YA+Lit.

**Young adult literature**
 * [|NYPL] Here is a really neat site from the New York Public Library that has thousands upon thousands of books and they separate the book by topic but we could get some themes from the topics listed.
 * [|TeenReads] Another site I use to see what types of books have come out and to read comments by teen readers.
 * [|Best Young Adult Novels] according to Good Reads.com

[]. New Jersey Librarians on the NJYAC listserv were polled for their top ten young adult novels. Titles receiving more than one vote are starred. With seven votes, the top title is __Speak__ by Laurie Halse Anderson. __The Chocolate War__ by Robert Cormier, M. T. Anderson's __Feed__, S. E. Hinton's __The Outsiders__ and __Whale Talk__ by Chris Crutcher received five votes apiece.
 * Best YA Novels ** **(According to New Jersey Librarians) **

The book begins as the Earth explodes, and Arthur Dent is taken off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who unbeknownst to Arthur works as a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death. A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school. Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's. In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
 * Adams, Douglas. //Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy//. Pan Books, 1979. (Adult) **
 * *Anderson, Laurie Halse. //Catalyst//. Viking Children's Books, 2002. (Gr. 8+) **
 * *Anderson, Laurie Halse. //Speak//. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999. (Gr. 8 **+)
 * Anderson, M. T. //Burger Wuss//. Candlewick Press, 1999. (Gr. 8-10) **
 * *Anderson, M. T. //Feed//. Candlewick Press, 2002. (Gr. 9+) **

A novel based on the diary of a fictional fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world. A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story. When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor. As a sixteen-year-old pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing wenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own. In this dystopia, firemen don't put out the flames; they set them to piles of books. That is, until Fireman Guy Montag meets a girl who tells him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who tells him of a future where people can think. Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants. A series of events captures the life of a free-spirited girl as she grows from a savvy seven-year-old to a self-assured sixteen-year-old. A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a small Manitoba town and find a way to a better future. In Manchester, England , when a seventeen-year-old girl who hasn't been acting like herself lately is turned into the very creature she has personified, she isn't sure that the change is all bad. After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin. A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son. This award winning novel follows the story of Ender, after he is sent to Battle School, who becomes Earth's best hope to defeat the alien invaders who nearly destroyed the planet. Ender must withstand the pressures of training in order to become the world's hero. Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the emotional consequences of growing up through a collection of letters he sends to an anonymous classmate. A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends. A young man arouses the wrath of school bullies and discovers othe devastating consequences of defying a long, mindless tradition centered around the school's annual fund raising drive. Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students. This fantasy tells the story of a heroine living at a small Midwestern college in Vietnam-era America. After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous. Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship. After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee. Jo's father is a witness in a murder investigation so they become part of the witness protection program. When the trial gets close, Jo and her father have to appear to die in a car crash to protect themselves from being found. Jo refuses to leave before saying goodbye to her boyfriend, and so he thinks she is a ghost. The story of an independent 78 year old woman, a teenage delinquent, and a stray dog. The Taliban still control Afghanistan, but Kabul is in ruins. Pavana's father is dead, but her mother, sister and brother are not to be found. She sets out alone, disguised as a boy, and meets up with other children who travel together. In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father. Young Tristran Thorn sets out into a strange world on a quest to retrieve a fallen star he has promised to his beloved, Victoria Forester. Three young people spend the summer in a Welsh valley haunted by mythical spirits and find themselves reenacting an old tragedy. An abused child finally gets a chance at a better life when she lives in the home of a loving woman who has several foster children. When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence. Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band. A group of young boys try to survive after they are abandoned on a desert island. While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates. Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother. The story follows the journal of Flannery Culp and her clique of friends, the basic eight, and the events which led to Flan's stint in jail for two murders. The story of a teacher of emotionally disturbed children and an eight-year-old girl who is the possible victim of abuse. Because of the moral stand taken by her father, a newspaper editor who has persistently attacked the military dictator ruling their Latin American country, Marta and her family find themselves prisoners of the government. Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis." Paul Burrman, a sixteen year old boy from a rurual Missouri town, deals with his sister's lesbianism. Fifteen-year-old Tucker's life changes in many ways when he meets the unusual overweight girl who gives his cat a home. When Rosaleen, the African-American woman who has taken care of Lily for the past ten years, is victimized by racist police officers, they must leave their home. The story of Nathan Price and his family after they move to the Belgian Congo in 1959. This is a coming of age story about Jewish kids in Chicago during the 1970s, reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye. When, after a four-year absence, seventeen-year-old Squid returns to her childhood home on a remote lighthouse island off British Columbia with her young daughter in tow, she and her parents try to come to terms with each other and the painful events of the past, especially the death of her older brother. In this classic work, Scout Finch tells the story of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl. An upbeat novel in which being gay is accepted without question, but the pitfall of love are still possible. A Harlem high school dropout at the beginning of a successful boxing career changes his goals. While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away. Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her. During his first twenty-four hours after finishing high school, seventeen-year-old Ellis unexpectedly becomes part of an inner-city world far different from his comfortable life, which helps deal with his best friend's recent suicide. A humorous books about the historic ills of our society's human behavior. Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken. A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America. Elaborates on the tale of "Beauty and the Beast," told from the point of view of the beast and set in Persia. Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the nobleman who pursues her, and delves into the psychological motivations of each of the characters. Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own. In the first book of the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra Belacqua makes a journey to the Far North to protect her best friend and other kidnapped children from gruesome experiments. Seventeen-year-old Casey has some of her preconceived notions challenged when she begins to tutor Baby, a member of a ganglike non-conformist society called the Clan. Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-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. 11 year old Harry Potter is surprised to learn that he is a wizard and has his first year of adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Cynical seventeen year old Holden Caulfield has an eventful 24 journey around New York City. This autobiographical graphic novel recounts Satrapi's experience from the ages of ten through fourteen in war torn Iran. The work examines ideas of class, religion, and government, as well as growing up. A series about African American high school students dealing with real problems. Five fifteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response. Francie Nolan grows up in a Brooklyn, New York slum. 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. In hopes of graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page writing assignment which helps him to sort out his relationship with his famous astronaut father and the events that changed him from promising student to troubled teen. This trilogy tells the story of Frodo Baggins and the fellowship who journeys to Mordor to destroy the ring and save Middle Earth. This sleeping beauty story is intertwined with a tale from the Holocaust. Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. After his uncle death, Jack is forced to run away, accused of crimes he did not commit.
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Anonymous. //Go Ask Alice//. (ed. by Beatrice Sparks) Prentice-Hall, 1971. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Avi. //Nothing But the Truth//. Orchard Books, 1991. (Gr. 6-9) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Bauer, Joan. //Hope Was Here//. Putnam, 2000. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Bauer, Joan. //Squashed//. Delacorte Press, 1992. (Gr. 7-10) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Bradbury, Ray. //Fahrenheit 451//. Ballantine Books, 1953. (Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Brashares, Ann. //The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants//. Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2001. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Brooks ****<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">, Bruce ****//<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">. Dolores: Seven Stories About Her //<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">. HarperCollins, 2002. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Brooks ****<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">, Martha ****<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">. //True Confessions of a Heartless Girl//. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Burgess, Melvin//. Lady, My Life As a Bitch//. HarperTempest, 2003. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Burgess, Melvin. //Smack//. Holt, 1998. (Gr. 10+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Cabot, Meg. //All-American Girl//. HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Card, Orson Scott. //Ender's Game//. T. Doherty Associates, 1985. (A/YA) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Chbosky, Stephen//. The Perks of Being a Wallflower//. MTV Books, 1999. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Cisneros, Sandra. //The House on Mango Street// . Vintage Books, 1989. (Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Cormier, Robert. //The Chocolate War//. Pantheon, 1974. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Crutcher, Chris. //Whale Talk.// (and others by him) Greenwillow Books, 2001. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Dean, Pamela//. Tam Lin.// Tor Books, 1991. (Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Dessen, Sarah. //Dreamland.// Viking, 2000. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Dessen, Sarah. //Someone Like You//. Viking, 1998. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Dickenson, Peter. //Eva//. Delacorte Press, 1988. SF (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Dokey, Cameron. //How Not to Spend Your Senior Year//. FIC (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Edgerton, Clyde . //Walking Across Egypt// . Algonquin Books, 1987. (Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Ellis, Deborah. //Parvana's Journey//. Groundwood Books/Douglas & McIntyre, 2002. (Gr. 7-10) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Farmer, Nancy. //The House of the Scorpion//. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002. (Gr. 7-10) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Flinn, Alex. //Breathing Underwater//. HarperCollins Publishers, c2001. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Gaiman, Neil. //Stardust//. William Morrow, 1999. (Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Garner, Alan. //Owl Service//. H. Z. Walck, 1968. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Gibbons, Kaye. //Ellen Foster//. Algonquin Books, 1987. (Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Giles, Gail. //Shattering Glass//. Roaring Brook Press, 2002. FIC (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Going, K. L. //Fat Kid Rules the World//. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Golding, William. //Lord of the Flies//. Faber and Faber, 1954. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Grimes, Nikki. //Bronx// //Masquerade//. Dial Books, 2002. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Haddon, Mark. //The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time//. Doubleday, 2003. **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Handler, Daniel. //The Basic Eight//. St Martins Press, 2000. (Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Hayden, Torey L. //Ghost Girl//. Avon Books, 1992. (Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Jenkins, Lylle Becerra de. //The Honorable Prison//. Dutton, 1988. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Juby, Susan. //Alice, I Think//. HarperTempest, 2003. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Kerr, M. E. //Deliver Us from Evie//. Harper Trophy, 1994. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Kerr, M. E. //Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack//. Harper & Row, 1972. (Gr. 7+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Kidd, Sue Monk. //The Secret Life of Bees//. Viking, 2001. (A/YA) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Kingsolver, Barbara. //The Poisonwood Bible//. Perrenial, 1999. (Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Langer, Adam. //Crossing California//. Riverhead Books, 2003.(Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Lawrence, Iain. //The Lightkeeper's Daughter//. Delacorte Press, 2002. (Gr. 10+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Lee, Harper. //To Kill a Mockingbird//. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1961. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Levithan, David. //Boy Meets Boy//. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Lipsyte, Robert. //The Contender//. Bantam Books, 1967. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Lubar, David. //Dunk//. Clarion Books, 2002. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Mackler, Carolyn. //The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things//. Candlewick Press, 2003. (Gr. 7-10) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Mahy, Margaret. //24 Hours//. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2000. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Martin, Judith. //Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Jefferson//. Atheneum, 1985. (Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Myers, Walter Dean. //Fallen Angels//. Scholastic Inc., 1988. (Gr. 10+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Myers, Walter Dean. //Monster//. HarperCollins, 1999. (Gr. 7+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Na, An. //A Step from Heaven//. Front Street, c2001. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Napoli, Donna Jo//. Beast//. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000. (Gr. 8+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Napoli ****<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">, Donna Jo. //Zel//. Dutton Children's Books, 1996. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Plum-Ucci, Carol. //What Happened to Lani Garver?// Harcourt, 2002. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Pullman, Philip. //The Golden Compass.// (and its sequels) Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. (Gr. 7+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Randle, Kristen D//. Breaking Rank.// Morrow Junior Books, 1999. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Rennison, Louise//. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging.// (and sequels) HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. (Gr. 7-10) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Rowling, J. K. //Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone//. (and sequels) Arthur A. Levine, 1998. (Gr. 5+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Salinger, J. D. //Catcher in the Rye//. Little, Brown and Company, 1951. (Gr. 7+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Satrapi, Marjane. //Persepolis//. Pantheon, 2003. (A/YA) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Schraff, Anne & Paul Langan. //The Bluford Series//. Townsend Press. (Gr. 9+/hi lo) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Sleator, William. //House of Stairs//. Dutton, 1974. (Gr. 7+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Smith, Betty. //A Tree Grows in Brooklyn//. Perennial, 1968. (Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Spinelli, Jerry. //Stargirl//. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2000. (Gr. 6-10) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">*Thomas, Rob. //Rats Saw God//. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1996. (Gr. 9+) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Tolkien, J. R. R. //The Lord of the Rings.// Houghton Mifflin, 1955. (A/YA) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. T. Doherty Associates, 1992. (Adult) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Yolen, Jane//. The Devil's Arithmetic//. Viking Juvenile, 1998. (Gr. 4-8) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">Zahn, Timothy. //Dragon and Thief//. (and sequel) Tor, 2003. (A/YA) **<span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 57);">