1) Please review this list of adolescent literature.
2) Click on the graphic or the title to go to Amazon.com and read Kirkus and BookList Reviews of the books.
3) Email your instructor to indicate your first, second and third choices of books you would like to read for this class.
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Single Shard by Linda Sue Park - a legend, Newberry winner.
Crispin:
The Cross of Lead
by
Avi
Reading level: Ages 9-12
262 pages
Publisher: Hyperion Press; 1st edition (June 2002)
ISBN: 0786808284
Surviving the Applewhites
by
Stephanie S. Tolan (Author)
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 224 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.83 x 8.56 x 5.78
Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st edition (August 2002)
The
House of the Scorpion
by
Nancy Farmer (Author)
Reading level: Young Adult
Hoot
by
Carl Hiaasen
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 304 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.01 x 8.46 x 5.80
Publisher: Knopf; (September 10, 2002)
ISBN: 0375821813
A Corner of the Universe
by
Ann Martin (Author)
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 208 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.81 x 8.64 x 5.56
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks; (October 2002)
ISBN: 0439388805
Pictures
of Hollis Woods
by
Patricia Reilly Giff
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 176 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.69 x 8.52 x 5.80
Publisher: Random House Childrens Pub; (September 10, 2002)
ISBN: 0385326556
Nothing
but the Truth : A Documentary Novel (An Avon Flare Book)
by Avi
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Mass Market Paperback - 212 pages Reprint edition
(September 1993)
Flare; ISBN: 038071907X
Shabanu :
Daughter of the Wind
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback - 240 pages Reprint edition (September 1991)
Random House Childrens Pub; ISBN: 0679810307
Holes
by Louis Sachar
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 233 pages Reprint edition (May 9, 2000)
Yearling Books; ISBN: 0440414806
Bud, Not Buddy (Newbery
Medal Book)
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover - 245 pages (September 7, 1999)
Delacorte Pr; ISBN: 0385323069
One Bird
by Kyoko Mori
Reading level: Young Adult
Mass Market Paperback Reprint edition (November 1996)
Juniper; ISBN: 044970453X
Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George, John Schoenherr (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 170 pages (October 1974)
HarperTrophy; ISBN: 0064400581
The Rifle
by Gary Paulsen
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover - 105 pages (September 1995)
Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0152928804
Dangerous Skies
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 240 pages Reprint edition (April 1998)
HarperTrophy; ISBN: 0064406830
Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 144 pages Reissue edition (September 1992)
Yearling Books; ISBN: 0440407524
Bridge to
Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson, Donna Diamond (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 128 pages Reissue edition (June 1987)
HarperTrophy; ISBN: 0064401847
Number the
Stars
by Lois Lowry
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 137 pages Reissue edition (September 1990)
Yearling Books; ISBN: 0440403278
Maniac Magee : A
Novel
by Jerry Spinelli
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 192 pages (April 2000)
Little Brown & Co (Juv Pap); ISBN: 0316809063
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback - 180 pages Reissue edition (September 1, 1994)
Laurel Leaf; ISBN: 0440219078
Walk Two
Moons (Trophy Newbery)
by Sharon Creech
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 280 pages Reprint edition (September 1996)
HarperTrophy; ISBN: 0064405176
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 227 pages Reprint edition (January 1999)
Scholastic Paperbacks; ISBN: 0590371258
The True
Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (An Avon Camelot Book)
by Avi
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 229 pages (April 1997)
Camelot; ISBN: 0380728850
Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 89 pages Reprint edition (October 1993)
Yearling Books; ISBN: 0440408652
Wringer
by Jerry Spinelli
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 228 pages (September 1998)
HarperTrophy; ISBN: 0064405788
Dicey's Song
by Cynthia Voigt
Reading level: Young Adult
Mass Market Paperback - 211 pages Reissue edition (August
1995)
Fawcett Books; ISBN: 0449702766