The Body Of Christopher Creed
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 79
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: missing persons, peer pressure, emotional problems, high schools [X], schools, emotionally disturbed children, school stories
To Jaykae
Sixteen-year-old Jason feels alone and misunderstood when his best friend moves away, his father plans to remarry, and his step-brother-to-be is a high school basketball star, until he starts an online relationship with a girl from Hawaii.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
Players
Eighteen-year-old Corey sees a threat to his dream of winning the basketball championship when he discovers that the new player on his team is a girl-stealing, friend-framing, team-destroying force of evil.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: basketball, school sports, friendship, mystery and detective stories, schools, high schools [X]
You Don't Know Me
Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
Give A Boy A Gun
Interweaves the voices of students, teachers, friends, and gunmen in a fictional story about two heavily armed students, Gary and Brendan, who hold their classmates hostage at a high school dance after being tormented by football players and teachers.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 52
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: school shootings, high schools [X], schools, hostages, firearms, violence, school violence, school stories, audiobooks, compact discs
The Brimstone Journals
In a series of short interconnected poems, students at a high school nicknamed Brimstone reveal the violence existing and growing in their lives.
811
year: 2004
copies: 37
call number/section: 811
lexile: 610
subjects: high school students, violence in adolescence, school violence, violence, high schools [X]
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
God Of Beer
To complete a class assignment at his high school in rural Vermont, Kyle and his friends Quake and Diana do a social protest project involving alcohol.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Damage
Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
Cheating Lessons
When her team is announced as finalists in the state Classics Bowl contest, Bernadette suspects that cheating may have been involved.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
Blind Sighted
Kirk, a creative misfit who is in trouble at high school because he is bored with his classes, learns to deal with his alcoholic mother, new friends, and life with the help of a blind young woman who hires him to read to her.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
Girl Coming In For A Landing
A collection of over 100 poems recounting the ups and downs of one adolescent girl's school year.
811
year: 2004
copies: 18
call number/section: 811
lexile: 710
subjects: teenage girls, high school students, children's poetry, american, high schools [X], schools
Claws
Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent who is having an affair with the other.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
Comfort
Fourteen-year-old Kenny Roy Willson fantasizes about escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
Shadow Of A Doubt
As his sophomore year in high school begins, fifteen-year-old Shadow joins the forensics team, makes new friends, and struggles to cope with the return of his older brother, who ran away seven years earlier and now faces a murder trial.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: brothers, family problems, forensics (public speaking), high schools [X], schools, runaways