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  Cover Art: Speak 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.
1999
Teen Fiction Book ANDERSO
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  Cover Art: Feed Anderson, M. T.
Feed
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
2002
Teen Fiction Book
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  Cover Art: Tithe : a Modern Faerie Tale Black, Holly.
Tithe : a Modern Faerie Tale
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
2002
Teen Fiction Book
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  Cover Art: Forever... : a Novel Blume, Judy.
Forever... : a Novel
Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.
1975
Teen Fiction Book
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  Cover Art: A Great and Terrible Beauty Bray, Libba.
A Great and Terrible Beauty
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.
2005
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Chbosky, Stephen
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Written in the form of letters to an anonymous Dear Friend, shy and introspective Charlie, a high school freshman, documents his day-to-day thoughts and feelings of some of the many struggles faced in high school.
1999
Teen Fiction Book CHBOSKY
  Cover Art: The Dark is Rising Cooper, Susan
The Dark is Rising
Will Stanton discovers the role he must play in the struggle to overcome the powers of the Dark.
1986
Teen Fiction Book COOPER
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  Cover Art: The Chocolate War 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.
2004
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Annie On My Mind Garden, Nancy
Annie On My Mind
Liza tries to put aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at Foster Academy, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of others.
2007
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Looking for Alaska Green, John
Looking for Alaska
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
2005
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Mr. Was Hautman, Pete
Mr. Was
After his dying grandfather tries to strangle him, Jack Lund discovers a door that leads him fifty years into the past and involves him in events that determine his own future.
1996
Teen Fiction Book HAUTMAN
  Cover Art: Hoot Hiaasen, Carl
Hoot
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
2002
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Outsiders Hinton, S. E.
The Outsiders
Ponyboy and his brothers struggle to find their place in a difficult world after the deaths of their parents.
2007
Teen Fiction Book HINTON
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  Cover Art: The First Part Last Johnson, Angela
The First Part Last
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
2003
Teen Fiction Book
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  Cover Art: Blood and Chocolate Klause, Annette Curtis
Blood and Chocolate
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
1997
Teen Fiction Book KLAUSE
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  Cover Art: Autobiography of My Dead Brother Myers, Walter Dean
Autobiography of My Dead Brother
Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend.
2005
Teen Fiction Book MYERS
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  Cover Art: Sabriel Nix, Garth
Sabriel
Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.
1996
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Hatchet Paulsen, Gary.
Hatchet
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
2006
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Life as We Knew it Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Life as We Knew it
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
2006
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Golden Compass Pullman, Philip
The Golden Compass
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
1996
Teen Fiction Book
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