Flight
Sherman Alexie
FIC ALE

Fifteen-year-old "Zits" has outlasted foster home after foster home. Few notice him, let alone care about him. Then Zits finds himself with several guns in his pockets and a choice to make.

subjects: Indians of North America, Foster Children

The Poison Apples
Lily Archer
Y FIC ARC

At an elite Massachusetts boarding school, three fifteen-year-old girls of very different backgrounds discover a common bond and form a club to plot revenge against their evil stepmothers.

subjects: Stepmothers, Schools, Revenge, Best Friends, Friendship, Boarding Schools, Massachusetts

The Summoning
Kelley Armstrong
Y FIC ARM

After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger.

subjects: Supernatural, Group Homes

Thirteen Reasons Why
Jay Asher
Y FIC ASH

When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

subjects: Suicide, High Schools, Interpersonal Relations

Shift
Jennifer Bradbury
Y FIC BRA

When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.

subjects: Bicycles and Bicycling, Travel, Missing Persons, Best Friends, Friendship

Hot Lunch
Alex Bradley
Y FIC BRA

When Molly and Cassie are assigned to work in the kitchen as a punishment for their food fight, they realize that the only way they are going to be released from the duty is to cooperate and learn to cook. Includes some recipes.

subjects: Cookery, Cooperativeness, Friendship, High Schools

Black Rabbit Summer
Kevin Brooks
Y M BRO

When two of sixteen-year-old Pete's childhood classmates disappear from a carnival the same night, he is a suspect, but his own investigation implicates other old friends he was with that evening--and a tough, knife-wielding enemy determined to keep him quiet.

subjects: Missing Persons, Friendship, Carnivals, Drug Abuse, Homosexuality, Mystery and Detective Stories, England

Fortunes of Indigo Skye
Deb Caletti
Y FIC CAL

Eighteen-year-old Indigo is looking forward to becoming a full-time waitress after high school graduation, but her life is turned upside down by a large check given to her by a customer who appreciates that she cares enough to scold him about smoking.

subjects: Waiters and Waitresses, Diners (Restaurants), Wealth, Family Life, Single-Parent Families, Washington (State)

City of Bones: The Mortal Instruments Book One
Cassandra Clare
Y FIC CLA

Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

subjects: Demonology, Supernatural, Horror Stories

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Y FIC COL

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

subjects: Survival Skills, Television Programs, Interpersonal Relations, Contests, Science Fiction

Billie Standish Was Here
Nancy Crocker
Y FIC CRO

When the river jeopardizes the levee and most of the town leaves, Miss Lydia, an elderly neighbor, and Billie form a friendship that withstands tragedy and time.

subjects: Friendship, Rape, Coming of Age

Derby Girl
Shauna Cross
Y FIC CRO

When sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, who is miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.

subjects: Roller Derbies, Identity, Interpersonal Relations, High Schools, Texas

Mexican Whiteboy
Matt De La Peña
Y FIC PEN

Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San Diego County, California.

subjects: Identity, Self-Acceptance, Racially Mixed People, Baseball, Fathers and Sons, Cousins, National City (Calif.)

Dingo
Charles DeLint
Y FIC DEL

Seventeen-year-old Miguel Schreiber and a long-term enemy are drawn into a strange dream world when they fall in love with shapeshifting sisters from Australia--twins hiding from a cursed ancestor who can only be freed with the girls' cooperation.

subjects: Supernatural, Space and Time, Sisters, Twins, Fathers and Sons, Single-Parent Families, Mythology-Aboriginal Australian

Gym Candy
Carl Deuker
Y FIC DEU

Groomed by his father to be a star player, football is the only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick Johnson, who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social life.

subjects: Football, Fathers and Sons, High Schools, Steroids, Washington (State)

Little Brother
Cory Doctorow
Y FIC DOC

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.

subjects: United States. Dept. of Homeland Security, Terrorism, Computer Hackers, Civil Rights, Counterculture, San Francisco (Calif.)

Before I die
Jenny Downham
Y FIC DOW

A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.

subjects: Terminally Ill, England

Skin Hunger
Kathleen Duey
Y FIC DUE

In alternate chapters, Sadima travels from her farm home to the city and becomes assistant to a heartless man who is trying to restore knowledge of magic to the world, and a group of boys fights to survive in the academy that has resulted from his efforts.

subjects: Magic, Fantasy

Touching Snow
Sandy M. Felin
Y FIC FEL

After her stepfather is arrested for child abuse, thirteen-year-old Karina's home life improves but while the severity of her older sister's injuries and the urging of her younger sister, their uncle, and a friend tempt her to testify against him, her mother and other well-meaning adults persuade her to claim responsibility.

subjects: Child Abuse, Problem Families, Haitian Americans, Stepfathers, New York (State)

Ten Cents a Dance
Christine Fletcher
Y FIC FLE

In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult.

subjects: Dance, Nightclubs, Poverty, Conduct of Life, World War 1939-1945, Chicago (Ill.)

Breaking Up
Aimee Friedman
GN Y BRE

Meet Chloe Sacks: Thoughtful, artistic, and a junior at Georgia O'Keefe School for the Arts, nicknamed "Fashion High" for its trendy student body. Along with her best friends, Erika, Isabel, and MacKenzie, she's looking forward to a sparkling year of parties and romance.

subjects: Graphic Novels, Man-Woman Relationships, Junior High School Students

Interworld
Neil Gaiman
Y SCF GAI

At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.

subjects: Space and Time, Science Fiction

The Red Necklace
Sally Gardner
Y FIC GAR

In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French Revolution.

subjects: Social Classes, Romanies, Orphans, Magic Tricks, Adventure and Adventurers, France-History-Revolution-1789-1799

Right Behind You
Gail Giles
Y FIC GIL

After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a friend in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under a different name, but not only has trouble fitting in, he finds there are still problems to deal with from his childhood.

subjects: Psychotherapy, Family Problems, Interpersonal Relations, Murder, Identity, High Schools, Alaska, Indiana, Identity (Philosopical Concept)

Paper Towns
John Green
Y M GRE

One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

subjects: Missing Persons, Coming of Age, Mystery and Detective Stories, Florida

Book of a Thousand Days
Shannon Hale
Y FIC HAL

Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

subjects: Fantasy, Identity (Philosophical Concept)

Get Well Soon
Julie Halpern
Y FIC HAL

When her parents confine her to a mental hospital, an overweight teenage girl, who suffers from panic attacks, describes her experiences in a series of letters to a friend.

subjects: Mental Illness, Psychiatric Hospitals, Mental Illness, Self-Perception, Letters

Last Exit to Normal
Michael Harmon
Y FIC HAR

Yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his father and his father's boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice that something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to do something about it.

subjects: Fathers and Sons, Homosexuality, Child Abuse, Interpersonal Relations, Coming of Age, Montana

Ivy
Julie Hearn
Y FIC HEA

In mid-nineteenth-century London, young, mistreated, and destitute Ivy, whose main asset is her beautiful red hair, comes to the attention of an aspiring painter of the pre-Raphaelite school of artists who, with the connivance of Ivy's unsavory family, is determined to make her his model and muse.

subjects: Assertiveness (Psychology), Artists, Pre-Raphaelites, Drug Abuse, Criminals, London

Kiss Me Kill Me
Lauren Henderson
Y M HEN

Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever.

subjects: Popularity, Orphans, Friendship, Wealth, Bullying, Murder, High Schools, Mystery and Detective Stories, England

The Falconer's Knot: A Story of Friars, Flirtation and Foul Play
Mary Hoffman
Y M HOF

Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.

subjects: Religious Life, Love, Murder, Renaissance, Italy

Slam
Nick Hornby
Y FIC HOR

At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.

subjects: Tony Hawk, Teenage Fathers, Infants, Skateboarding, England

Would You
Marthe Jocelyn
Y FIC JOC

When her beloved sister, Claire, steps in front of a car and winds up in a coma, Nat's anticipated summer of working, hanging around with friends, and seeing Claire off to college is transformed into a nightmare of doctors, hospitals, and well-meaning neighbors.

subjects: Sisters, Medical Care, Coma, Traffic Accidents, Family Life

Suite Scarlett
Maureen Johnson
Y FIC JOH

Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in New York City for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project improve her outlook.

subjects: Hotels-Motels-etc., Family Life, Authorship, Actors and Actresses, New York (N.Y.)

My Life as a Rhombus
Varian Johnson
Y FIC JOH

When the classmate she is tutoring in trigonometry admits she is pregnant, high school junior Rhonda must finally come to terms with the abortion her father insisted she undergo three years earlier and examine how it has changed her life.

subjects: Pregnancy, Abortion, Self-actualization (Psychology), Single-Parent Families, South Carolina, Family Problems

Another Kind of Cowboy
Susan Juby
Y FIC JUB

In Vancouver, British Columbia, two teenage dressage riders, one a spoiled rich girl and the other a closeted gay sixteen-year-old boy, come to terms with their identities and learn to accept themselves.

subjects: Dressage, Horsemanship, Horses, Homosexuality, British Columbia

Undercover
Beth Kephart
Y FIC KEP

High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing while going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parent's marital problems draw her out of herself.

subjects: Love-Letters, Poetry, High Schools, Family Problems, Ice Skating

Good as Lily
Derek Kirk Kim
GN Y GOO

Following a strange mishap on her 18th birthday, Grace Kwon is confronted with herself at three different periods in her life. The timing couldn't be worse as Grace and her friends desperately try to save a crumbling school play. Will her other selves wreak havoc on her present life or illuminate her uncertain future?

subjects: High School Students

No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
Susan Kuklin
Y 364.66

I was a teenager on death row chapter -- The fourteen-year-old adult -- Look at me -- Hate is a killer, dialogue I -- Private with our grief, dialogue II -- Dying for legal assistance : Roy's and Mark's lawyer.

subjects: Capital Punishment, Administration of Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Delinquents

Yellow Flag
Robert Lipsyte
Y FIC LIP

When seventeen-year-old Kyle reluctantly succumbs to family pressure and replaces his injured brother in the family racecar, he struggles to keep up with his trumpet playing while deciding how--or if--he can continue making music with a brass quintet and headlines as a Nascar racer.

subjects: Automobile Racing, Trumpet, Music, Self-Actualization, Family Life, North Carolina

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks
E. Lockhart
Y FIC LOC

Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.

subjects: Boardign Schools, Friendship, Interpersonal Relations, Clubs, Secret Societies, Sexism

The Declaration
Gemma Malley
Y FIC MAL

In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.

subjects: Aging, Immortality, Children, Science Fiction, England

Wildwood Dancing
Julie Marillier
Y FIC MAR

Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.

subjects: Supernatural, Magic, Sisters

The Missing Girl
Norma Fox Mazer
Y FIC MAZ

In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.

subjects: Sisters, Kidnapping, Child Sexual Abuse, New York (State)

Rose by Any Other Name
Maureen McCarthy
Y FIC MAC

During a road trip with her mother from Melbourne to Fairy Point, Australia, to see her dying grandmother, nineteen-year-old Rose gains a new perspective on events of the previous year, when family problems, the end of a long-term friendship, and bad personal choices dramatically transformed her near-perfect life.

subjects: Problem Families, Interpersonal Relations, Family Problems, Automobile Travel, Australia

Angel
Cliff McNish
Y FIC MAC

An unlikely friendship develops between fourteen-year-olds Stephanie, an angel-obsessed social outcast, and Freya, a popular student whose visions of angels sent her to a mental institution and who is now seeing a dark angel at every turn.

subjects: Angels, High Schools, Popularity, Bullies, Mental Illness, Family Life

Madapple
Christina Meldrum
Y FIC MEL

A girl who has been brought up in near isolation is thrown into a twisted web of family secrets and religious fundamentalism when her mother dies and she goes to live with relatives she never knew she had.

subjects: Miracles, Mothers and Daughters, Trials (Murder)

Sunrise Over Fallujah
Walter Dean Myers
Y FIC MYE

Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.

subjects: Iraq War-2003, War, African Americans

Bliss
Lauren Myracle
Y FIC MYR

Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult.

subjects: Interpersonal Relations, High Schools, Occultism, Grandmothers, Atlanta (Ga.)

Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale
Donna Jo Napoli
Y FIC NAP

Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.

subjects: Slavery, Selective Mutism, Seafaring Life, Conduct of Life, Middle Ages, Ireland

Breathe My Name
R. A. Nelson
Y FIC NEL

Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her birth mother, who has just been released after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters.

subjects: Mothers and Daughters, High Schools, Mental Illness, Murder, Adoption, Alabama

Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness
Y SCF NES

Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.

subjects: Social Problems, Telepathy, Space Colonies, Human-Animal Communication, Science Fiction

The Ghosts of Kerfol
Deborah Noyes
Y FIC NOY

Over the centuries, the inhabitants of author Edith Wharton's fictional mansion, Kerfol, are haunted by the ghosts of dead dogs, fractured relationships, and the taste of bitter revenge.

subjects: Haunted Houses, Ghosts, Supernatural

The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Mary E. Pearson
Y FIC PEA

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

subjects: Medical Ethics, Bioethics, Biotechnology, Self-Perception, Memory, Science Fiction

Teen Inc.
Stefan Petrucha
Y FIC PET

Fourteen-year-old Jaiden has been raised by NECorp since his parents were killed when he was a baby, so when he discovers that the corporation has been lying about producing illegal levels of mercury emissions, he and his two friends decide to try to do something about it.

subjects: Orphans, Business Ethics, Pollution

How to Build a House
Dana Reinhardt
Y FIC REI

Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.

subjects: Building, Interpersonal Relation, Divorce, Stepfamilies, Voluntarism, Tennessee

Stealing Heaven
Elizabeth Scott
Y FIC SCO

Danielle and her mother have spent years traveling from town to town, making their living by selling items stolen from upscale homes. Dani must evaluate her past life and what she will do in the future when she begins to make friends in a new town.

subjects: Theft, Friendship, Mothers and Daughters

The Sweet, Terrible, Glorious Year I Truly, Completely Lost it
Lisa Shanahan
Y FIC SHA

Fourteen-year-old Gemma Stone struggles to understand her shifting emotions as her older sister plans her wedding, she overcomes her nerves and tries out for the school play, and she gets to know one of the most notorious boys in her class.

subjects: Theater, Schools, Family Life, Weddings, Australia

Unwind
Neal Shusterman
Y SCF SHU

In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.

subjects: Fugitives From Justice, Survival, Revolutionaries, Science Fiction

The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez
Alan Sitomer
Y FIC SIT

Tenth-grader Sonia reveals secrets about her life and her Hispanic family as she studies hard to become the first Rodriguez to finish high school.

subjects: Mexican Americans, Problem Families, Family Problems

The New Policeman
Kate Thompson
Y FIC THO

Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.

subjects: Space and Time, Fairies, Music, Ireland

Me, The Missing, and the Dead
Jenny Valentine
Y FIC VAL

When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner, Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.

subjects: Death, Missing Persons, Fathers, Single-Prent Families, Coming of Age, London (England)

Big Fat Manifesto
Susan Vaught
Y FIC VAU

Overweight, self-assured, high school senior Jamie Carcaterra writes in the school newspaper about her own attitude to being fat, her boyfriend's bariatric surgery, and her struggles to be taken seriously in a very thin world.

subjects: Overweight Persons, Self-Confidence, Interpersonal Relations, Prejudices, High Schools

Grief Girl
Erin Vincent
155.937092 VI

Imagine that you're going through one of the hardest parts of your life—being a teenager—when your parents are killed in a horrific car
crash. Now you, your 17-year-old sister, and your three-year-old brother are on your own.

subjects: Grief in Adolescence, Bereavement in Adolescence

The Brothers Torres
Coert Voorhees
Y FIC VOO

Sophomore Frankie finally finds the courage to ask his long-term friend, Julianne, to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between a tough senior whose family owns most of their small, New Mexico town, and Frankie's soccer-star older brother and his gang-member friends.

subjects: Dating (Social Customs), Interpersonal Relations, Fighting (Psychology), Racially Mixed People, New Mexico

Impossible
Nancy Werlin
Y FIC WER

When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break the curse she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to save them both.

subjects: Magic, Elves, Pregnancy, Teenage Mothers

Spanking Shakespeare
Jake Wizner
Y FIC WIZ

Shakespeare Shapiro navigates a senior year fraught with feelings of insecurity while writing the memoir of his embarrassing life, worrying about his younger brother being cooler than he is, and having no prospects of ever getting a girlfriend.

subjects: Coming of Age, Authorship, High Schools

Sweethearts
Sara Zarr
Y FIC ZAR

After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron's unexpected return dredges up memories that cause both social and emotional turmoil.

subjects: Love, Popularity, Family Problems, Weight Control, Self-Esteem, Psychological Abuse, Utah