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 Booklists For Teens

African-American ~ Classics ~ Fantasy ~ For Guys ~ Historical ~ Horror ~ Humor
Mystery ~ Place or Culture ~ Romance ~ Sci-Fi ~ Sports ~ War

Check the Michigan City Public Library Catalog

Links: 
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Author website list

Booklists for Young Adults
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African American

Try:
James Baldwin
Christopher Paul Curtis
Sharon Draper
Sharon Flake ~ Begging for Change / Money Hungry / The Skin I'm In
Ernest Gaines
Nikki Grimes
Virginia Hamilton
Lorri Hewett
Angela Johnson
Scott Mackey
Sharon Mathis
Janet McDonald ~ Chill Wind / Spellbound

Jess Mowry
Walter Dean Myers
Mildred D. Taylor
Rita Williams-Garcia
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Jacqueline Woodson
Richard Wright

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Classics

Try:
Jane Austen ~ Pride and Prejudice
Beowulf
Charlotte Bronte ~ Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte ~ Wuthering Heights
Lewis Carroll ~ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Miquel de Cervantes ~ Don Quixote
Joseph Conrad ~ Heart of Darkness
James Fenimore Cooper ~ The Last of the Mohicans
Stephen Crane ~ The Red Badge of Courage
Daniel Defoe ~ Robinson Crusoe
Charles Dickens
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~ Crime and Punishment
George Elliot ~ Silas Marner
William Faulkner ~ The Sound and the Fury
F.Scott Fitzgerald ~ The Great Gatsby
Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ The Scarlet Letter
Homer ~ The Odyssey
Henry James ~ The Turn of the Screw
James Joyce ~ Ulysses
Jack Kerouac ~ On the Road
Rudyard Kipling
Harper Lee ~ To Kill a Mockingbird
Herman Melville ~ Moby Dick
John Milton ~ Paradise Lost
George Orwell ~ 1984
Edgar Allan Poe
Edmond Rostand ~ Cyrano de Bergerac
William Shakespeare
John Steinbeck ~ The Grapes of Wrath
Robert Louis Stevenson ~ Treasure Island
Harriet Beecher Stowe ~ Uncle Tom's Cabin
Jonathan Swift ~ Gulliver's Travels
Leo Tolstoy ~ War and Peace
Mark Twain
Jules Verne ~ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Lew Wallace ~ Ben Hur
H.G. Wells ~ The Time Machine
Oscar Wilde ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray
Virginia Woolf ~ To the Lighthouse

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Fantasy

General ~ Animal Fantasy

Try:
David Almond
T.A. Barron
Gillian Bradshaw
Terry Brooks

Susan Fletcher
Esther Friesner
Carla Jablonski ~ Books of Magic series
Diana Wynne Jones
Robert Jordan

Virginia Hamilton

Victoria Hanley

Madeline L'Engle
Ursula Le Guin
C.S. Lewis
Robin McKinley
Jenny Nimmo
Garth Nix
Christopher Paolini ~ Inheritance Trilogy
Meredith Ann Pierce
Tamora Pierce
Vivian Vande Velde
Margaret Weis
Patricia C. Wrede

Jane Yolen

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Animal Fantasy

Try:
Richard Adams ~ Watership Down
Avi ~ Perloo the Bold / Poppy
Clare Bell ~ Ratha and Thistle-Chaser
John Bemelmans ~ Harold's Tail
Mary Brown ~ Pigs don't Fly
David Clement-Davies ~ Fire-bringer / The Sight
Diane Duane ~ The Book of Night with Moon / To Visit the Queen
Nancy Farmer ~ The Warm Place
Susan Fletcher ~ Sign of the Dove
Kenneth Grahame ~ Wind in the Willows
Erin Hunter ~ Warriors Series
Brian Jacques ~ Redwall
Robin Jarvis ~ Deptford Mice Trilogy
Janet Taylor Lisle ~ Forest
Kenneth Oppel ~ Silverwing / Sunwing / Firewing
George Orwell ~ Animal Farm
Meredith Pierce ~ Treasure at the Heart of the Tangleweed / The Woman who Loved Reindeer
Tamore Pierce ~ The Immortals Quartet
J.R.R. Tolkien ~ Roverandom
Patricia Wrede ~ Chronicles of the Enchanted Forest
Laurence Yep ~ Dragon Cauldron
Jane Yolen ~ Dragon's Blood / Heart's Blood / A Sending of Dragons

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Books for Guys

See Also If you like...Gary Paulsen
See Also Teen Fiction - Sports

Try:
Jonah Black ~ The Black Book
Edward Bloor ~ Tangerine
Bruce Brooks ~ Asylum for Nightface
Kate Cann ~ Hard Cash
Alden R. Carter ~ Bull Catcher
Robert Cormier ~ Fade
Chris Crutcher ~ Ironman
Christopher Paul Curtis ~ Bud, Not Buddy
Carl Deuker ~ Painting the Black / Night Hoops
Erik E. Esckilsen ~ The Last Mall Rat
Dennis Foon ~ Skud
Jonathan Scott Fuqua ~ The Reappearance of Sam Webber
Kevin Henkes ~ The Birthday Room
Kimberly Willis Holt ~ When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Norma Howe ~ The Adventures of the Blue Avenger
A.M. Jenkins ~ Out of Order
Ron Koertge ~ Confess-O-Rama
E.L. Konigsburg ~ Silent to the Bone
Gordan Korman
Benjamin Lebert ~ Crazy 2000
Chris Lynch ~ Iceman
Daniel Pinkwater ~ The Education of Robert Nifkin
Randy Powell ~ Tribute to Another Rock Star
Michael Simmons ~ Pool Boy
Kieran Scott ~ Jingle Boy
Rich Wallace ~ Wrestling Sturbridge
Will Weaver
Ellen Wittlinger ~ Hard Love

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Historical

General
Ancient Civilizations
~ Middle Ages ~ Modern Europe ~ Immigration ~ The Holocaust
  Colonial & Revolutionary America ~ American Frontier ~ Slavery
19th Century America ~ Great Depression ~ Racial Conflict / Civil Rights


Ancient Civilizations

Try:
Margaret J. Anderson ~ The Druid's Gift
Gillian Bradshaw ~ The Beacon at Alexandria / Island of Ghosts / The Sand Renderer
Henrietta Branford ~ The Fated Sky

William J. Brooke ~ A is for Aarrgh!
Michael Cadnum ~ Raven of the Waves
Dorothy Sharp Carter ~ His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut
Peter Dickinson ~ The Blue Hawk
Priscilla Galloway ~ The Courtesan's Daughter
Adele Geras ~ Troy
Beatrice Gormley ~ Adara / Miriam
Kristiana Gregory ~ Cleopatra VII, Daughter of the Nile
H.M. Hoover ~ The Dawn Palace
Julius Lester ~ Pharaoh's Daughter
Sonia Levitin ~ Escape from Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz ~ Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
Clemence McLaren ~ Inside the Walls of Troy / Waiting for Odysseus
Gloria D. Miklowitz ~ Masada
Walter Dean Myers ~ Tales of a Dead King
Donna Jo Napoli ~ Sirena / Song of the Magdalene
Chester Osborne ~ The Memory String
Patricia Curtis Pfitsch ~ The Deeper Song
Jill Rubalcaba ~ The Wadjet Eye
Elizabeth G. Speare ~ The Bronze Bow
Rosemary Sutcliff ~ The Eagle of the Ninth / Song for a Dark Queen / Sun Horse, Moon Horse


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Middle Ages
(400-1400)

Try:
Elizabeth Alder ~ The King's Shadow
Avi ~ Crispin / Midnight Magic
Tracy Barrett ~ Anna of Byzantium
Malcolm Bosse ~ Captives of Time
Gillian Bradshaw ~ The Wolf Hunt
Pauline Chandler ~ Warrior Girl

Kevin Crossley-Holland ~ Arthur Trilogy
Karen Cushman
Alexandre Dumas ~ The Three Musketeers
Joan Elizabeth Goodman ~ Peregrine
Frances Mary Hendry ~ Quest for a Maid
Catherine Jinks ~ Pagan's Series
Sherryl Jordan ~ The Raging Quiet
Anne McCaffrey ~ Black Horses for the King
Eloise Jarvis McGraw ~ The Striped Ships
John Morressy ~ The Juggler
Donna Jo Napoli ~ Breath
Linda Sue Park ~ A Single Shard
Gloria Skurzynski ~ Spider's Voice
Zilpha Keatley Snyder ~ Song of the Gargoyle
Nancy Springer ~ I am Mordred / I am Morgan Le Fay
Rosemary Sutcliff ~ The Shining Company
Frances Temple ~ The Ramsay Scallop
Sarah L. Thompson ~ The Dragon's Son
Rebecca Tingle ~ The Edge on the Sword
Theresa Tomlinson ~ The Forestwife trilogy
Laura E. Williams ~ The Executioner's Daughter

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Modern Europe
(1300-1900)

Try:
Gary Blackwood ~ Shakespeare's Scribe / The Shakespeare Stealer
Susan Cooper ~ King of Shadows
Barbara Dana ~ Young Joan
Leon Garfield ~ Black Jack / Smith / The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
Patricia Reilly Giff ~ Nory Ryan's Song

James Heneghan ~ The Grave
Karen Hesse ~ Stowaway
Josef Holub ~ The Robber and Me
Ben Jeapes ~ The New World Order
Iain Lawrence ~ The High Seas Trilogy
Waldtraut Lewin ~ Freedom Beyond the Sea
Elizabeth Lutzeier ~ The Coldest Winter
Geraldine McCaughrean ~ The Pirate's Son
Carol Matas ~ The Burning Time
Carolyn Meyer ~ Doomed Queen Anne / Mary, Bloody Mary
Philip Pullman ~ Sally Lockhart series
Gary D. Schmidt ~ Anson's Way
Katherine Sturtevant ~ At the Sign of the Star
Mark Twain ~ The Prince and the Pauper
Jane Yolen ~ The Queen's Own Fool

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Immigration

Try:
Avi ~ Beyond the Western Sea Series
Patricia Beatty ~ Lupita Manana
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz ~ The Sunflower Diary
Willa Cather ~ My Antonia
Gillian Chan ~ The Carved Box
Karen Coombs ~ Sarah on her Own
Edwidge Danticat ~ Behind the Mountains
Helen Frost ~ The Braid
Sherry Garland ~ Shadow of the Dragon
Rosa Guy ~ The Friends

James Heneghan ~ Torn Away
Irene Beltran Hernandez ~ Across the Great River
Karen Hesse ~ Letters from Rifka
Linda Holeman ~ Promise Song
Ofelia Dumas Lachtman ~ The Girl from Playa Blanca
Marie G. Lee ~ Necessary Roughness
Sonia Levitin ~ Journey to America / Silver Days
Norma Fox Mazer ~ Good Night Miriam
Geraldine McCaughrean ~ Plundering Paradise
An Na ~ A Step from Heaven
Jean Lowery Nixon ~ Ellis Island Series
Patricia Reilly Giff ~ Maggie's Door
Renee Roth-Hano ~ Safe Harbors
Pam Munoz Ryan ~ Esperanza Rising
Allen Say ~ Grandfather's Journey
Pegi Deitz Shea ~ Tangled Threads
Upton Sinclair ~ The Jungle
Maxine Trottier ~ A Circle of Silver
Ana Veciana-Suarez ~ Flight to Freedom
Victor Villasenor ~ Macho!
Maureen Wartski ~ Candle in the Wind
Paul Yee ~ Dead Man's Gold
Laurence Yep ~ Mountain Light

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Holocaust

See Also World War II

Try:
Chester Aaron ~ Gideon
Edith Baer ~ Walk the Dark Streets
Mirian Bat-Ami ~ Two Suns in the Sky
Peter Carter ~ The Hunted
Robert Cormier ~ Tunes for Bears to Dance to
Ellis Dillon ~ Children of Bach
James Forman ~ The Survivor
Anne Frank ~ The Diary of a Young Girl
Yankev Glatshteyn ~ Emil and Karl
Erik Christian Haugaard ~ Chase Me, Catch Nobody
Kathy Kacer ~ Clara's War
Christa Laird ~ Shadow of the Wall
Jane Whitbread Levin ~ Star of Danger
Lois Lowry ~ Number the Stars
Elizabeth Mace ~ Brother Enemy
Carol Matas ~ After the War / Daniel's Story / Greater than Angels / Lisa's War
Michael Morpurgo ~ Waiting for Anya
Donna Jo Napoli ~ Stones in Water
Han Nolan ~ If I should die before I Wake
Gudrun Pausewang ~ The Final Journey
Doris Orgel ~ The Devil in Vienna
Uri Orlev ~ The Island on Bird Street / The Lady with the Hat / The Man from the Other Side/ Run, Boy, Run
Karen Ray ~ To Cross a Line
Renee Roth-Hano ~ Touch Wood
Aranka Siegal ~ Grace in the Wilderness
Jerry Spinelli ~ Milkweed
Cynthia Voight ~ David and Jonathan
Ida Vos ~ Anna is Still Here / Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon / The Key is Lost
Eva Wuorio ~ To Fight in Silence
Jane Yolen ~ The Devil's Arithmetic

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Colonial & Revolutionary America
(1500-1800)

See Also The American Revolution

Try:
Laurie Halse Anderson ~ Fever, 1793
Avi ~ True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
James Collier ~ Jump Ship to Freedom
Caroline B. Cooney ~ The Ransom of Mercy Carter
Esther Forbes ~ Johnny Tremain
Joyce Hansen ~ The Captive
Madge Harrah ~ My Brother, My Enemy
Nancy Kelly ~ The Whispering Rod
Kathryn Lasky ~ Beyond the Burning Time
Scott O'Dell ~ Sarah Bishop
Celia Reese ~ Witch Child
Ann Rinaldi
Fatima Shaik ~ Melitte
Elizabeth Speare ~ Calico Captive / The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Frances Wood ~ Becoming Rosemary

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 American Frontier

Try:
Stephen Ambrose ~ This Vast Land
Luanne Armstrong ~ Annie
Frances Arrington ~ Prairie Whispers
Mary Jane Auch ~ The Road to Home
Joan Blos ~ Brothers of the Heart
Cindy Bonner ~ Lily
Brian Burks ~ Wrango
Patricia Calvert ~ Bigger / Snowbird
James Lincoln Collier ~  The Bloody Country / The Clock
Pam Conrad ~ My Daniel / Prairie Songs
Jane Louise Curry ~ Dark Shade
William Durbin ~ The Journal of Sean Sullivan
Mary Downing Hahn ~ The Gentleman Outlaw and Me
Ric Lyden Hardman ~ Sunshine Rider
Jennifer Holm ~ Boston Jane
Jan Hudson ~ Sweetgrass
Kathryn Lasky ~ Beyond the Divide / The Bone Wars
Joan Lowery Nixon ~ Circle of Love
Scott O'Dell ~ Carlota / Streams to the River, River to the Sea
Gary Paulsen ~ Mr. Tucket / Tucket's Gold / Tucket's Home / Tucket's Ride
Conrad Richter ~ Light in the Forest
Ann Rinaldi ~ The Second Bend in the River
Roland Smith ~ The Captain's Dog
Michael Spooner ~ Daniel's Walk
Theodore Taylor ~ Walking up a Rainbow
Anna Warren Turner ~ Third Girl From the Left
Diane Lee Wilson ~ Black Storm Comin'
Lawrence Yep ~ The Journal of Wong Ming Chung / Mountain Light

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Slavery

See also The Civil War

Jennifer Armstrong ~ Steal Away
Katherine Ayers ~ North by Night
William Bell ~ Zack
James Collier ~ Jump Ship to Freedom
Sharon Draper ~ Copper Sun
William R. Forstchen ~ We Look Like Men of War
Jean Fritz ~ Brady
Joyce Hansen ~ The Captive / Which Way Freedom
Belinda Hurmence ~ A Girl Called Boy
Kathryn Lasky ~ True North
Julius Lester ~ The Old African
Walter Dean Myers ~ The Glory Field
Scott O'Dell ~ My Name is Not Angelica
Gary Paulsen ~ Nightjohn
Andrea Davis Pinkney ~ Silent Thunder
Carolyn Reeder ~ Across the Lines
Ann Rinaldi ~ Taking Liberty / Wolf by the Ears
Virginia Frances Schwartz ~ Send one Angel Down
Fatima Shaik ~ Melitte
Harriet Beecher Stowe ~ Uncle Tom's Cabin
Maxine Trottier ~ By the Standing Stone
Arvella Whitmore ~ Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun

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19th Century America

Try:
Mary Jane Auch ~ Frozen Summer
Avi ~ The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Patricia Beatty ~ Be Ever Hopeful / Turn Homeward Hannalee
Sharon Cadwaller ~ Sofia's Heart
Elisa Carbone ~ Storm Warriors
James Lincoln Collier ~ Chipper
Caroline B. Cooney ~ Both Sides of Time
Karen Cushman ~ Rodzina
Kathleen Duey ~ Louisiana Hurricane 1860
Jean Ferris ~ Into the Wind
Diane E. Gray ~ Holding up the Earth
Jessie Haas ~ Westminster West
James Heneghan ~ The Grave
Will Hobbs ~ Down the Yukon
Kathleen Karr ~ The Boxer
Trudy Krisher ~ Uncommon Faith
A. LaFaye ~ Edith Shay
Katherine Paterson
Richard Peck ~ Fair Weather
Ann Rinaldi ~ An Acquaintance with Darkness / Broken Days / The Coffin Quilt / Mine Eyes Have Seen
Harriette Robinet ~ Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Mildred Taylor ~ The Land

Mark Twain ~ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Jane Yolen ~ The Gift of Sarah Barker


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The Great Depression

Try:
James Lincoln Collier ~ The Worst of Times
Barbara Corcoran ~ The Sky is Falling
Priscilla Cummings ~ Saving Grace
Christopher Paul Curtis ~ Bud, Not Buddy
Cynthia DeFelice ~ Nowhere to Call Home
Karen Hesse ~ Out of the Dust
Irene Hunt ~ No Promises in the Wind
Jackie French Koller ~ Nothing to Fear
Richard Peck ~ A Long Way from Chicago / A Year Down Yonder
Tracey Porter ~ Treasures in the Dust
Mollie Poupeney ~ Her Father's Daughter
Carolyn Reeder ~ Grandpa's Mountain
James Riordan ~ Boxcar Molly
John Steinbeck ~ The Grapes of Wrath
Mildred Taylor ~ Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Jean Thesman ~ The Storyteller's Daughter
Gloria Whelan ~ That Wild Berries Should Grow

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Racial Conflict in America / Civil Rights Movement

Try:
Ked Alder ~ The White Bus
John Armistead ~ The Return of Gabriel
Christopher Paul Curtis ~ The Watson's go to Birmingham
Ernest Draper ~ Romiette and Julio
Adrian Fogelin ~ Crossing Jordan
Karen Hesse ~ Witness
David Klass ~ Danger Zone
Trudy Krishner ~ Spite Fences
A. LaFaye ~ The Strength of Saints
Diane Les Becquets ~ The Stones of Mourning Creek
Robert Libsyte ~ The Summer Boy
Yvette Moore ~ Freedom Songs
Han Nolan ~ A Summer of Kings
Jerrie Oughton ~ Music from a Place called Half Moon
Harriette Gillem Robinet ~ Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues
Mary Ann Rodman ~ Yankee Girl
Mildred Taylor ~ Let the Circle be Unbroken / Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Leon Tillage ~ Leon's Story
Brenda Scott Wilkinson ~ Not Separate, Not Equal

Jacqueline Woodson ~ If you come Softly

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General

Try:
Patricia Beatty
Karen Cushman
Kristiana Gregory
Karen Hesse
Kathryn Lasky
Scott O'Dell
Ann Rinaldi
Mildred Taylor

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Horror

General ~ Ghosts ~ Vampires ~ Werewolves ~ Witches

 General
Try:
Isobelle Carmody
Caroline B. Cooney
Richie Tankersley Cusick
Diane Hoh
Robin Jarvis
Christopher Pike
L.J. Smith
R.L. Stine
Paul Zindel

Ghosts
Try:
Vivien Alcock ~ Ghostly Companions / Red Eared Ghosts
Antonia Barber ~ The Ghosts
Eve Bunting ~ The Presence
Sylvia Cassedy ~ Behind the Attic Wall
Pam Conrad ~ Stonewords
Mary Downing Hahn ~ The Doll in the Garden / Time for Andrew / Wait till Helen Comes
Susan Hill ~ The Woman in Black
William D. Hill ~ California Ghosting
Dean Hughes ~ Nutty's Ghost
Washington Irving ~ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Jess Mowry ~ Ghost Train
Mel Odom ~ Shades
Richard Peck ~ The Ghosts Belongs to me / Ghosts I have been / Voices after Midnight
Laura Ruby ~ Lily's Ghosts
Barbara T. Russell ~ Blue Lightning
Steven Schnur ~ Shadow Children
Dyan Sheldon ~ You Can Never go Home Again
Rich Wallace ~ Restless
Betty Ren Wright
Chelsea Quinn Yarbo ~ Monet's Ghost
Jane Yolen ~ Here there be Ghosts

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Vampires
Try:
Carmen Adams ~ Song of the Vampire
M.T. Anderson ~ Thirsty
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Buffy the Vampire Series
T.J. Bradstreet ~ Before She Wakes
Nancy Garden ~ Prisoner of Vampires
Mary Downing Hahn ~ Look for Me by Midnight
William D. Hill
Deborah & James Howe ~ Bunnicula / The Celery Stalks at Midnight
Annette Curtis Klause ~ The Silver Kiss
Joseph Locke ~ Blood & Lace Series
Meredith Pierce ~ Darkangel Trilogy
Christopher Pike ~ The Last Vampire Series
Ellen Schreiber ~ Vampire Kisses

Darren Shan ~ Cirque du Freak Series
L.J. Smith ~ The Night World Series
L.J. Smith ~ The Vampire Diaries Series
S.P. Somtow ~ The Vampire's Beautiful Daughter
Bram Stoker ~ Dracula
Vivian Vande Velde ~ Companions of the Night
Terry M. West ~ Confessions of a Teenage Vampire Series


Links:
The Vampire Library

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Werewolves
Try:
Jonathan Aycliffe ~ The Lost
Gene DeWeese ~ The Adventures of a Two-minute Werewolf
Henry Garfield ~ Moondog Trilogy
Christopher Golden ~ Prowlers Series
Ann Hodgman ~ Children of the Night Series
Patrick Jennings ~ The Wolving Time
Annette Curtis Klause ~ Blood and Chocolate
Bebe Faas Rice ~ The Year the Wolves Came
Patricia Windsor ~ The Blooding
Jane Yolen ~ Werewolves

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Witches

Try:
Alison Baird ~ The Witches of Willowmere
Megan Barnes
Franny Billingsley ~ Well Wished
Ruth Chew
Roald Dahl ~ The Witches
Serena Devlin ~ The Red Witch
Lois Duncan ~ Gallows Hill
Madeleine Edmondson ~ Anna Witch
Monica Furlong ~ Juniper / Wise Child
Kate Gilmore ~ Enter Three Witches
Nancy Holder ~ Wicked Series
Dorothy Hoobler ~ Priscilla Foster
E.L. Konigsburg ~ Jennifer, Hectate, Macbeth, William McKinley and me, Elizabeth
Hanna Kraan
Kathryn Lasky ~ Beyond the Burning Time
Anne Mazer ~ The Accidental Witch
Elizabeth Moore ~ Dark Moon Series
Sarah Mylnowski ~ Bras & Broomsticks
Donna Jo Napoli ~ The Magic Circle
Celia Rees ~ Sorceress / Witch Child
Jean Thesman ~ The Other Ones
Cate Tiernan ~ Sweep Series
Vivian Vande Velde ~ Magic can be Murder / Never Trust a Dead Man
Victoria Whitehead

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Humor

Try:
Matthew T. Anderson ~ Burger Wuss
Joan Bauer ~ Rules of the Road / Squashed
Ann Brashares ~ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Catherine Clark ~ Truth or Dairy
Ellen Conford
Sharon Creech ~ Absolutely Normal Chaos
Paula Danziger
Paul Fleischman ~ A Fate Totally Worse than Death
Leon Garfield ~ The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
William Goldman ~ The Princess Bride
Daniel Hayes ~ Flyers
Chad Henry ~ Dogbreath Victorious
Norma Howe ~ Adventures of the Blue Avenger
Susan Juby
Amy Kaye ~ The Real Deal
Beverly Keller ~ The Amazon Papers
Ron Koertge ~ Confess-O-Rama
Gordon Korman
Harry Mazer
Gary Paulsen ~ The Schernoff Discoveries
Richard Peck
Daniel Pinkwater
Louise Rennison

William Sleator ~ Oddballs
Jerry Spinelli
Todd Strasser

Paul Zindel

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Mystery

Try:
Elaine Alphin
Jay Bennett
Deb Caletti
Kate Chester ~ The Hear No Evil Series
Caroline B. Cooney
Robert Cormier
Jordan Cray ~ The Danger.com Series

Lois Duncan
Susan Dunlap ~ Too Close to the Edge
Christopher Golden
Mary Downing Hahn

Beverly Hastings ~ Promise not to Tell
Sharon E. Heisel ~ Eyes of a Stranger
Diane Hoh ~ The Accident
Monica Hughes
Rob MacGregor ~ Hawk Moon / Prophecy Rock
S.R. Martin ~ Insomniacs Series
Norah McClintock
Graham McNamee ~ Acceleration
Gloria Miklowitz
Joan Lowery Nixon
Daniel Parker ~ The Wessex Papers
Phillip Pullman ~ The Sally Lockhart series

Willo Davis Roberts ~ Twisted Summer

Patricia H. Rushford ~ The Jennie McGrady Series
Wendelin Van Draanen
Eric Walters


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Place or Culture

AfricaAsiaAustralia & New Zealand ~ Canada ~ England, Ireland & Scotland
Europe ~ India, Pakistan & Afghanistan ~ Mexico & Central America
Middle EastNative American ~ Russia ~ South America

 

Africa

Try:
Peter Dickinson ~ A Bone from a Dry Sea
Nancy Farmer ~ The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm / A Girl Named Disaster
Michael Hagen ~ The African Term
Victor Kelleher ~ Rescue!
Jane Kurtz ~ The Storyteller's Beads
Elizabeth Laird ~ The Garbage King
Maretha Maartens ~ Paperbird
Anton Quintana ~ The Baboon King
Margaret Sacks ~ Beyond Safe Boundaries
Norman Silver ~ No Tigers in Africa
Amy Bronwen Zemser ~ Beyond the Mango Tree

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Asia

Try:
William Bell ~ Forbidden City
Da Chen ~ Wandering Warrior
Frank Chin ~ Donald Duk
Sook Nyul Choi ~ Year of Impossible Goodbyes / Echoes of the White Giraffe
Kara Dalkey ~ Little Sister
Jean Fritz ~ Homesick
Sherry Garland ~ Song of the Buffalo Boy
Alan Gratz ~ Samurai Shortstop
Erik Christian Haugaard ~ The Samurai's Tale
Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler ~ Samurai series
Helen S. Kim ~ The Long Season of Rain
Marie G. Lee ~ Finding My Voice / Saying Goodbye / If it Hadn't been for You
Geraldine McCaughrean ~ The Kite Rider
Ken Mochizuki ~ Beacon Hill Boys
Kyoko Mori ~ One Bird / Shizuko's Daughter
Lensey Namioka ~ Den of the White Fox / An Ocean Apart, a World Away / Ties that Bind
Jean Davies Okimoto ~ Talent Night
Linda Sue Park ~ Kite Fighters / See-Saw Girl / A Single Shard
Katherine Paterson ~ Of Nightingales that Weep / Sign of the Chrysanthemum
Ching Yeung Russell ~ Child Bride
Jon Scieszka ~ Sam Samurai
Jeff Talarigo ~ The Pearl Diver
Cheryl Aylward Whitesel ~ Rebel / Blue Fingers
Gloria Whelen ~ Goodbye Vietnam / Chu Ju's House
Diane Lee Wilson ~ I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
Laurence Yep

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Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific Islands

Try:
Judith Clarke ~ The Heroic Life of Al Capsella / Wolf on the Fold
Rachel Cohn ~ The Steps
Alan Collins ~ Boys from Bondi / Jacob's Ladder
Gary Crew ~ Angel's Gate / Strange Objects
Garry Disher ~ The Bamboo Flute
Ted Egan ~ The Drover's Boy
Maurice Gee ~ The Fat Man / The Fire Raiser
Neil Grant ~ Rhino Chasers
Sonya Hartnett ~ Thursday's Child / Sleeping Dogs / Wilful Blue
Elizabeth Hawthorn ~ Thunderwith
Kimberly Willis Holt ~ Keeper of the Night
Elizabeth Honey ~ Don't Pat the Wombat
Witi Ihimaera ~ The Whale Rider
Robin Klein ~ The Sky in Silver Lace
Alison Lester ~ The Snow Pony
Deborah Lisson
Brigid Lowry ~ Guitar Highway Rose
John Marsden ~ So Much to Tell You / Tomorrow, when the War Began
Jeanne McNamara ~ Caitlin's Country
Joan Phipson ~ The Cats / Hit and Run / The Way Home
Gillian Rubenstein ~ Skymaze
Paul Zindel ~ Reef of Death


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Canada

Try:
Jeannette Armstrong ~ Slash
Marianne Brandis ~ The Tinderbox
Martha Brooks ~ Bone Dance / Two Moons in August
Margaret Buffie ~ Angels turn their Backs
Gillian Chan ~ The Carved Box
Gayle Friesen ~ Men of Stone
Barbara Haworth-Attard ~ Irish Chain
Troon Harrison ~ A Bushel of Lights
James Heneghan ~ Wish Me Luck
Will Hobbs ~ Far North
Linda Holeman ~ Raspberry House Blues
James Houston ~ Frobisher Bay / Frozen Fire / Ghost Paddle / River Runners
Gordon Korman
Jean Little ~ His Banner over Me
Janet McNaughton ~ Make or Break Spring
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Gary Paulsen ~ Hatchet
Shane Peacock ~ Bone Beds of the Badlands / The Mystery of Ireland's Eye
Arthur Slade ~ Dust
Ted Stenhouse ~ Across the Steel River
Theodore Taylor ~ The Hostage
Maxine Trottier ~ Sister to the Wolf
Eric Walters ~ Bully Boys / Camp X / War of the Eagles
Tim Wynne-Jones ~ The Maestro

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England, Ireland & Scotland

Try:
Rachel Anderson ~ The Bus People
Nina Bawden ~ The Outside Child
Henrietta Branford ~ Fire, Bed & Bone
Caroline Cooney ~ The Terrorist
Gillian Cross ~ Wolf
Jane Louise Curry ~ A Stolen Life
Paula Danziger ~ Thames doesn't Rhyme with James
Patricia Reilly Giff ~ Nory Ryan's Song / Maggie's Door
Iain Lawrence ~ The Wreckers
Elizabeth Lutzeier ~ The Coldest Winter
Gary D. Schmidt ~ Anson's Way
Frances Temple ~ Ramsay Scallop
Jean Ure ~ Plague
Eileen Van Kirk ~ A Promise to Keep
Ellen Emerson White ~ Voyage on the Great Titanic
Cherry Whytock ~ My Cup Runneth Over


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Europe

Try:
Nina Bawden ~ The Real Plato Jones
[Greece]
Nathaniel Benchley ~ Bright Candles [Denmark]
Peter Carter ~ Bury the Dead [Germany]
Barbara Harrison ~ Theo [Greece]
Gaye Hicyilmaz ~ Frozen Waterfall [Switzerland]
Anne Isaacs ~ Torn Thread [Czechoslovakia]
Jane Whitbread Levin ~ Star of Danger [Denmark]
Joan Lingard ~ Tug of War [Latvia]
Janet Taylor Lisle ~ Sirens and Spies [France]
Elizabeth Lutzeier ~ The Wall [Germany]
Carol Matas ~ After the War
Alice Mead ~ Adem's Cross [Serbia/Yugoslavia]
Walter Dean Myers ~ Adventure in Granada [Spain]
Donna Jo Napoli ~ For the Love of Venice [Italy]
Mette Newth ~ The Abduction [Norway]
Doris Orgel ~ The Devil in Vienna [Austria]
Bjarne B. Reuter ~ The Boys from St. Petri [Denmark]
Frances Temple ~ Ramsay Scallop [Spain]
Barbara Werbsa ~ The Best Place to Live is the Ceiling [Switzerland]
Kathryn Winter ~ Katarina [Slovakia]


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India, Pakistan & Afghanistan

Try
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ~ Neela
Deborah Ellis ~ Parvana's Journey / Breadwinner / Mud City
Susan Fletcher ~ Shadow Spinner
Rachna Gilmore ~ A Group of One
Tanuja Desai Hidier ~ Born Confused
Uma Krishnaswami ~ Shower of Gold / Naming Maya
Kathryn Lasky ~ Jahanara
Suzanne Fisher Staples ~ Haveli / Shabanu / Shiva's Fire
Henry Thoreau ~ The Thousand and One Nights
Gloria Whelan ~ Homeless Bird


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Mexico & Central America

Try:
Julia Alvarez ~ Before We Were Free
Judith Ortiz Cofer ~ An Island like You
Ben Mikaelsen ~ Sparrow Hawk Red
Nicholasa Mohr ~ Felita / Going Home
Naomi Shilab Nye ~ The Tree is Older than You Are
Scott O'Dell ~ Carlota
Gary Paulsen ~ The Crossing
Richard Peck ~ Unfinished Portrait of Jessica
Pam Munoz Ryan ~ Esperanza Rising
Marc Talbert ~ Heart of the Jaguar / Small Change
Frances Temple ~ Taste of Salt / Tonight, by Sea
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino ~ Leona, A Love Story

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Middle East

Try:
Lynne Reid Banks ~ Broken Bridge / One More River
Elizabeth Laird ~ Kiss the Dust
Sonia Levitin ~ The Singing Mountain
Naomi Shihab Nye ~ Habibi
Nahid Rachlin ~ Veils
Frances Temple ~ The Beduin's Gazelle

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Native American

Try:
Paula Gunn Allen ~ Spider Woman's Granddaughters
Jeannette Armstrong ~ Slash
Joseph Bruchac ~ Pocahontas
Marlene Carvell ~ Sweetgrass Basket
Robert Conley ~ Mountain Windsong
Margaret Craven ~ I Heart the Owl call my Name
Jane Louise Curry ~ Hold Up the Sky / The Wonderful Sky Boat / Turtle Island
Michael Dorris ~ Crown of Columbus / Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Louise Erdrich ~ The Game of Silence ~ Tracks
Will Hobbs ~ Beardance / Bearstone
Linda Hogan ~ Mean Spirit
Jan Hudson ~ Sweetgrass
Janet Taylor Lisle ~ The Crying Rocks
Robert Lipsyte ~ The Brave
Rob MacGregor ~ Prophecy Rock
Michael Noel ~ Good for Nothing
Scott O'Dell ~ Hawk that Dare not Hunt by Day / Sing Down the Moon
Louis Owens ~ Wolfsong
Celia Rees ~ Sorceress
David & Aimee Thurlo ~ Spirit Line
Helen Hughes Vick ~ Walker of Time / Walker's Journey Home / Tag Against Time
James Welch ~ Fools Crow

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Russia

Try:
Tamar Bergman ~ Along the Tracks
Anita Heyman ~ Exit from Home
Carolyn Meyer ~ Anastasia, the Last Grand Duchess
Maxine Schur ~ The Cirlemaker
Efraim Sevela ~ We Were not Like Other People
Vicky Shiefman ~ Goodbye to the Trees

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South America

Try:
Joan Abelove ~ Go and Come Back
Isabel Allende ~ City of the Beasts
Ella Thorp Ellis ~ Swimming with the Whales
Ineke Holtwijk ~ Asphalt Angels
Madeleine L'Engle ~ Dragons in the Waters

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Romance

Try:
Cherie Bennett
Jay Bennett ~ Masks
Cynthia Blair
Judy Blume
Ann Brashares
Martha Brooks ~ Bone Dance
Niki Burnham
Meg Cabot

Gillian Chan ~ A Foreign Field
Ellen Conford
Robert Cormier ~ Tenderness
Kaz Delaney ~ My Life as a Snow Bunny
Sarah Dessen
Jean Ferris ~ Love among the Walnuts
Lisa Fiedler ~ Dating Hamlet
Mariah Fredericks ~ The True Meaning of Cleavage
Garret Freymann-Weyr ~ My Heartbeat
Nancy Garden
Norma Johnston
Louise Hawes ~ Rosey in the Present Tense

M.E. Kerr
Norma Klein
Ronald Koertge
Dakota Lane ~ Johnny Voodoo
Katie Maxwell

Norma Fox Mazer
Megan McCafferty

Lurlene McDaniel ~ How do I Love Thee
Donna Jo Napoli ~ For the Love of Venice
Francine Pascal
Louise Rennison
Laura Peyton Roberts ~ Clearwater Crossing Series
Kieran Scott ~ How Do I Tell?
Dyan Sheldon ~ Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen / The Boy of my Dreams
Jean Thesman
Jean Ure ~ Girlfriends Series
Margaret Wild ~ Jinx
Jacqueline Wilson ~ The Girls Quartet
Ellen Wittlinger
Jacqueline Woodson ~ If you come Softly
Cecily Von Ziegesar

Links:
SmoochYa.com
Young Adult Romance Writers

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Science Fiction

General ~ Aliens ~ Post-Apocalypse ~ Time Travel ~ Virtual Reality

 

General
Piers Anthony
Greg Bear
Orson Scott Card
Monica Hughes

Karl Schroeder

William Sleator
Neal Shusterman
Roger Zelazny

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Aliens

Try:
Chris Archer ~ Mind Warp Series
Grace Chetwin ~ Collidescope
Jane Conly ~ The Rudest Alien on Earth
Catherine Dexter ~ Alien Game
Kellene Despain ~ A Certain Kind of Treasure
Kimberly Fuller ~ Home
Leslie Howarth ~ Maphead
Monica Hughes ~ The Beckoning Lights
Paul Samuel Jacobs ~ Born into Light
Annette Curtis Klause ~ Alien Secrets
Louise Lawrence ~ Dream Weaver
Mary Logue ~ Dancing with an Alien
Casey Lytle ~ Alien in the Mirror
Kathy Mackel ~ Alien in a Bottle
William Sleator
G. Clifton Wisler ~ The Antrian Messenger Series

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Post-Apocalypse

Try:
Jennifer Armstrong ~ Fire Us Trilogy
Hilari Bell ~ Songs of Power
Gary Blackwood ~ The Dying Sun
Isobelle Carmody
Jeanne DuPrau ~ The City of Ember
Martyn Godfrey ~ The Last War
Pete Hautman ~ Hole in the Sky
Jean Hegland ~ Into the Forest
Karen Hesse ~ Phoenix Rising
Monica Hughes ~ The Crystal Drop
Louise Lawrence ~ Children of the Dust
Gregory Maguire ~ I Feel Like the Morning Star
Suzanne Martel ~ City Underground
Gloria Miklowitz ~ After the Bomb
Pat Murphy ~ The City, Not Long After
Robert C. O'Brien ~ Z is for Zachariah
Caroline Stevermer ~ River Rats
Whitley Strieber ~ Wolf of Shadows
Colin Thompson ~ Future Eden
Jean Ure ~ Plague
Will Weaver ~ Memory Boy

Jane Yolen & Bruce Coville ~ Armageddon Summer

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Time Travel

Try:
Jan Adkins ~ A Storm without Rain
Lloyd Alexander ~ Time Cat
Cherie Bennett ~ Anne Frank and Me
N.M.Browne ~ Warriors Series
Caroline Cooney ~ Both Sides of Time / For All Time / Out of Time / Prisoner of Time
Jane Louise Curry ~ Poor Tom's Ghost / The Black Canary
Eileen Dunlap ~ Webster's Leap
Sid Fleischman ~ The 13th Floor
Peni R. Griffin ~ A Dig in Time / Switching Well
Pete Hautman ~ Mr. Was
William Hill ~ The Magic Bicycle / Chasing Time
Joanne Hoppe ~ Dream Spinner
Belinda Hurmence ~ A Girl Called Boy
Madeleine L'Engle ~ A Wrinkle in Time / A Swiftly Tilting Planet / Many Waters / An Acceptable Time
Sonia Levitin ~ The Cure
Anne Spencer Lindbergh ~ Nick of Time
Deborah Lisson ~ The Devil's Own
Gary Paulsen ~ The Transall Saga
Richard Peck ~ Blossom Culp Series / Voices after Midnight
Maggie Prince ~ The House on Hound Hill
Sheri Cooper Sinykin ~ A Matter of Time
William Sleator ~ The Boxes / Marco's Millions
Diana Wynne Jones ~ A Tale of Time City
Jane Yolen ~ The Devil's Arithmetic

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Virtual Reality

Try:
Sigmund Brouwer ~ Cyberquest Series
Sigmund Brouwer ~ Mars Diaries Series
Tom Clancy ~ Net Force Series
Gillian Cross ~ New World
Milton Dank ~ The Computer Game Murder
Charles de Lint ~ Spirits in the Wires
Monica Hughes ~ Invitation to the Game / The Tomorrow City
William Kritlow ~ Virtual Reality Series
Gloria Skurzynski ~ Virtual War
Chris Westwood ~ Virtual World

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Sports

Try:
James W. Bennett
Michael Cadnum ~ Heat
Alden R. Carter ~ Bull Catcher
Chris Crutcher
Carl Deuker
Thomas J. Dygard
John Feinstein ~ Last Shot: A Final Four mystery
Jean Ferris ~ Eight Seconds
Dan Gutman
A.M. Jenkins ~ Out of Order
Kathleen Karr ~ The Boxer
David Klass ~ Danger Zone
Robert Lipsyte ~ The Contender
Chris Lynch ~ Iceman
Walter Dean Myers ~ Hoops
John Ritter ~ Choosing Up Sides
S.L. Rottman ~ Head Above Water
Estelle Salata ~ Blue Ice
Cynthia Voight ~ The Runner
Eric Walters
Will Weaver ~ Billy Baggs Series
Virginia Euwer Wolff ~ Bat 6

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War

American Revolution ~ Civil War ~ World War I ~ World War II ~ Korean War ~ Vietnam War ~ Gulf War

 

American Revolution
(1775-1781)

Try:
Avi ~ The Fighting Ground
Gary Blackwood ~ The Year of the Hangman
James Boyd ~ Drums
Peter Burchard ~ Whaleboat Raid
James Lincoln Collier ~ My Brother Sam is Dead / War Comes to Willy Freeman
Patricia DeFord ~ An Enemy Among Them
Esther Forbes ~ Johnny Tremain
Jean Fritz ~ Early Thunder
Sally Miller Keehn ~ Moon of Two Dark Horses
Mildred Lawrence ~ Touchmark
Scott O'Dell ~ Sarah Bishop
Jan O'Donnell Klaveness ~ The Griffin Legacy
Scott O'Dell ~ Sarah Bishop
Gary Paulsen ~ The Rifle
Ann Rinaldi:
Cast Two Shadows / Finishing Becca / A Ride into Morning / The Secret of Sarah Revere / Time Enough for Drums

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Civil War
(1861-1865)

Try:
Elaine M. Alphin ~ The Ghost Cadet / The Ghost Soldier
Jennifer Armstrong ~ Steal Away
Susan Campbell Bartoletti ~ No Man's Land
Patricia Beatty ~ Charley Skedaddle / Eben Tyne, Powdermonkey / Jayhawker / Who comes with Cannons
Patricia Clapp ~ The Tamarack Tree
James Lincoln Collier ~ With every drop of Blood
Stephen Crane ~ The Red Badge of Courage
Craig Crist-Evans ~ Moon Over Tennessee
John Donahue ~ An Island far from Home
Kathleen Ernst ~ Retreat from Gettysburg
Paul Fleischman ~ Bull Run
James D. Forman ~ Becca's Story
Mary Downing Hahn ~ Hear the Wind Blow
Joyce Hansen ~ Which Way Freedom
Pamela Smith Hill ~ A Voice from the Border
Pat Hughes ~ Guerrilla Season

Lou Kassem ~ Listen for Rachel
Harold Keith ~ Rifles for Watie
Miriam Grace Monfredo
Robert J. Mrazek ~ Stonewall's Gold
Joan Lowery Nixon ~ A Dangerous Promise
Scott O'Dell ~ The 290
Gary Paulsen ~ Soldier's Heart
Carolyn Reeder
Ann Rinaldi ~ Amelia's War / Girl in Blue
Maureen Stack Sappey ~ Letters from Vinnie
John B. Severance ~ Braving the Fire
G. Clifton Wisler ~ The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg / Red Cap / Thunder on the Tennessee

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World War I
(1914-1918)

Try:
Adam Bagdasarian ~ Forgotten Fire
Theresa Breslin ~ Remembrance
Milton Dank ~ Khaki Wings
Michael Foreman ~ War Game
Rudolf Frank ~ No Hero for the Kaiser
Karen Hesse ~ Time of Angels
Richard Hough ~ Flight to Victory
Jeanette Ingold ~ Pictures, 1918
Susan Hart Lindquist ~ Summer Soldiers
Kathleen Karr ~ In the Kaiser's Clutch
Kathleen Kudlinski ~ Hero Over Here
Sharon McKay ~ Charlie Wilcox
Lucy Maud Montgomery ~ Rilla of Ingleside
Michael Morpurgo ~ War Horse / Private Peaceful
Anna Myers ~ Fire in the Hills
K.M. Peyton ~ The Edge of the Cloud / Flambards
Erich Maria Remarque ~ All Quiet on the Western Front
Margaret Rostkowski ~ After the Dancing Days
Kate Seredy ~ The Singing Tree
Gloria Skurzynski ~ Goodbye, Billy Radish
William Turtledove ~ American Front
Cynthia Voight ~ Tree by Leaf

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World War II
(1939-1945)

See Also the Holocaust

Try:
Bette Greene ~ Summer of my German Soldier
Nina Bawden ~ Carrie's War
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley ~ For Freedom
Nathaniel Benchley ~ Bright Candles / A Necessary End
Eve Bunting ~ Spying on Miss Miller
Aidan Chambers ~ Postcards from No Man's Land
Alan Collins ~ Jacob's Ladder
Robert Cormier ~ Heroes
L.M. Elliott ~ Under a War-torn Sky
Charles Ferry ~ Raspberry One
Anne Frank ~ The Diary of a Young Girl
Joan Hiatt Harlow ~ Shadows on the Sea
Barbara Harrison ~ Theo
Anne Isaacs ~ Torn Thread
Joan Lingard ~ The File on Fraulein Berg / Tug of War
Janet Taylor Lisle ~ The Art of Keeping Cool
Carol Matas
Harry Mazer ~ A Boy at War
Norma Fox Mazer ~ Good Night Maman
Donna Jo Napoli ~ Stones in Water
Jerrie Oughton ~ The War in Georgia
Mirjam Pressler ~ Halinka
Carolyn Reeder ~ Foster's War
Cynthia Rylant ~ I had seen Castles
Graham Salisbury ~ Under the Blood Red Sun
Theodore Taylor ~ The Bomb
Yoko Kawashima Watkins ~ My Brother, My Sister and I
Virginia Euwer Wolff ~ Bat 6
Laurence Yep ~ Hiroshima
Jane Yolen ~ Briar Rose

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Korean War
(1950-1953)

Try:
Sook Nyul Choi ~ Echoes of the White Giraffe

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Vietnam War
(1965-1975)

Try:
Nancy Antle ~ Lost in the War
Craig Crist-Evans ~ Amaryllis
Kelly Easton ~ The Life History of a Star
Sherry Garland ~ Song of the Buffalo Boy
Minfong Ho ~ The Clay Marble
Valerie Hobbs ~ Sonny's War
Adrienne Jones ~ Long Time Passing
Catherine Lewis ~ Postcards to Father Abraham
Bobbie Ann Mason ~ In Country
Walter Dean Myers ~ Fallen Angels / Patrol
Theresa Nelson ~ And One for All
Tim O'Brien ~ The Things They Carried
Marsha Qualey ~ Come in from the Cold
Barbara Shoup ~ Stranded in Harmony
Ellen Emerson White ~ The Road Home

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Gulf War
(1991)

Try:
Firyal Alshalabi ~ Summer 1990
Caroline Cooney ~ Operation: Homefront
M.E. Kerr ~ Linger
Alice Mead ~ Soldier Mom
Marsha Qualey ~ Hometown
Tom Townsend ~ Bubba's Truck
Robert Westall ~ Gulf

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 Literary Awards

Alex Awards

Coretta Scott King Award

Golden Kite Award

Margaret A. Edwards Award

Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award

Michael L. Printz Award

Young Adult Canadian Book Award

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