The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Summary: Budding cartoonist Junior 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.
Author: Lenora Adams
Summary: When Sheree, a tough high school teen, finds herself in a difficult situation, she turns to her mother, her friends, and her boyfriend, who calls her Baby Girl and treats her like she's disposable, and realizes that help is within herself.
Summary: 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.
Author: Kate Cary
Summary: In this story told primarily through journal entries, a British soldier in World War I makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula.
Author: Shannon Hale ; illustrations by James Noel Smith
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.
Author: Julie Halpern
Summary: When her parents confine her to a mental hospital, an overweight teenage girl, who suffers from panic attacks, describes her experiences in a series of letters to a friend.
Author: Ellen Wittlinger
Summary: From the end of high school to the beginning of college, Chloe and Julian deal with major changes in their families and friendships and explore their feelings for each other through emails, letters, and a visit.
Author: Chris Crutcher
Summary: While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.
Author: Mark Peter Hughes
Summary: A disparate group of high school students thrown together in detention form a band to play at a school talent show and end up competing with a wildly popular local rock band.
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Summary: Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
Pieces of Georgia
Author: Jen Bryant
Summary: In journal entries to her mother, a gifted artist who died suddenly, thirteen-year-old Georgia McCoy reveals how her life changes after she receives an anonymous gift membership to a nearby art museum.
Author: Rob Thomas
Summary: Steve, a high school senior, has only one hope of graduating on time--writing a 100-page paper.
The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez
Author: Judy Goldschmidt
Summary: In a weblog she sends to her best friends back in Berkeley, seventh-grader Raisin Rodriguez chronicles her successes and her more frequent humiliating failures as she attempts to make friends at her new Philadelphia school.
Walking on Glass
Author: Alma Fullerton
Summary: A teenage boy recounts, in a free verse journal, his attempts to come to terms with the realities of his mother's near-death coma.
The
Year of Secret Assignments
Author: Jaclyn Moriarty
Summary: Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.