BEFORE WE WERE FREE  
Alvarez, Julia


In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.

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SPEAK  
Anderson, Laurie Halse


A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect of Melinda's freshman year in high school.
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FEED  
Anderson, M.T.


In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

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THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS  
Brashares, Ann


Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants.

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A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY  
Bray, Libba


After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

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PRINCESS IN PINK  
Cabot, Meg


The hilarious fifth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries. Will Mia Thermopolis (aka Princess Amelia Migonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo) attend the senior prom or not? This addition to the series involves seven minutes in heaven, strikes, and Mia's mission to get asked to the senior prom.

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ARTEMIS FOWL: THE ETERNITY CODE  
Colfer, Eoin


After Artemis uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the fairies join forces to try to retrieve it.

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THE CHOCOLATE WAR  
Cormier, Robert


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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WHALE TALK  
Crutcher, Chris


Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.

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THE THIEF LORD  
Funke, Cornelia


Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."

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HOLE IN MY LIFE  
Gantos, Jack


The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

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MAGGIE'S DOOR  
Giff, Patricia Reilly


Maggie’s Door is the story of the journey from Ireland to America told by both Nory and her neighbor and friend Sean Red Mallon, two different stories with the same destination—the home of Nory’s sister Maggie, at 416 Smith Street, Brooklyn, America. Sequel to: Nory Ryan's song.

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FAT KID RULES THE WORLD  
Going, Kelly


Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.

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HOOT  
Hiaasen, Carl


Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
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THE FIRST PART LAST  
Johnson, Angela


Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.

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ELLA ENCHANTED  
Levine, Gail Carson


In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.

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THE GIVER  
Lowry, Lois


Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

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A CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE  
Martin, Ann M.


The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.

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ZAZOO  
Mosher, Richard


Amid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love.

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A STEP FROM HEAVEN  
Na, An


A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.

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SABRIEL  
Nix, Garth


Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.

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ERAGON  
Paolini, Christopher


In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

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A SINGLE SHARD  
Park, Linda Sue


Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in 12th-century Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

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BRIAN'S HUNT  
Paulsen, Gary


Sequel to Hatchet and Brian's Return. Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.

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THE RIVER BETWEEN US  
Peck, Richard


During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.

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TRICKSTER'S QUEEN  
Pierce, Tamora


Aly’s adventure continues. . . . No longer a slave, Alanna’s daughter is now spying as part of an underground rebellion against the colonial rulers of the Copper Isles. The people in the rebellion believe that a prophecy in which a new queen will rise up to take the throne is about to be realized. Aly is busy keeping the potential teenage queen and her younger siblings safe, while also keeping her in the dark about her future. But Aly, who is usually adept at anticipating danger and changes, is

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THE GOLDEN COMPASS  
Pullman, Philip


Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

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HOLES  
Sachar, Louis


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.

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STARGIRL  
Spinelli, Jerry


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.
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LARRY  
Tashjian, Janet


Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a web site that is receiving national attention.

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THE LAND  
Taylor, Mildred D.


After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own. "Prequel to Newbery Medal winner Roll of thunder, hear my cry."

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MY HEARTBEAT  
Weyr, Garret


As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.

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MIRACLE'S BOYS  
Woodson, Jacqueline


Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.
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