Category: Teens

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (YA F ALB) With prom and graduation around the corner, senior Leah Burke struggles when her group of friends start fighting. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (YA F ALB) Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wing man for his classmate or else […]

The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (YA F BAR)    In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people. Prisoner of Night and Fog (Prisoner of Night and […]

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang 3 stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers. Cardboard by Doug TenNapel When cardboard creatures come magically to life, a boy must save his town […]