| Title |
Author |
Genre |
Year |
Level |
Awards/Comments |
Summary |
SLHS Library |
| Watership Down |
Adams, Richard |
Fiction |
1974 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best, Guardian
Awards for Children's
Fiction winners, YALSA 100 Best Books (1950-2000), Carnegie Medal Books |
Follow the epic Tolkienesque
adventures of Fiver,
Hazel, and a ragtag lapin band. Rabbits will never seem the same again. |
Yes |
| The King's Shadow |
Alder, Elizabeth |
Fiction |
1995 |
12,10 |
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults,
YALSA Popular
Paperbacks for Young Adults |
After he is orphaned and has his
tongue cut out
in a clash with the bullying sons of a Welsh noble, Evyn is sold as a
slave
and serves many masters, from the gracious Lady Swan Neck to the
valiant
Harold Godwinson, England's last Saxon king. |
|
| Reservation Blues |
Alexie, Sherman |
Fiction |
1995 |
11,12 |
Booklist Editors' Choice Award
winners |
|
Yes |
| The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight
in Heaven |
Alexie, Sherman |
|
1993 |
11 |
|
Alexie confronts as much as he
depicts modern Native
American life in these stories set in and around the Spokane Indian
Reservation. |
Yes |
| Daughter of Fortune |
Allende, Isabelle |
|
1999 |
11 |
|
The story of a young woman's quest
for love and
fortune during the California Gold Rush in San Francisco. |
Yes |
| The House of Spirits |
Allende, Isabelle |
|
1985 |
12 |
|
The Trueba family embodies strong
feelings from
the beginning of the 20th century through the assassination of Allende
in 1973. |
Yes |
| The Stories of Eva Luna |
Allende, Isabelle |
|
1991 |
12 |
|
|
Yes |
| Skellig |
Almond, David |
Fiction |
1998 |
12,10 |
ALA Notable Children's Books,
Booklist Editors'
Choice Award winners, Carnegie Medal books, Whitbread Award winners
(Children's
books), Michael L. Printz Honor Books |
Unhappy about his baby sister's
illness and the
chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the
garage
and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and
something
like an angel. |
|
| In the Time of the Butterflies |
Alvarez, Julia |
Fiction |
1994 |
12 |
YALSA Outstanding Books for the
College Bound, ALA
Notable Adult Books |
Dede Mirabel tells about her three
sisters, Minerva,
Patria, and Maria Teresa, who became martyrs during the liberation of
the
Dominican Republic from Trujillo in 1960. |
|
| How the Garcia Girls Lost Their
Accents |
Alvarez, Julia |
Fiction |
1991 |
9,10,11 |
ALA Notable Adult Books, YALSA
Popular Paperbacks
for Young Adults, teacher recommendation |
The four Garcia girls escape the
Dominican Republic
and a life of privilege in the 1960s to come to the United States and
difficult
adjustment. |
Yes |
| Bless Me, Ultima |
Anaya, Rudolfo A. |
Fiction |
1994 |
9,10,11 |
YALSA Outsanding Books for the
College Bound, YALSA
Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, teacher recommendation. |
A young New Mexico boy comes of age. |
Yes |
| Fever 1793 |
Anderson, Laurie Halse |
|
2000 |
10 |
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
In 1793 Philadelphia,
sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook,
separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and
self-reliance
when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. |
Yes |
| Speak |
Anderson, Laurie Halse |
|
1999 |
9,10 |
YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant
Young Adult Readers,
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, Michael L. Printz Honor Books |
A traumatic event in the summer has
a devastating
effect on Melinda's freshman year of high school. |
Yes |
| Heart of a Woman, The |
Ann, Lois |
|
1981 |
|
teacher recommendation |
|
|
| Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers |
Ann, Lois |
Fiction |
1996 |
9 |
|
Lovey Nariyoshi grows up in white
culture on the
island of Hawaii where her Japanese American family is racially
segregated
from the others. |
Yes |
| Go Ask Alice |
Anonymous |
|
1971 |
9,10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
The painful diary of a young girl
when she accidentally
falls into the contemporary drug scene. |
Yes |
| Kissing Tennesse and Other Stories |
Appelt, Kathi |
|
2000 |
|
YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant
Young Adult Readers,
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
Graduating eighth graders relate
their stories of
love and heartbreak that have brought them to Dogwood Junior High's
magical
Stardust Dance. |
Yes |
| Always to Remember: The Vietnam
Veterans Memorial |
Ashabranner, Brent |
Nonfiction |
1988 |
11 |
|
The story of Vietnam veteran Jan C.
Scruggs's struggle
to build a national monument honoring Americans who died or are missing
in the Vietnam War. |
Yes |
| Handmaid's Tale |
Atwood, Margaret |
Fiction |
1986 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Offred, a handmaid living in a
near-future time,
endures life in a society in which women able to bear children are used
for procreation. |
Yes |
| Alias Grace |
Atwood, Margaret |
Fiction |
1996 |
9,10 |
teacher recommendation, ALA Notable
Adult Books,
Booklist Editors' Choice Award winners |
Young serving woman is accused of
being an accomplice
in a brutal double murder in the 1840s. |
Yes |
| Blue Heron |
Avi |
Fiction |
1993 |
10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
A solitary blue heron becomes a
symbol of strength
and peace for 13-year-old Maggie when she discovers a change has come
over
her father and his new family. |
Yes |
| Nothing But the Truth |
Avi |
Fiction |
1992 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
It's against regulations to hum the
national anthem
in school. Philip decides to disobey the rule, and the whole nation
watches
what happens. |
Yes |
| If Beale Street Could Talk |
Baldwin, James |
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
| The Seabirds are Still Alive |
Bambara, Toni Cade |
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
| Hope Was Here |
Bauer, Joan |
Fiction |
2000 |
9 |
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults,
ALA Notable Children's
Books |
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the
aunt who has
raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as
waitress
and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the
diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt ma |
Yes |
| Thwonk |
Bauer, Joan |
Fiction |
1995 |
10 |
California Young Reader, YALSA Best
Books for Young
Adults, YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults |
A cupid doll comes to life and
offers romantic assistance
to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love. |
Yes |
| Rules of the Road |
Bauer, Joan |
Fiction |
1999 |
10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Seventeen-year-old Jenna's job at
crusty Mrs. Gladstone's
shoe store leads to her driving Mrs. Gladstone across country to Texas
to prevent a company takeover. |
Yes |
| Sweet Fifteen |
Bertrand, Diane Gonzales |
Fiction |
1995 |
10 |
YALSA Popular Paperbacks for young
adult |
When seamstress Rita Navarro makes a
quinceanera
dress for fourteen-year-old Stefanie, she finds herelf becoming
involved
with the girl's family and attracted to her uncle. |
Yes |
| Weetzie Bat |
Block, Francesca Lia |
Fiction |
1990 |
10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Lanky lizards! Punk teens Weetzie
and Dirk search
for love in a modern fairy tale that is funny, moving, and unlike any
book
you've read before. |
Yes |
| We Are Witnesses: The Diaries of
Five Teenagers
Who Died in the Holocaust |
Boas, Jacob |
Nonfiction |
1996 |
12 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
The compelling and poignant diaries
of five teenagers
who died during the Holocaust tell their tragic, courageous stories. |
Yes |
| River Boy |
Bowler, Tim |
Fiction |
1997 |
10 |
Carnegie Medal Books |
Knowing that he is dying, Jess's
grandfather insists
on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special
painting
and fulfill a life-long dream. |
|
| Getting In |
Boylan, James Finney |
Fiction |
1998 |
10 |
Alex Award winners, Booklist
Editors' Choice Award
winners |
Boylan takes wicked aim at the
college mystique--from
admissions interviews to school traditions--in this funny, poignant
novel,
which has already been optioned for the big screen. |
Yes |
| The Moves Make the Man |
Brooks, Bruce |
Fiction |
1985 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
As Jerome, a black athlete, shares
his skills and
interest in basketball with Bix, a white baseball player, their
friendship
grows and the game becomes a reflection of both their lives. |
Yes |
| Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan
of Arc |
Brooks, Polly Schoyer |
Nonfiction |
1991 |
12 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Condemned as a witch but later
canonized as a saint,
young Joan, inspired by her love of France, leads her countrymen in
their
battle against the English. |
Yes |
| The Face at the Edge of the World |
Bunting, Eve |
fiction |
1985 |
9 |
California Young Reader |
Haunted by the suicide of a gifted
young Black writer
who was his best friend, Jed pursues the reason for it. |
Yes |
| A Sudden Silence |
Bunting, Eve |
|
1989 |
9 |
California Young Reader |
Jesse Harmon searches for the hit
and run driver
who killed his brother Bry. |
Yes |
| If I Asked You Would You Stay |
Bunting, Eve |
Fiction |
1984 |
10 |
California Young Reader |
When Crow, a seventeen-year-old
loner, rescues a
troubled young girl from the ocean, his jealously guarded solitary
existence
is threatened by his first awakening to love. |
Yes |
| Kindred |
Butler, Octavia |
Fiction |
|
11 |
|
Dana, an African-American woman
living in 1976,
is transported back in time. She finds herself in a world where slavery
still exists, and ends up having to struagle to save her family and
herself. |
Yes |
| The Princess Diaries |
Cabot, Meg |
Fiction |
2000 |
10 |
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying
to lead a normal
life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her
father
is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she
is
a princess and the heir to the throne. |
Yes |
| Ender's Shadow |
Card, Orson Scott |
fiction |
1999 |
10 |
Booklist Editors' Choice Award
winners, Alex Award
winners, YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
Card's exploration of the origins
and evolution
of ethics continues in a story that parallels that of his classic
Ender's
Game (1984). |
Yes |
| Ender's Game |
Card, Orson Scott |
Fiction |
1985 |
10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, a young
genius in Battle
School, where he is training to fight the alien Buggers, has to put his
skills to the ultimate test much sooner than he expected. |
Yes |
| So Far From God |
Castillo, Ana |
Fiction |
1993 |
|
|
|
Yes |
| My Antonia |
Cather, Willa |
|
1954 |
11 |
teacher recommendation |
Antonia works as a servant for her
neighbors after
her father's death, elopes, and then returns to marry a Bohemian
farmer. |
Yes |
| Girl With a Pearl Earring |
Chevalier, Tracy |
Fiction |
1999 |
12 |
Alex Award winners Booklist Editors'
Choice Award
winners |
Inspired by Vermeer's painting of
the same name,
Chevalier creates an elegant and intriguing story of how a young
peasant
girl came to have her portrait painted. |
Yes |
| Hero Ain't Nothin but a Sandwich |
Childress, Alice |
Fiction |
1973 |
10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Benjie, a 13-year-old in Harlem,
cannot face the
reality of his drug addiction or the realization that someone cares for
him. |
Yes |
| Woman of Hollering Creek |
Cisneros, Sandra |
Fiction |
1991 |
|
|
|
Yes |
| An Island Like You |
Cofer, Judith Ortiz |
Fiction |
1995 |
12 |
Pura Belpre Award Winners, YALSA
Best Books for
Young Adults, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers,
YALSA
Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults |
Twelve stories about young people
caught between
their Puerto Rican heritage and their American surroundings. |
|
| My Brother Sam is Dead |
Collier, James Lincoln |
|
1974 |
11 |
California Young Reader |
Recounts the tragedy that strikes
the Meeker family
during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the
rest
of the family tries to stay neutral. |
Yes |
| Fallen Angels |
Collier, James Lincoln |
Fiction |
1988 |
11 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry's
stint in Vietnam
brings home to him the agony and futility of war as he learns to kill
and
watches his comrades die. |
Yes |
| Corpses, Coffins, Crypts |
Colman, Penny |
Nonfiction |
|
11 |
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
|
|
| Many Stones |
Coman, Carolyn |
|
2000 |
|
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
Berry Morgan's divorced father
returns to tell her
that her sister has been murdered in South Africa. |
Yes |
| Flight #116 Is Down |
Cooney, Caroline B. |
Fiction |
1993 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
A 747 crashes on the grounds of her
family's estate,
and 16-year-old Heidi, alone and terrified, pulls herself together to
help
rescue the survivors. |
Yes |
| Face on the Milk Carton |
Cooney, Caroline B. |
|
1990 |
9 |
California Young Reader, Young
Reader's Choice Award
winners |
A photograph of a missing girl on a
milk carton
leads Janie on a search for her real identity. |
Yes |
| Flash Fire |
Cooney, Caroline B. |
|
1995 |
|
California Young Reader, YALSA Quick
Picks for Reluctant
Young Adult Readers |
|
Yes |
| Some Soul to Keep |
Cooper, J. California |
|
1987 |
9 |
|
Like Cooper's previous works, this
new collection
of stories features feisty, determined women whose lifelong struggles
for
dignity lead to ultimate triumph in spite of adverse circumstances. |
Yes |
| The Matter is Life |
Cooper, J. California |
|
1991 |
11 |
|
Short stories, African-American --
20th century |
Yes |
| Family |
Cooper, J. California |
|
1991 |
|
|
A slave mother, distraught that her
children, sired
by her master, might be sold away from her, attempts to poison them
all. |
Yes |
| We All Fall Down |
Cormier, Robert |
|
1991 |
9 |
California Young Reader |
As The Avenger searches for the
teenage boys who
trashed a house in his neighborhood , Buddy one of the trashers,
increases
his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his
obsession
with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized hous |
Yes |
| I Am the Cheese |
Cormier, Robert |
Fiction |
1977 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
A victim of amnesia, and under the
influence of
drugs administered by mysterious and unidentified questioners, teenager
Adam searches through haunting memories that must not be recalled or
revealed
if he is to survive. |
Yes |
| Fade |
Cormier, Robert |
Fiction |
1988 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
One boy in each generation of the
Moreaux family
inherits the power--and the curse--of invisibility. |
Yes |
| The Chocolate War: A Novel |
Cormier, Robert |
Fiction |
1974 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Sweets abound at Trinity High while
a schoolmaster
feasts on his students' fear--a bitter story of one student's
resistance
and the high price he pays. |
Yes |
| In the Middle of the Night |
Cormier, Rorbert |
Fiction |
1995 |
9 |
California Young Reader, YALSA Best
Books for Young
Adults, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers |
Sixteen-year-old Denny lives in the
shadow of a
deadly accident with which his father was connected when he was Denny's
age., a disaster for which some of the survivors still blame his
father. |
Yes |
| I Heard the Owl Call My Name |
Craven, Margaret |
|
1974 |
12 |
California Young Reader, YALSA
Popular Paperbacks
for Young Adults |
A young priest goes into a remote
Indian village
where he is sensitive to the inevitable passing of the old life and the
infiltration of the new, but the villagers eventually accept him.A
young
priest with a short time to live is sent to a parish of Kwaki |
Yes |
| The Wanderer |
Creech, Sharon |
|
|
|
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
|
Yes |
| Children of the River |
Crew, Linda |
|
1988 |
10 |
California Young Reader,
International Reading Association
Children's Book Award winners, YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults |
Having fled Cambodia four years
earlier to escape
the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between
remaining
faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school
as a "regular" American. |
Yes |
| Timeline |
Crichton, Michael |
|
1999 |
9 |
Booklist Editors' Choice Award
winners |
Quantum theory combines with the
medieval past in
a suspenseful adventure. |
Yes |
| Athletic Shorts: 6 Short Stories |
Crutcher, Chris |
Fiction |
1992 |
12 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Tales of love, death, bigotry and
heroism are of
real people with the courage to stand up to a world that often puts
them
down. |
Yes |
| Chinese Handcuffs |
Crutcher, Chris |
Fiction |
1990 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
A winning triathlete's need to
understand his older
brother's suicide is complicated by memories and daring challenges. |
Yes |
| Ironman |
Crutcher, Chris |
Fiction |
1996 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
When he calls his teacher an asshole
in class, Bo
is forced to attend an anger management program, where he learns to
deal
with his real problem--his cruel father. |
Yes |
| Running Loose |
Crutcher, Chris |
Fiction |
1983 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Louie takes a stand against his
coach and playing
dirty football, falls in love, and loses his girlfriend in a fatal
accident--all
in his senior year. |
Yes |
| Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes |
Crutcher, Chris |
Fiction |
1994 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
When the horrific truth about
Sarah's past is revealed,
only her true friend Eric ("Moby") Calhoun can help her come to terms
with
her family and plan for her future. |
Yes |
| The Hours |
Cunningham, Michael |
|
1998 |
12 |
teacher recommendation, Pulitzer
Prize fiction,
PEN/Faulkner Award winners, ALA Notable Adult Books |
Virginia Woolf is brought back to
life in an intertwining
of her story with those of two more contemporary women. I |
yes |
| Bud, Not Buddy |
Curtis, Christopher Paul |
Fiction |
1999 |
11 |
International Reading Association
Children's Book
Award winners, ALA Notable Children's Books, Coretta Scott King Award
Books
(Authors), Newbery Medal books, YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy
living in Flint,
Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and
sets
out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned
bandleader,
H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. |
Yes |
| Catherine, Called Birdy |
Cushman, Karen |
Fiction |
1995 |
12 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Fighting fleas, unsuitable suitors,
and her mother's
attempts to make a lady of her, Catherine writes in her diary about her
frustrations with her life as a young noblewoman in medieval times. |
Yes |
| The Midwife's Apprentice |
Cushman, Karen |
Fiction |
1996 |
12 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Beetle, a homeless girl, is found in
a dung heap
and apprenticed to the village midwife in this sensitive 14th-century
tale
set in England. |
Yes |
| Breath, Eyes, Memory |
Dandicat, Edwidge |
Fiction |
1994 |
9 |
|
A young Haitian girl's coming of age
under difficult
circumstances. "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are
one,
a place where you carry your past like the hair on your head," says
narrator
Sophie Caco, ruminating on the chains of duty and |
Yes |
| Can You Sue Your Parents for
Malpractice? |
Danziger, Paula |
|
1979 |
9 |
California Young Reader |
Confused about her life at home and
at school, 14-year-old
Lauren learns the importance of being her own person. |
Yes |
| Dreamland |
Dessen, Sarah |
|
2000 |
11 |
Booklist Editors' Choice Award
winners, YALSA Best
Books for Young Adults |
fter her older sister runs away,
sixteen-year-old
Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life
and
begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant,
and dangerous. |
Yes |
| On the Devil's Court |
Deuker, Carl |
Fiction |
1990 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Seventeen-year-old Joe Faust must
decide if it's
worth selling his soul to the devil for one perfect season of
basketball. |
Yes |
| Eva |
Dickinson, Peter |
Fiction |
1990 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
After a violent auto accident,
13-year-old Eva wakes
up in a hospital to find she must learn how to live as a chimpanzee. |
Yes |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas, Adams |
Fiction |
1980 |
10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
The hilarious journey of Arthur Dent
and his friend
Ford Prefect, a space hitchhiker, who escape from earth seconds before
it is demolished and travel to a variety of galactic civilizations
while
gathering information for a hitchhiker's guidebook. |
Yes |
| Tears of a Tiger |
Draper, Sharon M. |
Fiction |
1996 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
High-school senior Andy Jackson is
overcome by guilt
after his best friend dies in an automobile accident that happened when
Andy was driving drunk. |
Yes |
| Forged by Fire |
Draper, Sharon M. |
Fiction |
1997 |
9 |
YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young
Adults, Coretta
Scott King Award Books (Authors), YALSA Best Books for Young Adults,
YALSA
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers |
After surviving a fire, Gerald
experiences separation
from his mother, the loss of his great aunt, and life with his
stepsister's
abusive father. |
Yes |
| Killing Mr. Griffin |
Duncan, Lois |
Fiction |
1978 |
9 |
California Young Reader |
A teenager casually suggests playing
a cruel trick
on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder? |
Yes |
| Stranger with My Face |
Duncan, Lois |
Fiction |
1981 |
9 |
California Young Reader |
A seventeen-year-old senses she is
being spied on
and probably impersonated, but when she discovers what actually is
occurring,
it is more unbelievable than she ever imagined. |
Yes |
| Summer of Fear |
Duncan, Lois |
Fiction |
1976 |
9 |
California Young Reader |
Soon after the arrival of cousin
Julia, insidious
occurrences begin that convince Rachel she is a witch and must be
stopped
before her total monstrous plan can be effected. |
Yes |
| Dear America: Letters Home from
Vietnam |
Edelman, Bernard |
Nonfiction |
1985 |
11 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
In their personal letters, soldiers
and civilians
reveal the pain, frustration, confusion, and anger that were part of
their
daily lives in Vietnam. |
Yes |
| Like Water for Chocolate |
Esquivel, Laura |
Fiction |
1992 |
12 |
|
At the beginning of the 20th
century, Tita, the
youngest of three daughters, is expected to serve her mother for the
rest
of her life, but in order to show her love to Pedro, who is engaged to
her sister, Tita cooks for him. |
Yes |
| A Girl Named Disaster |
Farmer, Nancy |
Fiction |
1997 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
When her family arranges her
marriage to a cruel
man with three wives, Nhamo escapes by canoe to seek a better future. |
Yes |
| The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm |
Farmer, Nancy |
Fiction |
1995 |
10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
When General Matsika's three
children are kidnapped
after they leave the safety of their armed compound, their mother hires
the best detective team available in 2194 Zimbabwe--the appropriately
named
mutant partners--the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. |
Yes |
| Bad |
Ferris, Jean |
|
1998 |
9 |
California Young Reader, YALSA Quick
Picks for Reluctant
Young Adult Readers, YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
In an attempt to please her friends,
sixteen-year-old
Dallas goes along with their plan to rob a convience store and when her
father refuses to allow to her to come home, she is sentenced to six
months
in the Girls' Rehabilitation Center. |
Yes |
| Across the Grain |
Ferris, Jean |
|
1990 |
9 |
California Young Reader |
Since his mother's death, a
17-year-old has difficulty
dealing with his irresponsible older sister and eventually faces a
choice
of helping her or living his own life. |
Yes |
| White Oleander |
Fitch, Janet |
|
1999 |
12 |
teacher recommendation |
t the age of 12, Astrid has her
world blown away
when her mother is sentenced to life in prison for murdering her lover.
Sharpened by harsh foster home environments, Astrid remakes herself as
a survivor, and ultimately, an artist. |
yes |
| Seek |
Fleischman, Paul |
|
|
9 |
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults,
ALA Notable Children's
Books |
Rob becomes obsessed with searching
the airwaves
for his long-gone father, a radio announcer. |
Yes |
| Bull Run |
Fleischman, Paul |
Fiction |
1994 |
11 |
|
Sixteen individuals voice their
hopes and fears
in this interwoven collage of "snapshots" set during the first battle
of
the Civil War. |
Yes |
| Whirligig |
Fleischman, Paul |
Fiction |
1999 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
After killing a girl when driving
drunk, Brent Bishop
learns a lot about himself and life when he's forced to pay for his
crime
by traveling to the four corners of the U.S. to build whirligigs in her
memory. |
Yes |
| Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of
Discovery |
Freedman, Russel |
Nonfiction |
1994 |
10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
A compelling photo-biography of
Eleanor Roosevelt
relates the remarkable story of a shy, lonely girl who grows up to be a
powerful force in the fight for world peace and equality and an
inspiration
to millions of people. |
Yes |
| Wright Brothers: How They Invented
the Airplane |
Freedman, Russel |
Nonfiction |
1992 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Freedman tells the fascinating story
of how two
self-taught bicycle mechanics solve the problems that had baffled
generations
of scientists and engineers. |
Yes |
| Lincoln: A Photobiography |
Freedman, Russell |
Nonfiction |
1988 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
This skillfully written, appealing
overview of Lincoln's
life from boyhood to death, is accompanied by carefully chosen
photographs
and prints. |
Yes |
| The Old Gringo |
Fuentes, Carlos |
Fiction |
1985 |
12 |
teacher recommendation |
An old American author, perhaps
Ambrose Bierce,
disappears in Mexico in 1913 where he becomes a father figure to an
American
governess and a general in Pancho Villa's army. |
Yes |
| Barrio Boy |
Galarza, Ernesto |
|
|
9 |
|
|
Yes |
| Sixteen: Short Stories by
Outstanding Writers for
Young Adults |
Gallo, Donald |
Fiction |
1984 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
School, friendship, family, and love
are all found
within this unusual collection of humorous and serious short stories. |
Yes |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Garcia Marque, Gabriel |
Fiction |
1970 |
10 |
teacher recommendation |
At the center of this extraodinarily
vast novel
is the Buendia family, whose fortunes--or, more commonly,
misfortunes--Garcia
Marquez chronicles for the one hundred years o the title and whose
story
ultimaterly encapsulates the entire history of mankind, |
Yes |
| Shadow of the Dragon |
Garland, Sherry |
Fiction |
1994 |
12 |
California Young Reader |
High school sophomore Danny Vo tries
to resolve
the conflict between the values of his Vietnamese refugee family and
his
new American way of life. |
Yes |
| Nora Ryan's Song |
Giff, Patricia Reilly |
|
|
|
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
|
Yes |
| At All Costs |
Gilstrap, John |
Fiction |
1998 |
9 |
Alex Awards |
Readers who have begun to wonder
whether there are
any new suspense plots left will rejoice at the publication of this
exciting
and very plausible thriller by the author of Nathan's Run (1996). |
Yes |
| Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time |
Gurney, James |
Fiction |
1993 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
A newly discovered, illustrated
journal reveals
life on the lost island of Dinotopia, where shipwrecked human survivors
work and play in harmony with dinosaurs. |
Yes |
| Snow Falling On Cedars |
Guterson, David |
|
1994 |
10 |
teacher recommendation, PEN/Faulkner
Award winners |
After returning from internment and
trying to get
his land back, Kabuo Miyomoto is arrested and tried for the murder of
Carl
Heine. |
Yes |
| The Friends |
Guy, Rosa |
Fiction |
1973 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Rejected by her classmates because
she "talks funny,"
Phyllisia Cathy, a young West Indian girl, is forced to become friends
with poor, frazzled Edith, the only one who will accept her. |
Yes |
| Disappearance |
Guy, Rosa |
Fiction |
1979 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Released from jail in the custody of
the Aimsley
Family, Imamu Jones immediately becomes a prime suspect when Perk,
their
youngest daughter, disappears. |
Yes |
| December Stillness |
Hahn, Mary Downing |
|
1988 |
9 |
California Young Reader |
Thirteen-year-old Kelly tries to
befriend Mr. Weems,
a disturbed, homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her
suburban
library, though the man makes it clear he wants to be left alone. |
Yes |
| Plainsong |
Haruf, Kent |
Fiction |
1999 |
|
Alex Award winners Booklist Editors'
Choice Award
winners |
An unlikely extended family is
formed when a high
school teacher helps a pregnant student make a home with two elderly
bachelor
ranchers |
Yes |
| Second Star to the Right |
Hautzig, Deborah |
|
1981 |
9 |
California Young Reader |
As 14-year-old Leslie begins to shed
the weight
she feels makes her imperfect, she finds it increasingly difficult to
reach
out for the psychological help she knows she needs. |
Yes |
| Mother of Pearl |
Haynes, Melinda |
|
1999 |
10 |
teacher recommendation |
Set in a small Mississippi town in
the late 1950s,
the story revolves around 28-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew
up an orphan, and Valuable Komer, a 15-year-old white girl who is the
daughter
of the town whore and an unknown father. |
Yes |
| Stones from the River |
Hegi, Ursula |
|
|
12 |
teacher recommendation |
Trudi, a dwarf librarian, tells
about the lives
of people in the small German town of Burgdorf from World War I and
into
the 1950s. |
Yes |
| CrashBoomLove |
Herrera, Juan Felipe |
Fiction |
1999 |
11 |
YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant
Young Adult Readers, |
After his father leaves home.
Sixteen year old Casar
Garcia lives with his mother and struggles through the painful
experiences
of growing up as a Mexican American high school student. |
|
| All Things Bright and Beautiful |
Herriot, James |
|
1974 |
|
California Young Reader |
|
Yes |
| Witness |
Hesse, Karen |
|
2001 |
|
ALA Notable Children's Books |
A series of poems express the views
of various people
in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young
Jewish
girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to
infiltrate
the town. |
|
| Out of the Dust |
Hesse, Karen |
|
1997 |
|
Newbery Medal books, YALSA Best
Books for Young
Adults |
In a series of poems,
fourteen-year-old Billie Jo
relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma
during the dust bowl years of the Depression. |
Yes |
| Kissing Doorknobs |
Hesser, Terry Spencer |
Fiction |
1999 |
10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Tara struggles to live with her
obsessive-compulsive
behavior, but before her condition is diagnosed, her relationships with
family and friends begin to crumble. |
Yes |
| October Sky |
Hickman, Homer S. |
|
|
|
teacher recommendation |
|
Yes |
| Rumblefish |
Hinton, S.E. |
|
1975 |
9 |
California Young Reader |
A junior high school boy idolizes
his older brother,
the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just
like
him. |
Yes |
| Downriver |
Hobbs, Will |
Fiction |
1992 |
10 |
YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young
Adults, YALSA
100 Best Books (1950-2000) |
Fifteen-year-old Jesse and other
rebellious teenage
members of a wilderness survival team abandon their adult leader, steal
his van and rafts, and run the dangerous whitewaters of the Grand
Canyon. |
Yes |
| Far North |
Hobbs, Will |
Fiction |
1997 |
|
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults,
YALSA Quick Picks
for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, YALSA 100 Best Books (1950-2000) |
Stranded in the Canadian wilderness,
two boys endure
a brutal sub arctic winter of bear, wolf, and moose attacks while they
repeatedly struggle to escape. |
Yes |
| Bearstone |
Hobbs, Will |
|
1989 |
10 |
California Young Reader |
A troubled teenage Indian boy goes
to live with
an elderly rancher whose caring ways help the boy become a man. |
Yes |
| When Zachary Beaver came to Town |
Holt, Kimberly Willis |
Fiction |
1999 |
9 |
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
|
Yes |
| The Adventures of Blue Avenger |
Howe, Norma |
|
1999 |
10 |
California Young Reader, YALSA
Popular Paperbacks
for Young Adults, YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
On his sixteenth birthday, still
trying to cope
with the unexpected death of his father, David Schumacher decides--or
does
he--to change his name to Blue Avenger, hoping to find a way to make a
difference in his Oakland neighborhood and in the world. |
Yes |
| A Time for Dancing |
Hurwin, Davida Wills |
Fiction |
1996 |
11 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Seventeen-year-old best friends
Juliana and Samantha
share a passion for dance, for life, and for each other--then Jules is
diagnosed with cancer and must travel a path Sam cannot follow. |
Yes |
| Pay It Forward |
Hyde, Catherine Ryan |
|
1999 |
9 |
|
Twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney
takes on an extracredit
assignment for his social studies class: think of an idea for world
change
and put it into action. |
Yes |
| A Widow for One Year |
Irving, John |
|
|
|
teacher recommendation |
|
Yes |
| Place My Words Are Looking For: What
Poets Say About
and Through Their Work |
Janeczko, Paul B |
Nonfiction |
1991 |
|
YALSA Best of the Best |
Writers share their poems and give
insights into
their craft and life. |
Yes |
| Breaking Through |
Jimenez, Francisco |
Nonfiction |
2001 |
9 or 10 |
Pura Belpre Honor Books, Booklist
Editors' Choice
Award winners, YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
Having come from Mexico to
California ten years
ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but
fighting
to improve his life and complete his education. |
|
| Heaven |
Johnson, Angela |
Fiction |
1998 |
9 or 10 |
Coretta Scott King Award Books
(Authors), YALSA
Best Books for Young Adults |
Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly
perfect life
in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her
father
and mother are not her real parents. |
|
| Toning the Sweep |
Johnson, Angela |
Fiction |
1993 |
9 |
YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young
Adults, ALA Notable
Children's Books, Coretta Scott King Award Books (Authors), YALSA
Popular
Paperbacks for Young Adults |
On a visit to her grandmother Ola,
who is dying
of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears
many
stories about the past and her Black family's history and comes to a
better
understanding of relatives both dead and living. |
Yes |
| Scissors, Paper, Rock |
Johnson, Fenton |
|
|
11 |
|
Eleven episodes explore the history
of the Hardin
family of Strang Knob, Ky., a fading community hidden away in the
Appalachians.
This beautifully realized story paints an elegiac but unflinching
portrait
of a gay son's alienation from his harsh parent, e |
Yes |
| The Boxer |
Karr, Kathleen |
|
2000 |
9 |
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
Having learned how to box while in
prison, fifteen-year-old
Johnny sets out to discover if he can make a decent living as a fighter
in late nineteenth-century New York City. |
Yes |
| The Remains of the Day |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
Fiction |
1989 |
12 |
Russ Tomlin contemporary
multicultural list, Booker
McConnell Prize for Fiction winners, ALA Notable Adult Books |
Stevens, an elderly butler, hopes to
rise to the
top of his profession, and he remains stoic and unemotional at his
father's
death and neglects the opportunity to pursue a relationship with a
former
housekeeper. |
Yes |
| Deliver Us from Evie |
Kerr., M.E. |
|
1994 |
10 |
California Young Reader, YALSA
Popular Paperbacks
for Young Adults |
Sixteen-year-old Parr Burrman and
his family face
some difficult times when word spreads through their rural Missouri
town
that his older sister is a lesbian, and she leaves the family farm to
live
with the daughter of the town's banker. |
Yes |
| Annie John |
Kincaid, Jamaica |
|
1985 |
12 |
Russ Tomlin contemporary
multicultural list |
Episodes from the young life of
Annie John, aged
10 to 17, as she grows up on the Caribbean island of Antigua. |
Yes |
| Lucy |
Kincaid, Jamaica |
|
1990 |
12 |
Russ Tomlin contemporary
multicultural list |
Lucy Josephine Potter, 19, has left
her home in
Antigua for life as an au pair in a northern city, determined never to
return. |
Yes |
| The Bean Trees |
Kingsolver, Barbara |
Fiction |
|
10 |
teacher recommendation |
Taylor Grrer hits the road wanting
only to get as
far away from Kentucky as possible, ending up in Arizona with a 3
year-old
Cherokee. |
|
| Pigs in Heaven |
Kingsolver, Barbara |
Fiction |
1993 |
11 |
Los Angeles Times Book prize
winners, teach recommendation |
Feeling alienated from everyone
during her mother's
terminal illness, Zoe comes under the spell of Simon, a vampire doomed
to live until he avenges the death of his mother 300 years earlier. |
|
| The Silver Kiss |
Klause, Annette Curtis |
Fiction |
1990 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Feeling alienated from everyone
during her mother's
terminal illness, Zoe comes under the spell of Simon, a vampire doomed
to live until he avenges the death of his mother 300 years earlier. |
Yes |
| The Arizona Kid |
Koertge, Ron |
Fiction |
1988 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Working one summer at a racetrack,
living with his
gay uncle, and falling madly in love make wimpy, short, tenth-grader
Billy
Kennedy more self-confident and wiser in the ways of the world. |
Yes |
| Silent to the Bone |
Konisburg, E.L. |
Fiction |
2000 |
9 |
Booklist Editors' Choice Award
winners, YALSA Best
Books for Young Adults |
When he is wrongly accused of
gravely injuring his
baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech
and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth
about
what really happened. |
Yes |
| Into Thin Air |
Krakauer, Jon |
Nonfiction |
|
12 |
|
|
|
| Kiss the Dust |
Laird, Elizabeth |
Fiction |
1993 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
It's Iraq, and Tara's family are
Kurds. "He" has
put out the word, and they must flee for their lives. |
Yes |
| She's Come Undone |
Lamb, Wally |
Fiction |
1992 |
11 |
teacher recommendation |
|
|
| The Band Never Dances |
Landis, J.D. |
Fiction |
1989 |
10 |
California Young Reader |
Working through the anguish of her
beloved brother's
suicide and trying to forge an identity of her own, sixteen-year-old
Judy
goes on tour as drummer for the hot new rock band Wedding Night and
forms
love-hate relationships with two handsome musicians. |
Yes |
| Pageant |
Lasky, Kathryn |
Fiction |
1986 |
10 |
California Young Reader |
Sarah Benjamin, a Jewish teenager on
the brink of
Kennedy's New Frontier, wonders if she can endure four more years of
Stuart
Hall, Indianapolis's most exclusive, very Christian, and impossibly
stuffy
school for girls. |
Yes |
| Ghost Boy |
Lawrence, Iain |
Fiction |
2000 |
9 |
ALA Notable Children's Books, YALSA
Best Books for
Young Adults |
An albino teenage boy strives to
find acceptance
in a circus. |
Yes |
| Crazy |
Lebert, Benjamin |
|
2000 |
10 |
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
Written by a 16-year-old, this first
novel, a sensation
in Germany, chronicles the adventures of a boy (the same age as the
author)
at boarding school. |
Yes |
| Who Killed Palomino Molero |
Llosa, Mario Vargas |
Fiction |
1987 |
12 |
Russ Tomlin contemporary
multicultural list |
In the 1950s, someone crucifies
Peruvian Air Force
recruit Palomino Molero, and the subsequent investigation reveals the
problems
in Molero's life. |
Yes |
| Jewel |
Lott, Brett |
Fiction |
1999 |
9 |
teacher recommendation |
When Brenda Kay is born in 1943,
Jewel gives thanks
for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. But an unforeseen event
can set a life on a course without reason or compass, and this is the
story
of Jewel's devotion to a child who is both her burden a |
|
| Freewill |
Lynch, Chris |
Fiction |
2001 |
9 |
Michael L. Printz Honor Book, YALSA
Best Books for
Young Adults |
A teenager trying to recover from
the tragic death
of his father and stepmother believes himself to be responsible for the
rash of teen suicides occurring in his town |
Yes |
| The Time and the Place |
Mafouz, Naguib |
|
1991 |
12 |
Russ Tomlin contemporary
multicultural list |
This collection of short stories by
the Egyptian
Nobel Prize winner expands on the writer's characteristic world and
style. |
Yes |
| The Changeover: A Supernatural
Romance |
Mahy, Margaret |
Fiction |
1984 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
With the help of an older boy who
loves her, Laura
"changes over" into a witch to fight the evil forces that are attacking
her little brother. |
Yes |
| Tomorrow, When the War Began |
Marsden, John |
Fiction |
1996 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
When they return from a wilderness
camping trip,
Ellie and her friends are shocked to discover Australia has been
invaded
and soon find fighting and surviving have become their way of life. |
Yes |
| Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida |
Martinez, Victor |
Fiction |
1996 |
10 |
National Book Award winners, Pura
Belpre Award winners,
Americas Award winners |
Manny relates his coming of age
experiences as a
member of a poor Chicano family in which the alcoholic father only adds
to everyone's struggle. |
|
| At Home in the World |
Maynard, Joyce |
|
|
12 |
teacher recommendation |
|
yes |
| After the Rain |
Mazer, Norma Fox |
Fiction |
1987 |
9 |
California Young Reader, ALA Notable
Children's
Books, Newbery Honor Books |
after discovering her grandfather is
dying, fifteen
year old Rachel gets ti know him better than ever before and finds the
experience bittersweet. |
yes |
| The Color of Water |
McBride, James |
|
|
11 |
teacher recommendation |
|
|
| Dragonsinger |
McCaffrey, Anne |
Fiction |
1977 |
9 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
With the help of Master-harper,
Menolly and her
fire lizards overcome the prejudice against a woman's becoming a harper
the planet Pern. |
Yes |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black
Man in America |
McCall, Nathan |
Nonfiction |
1995 |
10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
McCall remembers his journey from a
working-class
African American neighborhood to prison to a prestigious position on
the
WASHINGTON POST. |
Yes |
| Angela's Ashes |
McCourt Frank |
Nonfiction |
1996 |
11 |
National Book Critics Circle Award
winners |
The true story of Frank Mccourt poor
childhood in
Ireland, and his immigration to America. Deals with issiues of
prejudice,
alcoholism, and struggling families. |
|
| Thousand Pieces of Gold |
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum |
Fiction |
1981 |
12 |
teacher recommendation |
The family of Polly Bemis (Lalu
Nathoy) sells her
to bandits and a Chinese saloon keeper, but she ends up married to an
American
and homesteading in Idaho. |
yes |
| The Dark-thirty |
McKissack, Pat |
Fiction |
1992 |
9 |
ALA Notable Children's Books,
Coretta Scott King
Award Books (Authors), Newbery Honor Books |
A collection of ghost stories with
African American
themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour
before
nightfall--when ghosts seem all too believable. |
|
| The War Between the Classes |
Miklowitz, Gloria |
Fiction |
1985 |
10 |
California Young Reader |
Seventeen-year-old Emiko, brought up
in a strict
Japanese-American family, is in love with handsome blond Adam, although
she realizes her old-fashioned father expects her to find a Japanese
husband. |
Yes |
| The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with
the Sea |
Mishima, Yukio |
Fiction |
1965 |
12 |
teacher recommendation |
Japaness fiction--20th century |
|
| Spring Snow |
Mishima, Yukio |
Fiction |
|
12 |
|
|
Yes |
| Song of Solomon |
Morrison, Toni |
Fiction |
|
12 |
teacher recommendation, National
Book Critics Circle
Award winners |
Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye,
unravels the
mysterious chain of being in a black American family in this book of
genealogical
revelations. |
Yes |
| Beloved |
Morrison, Toni |
Fiction |
1987 |
12 |
Pulitzer Prize fiction, YALSA
outstanding Books
for the college Bound |
After the Civil War ends, Sethe
longingly recalls
the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with
recapture
after escaping from slavery 18 years before. |
Yes |
| Bluest Eye, The |
Morrison, Toni |
Fiction |
1970 |
11 |
teacher recommendation |
Eleven year old Pecola Breedlove, an
African-American
girl in an America whose love blond, blue eyed children can devastate
all
others, prays to her eyes will turn blue, so that she will be
beautiful,
people will notice her, and her world will be differen |
Yes |
| Jazz |
Morrison, Toni |
Fiction |
1992 |
12 |
ALA Notable Adult Books |
In Harlem, 1926, Joe Trace, a door
to door salesman
in his fifties, kills his tennage lover. A prefound love story which
depicts
the sights ad sounds of Blaxck urban life during the Jazz Age. After
Joe
Trace shoots his 18 year old lover in Harlam during 1 |
Yes |
| The Middleman and other stories |
Mukherjee, Bharati |
Fiction |
1988 |
11 or 12 |
National Book Critics Circle Award
winners |
The Middleman and Other Stories,
portrays the lives
of immigrants adjusting to American society. |
|
| Jasmine |
Mukherjee, Bharati |
Fiction |
1989 |
11 or 12 |
|
Jasmine was born in a small Indian
village, witnessed
her young husband's assassination there, came to the U.S., and now
lives
with a middle-aged banker in a small Iowa town. Try as she might,
Jasmine
can't quite shrug off all the traditions and memories |
Yes |
| 145th Street Short Stories |
Myers, Walter Dean |
Fiction |
2000 |
9 or 10 |
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults |
Ten stories portray life on a block
in Harlem. |
Yes |
| Monster |
Myers, Walter Dean |
Fiction |
1999 |
9 |
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults,
Michael L. Printz
Award winners |
While on trial as an accomplice to a
murder, sixteen-year-old
Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in
the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course
his life has taken. |
Yes |
| Hoops |
Myers, Walter Dean |
Fiction |
1981 |
9 or 10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Lonnie and the rest of his Harlem
ghetto basketball
team learn the fine art of playing and winning like pros from Cal, who
once was one. |
Yes |
| Slam |
Myers, Walter Dean |
Fiction |
1997 |
9 or 10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Slam Harris is a talented basketball
player whose
dreams of fame and fortune in the NBA can come true--if he can control
his anger. |
Yes |
| Somewhere in the Darkness |
Myers, Walter Dean |
Fiction |
1993 |
9 or 10 |
YALSA Best of the Best |
Jimmy is shocked when an unexpected
visitor turns
out to be his father, who has been in prison for eight years and now
wants
Jimmy to drive with him to Chicago. |
Yes |
| A Step from Heaven |
Na, An |
Fiction |
2001 |
11 or 12 |
Michael L. Printz Award |
Tells the tale of Young Ju as she
grows from a toddler
in Korea to a high-school graduate in California desperately trying to
be a 'true' American while her immigrant parents try to make her stay
close
to her Korean heritage. |
Yes |
| The Other Side of Truth |
Naidoo, Beverley |
Fiction |
2001 |
12 |
Booklist Editors' Choice Award
winners, Carnegie
Medal Books, YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, ALA Notable Children's
Books |
Smuggled out of Nigeria after their
mother's murder,
Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle
fails
to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new
surroundings
and of what may have happened to their journalist f |
Yes |
| Mama Day |
Naylor, Gloria |
Fiction |
1988 |
11 |
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Focuses on the relationship of the
people in an
isolated social comm
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