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Title: Adolescent Literature


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Adolescent Literature
  • Some Titles You Might Enjoy
  • August 2001

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The Amah
By Lawrence Yep
  • Twelve-year-old Amy Chin finds family
    responsibilities interfering with ballet practice
    after her mother gets a job. Soon Amys life
    becomes closer to that of the step-sister role
    she dances as her mother focuses on Stephanie,
    the beautiful Cinderella. Amy fears losing her
    role, her friends, and her mother before her
    mother's job is through.

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Because of Winn-Dixie
By Kate DiCamillo
  • Ten-year-old Opal Buloni and her father, the
    Preacher, have just moved to Naomi, Florida, when
    Opal rescues an ugly dog at the Winn-Dixie store.
    Adopting the store name as the dogs name, Opal
    finds they need each other. She learns to love
    the dog as a replacement for her missing mother
    and a father who has become distant. The two of
    them collect an odd assortment of friends and
    learn to deal with life.

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Bud, Not Buddy
By Christopher Paul Curtis
Ten-year-old Bud Caldwell's mother died without
telling him his fathers identity. But Bud
thinks she left him a clue--a flier advertising
a performance by Herman E. Calloway, the bass
player for the Dusky Devastators of the
Depression. Bud decides to find this potential
father. His trip won't be easy during the
Depression. Following the Hooverville camps of
the 1930's, escaping a monster-infested
woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, Bud is
determined to know the truth and won't let
anything stop him, even Harmine E. Calloway
himself.
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Burning Up
By Caroline B. Cooney
  • Fifteen-year-old Macey Clare goes with a service
    group to an inner city school where she is caught
    in a freak fire. Austin, who rescues her, becomes
    her boyfriend until his grandfather interferes
    because Macey will not stop her research about
    Mr. Sibley, the first black teacher who was
    burned from his home. Macey's own experience with
    fire, a death, and the town's reluctance to
    discuss the barn fire only spark her interest
    more. Macey knows she must find the truth, no
    matter who it might hurt.

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Carolina Autumn
By Carol Lynch Williams
  • Fourteen-year-old Carolina McKinney faces a new
    school year with unresolved issues from the past.
    Her sister and father are gone forever, her
    mother doesn't connect with her anymore, and her
    best friend seems determined to steal Carolina's
    first boyfriend. She sees her anger, pain and
    loss through the lens of her father's camera and
    the letters she writes to her sister. Eventually,
    Carolina realizes she must save herself from the
    pain that will only lessen if she allows it to.

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Christmas in Heaven
By Carol Lynch Williams
  • Honey De Loach lives in Heaven, Florida,
    population six, until movie-star Miriam Season
    arrives, bringing her daughters, Christmas and
    Easter. Honey hopes to find a friend in the town
    where Honey, her brother Willie-Bill, and Taylor
    Hiatt (who claims Honey is his true love) have
    been the only kids. Easters black clothes, nose
    ring, and non-conformist manners fascinate Honey,
    but not as much as they intrigue Willie-Bill.
    Honey turns to Christmas, who seems embarrassed
    by her family, is a talented singer, and wants to
    meet the Reverend Gaynor T. McKenna, Honey's
    grandfather. This new family will bring change,
    but will the change be for good?

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Esperanza Rising
By Pam Munoz Ryan
  • Esperanza's father dies and her uncle wants to
    force her mother to marry him. When her mother
    refuses, she and Esperanza are forced to move
    from family wealth in Mexico to a farm labor camp
    in California. When her mother comes down with
    Valley Fever, Esperanza takes charge of their
    survival. A brooding labor strike and the
    Depression endanger her success. Esperanza must
    learn that life never deals the hand we expect.

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Holes
By Louis Sachar
  • Stanley Yelnats, like his family throughout
    history, finds himself in the wrong place at the
    wrong time. A stroke of bad luck, lands him at
    Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention center for
    boys, where he is serving time for the theft of a
    pair of old tennis shoes. Stanley didnt do it,
    but he accepted the punishment, thinking going to
    camp might be fun. But this camp isnt anything
    like what Stanley expected.

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Hope Was Here
By Joan Bauer
  • Sixteen-year-old Hope knows all there is to
    know about being a waitress, and shes good at
    it. When she and her Aunt Addie move to Madison,
    Wisconsin, from New York City, its the love of
    the diner that lets Hope make one more move. Soon
    she makes new friends, finds herself involved in
    running the local mayoral campaign, and getting
    to know Braverman a little better. Not bad for a
    girl once named Tulip who has never had a real
    home.

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Joey Pigza Loses Control
By Jack Gantos
  • Now that Joey is on his meds, he finally has his
    ADHD under control. Life is a lot more steady
    with Mom and Joey feeling good. Then he visits
    his estranged father for the summer and learns
    what it would be like to be an adult out of
    control. Joey doesnt want to hurt his dads
    feelings, or grow up like him. Dad takes away
    Joeys meds, so Joey must make some grown-up
    choices.

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Redwall
By Brian Jacques
  • Classic fantasy with a mix of humor takes you to
    the world of Redwall Abbey where mice and a
    variety of other animal friends defend their home
    from those who would claim the abbey as their
    own. Author Brian Jacques says, This is where it
    all begins.

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963
By Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Fourth-grader Kenny Watson tells the story of his
    family in Flint, Michigan, in the 1960s.
    Harassed by his older brother, Byron, who is
    mother calls the juvenile delinquent, and
    responsible for his younger sister, Joetta, Kenny
    illustrates the everyday life of a black family
    living far away from the racial unrest of the
    south. But when Byron crosses the line, his
    parents decide to take him to Birmingham to be
    straightened out by his grandmother.

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