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80s music, humour || Teen || humour, teen-fatherhood || Teen || belonging || Teen || female teen protagonist || Teen || 796.522/KRA || Historical FIC || Fantasy ||
 * TITLE || AUTHOR || SUBJECT || SECTION ||
 * The Wave || Strasser, Todd || Based on a true class experiment in the 70s. The teacher wanted to have students understand how normal people can turn into violent perpetrators. || Teen ||
 * The Wars || Findley, Timothy || World War I || Canadian ||
 * High Fidelity || Hornby, Nick || Male, coming-of-age,
 * Slam || Hornby, Nick || Male, coming-of-age
 * The Outsiders || Hinton, S.E. || Gangs, friendship,
 * When My Name was Keoko || Park, Linda Sue || 1940s Japanese occupation of Korea
 * The Shepperd's Grand-Daughter || Carter, Anne Laurel || Palestinian land cut off by encroaching Israeli settlements || Teen ||
 * Monster || Myers, Walter Dean || Courtroom drama written by the accused in movie script form || Teen ||
 * Chocky || Wyndham || An alien speaks to an eleven-year-old boy || Classics ||
 * The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To || Pierson, D.C. || Male coming-of-age, humour, teen life meets other galaxies || Teen ||
 * La Guerre, Yes Sir! || Carrier, Roch || French-English relations in Canada during conscription crisis; World War I || Canadian ||
 * Night || Wiesel, Elie || World War II Holocaust memoir || Biography ||
 * From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun || Woodson, Jacqueline || Teenage male comes to terms with Mom's sexuality || Teen ||
 * Ravensong || Maracle, Lee || Clash between Caucasian and Native cultures in 1950s Canada || Canadian ||
 * The Boy in the Striped Pajamas || Boyne, John || German son of a Nazi befriends a young, Jewish prisoner. || Teen ||
 * Sold || McCormick, Patricia || Child sexual slavery in Nepalese village. || Teen ||
 * A Little Piece of Sky || Bailey-Williams, Nicole || African-American teen struggles with mother's murder and finding where she belongs. || Teen ||
 * My Abandonment || Rock, Peter || Father and teen daughter live in a forest park reserve. Based on true story. || Teen ||
 * The Chrysalids || Wyndham, John || Post-nuclear apocalypse and descrimination || Classics ||
 * Milkweed || Spinelli, Jerry || Adventuresome Gypsy boy uses street-smarts to survive Warsaw ghetto. || Teen ||
 * The Razor's Edge || Maugham, W. Somerset || Group of young adults search for hapiness takes them in different directions || Classics ||
 * First Love || Turgenev, Ivan || The transformation of a young man's first love. Semi-autobiographical. || Classics ||
 * The House You Pass on the Way || Woodson, Jacqueline || Staggerlee, bi-racial in an all black town, is visited by her cousin who seems to be all she wants to be. || Teen ||
 * Ellen Foster || Gibbons, Kaye || A young girl put into foster care compares her former life to her new one - funny, resilient, touching tale. || Adult Fiction ||
 * Mad Shadows || Blais, Marie-Claire || Beauty (son), ugliness (sister) and frivolous (mother) are visited by two boys from another world. || Canadian ||
 * Looking for Alaska || Green, John || Reserved teen boy goes off to boarding school to seek the "great perhaps" and falls for dangerous Alaska Young. || Teen ||
 * Soldier X || Wulffson, Don || German teenager is drafted into Hitler's army and must find a way to survive. || Teen ||
 * Alive: the story of the Andes survivors || Read, Piers Paul || Based on true events - an amateur rugby team crashes in the Andes and some survive by drastic measures. || BIO 613.69 REA ||
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy || Adams, Douglas || "It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace bypass and his best friend has just announced that he's an alien."(Goodreads) || Science Fiction ||
 * Holes || Sachar, Louis || "Cursed with his family's bad luck, Stanley Yelantis is convicted of a crime he didn't commit...sent to Green Lake Camp boy's detention center. Every day the boys are sent to dig holes to build character. However, Stanley begins to discover that there's more than character development going on at Camp Green Lake." (Goodreads) || Teen ||
 * The Goats || Cole, Brock || "Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace." (Goodreads) || Teen ||
 * The Hunger Games || Collins, Suzanne || The Capitol of Panem is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV." (Goodreads) || Fantasy ||
 * Into Thin Air || Krakauer, Jon || Krakauer leads his expedition to the peak of Mr.Everest only to be challenged by all the perils of such a risky endevour. A true story. || BIO
 * Red Planet || Heinlein, Robert A. || Jim rescues an alien he names Willis. He brings Willis to his school on Mars but the headmaster takes Willis for scientific study. Jim tries to rescue him only to discover a more sinister plot. || Science FIction ||
 * I Am The Cheese || Cormier, Robert || "Adam Farmer pedals on his bicycle to find his father and solve the mysteries of his past." (Goodreads) || Teen MYS ||
 * A Map of Home || Jarrar, Randa || "Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt...and her family's last flight to Texas." (Goodreads) || Teen ||
 * The Buffalo Tree || Rapp, Adam || Sura is shipped off to juvenile detention, makes a friend, Coly Jo for whom things go terribly wrong, and tries to survive with his own body and mind intact. || Teen ||
 * If I Should Die Before I Wake || Nolan, Han || Hilary, a young neo-nazi is critically injured in a motorcycle accident, in and out of consciousness, she's somehow transported into World War II and she is fighting for her life as a Jewish girl. || Teen
 * The Last Wish ||  || Geralt is a Witcher, an altered human being who has enhanced eyesight, a quicker healing/recovery mechanism for his body, and supposedly immune to most of the normal human emotions .... As a Witcher, Geralt's task is to roam the countyside and towns, looking for and destroying true monsters.([|www.fantasybookreview.co.uk]) || Teen