A TIGHT FIT
F GOO Hello,
Groin by Beth Goobie. Custer, WA : Orca Book Publishers,
2006.
Dylan loved the book Foxfire and decides to place the book night over the groin
on her life-size display of a girl and a guy. The display opens a cna of wormes
and makes Dylan face her deepest fear.
F ALE The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. New York: Little, Brown, 2007. Born with several medical problems, Junior, is pretty much an outcast at his Spokane Indian Reservation. Then he decides to leave his reservation school to attend an all-white high school in town, making him that much more of an outcast. Filled with cartoon illustrations, this sotry is full of tragedy and comedy. (First chapter's title is: The Black-Eye-of-the-Month Club)
F Na, An. Wait for me. New York: Putnam, 2006. Mina appears to be the perfect daughter--Harvard bound, president of the honor society and dutiful daughter. One small problem though--it's all a lie, one she doesn't want her mother to find out about.
F DES Dessen, Sarah. .Just Listen. New York : Viking,
2006.
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful
with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty
and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the
end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
F An Na, An. .Wait for Me. New York : Putnam, 2006
As her senior year in high school approaches, Mina yearns to find her own path
in life but working at the family business, taking care of her little sister,
and dealing with her mother's impossible expectations are as stifling as the
southern California heat, until she falls in love with a man who offers a way
out.
F POW Powell, Randy. Tribute
to another dead rock star. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999.
Grady is 15 years old. His mother was the famous grunge rock star, Debbie Grennan.
She committed suicide just a few years prior and Grady is on his way to Seattle
to participate in a tribute concert in her honor. The trip back to Seattle is
full of major emotions, changes and finally, decisions. Coming to terms with
Debbie's suicide and her role in his life is huge for Grady.
F HRD Hrdlitschka, Shelley. Dancing
Naked. Orca Book Publishers, 2001.
Kia is sixteen and finds out she is pregnant. Derek, the father, pushes her
to get an abortion and Kia must learn to make decisions both for herself and
for the child she carries.
F TAS Tashjian, Janet. The
Gospel according to Larry. Henry Holt, 2001.
It is Josh's senior year and he is lusting after his best friend, Beth. At the
same time, the school is buzzing about the amazing new website called "The
Gospel according to Larry", where "sermons" about life are published.
Josh is incredibly intelligent, but introverted and out of the "in"
crowd society. Everything comes to a head at the rock concert of the decade,
a sort of modern day Woodstock.
F SPI Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl. New York: Knopf,
2000.
Stargirl renames herself when she chooses. Always having been homeschooled,
she takes the local high school totally by surprise.
F WIT Wittlinger, Ellen. Razzle. New York : Simon & Schuster
Books for Young Readers, 2001.
Kenyon meets an eccentric girl by the name of Razzle after moving to
Cape Cod.
F JUB Juby, Susan. Alice,
I think. New York: Harper Tempest, 2003.
Take a homeschooled teenager who thought she was a hobbit her first day at kindergarten,
toss in a therapist, the world's worst haircut, her first "boy/girl"
relationship and a fish show!
F PET Peters, Julie Ann. Define
"Normal". Boston : Little, Brown, c2000.
When she agrees to meet with Jasmine as a peer counselor at their middle school,
Antonia never dreams that this girl with the black lipstick and pierced eyebrow
will end up helping her deal with the serious problems she faces at home and
become a good friend.
F ALV Alvarez, Julia. How
the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. New York, N.Y. : New American
Library, 1992, c1991.
15 interconnected stories portray with warmth and humor the assimilation of
a Dominican doctor's family into urban American culture.
F SHE Shea, Peggy Deitz. Tangled
threads : a Hmong girl's story. New York
: Clarion Books, c2003.
Arriving in the U.S. from a refugee camp in Thailand, Mai and her grandmother
go to Rhode Island to be near her uncle. The rules are so different in the U.S.,
from clothing to boyfriends. Her grandmother has a hard time with it all, but
Mai is both fascinated and torn. A great book showing the clashes in two very
different cultures.
F FLI Flinn, Alex. Breaking
Point. New York : HarperTempest, 2003, c2002.
Being the new kid at school is always tough, but when it's a private school
and your mom is the school secretary, it is so much worse! Paul feels like a
total outcast and is the butt of everyone's pranks until Charlie Good, the coolest
guy in school befriends him. With a friend like this, though.....
F COL Coleman, Evelyn. Born
in Sin. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000.
Keisha dreams of being a doctor and swimmer, but when her school pulls her application
for a summer program at Avery and puts her in an "at-risk" group,
she finds amazing talents.
F GOO Goobie, Beth. Sticks
and Stones: Slut. Victoria, BC ; Custer, WA : Orca Book Publishers,
2002.
Asked to the Valentine's Day dance, Jujube goes, but when Brent tries to get
her involved in the back seat of the car, she leaps out and finds her way home
herself. The next week at school she hears rumors flying about that night and
what did--or did not--occur.
F NEL Nelson, Blake. The
New Rules of High School. New York : Viking/Penguin, 2003.
Ever get tired of always doing the right thing? Max Caldwell does it all, and
suddenly at the end of his junior year, he is tired of it. He breaks up with
his first love, the perfect Cindy, hangs out with Eleanor, the goth maven, goes
to major parties, and gets stalked by a sophomore. Life can't always be perfect----
Updated 10/03/06