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Title, Creators, Comments / Reviews Ages Date Added
1. Member of the Wedding (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
    Author: Carson McCullers
    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Young Adults 2/8/2015
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John said: Frankie Addams is a twelve year-old girl in a small, southern town in the Forties, during WWII. She is still a bit tom-boyish, but this spring finds her in a state of heightened awareness and tension...more
tags: MG/YA novel , rites-of-passage , old south ,
1,698 Reviews  
2. Looking For Alaska (Printz Award Winner) (Hardcover)
    Author: John Green
    Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Young Adults 2/7/2015
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John said: I've usually been an enthusiast for the boarding school story, beginning with "Tom Brown's School Days," and continuing on through others. "A Separate Peace," also comes to mind. When "Looking for...more
tags: boarding school , Alabama , last words of famous people , , I read , I recommend , YA novel , rites-of-passage
51,353 Reviews  
3. The Hunger Games (Hardcover)
    Author: Suzanne Collins
    Publisher: Scholastic Press
Young Adults 2/6/2010
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John said: This is an engrossing read. Collins has created a retrograde world of a future America, which has followed on some unnamed societal disaster. A central government, the Capitol, has put down rebelli...more
tags: I recommend , YA , fantasy
258,637 Reviews  
4. The Underneath (Hardcover)
    Author: Kathi Appelt
    Illustrator: David Small
    Publisher: Atheneum
Ages 9-12 11/25/2008
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John said: It was such a pleasure to read "The Underneath," by Kathi Appelt. It would be hard to suggest which age group it might best appeal to, perhaps middle grade, but high school, or younger child, or adult...more
tags: myth , east Texas , middle grade & up
2,048 Reviews  
5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
    Author: Sherman Alexie
    Illustrator: Ellen Forney
    Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Young Adults 4/12/2008
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John said: Only Sherman Alexie could have written "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian" and have carried along the reader so effortlessly, and intriguingly. It's not that a good writer couldn't imagi...more
tags: YA novel , rites-of-passage , Native American ,
25,982 Reviews  
6. What I Was: A Novel (Hardcover)
    Author: Meg Rosoff
    Publisher: Viking Adult
Young Adults 3/21/2008
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John said: Author Meg Rosoff has come up with another thoughtful YA novel, "What I Was." Generally, boys are not known for intensity of emotional relationships with other boys, without becoming the story of an o...more
tags: I read , I recommend
449 Reviews  
7. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Audio Library Edition (Audio CD)
    Author: Brian Selznick
    Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books
Ages 9-12 1/15/2008
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John said: The Caldecott Medal was announced yesterday for "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," by Brian Selznick. I'd just finished reading (assimilating?) the book, which is an artful arrangement of text and graphi...more
tags: I recommend ,
9,076 Reviews  
8. Edenville Owls (Hardcover)
    Author: Robert B. Parker
    Publisher: Philomel
Young Adults 1/10/2008
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John said: An MG/YA novel about an indie club of Middle School basketball players who take on local JV school teams, the team leader's journey toward discovering his first girlfriend, and a diabolical adult figu...more
tags: I read , I recommend , MG/YA novel
117 Reviews  
9. Twisted (Hardcover)
    Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
    Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Young Adults 12/11/2007
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John said: Some YA authors are able to construct stories that will keep a reader turning pages even though the conflict situation and structure may be somewhat familiar. Laurie Halse Anderson's "Twisted" is like...more
tags: YA novel
2,470 Reviews  
10. Re-Gifters (Minx Books) (Paperback)
    Author: Mike Carey, Sonny Liew, Marc Hempel
    Illustrator: Sonny Liew, Marc Hempel
    Publisher: CMX
Young Adults 11/15/2007
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John said: "Re-Gifters" is one of the new graphic novels, though one can as easily refer to it as a mass market—which includes literary work—comic book, geared to Middle-Grade or High School readers, but app...more
tags: I read , I recommend , MG novel , graphic novel , Korean-American
242 Reviews  
11. Touching Spirit Bear (Hardcover)
    Author: Ben Mikaelsen
    Publisher: HarperCollins
Ages 9-12 9/20/2007
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John said: A youth struggling to survive in the wilderness makes for compelling reading, and "Touching Spirit Bear," by Ben Mikaelsen, 2001, is another addition to the genre, with an interesting twist. The wilde...more
tags: MG/YA novel , wilderness
4,001 Reviews  
12. Feathers (Hardcover)
    Author: Jacqueline Wilson
    Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Ages 9-12 9/4/2007
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John said: Another good MG fiction work by Woodson. I've always enjoyed her intimate portraits of inner city life, and her sensitive, compelling characters. Franny in this story has just the right amount of v...more
tags: MG novel
1,423 Reviews  
13. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Library Binding)
    Author: Ally Carter
    Publisher: Hyperion
Young Adults 7/19/2007
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John said: Innovative, good summer read.
tags: chick-lit , YA
8,009 Reviews  
14. Sins of the Fathers (Hardcover)
    Author: Chris Lynch
    Publisher: HarperTeen
Young Adults 7/7/2007
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John said: In all strata of life, in every neighborhood, and every ethnicity, there seem to be common rites of passage that all boys must wend their way through in one style or another. Girls will have their ow...more
tags: MG novel , rites-of-passage , parochial school
21 Reviews  
15. Wait for Me (Hardcover)
    Author: An Na
    Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Young Adults 4/2/2007
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John said: “wait for me,” by An Na, her latest novel after her Printz Award winner, "A Step From Heaven," is able to summon a good deal of emotional response from the reader. It draws on the powerful, basic ...more
tags: YA novel , techniques , distancing , Korean-American
116 Reviews  
16. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1:...
    Author: M. T. Anderson
    Publisher: Candlewick
Young Adults 3/26/2007
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John said: "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing—Traitor to the Nation," by M. T. Anderson is a challenging read on many accounts. To start reading without benefit of literary reviews, it takes many pages ...more
tags: YA historical novel , reading ease
1,597 Reviews  
17. American Born Chinese (Paperback)
    Author: Gene Luen Yang
    Illustrator: Lark Pien
    Publisher: First Second
Young Adults 3/18/2007
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John said: This is a handsomely done graphic novel about a young boy of Chinese immigrant parents growing up in America, mostly centered around his life and friendships in school. Episodes from the Chinese Mon...more
tags: graphic novel , Chinese-American , heritage
8,047 Reviews  
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