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• 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

• Farewell to Manzanar

  a True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

  Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki

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  Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls her childhood at a Japanese incarceration camp in this engrossing memoir that has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country.

• 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 good time is beating up on "greasers" like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect--until the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Speak

  Anderson, Laurie Halse

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  From the first moment of her freshman year Melinda is friendless because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically…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

• 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.

• The Book Thief

  Zusak, Markus,

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  It is 1939. Nazi Germany. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist--books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 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.

• 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

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Chbosky, Stephen

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  Follow observant "wallflower" Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating loss, young love, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lord of the Flies

  Golding, William, 1911-1993

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  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. Anything. They attempt to forge…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

• 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. Often scorned by neighbors for her family's erratic and eccentric behavior no one, least of all Francie, could say that the Nolans' life lacked drama. By turns…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 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 Fault in Our Stars

  Green, John, 1977-

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  Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 12, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumors in her lungs. Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too - post-high school, post-friends and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Kill a Mockingbird

  Lee, Harper

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  Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hunger Games

  Collins, Suzanne,

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  Even at the age of sixteen, Katniss Everdeen knows it takes hard work, keen observation, and inner fortitude to survive in the world. Her home, District 12, is under the merciless rule of the Capitol, continually forced to pay after losing a…Read moreRead more of this annotation