24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley
Jack Grammar's best friends post an ad for him in the school newspaper - an ad for a prom date. Jack has just a week to go on twenty-four dates before he will ask one special girl to the prom.
48 Shades of Brown
by Nick Earls
While his parents are in Geneva, sixteen-year-old Dan spends his last year of high school living with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her beautiful friend Naomi.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white school in a farm town, where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Alice, I Think
by Susan Juby
Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis." Sequels: Miss Smithers, Alice Macleod, Realist at Last
The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents
by Terry Pratchett
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
Angus, Thongs, & Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson
by Louise Rennison
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie. Sequels
Bad Kitty
by Michelle Jaffe
While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her California friends.
Born to Rock
by Gordon Korman
High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.
Bras & Broomsticks
by Sarah Mlynowski
Rachel Weinstein has problems: Ever since she started high school her best friend has been avoiding her and hanging with the cool crowd, and on top of that, her father is about to marry a monster of a woman. But when Rachel discovers that her little sister Miri has magical powers, Rachel thinks her days of worry are over. But for every problem Miri whisks away with her charms and spells, new catastrophes arise. Sequels: Frogs & French Kisses, Spells & Sleeping Bags
Bucking the Sarge
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Determined to make it out of Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home for Men. Changing grown men’s diapers may not be pleasant job, but Luther’s mom pays him big bucks to run the nursing home, money that’s sure to help pay for college. As Luther discovers more and more corruption in his mother’s business, he must find a way to do what’s right without risking his dreams of college..
Burger Wuss
by M.T. Anderson
Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's.
The Day My Butt Went Psycho
by Andy Griffiths
Zack Freeman is ready to tell his story of a brave young boy and his crazy runaway butt. The story conveys a crack butt-fighting unit called the B-team, a legendary Butt Hunter's formidable daughter, and some of the ugliest and meanest butts ever. Sequel: Zombie Butts from Uranus
Disenchanted Princess
by Julie Linker
When powerful Hollywood agent Jean-Claude Deschanel goes to prison for embezzlement, his teenage daughter West is sent to a small town in Arkansas to live with relatives she's never met.
Does My Head Look Big in This?
by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.
Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
by Jennifer Allsion
During the summer before ninth grade, Gilda Joyce boldly invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower. Sequels: Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake, Gilda Joyce: The Ghost Sonata
Girl 15, Charming but Insane
by Sue Limb
Fifteen-year-old Jess is separated from her father and living with her mother. While her best friend seems to do everything perfectly, Jess finds her star appeal through humor. Sequels: Girl, Nearly 16, Absolute Torture, Girl, Going on 17, Pants on Fire
Good Enough
by Paula Yoo
A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
After Earth is demolished to make way for a new hyperspatial expressway, Arthur Dent begins to hitchhike through space.
How Not to be Popular
by Jennifer Ziegler
Seventeen-year-old Sugar Magnolia Dempsey is tired of leaving friends behind every time her hippie parents decide to move, but her plan to be unpopular at her new Austin, Texas, school backfires when other students join her on the path to "supreme dorkdom."
How Not to Spend Your Senior Year
by Cameron Dokey
Jo O'Connor, accustomed to moving from place to place with her father, has learned not to get too close to people, but that changes her senior year when she makes a best friend and falls in love--which only complicates matters when she is forced to move again.
Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls
by Bennett Madison
When someone steals her purse and her identity, high-school junior and reluctant girl sleuth Lulu Dark investigates. Sequel: Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox
My Cup Runneth Over: The Life of Angelica Cookson Potts
by Cherry Whytock
Believing she is too big, fourteen-year-old Angel tries dieting and kick-boxing to lose weight, but thanks to her friends and the school fashion show, she discovers that her size is just right. Includes recipes. Sequel: My Sauce Stuffed Ravioli: The Life of Angelica Cookson Potts
My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park
by Steve Kluger
Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.
Once Upon a Marigold
by Jean Ferris
A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.
The Sweet, Terrible, Glorious Year I Truly, Completely, Lost It
by Lisa Shanahan
Fourteen-year-old Gemma Stone struggles to understand her shifting emotions as her older sister plans her wedding, she overcomes her nerves and tries out for the school play, and she gets to know one of the most notorious boys in her class.
Tattoo
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
When four fifteen-year-old friends share the temporary tattoos they bought from a mysterious woman at the mall, each develops psychic powers that will help them fight the ancient being who plans to wreak havoc at their school dance.
Tell It to Naomi
by Daniel Ehrenhaft
In a harebrained scheme concocted by his neurotic older sister to forge a romantic relationship with the girl of his dreams, fifteen-year-old Dave Rosen pretends to be a female advice columnist for his school newspaper.
Vegan Virgin Valentine
by Carolyn Mackler
Mara's niece, who is only one-year-younger, moves in bringing conflict between the two teenagers because of their opposite personalities.
