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from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.<br><br> F /B873ki Kissing the Rain Brooks, Kevin Fifteen - year - old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder. F /H527da Day They Came to Arrest the Book Hentoff, Nat Students and faculty at a high school become embroiled in a censorship case over "Huckleberry Finn." F /C978bu Bucking the Sarge Curtis, Christopher Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother 9s shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher. F /A985s Stealing South Ayres, Kat h erine Sixt een - year - old Will Spencer leaves home to become a peddler, but gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to go to Kentucky, steal two slaves, and help them reach their brother in Canada.<br><br> ANIMAL FARM ORWELL , GEORGE F/ T197g Gospel According to La rry Tashjian, Janet 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. ANTIGONE SOPHOCLES F /L666c The Cur e Levitin, Sonia A sixteen - year - old boy living in 2407 collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg in 1348 confronting the anti - Semitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague. F /C328w Who Will Tell My Brother Carvell, Marlene During his lonely crusade to remove offensive mascots from his high sc hool, a Native American teen learns about his heritage, his ancestors & his place in the world.<br><br> Told as series of free verse poems. F /K92f Fallout Krisher, Trudy The move of an unconv entional Hollywood family to a coastal North Carolina town in the early 1950s during the McCarthy era, results not only in an unlikely friendship between high school age Genevieve and newcomer Brenda but also in a challenge to traditional ways of thinking. F /P332ni Nightjohn Paulsen, Gary Twelve - year - old Sarny 9s brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.<br><br> F /P734w What H appened to Lani Garver Plum - Ucci, Carol Sixteen - year - old Claire is un able to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother 9s alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his ow n. F /J75i In The Name Of God Jolin, Paula Determined to follow the laws set down in the Qur 9an, seventeen - year - old Nadia becomes involved in a violent revolutionary movement aimed at supporting Muslim rule in Syria and opposing the Western politics and materialism that increasingly affect her family. BEOWULF 808.83 /P618y Young Warriors: Stories of Strength Pierce, Tamora Fifteen original short stories by various authors relate the exploits of teenage warriors who defeat their enemies with cunnin g and skill as they strive to fulfill their destinies Grendel (main library) Gardner, John Instead of lauding the hero Beowulf, the spotlight shines on Grendel , whose grotesque body and blood thirst condemn him to the life of an outlaw, but whose soul delights in dark humor, dramatic pirouettes and pranks.<br><br> 741.5 /H662b Beowulf ( graphic novel) Hinds, Gareth Graphic novel adaptation of the Old English epic poem, Beowulf . Wolf Brother ( public Library) Paver, Michelle Hero - to - be Torak's father is sav aged, Grendel - like, by a demonic bear. In his last, guttering gasps, Fa(ther) warns his son that the Bear's power will grow with each kill and instructs his young son to find the Mountain of the World Spirit.<br><br> Torak accepts. F /F234s Sea of Trolls Farmer , Nancy After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half- troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls . F /Z77du Doom stone Zindel, Paul When fifteen - year - old Jackson visits his aunt in England, he becomes caught up in a chase to capture an unknown creature who is stalking and killing people on the plains surrounding ancient Stonehenge.<br><br> BRA VE NEW WORLD - THE GIVER - 1984 - FAREHNHEIT 451 - HUXLEY / LOWRY/ ORWELL / BRADBURY Dystopian societies 3 future societal issues 3 free will vs. o ppression, censorship, etc F /W526u F /W563pr F /W526sp Ug lies Pretties Specials Westerfield, Scott (Trilogy) In a future world, when everyone turns 16 they must have an operation to make them conform to an ideal standard of beauty. Having undergone the mandatory operation to become pretty, Tally learns that prettiness comes with a life-threatening price.<br><br> Tally, now beautiful and dangerously strong, has become a "special" with a mission to eleminate the rebels of the Smoke Colony, forcing her to choose whether or not to betray her former friends. F /A5 48f Feed Anderson, M.T 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. F /H527da The Day they Came to Arrest the Book Hentoff, Nat Students and facult y at a high school become embroiled in a censorship case over "Huckleberry Finn." F /D942c City of Ember DuPrau, Jeanne In the year 241, twelve - year - old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.<br><br> F /L345m Memoirs of a Bookbat Lasky, Kathryn Fourteen - year - old Harper, an avid reader of fantasy who must hide her books from her fundamentalist parents, comes to realize that their public promotion of censorship threatens her freedom to make her own choices. F /P545l Last Book in the Universe Philbrick, W.R A thousand years in the future, an earthquake destroys much of the planet, and an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring huma n intelligence back to Earth. F /N736sc Shade's children Nix, Garth In a dystopia set in a savage postnuclear world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow the bloodthirsty rule of the Overlords with the help of Shade, their mysterious mentor.<br><br> F /W489 d Double Helix Werlin, Nancy Eighteen - year - old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering. F /L921g Giver Lowry, Lois Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the dystopian society in which he lives. F /F234h House of the Scorpion Farmer, Nancy In a future where hum ans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142 - year - old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.<br><br> F /C713h Hunger Games Co bWww Youngadultsite Personals En 1 Young Adult Site Young Adult Literature - Bridges to Classic Literaturek Young Adult Site Young Adult Site cWww Youngadultsite Personals En 1 Young Adult Site Young Adult Literature - Bridges to Classic Literatureb j j Www.yojjzz Dates Yojjzz Young Adult Site