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A Darkling Plain

by Reeve, Philip

While dealing with people from their past and treachery from unexpected sources, Tom, Hester, and Wren return to save the world.

Trigger

by Vaught, Susan

Jersey Hatch can’t remember if he rammed the car into his parents’ house. He can’t remember why his best friend won’t speak to him. He can’t remember...

The Vacation

by Horvath, Polly

When his parents go to Africa to work as missionaries, twelve-year-old Henry's eccentric aunts, Pigg and Mag, take him on a cross-country car trip, allowing hi...

The Sea of Trolls

by Farmer, Nancy

After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless...

The Burn Journals

by Runyon, Brent

Fearing expulsion and parental disapproval after lighting a shirt on fire at his school, Brent goes home, soaks his bathrobe with gasoline, steps into his show...

Shooter

by Myers, Walter Dean

Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.

Zigzag

by Wittlinger, Ellen

A high-school junior makes a trip with her aunt and two cousins, discovering places she did not know existed and strengths she did not know she had.

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

by Koertge, Ron

When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time,...

A Northern Light

by Donnelly, Jennifer

In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where s...

Revenge of the Whale

The True Story of the Whaleship Essex

by Philbrick, Nathaniel

Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds. Based on the autho...