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Anderson, Laurie Halse
Speak
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
197 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
 Discussion Guides - Teen Books
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Anderson, M. T.
Feed
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
299 p. 2004
Appears on the following book lists:
Science Fiction
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
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Carroll, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers an unusual world of nonsensical, amusing and disturbing characters.
196 p. 1992
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Chbosky, Stephen
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Written in the form of letters to an anonymous Dear Friend, shy and introspective Charlie, a high school freshman, documents his day-to-day thoughts and feelings of some of the many struggles faced in high school -- from how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, sexuality, a first romance, family tensions, and experimenting with drugs, to dealing with the recent suicide of his best friend.
213 p. 1999
Appears on the following book lists:
Good Reads for Guys
My So-Called Life
Challenged and Banned Books
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Cooper, Susan
The Dark is Rising
Will Stanton discovers the role he must play in the struggle to overcome the powers of the Dark.
244 p. 1986
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Cormier, Robert
The Chocolate War: a novel
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
253 p. 1974
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Crutcher, Chris
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
As Eric loses weight, he worries that he will lose his friendship with Sarah. The friendship takes an unexpected turn when Sarah begins to deal with scars of her own.
216 p. 1993
Appears on the following book lists:
If you liked . . . The Curious Incident of the Dog in The
Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
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Farmer, Nancy
The Ear the Eye and the Arm : a novel
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
311 p. 1994
Appears on the following book lists:
Science Fiction
Newbery Honor
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Greene, Bette
Summer of My German Soldier
Sheltering an escaped prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a twelve-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
230 p. 1973
Appears on the following book lists:
Challenged and Banned Books
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Hinton, S. E.
The Outsiders
Ponyboy and his brothers struggle to find their place in a difficult world after the deaths of their parents.
188 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Challenged and Banned Books
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Klause, Annette Curtis
Blood and Chocolate
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
264 p. 1997
Appears on the following book lists:
Horrorific
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L'Engle, Madeleine
A Wrinkle in Time
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
211 p. 1962
Appears on the following book lists:
Classics - modern
Science Fiction
Newbery Medal and Honor Books to 1960
Challenged and Banned Books
Science Fiction
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
Discussion Guides - Children's Books
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Myers, Walter Dean
Autobiography of My Dead Brother
Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend.
212 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
Urban Lit
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Paterson, Katherine
Jacob Have I Loved
Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.
216 p. 1980
Appears on the following book lists:
Classics
Newbery Medal and Honor Books to 1960
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Pullman, Philip
The Golden Compass
Accompanied by her shape-shifting demon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
399 p. 1996
Appears on the following book lists:
If You Like Harry Potter
Flights of Fantasy
The Perfect Holiday Gift: Books
Challenged and Banned Books
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Rawls, Wilson
Where the Red Fern Grows : the Story of Two Dogs and a Boy
A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.
212 p. 1992
Appears on the following book lists:
Classics
Classics - modern
Animal Stories - real
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Speare, Elizabeth George
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Uprooted from her birthplace in Barbados, Kit Tyler is treated with suspicion on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687.
249 p. 1958
Appears on the following book lists:
Historical Fiction - United States
Classics - traditional
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Spinelli, Jerry
Stargirl
A new girl in school has a mysterious effect on her classmates.
186 p. 2000
Appears on the following book lists:
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
It's Due Tomorrow!
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Thomas, Rob
Rats Saw God
Between his high school frosh year in Houston and senior year in San Diego, Steve sorts out relationships with his famous astronaut father, girlfriend Dub, and friends in a club named GOD (Grace Order of Dadaists).
219 p. 1996
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Woodson, Jacqueline
If You Come Softly
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
181 p. 1998
Appears on the following book lists:
Romance
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