Alexie, Sherman
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Arnold Spirit (Junior), is a bright, geeky Spokane Indian who transfers from the reservation to a rich, white high school.

Anderson, Laurie Halse
Chains

After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

Anderson, M.T.
Feed

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.

Asher, Jay
Thirteen Reasons Why

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks ago. Hannah’s voice explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.

Bray, Libba
A Great and Terrible Beauty

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

Clare, Cassandra
City of Bones

Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

Cohn, Rachel
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart. After being expelled from boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.

Collins, Suzanne
Hunger Games

In a future North America, where the rulers 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's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

Cormier, Robert
Chocolate War

A high school student is first a hero, then an outcast, and finally, a victim in this novel of intimidation and the misuse of power.

Dessen, Sarah
Lock and Key

When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.

Doctorow, Cory
Little Brother

After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.

Donnelly, Jennifer
A Northern Light

In 1906, Mattie determines to attend college and be a writer, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. This is based on a true story.

Flinn, Alex
Breathing Underwater

Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.

Going, Kelly
Fat Kid Rules the World

Troy is depressed, suicidal, and weighs nearly 300 pounds. He gets a new perspective when a homeless teen (a genius on guitar) wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.

Green, John
Looking for Alaska

Sixteen-year-old Miles' 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.

Hadden, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

Hale, Shannon
Book of a Thousand Days

Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

Hartinger, Brent
Geography Club

This honest, emotional and funny story follows a gay teen as he struggles and triumphs during his sophomore year. (His adventures are continued in Order of the Poison Oak and Split Screen: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies/Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies.) The books are entertaining for all readers, regardless of their sexuality.

Kluger, Steve
My Most Excellent Year: a Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park

Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.

Lubar, David
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.

Marchetta, Melina
Saving Francesca

Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed.

McNamee, Graham
Acceleration

Stuck working in the lost and found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert
Dairy Queen

After spending her summer working the family farm, D.J. decides to go out for football, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.

Pearson, Mary
The Adoration of Jenna Fox

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

Phibrick, Rodman
Last Book in the Universe

After an earthquake destroys much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.

Reinhardt, Dana
How to Build a House

Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.

Rosoff, Meg
How I Live Now

To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.

Thompson, Craig
Blankets

Thompson's graphic memoir paints a beautiful portrait of young romance.

Van Draanen, Wendelin
Flipped

The first time she saw him, she flipped, and he ran - from second grade to seventh. But now their views have turned upside down.

Westerrfield, Scott
So Yesterday

Hunter is paid by corporations to spot what is “cool.” With his girlfriend, Jen, he uses his skills to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.

Zusak, Marcus
I am the Messenger

After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.