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Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999. A traumatic event near theend of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda’s freshman year in high school.
Brashares, Ann. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Delacorte, 2001. During summerbreak, longtime friends Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget each embark on adventuresthat they share with one another through a pair of jeans that they have decided will beworn by all and so will absorb all of their stories.
Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Shadow. Tor, 1999. Bean begins life as an illegal experiment andends up a disciple and safety net for Ender Wiggins in the battle to save Earth from the Buggers. Series
Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk. Greenwillow, 2001. A high school swim team without a pool, ledby an athletic loner, improves its times and bonds of friendship while managing to getteam jackets over the objections of coaches of the other school sports.
Gantos, Jack. Hole in My Life. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2002. Gantos writes a compellingpersonal memoir of a poor boy’s dream to be a writer, his entanglements with drugs,prison, and his ultimate success.
Grisham, John. A Painted House. Doubleday, 2001. A young country boy experiencesdramatic events among clashing migratory workers of different cultures during the1952 Arkansas cotton harvest.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. First published 1851. Hepzibah tries to shelter her brother from the evil of Judge Pyncheon in nineteenth-centuryMassachusetts.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. First published 1929. A British nurse and anAmerican ambulance driver fall in love during World War I.
Herbert, Frank. Dune. First published 1965. The Atreides family is banished to planet Dunewhere the ferocious Fremen live. Series
Jenkins, A. M. Damage. HarperCollins, 2001. Even though senior Austin Reed has everything—good looks, athletic ability, a beautiful girlfriend, and a great mom—he feelsdetached and barely alive. A powerful, unflinching depiction of teenage depression.
