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One Small Step

author: Kerr, Philip
In 1969 Houston, Texas, thirteen-year-old Scott learns to fly from his father, an Air Force flight instructor, but when NASA needs him for a secret space mission, Scott's elation is tempered by concern that his mother, who has moved to Florida, will find out.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780

Dead Girl Walking

author: Singleton, Linda Joy
When Amber, a smart, middle-class, high school student, is hit by a truck, she meets her deceased grandmother in a dreamlike place, then takes a wrong turn and awakens in the body of a wealthy, beautiful, popular classmate with serious problems.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

Kick

author: Myers, Walter Dean
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 51
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710

Theodore Boone

author: Grisham, John
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 100
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830

The Rules For Disappearing

author: Elston, Ashley
High school student "Meg" has changed identities so often that she hardly knows who she is anymore, and her family is falling apart, but she knows that two of the rules of witness protection are be forgettable and do not make friends -- but in her new home in Louisiana a boy named Ethan is making that difficult.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620

Here's How I See It

author: Henson, Heather
At almost-thirteen, Junebug has never felt right except as stagehand at her father's summer theater, but after her parents separate and an irritating intern takes over her responsibilities, she discovers how hard life can be without a script to follow.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710

3 Nbs Of Julian Drew

author: Deem, James M
The journals of a troubled fifteen-year-old boy who lives with his father and emotionally and physically abusive stepmother and her children after the death of his own mother years ago.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: family problems, stepfamilies, mothers, death, friendship, diaries, mothers and sons, stepfamily, family life [X], dysfunctional families [X]

Planet Janet

author: Sheldon, Dyan
Sixteen-year-old Janet Bandry keeps a diary as she deals with an annoying family, school, a quirky best friend, and trying to find herself through vegetarianism, literature, romance, and her "Dark Phase.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
subjects: family problems, interpersonal relations, high schools, schools, family life [X], school stories, dysfunctional families [X]

What I Saw And How I Lied

author: Blundell, Judy
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620

Revolution

author: Donnelly, Jennifer, David, Erica
When Korra, the new Avatar, arrives in Republic City to learn airbending, she finds the city Avatar Aang built to be the heart of the four nations rife with crime and distrust between benders and nonbenders.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 55
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560

Tricks

author: Hopkins, Ellen
Collects five stories about three girls and two boys who question how they feel about themselves while learning about love and sexuality.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590

Bronxwood

author: Booth, Coe
Sixteen-year-old Tyrell, accustomed to being the man of the family, has mixed feelings when his father comes home from jail, but he knows he cannot just go back to being a little boy, especially after losing his younger brother to foster care, getting involved with drug dealers, learning about his mother's infidelity, and developing a relationship with Jasmine.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 30
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: dysfunctional families [X], african americans, family life [X], bronx (new york, n.y.)

Brilliant

author: Vail, Rachel
Sixteen-year-old Quinn struggles to maintain her image as a brilliant, good girl when her mother's major error at work leads to financial and legal troubles that turn Quinn's and her younger sisters' world upside-down.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: conduct of life, mothers and daughters, dysfunctional families [X], sisters, mother-daughter relationship, family life [X]

Like A Broken Doll

author: Schraff, Anne E
Sereeta Prince, trying to cope with problems with her family, is blamed for a string of thefts at Tubman High School and starts to fall into a depression.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680

Fly Away

author: Rock, Nora, Landalf, Helen
Fifteen-year-old Stevie Calhoun, the daughter of a drug addict who has agreed to go with her aunt Mindy after another one of her mom's disappearances, is confident her mom will return, and wonders if she cares about her friend Alan, school, or anything else that has to do with the life of a normal teenager.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610

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