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WARNING - some of these stories are not for the squeamish.

*also available as an audiobook

Anderson, M. T.
Thirsty 1997
Struggling to remain human. A vampire story.

Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia
In the Forests of the Night 1999
A vampire story. Written when the author was fifteen.

Barker, Clive
*Abarat 2002
Days of Magic Nights of War 2004
Enter the frightening world of Cindy Quackenbush. In book two, the forces of night prepare for war.

Blease, Kathleen
One Dark Night: 13 Masterpieces of the Macabre
A collection of thirteen short gothic stories by various authors.

Butler, Octavia E.
Fledgling 2005
A middle aged woman wakes to find herself an eleven year old girl. A gruesome vampire story.

Child, Lincoln
Utopia 2002
A high tech amusement park gone horribly wrong. Utopia includes four different theme parks: Camelot, The Boardwalk, Gaslight, and Callisto.

Drvenkar, Zoran
Tell Me What You See 2005
On a secret visit to her father’s grave, sixteen-year-old Alissa discovers the crypt of a child and acquires terrible powers from which only her friend Evelin can save her.

Due, Tananarive
The Good House 2003
Voodoo, suicide and murder.

Gaiman, Neil
The Last Temptation 2005
Gaiman adapts a story from Alice Cooper’s album Lost in America. A graphic novel.

Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
A Stir of Bones 2003
Fourteen-year-old Susan lives with an abusive father in a sentient house.

King, Stephen
*Carrie 2005
Something bad will happen at the prom. This audiobook version is read by Sissy Spacek, who played Carrie in the film version.

King, Stephen
Cell 2006
No good can come from cell phones.

Klause, Annette Curtis
The Silver Kiss 1990
When their paths cross, Zoe is dealing with a death in the family and Simon is seeking to avenge the death of his mother. A vampire story.

Klause, Annette Curtis
*Blood and Chocolate 1997
A werewolf falls in love with a human but the pack is dead set against it.

Koja, Kathe
Blue Mirror 2004
A demon lover on the streets.

Koontz, Dean
Forever Odd 2005
Odd Thomas can see the dead.
Prodigal Son 2005
In New Orleans, in the 21st century, Dr. Frankenstein is living as mad scientist Victor Helios.

Martinez, A Lee
Gil’s All Fright Diner 2005
Zombies. Vampires. Werewolves. A comedy in the vein of Douglas Adams.

Meyer, Stephenie
Twilight 2005
He is tall, pale and handsome. Set in the Olympic peninsula in Washington State - where the sun rarely shines.

Moore, Alan
Swamp Thing: the Curse 2000
Originally published in single magazine form as The Saga of the Swamp Thing #35-42. Includes a controversial werewolf story.

O’Nan, Stewart
Night Country 2003
Marco tells the story of the friends that survived the car crash. But he himself is dead.

Pomplun, Tom
Horror Classics 2004
A “graphic classic.” Includes stories by Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, and Jack London.

Poe, Edgar Allan
Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Madness 2004
Slightly abridged retellings “The Black Cat,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” “Hop-Frog,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” A graphic novel.

Rice, Anne
*Interview with the Vampire 1994
The first in the series featuring rock star vampire Lestat.

Sebold, Alice
*Lovely Bones 2002
Fourteen-year-old Suzy Salmon narrates this story – from heaven. It’s grisly.

Shan, Darren
Lord Loss 2005
This first book in the Demonata series is “guaranteed to gross out anyone aged 12 to 20.”

Vande Velde, Vivian
Being Dead 2001
Each of these seven stories features a ghost of some sort.

Elrod, P.N. (editor)
Dracula in London 2001
Many different writers imagine the most famous vampire loose in London.

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Geary, Rick
Jack the Ripper : a journal of the Whitechapel murders 1888-1889 1995
In graphic novel format.

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Roach, Mary
Stiff : the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 2003
Science writer Mary Roach tells you what really happens to those donated bodies.

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Preston, Richard
The Hot Zone 1994
It’s true, and so that much scarier. Ebola virus is unstoppable- and there’s no cure.

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Updated April 2006

*also available as an audiobook

Allende, Isabel
Zorro (2005)
“Let us begin at the beginning, at an event without which Diego de la Vega would not have been born.”

Alvarez, Julia
Finding Miracles (2004)
Fifteen-year-old Milly Kaufman is an average American teenager until Pablo, a new student at her school, inspires her to search for her birth family in his native country.

Canales, Viola
Tequila Worm (2005)
Sofia is a Mexican American girl growing up in South Texas.

Cisneros, Sandra
*Caramelo (2002)
The story of the Reyes family, told through the voice of Lala.

Danticat, Edwidge
Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)
Twelve-year-old Sofie moves from Haiti to New York and back to Haiti.

Díaz, Junot
Drown (1996)
Short stories about Dominican Americans.

Durán, Miguel
Don't Spit in my Corner (1992)
Based on the author's experience as a teenage pachuco.

Escandón, María Amparo
Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co.:
a road novel with literary license (2005)
The story of Libertad Gonzalez, imprisoned in the Mexicali Penal Institute for Women.

Esquivel, Laura
*Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Recipes for love during the Mexican revolution.

Herrera, Juan Felipe
CrashBoomLove (1999)
At Rambling West High School, it's Hmongs vs Chicanos vs everybody vs César. A novel in poetry.

Jiménez, Francisco
Breaking Through (2001)
Sequel to The Circuit follows Francisco through high school.

Hernandez, Irene Beltran
Secret of Two Brothers (1995)
A young ex-con tries to make it in LA.

Hernández, Jo Ann Yolanda
White Bread Competition (1997)
When Luz, a ninth-grade Latina student in San Antonio, wins a spelling competition, her success triggers a variety of emotions among family, friends, and the broader community.

Lachtman, Ofelia Dumas
Summer of El Pintor (2001)
Monica’s life situation changes dramatically.

Martínez, Demetria
*Mother Tongue (1996)
In Albuquerque, Mary meets José Luis, a refugee from El Salvador.

Martinez, Victor
*Parrot in the Oven (1996)
Manny, vato firme, decides not to follow in his brother's footsteps.

Miller-Lachman, Lyn (editor)
Once Upon a Cuento (2003)
Seventeen short stories contributed by fourteen Latino authors.

Nava, Michael
Hidden Law (1992)
Gay attorney Henry Rios takes the case of a teenager accused of murder.

Obejas, Achy
Days of Awe (2001)
A Cuban refugee discovers that her family is actually converses - Jews who converted to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition.

Osa, Nancy
Cuba 15 (2003)
Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student, gets ready for her "quince.”

Quiñonez, Ernesto
Bodega Dreams (2000)
Chino learns about power in Spanish Harlem.

Rodriquez, Luis J
Music of the Mill (2005)
Spans sixty years and three generations of the Salcido family.

Pam Muñoz
*Esperanza Rising (2000)
A wealthy Mexican girl works as a migrant worker in Southern California just before the Depression.

Saldaña, Jr., René
Finding Our Way (2003)
Short stories

Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood (2004)
As a Chicano high school student living in the unglamorous town of Hollywood, New Mexico, Sammy Santos faces the challenges of "gringo" racism, unpopular dress codes, the Vietnam War, barrio violence, and poverty.

Santana, Patricia
Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility (2002)
Yolanda's brother Chuy returns from Vietnam in 1969.

Soto, Gary
*Buried Onions (1977)
19-year-old Eddie drops out of college and finds himself struggling in Fresno, California

Triana, Gaby
Cubanita (2005)
Seventeen-year-old Isabel is eager to leave Miami to attend the University of Michigan and escape her overprotective Cuban mother

Velásquez, Gloria L.
Teen Angel (2003)
15 and pregnant.

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Updated March 2006

*also available as an audiobook

Desai Hidier, Tanuja
Born Confused (2002)
17 year old Dimple Lala’s parents are trying to set her up with a “suitable boy,” straight from India.

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
*Mistress of Spices (1997)
The old lady who runs the Indian spice shop in Oakland is not what she seems.

Guterson, David
*Snow Falling on Cedars (1994)
In the 1950s, a Japanese American fisherman is accused of murder on a small island in Puget Sound.

Jen, Gish
Who's Irish? (1999)
Jen offers unique views of growing up Chinese American in these short stories.

Kadohata, Cynthia
Kira-kira (2004)
Kira-kira means glittering- that’s how Katie Takeshima’s big sister Lynn sees the world. Now Lynn is sick, and the glitter is gone.

Keller, Nora Okja
Comfort Woman (1997)
Biracial Korean American Beccah’s mother was a “comfort woman”, forced into prostitution in Japan during WWII. Now living in Hawaii, they’re both dealing with the aftermath of that legacy.

Lahiri, Jhumpa
*The Namesake (2003)
The tie to India is strong for American-born Gogol, named for the Russian author.

Le, Thi Diem Thuy
The Gangster We Are All Looking For (2003)
A Vietnamese family makes the transition from boat people to San Diego apartment dwellers.

Lee, Gus
Honor and Duty (1994)
There are disadvantages in being a Chinese American West Point cadet in the 1960s- namely, the Vietnam War.

Lee, Marie
Necessary Roughness (1996)
Korean American twins move from urban California to rural Minnesota, where everything from sports to popularity seems to run according to different rules.

Massey, Sujata
The Bride's Kimono (2001)
Antiques dealer Rei Shimura has a great job exhibiting rare kimonos- until one of the kimonos is stolen and a client found murdered.

Mochizuki, Ken
Beacon Hill Boys (2002)
It’s 1972 and Dan Inagaki doesn’t want to be labeled “model minority” any more.

Na, An
*A Step from Heaven (2001)
On the plane to California, Korean Young Ju had imagined America as heaven. Not quite.

Namioka, Lensey
An Ocean Apart, a World Away (2002)
Yanyan leaves her family in Nanking to study medicine at Cornell in the 1920s.

Otsuka, Julie
When the Emperor Was Divine (2002)
This lyrical view of the Japanese Internment camps begins in Berkeley.

Platt, Randall Beth
The Likes of Me (2000)
Cornelia Lu Hankins is half Caucasian, half Chinese and all albino- most unusual for 1918. Having run away from a lumber camp, she finds work in a carnival sideshow.

Salisbury, Graham
*Shark Bait (1997)
Mokes’ Chinese American dad is the police chief in their rural Hawaiian town- his mom is “white as ice cream”. The author reads the audiobook, with authentic dialect.

Scott, Joanna C.
The Lucky Gourd Shop (2001)
Three adopted Korean children are curious about their birth mother- but it’s their American mother who takes the eldest son’s memories and brings Mi Sook’s tale to life.

Shea, Pegi Deitz
Tangled Threads: a Hmong Girl's Story (2003)
After 10 years in a Thai refugee camp, now Mai Yang is in Providence, Rhode Island. Talk about culture shock!

Shiga, Jason
Double Happiness (1999)
Twenty-something Tom grew up in a white suburb of Boston, then moves to San Francisco Chinatown. Shiga’s distinctive cartooning style and use of dialect let you see another side of Grant St.

Sledge, Linda Ching
A Map of Paradise (1997)
Travel back and forth from Hawaii to California in the 1800s, as Hawaiian-born (ethnically Chinese) Mulan (Molly) struggles with a dangerous romance with a poet.

Strom, Dao
Grass Roof, Tin Roof (2003)
A Vietnamese writer brings her two children to California to escape persecution, where they encounter both love and racism.

Yamanaka, Lois
Name Me Nobody (2000)
Middle school in Hawaii is no picnic for Emi-Lou - and now her best friend Von has come out as a lesbian.

Yoo, David
Girls for Breakfast (2005)
Do girls avoid Nick Park because he’s the only Korean American at school?

Yoshimura, Akira
Storm Rider (2004)
As an orphan of 13, Hiko travels to San Francisco and ends up in Baltimore, adopted by a wealthy American business. Based on the true story of Joseph Heco.

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Updated April 2006

*also available as an audiobook

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Bok, Francis (2003)
Escape from Slavery:
the true story of my ten years in captivity--and my journey to freedom in America

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Gaskins, Pearl Fuyo (1999)
What Are You?: voices of mixed-race young people

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Nazario, Sonia
Enrique’s Journey (2006)
When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. She was not able to return. After eleven years, Enrique decided he would go find her. He set off alone, with little more than a slip of paper bearing his mother's North Carolina telephone number.

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Katz, Jon (2000)
Geeks: how two lost boys rode the Internet out of Idaho

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Davis, Sampson, et al (2002)
The Pact: three young men make a promise and fulfill a dream

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Zailckas, Koren (2005)
Smashed: story of a drunken girlhood

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Kaysen, Susanna (1994)
Girl, Interrupted
Hospitalized for a mental illness

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Partridge, Elizabeth (2005)
John Lennon: all I want is the truth: a photographic biography

780.92 Sh15z
Ardis, Angela (2004)
Inside a Thug's Heart: with original poems and letters by Tupac Shakur
Written by his girlfriend

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RZA (2005)
The Wu-Tang Manual
“…a curious mix of Eastern philosophy, supreme mathematics, capitalism, and, not least, talent.”

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Tracy, Robert (2004)
Ailey Spirit: the journey of an American dance company

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Nelson, Marilyn (2005)
A Wreath for Emmett Till
A poetic tribute

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Colton, Larry (2000)
Counting Coup: a true story of basketball and honor on the Little Big Horn

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Yao, Ming (2004)
Yao: a life in two worlds
By the NBA player from China

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Brackett, Virginia (2005)
A Home in the Heart: the story of Sandra Cisneros

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Donofrio, Beverly (1992)
*Riding in Cars with Boys
Coming of age in the sixties.

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Dumas, Firoozeh (2003)
Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America

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Delman, Carmit (2002)
Burnt Bread and Chutney: growing up between cultures: a memoir of an Indian Jewish girl

920 G158ah
Gantos, Jack (2003)
*Hole in My Life
Gantos did jail time before becoming a successful writer.

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Guilbault, Rose Castillo (2005)
Farmworker's Daughter: growing up Mexican in America

920 J56ar2
Jiang, Ji-li (1997)
*Red Scarf Girl: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution

920 M15ai
Mace, Nancy (2001)
In the Company of Men: a woman at the Citadel
The citadel is a prestigious military school in South Carolina.

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McDonald, Janet (1999)
Project Girl
By the author of Spellbound and Brother Hood.

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Asgedom, Mawi (2002)
Of Beetles & Angels: a boy's remarkable journey from a refugee camp to Harvard
At the age of three, he fled civil war in Ethiopia by walking with his mother and brother to a Sudanese refugee camp, and later moved to Chicago.

920 P285ab
Paulsen, Gary (2000)
The Beet Fields: memories of a sixteenth summer
By the author of Hatchet and many other stories for young adults.

920 R2207ahr
Read, Kirk (2001)
How I Learned To Snap: a small-town coming-out and coming-of-age story

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Rodriguez, Luis J (1994)
Always Running: la vida loca, gang days in L.A.

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Satrapi, Marjane (2002)
Persepolis
In graphic novel format, she tells the story of her life in Iran during and after the 1979 revolution.

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Soto, Gary
*Living Up the Street (1985)
Autobiography of poet and author Gary Soto

920 T1878aL
Tate, Sonsyrea (1997)
Little X: growing up in the Nation of Islam

920 T319b
Tezuka, Osamu (2003-)
Buddha
In graphic novel format

920 W1537ab
Walker, Rebecca (2001)
Black, White and Jewish: autobiography of a shifting self

920 W8326tr2
Wolff, Tobias (1989)
*This Boy’s Life: a memoir
The author shares the details of his traumatic childhood. The movie is good, too.

920 W935b
Wright, Richard (1945)
*Black Boy
The autobiography of the African-American writer, recounting his early years and his harrowing experiences drifting from Nachez to Chicago to Brooklyn.

920.1 D81
Shreve, Susan Richards (2003)
Dream Me Home Safely: writers on growing up in America

940.548 W637n
Wiesel, Elie (1960)
*Night
The story of a teenage boy who survived the Holocaust. “Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."

956.70443 R524b
Riverbend (2005)
Baghdad Burning: girl blog from Iraq

956.9405 Z42a
Zenatti, Valerie (2005)
When I Was a Soldier
The story of an Israeli soldier

958.1047 Ak22c
Akbar, Said Hyder (2005)
Come Back To Afghanistan: a California teenager’s story

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African American interest fiction. Updated April 2006.

*also available as an audiobook

Baldwin James
*Go Tell It On the Mountain (1953)
A teenager in Harlem struggles with his religious identity.

Butler, Octavia
*Kindred (1979)
A contemporary African American woman finds herself transported to a pre-Civil War plantation.

Curtis, Christopher
*Bucking the Sarge (2004)
Luther T. Farrel has got to get out of Flint, Michigan. As his best friend Sparky says, "Flint's nothing but the Titanic." And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, "Take my advice and stay off the sucker path."

Davidson, Dana
Jason & Kyra (2004)
Jason comes to terms with his irascible, often absent father and his growing attraction to the quiet, studious Kyra.

Flake, Sharon
Who Am I Without Him? (2004)
Short stories about girls and the boys in their lives.

Flake, Sharon
Bang (2005)
A teenage boy must face the harsh realities of inner city life, a disintegrating family, and destructive temptations as he struggles to find his identity as a young man

Frost, Helen
Keesha's House (2003)
Seven teens each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and where they found home again.

Gaines, Ernest
*A Gathering of Old Men (1983)
Louisiana in the 1950's is the scene for this story of murder and defense.

Himes, Chester
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965)
Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones pursue a crooked preacher.

Houston, Julian
New Boy (2005)
As a new sophomore at an exclusive boarding school, a young black man is witness to the persecution of another student.

Johnson, Angela
*The First Part Last (2003)
Bobby adores his baby daughter.

Mcdonald, Janet
Brother Hood (2004)
Sixteen-year-old Nate, an academically gifted student who attends an exclusive private boarding school, straddles two cultures as he returns home for occasional visits to see his family and "gangsta crew" in Harlem.

Morrison, Toni
*The Bluest Eye (1969)
The first novel by the winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Mosley, Walter
*47 (2005)
Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science.

Myers, Walter Dean
The Autobiography of my Dead Brother (2005)
Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend.

Myers, Walter Dean
Fallen Angels (1989)
Private Richie Perry does a tour in Vietnam.

Mowry, Jess
Babylon Boyz (1997)
On the grimy streets of "Babylon," Pook and Dante are faced with a difficult decision.

Porter, Connie
Imani, All Mine (1999)
"Mama says I'm grown now because I got Imani. She say Imani all mine."

Sapphire
Push (1996)
The story of Precious Jones, who has a tough life in Harlem.

Senna, Denzy
Caucasia (1998)
Biracial sisters Birdie and Cole are separated when their mother goes underground and their father flees to Brazil. Set during the 1970s.

Sinclair, April
Coffee Will Make You Black (1994)
The story of Stevie, who comes of age in Chicago during the late sixties.

Volponi, Paul
Black and White (2005)
Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.

Williams, Lori Aurelia
*When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune (2001)
Shayla can't figure out the new girl next door, Kambia Elaine, who tells fantastic stories.

Williams-Garcia, Rita
Every Time a Rainbow Dies (2001)
Sixteen-year-old Thulani witness a rape and becomes obsessed with the victim.

Woodson, Jacqueline
If You Come Softly (1998)
Fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is black. Ellie is white. They fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.

Wright, Bil
Sunday You Learn How To Box (2000)
Louis Bowman, a fourteen-year-old African American boy lives in project housing.

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* also available as an audiobook

Anonymous
Annie's Baby 1998
The diary of Anonymous, a pregnant teenager

Bechard, Margaret
Hanging on to Max 2002
Seventeen-year-old Sam is the only boy in the alternative school program for teen parents.

Dessen, Sarah
*Someone Like You 1998
Scarlett is pregnant when her boyfriend Michael dies in a motorcycle accident. She turns to her best friend Halley for support.

Haruf, Kent
*Plainsong 1999
She gets thrown out of her house when her mother discovers she's pregnant.

Inclan, Jessica Barksdale.
Her Daughter's Eyes 2001
Seventeen-year-old Kate tries to hide her pregnancy.

Johnson, Angela
*First Part Last 2003
On the night of his sixteenth birthday, Bobby’s girlfriend tells him she is pregnant.

MacDonald, Janet
Spellbound 2001
Raven gets pregnant the first time she has sex.
Chill Wind 2002
Aisha is a nineteen-year-old single mother with two kids.

Nolan, Han
Born Blue 2001
Janie calls herself Leshaya and sings the blues. A wrenching story about child abuse, addiction, poverty, and pregnancy.

McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
Leaving Cecil Street 2004
Shay’s best friend Neet decides to have an abortion. This story is set in 1969 – when abortion was illegal.

Olsen, Sylvia
The Girl with a Baby 2003
Fourteen-year-old Jane, mother of Destiny, wants to stay in school.

Porter, Connie Rose
Imani All Mine 1999
Fifteen-year-old Tasha names her baby Imani, which means “faith.”

Sapphire
Push 1996
The painful story of sixteen-year-old Precious Johnson, twice impregnated by her own father.

Wild, Margaret
One Night 2004
Helen, pregnant after a one night stand with Gabe, moves out of her parent’s house. This story is told in a series of poems.

Williams, Lori Aurelia
Broken China 2005
China is fourteen when her two-year-old baby unexpectedly dies.

Williams-Garcia, Rita
Like Sisters on the Homefront 1995
Fourteen-year-old Gayle's mother forces her to have an abortion and sends her to live with her pastor uncle’s family in Georgia.

Woodson, Jacqueline
Dear One 1991
Feni can’t believe her mother is letting a pregnant fifteen-year-old come live with them until the baby is adopted.

Wolff, Virginia Euwer
*Make Lemonade 1993
Fourteen-year-old LaVaughn agrees to baby-sit the two children of seventeen-year-old Jolly.

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Here are our updated science fiction recommendations. Let us know what you think.

*also available as an audiobook

Anderson, M T
*Feed 2000
The feed controls your thoughts.

Asimov, Isaac
*I, Robot 1950
The classic that introduced the three laws of robotics.

Barnes, Steve
Cestus Deception 2004
A Clone Wars, Star Wars, novel by the author of Lion’s Blood.

Bear, Greg
Darwin’s Children 2003
In this cautionary tale of genetics and evolution, a retrovirus has produced millions of genetically altered children.

Bell, Hilari
A Matter of Profit 2003
Ahvram, appalled by atrocities the army has visited on other worlds, tries to derail an assassination at home.

Blackman, Malorie
Naughts and Crosses 2005
Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Naught -- a "colorless" member of the underclass who was once a slave to the Crosses.

Bujold, Lois
Mountains of Mourning
in *Borders of Infinity 1991
Teenage Miles, 5 feet tall, somewhat misshapen and just out of officers' training school, must administer justice in a backward province where the population has proven by infanticide that it still views "mutants" as subhuman.

Butler, Octavia
Lilith’s Brood 2000
Dawn, Imago, and Adulthood Rites in one volume. The story of humanity’s unwilling merge with the Oankali.

Card, Orson Scott
Shadow of the Giant 2005
The 8th book in the Ender Wiggins series.

Crutcher, Chris
Sledding Hill 2005
Explores life, religion, and censorship from an unusual viewpoint.

De Haven Tom
It’s Superman 2005
The formative years of the Man of Steel. A graphic novel.

Emschwiller, Carol
Mister Boots 2005
Is Mister Boots a man or a horse? Is Bobby a boy or a girl?

Gould, Steven
Wildside 1996
Charlie and friends discover a doorway to an alternate world—one with the potential to make them millionaires.

Hoffman, Mary
Stravaganza, City of Flowers 2005
Sky Meadows is a London teenager who is also a stravagante – that is, he can time travel to an alternate Renaissance Italy. Follows City of Masks and City of Stars. Improbable? Yes, but compelling in its detail.

Hogan, James P.
Outward Bound 1999
A teenager headed for juvie opts for a diversion program.

Ishiguro, Kauzo
Never Let Me Go 2005
The “carers” are clones created for the sole purpose of harvesting their organs.

Klause, Annette
*Blood and Chocolate 1987
As the traditions of the pack disintegrate, a teenage loup garou experiments with independence by becoming involved with a meat boy. The results are disastrous.

Kress, Nancy
Nothing Human 2003
When she reaches puberty, Lillie falls into a coma from which she awakens saying, “The pribir are coming.”

LeGuin, Ursula
Telling 2000
Set on the planet Aka, which bears a strong resemblance to China during the Cultural Revolution.

Martinez, A Lee
Gil’s All Fright Diner 2005
Zombies. Vampires. Werewolves. A comedy in the vein of Douglas Adams.

McHugh, Maureen F
Mission Child 1998
A teenage girl faces war, refugee camps and relocation with grim determination.

Mosley, Walter
47 2005
Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science.

Nagata, Linda
Limit of Vision 2001
Three young scientists pirate a nanotech life form.

Price, Susan
Sterkarm Handshake 1998
A twenty-first-century corporation builds a time travel tube with a
direct connection to sixteenth-century England. Followed by the Sterkarm Kiss.

Reed, Kit
Thinner Than Thou 2004
Set in a not to distant future where the cult of body image has become the new religion.

Sawyer, Robert J
The Neanderthal Parallax: Hominids 2002, Humans 2003, Hybrids 2003
Scientists on Earth have discovered a parallel universe where Neanderthals, not homo sapiens, have prevailed.

Shinn, Sharon
Mystic and Rider 2005
The first volume in the Twelve Houses series. If you like a bit of romance in your science fiction, Shinn is the writer for you.

Turtledove, Harry
Gunpowder Empire 2003
An alternate-world story featuring teenagers from late 21st century Los Angeles and a Roman Empire that never declined.

Vaughan, Brian
Y, the Last Man. One Small Step 2004
Yorick Brown, the only human male to survive a global sex-specific plague, may not be unique for much longer. A graphic novel.

Werlin, Nancy
Double Helix 2003
Features eighteen-year-old Eli dealing with the strange circumstances of his birth.

Westerfield, Scott
Peeps 2005
“Parasite positive" people carry an ancient disease that causes vampirism.

Wilson, Robert Charles
Spin 2005
The stars…. They just blinked out. A brother, sister and their friend are central to the mystery in this complex story filled with scientific speculation and complicated characters.

Yolen, Jane (editor)
Years Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens 2005

Zahn, Timothy
The Green and the Gray 2004
Part hard science fiction, part mystery and part alien-human encounter played out in Manhattan parks.

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