High school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing seven cassette tapes recorded by his crush, Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

An American ambulance driver serving on the Austro-Italian front in World War I becomes entangled with an English nurse and deserts to join her after the retreat of Caparetto.

Tells the story of a young African-American man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who tries to impart to him his learning and pride before the execution.

An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother.

Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.

Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

The story of a group of people who rely on their own courage and ingenuity to survive in a small Florida town that escaped nuclear bombing.

Enrique Haina Remaraue

Paul Bäumer, a young man of nineteen who encounters the brutalities of war in the German army on the French front in World War I.

A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

In a future world, only one man dares to think, strive, and love as an individual in the midst of a paralyzing collective humanity.

Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend.

Author Walter Dean Myers describes his childhood in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, discussing his loving stepmother, his problems in school, his reasons for leaving home, and his beginnings as a writer.

Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.

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.

Paul Langan and Ben Alirez

When his eight-year-old brother is killed in a drive-by shooting, Hispanic teenager Martin Luna is torn between his thirst for revenge and the pleas of his mother, teacher, and girlfriend for him to resist becoming a gangbanger. This novel is part of the Bluford Series.

Catch-22 follows Captain John Yossarian in his exploits as a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force during World War II.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

A collection of twenty-one short stories and excerpts from novels that explore the process involved in growing up regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or class.

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.

Contains a novella and over ten short fiction stories that tell of the lives and dreams of the residents of the Puerto Rican neighborhood of El Bronx in the years between 1946 and 1956.

Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.

A bookburner official in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed.

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.

The author describes her childhood, during which her father abandoned her, her mother abused her, and she suffered physical and emotional pain because of her obesity, and reflects upon her love-hate relationship with food in adulthood.

After being mentally retarded for all of his thirty-two years, Charlie Gordon undergoes an operation designed to change his life.

The author provides an account of her life in New York's foster care system during the 1960s and 1970s, describing her experiences after her mother placed her with Catholic Charities as a young girl and failed to sign documents that would have permitted her to be adopted, consigning her to a life of insecurity and loneliness in and out of group homes and the homes of different families.

Max, a large eighth-grader with a learning disability, becomes friends with Freak, an intelligent boy who is physically impaired.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel

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.

Edited by Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell

An international anthology that reflects the thoughts and feelings of young people as they leave home tomake their own ways into the world.

A self-help guide for teenagers, including information on peer pressure, popularity, and ambition.

After a plane crash strands them on a tropical island while the rest of the world is ravaged by war, a group of British schoolboys attempts to form a civilized society but descends into brutal anarchy.

Darcey Willis does not know where to turn for help when a series of frightening incidents culminate with the disappearance of her sister Jamee. This novel is part of the Bluford Series.

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 fictional account of the night freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, as experienced by a twelve-year-old, his family, and friends.

Twelve-year-old Sarny’s brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

Presents brief biographies of twelve African-Americans who courageously fought against racism to become leaders in their fields, including Marian Anderson, Ralph Bunche, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Malcolm X.

One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

After learning he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like him, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother's religion and her own relationship to the world. Debut novel of renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acedevo. Xiomara Baptista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood.

Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his high school football team, witnesses the rape of a rookie player by teammates and struggles with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

The author tells about the happy life she led in China up until she was twelve-years-old when her family became a target of the Cultural Revolution, and discusses the choice she had to make between denouncing her father and breaking with her family, or refusing to speak against him and losing her future in the Communist Party.

Provides a glimpse into the lives of 3 families dring 3 different periods of history and their struggles to live freely

Shakespeare's tragedy about Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two young people from noble Veronese houses whose love for one another is doomed by the long-standing feud between their families; and includes textual notes, a scene-by-scene analysis, an overview of Shakespeare's life and career, and more.

Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl whom Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other African-Americans and lived a full life until age ninety-four.3

One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled, inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and, in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.

After Yuki's mother commits suicide, the 12-year-old girl must live with her distant father and his resentful new wife. Cut off from her mother's family, Yuki learns to rely on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy.

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.

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

Stargirl, a teen who animates quiet Mica High with her colorful personality, suddenly finds herself shunned for her refusal to conform.

Fifteen-year old Rell DeMello returns to high school after having been successfully treated for cancer and has to make adjustments with family, friends, and her own self-identity.

A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans, led by a farmer named Cinque, against their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship "Amistad," and their subsequent arrival in the United States, where they were tried for piracy.

The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.

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.

A 110-year-old African American woman reminisces about her life, which has stretched from the days of slavery to the African American militancy and civil rights movements of the 1960's.

Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

Two Jewish boys living in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn struggle through the joys and problems of growing up.

A Harlem high school drop-out escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym. He learns being a contender is hard and often discouraging work and that you don't know anything until you try.

Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly African American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

Tyray Hobbs, once among the most feared students at Bluford High, loses his reputation after being humiliated by Darrell Mercer, and with a broken hand, troubled family, and no friends, decides to use a gun to get revenge. This novel is part of the Bluford Series.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

In their final adventure, the four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.

Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin.

The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parents’ deaths and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

Beaver's excitement at finding a mussel that doubtless contains a pearl is tempered by the realization that such a treasure could stir the greed of his friends, causing a chain of environmentally disastrous events.

A teenage boy and a girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man.

Westley, a farm boy, goes off to seek his fortune shortly after declaring his love for Buttercup, the most beautiful woman in the world, but their relationship is put to the test when his ship is captured by pirates and summoned to become the bride of the prince.

Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novel in which Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.

After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

Tells the story of a 78-year-old independent widow who recognizes the loneliness in her life--until Wesley Benfield drops in.

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

An orphaned Ute Indian boy wins stardom on the rodeo circuit but, disillusioned by his success, returns to the ways of his ancestors.

While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.