Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
Algonquin Books, 2004
After confessing to being a lifelong chocoholic, the aptly named Almond traces the history and bittersweet business practices of the companies producing those addictive candy bars.
338.4 ALM
Crash by Jerry Spinelli
Alfred A. Knopf, 1996
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with a Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
YT FICTION SPI
Damage by A.M. Jenkins
HarperCollins, 2001
Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special.
PB YA FICTION JEN
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
Alfred A. Knopf, 1998
Sir Ernest Shackleton's courageous but ill-fated attempt to cross the South Pole comes to life in pictures taken by one of the crew and in the words of its men. This book is an exhilarating chronicle of one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of polar exploration and one of history's all-time great survival stories.
919.89 ALE
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Candlewick Press, 2002
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.
YA SCI_FI FANTASY AND
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Delacorte Press, 1990
Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark who can make even a "slow pay" come across, follows a mark to Hollywood, ends up partners with him and makes it big in the movie business.
MYSTERY LEO
The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian
Henry Holt and Company, 2001
Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a web site that is receiving national attention.
YA FICTION TAS
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Bantam Books, 1951
When the tattooed man moves, the arcane designs inked upon his skin whirl tales outside of belief: tales of love and laughter, darkness and death, of mankind's past and future.
PB CLASSIC BRA
Jesse by Gary Soto
Scholastic, 1996
Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor.
PB YA FICTION SOT
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Ballantine Books, 1993
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle: there were memories; there were promises; there was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields during the Civil War.
PB FICTION SHA
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Dutton, 2005
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.
YA FICTION GRE
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
HarperCollins, 1999
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.
YA FICTION MYE
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Pocket Books, 1999
A coming of age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide of his best friend.
PB YA FICTION CHB
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Philomel Books, 2001
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
YT FICTION HOR
Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam
Delacorte Press, 1998
The life and times of aerospace engineer Home Hickman and his friends in Big Creek, West Virginia.
921 HICKAM
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ron Koertge
Candlewick Press, 2003
When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.
YA FICTION KOE
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
Greenwillow Books, 1993
The daily class discussions about the nature of human-kind, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.
YA FICTION CRU
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Harcourt Brace, 1997
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
YT FICTION BLO
Three Clams and an Oyster by Randy Powell
Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002
During their humorous search to find a fourth player for their flag football team, three high school juniors are forced to examine their long friendship, their individual flaws, and their inability to try new experiences.
YA FICTION POW
You Hear Me?: Poems and Writings by Teenage Boys edited by Betsy Franco
Candlewick Press, 2000
An anthology of stories, poems, and essays by adolescent boys on issues that concern them.
809.89 YOU
