Quick view The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness. View Details
Quick view The Family Greene by Ann Rinaldi Cornelia Greene is fed up with gossip about her mother. Caty Littlefield Greene was once a beautiful young bride who lifted the troops' spirits at Valley Forge, but Cornelia knows that rumors of Caty's past indiscretions hurt Nathanael Greene,... View Details
Quick view The Dead and Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer With haunting themes of family, faith, personal change, and courage, this powerful novel--a companion to "Life As We Knew It"--explores how a young man takes on unimaginable responsibilities. View Details
Quick view The Bomb by Theodore Taylor  In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, 14-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat, in this long-out-of-print... View Details
Quick view The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci The often-tortured class weirdo has disappeared, leaving an enigmatic note on the school library computer. Is he a runaway, a suicide, or a murder victim? View Details
Quick view The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga When Fanboy meets Kyra, a.k.a. Goth Girl, he finds an outrageous, cynical girl who shares his love of comics as well as his hatred for jocks and bullies. A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year. View Details
Quick view Payback Time by Carl Deuker A reporter's job is to find the missing pieces, and high school journalist Mitch True is on the verge of uncovering those pieces and nailing his first real story. If only he can get the cornerback Angel Marichal to talk. Or Coach McNulty to explain why... View Details
Quick view Orbiting Jupiter by Gary Schmidt Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he ll have a future,... View Details
Quick view Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri This quietly beautiful family portrait "deftly expands on Lahiri's signature themes of love, solitude, and cultural disorientation" ("Harper's Bazaar"), the very themes that made her collection of stories an international bestseller. View Details
Quick view Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Mentally challenged Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius, but it may only be temporarily. View Details
Quick view Face at the Edge of the World by Eve Bunting Haunted by the suicide of his best friend, Charlie, Jed attempts to re-createhis friend's last weeks and discover why Charlie took his own life. View Details
Quick view Endgame by Nancy Garden The award-winning author of "Annie on my Mind" once again goes out on a limb, this time to show readers the cruelty of bullying and the devastating effectsit can have. View Details
