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Accidents of nature
By Johnson, Harriet McBryde.
Having always prided herself on blending in with "normal" people
despite her cerebral palsy, seventeen-year-old Jean begins to
question her role in the world while attending a summer camp for
children with disabilities. |
After
By Prose, Francine, 1947-
In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis
counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly
harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply
disappear. |
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Aftershock
By Easton, Kelly.
In shock and unable to speak after being in a car accident in Oregon
which killed his parents, seventeen-year-old Adam journeys across
the country to his home in Rhode Island. |
As simple as snow
By Galloway, Gregory.
After his eccentric girlfriend mysteriously disappears, a young man
must unravel the puzzle she left behind in her cryptic,
riddle-filled letters and in the obituaries she created for every
living person in town. |
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Barkbelly
By Weatherill, Cat.
A wooden boy who is being raised by loving human parents flees after
accidentally killing a playmate and begins a quest for his real home
and family. |
The Brimstone journals
By Koertge, Ronald.
In a series of short interconnected poems, students at a high school
nicknamed Brimstone reveal the violence existing and growing in
their lives. |
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The confessional
By Powers, J. L. (Jessica Lynn), 1974-
The murder of a student at an all-boys Catholic school in the border
city of El Paso, Texas, throws the lives of a diverse group of
friends into chaos.
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Dirty magic
By Hughes, Carol, 1961-
After his little sister Hannah becomes mortally ill, ten-year-old
Joe follows a shadowy figure to the war-torn land of Asphodel, a
mysterious and dangerous world of dying children, where he entrusts
himself to a devious blind guide, faces ruthless killing machines,
and discovers a shocking truth about himself. |
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Do not pass go
By Hill, Kirkpatrick.
When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that
prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the
way he thought they were. |
Drawing the ocean
By MacCullough, Carolyn.
A gifted artist, sixteen-year-old Sadie is determined to fit in at
her new school, but her deceased twin brother Ollie keeps appearing
to her. |
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Games
By Gorman, Carol.
Fourteen-year-old rivals Boot Quinn and Mick Sullivan, in one fight
too many, are sent to the new principal who devises the punishment
of having to play games together at his office, where they learn
which battles are worth fighting. |
A time to keep silent
By Whelan, Gloria.
When thirteen-year-old Clair's relationship with her minister father
changes after her mother's death, she stops speaking, and the
subsequent events change both their lives. |
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Harmless
By Reinhardt, Dana.
Instead of telling the truth about why they are home late,
fourteen-year-old private school students Emma, Anna, and Mariah lie
and say a strange man attacked one of them, and the untruth results
in a slew of problems for themselves, their families, their
community, and the wrongly accused man. |
Jacob's ladder
By Keaney, Brian.
Jacob, having awakened in an empty field remembering nothing but his
name, is taken to the nearby town of Locus where everything is
gray--the clothes, the food, and the landscape--but he meets others
who retain a spark of life, and enlists them in a quest to find the
fabled Palace of Remembrance. |
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Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life
By Mass, Wendy, 1967-
Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless
locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years
earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life. |
The tattoo
By McKinney, Chris.
Ken Hideyoshi, incarcerated at Halawa Correctional Institute in
Hawaii, shares his version of life in paradise with his cellmate, a
mute tattoo artist convicted of murdering his wife. |
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Ophelia : a novel
By Klein, Lisa M., 1958-
In a story based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia tells of her life
in the court at Elsinore, her love for Prince Hamlet, and her escape
from the violence in Denmark. |
Ricochet
By Gonzalez, Julie, 1958-
When his best friend is killed in a game with a loaded gun,
fifteen-year-old Connor finds his perceptions of himself and his
relationships with his family, friends, and the other people in his
life changed in more profound ways than he could have imagined. |
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Skellig
By Almond, David, 1951-
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into
a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a
mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like
an angel. |
Splintering
By Corrigan, Eireann, 1977-
Relates, in a series of poems from different perspectives, the
events and aftereffects of an intruder's violent attack on a family. |
