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Abarat
Clive Barker.
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Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed.
2002; 388 p.; isbn:0060280921 More Information |
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When the legends die
by Hal Borland
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2001; 294 p.; isbn:0553257382 More Information |
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A great and terrible beauty
Libba Bray.
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After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
2003; 403 p.; isbn:0385901615 More Information |
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Cold Sassy tree
Olive Ann Burns
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1984; 391 p.; isbn:0899193099 More Information |
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Whale talk
Chris Crutcher
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Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students
2001; 220 p.; isbn:0060293691 More Information |
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Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
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1993; ; isbn:0385043805 More Information |
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Whirligig
Paul Fleischman
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While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement
1998; 133 p.; isbn:0805055827 More Information |
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Breathing underwater
Alexandra Flinn
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Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father
2001; 263 p.; isbn:0064472574 More Information |
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A lesson before dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
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From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.
1993; 256 p.; isbn:0679414770 More Information |
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Dead girls don't write letters
Gail Giles.
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Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died out of town in a fire months earlier.
2003; ; isbn:0761317279 More Information |
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Shattering Glass
Gail Giles
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When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence
2002; 152 p.; isbn:0761315810 More Information |
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Bleachers
John Grisham
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"High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty." "Now as Coach Rake's "boys" sit in the bleachers ...
2003; 163 p.; isbn:0385511612 More Information |
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