Adoff, Jaime. Names Will Never Hurt Me.
Students tell about school, themselves and events as they unfold on the 1-year anniversary of the killing of a fellow student. (YA Fic)

Carvell, Marlene. Who Will Tell My Brother?
During his lonely crusade to remove offensive mascots from his high school, a Native American teenager learns more about his heritage, his ancestors, and his place in the world. (YA Fic)

Collins, Pat Powery. The Fattening Hut.
A teenage girl living on a tropical island runs away to escape her tribe's customs of arranged marriages & female genital mutilation. (YA Fic)

Cormier, Robert. Frenchtown Summer.
The writer reminisces about his life as a 12-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938. (YA Fic)

Corrigan, Eireann. Splintering.
The events and after-effects of an intruder's violent attack on a family. (YA Fic)

Frost, Helen. The Braid.
Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcible evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay. (YA Fic)

Frost, Helen. Keesha's House.
Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality, and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and where they found home again. (YA Fic)

Glenn, Mel. Foreign Exchange.
The thoughts of town residents young and old, teachers, and students visiting from the city who are caught up in the events surrounding the murder of a student who had recently moved to a small lake-side community. (YA Fic M)

Glenn, Mel. Split Image.
Poems reflect the thoughts and feelings of various people--students, the librarian, parents, the principal and others--about the "perfect" Laura Li and her life inside and out of Tower. (YA Fic)

Glenn, Mel. The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems.
School officials, parents, police and a class of seniors are taken hostage by their history teacher. (YA Fic M)

Glenn, Mel. Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?
Poems describe the reactions of students, teachers and others when a high school teacher is shot to death as the school day begins. (YA Fic M)

Grimes, Nikki. Bronx Masquerade.
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx school read aloud their poems, revealing their thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates. (YA Fic)

Grimes, Nikki. Dark Sons.
Poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teen in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers. (YA Fic)

Grover, Lorie Ann. Loose Threads.
Poems describes how 7th-grader Kay Garber faces her grandmother's battle with breast cancer while living with her mother and great-grandmother and dealing with everyday junior high school concerns. (YA Fic)

Hemphill, Stephanie. Things Left Unsaid.
After a lifetime of conforming to what her parents and friends want her to be, Sarah must come to terms with her own identity when her best friend tries to commit suicide. (YA Fic)

Herrera, Juan Felipe. CrashBoomLove.
After his father leaves home, 16-year-old Cesar Garcia lives with his mother and struggles through the painful experiences of growing up as a Mexican American teen. (YA Fic)

Herrick, Steven. Love, Ghosts, & Facial Hair.
16-year-old Jack is obsessed with beautiful Annabel, the ghost of his mother, and facial hair. (YA Fic) Sequel: A Place Like This.

Herrick, Steven. The Simple Gift.
16-year-old Billy runs away from his alcoholic father, lives in an abandoned train, falls in love, and learns the meaning of family. (YA Fic)

Hopkins, Ellen. Crank.
While visiting her father, "perfect" Kristina disappears and Bree, her exact opposite, takes her place. A boy introduces her to crank & what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for mind, soul & life. (YA Fic)

Janeczko, Paul B. Worlds Afire.
The excitement and anticipation of attending the circus in July, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, turns to horror when a fire engulfs the tent, killing nearly 170 people. (YA Fic)

Johnson, Lindsay Lee. Soul Moon Soup.
After her father leaves and Phoebe and her mother struggle to survive, Phoebe finally goes to live with her grandmother, where she learns family secrets and hopes her mother will return for her. (YA Fic)

Koertge, Ron. The Brimstone Journals.
In a series of short poems, students at a high school nicknamed Brimstone reveal the violence existing and growing in their lives. (YA Fic)

Koertge, Ron. Shakespeare Bats Cleanup.
When a 14-year-old baseball player catches mono, he discovers that keeping a journal and writing poetry not only fills the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss. (YA Fic)

Levithan, David. The Realm of Possibility.
A variety of students at the same high school describe their ideas, experiences, and reflect upon heterosexual and gay relationships. (YA Fic)

Ortiz, Cofer, Judith. Call Me Maria.
15-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised. (YA Fic)

Rosenberg, Liz. 17.
17-year-old Stephanie journeys from fall to spring and from childhood to womanhood as she experiences first love and deals with her fear of inheriting her mother's mental illness. (YA Fic)

Rylant, Cynthia. God Went to Beauty School.
Poems reveal God's discovery of the wonders and pains in the world He has created. (YA Fic)

Sones, Sonya. One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies.
15-year-old Ruby leaves her best friend, aunt, boyfriend and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born. (YA Fic)

Sones, Sonya. Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy.
A girl has a hard time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown. (YA Fic)

Sones, Sonya. What My Mother Doesn't Know.
Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr. Right. (YA Fic)

Testa, Maria. Something About America.
Inspired by events that occurred in Maine in 2002, this powerfulnovel explores immigration in contemporary America, narrated by a 13-year-old girl from Kosovo. (YA Fic)

Wayland, April Halprin. Girl Coming In for a Landing.
Poems recount the ups and downs of one adolescent girl's school year. (YA Fic)

Wild, Margaret. Jinx.
With the help of her mother and a close friend, Jen eventually outgrows her nickname, Jinx, and deals with the deaths of two boys with whom she had been involved. (YA Fic)

Wild, Margaret. One Night.
A teenaged girl decides to have her baby and care for it on her own after a "one night stand" results in pregnancy. (YA Fic)

Williams, Julie. Escaping Tornado Season: A Story in Poems.
Poems describe how thirteen-year-old Allie, living with her grandparents in a small Minnesota town in the 1960s, struggles to cope with her father's recent death, being abandoned by her mother, and trying to fit in at school. (YA Fic)

Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Make Lemonade.
In order to earn money for college, 14-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.
(YA Fic) Sequel: True Believer.

4/18/07
Duluth Public Library, 520 W. Superior St., Duluth, MN 55802