YA 361.37 Gay Volunteering: the ultimate teen guide by Kathleen Gay
Explores the world of teen volunteering in the United States, including an overview of what volunteering is, the range of opportunities that are available, the benefits of participating, how to get started, and organizations to contact.
YA Ale The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
A budding cartoonist leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, 2007.
YA Ash Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
YA Bra Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.
YA Hor Slam by Nick Hornby
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.
YA Kep Undercover by Beth Kephart
High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing while going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parent's marital problems draw her out of herself.
YA Loc Dramarama by E. Lockheart
Spending their summer at Wildewood Academy, an elite boarding school for the performing arts, tests the bond between teens Sadye and her best friend Demi.
YA Mac The White Darkness: a novel by Geraldine McCaughrean
Fourteen-year-old Symone's vacation to Antarctica turns into a dangerous adventure when her uncle becomes obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that may lead to the center of the earth.
2008 Printz Award Winner
YA Mey Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her relationship with Edward, one a werewolf, the other a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city. Twilight saga: Book 3
YA Historical Pee Tamar: A Novel of Espionage,
Passion and Betrayal by Mal Peet
In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
YA Pfe The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
YA Wiz Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner
Shakespeare Shapiro navigates a senior year fraught with feelings of insecurity while writing the memoir of his embarrassing life, worrying about his younger brother being cooler than he is, and having no prospects of ever getting a girlfriend.
YA Comic Arr The Arrival by Tan Shaun
In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.
YA Comic Lai Laika by Nick Abadzis
The story of the Earth's first space traveler, Laika, the lovable mutt sent around the world in the Russian satellite Sputnik 2 and her sad fate. Dog lovers, space fans, history buffs, and more will enjoy this excellent story.
YA Comic Pla The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci
When transfer student Jane is forced to move from the big city to suburbia, she thinks that her life is over until she meets three other girls named Jane who decide to form a secret art gang and turn the town and high school upside down.
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