CHOCOLATE FOR A TEEN'S HEART: UNFORGETTABLE STORIES FOR YOUNG WOMEN ABOUT LOVE, HOPE, AND HAPPINESS
compiled by Kay Allenbaugh
From the unexpected happiness of a first boyfriend to sorting and sifting with Mom and Dad, from the wonderful secrets shared by best friends to the wonderful silliness of playing with a favorite pet, these true stories show what lies at the heart of being a teen.

CHOCOLATE FOR A TEEN'S SOUL
compiled by Kay Allenbaugh
From teens of every age, including women who remember what it was like, come stories of first love, first jobs, best friends, heartbreak, hope, innocence and the real world.

WARRIORS DON'T CRY: A SEARING MEMOIR OF THE BATTLE TO INTEGRATE LITTLE ROCK'S CENTRAL HIGH
by Melba Pattillo Beals
A heart-wrenching account of the nine high school students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

THROUGH MY EYES
by Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.

BUDDHA STORIES
by Demi
A collection of ten tales from Buddha.

DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL
by Anne Frank
Traces the life of the Jewish girl who hid with seven other people in an attic for two years in Nazi-occupied Holland and chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary which was discovered after her death in a German concentration camp.

MY SISTERS' VOICES: TEENAGE GIRLS OF COLOR SPEAK OUT
by Iris Jacob
A passionate and poignant collection of writings from teenage girls of African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American and biracial backgrounds.

DARKNESS OVER DENMARK: THE DANISH RESISTANCE AND THE RESCUE OF THE JEWS
by Ellen Levine
An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II.

GENERATION FIX: YOUNG IDEAS FOR A BETTER WORLD
by Elizabeth Rusch
Features the true stories of more than twenty young activists doing things to make the world a better place.

I BELIEVE IN WATER: TWELVE BRUSHES WITH RELIGION
edited by Marilyn Singer
Stories exploring the topics of religion, belief and spirituality by award-winning authors, including M.E. Kerr, Kyoko Mori and Virginia Euwer Wolff.

HOPE THROUGH HEARTSONGS
by Mattie J.T. Stepanek
Poetry about sustaining hope when your life and your world challenge you. Mattie's struggle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy has not diminished his ability to see light and hope in each individual and in the world.

THE PRAYER OF JABEZ FOR TEENS
by Bruce Wilkinson with David Kopp
A "show, not tell" approach in inspiring youth to pray extravagantly.

BEFORE WE WERE FREE
by Julia Alvarez
Twelve-year-old Anita tries to live a normal life amidst a revolution in her native Dominican Republic in the 1960s.

HOPE WAS HERE
by Joan Bauer
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as a waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways Diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town’s corrupt mayor.

SAHARA SPECIAL
by Esmé Raji Codell
Struggling with school and her feelings since her father left, Sahara gets a fresh start with a new and unique teacher who supports her writing talents and the individuality of each of her classmates.

WALK TWO MOONS
by Sharon Creech
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM-1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Kenny's family takes a wild road trip to straighten out his older brother.

BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE
by Kate DiCamillo
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

SEEDFOLKS
by Paul Fleischman
A group of inner-city residents start planting small gardens on a trash-filled vacant lot, and bring love and beauty to their lives.

WHIRLIGIG
by Paul Fleischman
While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he caused, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.

WHALE RIDER
by Witi Ihimaera
As her beloved grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and to find a male successor, young Kahu is developing a mysterious relationship with whales, particularly the ancient bull whale whose legendary rider was their ancestor.

TONING THE SWEEP
by Angela Johnson
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.

A RING OF ENDLESS LIGHT
by Madeline L’Engle
During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with whom she has been doing research.

NUMBER THE STARS
by Lois Lowry
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL
by Patricia MacLachlan
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

HABIBI
by Naomi Shihab Nye
When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.

A YEAR DOWN YONDER
by Richard Peck
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.

ESPERANZA RISING
by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

HOMECOMING
by Cynthia Voigt
Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.

TEENS TALK RELATIONSHIPS

TEENS TALK TOUGH TIMES

THE REAL DEAL

ON TOUGH STUFF

CHRISTMAS TREASURY

And Chicken Soup for the:

ADOPTED

PET LOVER'S

OCEAN LOVER'S

VOLUNTEER'S

SPORTS FAN'S

COLLEGE

And many more…Soul!