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Holes
By Louis Sachar (J Sach)
Stanley Yelnats has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center digging holes five feet wide and five feet deep. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake?
Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret
By Judy Blume (J Blum)
Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, eleven-year-old Margaret talks over her problems with her own private God.
Artemis Fowl
By Eoin Colfer (YA Colf)
Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and, above all, a criminal mastermind. But Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit.
Ender's Game
By Orson Scott Card (YA Card)
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers.
The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak (YA Zusa)
It is 1939 Nazi Germany. Liesel Meminger is a girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist – books. With the help of her foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books during bombing raids.
The Giver
By Lois Lowry (J Lowr)
The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.
Stargirl
By Jerry Spinelli (YA Spin)
Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don't stand out – under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives and everything changes. The delicate scales of popularity shift, and Stargirl is shunned for everything that makes her different. Normal Leo Borlock has tumbled into love with her.
Bridge to Terabithia
By Katherine Paterson (J Pate)
Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school. The two become friends and invent Terabithia. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs.
Uglies
By Scott Westerfeld (YA West)
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and in Tally's world your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from ugly into pretty. But Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world – and it isn't very pretty.
The Westing Game
By Ellen Raskin (JM Rask)
A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will. Though no one knows why the game-loving millionaire has chosen a possible murderer to inherit his fortune, one things for sure: Sam Westing may be dead, but that won’t stop him from playing one game!