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Y / Anderson
Fever, 1793.
Laurie Halse Anderson. 2000.
In 1793 Philadelphia, 16-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick
mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to
cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Y / Anderson
Speak.
Laurie Halse Anderson. 1999.
A traumatic event has a devastating effect on Melinda's , causing her to be branded an outcast. She copes with the trauma by becoming silent.
Y / Block
Echo.
Francesca Lia Block. 2001.
Jealous of her perfect mother and ignored by her artist father, Echo seeks
attention and healing from a variety of people living in beautiful Los
Angeles.
Y / Bloor
Tangerine.
Edward Bloor. 1997.
Paul fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the awful incident that damaged his eyes.
Y / Bruchac
Sacajawea.
Joseph Bruchac. 2000.
Sacajawea (a Shoshoni Indian interpreter, peacemaker, and guide) and William
Clark alternate in describing their experiences on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Northwest.
Y / Burgess
Smack.
Melvin Burgess. 1998.
Four teens turn to heroin to escape confining life situations, but find themselves hopelessly trapped by their addiction.
SF / Card
Enchantment.
Orson Scott Card. 1999.
The moment Ivan stumbled upon the forest clearing, his life was changed forever. Atop a pedestal, the beautiful princess Katerina lay as still as death while a malevolent presence stirred in the depths below. Now, years later, Ivan is compelled to return. He finds the clearing just as he left it, only this time, he does not run.
Y / Dessen
Dreamland.
Sarah Dessen. 2000.
After her older sister runs away, 16-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs
to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship
with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
Y / Deuker
Runner.
Carl Deuker. 2005.
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound
has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of
running leads to a shady, high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money
is not worth the risk.
SF / Dickinson
Eva.
Peter Dickinson. 1989.
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has
been given the body of a chimpanzee.
Y / Griffin
Amandine.
Adele Griffin. 2001.
During her first week at a new school, shy, plain Delia befriends Amandine, not
anticipating the dangerous turns their friendship would take.
Y / Lawrence
Wreckers.
Iain Lawrence. 1998.
Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, 14-year-old John Spencer tries to save
his father and himself while dealing with an evil secret about the English
coastal town where they are stranded.
F / Lebert
Crazy.
Benjamin Lebert. 2000.
A teenager at a German boarding school learns about what friends are, what
girls are, and how you find your way in a crazy world by just being your
crazy self.
Y / McDonald
Spellbound.
Janet McDonald. 2001.
Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project,
decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha,
to study for a spelling bee that could lead to a college preparatory program
and a four-year scholarship.
Y / McNeal
Crushed.
Laura and Tom McNeal. 2006.
Seventeen-year-old Audrey's life is turned upside down when she falls in
love with a mysterious newcomer and a vicious gossip sheet exposes the
secrets of both students and teachers at her school.
Y / Myers
Monster.
Walter Dean Myers. 1999.
While on trial for murder, 16-year-old Steve writes a screenplay of the
events surrounding him.
Y / Napoli
Beast.
Donna Jo Napoli. 2000.
Elaborates on the tale of "Beauty and the Beast," told from the point of
view of the beast and set in Persia.
Y / Nix
Lirael.
Garth Nix. 2001.
When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a long-buried evil, Lirael
and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal
their true destinies. (sequel to Sabriel)
Y / Peyton
Snowfall.
K. M. Peyton. 1998.
Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Campion is a dependent girl without money or
status who knows little about the world and has few options in Victorian
England. When her grandfather arranges to have her marry a man who
repels her, Charlotte determines she must find not only excitement in her
life, but freedom, too.
Y / Rottman
Stetson.
S. L. Rottman. 2002.
Seventeen-year-old Stetson meets the sister he never knew he had, and
together they try to make sense of their pasts.
Y / Sachar
Holes.
Louis Sachar. 2000.
With a family history filled with bad luck, Stanley Yelnats is mistakenly
sent to a nightmarish correctional camp in the Texas desert. Can he escape?
If you like this one, check out the sequel, Small Steps.
Y / Spinelli
Stargirl.
Jerry Spinelli. 2000.
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity,
and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes
Mica High School forever.
Y / Westerfeld
Uglies.
Scott Westerfeld. 2005.
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. In Tally's world, your sixteenth
birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a
stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise
where your only job is to have a really great time. But wait til you see
the dark side of this perfect world.
Y / Zindel
Rats.
Paul Zindel. 1999.
When mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a
huge landfill, 14-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure
out how to stop them.
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