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These titles are located throughout the library; please note the location in the catalog.

Banks, Russell - Rule of the Bone (390 pages) - Slipping into the dangerous world of drugs and petty theft as a means of rebelling against an abusive home life, a teenaged Chappie takes on a new identity and encounters a host of unusual characters, including a sexually victimized young girl.

Bloor, Edward - Tangerine (294 pages) - Paul Fisher's older brother has always been the football-playing hero of the family. But when the Fishers move to Tangerine, Florida, Paul enters a place where weird is normal. And suddenly the blind can see.

Chbosky, Stephen - Perks of Being a Wallflower (213 pages) - Charlie is a shy, introspective freshman who writes letters to a mysterious person about his rise to semi-popularity, his fall into depression and mental illness, and slow recovery.

Cormier, Robert - Tenderness (229 pages) - Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been release from juvenile detention for murdering his parents. Now he's looking for tendernessótenderness he finds in killing girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive and sexually precocious, she is also looking for tendernessótenderness that she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other's salvation or destruction?

Crutcher, Chris - Chinese Handcuffs (202 pages) - Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her stepfather is doing to her.

Fleischman, Paul - Whirligig (133 pages) - Sixteen-year-old Brian is so depressed that he tries to kill himself, only to take the life of another and has to face the consequences.

Flinn, Alex - Breaking Point (241 pages) - Fifteen-year-old Paul enters an exclusive private school and falls under the spell of a charismatic boy who may be using him.

Gee, Maurice - The Fat Man (182 pages) - Herbert Muskie is The Fat Man. When he catches skinny, hungry Colin Potter stealing a chocolate bar, he forces Colin to become his partner in crime. This begins an ever-escalating cycle of dominance fueled by Muskie's hatred of the people of Loomisóa grudge Colin doesn't understand.

Giles, Gail - Shattering Glass (215 pages) - When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.

Griffin, Adele - Sons of Liberty (230 pages) - When Rock Kindle's brother, Cliff, begins to talk about rebelling against their father's strict and demanding rules, and their mother's weakness and escape from reality, Rock is forced to take sides and decide whether he is a traitor or a patriot.

Hinton, S. E. - The Outsiders (156 pages) - Ponyboy Curtis recounts the events that led to his best friendís painful death.

Hobbs, Will - Downriver (204 pages) - Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

Jenkins, A. M. - Damage (186 pages) - Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special.

Lynch, Chris - Iceman (181 pages) - Fourteen-year-old Eric, a ruthless hockey player prone to violence on the ice, tries to reconcile his own needs with those of his parents.

McDonald, Joyce - Swallowing Stones (245 pages) - Seventeen-year-old Michael deals with the aftermath of accidentally killing a classmateís father.

Myers, Walter Dean - Monster (281 pages) - "Monster" is what the prosecutor called sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon for his supposed role in the fatal shooting of a convenience-store owner. But was Steve really the lookout who gave the "all clear" to the murderer, or was he just in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Payne, C. P. - Youth in Revolt (498 pages) - The adventures of angst-ridden teen protagonist Nick Twispówho starts out an honor student and ends up a fugitiveóare chronicled in this uproariously funny epic. Here are the journals of this most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity result in his transformation from unassuming high schooler to modern youth in open revolt.

Powell, Randy - Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star (215 pages) - No longer able to live with his grandmother, fifteen-year-old Grady Grennan has to find a new address. One option is to move in with his mentally disabled half brother, Louie, in Seattle. But that poses a problem: Louie's adoptive mother, Vickie, and Grady are about as compatible as Mozart and heavy metal. Grady's in Seattle for a concert tribute to his mother, a grunge-rock icon who died three years ago. Grady has been invited to speak at the tribute, but what is he supposed to say to thousands of adoring fans about a mother who abandoned her sons in favor of a musical career?

Thomas, Rob - Rats Saw God (202 pages) - Having failed English, eighteen-year-old Steve York must generate a paper to get credit and chooses to think and write about his own sophomore and junior years of high school, during which he experienced his first love and struggled with family relationships.

Weaver, Will - Striking Out (272 pages) - Up until now, Billy's life has been full of nevers. Never been to a movie or played baseball with a real team. Never got over feeling guilty for the loss of his brother, which forever shattered his Minnesota farm family. Urged on by the town's baseball coach, Billy discovers he has talentóboth on the field of his family's farm and on the baseball field.

Werlin, Nancy - Killer's Cousin (229 pages) - Recently acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David has moved to Massachusetts to complete his senior year of high school. His aunt and uncle have offered him shelteróescape from the media and from the uncertain glances of his neighbors and ex-friends. His attic apartment doesn't feel much like a shelter, though. He sees ghostly shadows at night, his aunt is strangely cold, and his cousin Lily is downright hostile. And as Lily's behavior becomes more and more threatening, David can't help but wonder what ugly secrets lurk within the walls of Lily's home. There's one thing David knows with certaintyóthe more he learns about his cousin Lily, the harder it is to avoid thinking about his own past.

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