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Book Titles
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ADVENTURE/SURVIVAL

Farmer, Nancy.  The Ear, the Eye and the Arm.  (SCIENCE FICTION)
Farmer, Nancy.   House of the Scorpion. (MS)
Hiaasen, Carl.   Flush.
Hobbs, Will.  Far North. (MS)
Hobbs, Will.  Downriver. (MS)
Hobbs, Will.  Wild Man Island.(MS)
Junger, Sebastian.  The Perfect Storm. (non-fiction)
Updale, Eleanor.  Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman?


DEATH

Mack, Tracy.   Birdland.


FANTASY

Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm.   Edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling.  (SS)
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest.   Edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling.  (SS)
Paolini, Christopher.  Eragon.  (series) (recommended if you like books by J.K. Rawlings or Tolkien).
Pratchett, Terry.  Eric. (HS)
Pratchett, Terry.  Men at Arms. (HS)
Pratchett, Terry.  Moving Pictures. (HS)
Pratchett, Terry.  Thief of Time. (HS)  (These Pratchett titles are in the Discworld Series.)
Resnick, Laura. Into Legend Born.
Resnick, Laura.  The White Dragon.
Resnick, Laura.  The Destoyer Goddess. (recommended if you like books by Tolkien.)
Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings. (series)
Wrede, Patricia.  Dealing with Dragons.


GAY/LESBIAN

Garden, Nancy.  Annie on My Mind.
Hartinger, Brent. Geography Club.


HISTORICAL FICTION (some titles are under WAR)

Anderson, Laurie Halse.  Fever 1793.
Geras, Adele.  Troy.  (Fantasy) (HS)
Fleischman, Paul.  Dateline Troy.  (MS)
Matas, Carol. After the War.   (after World War II, refugees)
Matas, Carol. Greater than Angels.   (World War II, refugees)
O'Dell, Scott.  Sarah Bishop.  (American Revolutionary War) (MS)
Rabin, Staton. Betsy and the Emperor. (1805, Napolean after his defeat at Waterloo) (MS)
Yolen, Jane. The Devil's Arithmetic. (Holocaust) (MS)


HORROR

Hautman, Pete.  Sweetblood.
Klause, Annette Curtis.  Blood and Chocolate.
Taylor, G. P. Tersias the Oracle.


HUMOR

Adams, Douglas.  (any title, also SCIENCE FICTION)
Cabot, Meg.  Princess... [series]
Korman, Gordon.  Son of the Mob.
Korman, Gordon.  Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle.
Lynch, Chris. Slot Machine.
Lubar, David.  Flip. (also SCHOOL)
Paulsen, Gary.  Schernoff Discoveries. (MS)
Peck, Richard.  A Long Way from Chicago. (MS)
Pratchett, Terry.  Eric. (HS)
Pratchett, Terry.  Men at Arms. (HS)
Pratchett, Terry.  Moving Pictures. (HS)
Pratchett, Terry.  Thief of Time. (HS)  (These Pratchett titles are in the "Discworld Series.") (FANTASY)
Sleator, William.  Oddballs.  (SS) (MS)
Spinelli, Jerry.  Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush?
Strasser, Todd.  How I Spent My Last Night on Earth.
Wibberley, Leonard.  The Mouse that Roared.  (HS) (satire of international politics)


MYSTERIES

Cross, Gillian.  Phoning a Dead Man.
Simmons, Michael.   Finding Lubchenko.
Westerfeld, Scott.  So Yesterday.  (missing person)


REALISTIC FICTION

Howe, James.   The Watcher.
Mowry, Jess.   Way Past Cool.
Myers, Walter Dean.   Scorpions.  (MS)
Thomas, Rob.  Rats Saw God.  (HS)
Zusak, Markus.   I an the Messenger.


RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Aidinoff, Elsie V.   The Garden.
Brooks, Martha.   Bone Dance.
Cormier, Robert.   The Chocolate War.
Hautman, Pete.   Godless.
Hesse, Herman.   Siddhartha. (HS)
Littman, Sarah.   Confessions of a Closet Catholic. (MS)
McCaughrean, Geraldine.   Not the End of the World.
Morpurgo, Michael.   War of Jenkins' Ear. (MS)
Nolan, Han.   Send Me Down a Miracle.
Peck, Richard.   Last Safe Place on Earth.
Potok, Chaim.   The Chosen.
Rylant, Cynthia.   Missing May. (MS)
Staples, Suzanne Fisher.   Shiva's Fire.
Yolen, Jane and Bruce Coville.   Armageddon Summer.


ROMANCE

Hidier, Tanuja Desai.   Born Confused.
Napoli, Donna.   Beast.


SCHOOL

Cormier, Robert.   The Chocolate War. (RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY)
Lubar, David.   Flip. (HUMOR)
Lubar, David.   Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie.


SCIENCE FICTION

Adams, Douglas.  (any title) (HUMOR)
Farmer, Nancy.  The Ear, the Eye and the Arm.  (ADVENTURE/SURVIVAL)


SPORTS

Deuker, Carl.   Heart of a Champion
Lynch, Chris.   Slot Machine. (HUMOR)
Meyers, Walter Dean.   Greatest: Muhammad Ali. (Non-fiction)


WAR & ITS AFTERMATH

Greene, Bette.  Summer of My German Soldier.  (World War II)
Kerr, M.E.  Gentlehands.  (Nazis in the USA)
Matas, Carol. After the War.   (after World War II, refugees)
Matas, Carol. Greater than Angels.   (World War II, refugees)
Myers, Walter Dean.  Fallen Angels.   (Vietnam War)
O'Brien, Tim.  The Things They Carried.   (Vietnam War) (HS)
O'Dell, Scott.  Sarah Bishop.  (American Revolutionary War) (MS)
Salisbury, Graham.  Eyes of the Emperor. (World War II, Japanese American soldiers.)



Key: 

(HS) = Especially suggested if you are in High School.

(MS)= Especially suggested if you are in Middle School.

(SS) = Short Stories.


For more recommended titles, see the American Library Association's booklists and awards and Westchester's Choice Best Books for Young Adults.

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