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1 Leaving Home : Stories
Hazel Rochman, Darlene Z. McCampbell

Current:
9.6
How do we become who we need to be? How do we make the transition from child to adult? Sometimes we have very few people to guide us. Sometimes the journeys are lonely. Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to see how far we've come. "Le ... [more] [Submit]
2 A Way Out of No Way : Writings About Growing Up Black in America (Edge Books)
Jacqueline Woodson

Current:
9.5
Put together in remembrance of the authors who inspired her own writing, this anthology edited by Jacqueline Woodson includes stories and poems by more than a dozen African American writers. From excerpts of more] [Submit]
3 Girl Goddess #9
Francesca Lia Block

Current:
9.3
Movie stars, rock stars, pond nymphs, intergalactic superheroes . . . who are the real goddesses in Francesca Lia Block's world? Real young women--the kind who ache, bleed, dance, and talk to blue ghosts in closets. Famous for her lyric more] [Submit]
4 Visions : 19 Short Stories
Donald R. Gallo

Current:
9.2
Imagine...Nineteen superb stories by today's best-known authors of young adult novels, coming together to create a window of the mind, a vision illuminating the joys and sorrows of young people.These nineteen splendid stories range fr ... [more] [Submit]
5 Killing Mr. Griffin
Lois Duncan

Current:
9.2
A group of students kidnap their teacher to "teach him a lesson," but their plans go awry when he dies, leaving them in a morass of lies and guilt. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
6 Don't Look Behind You
Lois Duncan

Current:
9.2
Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer. more] [Submit]
7 Summer of Fear
Lois Duncan

Current:
9.0
Soon after the arrival of cousin Julia, insidious occurrences begin that convince Rachel that Julia is a witch and must be stopped before her total monstrous plan can be effected. more] [Submit]
8 Ransom
Lois Duncan

Current:
9.0
Five were missing on a terrifying ride into a nightmare. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
9 Stranger With My Face
Lois Duncan

Current:
8.8
A 17-year-old senses she is being spied on and probably impersonated, but when she discovers what actually is occurring, it is more unbelievable than she ever imagined. Read moremore] [Submit]
10 Locked in Time (Laurel-Leaf Books)
Lois Duncan

Current:
8.7
Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
11 They Never Came Home
Lois Duncan

Current:
8.6
When two teenage boys vanish on a camping trip, a stranger claims that one owes him two thousand dollars. The boy's sister volunteers to repay the money while continually looking for clues that he is alive. more] [Submit]
12 Wanted!
Caroline B. Cooney

Current:
8.4
Alice Robie's father has been murdered, and the police have an e-mail message in which Alice confesses to the crime. When her own mother suspects her, Alice has no choice but to flee in the hope of proving her innocence. more] [Submit]
13 Daughters of Eve
Lois Duncan

Current:
8.3
A high school teacher uses the guise of feminist philosophy to manipulate the lives of a group of girls with chilling results. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
14 After the First Death
Robert Cormier

Current:
8.2
Events of the hijacking of a bus of children by terrorists seeking the return of their homeland are described from the perspectives ofa hostage, a terrorist, an Army general involved in the rescue operation, and his son. more] [Submit]
15 Hush Little Baby
Caroline B. Cooney

Current:
8.2
Kit Innes is surprised to see her airheaded ex-stepmother looking so rumpled and unkempt (if there was one thing Dusty always did well, it was accessorize). And she is startled when Dusty casually hands her a blanket-wrapped parcel in passi ... [more] [Submit]
16 Don't Scream (Laurel-Leaf Books)
Joan Lowery Nixon

Current:
8.2
Jess is thrilled when two cute, new boys move to her small town -- but then the neighborhood cats start disappearing and she spies a silent watcher lurking outside her yard. With the help of a computer-loving friend, Jess starts to investig ... [more] [Submit]
17 Devil's Race (Trophy Chiller)
Avi, Lisa Falkenstern (Illustrator)

Current:
8.2
"Sixteen-year-old John Proud discovers his family's dark secret--in 1854 an ancestral namesake confessed to being a demon. Now John finds himself battling his ancestor who is trying to use John for an evil purpose.--Booklist. more] [Submit]
18 Deadly Terror : The Return of William White (Sweet Valley University Thriller, No 14)
Laurie John, Francine Pascal

Current:
8.1
Immortally yours...William White's reign of terror continues.Elizabeth Wakefield thought she was seeing things when William White came back into her life. But William actually survived the accident she believe had killed him--and h ... [more] [Submit]
19 Cyber Stalker: The Return of William White, Part I (Sweet Valley University Thriller #13)
Laurie John, Francine Pascal

Current:
8.0
When the Virtual Reality Fair arrived on the SVU quad, Elizabeth Wakefield thought it sounded like an extreme waste of time. That was before Elizabeth's twin sister, Jessica, convinced her to give virtual reality a try. That was before Eliz ... [more] [Submit]
20 Loving the Enemy (Sweet Valley University Thriller, 15)
Francine Pascal(Creator), Laurie John

Current:
7.9
Jessica Wakefield is taken hostage. A shocking choice will change her life....When Jessica Wakefield walked into the Red Lion, all she wanted was a cup of coffee. Instead, she got a gun in her face--when everyone inside the popular hango ... [more] [Submit]
21 Don't Answer the Phone (Sweet Valley University Thriller, No 12)
Laurie John, Francine Pascal (Creator)

Current:
7.9
Dial "k" for killer....SVU Hot Line operator Alexandra Rollins doesn't know what to do when she begins receiving vicious calls from a man threatening to commit a murder. She can't tell the police--all calls are meant to be confidentia ... [more] [Submit]
22 Baseball in April : And Other Stories
Gary Soto

Current:
7.9
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23 Am I Blue? : Coming Out from the Silence
Marion Dane Bauer, Beck Underwood (Illustrator)

Current:
7.9
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24 8 Plus 1
Robert Corimer, Robert Cormier

Current:
7.8
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25 No Easy Answers : Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices
Donald R. Gallo

Current:
7.7
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26 American Eyes : New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults
Lori M. Carlson, Cynthia Kadohata (Introduction)

Current:
7.5
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27 Doing Time : Notes from the Undergrad
Rob Thomas

Current:
7.5
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28 Athletic Shorts : Six Short Stories
Chris Crutcher

Current:
7.4
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29 A Couple of Kooks and Other Stories About Love
Cynthia Rylant

Current:
7.3
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30 Connections : Short Stories
Donald Gallo

Current:
7.2
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31 Working Days : Short Stories About Teenagers at Work
Anne Mazer

Current:
7.1
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32 Twelve Shots: Outstanding Short Stories about Guns
Harry Mazer

Current:
7.1
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33 A Starfarer's Dozen : Stories of Things to Come
Michael Stearns, Michael Hussar (Illustrator)

Current:
7.1
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34 The International Association of Crime Writers Presents Bad Behavior
Mary Higgins Clark

Current:
7.0
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35 Down a Dark Hall
Lois Duncan

Current:
6.9
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36 Tenderness : A Novel (Laurel-Leaf Books)
Robert Cormier

Current:
6.8
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37 The Twisted Window
Lois Duncan

Current:
6.7
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38 Look for Me by Moonlight
Mary Downing Hahn

Current:
6.7
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39 In the Middle of the Night (Laurel-Leaf Books)
Robert Cormier

Current:
6.7
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40 Swallowing Stones (Laurel-Leaf Books)
Joyce McDonald

Current:
6.7
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41 Tenderness : A Novel
Robert Cormier

Current:
6.5
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42 Swallowing Stones
Joyce McDonald

Current:
6.5
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43 2041 : Twelve Short Stories About the Future of Top Science Fiction Writers
Jane Yolen

Current:
6.4
Contains twelve entertaining and intriguing stories about the future as seen through the eyes of such noted science fiction authors as Anne McCaffrey, Bruce Coville, Joe Haldeman, Connie Willis, and others. Reprint. SLJ. C. VY. ... [more] [Submit]
44 The Call and Other Stories
Robert Westall

Current:
6.4
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