Adolescent Literature
(* nonfiction, + multicultural, =reference)
Abrahams, Peter. Mine Boy+
Alexander, Lloyd. Westmark
Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless Me, Ultima. [Mexican American]+
---. Heart of Aztlan: A Novel. [Mexican American]+
---. Tortuga. [Mexican American]+
Angelou, Maya. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes*+
---. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings *+
Anonymous. Go Ask Alice
Armstrong, William H. Sounder +
Ashabranner, Brent. The Times of My Life,
Avi. Nothing But the Truth
Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Baklanov, Grigory. Forever Nineteen.. [Russia]+
Baldwin, James. If Beale Street Could Talk+
Barrio, Raymond. The Plum Plum Pickers [Mexican American]+
Bauer, Marion Dane. What's Your Story? A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction*
Becker, Elizabeth. America's Vietnam War: A Narrative History*
Bennett, Jack. The Voyage of Lucky Dragon.+
Betancourt, Jeanne. More Than Meets the Eye.+
Bird, E. J. The Rainmakers+
Block, Francesca Lia. Weetzie Bat
Blume, Judy. Tiger Eyes+
Bode, Janet. Different Worlds: Interracial and Cross Cultural Dating.*+
Boissard, Janine. A Matter of Feeling
Bradford, Richard. Red Sky at Morning+
Brancato, Robin. Winning
Bredes, Don. Hard Feelings
Bridgers, Sue Ellen. All Together Now
---. Home Before Dark
---. Notes for Another Life
---. Permanent Connections
Brink, Andre. A Dry White Season.[S. African]+
Brooks, Bruce. Midnight Hour Encores
Brooks, Bruce. No Kidding
Brooks, Bruce. The Moves Make the Man [Black American]+
Burns, Olive Ann. Cold Sassy Tree
Buss, Fran Leeper, and Daisy Cubias. Journey of the Sparrows [Hispanic]+
Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. [Black American]+
Byers, Betsy. Bingo Brown and the Language of Love+
Candelaria, Nash. Memories of the Alhambra [Hispanic American]+
Carson, Jo. Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet+
Cary, Lorene. Black Ice*+
Chalmers, Archer, Jr. Growing Up Black in Rural Mississippi*+
Chavez, Denise. The Last of the Menu Girls. [Hispanic American]+
Childress, Alice. Rainbow Jordon+
---. A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich+
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street [Hispanic American]+
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Cleary, Beverly. A Girl from Yamhill
Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul on Ice *+
Cleaver, Vera and Bill. Trial Valley
---. Where the Lilies Bloom
Clements, Bruce. Tom Loves Anna Loves Tom
Cohen, Daniel. Railway Ghosts and Highway Horrors
Cole, Brock. Celine
---. The Goats
Conrad, Pam. Stonewords: Ghost Story
Cooney, Caroline B. Flight #116 is Down
---. The Cheerleader
Cormier, Robert. After the First Death
---. Beyond the Chocolate War
---. Fade
---. I Am the Cheese
---. The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
---. We All Fall Down
---. The Chocolate War
Courtenay, Bryce. The Power of One. [S. Africa]+
Covingon, Dennis. Lizard
Crew, Linda. Children of the River [Cambodian American]+
Crutcher, Chris. Athletic Shorts
---. Chinese Handcuffs
---. Running Loose
---. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
---. Stotan
---. The Crazy Horse Electric Game
Culleton, Beatrice. April Raintree. [Canada--Native American]+
David, Jay. Growing Up Black*+
Davis, Jenny. Sex Education
Davis, Ossie. Just Like Martin [Black American]+
Deaver, Julie Reece. Say Goodnight Gracie
Dickinson, Peter. Eva
Doherty, Belie. Dear Nobody
---. White Peak
---. White Peak Farm
Donovan, John. If I Get There, It Better Be Worth the Trip
---. Wild in the World
Dorris, Michael. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. [Native American]+
---. The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. [Native American]+
Duncan, Lois. Stranger with My Face
Dunning, Stephen. ed. Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle
Duran, Daniel Flores. Latino Materials: A Multicultural Guide for Children and Young Adults.+=
Erdrich, Louise. Tracks. [Native American]+
Fernandez, Roberta. Intaglio: A Novel in Six Stories [Hispanic American]+
Forman, James. My Enemy, My Brother. [Middle East and Northern Africa] +
Fox, Paula. One-Eyed Cat
Fox, Paula. The Moonlight Man
Fox, Paula. The Slave Dancer+
Freebaum, Carl B., and Ronald J. Bee. Looking the Tiger in the Eye: Confronting the Nuclear Threat*
Fritz, Jean. Homesick: My Own Story
Fugard, Athol. Tsotsi. Penguin, 1983.
Gaines, Ernest. A Gathering of Old Men+
Gaines, Ernest. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman+
Galarza, Ernesto. Barrio Boy. [Hispanic American]+
Gallo, Donald R. Sixteen: Short Stories by OutstandingWriters for Young Adults
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Bearing Witness*+
George, Jean Craighead. Water Sky. [Native American]+
Gingher, Marianne. Teen Angel: And Other Stories of Young Love
Gison, Jamie. Hello, My Name is Scrambled Eggs. [Asian American]+
Glenn, Mel. Class Dismissed! High School Poems
Gordimer, Nadine. My Son's Story. [S. Africa]+
Gordon, Sheila. Waiting for the Rain+
Graham, Robin L. Dove*
Gravelle, Karen, and Leslie Peterson. Teenage Fathers*
Greene, Bette. Summer of My German Soldier+
Guest, Judith. Ordinary People
Guy, Rosa. The Disappearance+
---. The Friends +
Hall, Barbara. Dixie Storms
Hall, Lynn. Sticks and Stones
Hambly, Barbara. Those Who Hunt the Night+
Hamilton, Virginia. A Little Love+
---. A White Romance+ [Black American]
---. M. C. Higgins, the Great+
---. Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush+
Haskins, Jim. Against All Opposition: Black Explorers in America*+
---. One More River to Cross: The Stories of Twelve Black Americans*+
---. The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot: A Photo History of the Civils Rights Movement*+
---. The Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr*+
Head, Ann. Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
Heneghan, Jim. Promises to Come.[Canada]+
Herbert, Frank. Soul Catcher+
Hernandez, Irene Beltran. Across the Great River [Hispanic American]+
Hinton, S. E. Rumble Fish
---. Tex
---. The Outsiders
---. That Was Then This Is Now
Hobbs, Will. Downriver
---. The Big Wander. [Native American]+
Hogan, William. The Quartzsite Trip
Holland, Isabelle. The Man Without a Face
Hudson, Jan. Sweetgrass+
Hunter, Mollie. Cat, Herself
Inglehart, Donna Walsh. Breaking the Ring
Janeczko, Paul, ed. Pocket Poems: Selected for a Journey
---. ed. Poetspeak: In Their Work, About Their Work
Jones, Diana Wynne. Castle in the Air
Jones, Diana, Wynn. The Lives of Christopher Chant
Jordan, June. His Own Where
Kaplow, Roberet. Alessandra in Love
Kerr, M. E. Fell Back
---. Gentlehands
---. I'll Love You When You're More Like Me
---. Is That You Miss Blue?
---. Little Little
---. Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Not a Novel*
---. What I Really Think of You.+
---. Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
Kincaid, Jamaica. Annie John. [Mexico and the Carribbean]+
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---. At the Bottom of the River. [Mexico and the Carribbean]+
Kittredge, Mary. Teens with AIDS Speak Out*
Klause, Annette Curtis. The Silver Kiss
Koertge, Ron. The Harmony Arms
La Guma, Alex. Walk in the Night.+
Lasky, Kathryn. Beyond the Divide
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Beginning Place
LeShan, Eda. What Makes You So Special
Likhanov, Albert. Shadows Across the Sun. trans. Harper [Russia]+
Lipsyte, Robert. The Contender+
---. One Fat Summer
---. The Brave+
---. The Chemo Kid
Lo, Steven C. The Incorporation of Eric Chung. [Asian Americans]+
Mac Lavety, Bernard. Cal [Great Britain and Ireland]+
Mahy, Margaret. Memory. [Australia, New Zealand]+
---. The Catalogue of the Universe
---. The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance
---. The Tricksters
Major, Kevin. Blood Red Ochre.[Canada--Native American] +
Martinex, Julio A. and Grancisco A. Lomeli, eds. Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide.
Martinez, Max. Schoolland: A Novel. [Hispanic American]+
Mason, Bobbie Ann. In Country
Matas, Carol. Sworn Enemies. Bantam, 1993. 0-553-08326-0.
Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Comming of Age in Apartheid S. Africa.*+
Mathis, Sharon Bell. Teacup Full of Roses +
Mazer, Harry. City Light
---. The Last Mission
Mazer, Norma F. Dear Bill, Remember Me?
---. After the Rain
---. Downtown
Mazer, Norma Fox and Harry. Heartbeat
McIntyre, Vonda N. Dreamsnake
McKinley, Robin. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Mckinley, Robin. The Blue Sword
Meltzer, Milton. Columbus and the World Around Him*
---. Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust*+
---. Starting from Home
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn. Our Family, Our Friends, Our World: An annotated Guide to Significant Multicultural
Books for Children and Teenagers=
Mohr, Nicholosa. In Nueva York. [Hispanic American]+
Moore, David L. Dark Sky, Dark Land: Stories of the Hmong Boy Scouts of Troop 100. [S. East Asia]+
Morey, Janet Nomura. Famous Asian Americans*+
Morpurgo, Michael. King of the Cloud Forests+
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. [Black American]+
Murphy, Jim. The Long Road to Gettysburg*
Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels+
---. Scorpions+
---. Somewhere in the Darkness+
---. Struggle for Freedom*+
Naidoo, Beverly. Chain of Fire.+
Naughton, Jim. My Brother Stealing Second
Naylor, Gloria. Mama Day. [Black American]+
Naylor, Phyllis R. Send No Blessings
Nelson. Theresa. And One for All
Newman, Susan. Don't Be S.A.D.: A Teenage Guide to Handling Stress, Anxiety, and Depression*
Newth, Mette. The Abduction. Trans. T. Nunnally and S. Murray. [West. Europe]+
Ngor, Haing and Roger Warner. Haing Ngor: A Cambodian Odyssey. [Cambodia]+
Nixon, Joan Lowery. The Weekend Was Murder
---. Whispers from the Dead
Njeri, Itabari. Every Good-bye Ain't Gone. [Black American]+
O’Brian, Tim. The Things They Carried*
O’Brien, Robert C. Z for Zachariah
Okimoto, Jean Davies. Molly by Any Other Name. [Asian American]+
Okri, Ben. The Famished Road. [African]+
Oneal, Zibby. A Formal Feeling
Orlev, Uri. The Man from the Other Side [Russian Jew]+
Parks, Rosa with Jim Haskins. Rosa Parks: My Story*+
Paterson, Katherine. Jacob Have I Loved
Patterson, Sarah. The Distant Summer
Paulsen, Gary. The Cookcamp
---. Dogsong
---. The Crossing. [Mexican American]+
---. Woodsong
Peck, Richard. Anonymously Yours*
---. Are You in the House Alone?
---. Father Figure
---. Princess Ashley
---. Remembering the Good Times
---. Unfinished Portrait of Jessica
Peck, Robert Newton. A Day No Pigs Would Die
Pershall, Mary K. You Take the High Road
Pierce, Meredith Ann. The Darkangel
Pitts, Paul. The Shadowman's Way.+
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar
Potok, Chaim. The Chosen+
Potok, Chaim. My Name is Asher Lev+
Ranck, Katherine Quintana. Portrait of Dona Elena. [Hispanic American]+
Raymond, Patrick. Daniel and Esther
Rivera, Tomas. Y no se lo trago la tierra./ And the Earth Did Not Part. [Hispanic
American]+
Rodrigues, Joe. Oddsplayer. [Hispanic American]+
Roueche, Berton. Feral
Rylant, Cynthia. A Kindness
---. Missing May
Sadiq, Nazneen. Heartbreak High. [Canada]+
Sanders, Dori. Clover. [Black American]+
Santiago, Danny. Famous All Over Town. [Hispanic American]+
Schami, Rafik. A Hand Full of Stars. [Middle East and North Africa]+
Schon, Isabel. A Bicultural Heritage: Themes for the Exploration of Mexican and Mexican-American Culture in
Books for Children and Young Adults.=+
---. A Hispanic Heritage, Series III: A Guide to Juvenile Books about Hispanic People and Cultures.=+
Scott, Victoria, and Ernest Jones. Sylvia Stark: A Pioneer*
Sebestyen, Ouida. Words by Heart+
Segal, Erich. Love Story
Semel, Nava. Becoming Gershona.+
Sepamala, Sipho. A Ride on the Whirlwind. [S. Africa]+
Sevela, Ephraim. We Were Not Like Other People. [Russian Jew]+
Shange, Ntozake. Betsey Brown+
Sherman, D. R. The Lion's Paw
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Sieruta, Peter D. Heartbeats and Other Stories
Skarmeta, Antonio. Burning Patience. [Central and South America]+
Sleator, William. Interstellar Pig
--. House of Stairs
Soto, Gary. A Summer Life*+
---. Baseball in April and Other Stories+
---. Living up the Street: Narrative Recollections [Mexican American]+
---. Local News: A Collection of Short Stories+
Spinelli, Jerry.Maniac Magee
Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind+
Stevermer, Caroline. River Rats
Strieber, Whitley. Wolf of Shadows+
Sutcliff, Rosemary. The Shining Company
Swarthout, Glendon. Bless the Beasts and Children
Talbert, Marc. Pillow of Clouds
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. [Chinese American]+
Taylor, Mildred D. Let the Circle Be Unbroken+
Telemaque, Eleanor Wong. It's Crazy to Stay Chinese in Minnesoto. [Chinese American]+
Temple, Francis. Grab Hands and Run.+
Terkel, Susan Neiburg. Ethics
Thompson, Julian. A Band of Angels
Tolan, Stephanie S. A Good Courage
Trambley, Estela Portillo. Trini. [Hispanic]+
Tyler, Anne. Saint Maybe
Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family.
---. Picture Bride. [Japanese Amer.]+
Voigt, Cynthia. A Solitary Blue
---. Dicey’s Song
---. Homecoming
---. The Runner
---. Come a Stranger
---. Seventeen Against the Dealer
---. David and Jonathan
---. Izzy, Willy-Nilly
---. Sons from Afar
Wang, Anyi. Baotown: A Novel. [China]+
Wangerin, Walter, Jr. The Book of the Dun Cow
Wartski, Maureen Crane. A Boat to Nowhere.+
Watkins, Paul. Night Over Day Over Night. [Western Europe]+
Wersba, Barbara. Run Softly, Go Fast
West, Jessamyn. The Massacre at Fall Creek+
Westall, Robert. Blitzcat
Wharton, William. Birdy
---. A Midnight Clear
White, Robb. Deathwatch
Wilkinson, Brenda. Ludell & Willie+
Williams-Garcia, Rita. Blue Tights. [Black American]+
Wilson, Budge. The Leaving
Windsor, Patricia. The Christmas Killer
Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Probably Still Nick Swansen
Wong, Jade Snow. Fifth Chinese Daughter. [Chinese
American]+
Yep, Laurence, ed. American Dragons: Twenty-five Asian American Voices.+
---. Dragonwings+
---. The Lost Garden+
Yolen, Jane, and Martin H. Greenberg. Vampires: A Collection of Original Stories
Zindel, Paul. The Pigman
Zindel, Paul. A Begonia for Miss Applebaum
Zindel, Paul. The Pigman & Me*
Zindel, Paul. My Darling, My Hamburger
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