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1. 1st Period

2. Welcome Freshmen! Books checked out today will be due November 17th!

3. Shattering Glassby Gail Giles A suspenseful novel narrated by Young Stewart, who gets caught up in a deadly game with his popular high school classmates.

4. The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima • After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards

5. Leaving Paradiseby Simone Elkeles In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-olds Caleb and Maggie relate the difficulties of readjusting to school, and changing relationships with family, friends, and one another, a year after a drunk driving accident sent her to the hospital with a crippling leg injury and him to prison.

6. Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student, reluctantly prepares for her upcoming "quince," a nickname for the celebration of an Hispanic girl's fifteenth birthday.

7. Artichoke’s Heartby Suzanne Supplee • Sixteen year old Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at her mother's beauty salon, and feeling out of control. As she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.

8. Codetalkerby Joseph Bruchac After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

9. A Room on Lorelei Streetby Mary E. Pearson To escape a miserable existence taking care of her alcoholic mother, seventeen-year-old Zoe rents a room from an eccentric woman, but her earnings as a waitress after school are minimal and she must go to extremes to cover expenses.

10. Black and Whiteby Paul Volponi Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.

11. Hawksongby Amelia Atwater Rhodes • In a land that has been at war so long that no one remembers the reason for fighting, the shapeshifters who rule the two factions agree to marry in the hope of bringing peace, despite deep-seated fear and distrust of each other

12. Crackback by John Coy • Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.

13. The Afterlife by Gary Soto • A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance.

14. 2nd Period

15. Welcome Freshmen! Books checked out today will be due

16. Perfectby Natasha Friend Following the death of her father, a teen uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.

17. How to Build A Houseby Dana Reinhardt • When her father divorces her beloved stepmother and leaves her without her stepsister, Tess, Harper decides to join a volunteer organization to build houses for tornado victims, but struggling to figure out her role in the mix upon her arrival, Harper is befriended by Teddy who inspires her to love and trust once again.

18. Hoops of Steelby John Foley Passionate about basketball, troubled teenager Jackson O'Connell chronicles the ways the game colors the events of his senior year in high school.

19. Evil Geniusby Catherine Jinks Child prodigy CadelPiggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

20. Wish You Were Deadby Todd Strasser • Madison, a senior at a suburban New York high school, tries to uncover who is responsible for the disappearance of her friends, popular students mentioned in the posts of an anonymous blogger, while she, herself, is being stalked online and in-person.

21. Naughts and Crossesby Malorie Blackman In a world where the pale-skinned Naughts are discriminated against by the politically and socially powerful dark-skinned Crosses, teenagers Callum--a Naught--and Sephy--a Cross--test whether their love is strong enough to survive their society's racism.

22. Purgeby Sarah Littman When her parents check sixteen-year-old Janie into Golden Slopes to help her recover from her bulimia, she discovers that she must talk about things she has admitted to no one--not even herself.

23. Jerk, Californiaby Jonathan Friesen • Plagued by Tourette's syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man in his small Midwest town who sends him on a road trip designed to help him discover the truth about his life.

24. Just Listenby Sarah Dessen • Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.

25. House Rules by Rachel Sontag • Traces the author's journey of recovery after a childhood marked by her mentally ill father, a respected suburban doctor with an obsessive need for control that caused him to torture his wife and children about the most minute details of their lives.

26. Boot Campby Todd Strasser • After ignoring several warnings to stop dating an older woman, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.

27. Flash Burnoutby L.K. Madigan • After he takes a photograph of a woman who is living on the streets and discovers it to be the meth-addicted mother of his closest friend Marissa, Blake finds himself spending more time with Marissa than with his girlfriend.

28. Rooftopby Paul Volponi Clay is trying to get his life together at a drug rehabilitation program when his cousin enters the program as well. Then Clay witnesses police officers shoot his cousin. But was it a justified shooting, or should the officers be held responsible for murder?

29. The Compoundby S.A. Bodeen • After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.

30. Ask Me No Questionsby Marina Budhos • Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family.

31. Does My Head Look Big in This?By Randa Abdel-Fattah Amal decides that she wants to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, as a reflection of her faith. This decision has multiple consequences at her Australian prep school.

32. 3rd Period

33. Welcome Freshmen! Books checked out today will be due November 17th!

34. Unwind by Neal Shusterman • In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives

35. Hold Stillby Nina LaCour As she reads the journal left by her best friend (who committed suicide) Caitlin struggles with powerful feelings of loss, sadness, and guilt, but friends and a first love help her to cope with her negative emotions.

36. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult • Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Anna begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.

37. Wintergirlsby Laurie Halse Anderson Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

38. Looking for Alaska by John Green • Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by his great affection for a girl he can never have, Alaska

39. Going Bovineby Libba Bray • Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with CreutzfeldJakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.

40. City of Bonesby Cassandra Clare Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

41. Wicked Lovelyby Melissa Marr Aislinn has always been able to see faeries, but when the Summer King decides that she could be the answer to a timeless battle between him and the Winter Queen, Aislinn must risk her life to save herself and the young man she loves.

42. Rules of Survivalby Nancy Werlein • Matthew’s mother is verbally and physically abusive. In an effort to free himself and his sisters from her grasp, he attempts to court a new father for himself so that the children can escape.

43. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banksby E. Lockhart • Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.

44. If I Stayby Gayle Forman • While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, decides whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

45. Sleeplessby Thomas Fahy Terrified by the gruesome nightmares and unexplained bouts of sleepwalking that seem to be affecting her and many other students at Saint Opportuna High, Emma and her friends become even more unnerved when, after several deaths, they begin to suspect that something is causing them to kill in their sleep.

46. Impossibleby Nancy Werlin When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break the curse she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to save them both.

47. Faultline by Janet Tashjian • When seventeen-year-old Becky Martin, an aspiring comic, meets Kip Costello, she is caught in a mentally and physically abusive relationship.

48. Feedby M.T Anderson In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

49. 4th Period

50. Welcome Freshmen! Books checked out today will be due November 17h!