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1) Twelve
Author
Series
Winnie years volume 2
Language
English
Description
Winnie relates the events of her twelfth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sydney has always felt invisible.She's grown accustomed to her brother, Peyton, being the focus of the family s attention and, lately, concern. Peyton is handsome and charismatic, but seems bent on self-destruction. Now, after a drunk-driving accident that crippled a boy, Peyton s serving some serious jail time, and Sydney is on her own, questioning her place in the family and the world. Then she meets the Chatham family. Drawn into their warm, chaotic...
6) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eighth-grade school bully Tod and his friends get caught committing a crime on school property, his penalty--staying after school and writing in a journal under the eye of the school guidance counselor--reveals aspects of himself that he prefers to keep hidden.
8) Lockdown
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
9) Criss cross
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
10) The jerk magnet
Author
Series
Life at Kingston High volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Chelsea Martin's future stepmother gives her a total makeover, she attracts all of the wrong boys and drives away many girls, but her friend Janelle keeps telling Chelsea to be true to herself, while helping her find a way to catch the eye of Nicholas, the one "non-jerk" at school.
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.
12) Slept away
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Manhattanite Laney Parker, a city girl all her life, is horrified when her mother insists that she spend the summer at sleep-away camp in the Pennsylvania countryside.
13) Skin
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When his parents decide to separate, eighth grader Donnie watches with horror as the physical condition of his sixteen-year-old sister, Karen, deteriorates due to an eating disorder.
15) Alice in time
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
As her self-centered behavior spirals out of control, fourteen-year-old Alice gets an unusual chance to fix her whole disastrous life when she is mysteriously spirited back in time.
16) Fat Cat
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Overweight teenage Catherine embarks on a high school science project in which she must emulate the ways of hominims, the earliest ancestors of human beings, by eating an all-natural diet and foregoing technology.
17) Ruby Tuesday
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The 1988 World Series win by the Los Angeles Dodgers sets off a chain of life-changing events for thirteen-year-old Ruby Tuesday, as she travels to Las Vegas, where she learns some surprising truths about her family members and their careers as gamblers and musicians.
