Boys To Men
Fiction |
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Author |
Title |
| Bagdasarian, Adam | Forgotten Fire 2001 |
| Based on the life of the author's great uncle, this is story of a boy who survived the Armenian Genocide in the years after World War I. | |
| Bechard, Margaret | Hanging on to Max 2002 |
| 17-year-old Sam is the father of 11-month-old Max, but he's also still just a kid himself. | |
| Clarke, Judith | Wolf on the Fold 2002 |
| Interconnected short stories follow the lives of sons, brothers, and fathers through the 20th century. | |
| Cormier, Robert | Rag and Bone Shop 2001 |
| A young boy, best friend of a murder victim, is faced with a ruthless police interrogator. | |
| Crowe, Chris | Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002 |
| A fictionalized account of the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American accused of talking "ugly" to a white woman. | |
| Crutcher, Chris | Whale Talk 2001 |
| TJ refuses to play high school sports, although coaches desperately want to recruit him. Then, partly to spite them, he forms a swim team made of up of unconventional athletes. | |
| Dai, Sitje | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 2002 |
| Two teenagers are sent to re-education camp during Mao's Cultural Revolution. | |
| Enright, Michael | Daisies in the Junkyard 2002 |
| High school friends Tony and Carlos try to stay out of trouble in their South Chicago neighborhood but it comes anyway in the form of the Devils and the Latin Knights. | |
| Flinn, Alexandra | Breathing Underwater 2001 |
| When viewed from a distance, 16-year-old Nick's life seems enviable. But he's a control freak, carrying on a family tradition of violent behavior. | |
| Jimenez, Francisco | Breaking Through 2001 |
| In the sequel to The Circuit, teenaged Francisco return from Mexico to work in the United States. | |
| Lee, Gus | China Boy 1991 |
| Scrawny Kai learns to survive in his tough San Francisco neighborhood. | |
| McCarthy, Cormac | All the Pretty Horses 1992 |
| John Cole Grady, 1930's East Texas teenager, takes off for Mexico. The first of the "Border Trilogy." | |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Fallen Angels 1988 |
| 17-year-old Richie enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967, and spends a year on active duty in Vietnam. | |
| Soto, Gary | Buried Onions 1997 |
| Eddie drops out of college and struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno. | |
| Springer, Nancy | Toughing It 1994 |
| Tuff seeks revenge for his brother's brutal murder. | |
| Thomas, Rob | Rats Saw God 1996 |
| With humor and gradual self-knowledge, 18-year-old Steve traces his two-year descent from merit scholar to underachieving stoner. | |
| Townsend, Sue | Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major 1991 |
| Adrian Mole's humorous diaries report on his teen and young adult years. | |
| Weisberg, Joseph | 10th Grade 2002 |
| It's really not much fun. But people talk as though it has potential. | |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Miracle's Boys 2000 |
| Three brothers are all that's left of a Harlem family. | |
True Lives |
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Author |
Title |
| Alicea, Gil | The Air Down Here 1995 |
| 16-year-old Gil describes his daily life in the South Bronx. | |
| Chen, Da | Sounds of the River 2002 |
| A bright young teen from a small fishing village in Southern China travels to Beijing to attend college. | |
| Gantos, Jack | Hole in My Life 2002 |
| The author of the Joey Pigza books chronicles the road he took from independent teen to drug dealer to prisoner. | |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Bad Boy 2002 |
| The author of Monster tells his own story of growing up during the 40s and 50s. | |
| Philbrick, Ned | In the Heart of the Sea 2000 |
| A survival story based on the journals of a 14-year-old cabin boy on the whaleship Essex, which sank after being rammed by a 70-foot sperm whale. | |