Bauer, Joan. Squashed. Y FIC Bauer
As a sixteen-year-old pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own.

Bridgers, Sue Ellen. Notes for Another Life. Y PB B
Tom Jackson's mental illness is difficult for his entire family, but particularly so for his sixteen-year-old son Kevin who wonders if he has the same affliction.

Brooks, Bruce. What Hearts. Y FIC Brooks/ Y PB B
After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his new world.

Carter, Alden R.  Sheila's Dying. Y FIC Carter
Just as high school junior Jerry Kincaid is considering breaking up with his girlfriend, he discovers that she has a terminal case of cancer.

Cooney, Caroline B.  The Face on the Milk Carton. Y FIC Carter/ Y PB C
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

Cormier, Robert.  We All Fall Down.  Y FIC Cormier/ Y PB C
As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.

Crutcher, Chris.  Stotan! Y FIC Crutcher
A high school coach invites members of his swimming team to a memorable week of rigorous training that tests their moral fiber as well as their physical stamina.

Curtis, Christopher Paul.  Bud, Not Buddy.  Y FIC Curtis
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

Czech,  Jan M. Grace Happens .  Y FIC Czech
The daughter of a famous actress, fifteen-year-old Grace has never known the identity of her father, but she hopes to find some answers while spending the summer at her mother's childhood home on Martha's Vineyard.

Dickinson, Peter.  Eva.  Y FIC Dickinson
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.

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.

Fine, Anne. Flour Babies.  Y FIC Fine/ Y PB F
When his class of underachievers is assigned to spend three torturous weeks taking care of their own "babies" in the form of bags of flour, Simon makes amazing discoveries about himself while coming to terms with his long-absent father.

Fleischman, Paul.  A Fate Totally Worse than Death. Y FIC Fleischmann
In this horror novel parody, three self-centered members of Cliffside High School's ruling clique, who are beginning to age rapidly, become convinced that the beautiful new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before.

Garland, Sherry.  Shadow of the Dragon.  Y PB G
High school sophomore Danny Vo tries to resolve the conflict between the values of his Vietnamese refugee family and his new American way of life.

Giles, Gail.  Dead Girls Don't Write Letters.  Y FIC Giles
Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died out of town in a fire months earlier.

Greenberg, Joanne.  I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Y FIC Greenberg/ Y PB G/ PB G (Adult Section)
Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.

Hall, Lynn.  Flying Changes.  Y FIC Hall
Seventeen-year-old Denny and her family face hard times when her father is injured on the rodeo circuit.

Hesse, Karen.  Out of the Dust.  Y FIC Hesse/ Y PB H
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

Hinton, S. E.  Tex.  Y FIC Hinton
The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.

Holt, Kimberly Willis.  When Zachary Beaver Came to Town. Y FIC Holt
During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.

Houston, Julian. New Boy. Y FIC Houston
As a new sophomore at an exclusive boarding school, a young black man is witness to the persecution of another student with bad acne who is also Jewish.

Kerr, M. E.  Fell.  Y FIC Kerr/ Y PB K
A strange incident on the night of the senior prom changes John Fell's entire life, leading him to enroll in an exclusive private school under an assumed name.

Kerr, Philip.   One small step. Y Fic Kerr
In 1969 Houston, Texas, thirteen-year-old Scott learns to fly from his father, an Air Force flight instructor, but when NASA needs him for a secret space mission, Scott's elation is tempered by concern that his mother, who has moved to Florida, will findout.

Lynch, Chris.  Slot Machine.  Y FIC Lynch
When overweight thirteen-year-old Elvin Bishop is sent to camp at St. Paul's Seminary Retreat Center, he and his two best friends are forced to try out various sports in order to find out where they belong.

Mahy, Margaret.  Tricksters.  Y FIC Mahy
While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers and by New Year nothing is the same again.

Mazer, Norma Fox.  Missing Pieces.  Y FIC Mazer
As she watches her friends with their fathers, fourteen-year-old Jessie decides the family she shares with her mother and her great-great-aunt is not enough, so she sets out to learn more about  the father who left when she was just a baby.

Meyer, Carolyn.  Where the Broken Heart Still Beats.  Y FIC Meyer
Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  Send No Blessings.  Y FIC Naylor
A teenager in a large family that lives in a trailer yearns for love, approval, an escape from endless chores, and a chance to make something of herself.

Nixon, Joan Lowery.  Search for the Shadowman.  Y PB N
While working on a genealogy project for his seventh grade history class, Andy Bonner becomes determined to solve the mystery surrounding a distant relative who was accused of stealing the family fortune.

Osborne, Mary Pope. Haunted Waters.  Y FIC Osborne/ Y PB O
After meeting the mysterious sea maid Undine on a bleak promontory and making her his wife, Lord Huldbrand tries to defend her from the faceless demon that haunts her, while he probes her strange ties to the aquatic world.

Peck, Richard.  Close Enough to Touch.   Y FIC Peck/ Y PB P
A seventeen-year-old boy trying to recover from the loss of his girlfriend meets an unusual girl.

Rallison, Janette. All's Fair in Love, War, and High School. Y FIC Rallison
When head cheerleader Samantha Taylor does poorly on the SAT exam, she determines that her only hope for college admission is to win the election for student body president, but her razor wit and acid tongue make her better suited to dishing out insults than winning votes.

Rylant, Cynthia.  Missing May.  Y FIC Rylant/ Y PB R
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.

Shusterman,  Neal. The Schwa Was Here.   Y FIC Shusterman
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.

Sleator, William.  The Boy Who Reversed Himself.  Y PB S
When Laura discovers that the unpopular boy living next door to her has the ability to go into the fourth dimension, she makes the dangerous decision to accompany him on his journeys there.

Spinelli, Jerry.  Wringer.  Y FIC Spinelli
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.

Voigt, Cynthia.  On Fortune's Wheel.  Y FIC Voigt
Faced with the prospect of an unhappy life in the Kingdom, fourteen-year-old Birle accompanies a young runaway nobleman on a journey south and falls into slavery in the citadel of a cruel prince.

Weatherly, Lee. Missing Abby.  Y FIC Weatherly
As the last one to see thirteen-year-old Abby, Emma is determined to discover the truth about her mysterious disappearance, spurred in part by her feelings of guilt over ending their friendship in order to ensure popularity at her new school.

Westall, Robert.  Stormsearch.  Y FIC Westall
Tim Vaux's discovery of an antique model ship on an English beach leads him to an unsolved family mystery involving a London heiress, a heartbroken drunkard, and the fanatic miser Black Idris.

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