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Different Drummer

Page history last edited by Michael Cardin 3 years, 9 months ago

Adler, Emily                              Sweet 15                                                  ADL YA

Shortly before her fifteenth birthday, Destiny Lozada's traditional Puerto Rican mother and feminist older sister hijack her quinceañera, each pushing her own agenda and ignoring the possibility that Destiny, a skateboarding tomboy, might have her own ideas about the coming-of-age ritual she is about to participate in.

 

Bloor, Edward                                    Tangerine                                           BLO j

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

 

Cormier, Robert                     The Chocolate War                                        COR ppb YA

A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.

 

 

Crutcher, Chris                                  Whale Talk                             CRU YA ppb

Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.

 

Gerber, Alyson                   Focused                                                                GER YA

Told through journal entries, twelve-year-old Danny and his best friend Slick recount how their friendship begins and when they discover Slick's true identity and ultimate fate.

 

 

 

Phillipe,Ben                       The field guide to the North American teenage   PHI YA

  When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."

 

 

 

Spinelli, Jerry                         Stargirl                                                SPI YA

In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.

 

Strasser, Todd                                    Give a boy a gun                                STR YA

 

Wittlinger, Ellen                                 Razzle                                                 WIT YA

When his retired parents buy a group of tourist cabins on Cape Cod, fifteen-year-old Kenyon Baker's days are filled with repair work until he becomes friends with an eccentric girl and makes her the subject of a series of photographs.

 

 

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