| 13 Little Blue Envelopes
by Maureen Johnson (317
pages)
SUMMARY When
seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from
her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort
of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
Caught in the Act by
Peter Moore (260 pages)
SUMMARY Everyone believes that sophomore honors student Ethan
Lederer is a top-notch scholar and a great guy, but a new student helps
Ethan to discover and disclose that he is just acting a role, even as she
reveals her own mental instability.
Code Orange by
Caroline B. Cooney (200 pages)
SUMMARY While
conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an
envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has
infected himself and all of New York City.
Dark Angel by David
Klass (311 pages)
SUMMARY When
his older brother is released from prison, seventeen-year-old Jeff's
family secret is revealed, causing upheaval in his home, school and love
life.
Double Helix by
Nancy Wilson (252 pages)
SUMMARY Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his
life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist
whose specialty is genetic engineering.
Elsewhere by
Gabrielle. Zevin (275 pages)
SUMMARY After
fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself
in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to
her new status and figure out how to "live."
Fake ID by Walter
Sorrells (313 pages)
SUMMARY After
a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass
begins to piece together the past that haunts her and her mother which
involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of
several people in a small Alabama town.
Invisible by Pete
Hautman (149 pages)
SUMMARY Doug
and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model
trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who
grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever.
Jude by Kate
Morgenroth (277 pages)
SUMMARY Still
reeling from his drug-dealing father's murder, moving in with the wealthy
mother he never knew, and transferring to a private school,
fifteen-year-old Jude is tricked into pleading guilty to a crime he did
not commit.
Names Will Never Hurt
Me by Jaime Adoff (185 pages)
SUMMARY Several high school students relate their feelings about
school, themselves, and events as they unfold on the fateful one-year
anniversary of the killing of a fellow student. Prom by Laurie
H. Anderson (215 pages)
SUMMARY Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom,
but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to
get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.
Rob&Sara.com by
P.J. Petersen (210 pages)
SUMMARY Rob, who lives at a school for
troubled teenagers, and Sara, the 16-year-old daughter of an army colonel,
meet in a poetry chat-room and develop a close relationship via email.
Runner by Carl
Deuker (216 pages)
SUMMARY Living
with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has
been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of
running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is
not worth the risk.
The Safe-Keeper's
Secret by Sharon Shinn (222 pages)
SUMMARY Fiona is Safe-Keeper in the small village of
Tambleham, where neighbors and strangers alike come one by one, in secret,
to tell her things they dare not share with anyone else.
Stealing
Henry by Caroline MacCullough (196 pages)
SUMMARY Seventeen-year-old Savannah, fed
up with her violent stepfather, hits him over the head with a frying pan
and takes to the road with her eight-year-old half-brother in a journey
that echoes in reverse the one her mother Alice took as a young unwed
mother running away from home.
Things Change by
Patrick Jones (216 pages)
SUMMARY Sixteen-year-old Johanna, one of the
best students in her class, develops a passionate attachment for troubled
seventeen-year-old Paul and finds her plans for the future changing in
unexpected ways. ..... Twilight by Stephenie
Meyer (498 pages)
SUMMARY When seventeen-year-old Bella
leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an
exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming
attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Uglies by Scott
Westfield (425 pages)
SUMMARY Tally is faced with a difficult
choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather
than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into
gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the
pretty world that she doesn't like.
Upstream by Melissa
Lion (149 pages)
SUMMARY After her boyfriend is killed in a
hunting accident, Alaska high-school-senior Marty, with help from her
mother and two younger sisters, tries to get over her grief and begin a
new life. Who am I Without Him?
by Sharon Flake (220 pages)
SUMMARY Presents ten short stories about
teenage girls struggling with issues of self-worth. |