Books for people in high school grades

After each book description is the book's location in the library:

Y for young adult area
J for children's area
B for biographies in adults' area
Numbers such as 813.009 for non-fiction shelves in adults' area

Teen booklists             

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Y ANDERSON

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.
Y ANDERSON

Bell, Hilari. A Matter of Profit
Sick of the horrors of conquering beings on other planets, Ahvrem will end his service as a soldier and save his sister from an unhappy marriage if he can discover who is behind a rumored plot to assassinate the Emperor.
Y BELL

Best American Non-Required Reading, 2003
Ultra-hip short stories, humor, and experimental journalism are included in this anthology.
813.009 BEST

Black, Holly. Tithe: a Modern Faerie Tale
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
Y BLACK

Brooks, Martha. True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, come together in a small Manitoba town and find a way to a better future.
Y BROOKS

Crutcher, Chris. King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography
Chris Crutcher, author of young adult novels such as Ironman and Whale Talk, tells of growing up in Cascade, Idaho, and becoming a writer.
B CRUTCHER

Desai Hidier, Tanuja. Born Confused
Seventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers she is not Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the Americans, as she sees her beautiful, manipulative best friend taking possession of both her heritage and the boy she likes.
Y DESAI HIDIER

Dickinson, Peter. The Ropemaker
When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells.
Y and J DICKINSON

Donnelly, Jennifer. A Northern Light
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn and discovers the truth about the death of a guest.
Y DONNELLY

Farmer, Nancy. House of the Scorpion
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Y FARMER

Fleischman, Paul. Breakout
A young woman presents a play based on her life as a seventeen-year-old runaway whose escape from her foster home in Los Angeles is thwarted by an all-day traffic jam.
Y FLEISCHMAN

Going, Kelly. Fat Kid Rules the World
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenage guitar genius wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
Y GOING

Hartinger, Brent. Geography Club
A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at their high school.
Y HARTINGER

Hautman, Pete. Sweetblood
After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the "proto-vampires" she has met online and in person, and most of all with her uncontrolled diabetes.
Y HAUTMAN

Jenkins, A.M. Out of Order
Sophomore Colt Trammel loves baseball and his girlfriend Grace, but he hates the rest of high school and maintains a tough facade to hide his feelings of inferiority.
Y JENKINS

Juby, Susan. Alice, I Think
Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis."
Y JUBY

Korman, Gordon. Jake, Reinvented
Rick becomes friends with the popular new boy, Jake Garrett, football player and host of superlative parties, and in the process uncovers the mystery of Jake’s past.
Y KORMAN

Levithan, David. Boy Meets Boy
Paul’s simple high-school life is confused by his desire for another boy, who seems unattainable until Paul’s friends help him find the courage to pursue him.
Y LEVITHAN

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.
Y McNAMEE

Myers, Walter Dean. Monster
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script.
Y MYERS

Soto, Gary. The Afterlife
A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance.
Y SOTO

Taylor, Mildred. The Land
After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
Y TAYLOR

Thompson, Craig. Blankets: an Illustrated Novel
Craig’s isolated existence in snowy rural Wisconsin is relieved by drawing comics, causing mischief with his younger brother, and falling in love with a beautiful misfit at church camp.
741.5 THOMPSON

Wallace, Rich. Restless
Frank, a teenaged ghost who has not been able to move on to a higher realm in the afterlife, tries to connect with his younger brother Herbie, a high school senior who was eight years old when Frank died.
Y WALLACE

Weaver, Will. Claws
Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent who is having an affair with the other.
Y WEAVER

Werlin, Nancy. The Killer’s Cousin
After he is acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.
Y WERLIN