old Hannah must face some hard truths as pregnancy, and rejection by her boyfriend, propel her towards a mental breakdown.

Day They Came To Arrest The Book*

Hilarious and strong novel on censorship of the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from a high school curriculum.

December Stillness*

Kelly's interest in a homeless Vietnam veteran ends in a tragedy while opening a door to a deeper relationship with her father, who had never come to grips with his own experiences in Vietnam.

Dibs, In Search Of Self

A disturbed child's successful struggle through therapy as he changes from a withdrawn to an outgoing person.

Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack

Dinky Hocker is fat, and refuses to be annoyed by either her boyfriend or her mother. Dinky Hocker does not shoot smack, she merely says so to get some attention.

Doing Time*

Don’t Hurt Laurie!*

Laurie is an abused child who must choose between leaving her best friend or living a tortured life at home.

Don't Think Twice*

Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey*

Tish chronicles her life in the journal she must keep for English class. When her abusive father returns home, Tish's entries are increasingly marked "Do Not Read" until she realizes silence may be dangerous.

Door Near Here*

Head of the household at 15 when her out-of-work, alcoholic mother refuses to get out of bed, Katherine wonders how long she can hold things together and keep her three siblings' teachers from becoming suspicious.

Dreamland

A young girl is trapped in a cycle of violence, love and need as she searches to find herself within an abusive relationship.

Drive-By*

Jimmy always warned his brother Tito that joining a gang could only lead to disaster. But now, Jimmy is dead, gunned down in front of his brother and sister, and Tito must face the consequences.

Driver's Ed*

A group of driver's education students steal some highway signs as a class prank - with tragic results.

Drowning of Stephan Jones*

Drummers Of Jericho

Pazit Trujillo quickly realizes that people in Jericho, a small suburban town, aren't used to Jewish girls with strange names. Despite the whispers and stares, she wants to fit in, and is determined to become part of the school's marching band.

Durango Street

When Rufus Henry gets out of work camp for Grand Theft Auto, he has only one place to go - back to Durango Street. Almost right away, he gets on the wrong side of the Gassers, has to join the rival Moors - and starts running for his life.

Eclipse Of Moonbeam Dawson*

Edgar Allen*

NEUFELD, J

The bitter repercussions of a white family's intended adoption of a black child.

Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man In The Moon Marigolds

ZINDEL, P

The story of Tillie, a young girl who uses science to help escape from her odd family life.

Eight Seconds*

18-year-old John must confront his own sexuality when he attends rodeo school and finds himself strangely attracted to an older boy who is smart, tough, attractive and gay.

Ellen Foster

Ellen Foster, cast adrift after the deaths of her drunken father and misused mother, moves from one bad situation to another until she finds a real home.

Everytime A Rainbow Dies

After witnessing a rape and interceding on the victim's behalf, 16-year-old Jamaican Thulani begins to move beyond his grief over his mother's death as he builds a relationship with the Haitian girl he helped.

Extreme Elvin*

Elvin struggles with his weight problem and tries to find his place among his peers.

Face At The Edge Of The World

Face In Every Window*

JP's safe and secure world unravels when his grandmother, his family's guiding hand, dies, leaving him with a mentally challenged father and a mother who retreats into adolescence.

Falling Leaves

Adeline Yen Mah, the youngest daughter of an affluent Chinese family, endured a childhood of appalling emotional abuse. Her struggles reveal the harsh realities of growing up female in 20^th century China.

Finding Laura Buggs

One perplexing clue to her past sets Sandy Meyer on an incredible and harrowing journey in search of her lost family, a pilgrimage that brings her face to face with nerve-shattering suspense, unbearable terror and the magnificent capacity of the human heart.

Finding My Voice

Korean-American high school senior Ellen Sung struggles against racism and her own family's dreams for her to find a place for herself in two very different cultures.

First Sightings. Contemporary Stories Of American Youth

LOUGHERY, J (ed.)

Twenty short stories, written by some of America's best contemporary writers.

Forged By Fire*

While his mother was serving a prison sentence for child neglect, Gerald lived with his aunt. Then, one day, his mother returns with her new husband and Angel, Gerald's little sister. As the children grow up, it becomes more and more apparent that Angel needs Gerald's protection from her father's sexual abuse. But who will protect Gerald?

Gentlehands*

When a newspaper story claims that Buddy's sophisticated, cultured grandfather is a former Nazi, he must decide whether to stay loyal to him in the face of mounting proof.

Gideon's People

Torn between youthful rebellion and their traditional heritage, two boys from very different cultures, one Amish and one Jewish, discover how similar they really are.

Girl Goddess #9*

A collection of nine stories about pre- and post-adolescent females and their coming to grips - or not - with the world.

Girl Interrupted

Committed to a psychiatric ward at age 18, the author spent two years on the ward for teenage girls. A contemporary classic of self-discovery, this memoir tells of her journey through a "parallel universe" of madness.

Glimmer*

Sage, youngest sibling of five, and the product of an interracial marriage, has lived her life knowing that her parents separated while her mother was pregnant with her. When she goes to college, she encounters fellow students that force her to consider how she wants to define herself in terms of race and sexuality.

Go Ask Alice*

True and painful diary of a 15-year-old girl's experience with drugs that eventually leads to her death.

Good Courage*

Good Negress

Denise Palms is transplanted from her grandmother's rural Virginia home to the chaos of big-city Detroit in 1963 to help care for the baby expected by her mother and stepfather.

Habibi

Liyana is uprooted from her life when her family moves to Jerusalem, where she faces many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.

Hanged Man

Laurel, whose father is dying, meets Jack in the hospital waiting room. She encounters Jack again, and their subsequent relationship brings out her own haunting. Her late father had for years sexually abused her, resulting in a terminated pregnancy and anorexia.

Harley, Like A Person

Harley, an artistic teenager living with his alcoholic father and angry mother, suspects that she's adopted and begins a search to find her long lost father, and hope.

Hate You*

Nursing hatred for an abusive father that choked her and damaged her voice as a child, 17-year-old Alice writes songs she cannot sing, and tries to come to terms with her feelings.

Heart Of A Champion

Best friends, Seth Barham and Jimmy Winter, share a passion for baseball. While Seth struggles to accept his father's death, Jimmy seems destined to become a major league until he embarks on a self-destructive path.

Heaven

JOHNSON, A

When Marley, who is African American, learns that her itinerant uncle is really her father and her loving "parents" are her aunt and uncle, she has to come to terms with her feelings of anger, betrayal and curiosity as to who she really is.

Hello, I Lied

When Lang has the chance to spend the summer at the ritzy estate of retired rock star Ben Nevada, he's sure that it will be the summer of a lifetime. What he doesn't expect is that in addition to hobnobbing with the rich and famous of the rock world, he'll find himself coming out about his homosexuality.

Hero*

After years of abuse and neglect, Sean Parker is headed for trouble. Sent to do community service at a farm for elderly Mr. Hassler, Sean realizes that he can choose to take control of his life.

Hoops *

A young man with a talent for basketball hopes that his game will be his ticket out of the ghetto.

Hope In The Unseen: An American Odyssey From The Inner City To The Ivy League

At Ballou Senior High, a crime-infested school in Washington, D.C., honor students know that any special attention in a place this dangerous can make you a target of violence. But Cedric Jennings will not swallow his pride, and studies and strives as if his life depends on it - and it does.

Humming Whispers*

In a poignant first-person narration, Sophy expresses her fear that at 14, the same age her sister began to hear voices, she too will become schizophrenic.

If Beale Street Could Talk

Fonny, a talented young artist, finds himself unjustly arrested and locked in New York's infamous (prison) tombs. His girlfriend, Tish, is determined to free him, and to have his baby.

Imani All Mine

Imani All Mine tracks the progress of Tasha, a young, unwed mother, as she navigates her journey to adulthood in an increasingly violent world.

Imitate The Tiger*

Chris Serbo looks for salvation in football and drinking, but neither will fill the emptiness inside. Not until he finds himself in danger on a lonely road does he come face-to-face with the person he has become.

Ironman

When Bo Brewster's angry outbursts at school cost him a spot on the football team and move him close to expulsion, he finds himself in an anger management group with hard-edged survivors like himself.

Island

Will, who takes daily refuge on an island to get away from his problems, finally has to face Ray Bunner, the bully that is after him.

It's Not The End Of The World

Karen Newman, who is stunned when her father moves out of the house, is determined to come up with a plan that will prevent her parents’ divorce.

Jade*

Jemmy

Joy Luck Club

Chronicles the lives of four Chinese women, their forty-year friendship, and how the death of one member brings her daughter into the group, creating a new understanding for each.

Jumping The Nail

Suspenseful story of California teens daring one another to "jump the nail" - leap from a dangerous cliff into the ocean. Dru must find the courage to make difficult choices about her friends, love and college.

Just As Long As We're Together

Stephanie’s relationship with Rachel, her best friend, changes as she tries to conceal a family problem and meets a new girl from California.

Keeping The Moon

Sent to spend the summer with an eccentric aunt, Colie, an overweight girl, expects her life as an outsider to continue. A job and new friends help her to see herself in a new light, and to appreciate the qualities she has always had.

Kim/Kimi

IRWIN, H

Despite a warm relationship with her mother, stepfather and half brother, 16-year-old Kim feels the need to find answers about the Japanese American father she never knew.

Kissing Doorknobs*

Tara is bright and funny, but is also troubled with quirky behaviors she knows are irrational, but can't control - like kissing doorknobs. A funny and compelling story about obsessive-compulsive behavior, and how it affects relationships.

Language Of Goldfish

Carrie Stokes, a sensitive artist and talented mathematician who is suffering a mental breakdown. As Carrie retreats little by little into her head, a kaleidoscope of shifting emotions come tumbling out.

Leaving Fishers*

Leaving Home

ROCMAN, H (ed.)

Fifteen distinguished authors explore personal journeys of young people.

Lefty Carmichael Has A Fit

When Lefty Carmichael learns he has epilepsy, he believes he can handle the possibility of unexpected seizures. But can his family, his friends and his girlfriend?

Leroy And The Old Man*

The wolves are one of Chicago's toughest gangs, and LeRoy had the bad luck to witness a murder they had committed. Now the Wolves are convinced that LeRoy squealed on them - and they won't be satisfied until they get revenge.

Life For A Life

HILL, E

Story of the unlikely bond between an African-American father and the teenager who killed his son, a tale of violent self-destruction reclaimed by the inexhaustible power of love and forgiveness.

Life In The Fat Lane

16-year-old Lara, beautiful, thin, smart and popular, begins to gain weight due to a metabolic disorder. She learns first-hand what it means to be overweight in a society obsessed with appearances.

Like Sisters On The Homefront*

WILLIAMS-GARCIA, R

When 14-year-old Gayle becomes pregnant a second time, her mother sends her to Georgia to live with her Uncle Luther. Strong-willed and impulsive, Gayle eventually makes friends with her pious cousin Constance, but develops a true affinity for Luther's stubborn, spirited grandmother.

Lisa, Bright And Dark*

Three teenage friends help Lisa to cope with the mental illness her parents and teachers refuse to acknowledge.

Living Up The Street

SOTO, G

The author describes with warmth and wry reality his experiences growing up as a Mexican American in Fresno, California, during the late 1950's and early 1960's.

Looking For Alibrandi

Lottery Rose*

HUNT, I

A young boy, victimized by child abuse, overcomes his mistrust of the world.

Love Is A Missing Person

Suzy watches everybody around her falling in and out of love, and how it changes them as a result. Some of them change for the better because of love, some worse.

Making Up Megaboy

Marchlands

Set on a 1,000-acre sheep ranch in the vast landscape of Wyoming, the story concerns one pivotal year in the life of 15-year-old Sophie Behr. She is a young woman searching for the truth about her family's past, even as she seeks to define her own future with the child she is carrying.

Max The Mighty*

Grieving over the loss of his best friend, Max Kane befriends a lonely girl nicknamed "Worm", who needs a friend to protect her from her stepfather.

Maze

Runaway Rick Walter finds himself in the middle of a k western landscape of canyons and deserts.

Midget*

A physically handicapped boy, who has suffered years of abuse at the hands of his older brother, discovers that he has amazing but terrifying mental powers.

Miracle's Boys

Lafayette's close friendship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from the correctional facility and returns a hostile stranger.

Missing Girls

Missing Pieces*

Jessie's father walked out on his family when she was just a baby. Why should she care about him when it's clear he never cared about her? Yet after years of anxiety, Jessie needs to know more about him, and so, despite her mother's objections, she decides to track her father down.

Misty*

Monsters

16-year-old Steve Harmon, on trial as an accomplice to a murder, records his trial in the form of a film script as he tries to sort out who he is and what is real.

Moonlight Man*

Catherine's parents were divorced when she was a toddler, and her contact with her father over the years has been erratic. Subsequently she has a somewhat romantic picture of the man who is her father. Over the course of a summer holiday spent with him in Nova Scotia, Catherine comes face to face with his alcoholism.

Mr. And Mrs. Bo Jo Jones

Much Ado About Prom Night*

Just when pre-prom traumas are abounding, Luna Point High's popular new Peer Counseling Network is threatened with a shutdown. The school newspaper editor derided PCN from the beginning and questioned the qualifications of the student counselors. Now some school board members believe that the network is advocating sexual activity to counselees and, consequently, are calling for a halt to the program.

My Darling, My Hamburger*

A popular young adult book that deals frankly and sympathetically with the growing pains of today's teenagers.

My Louisiana Sky

Tiger Ann Parker desperately wants to escape from her rural town of Saitter, Louisiana - and the struggles of living with a mentally disabled mother, a "slow" father, and classmates who taunt her. But before she leaves to spend the summer with her aunt in Baton Rouge, the sudden revelation of a dark family secret prompts Tiger to make a decision that will ultimately change her life.

My Sister From The Black Lagoon

Lorna comes of age in the shadows of a family torn apart by her sister's mental illness.

My Sweet Audrina*

Audrina Adare knew her father could not love her as he loved her sister. Her sister was so special, so perfect - and dead. Then she comes face to face with a dangerous, terrifying secret. Haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love.

Name Me Nobody*

An awkward Hawaiian teenager searches for self and place as a scorned outsider in her high school.

Necessary Roughness

The move from LA to a small town in Minnesota is a cultural shock for Chan Kim, an Asian teen who must learn to deal with intolerance as well as the anxiety of adolescence and a problematic relationship with his father.

Necking With Louise*

16-year-old Eric Anderson comes of age in these humorous short stories of a likable adolescent's day-to-day trials, including death, racial prejudice and love's cruel disappointments.

Needles: A Memoir Of Growing Up With Diabetes

DOMINICK, A

Dominick tells her story about how she and her sister grew up with diabetes, and the emotional and physical challenges she faced after her sister’s tragic death.

Night Kites

Nine Man Tree

Yoolee Tharp tries to protect his mother and his sister from his abusive father and from an unspeakable horror stalking the swamplands.

No Kidding

In a 21^st century society where both alcoholism and its treatment have become institutionalized, 14-year-old Sam is allowed to decide the fate of his family after his mother is released from an alcohol rehabilitation center.

No Easy Answers, Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices*

Sixteen original short stories involving moral and ethical issues. Individuals face the consequences of their actions and consider what it means to "do the right thing".

No More Saturday Nights

One Fat Summer

Bobby Marks, fat and miserable, takes a strenuous summer job, loses weight and gains respect.

Only Alien On The Planet*

Ginny never thought she would fall for someone like Smitty, a child abuse victim. Eventually, Smitty lets Ginny into his troubled, hidden world and they begin the gradual process of healing - together.

Ordinary People

An incisive, unsparing look at family politics among a father, a mother and a son in the wake of a family tragedy.

Out Of Control

Taunted by three boys, Valerie stands up to them and finds herself the victim of their unwanted attentions.

Painting The Black

Ryan Ward, just beginning to feel the magic of baseball, is faced with a heartbreaking dilemma when he must choose between his love of the game and his integrity.

Past Forgiving*

Alexandra loves Cliff, although at times the darker side of his personality scares her. As Cliff's verbal and physical abuse grow, Alex puts up with it - until he rapes her and she wakes up to the realization that there are limits that can't be broken, even where love is involved.

Peeling The Onion*

Anna is 17 when a car accident alters her life. Thrust into a world of pain, fear and disassociation from the layers that made up who she used to be - her looks, her friends, her karate prowess - Anna slowly comes to see who she really is.

Peter

Petey

Petey, born with cerebral palsy, and misdiagnosed as retarded, has spent sixty years in institutions. When Trevor Ladd rescues him from a group of snow throwing bullies, Petey is compelled to overcome his physical difficulties to become Trevor's friend.

Phoenix Rising

Pigman And Me

A tender yet fast-paced and funny biography revealing a sensitive boy struggling to overcome the cruelties of life with humor and a little bit of help from the wise "pigman".

Pigman's Legacy

In this sequal to Pigman, Lorraine and John are forced to face the death of the old man they had befriended.

Place To Call Home

KOLLER, J

15-year-old biracial Anna tries to care for her 5-year-old sister and infant brother when her alcoholic mother disappears yet again. Anna discovers her mother's car in a nearby lake - evidence of her suicide.

Raging Quiet

Rats Saw God

Having gone from top student to a bummed out and drugged out high school senior, Steve York is one step away from flunking out. As he writes a 100-page graduate paper, he begins to understand where he is and where he wants to go.

Revolutions Of The Heart

Cory’s 17^th year is marked by her mother’s sudden death, the return of her hothead brother, her love for and romance with a Native American boy, and the eruption of bigotry in her small Wisconsin town.

Rite Of Passage

Johnny, a gifted 15-year-old, runs away from home when he discovers that he's really a foster child and that the faceless city bureaucracy is moving him to a new family. Suddenly alone on the streets, hungry and lost, he survives with a brutal gang, fights the leader for dominance, and helps mug a man in the park.

Rumble Fish

Rusty James's lack of direction, his longing for the days of street gangs, and his blind drive to be like his brother, eat away at his world until it comes apart in an explosive chain of events.

Rundown*

In a quest for attention from her family, 17-year-old Jennifer Thayer reports a crime that never happened, claiming that she is the victim of a rapist. As her lie continues, Jennifer faces the hard reality that she knows the truth.

Safe At Second*

Baseball player Todd Bannister, Paulie Lockwood's best friend, has it all until a line drive to his head causes him to lose an eye. Now everything is different, and the two friends must chart a new future for their lives.

Sarah T: Portrait Of A Teen-Age Alcoholic*

WAGNER, R

Shocking and moving portrait of a teenage alcoholic.

Say Goodnight, Gracie*

Jimmy and Morgan, both 17, have been best friends since birth. Jimmy is killed by a drunken driver, and Morgan is left to deal with the grief accompanying a senseless tragedy.

Second To The Right*

Leslie Hiller, a bright, attractive and talented teenager, finds her quest for perfection may just kill her when she begins to diet and just can't seem to stop.

Secret Of Two Brothers*

Beaver has just returned to his West Dallas barrio after serving time in prison for a crime he did not commit. During Beaver's absence, his younger brother, Cande, abused by his father, had to fend for himself. The two brothers are successful in avoiding their father and in becoming a family again. However, when Cande is involved in a car accident, the abuse and the brothers' living situation, is discovered.

Shadow People*

In this chilling story, a troubled Gabriel finds himself involved with three other teenagers in a series of increasingly violent acts.

Silver

Somebody's Baby*

When teenager Jenny Jaffe becomes pregnant, she and Will McDonald, father of her unborn child, plan to elope. Her parents put a stop to their plans, and Jenny is sent to a Catholic Home for Girls in California to have her baby and give it up for adoption. Three decades pass, and the child, Claudia, now grown with her her own child, decides to find her birth parents.

Someone Like You*

Quiet Halley and popular Scarlet strive for a new balance in their friendship junior year when Scarlett's boyfriend dies in a motorcycle accident and Scarlett discovers that she is pregnant, and really needs her best friend.

Speak

Melinda enters high school as an outcast - silent, angry and traumatized by rape. Her black humor and honest depiction of the high school experience will resonate with many teens.

Star*

Stonecold*

Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Sister Went Crazy

SONES, S

Cookie's short first-person poems reveal her unraveling world and concern for her own sanity when her older sister is institutionalized after a mental breakdown.

Striking Out*

Sudden Silence

Switch*

Taking Sides*

Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white, suburban neighborhood.

Taking Terri Mueller*

Tears Of A Tiger

Andy is an African-American teenager whose life derails when, after a long evening of drinking, the car he drives crashes, killing his best friend. His guilt and despair lead him to turn away from family, friends and his plans for the future.

Teen Ink: Our Voices, Our Visions

Compelling collection of honest writing from teens for teens on all areas of teenage life.

Telling*

Tenderness*

The lives of two troubled teens dramatically intersect in this psychological thriller as teenage serial killer Eric Poole and runaway Lori Cranston embark on a journey that will either save of destroy them.

Tent*

Tex

A year in the life of a poor high school student in Oklahoma struggling to come to terms with an absent father, a tense older brother and a new girlfriend.

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

They Cage The Animals At Night

Gripping autobiographical account of a child whose mother abandoned him at the age of eight.

Tiger Eyes

After Davey's father is killed in a hold-up, she and her mother and younger brother visit relatives in New Mexico. Here Davey is befriended by a young man who helps her find the strength to carry on and conquer her fears.

Till Death Do Us Part*

Diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, 18-year-old April faces an uncertain future with her fiancée. Mark, a race car driver with cystic fibrosis, suffers a terrible accident and this forces April to make a difficult decision

Time For Dancing*

Juliana is dark and serious, close to her family and recently dumped by her beloved boyfriend Jack; Samantha is blonde and outrageous, playing the romantic field and angered by her own family's dissolution. It's the summer before their senior year, and the two girls, longtime best friends, take turns narrating the events that unfold when Julie discovers that she has cancer.

Timon's Tide*

Tribute To Another Dead Rock *

Grady Grennan is in Seattle for a concert tribute to his mother, a grunge-rock icon who died three years ago. He has been invited to speak at the tribute, but what is he supposed to say to thousands of adoring fans about a mother who abandoned her sons in favor of a musical career?

Up Country

Carl is smart and focused on getting away from his drunken mother and her "classy guys". He runs a stolen car-radio business, hoping to earn enough money for college, but then his mother is arrested for drunk driving, and he has to live with his country relatives up north.

Vanishing*

Visions: Nineteen Short Stories By Outstanding Writers For Young Adults*

GALLO, D (ed.)

War Between The Classes

Amy and Adam are involved in the "color game" at school, an experiment that's designed to make students aware of class and racial prejudices. Now the experiment threatens to alienate Amy from her friends and tear her apart from Adam.

Watcher*

A lonely and abused teenage girl creates fantasy lives in her journal about two boys she observes on the beach.

Weeping Willow*

What Girls Learn: A Novel

Tilden navigates all the complexities of adolescent friendships, sibling rivalry and burgeoning sexuality while dealing with her mother's illness.

What Jamie Saw

When Jamie saw Van throw his little sister, his mother moved them to a small trailer in the woods where they could learn to trust one another, and the people around them.

What Kind Of Love? The Diary Of A Pregnant Teenager*

What They Don't Know*

Kelly's younger sister, Hannah, had always been strong-willed, but things take a sudden turn for the worse after Hannah prepares a blood project for the school science fair. Determined to know the facts and find the cause of Hannah's abrupt spree of self-destructive behavior, Kelly sets out to solve the mystery.

What's In A Name? *

Set against the conflict of a coastal Massachusetts town proposing to change its name, Wittlinger addresses the issues of class, identity and fitting in that many teenagers face.

When Happily Ever After Ends*

Shannon knew her father had been troubled since he served in the Vietnam War, but his violent suicide still shocks her. Why wasn't her love enough to make him want to live? As Shannon and her mother try to make sense of his death, they courageously renew their commitment to living in the face of their loss.

When JFK Was My Father

Georgia copes with life in a Connecticut boarding school by creating fantasy relationships with JFK and a ghost of a former headmistress.

When Kambia Elaine Flew In From Neptune

Shayla, growing up in the poorer section of Houston, is confused by the girl next door's fantastic stories and the need to keep them secret until she realizes Kambia Elaine is being hurt and needs help.

When She Was God*

Em spent the first 14 years of her life suffering from her father's alcoholic rages and her mother's silent depression, and the next three trapped with her abusive sister, Pamela. Then Pamela dies, and Em, alone at last, does her best to live as she imagines "normal" people do. Will she be able to manage now that she is on her own?

When She Was Good

The moving story of a young girl's courage and resilience in the face of family alcoholism, depression and abuse.

When Zachary Beaver Came To Town

Toby Wilson struggles to find himself in an imperfect world where his mother is leaving, his best friend's brother is in Vietnam, and Zachary Weaver, the fattest boy in the world, cannot easily be dismissed as only a freak attraction in a traveling show.

Whistling Toilets*

Called in to coach his friend Ginny, a nationally ranked junior tennis, when her game hits a slump, 16-year-old Stan Claxton reevaluates their friendship and his future.

White Horse

16-year-old Raina reveals her life with a dysfunctional family, life on the streets, drug abuse and an unplanned pregnancy through her writing to a concerned teacher.

White Mercedes*

Chris is working the lighting at a party in Oxford when he meets Jenny. They meet again by chance a few days later and begin a relationship. Jenny has run away from an abusive home, and the separation of Chris's parents has forced him to grow up before he is ready. Jenny and Chris make bad decisions that lead to her death.

White Oleander

White Romance*

As her all-black high school becomes more racially mixed, Talley befriends a white girl, who shares her passion for running, and becomes romantically involved with a drug dealer.

Woman In The Wall

Year They Burned The Books

Zack*

BELL, W

Child of a mixed marriage, Zack Lane finds out why his mother won't talk about her side of the family in this tale of race hatred and personal identity.

Zia

A young Indian girl, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the mission, is helped by her Aunt Karana, whose story was told in Island of the Blue Dolphins