| Little Woman | Alcott, Louisa May | YA F Alcott |
| The novel chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. |
| The Book of Three | Alexander, Llyod | YA F Alexander |
| In a constant struggle against oppression, a group of rabbits search for peaceful co-existence. |
| Before We Were Free | Alvarez, Julia | YA F Alvarez |
| In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of General Trujillo. |
| Sounder | Armstrong, William H. | YA F Armstrong |
| The coon dog, Sounder is no beauty, but his cavernous bark is unmatched. When the African American sharecropper who raised Sounder is sent to jail for stealing a hog, his son is angry and humiliated. But the young boy soon learns courage and understanding with the help of his devoted dog Sounder. |
| True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi | YA F Avi |
| As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. |
| North by Night | Ayres, Katherine | YA F Ayres |
| The journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad. |
| Rules of the Road | Bauer, Joan | YA F Bauer |
| Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a successful shoe store from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire. |
| Thwonk | Bauer, Joan | YA F Bauer |
| A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love. |
| Squashed | Bauer, Joan | YA F Bauer |
| As a sixteen-year-old pursues her two goals growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own. |
| Tangerine | Bloor, Edward | YA F Bloor |
| Is Tangerine, Florida, like the Bermuda Triangle? A sinkhole swallows the middle school, lightning strikes repeatedly, underground fires burn endlessly – and all newcomer Paul Fisher wants to do is play soccer, despite his thick glasses, his parents' indifference, and his evil brother. |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Bradbury, Ray | YA F Bradbury |
| A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their worth. |
| All-American Girl | Cabot, Meg | YA F Cabot |
| A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son. |
| Ender's Game | Card, Orson Scott | YA F Card |
| An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggins believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction. |
| The House on Mango Street | Cisneros, Sandra | YA F Cisneros |
| For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness. |
| Flight #116 is Down | Cooney, Caroline B. | YA F Cooney |
| Teenager Heidi Landseth helps rescue people from a plane crash on her family's property, and the experience changes her life forever. |
| Wanted! | Cooney, Caroline B. | YA F Cooney |
| An electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. |
| The Boggart | Cooper, Susan | YA F Cooper |
| When the Yolnik family inherits a Scottish castle, the boggart an ancient mischievous spirit is inadvertently packed into a desk and arrives, upset and annoyed at the Yolnik's home in Canada. |
| The Chocolate War | Cormier, Robert | YA F Cormier |
| A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies. |
| The Wanderer | Creech, Sharon | YA F Creech |
| Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing to visit their grandfather in England aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat. |
| The Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1963 | Curtis, Christopher Paul | YA F Curtis |
| The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. |
| Little Sister | Dalkey, Kara | YA F Dalkey |
| Thirteen-year-old Fujiwara, daughter of a noble family in the imperial court of twelfth century Japan, enlists the help of creature from Japanese mythology to help save her older sister's life. |
| Keeping the Moon | Dessen, Sarah | YA F Dessen |
| Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress and staying with her eccentric aunt. |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Doyle, Arthur Conan | YA F Doyle |
| When Sir Charles Baskerville is murdered, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the eerie howling on the moor. |
| Gallows Hill | Duncan, Lois | YA F Duncan |
| When seventeen-year-old Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a school carnival, she finds that sometimes she can really see the future in the crystal ball, a talent that disturbs some of the other students and makes them suspect her of being a witch. |
| Don't Look Behind You | Duncan, Lois | YA F Duncan |
| 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. |
| Enchantress from the Stars | Engdahl, Sylvia Louise | YA F Engdahl |
| Three civilizations from different planets in widely varying stages of development clash in what could be either a mutually disastrous or beneficial encounter. |
| A Girl Named Disaster | Farmer, Nancy | YA F Farmer |
| While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits in the process. |
| Once Upon a Marigold | Ferris, Jean | YA F Ferris |
| A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father. |
| Shadow Spinner | Fletcher, Susan | YA F Fletcher |
| When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life. |
| Alaphabet of Dreams | Fletcher, Susan | YA F Fletcher |
| Fourteen-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem. |
| The Silent Storm | Garland, Sherry | YA F Garland |
| When Hurricane Berta hits, Alyssa is trapped on a shrimp boat, trying desperately to get home to her grandfather. By the time she reaches the house, her grandfather has been badly injured and is near death and the hurricane is ravaging the island around them. |
| Julie of the Wolves | George, Jean Craighead | YA F George |
| While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack. |
| Samurai Shortstop | Gratz, Alan | YA F Gratz |
| While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on his baseball game and his relationship with his father. |
| Among the Hidden | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | YA F Haddix |
| A government decree allows each family only two children. For Luke, a third child, this has meant a lifetime of hiding. But could a stray glimpse of a child hiding in the house across the way lead to freedom? |
| Book of a Thousand Days | Hale, Shannon | YA F Hale |
| Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years for Saren’s refusal to marry a man she despises. The arrival of Saren’s two suitors—one welcome, and the other decidedly less so—brings both hope and great danger. |
| The Goose Girl | Hale , Shannon | YA F Hale |
| On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers. |
| Rifles for Watie | Harold, Keith | YA F Harold |
| Sixteen-year-old Jeff Bussey is captured by the Confederate forces led by Stand Watie, a Cherokee Indian. In order to hide the fact that he is a Union spy, Jeff volunteers to join Watie's rebel army and discovers who is smuggling Union rifles to the Confederates. |
| Stowaway | Hesse, Karen | YA F Hesse |
| A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook. |
| The Outsiders | Hinton, S. E. | YA F Hinton |
| Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders." |
| Jason's Gold | Hobbs, Will | YA F Hobbs |
| When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich. |
| Down the Yukon | Hobbs, Will | YA F Hobbs |
| In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome. |
| Far North | Hobbs, Will | YA F Hobbs |
| After the destruction of their floatplane, two teenage boys struggle for survival in the wilderness along the South Nahanni River. |
| The Maze | Hobbs, Will | YA F Hobbs |
| Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild. |
| Downriver | Hobbs, Will | YA F Hobbs |
| Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. |
| Boston Jane: an Adventure | Holm , Jennifer L. | YA F Holm |
| 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 Te |
| Skeleton Key | Horowitz, Anthony | YA F Horowitz |
| Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov. |
| Across Five Aprils | Hunt, Irene | YA F Hunt |
| Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War. |
| A Countess Below Stairs | Ibbotson, Eva | YA F Ibbotson |
| A young earl cancels his original wedding plans when he falls in love with the new housemaid, Anna, a penniless Russian countess exiled to England. |
| The Long Patrol | Jacques, Brian | YA F Jacques |
| Tammo, a daring young hare hungry for adventure, is sent with Russa Nodrey, the wandering red squirrel, to defend Salamandastron against the Rapscallion horde. |
| Dark Lord of Derkholm | Jones, Diana Wynne | YA F Jones |
| Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney. |
| Owl in Love | Kindl, Patricia | YA F Kindl |
| A fourteen-year-old girl, who can transform herself into an owl, has a crush on her science teacher which leads her into interesting new relationships with both humans and owls. |
| The Silver Kiss | Klause, Annette Curtis | YA F Klause |
| A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother's terminal illness. |
| The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place | Konigsburg, E.L. | YA F Konigsburg |
| Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret Rose Kane spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique towers her grand uncles have been building in their back yard for over forty years. |
| Skulduggery Pleasant | Landy, Derek | YA F Landy |
| When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones. |
| The Wreckers | Lawrence, Iain | YA F Lawrence |
| John survives a shipwreck only to find himself in a small town with a dark secret. |
| A Wizard of Earthsea | Le Guin, Ursula K. | YA F Le Guin |
| During a spell recalling the dead, the boy Sparrowhawk, a sorcerer's apprentice, unwittingly unleashes evil on the land. He grows to manhood attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world. |
| Keturah and Lord Death | Leavitt, Martine | YA F Leavitt |
| When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love. |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee, Harper | YA F Lee |
| Scout's father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in a small Alabama town during the 1930s. |
| The Contender | Lipsyte, Robert | YA F Lipsyte |
| Against great odds, a black high school drop-out trains to become a championship boxer. |
| The Call of the Wild | London, Jack | YA F London |
| The adventures of an unusual dog who is kidnapped and shipped off to Alaska to work on the Klondike Gold Rush. Buck the dog quickly learns how to survive in the wild and also learns the call of the wolf. |
| The Giver | Lowry, Lois | YA F Lowry |
| Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. |
| Dragonsong | McCaffrey, Anne | YA F McCaffrey |
| Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who make it possible for her to create a new life with her music. |
| The Pirate's Son | McCaughrean, Geraldine | YA F McCaughrean |
| When his father dies, Nathan is tossed out of Graylake School with no prospects. He and his mousy sister, Maud, accept the offer of Tamo White, the son of a real pirate, to travel home with him to Madagascar where they encounter danger, magic, and murder along the way to finding themselves. |
| The Hero and the Crown | McKinley, Robin | YA F McKinley |
| Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North. |
| Beauty | McKinley, Robin | YA F McKinley |
| Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast. |
| Twilight | Meyer, Stephenie | YA F Meyer |
| When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. |
| Anne of Green Gables | Montgomery, L. M. | YA F Montgomery |
| Anne, a mischievous, red-haired, eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. |
| Dairy Queen | Murdock, Catherine Gilbert | YA F Murdock |
| After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. |
| The Haunting | Nixon, Joan Lowry | YA F Nixon |
| When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, fifteen-year old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it. |
| Z for Zachariah | O'Brien, Robert C. | YA F O'Brien |
| Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year old girl is relieved to see a man come into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape. |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | O'Dell, Scott | YA F O'Dell |
| Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life. |
| My Friend Flicka | O'Hara, Mary | YA F O'Hara |
| Through his intense devotion to the colt Flicka, a young boy, living on a Wyoming ranch, begins to learn about responsibility and gain a better understanding of his brusque father. |
| Airborn | Oppel, Kenneth | YA F Oppel |
| Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. |
| 1984 | Orwell, George | YA F Orwell |
| Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities. |
| A Single Shard | Park, Linda Sue | YA F Park |
| Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. |
| Lyddie | Patterson, Katherine | YA F Patterson |
| Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s. |
| Hatchet | Paulsen, Gary | YA F Paulsen |
| After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet. |
| Nightjohn | Paulson, Gary | YA F Paulson |
| Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read. |
| A Long Way From Chicago | Peck, Richard | YA F Peck |
| A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. |
| Ghosts I Have Been | Peck, Richard | YA F Peck |
| Blossom Culp's gift of second sight, which she discovers gradually, leads her into some unusual adventures. |
| Freak the Mighty | Philbrick, W. R. | YA F Philbrick |
| At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team. |
| The Last Book in the Universe | Philbrick, W. R. | YA F Philbrick |
| After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to Earth in the distant future. |
| The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman | Plummer, Louise | YA F Plummer |
| Seventeen-year-old Kate hopes for romance when her older brother's friend Richard comes to stay at their house during Christmas vacation. |
| The Wee Free Men | Pratchett, Terry | YA F Pratchett |
| A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland. |
| The Golden Compass | Pullman, Philip | YA F Pullman |
| Accompanied by her shape-shifting demon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North. |
| The Ruby in Smoke | Pullman, Philip | YA F Pullman |
| In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby. |
| The Only Alien on the Planet | Randle, Kristen D. | YA F Randle |
| After moving to the East Coast, Ginny enters her senior year of high school and uncovers the secret behind a new friend's refusal to speak. |
| A Break with Charity: a Story about the Salem Witch Trails | Rinaldi, Ann | YA F Rinaldi |
| While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692. |
| The Lightning Thief | Riordan, Rick | YA F Riordan |
| After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a war between the gods. |
| The Lightning Thief | Riordan, Rick | YA F Riordan |
| After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a war between the gods. |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Rowling, J. K. | YA F Rowling |
| Rescued from the neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. |
| Holes | Sacher, Louis | YA F Sacher |
| As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. Newbery Award |
| Anahita's Woven Riddle | Sayres, Meghan Nuttall | YA F Sayres |
| In Iran, more than 100 years ago, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers. |
| The Alchemyst | Scott, Michael Dylan | YA F Scott |
| While working at summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life. |
| The Dark Side of Nowhere | Shusterman, Neal | YA F Shusterman |
| Fourteen-year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens who stayed on earth following a botched invasion mission. |
| Endymion Spring | Skelton, Matthew | YA F Skelton |
| Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake Winters is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book, secretly brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg's mute apprentice to save it from evil forces, and which now draws Blake into a dangerous and life-threatening quest. |
| The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Speare, Elizabeth George | YA F Speare |
| A young woman brought up in Barbados comes to live with her uncle in Connecticut, and finds their Puritan way of life difficult after her unconventional upbringing. |
| Maniac Magee | Spinelli, Jerry | YA F Spinelli |
| After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. |
| Shabanu | Staples, Susan Fisher | YA F Staples |
| When Shabanu, a girl in Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes. |
| The Hobbit | Tolkien, J. R. R. | YA F Tolkien |
| Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return. |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Twain, Mark | YA F Twain |
| The story of a mischievous boy growing up in a 19th century Mississippi river town as he plays hooky on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirate's treasure, and becomes lost in a cave. |
| Montmoreancy: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? | Updale, Eleanor | YA F Updale |
| In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician’s case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself. |
| Never Trust a Dead Man | Vande Velde, Vivian | YA F Vande Velde |
| Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed up in the tomb with the dead man, seventeen-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer. |
| Jackaroo | Voigt, Cynthia | YA F Voigt |
| When hard times among the People revive the old stories of the hero Jackaroo, an innkeeper's daughter follows her own quest to unlock the secret reality behind the legend. |
| Black Mirror | Werlin , Nancy | YA F Werlin |
| Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school. |
| Cheyenne in New York | Weyland, Jack | YA F Weyland |
| Ben Morelli is a brash, up-and-coming New York City ad agency executive. He's just landed a huge account, and his future looks bright. The last thing he needs is to share the spotlight with some hick from Idaho. Bright, outspokenly moral, and unfailingly honest, Cheyenne is everything Ben thinks he dislikes in a woman. |
| Homeless Bird | Whelan, Gloria | YA F Whelan |
| When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it. |
| The Sword in the Stone | White, T. H. | YA F White |
| The first book in a retelling of the Arthurian legend, the Sword and the Stone begins at a medieval manor where Kay and Wart (later King Arthur) learn the attributes necessary for becoming a successful knight. |
| Deathwatch | White, Robb | YA F White |
| A hunting trip turns into a test for survival as Ben guides a ruthless businessman into the desert. |
| Dealing with Dragons | Wrede, Patricia C. | YA F Wrede |
| Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom. |
| The Queen's Own Fool | Yolen, Jane | YA F Yolen |
| When twelve-year-old Nicola becomes the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences the political and religious upheavals in both France and Scotland. |
| The Pigman | Zindel, Paul | YA F Zindel |
| A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man. |
| Raptor | Zindel, Paul | YA F Zindel |
| Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur. |
| Loch | Zindel, Paul | YA F Zindel |
| Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but it soon becomes obvious that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in preserving the |