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November blues (The Jericho Trilogy)
By Sharon M. Draper. 2007
Two months after her boyfriend Josh dies, sixteen-year-old November finds out that she is pregnant. She faces difficult options with…
support from her mother, girlfriends, and Josh's cousin Jericho. Sequel to The Battle of Jericho (RC 58023). For senior high readers. Coretta Scott King Honor Book. 2007Sparrow
By Sherri L Smith. 2006
After her beloved grandmother dies, high-school student Kendall Washington travels to New Orleans in search of her only living relative,…
her aunt Janet. Instead, she finds Janet's neighbors--sixteen-year-old Evie, who has muscular dystrophy and a beautiful singing voice, and Evie's overburdened mother, Clare Morreal. For senior high readers. 2006Surviving Antarctica: reality TV 2083
By Andrea White. 2005
By 2083 a deteriorating American civilization is dominated by "reality" television programs. Five fourteen-year-olds reenact Scott's 1910 failed expedition to…
the South Pole as contestants on the Historical Survivor series. They overcome obstacles with the covert help of a Department of Entertainment employee. For junior and senior high readers. 2005Invisible
By Pete Hautman. 2005
Seventeen-year-old Dougie is a loner obsessed with building a bridge out of match sticks for his model railroad. His only…
friend and confidant is Andy, a popular football player, who lives next door. Gradually Dougie reveals their secret bond--the fires they set together. Some violence. For senior high readers. 2005Thou shalt not dump the skater dude and other commandments I have broken
By Rosemary Graham. 2005
California high school sophomore Kelsey Wilcox endures vicious rumors spread on the Internet by her superstar, skateboarding boyfriend after she…
breaks up with him. Kelsey competes for a place on the school newspaper as she tries to salvage her reputation. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2005If I have a wicked stepmother, where's my prince?
By Melissa Kantor. 2005
Sophomore Lucy copes with an unloving stepmother and two bratty stepsisters after her father remarries and moves them to Long…
Island. Lucy is suddenly popular when a senior basketball hero falls for her, but she finds a fellow art student more interesting. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2005Ramona the pest (Ramona Ser. #2)
By Beverly Cleary. 2002
The hundred dresses
By Eleanor Estes. 2004
The girls in her class mock Wanda Petronski because she claims to have a hundred dresses lined up in her…
closet but wears the same faded dress everyday. And they tease her about her Polish last name. Then Wanda stops coming to school. For grades 3-6. Newbery Honor. 1944The bar code tattoo (Point thriller)
By Suzanne Weyn. 2004
In the year 2025 the government tattoos a bar code on everyone at age seventeen. When sixteen-year-old Kayla's father commits…
suicide after receiving a belated bar code, Kayla joins a protest group led by classmate Mfumbe. Soon they are on the run. Some violence. For senior high readers. 2004Be more chill
By Ned Vizzini. 2004
To become popular and attract the beautiful Christine, New Jersey high school nerd Jeremy swallows an illegal "squip" microchip. The…
device tells him how to act cool, but eventually Jeremy wants to be back in control. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2004The teacher's funeral: a comedy in three parts
By Richard Peck. 2004
Rural Indiana, 1904. After Miss Myrt Arbuckle, the mean old teacher, "hauled off and died" in August, fifteen-year-old Russell figures…
the one-room schoolhouse will close. His dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat-threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister fills the vacancy. For grades 6-9. 2004Encore, Grace!
By Mary Hoffman. 2003
Grace and her friends face unfamiliar experiences: a new girl in class, taking part in a Christmas play, losing a…
dear friend, and challenging the grown-ups to talk to them about situations that could affect their lives. Chapter book. Sequel to Starring Grace (BR 13916). For grades 2-4. 2003Jo's boys (Bantam classic)
By Louisa May Alcott. 1995
Follows the lives of Daisy and Demi, Nat and Dan, and the rest of Aunt Jo's little men and women…
as they mature. Concludes the series about the March family. Sequel to Little Men (BR 12486). For grades 6-9 and older readers. 1886Boy proof
By Cecil Castellucci. 2005
Hollywood. Nerdy high school senior Victoria Jurgen, called Egg after her favorite science fiction movie character, is a loner. But…
when Max Carter, a gifted new student, invades her space, she is not as boy-proof as she thought. Strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2005The SOS file
By Betsy Cromer Byars. 2004
The students in Mr. Magro's class submit stories for the SOS file about their biggest emergencies. When the day finally…
comes for them to read their twelve stories aloud for extra credit, they find an extra one written by a surprise anonymous author. For grades 3-6. 2004Girl 15, charming but insane: Charming But Insane (Girl, 15 Ser.)
By Sue Limb. 2004
British fifteen-year-old Jess Jordan deals with having an imperfect body, a beautiful best friend, and a crush on an unattainable…
boy. Jess aspires to be a comedian and ends up appreciating a nerdy guy whom she has taken for granted. For senior high readers. 2004Cupidity (Simon Pulse romantic comedy)
By Caroline Goode, Amy Saidens. 2005
Senior Laura Sweeney, a mythology buff, prays to Jupiter for a boyfriend. The Roman gods at the Mount Olympus retirement…
home heed Laura's call and send Cupid disguised as a beautiful girl (Cupidity) to help Laura. Cupidity, however, causes more havoc than Laura can handle. For senior high readers. 2005The case of the glow-in-the-dark ghost (A Jigsaw Jones Mystery)
By James Preller. 2004
Jigsaw's school is haunted! Some kids saw a ghost dancing in the classroom. Jigsaw Jones is not afraid. He will…
catch this glowing ghost, even if he has to stay after school to do it! For grades 2-4. 2004Emako Blue
By Brenda Woods. 2004
Los Angeles. African American classmates Monterey, Jamal, and Eddie remember their friend Emako who was accidentally shot and killed. Having…
bonded with her through a mutual interest in singing, they reminisce about the talented vocalist. Some violence. For senior high readers. 2004Love, football, and other contact sports
By Alden R. Carter. 2006
Interconnected short stories centering around a Wisconsin high school's football team and their friends. In "Elvis" a football player collects…
money so a foster girl can go to homecoming. In "Kicker Wanted" a punter's female rugby-playing English cousin becomes the new field-goal kicker. For senior high readers. 2006