Jim Murphy, 110 pages . First-hand accounts that include diary entries and personal letters describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War....

Dhonielle Clayton, et al., 274 pages . Blackout follows thirteen teenagers in six interlinked stories which celebrate Black love. After a summer heatwave causes a citywide power outage in New York City, Black teens explore love, friendship...

Neal Shusterman, 341 pages . New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman delivers a suspenseful and thrilling novel that's perfect for fans of Unwind and UnWholly. Tennyson is not surprised, really, when his family begi...

by Sarah Dessen, 567 pages . Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face ...

Kadir Nelson, 99 pages . The story of Negro League baseball is the story of gifted athletes and determined owners; of racial discrimination and international sportsmanship; of fortunes won and lost; of triumphs and defeats on...

Scott O'Dell, 133 pages . This powerful account of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce Indians in 1877 by the United States Army is narrated by Chief Joseph's strong and brave daughter....

by Nikki Grimes, 129 pages . When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class and reads it aloud, poetry-slam-style, he kicks off a revolution. Soon his classmates are clamoring to have weekly poetry sessions. On...

by E. Lockhart, 251 pages . Here is how things stand at the beginning of newly-licensed driver Ruby Oliver's junior year at Tate Prep: * Kim: Not speaking. But far away in Tokyo. * Cricket: Not speaking. * Nora: Spea...

by E. Lockhart, 303 pages . Ruby Oliver is 15 and has a shrink. She knows it's unusual, but give her a break--she's had a rough 10 days. In the past 10 days she: lost her boyfriend (#13 on the list), lost her best fri...

by E. Lockhart, 301 pages . Ruby is back at Tate Prep, and it's her thirty-seventh week in the state of Noboyfriend. Her panic attacks are bad, her love life is even worse, and what's more: Noel is writing her notes, Jackson ...

by E. Lockhart, 263 pages . From E. Lockhart, author of the highly acclaimed, New York Times bestseller We Were Liars, which John Green called "utterly unforgettable," comes Real Live Boyfriends, the fourth book in the uproariou...

by Louise Rennison, 235 pages . Angus: My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat. The size of a small Labrador, only mad. Thongs: Stupid underwear. What's the point of them, anyway? They just go up your bum, ...

by Paul Zindel, 185 pages . When sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke a few months ago on a stranger named Angelo Pignati, they had no idea what they were starting. Virtually overnight, almost against their will,...

by Carl Deuker, 271 pages . Jimmy Winter is a born star on the baseball field, and Seth Barnam can only dream of being as talented. Still, the two baseball fanatics have the kind of friendship that should last forever. But when ...

by Emma Chastain, 399 pages . In the tradition of Bridget Jones's Diary, a lovably flawed high school student chronicles her life as she navigates the highs and lows of family, friendship, school, and love in a diary that sparkles...

by Robing Benway, 459 pages . Being the middle child has its ups and downs. But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. After putting her own bab...

by Jay Asher, 311 pages . You cant stop the future. You cant rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret ... is to press play. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it...

by Nina LaCour, 253 pages . This slender, gorgeous tale opens on an east coast dorm, emptying out for the winter holidays. As her classmates head home, Marin steels herself for days of isolation, broken only by a visit from her ...

by Nic Stone, 239 pages . Justyce McAllister is top of his class and set for the Ivy League - but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. And despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he ...

by Robert Newton Peck, 153 pages . To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce ...

by Richard Peck, 155 pages . (A 2001 Newbery Medal Winner) Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel return for more astonishing, laugh-out-loud adventures when fifteen-year-old Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for the year....

by Joyce Moyer Hostetter, 253 pages . "Blue, 13, writes of Hickory, North Carolina, January 1944 to June 1945. Roosevelt is president; the war and a polio epidemic are underway; Hickory's camp becomes an emergency polio hospital and Blue'...

by Joyce Moyer Hostetter, 393 pages . Now that Daddy has returned from fighting Hitler and Ann Fay is home from the polio hospital, life should get back to normal. But Ann Fay discovers she no longer fits easily into old friendships and D...

by Polly Horvath, 157 pages . Haven't you ever just known something deep in your heart without reason? Primrose Squarp simply knows her parents did not perish at sea during a terrible storm, but try convincing the other residents ...

by Nicola Yoon, 275 pages . If you love Eleanor and Park, Hazel and Augustus, and Mia and Adam, you'll love the story of Maddy, a girl who's literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly, the boy who moves in next door ... A...

by Johanna Hurwitz, 117 pages . In the summer of 1910, Dossi is surprised and terrified to discover that her sister is sending her to a Vermont farm on a charity-sponsored vacation. The landscape and the people of Vermont are very d...

by Johanna Hurwitz, 125 pages . After spending a Fresh Air Fund vacation discovering a new world on a Vermont farm, Dossi thought that returning home to the bustling New York of 1910 would be simple. Little did she know that, even i...

by Johanna Hurwitz, 145 pages . At fifteen, Emma Meade is old enough for just about anything. Old enough to leave school, old enough to help around the farm, and old enough to notice when handsome Cole Berry takes an interest in her...

by Louis Sachar, 263 pages . (Winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature) As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sen...

by Louis Sachar, 287 pages . Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it's hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. ...

by Jandy Nelson, 557 pages . The New York Times Bestselling story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell. Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At ...

by Winifred Morris, 175 pages . Alex has listened to his mother's lies his whole life. She has driven him to do things that even surprise himself and that nearly landed him in a "training school." Now, at fifteen, he has a chance to...

by Jean Little, 265 pages . Young Jeremy and Sarah learn to cope with their grief and drastically changed lifestyle during their father's battle with cancer, which forces their mother to sell their house and return to school ful...

by Jerry Spinelli, 195 pages . 1991 Newbery Medal Book"Maniac Magee is a folk story about a boy, a very excitable boy. One that can outrun dogs, hit a home run off the best pitcher in the neighborhood, tie a knot no one ...

by Virginia Hamilton, 361 pages . "M.C. Higgins and his family have lived on Sarah's Mountain for generations. His daddy says that one day it will belong to M.C. But the spoil heap (the pile of waste, or slag) that strip coal minin...

by Marlane Kennedy, 131 pages . Will her pumpkin win the prize? She had always dreamed of growing a one-thousand-pound pumpkin. Maybe this will be her year. Lots of people think an eleven-year-old doesn't stand a chance of ...

by Madeleine L'Engle, 257 pages . The moment Maggy Hamilton steps into the happy lives of the Austin family, she disrupts their harmonious world, bringing with her all the sullenness and insolence of her own misery. Vicky Austin kn...

by Gayle Friesen, 237 pages . Living in a house full of women isn't helping fifteen-year-old Ben make sense of his life. He wants to be the kind of guy who can talk to girls--but he just sounds like a fool. He wants to be a jock--...

by Patricia Reilly Giff, 163 pages . Hollis Woods: is the place where a baby was abandoned ... is the baby's name ... is an artist ... is now a twelve-year-old girl ... who's been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all....

by Jerry Spinelli, 223 pages . "Daring to Be Different In a moving and highly engaging tale about the vagaries of adolescent peer pressure, Newbery Medal winner Jerry Spinelli tells the story of Stargirl, a high school s...

by Betsy Byars, 127 pages . A Newbery Honor Book"The longest day in the life of a fourteen-year-old girl - the summer day her beloved, mentally-challenged brother is lost, the day she discovers compassion is a friend. A comp...

by Sherman Alexie, 263 pages . Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his trou...

by Polly Horvath, 257 pages . LOVE UNDER TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north...

by Sandra Cisneros, 95 pages . Here is Sandra Cisneros' greatly admired and best-selling novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children and their parents and grandparent...

by Mary Francis Shura, 303 pages . When good friends play cruel games, nobody wins. Gambit: A move in chess in which a player deliberately sacrifices a pawn or other piece in order to gain a better position Greg was stuck at his ...

By Virginia Euwer Wolff, 351 pages . It's a kind of alertness that comes on you, as if somebody has turned on all your lights inside. Sometimes it can get almost too bright in there. At twelve years old, Allegra Shapiro is the younges...

by S. E. Hinton, 239 pages . Ponyboy is fourteen, tough and confused, yet sensitive behind his bold front. Since his parents' death, his loyalties have been to his brothers and his gang, the rough, swinging, long-haired boys from...

by S. E. Hinton, 121 pages . Rusty-James knows he is a tough teen, but he wants to be even tougher, just like his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy. He wants to stay calm and laugh when things get dangerous, to be the strongest s...

by Paula Danziger, 167 pages . "Marcy is thrilled when Ms. Finney asks her to be a junior counselor at a creative arts camp. This is her big chance to have a summer away from her family where no one knows how insecure she used to b...

by Gary Paulsen, 83 pages . You can live on the same farm, in the same house with your uncle for eleven summers, eleven winters, and still not know him. You and your older brother, Wayne, can work in the fields alongside him and...

by Beth Kephart, 209 pages . Like a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac, Elisa ghostwrites love notes for the boys in her school. But when Elisa falls for Theo Moses, things change fast. Theo asks for verses to court the lovely Lila--a...

by Irene Hunt, 239 pages . Here is Hunt's Newbery Award-winning novel, from the author of Across Five Aprils and No Promises in the Wind. After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster...

by Jerry Spinelli, 289 pages . The sibling rivalry between twelve-year-old Megin and her older brother Greg intensifies after she ruins his science project and he retaliates by throwing her favorite hockey stick into the pond. T...

by Jessie Haas, 271 pages . Mad Parker has just graduated from eighth grade, where she has nearly perfected the art of becoming invisible, unnoticed, gone--to teachers, to classmates, to her mother, almost to herself. Now she is...