Anderson, Jodi Lynn

Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.

Anderson, Laurie Halse

Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.

Bradley, Alex

After Jack Grammar's friends, Percy and Natalie, post a personal ad in the school newspaper for him, Jack ends up with only seven days to date all the responses before asking one special girl to the prom.

Kessler, Cristina

Namelok, a Masai girl, tries to persuade her traditionalist father to delay her initiation and marriage because they will restrict her freedom and keep her from the black rhino mother and baby she is protecting from poachers.

Koja, Kathe

Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting, struggles with coming out, and faces crises in his self-image and close relationships.

Larbalestier, Justine

From the Australian home of a grandmother she believes is a witch, fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino is magically transported to New York City, where she discovers that friends and foes can be hard to distinguish.

Lester, Julius

Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.

Nye, Naomi Shihab

In San Antonio, Texas, sixteen-year-old Florrie leads her friends and a new boyfriend in a campaign which supports small businesses and protests the effects of chain stores.

Shusterman, Neal

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.

Wilson, Diane L.

Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.

Dendy, Leslie

Stories of ten men and women, from the 1770s to the present, who devoted their lives, and sometimes risked them, to answer some of the big questions in science and medicine.

Myers, Walter Dean

Capturing the energy of mail carriers, jazz artists, and maids, these powerful first-person poems tell the stories of the residents who make up Harlem.

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

This photo-illustrated account provides a riveting, yet chilling tale of a generation of young people who devoted their energy and passion to the Hitler Youth organization and left an indelible mark on world history.

Frank, Mitch

This even-handed account uses a question-answer format to explain the reasons for the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians. The book also explains why the rest of the world is involved.

Zenatti, Valerie

Offering a glimpse into the life of a typical Israeli teen, even as it lays bare the relentless nature of war, Valerie's story is one young readers will have a hard time forgetting.