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Cubanita

author: Triana, Gaby
Seventeen-year-old Isabel, eager to leave Miami to attend the University of Michigan and escape her overprotective Cuban mother, learns some truths about her family's past and makes important decisions about the type of person she wants to be.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640

The Dark Side Of Nowhere

author: Shusterman, Neal
Las Vegas...it's not. For Jason Miller, Billington is the definition of dull.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850

Bang!

author: Flake, Sharon
Two years after the shooting death of thirteen-year-old Mann's little brother, Mann's father, who believes his son died because he made him too "soft," takes Mann and his friend camping and abandons them in an attempt to make them tough.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 90
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590

Rash

author: Hautman, Pete
In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger management problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 48
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730

Jellicoe Road

author: Marchetta, Melina
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820

Suck It Up

author: Meehl, Brian
After graduating from the International Vampire League, a scrawny, teenaged vampire named Morning is given the chance to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a superhero when he embarks on a League mission to become the first vampire to reveal his identity to humans and to demonstrate how peacefully-evolved, blood-substitute-drinking vampires can use their powers to help humanity.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740

Strange Angels

author: St. Crow, Lili
Sixteen-year-old Dru Anderson travels from town to town with her father, who hunts "strange" creatures, but when he is turned into a zombie, Dru goes on the run with her friends Grave--freshly bitten by a werewolf--and Christophe--a half-human vampire hunter--to save herself.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810

Dash & Lily's Book Of Dares

author: Cohn, Rachel
Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what -- or who -- they will find.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 43
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860

Paper Daughter

author: Ingold, Jeanette
When her father, a respected journalist in Seattle, is killed in a hit-and-run accident, Maggie Chen, a high school intern at her father's newspaper, searches for clues to the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, an investigation that forces her to confront her ethnicity and a family she never knew.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800

King Dork

author: Portman, Frank
High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1060

Run If You Dare

author: Powell, Randy
Fourteen-year-old Gardner, trying to find some direction in his life, is shocked to discover that his unemployed father considers himself a failure.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690

Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot

author: Branford, Anna
When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960

Mr. Mcmouse

author: Lionni, Leo.
Timothy, a city mouse who has been transformed into a tiny man, searches for his true identity among a group of field mice.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 390
subjects: mice, identity [X], individuality [X]

The Incredible Peepers Of Penelope Budd

author: Karns, Marie
Penelope, a little girl with one brown eye, one blue eye, and a creative mind, sees wonders in the things other people call ordinary.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: eye, imagination, identity [X], individuality [X]

Different Just Like Me

author: Mitchell, Lori
While preparing for a visit to her grandmother, a young girl notices that, like the flowers in Grammie's garden, people who are different from one another also share similarities and it's okay to like them all the same.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: individuality [X], grandmothers, identity [X]

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