Author: by Walter Mosley
Summary: Number 47, a
fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal
master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a
magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
Author: Marina Budhos
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family.
The
Bar Code Tattoo
Author: Suzanne Weyn
Summary: Things for Kayla
progress from bad, as in being told her computer grades disqualify her
from an art scholarship, to worse, when she refuses to accept an
identification bar code tattoo on her seventeenth birthday.
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Summary: After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
Author: Sharon Draper
Summary: Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Crossing
the Wire
Author: by Will Hobbs
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.
Author: Dandi Daley Mackall
Summary: In 1978, a high school senior is forced by her widowed father to move from their comfortable Chicago suburb to help with an underground education movement in communist Poland.
The
Goodness Gene
Author: by Sonia Levitin
Summary: As son of the Compassionate Director of the Dominion of the Americas, Will, along with his twin brother Berk, has been groomed for leadership in a society that values genetic fitness, but he encounters information which causes him to question that society as well as his own identity.
Hero-Type
Author: by Barry Lyga
Summary: Feeling awkward and ugly
is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the
publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter
photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight
to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really
mean.
Little
Brother
Author: Cory Doctorow
Summary: After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
Author: Pete Hautman
Summary: In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.
Truancy
Author: Isamu Fukui
Summary: In the City, where an iron-fisted Mayor's goal is perfect control through education, fifteen-year-old Tack is torn between a growing sympathy for the Truancy, an underground movement determined to bring down the system at any cost, and the desire to avenge a death caused by a Truant.
Weedflower
Author: Cynthia Kadohata
Summary: After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.