There's a Bat in Bunk Five

Author	M.E. Kerr
ISBN	0061139890

M. E. Kerr's first novel - hailed by the New York Times as a "timely, compelling" and "brilliantly funny" look at adolescence and friendship

It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job....

Author	Ursula Nordstrom
ISBN	0064400220

At first, Victoria North is miserable at the Coburn Home School. Her housemother is very strict, she's terribly homesick and the other girls don't seem to have any time for a shy new girl.Then Vicky meets Martha Sherman, and everything changes. Martha introduces Vicky to pie-beds, midnight feasts...

Author	Judy Blume
ISBN	0689866100

When Deenie finds out that she has scoliosis, she’s scared. When she sees the brace for the first time, she wants to scream.

But the words won't come out. And Deenie, beautiful Deenie, who everyone says should be a model, is stuck wearing a brace from her neck to her hips. For four years—or...

Author	Paul Zindel
ISBN	0060757361

Four friends,
Two couples,
One year that will change their lives.

Liz and Sean, both beautiful and popular, are madly in love and completely misunderstood by their parents. Their best friends, Maggie and Dennis, are shy and awkward, but willing to take the first tentative steps toward...

Author	Norma Klein
ISBN	0449702731

WHEN YOU'RE NEITHER A GIRL NOR A WOMAN...
Maggie and Caroline are both seniors in high school and suddenly everything that seemed simple has become complicated. Thinking about sex, wondering about college, planning for careers -- there are so many choices.

Maggie is brilliant and very...

Author	Ellen Conford
ISBN	0553267221

Dear Mom and Dad, I'll Stay!

For thirteen-year-old Melanie Kessler, going to overnight camp was no way to spend a summer vacation. Right from the start, Melanie knew there was going to be trouble. Getting stuck with the six-year-old Tadpoles in the beginners' swim class was downright embarrassing....

Author	Barthe DeClements
ISBN	0140364757

For those of you who thought Twilight was the only book featuring a love triangle that takes place in Forks, Washington (sort of). Seriously, I read half of this loosely connected series when I was the original age of the protagonist (ten) and never quite caught up to the ones when she's a former fat kid....

Author	Robert Newton Peck
ISBN	0440481872

Soup is back again, getting himself and his best pal Rob into more and better mischief.

From the crisp Vermont spring to the chill of winter, Soup and Rob learn, among other things: not to leave their clothes on the bank of the creek when Janice Riker is around, that Soup's tonsorial talents leave...

Author	Sandra Scoppettone
ISBN	0553259105

I read this over and over as a teenager. The author did a brilliant job with this story. She not only gives us a deep look into Geri's world, but also her family: mom, dad, and brother. I also liked her school teacher mentor. The author goes deep, very deep into alcoholism and how it not only affects the drinker,...

Author	Jerry Spinelli
ISBN	0671746847

Just finished this excellent young adult story. Spinelli has done it again -- spun a story I could hardly put down and that pulled all the loose ends together without tying them too tight.

Maisie is an athletic type junior high girl. She was Athlete of the Year, playing on the basketball team,...

Author	Patricia MacLachlan
ISBN	0440408091

Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left.



Journey searches photographs for answers. He hunts family resemblances in Grandma's albums....

Author	Ed Lin
ISBN	1885030320

Waylaid is the story of a Chinese American boy who struggles to grow up in the grip of an overcharged sexual environment. With a daily routine that involves renting out rooms to johns and hookers at his parents' sleazy hotel, the narrator loses his grip on concepts of friendship, family and childhood....

Author	Lois Lowry
ISBN	0440403448

Man, Lois Lowry is just the best, isn't she. The actual very best.

This is a really great book. I loved reading it and I'd recommend it to everyone. Even though I'd read a lot of reviews, I didn't quite understand what I was getting. (Basically, all that many reviews can clearly say is, "Oh my gosh,...

Author	Beverly Cleary
ISBN	0060532998

Shelley Latham can't wait to get to San Sebastian, where flowers bloom in November, oranges grow on the trees, and the sun shines almost every day. And once she's there, things get even better. In no time, she catches the attention of two boys: one, a good-looking basketball star, the other, an interesting,...

Author	Francine Pascal
ISBN	0553154753

Identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield don't always agree on things - until Brooke Dennis arrives at Sweet Valley. Both twins agree that she's horrible. She snaps at everyone who tries to be nice to her and she's constantly saying mean things to people.To get even with Brooke, the twins invent...