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| Cultural | Fiction
| Gender | Music
Poetry | Reference
| Self-help | Sports
Autobiographies...
A Walking Peace
by Nathan C. Landers (NCL)
 Acts of Faith
by Eboo Patel (Beacon Press, 2007)
The coming-of-age story of an American Muslim from India, and how he managed to over com his struggle to understand the traditions of his heritage, his faith, and of being a member of "a generation of young people standing at the crossroads" in America.
Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster)
This Life
by Sidney Poitier (Ballantine Books)
Through My Eyes
by Ruby Bridges, edited by Margo Lundell (Scholastic Press)
When I Was Puerto Rican (in Spanish
& English)
by Esmeralda Santiago (Vintage Books)
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Yo, Alejandro: My (our) Story / Mi (nuestra) Historia
by Alejandro Gac-Artigas
(Ediciones Nuevo Espacio, New Jersey)
The 12-year-old author's first book recounts how he has coped
with discrimination as a Latino growing up in the United States.
Bilingual.
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| Gender | Music
Poetry | Reference
| Self-help | Sports
Classics...
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Candide
by Voltaire
Cry the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
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Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
The Agony and the Ecstasy
by Irving Stone
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
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Autobiographies | Classics
| Cultural | Fiction
| Gender | Music
Poetry | Reference
| Self-help | Sports
Cultural...
AFRICAN AMERICAN
Death of Innocence — The Story of the Hate Crime that
Changed America
by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
(Random House, 2003)
Early African American Classics
Edited by Anthony Appiah
(A Bantam Classic, 1990)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs, edited by L. Maria Child
(Washington Square Press)
My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls
of Color Speak Out
by Iris Jacob
(Henry Holt and Co.)
ARAB AMERICAN
An Ancient Heritage: The Arab-American Minority
by Brent Ashabranner
(HarperCollins)
ARGENTINEAN
Far Away and Long Ago
by W.H. Hudson
(Lyons & Burford)
ASIA
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister
She Left Behind
by Loung Ung
(HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2005)
ASIAN AMERICAN
American Dragons, Twenty-five Asian American Voices
edited by Lawrence Yep
(HarperCollins)
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Yell-Oh Girls!
edited by Vickie Nam Quill
(An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
HAITIAN
Behind the Mountains
by Edward Danticat (Orchard Books/ an imprint of Scholastics, 2002)
During the unrest in Port-au-Prince Haiti, a teenager and her family relocate to America. The new school, the harsh winter temperature, and the concrete landscape of her new home are a shock to Celiane. Will she adjust to her new life in America?
HUNGARIAN
Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War
by Magda Denes (Touchstone Books)
 Europe
In-Sight
edited by Daniel Ambrus and Laszlo Harkanyi,
the co-founders of the Pillar European Club
and the Pillar European Foundation
(Pillar Foundation,
)
JAMAICAN
Everytime a Rainbow Dies
by Rita Williams-Garcia (Harper Collins)
JEWISH AMERICAN
Growing Up Jewish in America: An Oral History
by Myra Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer (Harcourt Brace &
Company)
KOREAN
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
by Sook Nyul Choi (Houghton Mifflin)
NATIVE AMERICAN
Education for Extinction:
American Indians and the Boarding School Experience 1875-1928
by David Wallace Adams (U. Press of Kansas)
Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball
and Honor on the Little Big Horn
by Larry Colton (Warner Books, Inc.)
SOUTH AFRICAN
Between Anger and Hope - South Africa's Youth
and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
by Karin Chubb & Lutz Van Dijk (Witswaterstrand University
Press)
Miriam's Song: A memoir
by Mark Mathabane (Simon & Schuster)
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Fiction...
The Blue Mirror
by Kathe Koja (Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Sixteen-year-old Maggy's life changed from bad to worse the
day she met Cole, "a charismatic runaway" at the Blue Mirror
café.
Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson (Harper Trophy, an imprint of HarperCollins,
1977)
Define "Normal"
by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown and Company)
Two teens brought together by their high school's peer counseling
program (one as the counselor), discover that they have more
in common than either of them suspected.
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Jimmy Coates: Assassin?
By Joe Craig
(HarperCollins Publishers, 2005)
Know it by Heart
by Karl Luntta (Curbstone Press)
When a bi-racial couple and their teenage daughter become
the first minority family on the block, a cross burning on
the newcomers' lawn ignites the flames of prejudice in the
quiet middle-class neighborhood. Three teen residents, who
have befriended the new girl, "set out to seek justice and
discover themselves in the process."
 Not
My Reality
by Kimberly Weiner
Just how great is it to find yourself the younger sister of
the latest hot singing sensation? For 12-year-old Sam Devine,
it isn’t so great. No one pays any attention to her any more;
for the past year everything has been all about her sister
Danni’s career. It has been thousands of adoring fans, interviews,
schedules, her agent, and the year-long promotional bus tour.
All that has overshadowed anything and everything of importance
to Sam. And to make matters worse, just when Sam thought the
end of the tour meant everything would finally be getting
back to normal, the family was invited to do their own reality
TV show. How will Sam survive this sudden, unwanted invasion
into her world?
(YNR Media, LLC, 2004)
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Off to Catch the Sun
by Alejandro Gac-Artigas
(Ediciones Nuevo Espacio, New Jersey)
The second book by author Gac-Artigas is a collection of short
stories and poems. Each one is written in poignant detail,
so much so that each protagonist and each scenario seems real.
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| Gender | Music
Poetry | Reference
| Self-help | Sports
Gender...
The Color of Our Future
by Farai Chideya
(William Monroe & Co.)
Finding Our Way: Teen Girls Survival
Guide
by Allison Abner & Linda Villarosa
(HarperPerennial)
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It's Our World, Too!
Young People Who Are Making a Difference,
How They Do It - How You Can Too
by Phillip Hoose
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Our Boys Speak: Adolescent Boys Write
About Their Inner Lives
by John Nikkah
(St. Martin's Griffin)
The Pact — Three young men make
a promise and fulfill a dream
by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt, with
Lisa Frazier Page (Riverhead Books, 2002)
Passing It On — A Memoir
by Yuri Kochiyama
(UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2004)
The memoirs of a woman who has spent more than a half century
working for social justice, civil rights, and prisoner and
women’s rights in the United States and internationally.
Where the Girls Are
by Susan J. Douglas
(Times Books)
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| Cultural | Fiction
| Gender | Music
Poetry | Reference
| Self-help | Sports
Music...
Jazz the First Century
edited by John Edward Hasse
(William Monroe)
Jazz Profiles: The Spirit of the Nineties
by Reginald Carver & Lenny Berstein
(Billboard Books)
The Young Musician’s Survival Guide
— Tips from Teens & Pros
by Amy Nathan
(Oxford University Press, 200)
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| Cultural | Fiction
| Gender | Music
Poetry | Reference
| Self-help | Sports
Poetry…Classic
& Contemporary
Ain’t I a Woman! A Book of Women’s
Poetry from Around the World
edited by Illona Linthwaite (Wings Books)
Blackbird Singing — Poems and Lyrics
1965 – 1999
by Paul McCartney (Norton)
The Black Poets — A New Anthology
edited by Dudley Randall (Bantam Books)
The Book of American Negro Poetry
by James Weldon Johnson (Harcourt, Brace and Company)
Classic Poems to Read Aloud
by James Berry (Kingfisher)
Early Poems
by Williams Butler Yeats (Dover Publications Inc.)
Grape Leaves — A Century of Arab-American
Poetry
edited by Gregory Orfalea, Sharif Elmusa & Donald M. Allen
(A New Directions Paperbook)
In the Presence of the Sun — Stories
and Poems, 1961-1991
by N. Scott Momaday (St. Martins Press)
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia
Lorca
edited by Francisco Garcia Lorca (Interlink Books)
Truth and Lies, An Anthology of Poems
edited by Patrice Vecchione (Holt)
Where We Are • What We See —
Poems, Stories, Essays, and Art from the Best Young Writers
and Artists in America
(Push Anthology, 2005)
The Wordsworth Poetry Library
The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns,
William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson
(Wordsworth Editions Ltd.)
You Hear Me? Poems and writing by
teenage boys
edited by Betsy Franco (Candlewick Press)
You’ve Just Been Told
by Elizabeth Macklin (W.W. Norton & Company)
Autobiographies | Classics
| Cultural | Fiction
| Gender | Music
Poetry | Reference
| Self-help | Sports
Reference...
  
The American Ethnic Cookbook for Students
by Mark H. Zanger (Oryx Press)
The American Heritage® College Dictionary,
4th Edition
Includes Windows® / Macintosh® CD-Rom
(Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004)
Don’t Know Much About Geography —
Everything You Need to Know About the World, but Never Learned
by Kenneth C. Davis
(Perennial — HarperCollins Publishers, 2001)
 How
to Survive Your Freshman Year
by Hundreds of College Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors Who
Did
(Hundreds of Heads Books, Inc., 2004)
How to Write Short Stories, 4th Edition
by Sharon Sorenson (Peterson’s, 2002)
www.thomsonlearning.com
How to Write Book Reports
by Harry Teitelbaum (Thomson Arco, 2002)
www.regentbook.com
Majoring in the Rest of Your Life
- Career Secrets for College Students
by Carol Carter & Lynn Quitman Troyka (Prentice Hall)
Street Wise - A Guide for Teen Investors
by Janet Bamford (Bloomberg Press)
Teen Vestor - The Practical Investment
Guide for Teens and Their Parents
by Emmanuel Modu and Andrea Walker (A Perigee Book)
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| Cultural | Fiction
| Gender | Music
Poetry | Reference
| Self-help | Sports
Self-help...
 Clean
by Chris Beckman (Hazelden, 2005)
A former cast member of MTV’s The Real World: Chicago, "tells
what it means — and what it takes — for a young addict to
get clean and stay clean."
Closing the Gap: A Strategy for Bringing
Parents and Teens Together
by Jay McGraw (A Fireside Book by Simon & Schuster)
The Code - The 5 Secrets of Teen Success
by Mawi Asgedom (Little, Brown and Company)
Get Strong! (Body by Jake's Guide
to Building Confidence, Muscles,
and a Great Future for Teenage Guys)
by Jake Steinfeld (A Fireside Book by Simon & Schuster)
Life Strategies for Teens
by Jay McGraw (A Fireside Book by Simon & Schuster)
 Organizing
from the Inside Out for Teens:
The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Room,
Your Time, and Your Life
by Julie Morgenstern
and Jessi Morgenstern-Colón
(Owl Books)
PT PICK!
Safe Teen: Powerful Alternatives to Violence
by Anita Roberts Polestar (An Imprint of Raincoat Books)
 The
S Book (The Sex Book):
An Alphabet of Smarter Love
by Jane Pavanel
(Lobster Press)
Autobiographies | Classics
| Cultural | Fiction
| Gender | Music
Poetry | Reference
| Self-help | Sports
Sports...
 Soccer
Dreams
by Leah Lauber
(WCI Press)
Autobiographies | Classics
| Cultural | Fiction
| Gender | Music
Poetry | Reference
| Self-help | Sports
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