Killing Mr. Griffin

by Lois Duncan

Mr. Griffin is the least-liked teacher at Del Norre High School.  When a group of classmates decide to kidnap him, the plan is only to scare their English teacher.  Sometimes plans go horribly wrong.  (Books in Print)

Prank

by Kathryn Lasky

Birdie Flynn, a gifted Irish Catholic teenager living in East Boston, struggles with the consequences of her brother's part in vandalizing a synagogue.  (CIP)

Far from Shore

by Kevin Major

Fifteen-year-old Christopher Slade's life is going downhill - and fast.  His family is torn apart by unemployment, he's failing grade ten, and he can't find a summer job.  As Chris gropes for direction, he finds solace in a few beers now and then.  Then his scary drinking bouts lead to threat of arrest for a crime he can't remember committing.  Work as a counselor at a summer camp offers the challenge of a fresh start - until Chris encounters his toughest test yet.  (Book in Print)

Jacob Have I Loved

by Katherine Patterson

Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline.  Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister.  Even now, Caroline seems to take everything: Louise's friends, their parents' love, her dreams for the future.  For once in her life, Louise wants to be the special one.  But in order to do that, she must first figure out who she is...and find a way to make a place for herself outside her sister's shadow.  (Books in Print)

A Solitary Blue

by Cynthia Voight

Jeff Greene was only seven when Melody, his mother, left him with his reserved, undemonstrative father, the Professor.  So when she reenters his life years later with an invitation to spend the summer with her in Charleston, Jeff is captivated by her free spirit and warmth, and he eagerly looks forward to returning for another visit the following year.  But Jeff's second summer in Charleston ends with a devastating betrayal, and he returns to his father wounded almost beyond bearing.  (Books in Print)

I Am the Cheese

by Robert Cormier

A young boy boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.  (CIP)

The Chocolate War

by Robert Cormier

A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.  (CIP)

Beyond the Chocolate War

by Robert Cormier

Sequel to The Chocolate War.  Dark deeds continue at Trinity High School, climaxing in a public demonstration of one student's homemade guillotine.  (CIP)

Down a Dark Hall

by Lois Duncan

Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.  (CIP)

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

After a plan crash strands them on a tropical island while the rest of the world is ravaged by war, a group of British schoolboys attempts to form a civilized society but descends into brutal anarchy.  (CIP)

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.  (CIP)

The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

The quest undertaken by the hobbit Frodo and his companions to journey across Middle-earth and cast the evil One Ring, into the Cracks of Doom.  (CIP)

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

Set in the 1920s, this Pulitzer Prize - winning novel traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana.  Stark begins his political careers as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success.  (Books in Print)

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

by Virginia Hamilton

The first time Teresa saw Brother was the way she would think of him ever after.  Tree fell head over heels for him.  It was love at first sight in a wild beating of her heart that took her breath.  But it was a dark Friday three weeks later when it rained, hard and wicked, before she knew Brother Rush was a ghost.  (Books in Print)

Mojo and the Russians

by Walter Dean Myers

A little bit of mojo goes a long way for a group of youngsters trying to protect their friend from some suspicious characters.  (CIP)

Ghosts I Have Been

by Richard Peck

Blossom Culp is the outspoken outcast of Bluff City, always getting into trouble.  No one wants to cross her, especially now that she's revealed that she can see the Unseen.  Then Blossom herself is stunned, because her lie turns out to be truth.  She actually does have second sight...and she is "on board" the sinking Titanic.  (Books in Print)

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by Elizabeth George Speare

In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.  (Books in Print)