8th Grade Complete List (pdf) | Pick of the Decade Complete List (pdf)
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Pick of the Decade 1995-2005: Best Fiction Qualey, Marsha. Thin Ice , 1997. Seventeen-year-old Arden has been raised by her older brother, Scott, since their parents died when she was just six years old, so when Scott is presumed drowned in a snowmobile accident, Arden is convinced he's really run away. Rosoff, Meg. How I Live Now , 2004. To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City , fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. Sheldon, Dylan. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen , 1999. In her first year at a suburban New Jersey high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself "Lola," sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school. Shusterman, Neal. The Dark Side of Nowhere , 1997. Fourteen-year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens who stayed on earth following a botched invasion mission. Sones, Sonya. One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies , 2004. Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born. Strasser, Todd. Give a Boy a Gun , 2000. Events leading up to a night of terror at a high school dance are told from the point of view of various people involved. Stratton, Allan. Chanda's Secrets , 2004. A girl's struggle amid the African AIDS pandemic, Chanda, is an astonishingly perceptive girl living in the small city of Bonang , a fictional city in Southern Africa . When her youngest sister dies, the first hint of HIV/AIDS emerges, Chanda must confront undercurrents of shame and stigma. Thesman, Jean. The Other Ones , 1999. High school sophomore Bridget Raynes has to decide whether or not to accept her powers of witchcraft, or abandon them and try to fit in as an ordinary teenager. Tomey, Ingrid. Nobody Else Has to Know , 1999. Fifteen-year-old Webber must either live with guilt or tell the truth about who was driving his grandfather's car when it struck and seriously injured a little girl. Van Velde, Vivian. Companions of the Night , 1995. When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices. Wallace, Rich. Playing Without the Ball , 2000. Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the future in a church-sponsored basketball team and a female friend. (See also: Wrestling Sturbridge and Shots on Goal .) Werlin, Nancy. Locked Inside , 2000. After she is kidnapped from the exclusive boarding school she attends, heiress Marnie Skyedottir must rethink her idealized relationship with her mother, her own sense of who she is, and her relationships with others. (See also: The Killer's Cousin . and Double Helix .)
Wittlinger, Ellen. Razzle , 2001. When his retired parents buy a group of tourist cabins on Cape Cod , fifteen-year-old Kenyon Baker's days are filled with repair work until he becomes friends with an eccentric girl and makes her the subject of a series of photographs. Wolff , Virginia Euwer. True Believer , 2001. Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to. Wooding, Chris. The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray , 2004. In a world similar to Victorian London, Thaniel, a seventeen-year-old hunter of deadly, demonic creatures called the wych-kin, takes in an lost, possessed girl, and becomes embroiled in a plot to unleash evil on the world. Yolen, Jane. The Queen's Own Fool , 2000. When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Troupe Brufort and serves as the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences the political and religious upheavals in both France and Scotland . (See also: Girl in a Cage and The Prince Across the Water .) Young, Karen. The Beetle and Me: A Love Story , 1999. Surrounded by her busy extended family and their many cars, fifteen-year-old Daisy pursues her goal of single-handedly restoring the car of her dreams, the old purple Volkswagen Beetle from her childhood. Zindel, Paul. The Gadget , 2001. In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue. |
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