TWISTED
by Laurie Halse Anderson
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.

MY DAD'S A PUNK: 12 STORIES ABOUT BOYS AND THEIR FATHERS
edited by Tony Bradman
Explores the relationship between fathers and sons with thoughtfulness, comedy and wisdom.

FEELS LIKE HOME
by e. E. Charlton-Trujillo
Following the death of their father, seventeen-year-old Michelle's older brother–who had disappeared six years earlier–returns to their small Texas town where, with the help of S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, the two siblings try to find a way to move beyond a past tragedy.

HIT THE ROAD
by Caroline B. Cooney
Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old women on a long drive that involves lies, theft and kidnappings.

RIGHT BEHIND YOU
by Gail Giles
After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a friend in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under a different name, but he not only has trouble fitting in, he also finds there are still problems to deal with from his childhood.

I’M EXPLODING NOW
by Sid Hite
The summer he turns seventeen, Max Whooten is feeling off his game with no job and nothing to do, but after spending a lot of time hanging out in Manhattan, thinking about life, writing down his thoughts and visiting his aunt in Woodstock, he develops a personal philosophy called "coolism" which seems to help turn things around.

LEMONADE MOUTH
by Mark Peter Hughes
A disparate group of high school students thrown together in detention form a band to play at a school talent show and end up competing with a wildly popular local rock band.

CHOICES
by Deborah Lynn Jacobs
Overcome with guilt over her brother's death, a teenaged girl shifts between multiple universes in an attempt to find one in which he is alive.

ME, PENELOPE
by Lisa Jahn-Clough
Sixteen-year-old Penelope tries to find love, and to graduate from high school a year early, as she comes to terms with her little brother's death ten years before, and the resulting changes in her family.

LA LÍNEA
by Ann Jaramillo
When fifteen-year-old Miguel's time finally comes to leave his poor Mexican village, cross the border illegally, and join his parents in California, his younger sister's determination to join him soon imperils them both.

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.

BONE BY BONE BY BONE
by Tony Johnston
In 1950s Tennessee, ten-year-old David's racist father refuses to let him associate with his best friend Malcolm, an African American boy.

STRAYS
by Ronald Koertge
Sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor's parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he's stuck with a set of psycho foster parents. He's having pretty much the worst year of his miserable life–or so he thinks.

FREEWILL
by Chris Lynch
A teenager trying to recover from the tragic death of his father and stepmother believes himself to be responsible for the rash of teen suicides occurring in his town.

OFF-COLOR
by Janet McDonald
Fifteen-year-old Cameron, living with her single mother in Brooklyn, finds her search for identity further challenged when she discovers that she is the product of a biracial relationship.

BAD TICKETS
by Kathleen O’Dell
Rebelling against her strict Catholic upbringing in 1967, teenager Mary Elizabeth sorts through her feelings about her parents and friends and about sex, while making some decisions about the type of life she wants for herself.

THE RIVER BETWEEN US
by Richard Peck
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.

WHAT THE MOON SAW: A NOVEL
by Laura Resau
Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world.

SPARROW
by Sherri L. Smith
After the death of the beloved grandmother who raised her, high-school student Kendall Washington travels to New Orleans expecting to be taken in by her only living relative, an aunt, but the reunion does not go as planned.

STOP PRETENDING: WHAT HAPPENED WHEN MY BIG SISTER WENT CRAZY
by Sonya Sones
A younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown.

ZEN AND THE ART OF FAKING IT
by Jordan Sonnenblick
When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer–and the need to quickly become a convincing Zen master.

LILY DALE: AWAKENING
by Wendy Corsi Staub
When seventeen-year-old Calla's mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in western New York, where she discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities.

HEADLOCK
by Joyce Sweeney
High school senior Kyle is determined to become a professional wrestler but his dream is threatened by a loved one's illness and the dramatic reappearance of a long-absent relative.

7 DAYS AT THE HOT CORNER
by Terry Trueman
Varsity baseball player Scott Latimer struggles with his own prejudices and those of others when his best friend reveals that he is gay.

MEELY LA BAUVE: A NOVEL
by Ken Wells
Every time his alligator hunter father runs from the law, motherless Meely
must fend for himself in the bayous of Louisiana.

FALLING
by Doug Wilhelm
Fifteen-year-old Matt's life has been turned upside-down, first when the brother he idolizes turns to drugs, then when a visit to a chat room leads him to a classmate, Katie, who he likes very much but cannot trust with his family secret.

HARD LOVE
by Ellen Wittlinger
After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.

THE OPPOSITE OF MUSIC
by Janet Ruth Young
With his family, fifteen-year-old Billy struggles to help his father deal with a debilitating depression.