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• The Outsiders

  Hinton, S. E,

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  Ponyboy can count on his brothers. And on his friends. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a goo d time is beating up on "greasers" like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect-until the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lord of the Flies

  Golding, William, 1911-1993

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  At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Feed

  Anderson, M. T.

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  From the author of Burger Wuss comes a book filled with identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.

• Speak

  Anderson, Laurie Halse

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  From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If You Come Softly

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there. So it's a surprise when he meets…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hatchet

  Paulsen, Gary

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  Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson, haunted by his secret knowledge of his mother's infidelity, is traveling by single-engine plane to visit his father for the first time since the divorce. When the plane crashes, killing the pilot, the sole survivor…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Catcher in the Rye

  Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-

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  The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brave New World

  Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

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  Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Diary of a Young Girl

  Frank, Anne, 1929-1945

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  The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl whose triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time.

• The Old Man and the Sea

  Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961

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  The story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again

  Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973

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  Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  Smith, Betty, 1896-1972

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  From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family's erratic and eccentric…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hero and the Crown

  McKinley, Robin

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  Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.

• The Golden Compass

  Pullman, Philip, 1946-

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  Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

• Monster

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014

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  This New York Times bestselling novel from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Of Mice and Men

  Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968

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  An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House of the Scorpion

  Farmer, Nancy

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  Matteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself. As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Chocolate War

  Cormier, Robert

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  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.

• The Face on the Milk Carton

  Cooney, Caroline B.

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  A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

• Tears of a Tiger

  Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

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  The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.