A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.

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In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom.

A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1fn4I56
Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood.

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/16JcDAo
John Irvings A Prayer for Owen Meany is the inspiring modern classic that introduced two of the authors most unforgettable characters, boys bonded forever in childhood: the stunted Owen Meany, whose life is touched by God, and the orphaned Johnny Wheelwright, whose life is touched by Owen.

A Time to Kill by John Grisham Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/182V418

Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle -- and takes justice into his own outraged hands.

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1eHqQFY

Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

Always Running by Luis Rodriguez Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1fndeAU

At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation.

America: A Novel by E.R. Frank Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/16JhDF2

Teenage America, a part-black, part-white, part-anything boy who has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece his life together.

Anastasia (series) by Lois Lowry Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/18pWBNx

Anastasia Krupnik (1979) is the first book of a popular series of middle-grade novels by Lois Lowry, depicting the title character's life as a girl "just trying to grow up." Anastasia deals with everyday problems such as popularity and the wart on her thumb. The book is written in episodic fashion, each chapter self-contained with minimal narrative link to the others.

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/17138j8
At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/16JiVA1
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.

Are You There, God? Its Me, Margaret by Judy Blume Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/18X552A
It is the story of twelve-year-old Margaret Simon who is worried she'll never have anything to put in her bra, won't know how to kiss a boy when the time comes, and worst of all, will be the last in the PTS club to get her period. As if all that weren't enough, she's getting used to a new home and a new school.

Arming America by Michael Bellesiles Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1fnkOvD

Bellesiles shows that the U.S. government, almost from its inception, worked to arm its citizens, but it met only public indifference and resistance until the 1850s, when technological advances--such as repeating revolvers with self-contained bullets-contributed to a surge in gun manufacturing.

Athletic Shorts Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/18pYkT6

A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by Chris Crutcher.

Beloved by Tony Morrison Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1fDPt5m

Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is persistently haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl.

Black Boy by Richard Wright Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1dJv8d9

The author grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard", hanging about in taverns. This is the author's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South.

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1eHypwp

Chronicles the story of an alienated New Mexico boy who seeks an answer to his questions about life in his relationship with Ultima, a magical healer.

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/18pNQoJ
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.

Blubber by Judy Blume Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1b6nGrf

Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it's like when she, too, becomes a target.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1b6o4WL

Huxleys vision of the future comes to life in his astonishing 1931 novel. Brave New World--a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering--and its sequel, written thirty years after his classic novel of the future, in which Huxley describes the shocking scientific devices and techniques available to any group in a position to manipulate society.

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1apafC3

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/19zT67F

When he discovers his house is haunted, Dudley Stork enlists the help of his friends to find out what is causing the spooky noises.

Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/15u4HYR

When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/18pPQgH

Story of Holden Caulfield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story.

Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/15UjqdI

As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.

Crazy: A Novel by Benjamin Lebert Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/18356iM

Benni himself is partially paralyzed and a serial failure (he's been kicked out of four boarding schools in his short life and has just entered his fifth). So he's a little odd, but he's cool and he finds other strange boys to hang with. Together they set out to experience what they can: girls, booze, sex, philosophy, drugs, sex, books, music, sexpretty much everything whatever.

Cut by Patricia McCormick Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/16JsOO1

While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.

Daughters of Eve by Lois Duncan Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/18XczTt

A high school teacher uses the guise of feminist philosophy to manipulate the lives of a group of girls with chilling results.

Deal With It! by Esther Drill Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/19FGSsP

It's a resource to help you learn about, laugh about, and figure out the stuff you go through on your way through life. It won't tell you what to do, because you'll need to decide that for yourself.

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/190qi5Z

A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Draw me a Star by Eric Carle Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1b6tBwy

An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1apfW2O

In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1dJE426

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1fnzPNV
The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal.

Forever by Judy Blume Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/16Jx93N

Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.

Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/18pVnUp

In the small town of Dillon, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game, and new coach Eric Taylor, his charismatic players, and their passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field in the compelling day-to-day dramas of their tight-knit community.

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/16JyGXv

A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.

Goosebumps by R.L. Stine Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1bGsE0N

Goosebumps is a series of children's horror fiction novels by American author R. L. Stine, initially published by Scholastic Publishing. The stories follow child characters, who find themselves in scary situations.

Gossip Girl (series) by Cecily von Ziegesar Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/19FNSWC
The series about wealthy girls going to private schools in Manhattan and their lives with boys, clothes, parties and friends.

Grendel by John Gardner Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1bcEJeY

Instead of lauding the hero Beowulf, the spotlight shines on Grendel, whose grotesque body and blood thirst condemn him to the life of an outlaw, but whose soul delights in dark humor, dramatic pirouettes and pranks.

Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/171jSHc

Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-yearold city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1bGu3EJ

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels. The books chronicle the adventures of a wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's quest to overcome the Dark wizard Lord Voldemort, whose aims are to become immortal, conquer the wizarding world, subjugate non-magical people, and destroy all those who stand in his way, especially Harry Potter.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1bGuONT

Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1eHJP3a

Powerful account of the brutal slaying of a Kansas family by two young ex-convicts.

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/190AnQh
A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.

Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/15uiuhT

Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/18sbDEn

After a plane crash strands them on a tropical island while the rest of the world is ravaged by war, a group of British school boys attempts to form a civilized society but descends into brutal anarchy.

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/15tQ8iq

Winston Smith (Hurt) endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. But his life takes a horrifying turn when he begins a forbidden love affair and commits the crime of independent thought. Sent to the chillingly labeled 'Ministry of Love, ' he is placed at the mercy of O'Brien (Burton), a coolly treacherous leader determined to control his thoughts-- and crush his soul.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1fEgd5S

Originally published in 1937, it's the timeless story of George Milton and Lennie Small, ranch hands who drift from job to job, always one step ahead of the law and a few dollars from the poorhouse. George is small, wiry, sharp-tongued and quick-tempered; slow witted Lennie is his opposite--an immense man, brutishly strong but naturally docile, a giant with the mind of a child...

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1bcINfe
A criminal feigns insanity and is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/19FWhcB
The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi on a raft.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1fEittO

It is the story of two sisters -- one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South -- who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence.

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1b6Er5S

Set during the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath tells the powerful story of the Joad family's trek from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a new life in California. But what they find threatens to rip apart their lives, and sever the ties that bind them together.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/1h1O6eH

In 1920s Long Island, a mysterious American millionaire's efforts to recapture the sweetheart of his youth result in tragedy.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/15tS62q

The spellbinding story of the unlikely and inseparable friendship between two boys caught in the tragic sweep of history-- from the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy throught the horrific rule of the Taliban.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/190Dwp6
A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent, it's a story of what it's like to grow up in high school, tracing a course through uncharted territory in the world of first dates, family dramas and new friends.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Find it at LSCS Libraries http://bit.ly/19FYhBx

Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood.