Teen Boy
A Child Called “It”
Pelzer writes about his abusive mother who singles him out among his siblings for repeated emotional and physical punishment.
All Quiet On The Western Front
This novel depicts the experiences of a group of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of World War I.
Boy on the Wooden Box
Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list, “brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live”.
Cry, the Beloved country
In the 1950s, a black South African accused of a crime turns to his minister father and a white attorney for help, but the racial problems of the country prevent justice from being served.
Death Be Not Proud
Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair.
Framed in Fire
Peter Larson has an increasingly hostile relationship with his verbally abusive stepfather, Buck, and some scuffles at school, but is basically a good kid.
Friedrich
In chronological episodes a young boy tells about the fate of his Jewish friend, Friedrich, in Nazi Germany. Friedrich’s life becomes a torment as his family is destroyed and he himself is forced into hiding, alone and in secrecy.
Frindle
When he decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a series of events that quickly move beyond his control.
Hatchet
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian survives 54 days in the wilderness, initially with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother.
I Am The Cheese
Imagine discovering that your whole life has been a fiction, your identity altered, and a new family history created.
Iqbal
When young Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, his arrival changes everything for the other overworked and abused children there. It is Iqbal who explains to them that despite their master's promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinitely.
Maniac Magee
Maniac is an "on-his-own" kid searching for a place that he can call home. When he sees no difference between the people of the East Side and the West Side, others begin to realize that Jeffrey "Maniac" Magee is truly the "stuff" from which legends are made.
Masterminds
A group of kids living in a Pleasantville-type town connect to some of the greatest criminal masterminds of their time after discovering a dark secret.
My Brother Sam is Dead
The Meeker family is torn apart during the American Revolutionary War when one son joins the rebel forces and the rest of the family try to remain neutral in a divided town.
Night
This true account relates the author's experiences as a Jewish boy with his family in a Nazi concentration camp.
Nothing But the Truth
Ninth-grader Philip hums in his homeroom during the playing of the National Anthem, bringing him a suspension that gains national media attention.
Paper Towns
Quentin has spent a lifetime loving adventurous Margo from afar. When she cracks open a window and climbs into his life-he follows.
Romeo and Juliet
Two lovers are destroyed by the hatred of their families for one another in this play about prejudice, innocence, and power.
Somewhere in the Darkness
In this story, Jimmy learns about his father and about himself, finding out that while things can't always be fixed, sometimes they can be understood, and maybe even forgiven.
Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti
Seventeen-year-old Dijo (a victim in the real-life 1991 firebombing of a boys' shelter) is remembered by a girl named Jeremie, who cares for him in the hospital after he has been beaten in an unprovoked attack
The Art of Keeping Cool
Fear permeates the Rhode Island coastal town where Robert, his mother, and sister are living out the war with his paternal grandparents: Fear of Nazi submarines offshore. Fear of Abel Hoffman, a German artist living reclusively outside of town. And for Robert, a more personal fear, of his hot-tempered, controlling grandfather.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Malawi was a land withered by drought and hunger and where modern science was a mystery. William read about windmills and dreamed about building one to bring electricity and water to his village.
The Cay
In 1942 an elderly black man and a young white boy are victims of a shipwreck and are stranded on a Caribbean island.
The Giver
Jonas lives in a seemingly utopian society. He is about to experience the Ceremony of Twelve to determine his role in life. Little does he know that he will discover the secret memories of his dystopian society
The Maze
Rick Walker is a troubled teen who breaks out of Blue Canyon Youth Detention Center and becomes a stowaway in a pickup truck headed into Utah's canyons.
The Outsiders
Fourteen-year-old Ponyboy is loyal to his brothers and his gang from the wrong side of the tracks. Ponyboy is caught in a turbulent chain of events after his best friend kills a member of a rival gang.
The Pigman
When sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke a few months ago on a stranger named Angelo Pignati they had no idea that they were starting. Virtually overnight, almost against their will, the two befriended the lonely old man.
Tunes for Bears to Dance To
After his brother’s death, Henry moves with his parents to a new town, where he meets and befriends Mr. Levine, an elderly survivor of the Holocaust who spends his days craving a replica of his childhood village.
Whirlgig
Brent Bishop discovers the meaning of accountability when his drunken action causes the death of Lea Zamora.
Wringer
The annual pigeon shoot provides the young boys of the community the opportunity to prove their fortitude and manhood by serving as "wringers."
Wonder
Starting 5th grade at a new school, August Pullman wants to be treated as an ordinary kid. However, his new classmates can't get past his facial difference.