Block, Francesca Lia                         Weetzie Bat                                        BLO YA

Follows the wild adventures of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles punk friends, Dirk, Duck-Man, and Secret-Agent-Lover-Man

Bowe-Gutman, Sonia             Teen Pregnancy                     618.2 WOW YA

Discusses the social, physical, and economic problems of teenage pregnancy and parenthood and describes various methods of birth control.

Brown, Fern G.   Caring for your unborn baby                                 649.102 BRO

A primer for the expectant mother on the nature of pregnancy and how she can care for both herself and the unborn baby.

Courtenay, Bryce                               The power of One                              COU YA

Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist, black African prisoners, and many others.

Fredericks, Mariah               In the Cards Life                                   FRE YA

Syd, who is much more comfortable with animals than people, asks her friends for a tarot reading, then fears the dire predictions are coming true as her parents fight, her aging cat suffers, and her friendships are tested.

Hinton, S.E.                                                    The Outsiders                                    HIN YA

The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

Hinton, S.E.                                                    Rumble Fish                           HIN YA

A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.

Hinton, S.E.                That was then this is now                                           HIN YA

Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.

Lipsyte,  Robert                                 The contender                                                LIP j

A Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into aboxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard andoften discouraging work, but that you don't know anything untilyou

Liu, Cynthea                              Paris Pan if you Dare                             LIU  YA

Friendless because of her family's frequent moves, twelve-year-old Chinese American Paris Pan wants very much to fit in with the seemingly friendly girls in her new school, even if it means taking a to spend the night in a spooky woods, reputedly haunted by the ghost of a girl who died there years ago

Lockhart, E               The Direputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks               LOC YA

Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.

McWIlliams, Kelly                Doormat                                                         McW YA

Fourteen-year-old Jaime has always been a doormat, but her diary reveals how getting the lead in a school play, finding her first boyfriend, discovering her dream, and helping her best friend cope with being pregnant transform her life.

Rosoff, Meg                           What I Was                            ROS YA

Toward the end of his life, H looks back on the relationship that has shaped and obsessed him for nearly a century. It began many years earlier at St. Oswald’s, a dismal boarding school on the coast of England, where the young H came face- to-face with an almost unbearably beautiful boy living by himself at the edge of the sea.

Shepard, Sara                    Pretty Little Liars                                   SHE YA

When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.