breaking through

YALSA BEST BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS, 2002Fiction Books Available at Your AHS Media Center

Presented by:Ms. Colleen Mills Williams, Media SpecialistApalachee High School940 Haymon Morris RoadWinder, GA 30680


“…. I wanted to voice the experiences of many migrant families from the past and the present. Their courage, the hope and the dreams that they have for their children and their children's children are an inspiration. In a sense, those values that they embody are the values that we say are part of the American story.” __Francisco Jimenez

Breaking Through

__by Francisco Jimenez

Follow-up to The Circuit

Breaking Through


Breathing Underwater

__by Alex Flinn

After Nick's girlfriend has a restraining order issued against him, he is forced to come to grips with his anger and low self-esteem.

Breathing Underwater


Crazy Loco

__by David Rice

Terrific tales of Chicano life in small town Texas. An authentic voice resonating in stories that reverberate with truth, pain, and humor.

Crazy Loco


Treasure At The HeartOF The Tanglewood

__by Meredith Ann Pierce

Only Hannah knows the truth: there's no treasure in the Tanglewood, just the powerful wizard she has served ever since she can remember.

Treasure At The Heart Of The Tanglewood


Razzle

__by Ellen Wittlinger

Razzle

When his retired parents buy a group of tourist cabins on Cape Cod, Fifteen-year-old Kenyon’s days are filled with repair work until he becomes friends

with an eccentric girl and makes her the subject of a series of photographs.


Sights

__by Susanna Vance

SightsDespite years of abuse at the hands of her drunken father, Baby Girl has always believed that she was special, partly because of her “gift” of seeing the future, until she and her mother set outto begin a new life on their own.


Fighting Ruben Wolfe

__by Markus Zusak

Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Partly because of their family’s poor finances and partly to prove themselves, brothers Ruben and Cameron take jobs as fightersand find themselves reacting very differently in the boxing ring.


The Brimstone Journals

__by Ron Koertge



In a series of short interconnected poems,

students at a high schoolnicknamed Brimstonereveal the violenceexisting and growingin their lives.


Amandine

__by Adele Griffin

Amandine

Her first week at school, shy, plain Delia befriends Amandine, not anticipating the dangerous turns their friendship would take.


Boston Jane:An Adventure

__by Jennifer Holm

Boston Jane: An Adventure

Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.


Cut

__by Patricia McCormick

Cut

While confined to a mental hospital thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes

to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.


Touching Spirit Bear

__by Ben Mikaelsen

Touching Spirit Bear

After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.


On The Fringe

__edited by Donald R. Gallo

On The Fringe

A collection of eleven stories by various authors that explore the experiences of social outsiders in high school.


The Amazing MauriceAnd His Educated Rodents

__by Terry Pratchett

The Amazing Maurice

A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.


Summers At Castle Auburn

__by Sharon Shinn

Summers At Castle Auburn

Corie, the illegitimate daughter of a royal lord, looks forward to her summers at Castle Auburn, but as she gets older, she realizes she is being groomed for a political marriage, and becomes aware of the enslavement of the magical Aliora people, and decides to risk all to follow her heart.


The End

Presented by:Ms. Colleen Mills Williams, Media SpecialistApalachee High School940 Haymon Morris RoadWinder, GA 30680

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