Go and Come Back
Joan Abelove
A Peruvian teen tells this funny story of two anthropologists who come to live in her village.
The Moves Make the Man
Bruce Brooks
An African-American boy and a troubled white boy become friends in North Carolina in this basketball story with plenty of hoop action.
Ironman
Chris Crutcher
While training for a triathlon, 17-year-old Bo attends an anger-management group at school that leads him to examine his relationship with his father.
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Lois Duncan
After covering up a hit-and-run accident, four teenagers are tormented by a mysterious figure seeking revenge.
Whirligig
Paul Fleishman
While attempting to kill himself on the highway, Brent causes the death of a teenage girl in another car. Her grief-stricken mother sends him to the four corners of the country to place monuments in the girl’s memory.
Mary Wolf
Cynthia Grant
After her father’s business fails, 16-year-old Mary tries to keep her family together as they travel from one trailer park to another.
Owl in Love
Patricia Kindl
Fourteen-year-old Owl has a crush on her science teacher, who has no idea that Owl is a shape-shifter who can transform from owl to human at will.
Danger Zone
David Klass
Chosen to be on a high school Olympic dream team, a Midwest boy faces prejudice, terrorism, and action on and off the court.
The Silver Kiss
Annette Curtis Klass
A mysterious teenage boy with a dark secret helps Zoe accept her mother's illness in this modern vampire story.
Spite Fences
Trudy Krisher
After Zeke, an old black peddler in Georgia, gives 13-year-old Maggie a camera, she sees the prejudice and abuse in her town and her family.
The Contender
Robert Lipsyte
After a successful start to his boxing career, a Harlem high school dropout decides that competing in the ring isn’t enough and resolves to aim for other goals. See other books in this series.
Letters From the Inside
John Marsden
The relationship between two teenage girls, who become acquainted through letters, intensifies as their letters reveal terrible problems in their lives.
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida
Victor Martinez
Manny is a Mexican-American teen who is growing up in a poor family with an alcoholic father.
Slam!
Walter Dean Myers
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance, but his coach sees things differently.
Shizuko's Daughter
Kyoko Mori
In Japan, 12-year-old Yuki struggles with her mother's death, her distant father, and his new wife.
Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Patterson
Louise lives her entire life in the shadow of her twin sister, Caroline, who is more beautiful and talented.
Nightjohn
Gary Paulsen
Twelve-year-old Sarny’s brutal slave life becomes more dangerous when another arrived slave offers to teach her how to read. See the sequel, "Sarny, A Life Remembered."
Galax-Arena
Gillian Rubinstein
Kidnapped from Earth, three friends are forced to perform death-defying stunts to amuse the people of Vexak.
Another Way to Dance
Martha Southgate
During a summer at the New York School of Ballet, 14-year-old Vicki copes with her parents’ divorce, her crush on Mikhail Baryshnikov, and her future as an African-American dancer.
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind
uzanne Fisher Staples
When 11-year-old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in present-day Pakistan, must marry an older man or risk defying her father’s wishes. See the sequel, Haveli.
Homecoming
Cynthia Voigt
Abandoned by their mother in a mall in a strange town, the four Tillerman children search for a home with little money or help. See other books about the Tillermans.
Blue Tights
Rita Williams-Garcia
Fifteen-year-old Joyce tries, through dance, to express her uncertain feelings about growing up. See the sequel, "Like Sisters on the Homefront."
Make Lemonade
Virginia Euwer Wolf
To earn money for college, 14-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.
The Air Down Here: True Tales from a South Bronx Boyhood
Gil C. Alicea with Carmine De Sena
Short stories by a 16-year-old boy in the South Bronx about drugs, violence, dating, music, clothes, school, gangs, and the police.
Venus to the Hoop: A Gold Medal Year in Women's Basketball
Sara Corbett
The story of America's women hoopsters in the 1996 Olympics.
I Was a Teenage Professional Wrestler
Ted Lewin
Brooklyn author and illustrator Ted Lewin tells about his brief career wrestling to earn money for art school.
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