Books You Might Like:
Realistic Fiction/Drama
Rats saw God by Rob Thomas.
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 a promising student into a troubled teen.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.4
Purple
hibiscus : a novel by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
In the city of
Enugu, Nigeria, fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother, Jaja, lead a
privileged life. Their Papa is a
wealthy and respected businessman; they live in a beautuful house; and they
attend an exclusive missionary school. But, their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious
man, has impossible expectations of his children and wife, and severely
punishes them if theyÕre less than perfect. After getting a taste of freedom during a visit to their
aunt's home, tension within the family escalates and Kambili must find the
strength to keep her loved ones together after her mother commits a desparate
act.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.8
True
confessions of a heartless girl by Martha Brooks.
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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.0
St. Michael's
scales by Neil Connelly.
Keegan Flannery,
feeling responsible for his twin brother's death and his mother's mental
illness, believes he must atone by committing suicide before his sixteenth
birthday, but he gains new insights when he joins his school's wrestling team.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Wonder when
you'll miss me : a novel by
Amanda
Davis.
Sixteen-year-old
Faith Duckle embarks on a journey of discovery when she runs off with the
circus after attacking one of the boys who raped her the year before.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.0
One of those
hideous books where the mother dies by
Sonya Sones.
Fifteen-year-old
Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's
grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a
famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
Holding at
third by Linda Zinnen.
When
thirteen-year-old Matt's older brother Tom moves to a different hospital to
receive a "treatment of last resort" for his cancer, Matt tries to
adjust to a new home and school, a new baseball team, and his feelings about
his brother.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.4
Hate you by Graham McNamee.
Nursing hatred
for the father who choked her and damaged her voice as a child,
seventeen-year-old Alice writes songs she feels she cannot sing and seeks to
reconcile her feelings for herself and her father.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.9
Olive's ocean by Kevin Henkes.
On a summer visit
to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains
perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her
grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.7
The Hanged Man by Francesca Lia Block.
Having stopped
eating after the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Laurel feels herself
losing control of her life in the hot, magical world of Los Angeles.
Firmament by Tim Bowler.
While struggling
to cope with the death of his father, a gifted musician, fourteen-year-old Luke
must deal with a dangerous bully, a lonely old woman, a blind young girl, his
mother's romantic involvement, and his own musical talent.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.0
Damage by A.M. Jenkins.
Seventeen-year-old
football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has
drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who
seems very special.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.9
Behind you by Jacqueline Woodson.
After
fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him
struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware
that 'Miah is watching over them.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.1
A heart
divided by Cherie Bennett
& Jeff Gottesfeld.
When
sixteen-year-old Kate, an aspiring playwright, moves from New Jersey to attend
high school in the South, she becomes embroiled in a controversy to remove the
school's Confederate flag symbol.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.6
The Last
Chance Texaco by Brent
Hartinger.
Troubled teen
Lucy Pitt struggles to fit in as a new tenant at a last-chance foster home.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.5
Letting go of
Bobby James, or, How I found myself of steam by Valerie Hobbs.
After being left
by her husband at a gas station in Florida, sixteen-year-old Sally Jo Walker,
also known as Jody, makes some difficult decisions and a better life for
herself.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.5
The song of an
innocent bystander by Ian
Bone.
With the approach
of the tenth anniversary of the time she was held hostage in a fast food
restaurant, nineteen-year-old Freda Opperman struggles to make sense of her
memories of the event and how they have shaped her life.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
A fast and
brutal wing by Kathleen
Jeffrie Johnson.
A story told
through e-mails, newspaper articles, and short story excerpts, in which Niki, a
teenaged girl abandoned by her father, believes that she and her brother can
transform themselves into a cat and a hawk, and a sympathetic classmate coping
with his mother's death tries to protect the pair from rumors of incest.
Drift by Manuel Luis Martinez.
Sixteen-year-old
Robert Lomos, living with his grandmother in San Antonio since his father
abandoned the family and his mother suffered a breakdown and moved with his
little brother to California, struggles to earn the money to follow her and put
his family back together.
Jude by Kate Morgenroth.
Still reeling
from his drug-dealing father's murder, moving in with the wealthy mother he
never knew, and transferring to a private school, fifteen-year-old Jude is
tricked into pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.2
The usual
rules by Joyce Maynard.
Thirteen-year-old
Wendy, grieving the death of her mother in the collapse of the World Trade
Center, is taken to live with her father in California where she learns
important life lessons from a variety of people before returning home to her
stepfather and brother, where she feels she truly belongs.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
Stories of Abuse -
Fiction
America : a
novel by E.R. Frank.
America, a
runaway boy who is being treated at Ridgeway, a New York hospital, finds
himself opening up to one of the doctors on staff and revealing things about
himself that he had always vowed to keep secret.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.6
Bastard out of
Carolina by Dorothy
Allison.
Ruth Ann
Boatwright tells of her life with her family and the emotional and physical
violence she experiences.
Chinese
handcuffs by Chris
Crutcher.
Still troubled by
his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old Dillon becomes deeply
involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell
no one what her stepfather is doing to her.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.0
Forged by fire by Sharon M. Draper.
Gerald, a teenager
who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive
father, must face the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem
can be solved.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.7
I was a
teenage fairy by
Francesca Lia Block.
A feisty, sexy
fairy helps a young woman heal traumas from her past.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
I hadn't meant
to tell you this by
Jacqueline Woodson.
Marie, the only
African-American girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate
Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.1
Friction : a
novel by E. R. Frank.
Alex, suffering a
bit of a crush on her eighth-grade teacher Simon, becomes confused about what
is true when a new girl at Forest Alternative claims Simon has been molesting
her and Alex.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.0
When Jeff
comes home by Cathrine
Atkins.
Sixteen-year-old
Jeff, returning home after having been kidnapped and held prisoner for three
years, must face his family, friends, and school and the widespread assumption
that he engaged in sexual activity with his kidnapper.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.1
When Kambia
Elaine flew in from Neptune
by Lori Aurelia Williams.
Shayla, an
aspiring writer growing up in a poor section of Houston, can't figure out the
new girl next door, Kambia Elaine, who tells fantastic stories.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 5.3
Margaux with
an X by Ron Koertge.
Margaux, known as
a "tough chick" at her Los Angeles high school, makes a connection
with Danny, who, like her, struggles with the emotional impact of family
violence and abuse.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.8Accelerated
Reader AR
Reading Level - 5.2
Stitches by Glen Huser.
Travis, a middle-school
student who wants to become a professional puppeteer, has endured years of
torment from a trio of bullies, but he finds himself fighting for his life when
the harassment turns to violence just after the ninth-grade dance.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
33 snowfish by Adam Rapp
Custis, a
homeless fugitive from a pornography producer, hits the road with Curl, a child
prostitute, and her boyfriend Boobie who has just killed his parents and
kidnapped his infant brother, but their quest for a better life meets with
little success until Custis makes an unlikely friend.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.2
Stories of Abuse - Nonfiction
The tiger's
child by Torey Hayden.
Traces the
author's relationship with Sheila, a young woman struggling to deal with her
memories of an abusive childhood and a former student in Hayden's special
education class.
Murphy's boy by Torey L. Hayden.
A psychologist
reconstructs her 2 1/2 year association with Kevin Richter, a disturbed
teenager, as he remembers the physical and mental abuse of his parents and the
murder of his sister.
Ghost girl :
the true story of a child in peril and the teacher who saved her by Torey L. Hayden.
A teacher of
emotionally disturbed children tells of her work with a silent and withdrawn
eight-year-old girl who is the possible victim of ritual abuse.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
A child called
"It" : one child's courage to survive by David Pelzer.
David Pelzer,
victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California,
tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over
his past.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.8
When Rabbit
howls: The Troops for Truddi Chase ; introduction and epilogue by Robert A. Phillips, Jr.
An account of the
life of Truddi Chase, a woman who developed multiple personalities as a result
of childhood abuse and incest.
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber.
The story of a
survivor of terrifying childhood abuse, victim of sudden and mystifying
blackouts, and the first case of multiple personality ever to be
psychoanalyzed.
The flock by Joan Frances Casey with Lynn
Wilson
Joan Frances
Casey and her therapist, Lynn Wilson, chronicle Joan's intense journey to
healing from multiple personality disorder, describing her diagnosis, her
diverse personalities, her discovery that she had been abused as a child, and
the growth of her and Lynn's relationship from doctor-patient to mother-daughter.
Overcoming Obstacles
Girl,
interrupted by Susanna
Kaysen.
The author
describes her two-year stay at the age of eighteen in a psychiatric hospital
renowned for its famous clientele and for its progressive methods of treatment.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
Kim : empty
inside : the diary of an anonymous teenager by Beatrice Sparks.
Seventeen-year-old
Kim, feeling the pressure of maintaining an A average to stay on her college
gymnastics team, becomes obsessive about her weight and develops anorexia.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.5
It's not about
the bike : my journey back to life by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins.
The
world-champion cyclist recounts his diagnosis with cancer, the grueling
treatments during which he was given a less than twenty percent chance for
survival, his surprising victory in the 1999 Tour de France, and the birth of
his son.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.7
Please stop
laughing at me-- : one woman's inspirational story by Jodee Blanco.
The author, a
victim of bullying, provides an account of her miserable school career, telling
how her experiences as an outcast affected her life, and sharing her
perspective on the events as an adult.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
The burn
journals by Brent Runyon.
Presents the true
story of Brent Runyon, who at fourteen set himself on fire and sustained burns
over eighty percent of his body and describes the months of physical and mental
rehabilitation that followed as he attempted to pull his life together.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.8
Hole in my
life by Jack Gantos.
The author
relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was
arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all
the while hoping to become a writer.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Wasted : a
memoir of anorexia and bulimia by Marya Hornbacher.
The author
reflects on her fourteen-year battle with bulimia and anorexia, discussing how
the eating disorders have affected her life from childhood through the present
day.
Ice bound : a
doctor's incredible battle for survival at the South Pole by Jerri Nielsen, with Maryanne Vollers.
The author
describes her life-changing experience working as a doctor in Antarctica in
1999, during which time she discovered she had breast cancer and had to treat
herself with the aid of her own patients and U.S. doctors via the Internet.
Unafraid of
the dark : a memoir by
Rosemary L. Bray.
A memoir in which
the author, one of the first African-American women at Yale, shares the story
of her life growing up poor in Chicago in the 1960s, and tells how the welfare
system saved the family by enabling her and her siblings to receive a good
education.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.3
Chinese
Cinderella : the true story of an unwanted daughter by Adeline Yen Mah.
The author tells
the story of her painful childhood in China where she lived until the age of
fourteen with her father, stepmother, and siblings, all of whom considered her
bad luck because her mother died shortly after giving birth to her.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Rescuing Patty
Hearst : memories from a decade gone mad by Virginia Holman.
The author
recalls her experiences growing up with a schizophrenic mother in the 1970s,
discussing the nearly four years she and her sister spent in a cottage with
their mother who believed she had been ordered to outfit the house as a field
hospital in a secret war, and sharing her experiences as an adult trying to
reconstruct the course of her mother's illness.
Teenage Pregnancy - Fiction
Mr. and Mrs.
Bo Jo Jones by Ann Head.
A pregnant
sixteen-year-old bride and her seventeen-year-old groom have serious problems
adjusting to their new life.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
Her daughter's
eyes by Jessica Barksdale
Incl‡n.
Seventeen-year-old
Kate, feeling alone in the wake of her mother's death and her father's
preoccupation with his new girlfriend, prepares, with the help of her younger
sister, to give birth to her baby in secret.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.8
Dancing naked
: a novel by Shelley
Hrdlitschka.
Sixteen-year-old
Kia is forced to make some tough decisions when she becomes pregnant and
realizes her actions affect not only her but her parents, friends, and unborn
baby.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.3
Detour for
Emmy by Marilyn Reynolds.
Emmy, whose
future had once looked so bright, struggles to overcome the isolation and
depression brought about by being a teen mother who gets little support from
her family or the father of her child.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.4
What kind of
love? : the diary of a pregnant teenager by Sheila Cole.
When a 15-year-old
girl with a promising future learns that she is pregnant, she faces the most
difficult decision of her young life.
Waiting for
June by Joyce Sweeney.
In the third
trimester of her pregnancy, Florida high school senior Sophie tries to discover
the identity of the father she has never known, while adamantly refusing to
disclose the name of her own baby's father.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.3
Where the
heart is by Billie Letts.
After being
abandoned at a Wall-Mart by her boyfriend, a pregnant teenage girl finds a new
life among the quirky inhabitants of a small town in Oklahoma.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 5.0
One night by Margaret Wild.
In this novel
written in free verse and narrated by alternating characters, a teenaged girl
decides to have her baby and care for it on her own after a "one night
stand" results in pregnancy.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.5
Too soon for
Jeff by Marilyn Reynolds.
High school
senior Jeff Browning is upset when he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant
and determined not to let a baby ruin his plans to go to college on a debate
scholarship, but his feelings change after the baby is born.
Hanging on to
Max by Margaret Bechard.
When his girlfriend
decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep
him and raise him alone.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.3
The first part
last by Angela Johnson.
Bobby's carefree
teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his
adored baby daughter.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.7
Teenage Pregnancy - Nonfiction
Dear diary,
I'm pregnant : teenagers talk about their pregnancy by Anrenee Englander
Presents the
voices of pregnant teens as they talk about their needs, interests, decisions
and choices around motherhood, adoption and abortion.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
Annie's baby :
the diary of Anonymous, a pregnant teenager edited by
Beatrice Sparks.
A day-by-day
account of the life of an unnamed, pregnant, teenaged girl.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Teen moms :
the pain and the promise by
Evelyn Lerman Why have
sex so early? -- Feelings about men -- Meaning of motherhood -- Worries --
Welfare and independence -- Changed lives -- Their future.
Kerry, a
teenage mother by Maggi
Aitkens
A case study of a
teenage parent Kerry, who is one of more than a million teenage mothers in the
United States today. Shows what it is like to care for a child while you're
still in your teens.
School & Friends
How not to
spend your senior year by
Cameron Dokey.
Jo O'Connor,
accustomed to moving from place to place with her father, has learned not to
get too close to people, but that changes in her senior year when she makes a
best friend and falls in love--which only complicates matters when she is
forced to move again.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.7
Sloppy firsts
: a novel by Megan
McCafferty.
Sixteen-year-old
Jessica Darling is devastated when her best friend moves away and leaves
Jessica to face the trials of high school on her own.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.2
Second
helpings : a novel by
Megan McCafferty.
New Jersey
teenager Jessica Darling chronicles her senior year in high school, coping with
life without her best friend, and trying to figure out the current intentions
of Marcus, the boy who sent her hormones and her mind wild the year before, and
promptly broke her heart.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Doing time :
notes from the undergrad
by Rob Thomas.
Contains ten
stories about the experiences of students at the fictional Robert E. Lee High
School as they set out to fulfill the graduation requirement to perform two
hundred hours of community service.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 4.7
Emako Blue by Brenda Woods.
Monterey,
Savannah, Jamal, and Eddie have never had much to do with each other until
Emako Blue shows up at chorus practice, but just as the lives of the five Los
Angeles high school students become intertwined, tragedy tears them apart.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.5
Be more chill by Ned Vizzini.
Badly in need of
self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a
pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Tribes by Arthur Slade.
For Percy, the loss
of his father and the suicide of his best friend build to a head during the
last week before high school graduation.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.1
Playing in
traffic by Gail Giles.
Shy and
unremarkable, seventeen-year-old Matt Lathrop is surprised and flattered to
find himself singled out for the sexual attentions of the alluring Skye Colby,
until he discovers the evil purpose behind her actions.
St. Michael's
scales by Neil Connelly.
Keegan Flannery,
feeling responsible for his twin brother's death and his mother's mental
illness, believes he must atone by committing suicide before his sixteenth
birthday, but he gains new insights when he joins his school's wrestling team.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Shattering
Glass by Gail Giles.
Rob, the
charismatic leader of the senior class, provokes unexpected violence when he
turns the school nerd into Prince Charming.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Rats saw God by Rob Thomas.
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 a promising student into a troubled teen.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.4
Slumming by Kristen D. Randle.
In their senior
year of high school, three best friends, Nikki, Alicia, and Sam, attempt an
"experiment" in which they each befriend a classmate they think needs
attention and try to improve that person's life.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.7
The battle of
Jericho by Sharon M.
Draper.
A high school
junior and his cousin suffer the ramifications of joining what seems to be a
"reputable" school club.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.7
Out of order by A.M. Jenkins.
Popular sophomore
baseball star Colt Trammel faces a personal crisis when his girlfriend dumps
him, his failing grades threaten to bump him from the team, and he finds
himself drawn to a new, green-haired girl at school.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Granny
Torrelli makes soup by
Sharon Creech
With the help of
her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some
problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
The blue girl by Charles de Lint.
Seventeen-year-old
Imogene decides to reinvent herself after moving to a new town with her family,
hoping to leave behind her tough, rebellious nature, befriending the high
school outcast and trying her best to avoid trouble, but when she gets on the
wrong side of a gang of malicious fairies, Imogene finds herself in more
trouble than ever before.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.8
Tell it to
Naomi by Daniel
Ehrenhaft.
In a harebrained
scheme concocted by his neurotic older sister to forge a romantic relationship
with the girl of his dreams, fifteen-year-old Dave Rosen pretends to be a
female advice columnist for his school newspaper.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.3
10 things to
do before I die : a novel by
Daniel Ehrenhaft.
Just after his
best friends make a list of things sixteen-year-old Ted should do to live it
up, he learns that he has injested poison and will be dead in twenty-four
hours--which might be enough time to do everything on the list.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.1
Head games by Mariah Fredericks.
Two teenagers
connect online in a role-playing game which leads them into their own
face-to-face, half-acknowledged courtship.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.4
The Schwa was
here by Neal Shusterman.
A Brooklyn
eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish"
boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by
nearly everyone.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.0
Bottled up by Jaye Murray.
PipÕs desparate
to escape his life - heÕs been skipping classes, dinking, getting high. Anything and everything to avoid his
smug teachers, his sweet but needy little brother, his home life. Now heÕs been busted by Principal
Giraldi, and given an ultimatum: either he shows up for all his classes and
sees a counselor after school, or heÕs expelled. PipÕs freaked out; not because he might get kicked out of
school but by the thought that Giraldi might call his father. Because Pip will do anything to avoid his
father.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.7
Names will
never hurt me by Jaime
Adoff.
Four very
different teenagers reveal their deepest feelings and fears during a day in
which the hurts and struggles of high school escalates dangerously. ThereÕs Kurt, the ÒfreakÓ, who listens
to loud music, trying to escape the kids who bully him; Tisha, the Òwhite girl
with the tan that never fadesÓ who feels Òout of placeÓ because sheÕs biracial;
Ryan, the all-American football star who rules the hallways but hides a terrible secret; and Floater,
who wields power over students by acting as the principalÕs eyes and ears. The repercussions of daily school
teasing, racism, and ostracism cause tensions to rise and emotions to reach the
breaking point. Will Kurt, Tisha,
Ryan, and Floater be able to reach out to one another in time to prevent a
tragedy?
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.7
Teen queens
and has-beens by Cathy
Hopkins.
When Lia gains
the interest of the school heartthob, she thereby alienates "teen queen"
Kaylie, who then launches a campaign of bullying against Lia.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
The Beckoners by Carrie Mac.
Zoe, unhappy to
be moving once again, falls in with the Beckoners, a group of bullies at her
new school, but soon finds herself trying to get free from the gang whose
actions against their favorite target, a girl they call Dog, are escalating to
violence.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.5
Self-Help/Understanding Yourself/ Inspiration
The 7 habits
of highly effective teens : the ultimate teenage success guide by Sean Covey.
Describes seven
habits teenagers can cultivate to help them improve their self-images, build
friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve goals, get along with parents, and
make other positive changes in their lives.
No easy
answers : short stories about teenagers making tough choices edited by Donald R. Gallo.
A collection of
sixteen short stories, by Louise Plummer, M.E. Kerr, Jack Gantos, and others,
about teenagers in situations that test their character.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.8
Life happens :
a teenager's guide to friends, failure, sexuality, love, rejection, addiction,
peer pressure, families, loss, depression, change, and other challenges of
living by Kathy McCoy and Charles
Wibbelsman.
Offers advice on
how to cope with such feelings as sadness, anger, and anxiety related to
various problems faced by many teenagers.
When a friend
dies : a book for teens about grieving & healing by Marilyn E. Gootman ; edited by Pamela
Espeland.
How can I stand
the pain? -- Why can't I feel anything? -- What is "normal"? -- How
can I handle my feelings? -- How can I deal with my grief? -- How can I find a
counselor or a therapist? -- National organizations to contact for referrals
Don't sweat
the small stuff for teens : simple ways to keep your cool in stressful times by Richard Carlson.
Presents one
hundred tips for teens to live more happy, healthy, and ethical lives.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.7
The courage to
change : a teen survival guide by the Leave out
ViolencE Youth ; compiled by Brenda Zosky Proulx.
A compilation of
real-life stories and photographs in which teens who have been involved with
violence, whether as victims or perpetrators, overcame their challenges and
dealt with the issues of bullying, neglect, self-image, domestic violence,
sexual abuse, and criminal behavior.
And justice
for all : the legal rights of young people by Sandra Joseph Nunez and Trish Marx.
Examines various
legal issues, including free speech, privacy, child labor, and discrimination,
as they apply to minors.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 10.5
Protect your
legal rights : a handbook for teenagers by Edward F. Dolan, Jr.
Explains, in
question and answer format, legal rights of minors and their duties and
responsibilities under the law regarding parents, trouble at home, school,
jobs, and money.
What are my
rights? : 95 questions and answers about teens and the law by Thomas A. Jacobs.
Provides
information to help the reader understand laws, recognize responsibilities, and
appreciate rights especially in relation to parents, school, job, and personal
matters.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 9.1
Teen rights :
a legal guide for teens and the adults in their lives by Traci Truly.
An exploration of
the legal rights of teenagers at home, school, and work, with discussion of the
juvenile court system, and a look at issues relating to the financial
responsibility of teens.
Stay cool : a
guy's guide to handling conflict by Chris Hayhurst.
Examines various
types of conflicts and suggests ways of solving them satisfactorily and
peacefully.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.2
Finding our
way : the teen girls' survival guide by Allison Abner and Linda Villarosa
Guide for teenage
girls discussing the issues that affect their lives, such as body image,
dating, sex, families, and violence, with information to help them make the
right decisions for themselves.
Sex has a
price tag : discussions about sexuality, spirituality, and self respect by Pam Stenzel with Crystal Kirgiss.
Provides medical
facts and statistics about the consequences of sexual activity outside of
marriage, biblical teachings about sexual behavior, and practical techniques
for practicing abstinence.
Clearing the
haze : a teen's guide to smoking-related health issues by Joan Esherick.
Presents a
comprehensive guide to smoking-related health issues in adolescents and
examines some of the reasons why teens smoke, the consequences of using
tobacco, along with statistics and case studies.
Diet
information for teens : health tips about diet and nutrition edited by Karen Bellenir.
Provides diet and
nutrition information for people in middle school and high school, discussing
food fundamentals, such as vitamins and minerals, calcium, fiber, and
cholesterol; presenting dietary guidelines, and advice on making healthy food
choices; and discussing meal planning, weight control, and eating disorders.
Emily Post's
teen etiquette by
Elizabeth L. Post and Joan M. Coles.
Gives advice on
manners and etiquette for situations that teenagers are likely to encounter,
such as dates, school functions, and job interviews.
Taste berries
for teens : inspirational short stories and encouragement on life, love,
friendship, and tough issues : with contributions from teens for teens compiled by Bettie B. Youngs, Jennifer
Leigh Youngs.
A collection of
inspirational stories and poems for and by teenagers, discussing self-worth,
friendship, love, attitudes, life goals, making a difference, and coping with
stress.
Teen ink : our
voices, our visions compiled by Stephanie H. Meyer, John
Meyer.
A collection of
prose, poetry, and artwork by teens that reflect how they feel about the issues
they face every day.
Teen ink 2 :
more voices, more visions edited by Stephanie H. Meyer and John
Meyer.
A collection of
approximately one hundred stories and poems by teenagers on the topics of
family, friends, challenges, love, imagination, school, fitting in, milestones,
and memories.
Teen ink :
love and relationships edited by Stephanie H. Meyer, John
Meyer.
A collection of
stories and poems by teenage writers arranged in such categories as "Love
Stories," "Ideal Portraits," "Everyday Happenings,"
"Bits of Memory," and "Different Connections."
Teen ink :
friends and family edited by Stephanie H. Meyer, John
Meyer.
A collection of
prose, poetry, and artwork created by teens in which they express their
feelings, both good and bad, about their relationships with friends and family
members.
Chicken soup
for the teenage soul : 101 stories of life, love, and learning compiled by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly
Kirberger.
A collection of
essays that offer inspiration to teens, providing lessons on relationships,
friendship, family, love and kindness, learning, death, success, courage, and
determination.
Rush hour.
Volume I, Sin : a journal of contemporary voices edited by Michael Cart
Contains eighteen
stories, poems, essays, novel excerpts, and illustrations on the theme of sin.
Rush hour.
Volume 2, Bad boys : a journal of contemporary voices edited by Michael Cart
Presents a
collection of short stories, essays, and one play about troubled teens who have
made poor choices or who are trying to be bad and includes selections from such
noted authors as Andy Warhol, Edward Averett, and E.R. Frank.