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CALL #	AUTHOR	TITLE	SUMMARY	LEXILE
F And	Anderson, Laurie Halse.	Speak	A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
F Ath	Athkins. D.E.	Secret Santa	Djuna Dufarge's high school Christmas party plays out like a horror movie when a secret Santa plays the game all wrong.	430
F Avi	Avi,	Nothing but the truth
F BEN	Bennett, Jay	The dark corridor	At the end of the summer disrupted by three teenage suicides in their town, eighteen-year-old Kerry's girlfriend apparently kills herself, leaving him obsessed with death and strange doubts.	340
F BRI	Brittain, Bill	The fantastic freshman
F BUN	Bunting, Eve,	Face at the edge of the world	Haunted by the suicide of a gifted young Black writer who was his best friend, Jed pursues the reason for it	700
F BUR	Burchard, Peter	Chinwe	Captured by slave traders, a young Ibo girl, her brother and their fellow villagers suffer hardships and cruel treatment on their way to the New World where they are sold as slaves
F CHA	Chapin, Kim.	The road to Wembley	Marty, a young American living in London, becomes an assistant to the coach of a professional football team.
F Col	Cole, Sheila.	What kind of love?	Val shares her thoughts in a diary as her teenage world is turned upside down by pregnancy and as she looks for support where there seems to be only conflict.	720
F COO	Cooney, Caroline	Don't blame the music
F Coo	Cooney, Caroline	Whatever happened to Janie?	The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents.
F Cor	Cormier, Robert.	The chocolate war	A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.	820
F Cru	Crutcher, Chris.	The sledding hill	Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, who has added to his home and school problems by becoming mute, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge.	1010
F DUN	Duncan, Lois	The twisted window	Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in "snatching" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her.	950
F Dun	Duncan, Lois,	Killing Mr. Griffin	A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?	720
F Far	Farmer, Nancy.	The house of the scorpion	In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.	660
F GOR	Gordon, Sheila	Waiting for the rain	The friendship of two young men - one white, one black - is tested to its ultimate limits, in a story that captures the lost dreams, misunderstandings, discord, and tragedies of South African apartheid	940
F Gri	Grimes, Nikki.	Bronx masquerade	While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.	670
F HAL	Hallman, Ruth	Panic five	On his own for the first time in his life when he joins the Navy after high school, Jeff undergoes harsh survival training and acquires the self-confidence he has been lacking
F HAM	Hamilton, Virginia	A white romance	Talley Barbour struggles to cope with the demands of friendship, first love, approaching adulthood, and the fears and misunderstandings of racial prejudice in a newly integrated high school	490
F Hig	High, Linda Oatman.	Heaven	Living with her grandfather on Muckwater Mountain in West Virginia, twelve-year-old Silver aggressively pursues her dream of having a dog by working to earn the money for one.
F HIN	Hinton, S. E.	That was then, this is now	Byron and Mark have been inseparable best friends from childhood, but now, at sixteen, they both sense they are growing apart. When Byron discovers that Mark is pushing drugs to young kids, he must face a decision that might destroy their longtime friendship.	780
F HUM	Humphreys, Josephine	Rich in love	When the fabric of her family is suddenly torn, Lucille Odom, a wise and precocious high-school student locates new inner resources and steps across the threshold of womanhood and emotional maturity
F Hun	Hunt, Irene.	The lottery rose	A young victim of child abuse gradually overcomes his fears and suspicions when placed in a home with other boys.	1070
F Kan	Kantor, Melissa.	Confessions of a not it girl	High school senior Jan Miller struggles with relationships, college applications, and the incredible popularity of her best friend.
F Kan	Kantor, Melissa.	If I have a wicked stepmother, where's my prince?	After teenager Lucy Norton's father remarries, her life is in turmoil. Her stepmother is cruel and her two stepsisters are irritable snobs. Feeling like Cinderella, Lucy wonders why she doesn't get an invitation to the prom until Connor seems interested.
F KER	Kerr, M. E.	Gentlehands	A teenage boy falls in love with an "upperclass" girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.	830
F Kid	Kidd, Ronald.	Monkey town	When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-year-old Frances to rethink many of her beliefs about religion and truth, as well as her relationship with her father.	740
F KLA	Klass, David	Breakaway run
F Kla	Klass, David.	Danger zone	When he joins a predominantly black "Teen Dream Team" that will be representing the United States in an international basketball tournament in Rome, Jimmy Doyle makes some unexpected discoveries about prejudice, racism, and politics.	850
F KOE	Koertge, Ronald	Confess-O-Rama	When luckless Raymond Jardine becomes Sean Delancey's eleventh grade English-project partner, he persuades Sean's grandfather to pose as a long-deceased, obscure Canadian poet, in an effort to pass the course and win a vacation to a luxurious Greek island.	600
F KOR	Korman, Gordon	A semester in the life of a garbage bag		840
F LAS	Lasky, Kathryn	Prank	A teenaged girl strives to escape from her dead-end existence in a tough neighborhood of East Boston and from her violent, quarrelsome family
F LEN	L'Engle,Madeleine	And both were young	Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in Switxerland until she forms a supportive friendship with the mysterious Paul.	910
F LIP	Lipsyte, Robert	Jock and Jill	When Jack Ryder, a high-school student aiming for a career in baseball, joins the unusual Jillian to help families in the South Bronx, he encounters difficult confrontation
F Lub	Lubar, David.	Sleeping freshmen never lie	While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.	560
F Mac	Mackler, Carolyn.	The earth, my butt, and other big, round things	Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.	790
F MAZ	Mazer, Harry	I love you, stupid!	High school senior Marcus Rosenbloom decides to cross the wall that divides childhood from adulthood, but finds it's not the simple matter he thought it would be.
F MCC	McCants, William D.	Anything Can Happen in High School (and it usually does)	Staggered by the loss of his girlfriend, Janet, fifteen year-old T.J. starts a service club.
F MCC	McCants, William D.	Much Ado about Prom Night	Political uproar about a peer counseling program in a Southern California high school keeps two starcrossed antagonists at odds before the prom.	1060
F Mcd	McDonald, Joyce.	Stones	Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward.
F MIK	Miklowitz, Gloria D.	The Emerson High vigilantes
F Mye	Myers, Walter Dean,	Fallen angels	Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.	650
F MYE	Myers, Walter Dean	Hoops	A talented young basketball player and his coach are told to lose a tournament and they must decide what to do.	740
F NEU	Neumann, Peter J.	Playing a Virginia moon	Determined to win the cross country running championship, high school senior Chet finds himself faced with competition both in athletics and in love.
F Orr	Orr, Wendy.	Peeling the onion	Following an automobile accident in which her neck is broken, a teenage karate champion begins a long and painful recovery with the help of her family.	790
F PEC	Peck, Richard	Princess Ashley	Shy Chelsea Ollinger is overwhelmed when beautiful, wealthy, and sophisticated Ashley Packard invites her into the elite circle at Crestwood High - despite her mother's warnings - until a violent accident opens her eyes	700
F Pec	Peck, Robert Newton.	Bro	Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather that leaves him unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug's beloved older brother feels compelled to escape from a hellish labor camp to rescue him from their grandfather's Florida cattle ranch.
F Pra	Pratchett, Terry.	A hat full of sky	Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.	820
F Rid	Rider, D. F.	The fractal caverns	Chris, a young computer whiz, discovers that the Fractal Caverns game might be a "Trojan Horse," but it may conceal more than a computer virus and be far more dangerous.
F RUB	Ruby, Lois	Pig-Out Inn
F Smi	Smith, Betty,	A tree grows in Brooklyn /	Chronicles the harsh life of young Francie Nolan who lives with her family in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn in the early 1900s.	810
F Ste	Stewart, Paul,	The curse of the Gloamglozer	Apprenticed to the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, a floating city of scholars, gossip, and treachery, fourteen-year-old Quint runs increasingly dangerous errands, which eventually bring him to a place of gruesome monsters that threaten his life and those of his friends.	770
F STO	Stone, Bruce	Been clever forever
F Str	Strasser, Todd.	Give a boy a gun	A fictional account of two high school boys, Brendan and Gary, who hold their classmates hostage and begin a shooting rampage.	770
F WOL	Wolff, Virginia Euwer	Make lemonade.	Spending a summer helping her mother run a truckstop diner, fourteen-year-old Dovi becomes involved in a custody battle between divorced parents who both want to hold on to their young son
F Woo	Wood, Maryrose.	Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs fall in love	When fourteen-year-old Felicia falls for Matthew Dwyer, she arranges for them to work on a science fair project together.
F ZIN	Zindel, Paul	Harry and Hortense at Hormone High	Two teenagers think they may have found a hero in a schizophrenic boy who thinks he is Icarus.
F ZIN	Zindel, Paul	Confessions of a teenage baboon	Thirty-year-old Lloyd Dipardi helps a mixed up Staten Island teenager, whose mother is a nurse, assert his own identity	980
SC CON	Conford, Ellen	If this is love, I'll take spaghetti	A selection of nine short stories captures the humor, joys, and struggles of being a teenager
SC GAL		Sixteen:	Short stories by outstanding writers for young adults	760
SC JOI		Join in	Multiethnic short stories by outstanding writers for young adults	740
SC MAZ	Mazer, Norma Fox, 1931-	Dear Bill, remember me? And other stories	Eight short stories portray teenage girls, young women, mothers, and grandmothers who deeply affect the lives of those around them.
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