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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. F /C713h Hunger Games Collins, Suzanne In a future North America, where the rule rs of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss 9s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister 9s place. F /L421a Andra Lawrence, Louise After having a partial brain transplant to save her sight, teenage Andra sees the world as it was in 1987, 2000 years before her time, and she rebels against the repressive, dystopian society which rules the earth. F /S165c CATCHER IN THE RYE SALLINGER , J.D. F /G796l F /G798a Looking for Alaska An Abundance of Katherines Greene, John Sixteen - year - old Miles 9 first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships. F /K78s Stoner and Spaz Koertge, Ron Troubled 16 - year - old Ben with cerebral palsy, no parents, and an over - protective grandmother, struggles toward self - acceptance with the help of a drug - addicted young woman. F /C513p Perks of Being a Wallflower Chbosky, Stephen A tale of adolescence whose hero is Charlie, a high school freshman in Pennsylvania. The novel follows Charlie as he is introduced to love, literature and pot. A debut in fiction by a filmmaker. F /P853k King Dork Portman, Frank High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his lif e, and may even help unravel the puzzle of his father 9s death. F /L421g Ghost Boy Lawrence, Lain Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen - year - old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is. F /L987f F /L987sl Freewill Slot Machine Lynch, Chris A teenager trying to recover from the tragic death of his father and stepmother believes himself to be responsible for the rash of teen suicides occurring in his town. When overweight thirteen-year-old Elvin Bishop is sent to camp at St. Paul 9s Seminary Retreat Center, he and his two best friends are forced to try out various sports in order to find out where they belong. F /C811c Ch ocolate War Cormier, Robert A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school 9s annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies. CRUCIBLE MILLER, ARTHUR F /K92f Fallout Krisher, Tr udy The move of an unconventional 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 trad itional ways of thinking. F /R328w Witch Child Rees, Ceila In 1659, fourteen - year - old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts. F / L345be Beyond the Burning time Lasky, Kathryn When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve - year - old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution. F /L665ca Catch a Tiger By the Toe Levine, Ellen In the Bronx, New York, during the McCarthy era, twelve - year - old Jamie keeps a terrible secret about her family, but when the truth is exposed, her parents lose their jobs and she is fired from the school newspaper. F /D814s The Sacrifice Duble, Kat hleen Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witc hcraft in Andover, Mas s. , in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom. F /H436m Minister's Daughter Hearn, Julie In 1 645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions. CYRAN O DE BERGERAC ROSTAND , EDMOND F /K38u Undercover Kephart, Beth High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing while going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher 9s recognition of her talent, a "client 9s" desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parent 9s marital problems draw her out of herself. F /P545f Freak the Mighty Philbrick, Rodman At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team. F /O41to To JayKae : Life S tinx Okimoto, Jean Sixteen - year - old Jason feels alone and misunderstood when his best friend moves away, his father plans to remarry, and his step-brother-to-be is a high school basketball star, until he starts an online relationship with a girl from Hawaii. F /M117c Cyrano McCaughrean, Geraldine Ashamed of his ugliness, long - nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventee nth - century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence. F /P213m M or F? : a novel Papademetriou, Lisa Gay teen Marcus helps his friend Frannie chat up her crush online, bu t then becomes convinced that the crush is falling for him instead. F /L665fs Fairest Levine, Gail Carson In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is. DEATH OF A SALESMAN MILLER , ARTHUR 920 /T318a American Dreams, Lost and Found Terkel, Studs Interviews with famous people about dreams, aspirations , success and disappointments . F /B344ru Rules o f the Road Bauer, Joan Sixteen - year - old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father. F /S756k Kipling's Choice Spillbeen, Geert In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen - year - old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle. F /M996so Somewhere in the Darkness Myers, Walter A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an, often painful, time of discovery for them bo th. F /P885r Run if you Dare Powell, Randy Fourteen - year - old Gardner, trying to find some direction in his life, is shocked to discover that his unemployed father considers himself a failure. F /B658w What I saw and How I lied Blundell, Judy In 1947, wit h her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever. F /S592p Pool Boy Simmons, Michael When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a 70-something pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons. DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL: ANNE FRANK FRANK, ANNE 921 /M214c Chinese Cinderella: The true Story of an unwanted daughter Mah, Adeline Yen A memoir of a woman who was considered bad luck when her mother died giving birth to her, and whose life becomes more difficult when her father remarries. F /A473b Before We were Free Alvrez, Julia In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve - year - old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo. F /C737r Revolution is not a dinner party Compestine, Ying Chang Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists 9 Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter. F /R888y Yellow Star Roy, Jennifer Based on the childhood of the author 9s aunt, one of twelve children who survived Poland 9s Lod z ghetto during the Nazi occupation, from 1939-1945. Written as a novel in verse. F /N182c Child of Dandelions Shenaaz, Nanji In Uganda in 1972, fifteen - year - old Sabine and her family, wealthy citizens of Indian descent, try to preserve their normal life during the ninety days allowed by President Idi Amin for all foreign Indians to leave the country, while soldiers and others terrorize them and people disappear. F /K11w Weedflower Kadohata, Cynthia After twelve - year - old Sumiko and her Japanese - American f amily are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a fl ower shop. 940.54 /H843f Farewell to Manzanar Houston, Jeanne Ms. Houston recalls her childhood experience of being interred with her family at Manzanar, a Japanese internment camp. Ms. Houston's parents and extended family were Issei, the Japanese word for first generation Japanese-Americans. Many Issei had settled in the coastal areas of California, just as her parents did FAREWELL TO ARMS HEMINGWAY, ERNEST F /B842r Remembrance Breslin, Theresa The destinies of two Scottish families, one of shopkeep ers and one of wealth and power, become entwined through their involvement in World War I, social causes, and love. F /D611d The Divine Wind Disher, Garry On the eve of World War II, Hart, an Australian boy and Mitsy, a Japanese - Australian girl, fall in love but are driven apart. F /M996fa Fallen Angels Myers, Walter Dean Seventeen - year - old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. The English Pat ient (Public lib or Main) Ondaatje , Michael In Cairo, a man meets a married woman with whom he falls in love, but the war keeps them apart and destroys her while he, severely burned, lives to tell their story to a nurse caring for him in an ab andoned Tuscan villa. F /K44f FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON KEYES, DANIEL F /M379co A Corner of the Universe Martin, Ann The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie 9s small town. F /N992s A Small White Scar Nuzum, K.A Fifteen - year - old Will Bennon leaves his family and begins life as a cowboy, but his twin brother, who has Down syndrome, follows him and joins the journey. F /F622f Fade to Black F linn, Alex An HIV - positive high school student hospitalized after being attacked, the bigot accused of the crime, and the only witness, a classmate with Down Syndrome, reveal how the assault has changed their lives as they tell of its aftermath. Told from multiple points - of - view. F /T866s Stuck in Neutral Trueman, Terry Fourteen - year - old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him. 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