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Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless me, Ultima. Set in a small New Mexican community during WWII, this novel relates the dignity, traditions, and mythology of Chicano life.
Bonham, Frank. Durango Street. A story of an African-American youth in a delinquent gang and the dedicated people who try to rehabilitate him.
Bray, Libba. A Great and Terrible Beauty. An other-worldly fantasy, set in a Victorian boarding school.
Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth. Story of a Chinese peasant and his wife and their rise from poverty to riches.
Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflowers. This haunting novel is the story of what it is like to grow up while in high school.
Claire, Maxine. Rattlebone. Interconnected short stories portray the teenage years of an African-American girl in a middle class black suburb.
Clark, Mary Higgins. All Around the Town. Laurie Kenyon is accused of murder, but she has no memory of the crime.
Clark, Mary Higgins. Where Are The Children? A mother is accused of the gruesome deaths of her children.
Cook, Robin. Fever. A cancer researcher discovers that his own daughter is a victim of leukemia resulting from a chemical plant conspiracy that could kill them both.
Cook, Robin. Mindbend. A thriller about the fight to save the soul of medicine from an overwhelming evil.
Cussler, Clive. Cyclops. A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men—Soviet cosmonauts.
Cussler, Clive. Treasure. Dirk Pitt discovers the secret trail of the treasures of Alexandria—a trail that plunges him into a brutal conspiracy for total domination of the globe.
Duncan, Lois. Locked in Time. In this chilling story of voodoo and evil, a young girl discovers that her new stepmother has killed her past husbands.
Duncan, Lois. Summer of Fear. A girl discovers her cousin is a witch and saves her family from the sorceress.
Hinton, S.E. Tex. A young boy grows up too fast and learns to cope with his father’s absence.
Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker. The story of Alex Rider, a 14-year-old British boy who is trying to solve the mysterious murder of his uncle. Funny and mysterious.
James, Brian. Perfect World. The story of Lacie Johnson, a young girl experiencing love for the first time.
Kincaid, Jamaica. Annie John. On the West Indies island of Antigua, a young girl encounters many adolescent problems until an emotional crisis wrenches her away from her island home.
Le Guin, Ursula. A Wizard of Earthsea. The first volume in the series: the magician Ged evokes a soul-destroying beast.
Le Guin, Ursula. The Tombs of Atuan. The second volume in the series: a tale of Ged and his attempt to steal the greatest treasure.
Le Guin, Ursula. The Farthest Shore. The third volume in the series: the tale of Ged’s journey beyond the shores of death to heal a wounded land.
Le Guin, Ursula. Tehanu. The fourth volume in the series: the characters return from the dark land to face their destiny.
Lund, Doris Herold. Eric. A mother writes graphically of her soccer star son’s battle with cancer.
McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. A mute becomes the recipient of the confidences of several residents in a southern town.
Markandaya, Kamala. Nectar in a Sieve. The story of a peasant family in rural India and of the resignation and ingenuity with which they meet economic changes and natural disaster.
Moriarty, Jaclyn. Feeling Sorry for Celia. Through her letters, the life of a lonely teenage girl is explored.
Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels. A boy just out of his Harlem high school enlists in the army and spends a year on active duty in Vietnam.
Myers, Walter Dean. Monster. An African-American teenager who is on trial for the murder of a Harlem drugstore owner becomes a pawn in the hands of the juvenile justice system.
Myers, Walter Dean. Slam. Sixteen-year-old “Slam” Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
Plimpton, George. The Paper Lion. A reporter actually becomes part of a professional football team.
Segal, Lore Groszmann. Other People’s Houses. The story of flight from Nazi terror.
Sones, Sonya. Stop Pretending. An accessible book that deals with the tragedy of mental illness—its stigma, its realities, and its effects on a family.
Sones, Sonya. What My Mother Doesn’t Know. An exploration of first love, friends and figuring out how to make sense of the life of a teenager.
Zindel, Paul. My Darling, My Hamburger. Four high school seniors struggle with the responsibilities of growing up, particularly the problems of an intimate relationship.
Zindel, Paul. The Undertaker’s Gone Bananas. A boy thinks he sees an undertaker murder his wife.
Required reading for Honors English I: Orwell, George. 1984. A dictatorship called Big Brother rules the people in a collectivist society.
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