Miscellaneous:

• Eyewitness series books
• Humorous stories
• Social issues fiction: prejudice
• Romance fiction
• Realistic fiction for girls

EYEWITNESS SERIES BOOKS

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HUMOROUS STORIES

• THE HOUSE CALLED AWFUL END by Ardaugh
• THE COLLECTED TALES OF NURSE MATILDA by Brand
• Meg Cabot’s PRINCESS books
• Roald Dahl’s books
• APPLE ISLAND, OR THE TRUTH ABOUT TEACHERS by Evans
• MUCH ADO ABOUT GRUBSTAKE by Ferris
• JACK’S BLACK BOOK by Gantos
• JOEY PIGZA books by Gantos
• MARLEY & ME by Grogan
• THE KID WHO BECAME PRESIDENT by Gutman
• ROSEBUD WITH FANGS by Keller
• DIARY OF A WIMPY KID by Kinney
• NO MORE DEAD DOGS by Korman
• GIRL, 15, CHARMING BUT INSANE by Limb
• HIDDEN TALENTS by Lubar
• CAN OF WORMS by Mackel
• A MID-SEMESTER’S NIGHTS DREAM by Meachem
• THE SCHERNOFF DISCOVERIES by Paulsen
• A YEAR DOWN YONDER by Peck
• BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER by Robinson
• HOW TO EAT FRIED WORMS by Rockwell
• ALCATRAZ VS THE EVIL LIBRARIANS by Sanderson
• TIME WARP TRIO series by Scieszka
• STINKER FROM SPACE by Service
• THE SCHWA WAS HERE by Shusterman
• THE CIRCUS LUNICUS by Singer
• SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS by Snicket
• TALES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM & THE SISTERS WEIRD by VandeVelde
• TRIPPING OVER THE LUNCH LADY: AND OTHER SCHOOL LADIES by Mercado [SC TRI]

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SOCIAL ISSUES FICTION: PREJUDICE

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ROMANCE FICTION

Fiction:

• Applegate - Kissing Tennessee
• Armstrong - Mary mehan awake
• Austen - Sense and sensibility
• Bat-Ami - Two suns in the sky
• Bauer - Thwonk
• Bennett - The haunted heart
• Cabot - Princess in love
• Cooney - Both sides of time
• Cooney - Out of time
• Cullen - Meeting the make-out king
• Daly - Seventeenth summer
• Dokey - The story-teller’s daughter
• George - Julie
• Jordan - Raging quiet
• Keene - Love online
• Kindl - Owl in love
• McDaniel - Don’t die my love
• Meacham - A mid-semester night’s dream
• Paulsen - The boy who owned a school: a comedy of love
• Pearson - Scribbler of dreams
• Peck - Soup in love
• Roberts - Ghost of a chance
• Shakespeare - Romeo & Juliet
• Sparks - A walk to remember
• Sparks - The wedding
• Spinelli - Stargirl
• Voigt – Bad girls in love
• Wersba - Fat, a love story
• Westall - The promise
• Woodsen - If you come softly

Story Collection:

• SEE-See you in September

Non-fiction:

• 398.2 SUT-Tristan & Iseult
• 782.1 PRI-Aida

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REALISTIC FICTION FOR GIRLS

• Angus, Thongs, and Full-frontal Snogging by Rennison
  Humorous journal of a year in the life of a 14-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.
• Are you in the House Alone? by Peck
  After receiving threatening notes and phone calls, a high school girl becomes aware that she is under constant observation
• Both Sides Now by Pennebaker
  15-year-old Liza tries to deal with the normal everyday crises of life in high school, a process complicated by her mother's fight with breast cancer.
• The Cheat by Koss
  When Sarah gets her hands on the answers to the 8th-grade geography midterm and decides to share them with some other students, the consequences are far-ranging
• Cut by McCormick
  While confined to a mental hospital, 13-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better
• Dance for Three by Plummer
  When fifteen-year-old Hannah becomes pregnant and her rich, popular boyfriend claims he is not responsible, she is forced to face some hard facts about life.
• Dancing on the Edge by Nolan
  A young girl from a dysfunctional family creates for herself an alternative world which nearly results in her death but which ultimately leads her to reality
• Door Near Here by Quarles
  Four siblings struggle to maintain a seminormal home life when their single mother's alcoholism becomes debilitating.
• The Face on the Milk Carton series by Cooney
  A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity
• The Girls by Koss
  Each of the girls in a middle-school clique reveals the strong, manipulative hold one of the group exerts on the others, causing hurt and self-doubt among the girls
• Holding Me Here by Conrad
  14-year-old Robin tries to patch up the broken home of a battered wife and in the process discovers how deeply she's been hurt by the divorce of her own parents
• Homecoming by Voigt
  Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity
• Humming Whispers by Johnson
  Sophy fears that she will become like her older sister Nicole who has schizophrenia
• The Isabel Factor by Friesen
  Anna has always been content to let her best friend Zoe take the risks, leaving Anna to watch from the sidelines, but when Zoe breaks her arm, Anna must face summer camp on her own
• Kissing Doorknobs by Hesser
  14-year-old Tara describes how her increasingly strange compulsions begin to take over her life and affect her rela-tionships with her family and friends
• Kissing Tennessee by Appelt
  Graduating eighth graders relate their stories of love and heartbreak that have brought them to Dogwood Junior High's magical Stardust Dance.
• Letters from the Inside by Marsden
  The relationship between two teenage girls who become acquainted through letters intensifies as their correspondence reveals some of the terrible problems of their lives
• Lisa Bright and Dark by Neufeld
  When Lisa Shilling's parents and teachers refuse to acknowledge her mental illness, she can only find the help she needs from three of her friends
• Mind’s Eye by Fleischman
  A novel in play form in which 16-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook
• Music from a Place Called Halfmoon by Oughton
  In 1956 in Half Moon, North Carolina, 13-year-old Edie Jo comes to terms with her own prejudice and the death of a friend
• Out of Control by Mazer
  After joining his two best friends in a spontaneous attack on a girl at their school, 16-year-old Rollo finds that his life is changed forever
• Oy, Joy by Frank
  New Yorker Joy's freshman year of high school takes a turn for the worse when her great-uncle Max moves in.
• Peeling the Onion by Orr
  Following an automobile accident in which her neck is broken, a teenage karate champion begins a long and painful recovery
• Perfect by Friend
  Following the death of her father, a 13-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and 10-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.
• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Giff
  A troublesome 12-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her
• Raven in a Dove’s House by Pinkney
  While 12-year-old Nell and her 14-year-old cousin struggle with the loss of parents and other hardships, both African-American youths learn to rely on themselves
• Rules of the Road by Bauer
  16-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire. Along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father
• Saffy’s Angel by McKay
  After learning that she was adopted, 13-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistic family changes, until they help her go back to Italy where she was born to find a special memento of her past
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Brashares
  Carmen decides to discard an old pair of jeans, but Tibby, Lena, and Bridget think they are great and decide that whoever the pants fit best will get them. When the jeans fit everyone perfectly, a sisterhood and a memorable summer begin.
• The Skin I’m In by Flake
  13-year-old Maleeka, insecure about her very dark skin, rejects the support of a new teacher, whose skin looks blotched because of a rare medical condition--but soon Maleeka begins to see that her teacher could be a role model, and that she must learn to love herself and accept love from others
• Speak by Anderson
  A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
• Stargirl by Spinelli
  In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever
• Stop pretending : what happened when my big sister went crazy by Sones
  A younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown.
• True Believer by Wolff
  Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, 15-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to
• Vanishing by Brooks
  11-year-old Alice is unwilling to return to live with her alcoholic mother and her stern stepfather, so she refuses to eat to the point of slowly starving herself, in order to remain in the hospital.
• What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows by Baskin
  12-year-old Gabby feels that she needs a mother to help her grow into a woman, so when things between her father and his latest girlfriend do not work out, Gabby sets off for the last place she remembers seeing her own mother.
• When Morning Comes by Calvert
  15-year-old Cat Kincaid, having failed to fit into a series of foster homes and finding herself stuck on a farm with an elderly female beekeeper, secretly longs for a place to be herself, not somebody she has invented
• Lurlene McDaniel books
• Jacqueline Woodsen books

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