Avi. Blue Heron.  Y FIC Avi
While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels.

Betancourt, Jeanne. Home Sweet Home.  Y FIC Bentacourt
Tracy undergoes a drastic lifestyle change when her family moves from their New York City apartment to Grandmother Tilly's farm where she makes few friends until Anya, a foreign exchange student, arrives from the Soviet Union.

Blume, Judy. Here's to You, Rachel Robinson.  YPB B/ Y FIC Blume
Expelled from boarding school, Charles' presence at home proves disruptive, especially for sister Rachel, a gifted seventh grader juggling friendships and school activities.

Bridgers, Sue Ellen. Keeping Christina.  Y FIC Bridgers
When she befriends Christina, the new girl in school, Annie does not suspect that there is more to her than meets the eye and that Christina will have a huge impact on Annie's family and her oldest friends.

Carter, Alden R. Bull Catcher.  Y FIC Carter
Pete and Jeff continue their friendship and love of baseball as they progress from ninth grade through high school in their small Wisconsin town.

Cohen, Barbara. Tell Us Your Secret.  Y FIC Cohen
A group of aspiring teenage authors attend a two week writers conference where they not only learn about each other but begin to reveal their secret selves.

Cooney, Caroline B. Among Friends.  Y FIC Cooney
Six high school juniors discover surprising, often painful, things about themselves and their relationships with the people around them in the diaries they are asked to keep as a three-month English assignment.

Corcoran, Barbara. The Sky is Falling.  Y FIC Corcoran
In Boston during the early days of the Great Depression, Annah's affluent lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father loses his banking job and Annah is sent to live with her aunt on a New Hampshire island where she meets a destitute but spunky girl named Dodie.

Cox, William Robert. Home Court is Where You Find It.  Y FIC Cox
A 16-year-old basketball star from a broken home who has been expelled from 3 schools in California enters an eastern boarding school that has a losing basketball team.

Danziger, Paula. P.S. Longer Letter Later.  Y FIC Danziger
Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara-Starr continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara-Starr's family moves to another state.

Delaney, Mark. The Vanishing Chip.  Y PB D
When Mattie's grandfather becomes a suspect in the theft of a valuable computer chip, Peter, Byte, Jake, and Mattie, four high school students who consider themselves misfits, pool their talents to try to discover who really stole the chip and how.

Derting, Kimberly.  Desires of the Dead.  Y FIC Derting
Sixteen-year-old Violet Ambrose's ability to find murder victims and their killers draws the attention of the FBI just as her relationship with Jay, her best-friend-turned-boyfriend, heats up.

Ethridge, Kenneth E. Toothpick.  Y FIC Ethridge
With the help of a terminally ill friend, eleventh-grade Jamie begins to question the values of some of his fellow students who seem to specialize in ridicule.

Hesse, Karen. Phoenix Rising.  Y FIC Hesse
Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse.

Marsden, John. Letters From the Inside.  Y FIC Marsden
The relationship between two teenage girls who become acquainted through letters intensifies as their correspondence reveals some of the terrible problems of their lives.

Metzger, Lois. Missing Girls.  Y FIC Metzger
During eighth grade, Carrie moves in with her grandmother, becomes friends with an indrawn classmate, and comes to terms with her mother's death.

Nelson, Theresa. And One For All.  Y FIC Nelson
Geraldine's close relationship with her older brother Wing and his friend Sam changes when Wing joins the Marines and Sam leaves for Washington to join a peace march.

Orgel, Doris. The Devil in Vienna.  Y FIC Orgel
A Jewish girl and the daughter of a Nazi have been best friends since they started school, but in 1938 the thirteen-year-olds find their close relationship difficult to maintain.

Paulsen, Gary. The Foxman.  Y FIC Paulsen
A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.

Peck, Richard. Princess Ashley.  Y FIC Peck
In her new high school, where her mother has taken a job as counselor, Chelsa experiences joys and sorrows as she makes choices about new friends and learns they are not always what they seem.

Pfeffer, Susan Beth. April Upstairs.  YPB P
Twelve-year-old April has trouble making friends at her new middle school, until her father's friendship with a missing rock star catapults her into the news and suddenly makes her popular.

Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Turning Thirteen.  Y FIC Pfeffer
Although initially afraid that she'll lose her best friend unless they prepare for their bat mitzvahs together, Becky undergoes a change in her thinking that puts much more than her friendship in jeopardy.

Sachar, Louis. Holes.  Y FIC Sachar/ Y PB S
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Shreve, Susan Richards. The Gift of the Girl Who Couldn't Hear. Y FIC Shreve
Two friends, one of whom is deaf, help each other when tryouts are held for a seventh-grade production of "Annie."

Smith, Marya. Winter-Broken.  Y FIC Smith
Abused by an alcoholic father, twelve-year-old, withdrawn and timid, Dawn finds friendship and love in a sympathetic farmer and his beautiful horse Wildfire.

Spinelli, Jerry. Crash.  Y FIC Spinelli
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.

Voigt, Cynthia. David and Jonathan.  Y FIC Voigt
The relationship between two close friends, Henry and Jonathan, changes when Jonathan's cousin David, a victim of the Holocaust, comes to live with David's family.

Wolitzer, Hilma. Introducing Shirley Braverman.  Y FIC Wolitzer
The adventures of a sixth-grader growing up in Brooklyn during World War II.

Wood, June Rae. When Pigs Fly.  Y FIC Wood
Thirteen-year-old Buddy Rae and her best friend Jiniwin do everything together--taking care of Buddy's slow younger sister, "parenting" egg babies, talking about boys, and dealing with Buddy's family move to a farm outside Turnback, Missouri.

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