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| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Angelou, Maya |
YA FIC ANGELOU |
| A black woman recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums. |
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| Forever |
Blume, Judy |
YA FIC BLUME |
| Katherine and Michael meet on New Year's Eve and their attraction is instantaneous. Completely involved with each other, filled with all the wonder of "the first time," they are blissfully unaware of the complications real love presents. |
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| The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
Chbosky, Stephen |
YA FIC CHBOSKY |
| Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie is navigating through the strange worlds of love, drugs, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", and dealing with the loss of a good friend and his favorite aunt. |
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| The Chocolate War |
Cromier, Robert |
YA FIC CROMIER |
| 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. |
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| Athletic Shorts |
Crutcher, Chris |
YA FIC CRUTCHER |
| These six powerful short stories chronicle bits of the lives of characters, major and minor, who have walked the rugged terrain of Chris Crutcher's earlier works. They also introduce some new and unforgettable personalities who may well be heard from again in future books. As with all Crutcher's work, these are stories about athletes, and yet they are not sports stories. They are tales of love and death, bigotry and heroism, of real people doing their best even when that best isn't very good. |
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| Fallen Angels |
Myers, Walter Dean |
YA FIC MYERS |
| Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. |
| TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R |
Myracle, Lauren |
YA FIC MYRACLE |
| "Both revealing and innovative, these novels will inspire teens to pass them to their friends and will suggest to nascent writers that experimenting with nonnarrative communication can be a great way to tell a story." --School Library Journal |
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| His Dark Materials Trilogy |
Pullman, Phillip |
YA FIC PULLMAN |
| In The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, an epic trilogy, Philip Pullman unlocks the door to a world parallel to our own, but with a mysterious slant all its own. Dæmons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universes--if it isn't destroyed first. |
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| Harry Potter |
Rowling, J.K. |
YA FIC ROWLING |
| Follow Harry from his first days at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, through his many adventures with Hermione and Ron, to his confrontations with rival Draco Malfoy and the dreaded Professor Snape. From a dangerous descent into the Chamber of Secrets to the Triwizard Tournament to the return of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, each adventure is more riveting and exhilarating than its predecessor. |
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| The Catcher in the Rye |
Salinger, J.D. |
YA FIC SALINGER |
| Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there. |
| What my Mother Doesn't Know |
Sones, Sonya |
YA FIC SONES |
| Sophie's mother doesn't know about the boy who's pressing Sophie to go further than she wants. Or about the boy she chats with online. These sharp, funny, and tragic poems tell of Sophie's sometimes painful but always passionate journey of self-discovery. |
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| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Twain, Mark |
YA FIC TWAIN |
A mischievous youth encounters a runaway slave and together they travel down the Mississippi in search of adventure.
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