NEW MOON -
Stephenie Meyer
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires,
it is almost too much for eighteen-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.
THE RULES OF
SURVIVAL -
Nancy 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.
SOLD -
Patricia
McCormick
A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India.
SAINT IGGY -
K.L. Going
Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when
he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved
with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.
WHAT HAPPENED TO
CASS MCBRIDE? -
Gail Giles
After his brother commits suicide, Kyle Kirby kidnaps and buries alive
Cass, the girl he holds responsible.
UGLIES -
Scott Westerfeld
Book 1: Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than
submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole
new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.
SPECIALS -
Scott Westerfeld
Book 3 : Tally has been turned into a Special and is offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently.
FOR ONE MORE DAY -
Mitch
Albom
After years of drinking, being rejected by his wife and daughter, and a suicide attempt, ex-baseball star
Charley Benetto returns to his childhood home where he encounters the ghost of his mother, who tells him
family secrets and guides him in making his life better.
ANNIE'S BABY: DIARY
OF ANONYMOUS, A PREGNANT TEEN
THE CAGE -
Ruth Minsky
Sender
A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis--in a Polish ghetto, during
deportation, and in a concentration camp.
CHICKS WITH STICKS -
Elizabeth
Lenhard
Chicago high-school juniors Scottie, Amanda, Tay, and Bella, rely on their friendship and their shared passion
for knitting to help them as they navigate their relationships with boys.
THE LAKE OF SOULS -
Darren
Shan
Cirque du freak Book 10: The lives of Darren and Harkat are at risk as they face monstrous obstacles
on a desperate quest to the Lake of Souls.
LORD OF THE SHADOWS
- Darren
Shan
Cirque du freak Book 11: When Darren Shan returns home, he is met by old enemies and scores to be settled,
and with destiny certain to destroy him, the world seems doomed to fall to the Ruler of the Night.
CRANK -
Ellen Hopkins
Kristina Georgia Snow's life is turned upside-down, when she visits her absentee father, gets turned on to the drug "crank",
becomes addicted, and is lead down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and her life.
DEAD CONNECTION -
Charlie
Price
A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince
the adults that he knows what happened to her.
THAT SUMMER -
Sarah Dessen
During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own
by letting go of the myths of the past.
THE PRIVILEGE OF
YOUTH -
Dave Pelzer
Dave Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in California history, tells the story of his adolescent years after he was
removed from his home and placed in foster care, and discusses the influence on his life of Dan Brazell, the man he came to regard as his father.
GENIE -
Russ Rymer
Examines the case of Genie, a thirteen-year-old girl who came to the attention of authorities in 1970 after spending her entire childhood
strapped to a chair alone in a back room of her home; and discusses the behavior of scientists who were eager to use Genie to test theories
about language acquisition and human development.