Bad by Jean Ferris
Farrar Straus Giroux, c1998
In an attempt to please her friends, sixteen-year-old Dallas goes along with their plan to rob a convenience store and when her father refuses to allow her to come home, she is sentenced to six months in the Girls' Rehabilitation Center.
YA FICTION FER
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Klause
Delacorte Press, c1997
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.
YA FICTION KLA
Breaking Rank by Kristen D. Randle
Morrow Junior Books, c1999
Seventeen-year-old Casey has some of her preconceived notions challenged when she begins to tutor Baby, a member of a ganglike non-conformist society called the Clan.
YA FICTION RAN
Buffalo Gal by Bill Wallace
Holiday House, c1992
Fifteen-year-old Amanda's refined life in early twentieth-century San Francisco is disrupted when she grudgingly accompanies her mother to the Oklahoma Territory on a crusade to save the buffalo.
YT FICTION WAL
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Little, Brown, 1951
Holden Caufield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
PB YA CLASSIC SAL
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Clarion Books, c1994
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
YT FICTION CUS
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Pantheon Books, 1974
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. PB YA FICTION COR
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Set in the near future, a vicious 15-year-old hoodlum wreaks havoc on his city with his gang. He is finally caught and punished by a new method of rehabilitation.
FICTION BUR
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
W. W. Norton & Company, c1996
A confused young man tired of his life finds a new one in a new club where you beat each other to a plup as therapy.
FICTION PAL
Godless by Pete Hautman
Simon & Schuster 2004
When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own.
YA FICTION HAU
The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian
Henry Holt and Company, c2001
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 Misfits by James Howe
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2001
Four students who do not fit in at their small-town middle school decide to create a third party for the student council elections to represent all students who have ever been called names.
YT FICTION HOW
Nothing But the Truth by Avi
Orchard Books, c1991
A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.
YT FICTION AVI
Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
Aladdin Paperbacks, c1996
In hopes of graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page writing assignment which helps him to sort out his relationship with his famous astronaut father and the events that changed him from promising student to troubled teen.
PB YA FICTION THO
Slot Machine by Chris Lynch
HarperCollins Publishers, c1995
When overweight thirteen-year-old Elvin Bishop is sent to camp at St. Paul's Seminary Retreat Center, he and his two best friends are forced to try out various sports in order to find out where they belong.
YT FICTION LYN
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Alfred A. Knopf, c2000
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
YA FICTION SPI
Teenagers from Mars by Rick Spears
Publishers Group West, c2005
A chaotic comics extravaganza in which three teens strive against censorship, and adults, to protect the comics they love. Originally published as a series of comics, "Teenagers from Mars" shows what happens when people who love comics enough to fight for them are forced to.
YA FICTION SPE
Tuesday Café by Don Trembath
Orca Book Publishers, c1996
After setting a fire at his high school, Harper Winslow must write an essay titled "How I plan to turn my life around." He attends a writing class, meets the school counselor, and starts to work things out with his family.
PB YT FICTION TRE
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Simon Pulse, 2005
In Tally's world, a 16th birthday brings an operation, transforming one from a repellent Ugly to an attractive Pretty. Turning Pretty is all Tally has ever wanted. Her friend Shay would rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally must make a terrible choice.
YA FICTION WES
Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block
HarperCollins, 1991
Witch Baby comes to live with Weetzie Bat and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man and has wild adventures in Los Angeles as she tries to understand where she belongs.
PB YA FICTION BLO
