Teenplots: A Booktalk Guide to Use with Readers Ages 12-18 Book

	Preface
	A Brief Guide to Booktalking
1	Teenage Life and Concerns	1
	Anderson, Laurie, Speak	1
	Block, Francesca Lia, Baby Be-Bop	4
	Brooks, Bruce, All That Remains	7
	Cabot, Meg, The Princess Diaries	11
	Cormier, Robert, Tenderness	14
	Dessen, Sarah, Dreamland	18
	Flinn, Alex, Breathing Underwater	21
	Kerr, M. E., What Became of Her	24
	Koertge, Ron, The Brimstone Journals	27
	Lynch, Chris, Freewill	30
	Naylor, Phyllis, The Grooming of Alice	33
	Randle, Kristen D., Breaking Rank	37
	Rennison, Louise, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging	40
	Wittlinger, Ellen, Hard Love	43
2	Social and Family Problems	47
	Bauer, Joan, Hope Was Here	47
	Cole, Brock, The Facts Speak for Themselves	50
	Coleman, Evelyn, Born in Sin	53
	Cooney, Caroline B., Driver's Ed	56
	Koss, Amy Goldman, The Girls	59
	Mazer, Norma Fox, When She Was Good	62
	Myers, Walter Dean, Monster	65
	Na, An, A Step from Heaven	69
	Paulsen, Gary, The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer	72
	Peck, Richard, A Year Down Yonder	75
	Strasser, Todd, Give a Boy a Gun	79
	Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club	82
	Trueman, Terry, Stuck in Neutral	85
	Wolff, Virginia Euwer, Make Lemonade	88
3	Mystery and Adventure	92
	Clancy, Tom, The Hunt for Red October	92
	Clark, Mary Higgins, Before I Say Goodbye	95
	Creech, Sharon, The Wanderer	98
	Cross, Gillian, Tightrope	101
	Dahl, Michael, The Horizontal Man	105
	Fleischman, Paul, A Fate Totally Worse Than Death	108
	Grisham, John, The Summons	111
	Hobbs, Will, Far North	114
	Konigsburg, E. L., Silent to the Bone	117
	Mikaelsen, Ben, Touching Spirit Bear	121
	Qualey, Marsha, Close to a Killer	123
	Zindel, Paul, Rats	126
4	Science Fiction and Fantasy	130
	Almond, David, Kit's Wilderness	130
	Barron, T. A., The Lost Years of Merlin	133
	Card, Orson Scott, Ender's Shadow	136
	Colfer, Eoin, Artemis Fowl	139
	Cooper, Susan, King of Shadows	142
	Crichton, Michael, Timeline	146
	Dickinson, Peter, The Ropemaker	149
	Jacques, Brian, Redwall	152
	Jones, Diane Wynne, Dark Lord of Derkholm	155
	King, Stephen, Carrie	158
	Lowry, Lois, Gathering Blue	161
	Marsden, John, Tomorrow, When the War Began	165
	McKinley, Robin, Rose Daughter	168
	Nix, Garth, Sabriel	171
	Pierce, Tamora, Daja's Book	174
	Pullman, Philip, The Golden Compass	177
	Voigt, Cynthia, Elske	181
5	Historical Fiction and Other Lands	185
	Avi, Beyond the Western Sea, Book One: Escape from Home	185
	Bagdasarian, Adam, Forgotten Fire	188
	Frazier, Charles, Cold Mountain	191
	Hesse, Karen, Stowaway	194
	Karr, Kathleen, The Boxer	197
	Lawrence, Iain, The Smugglers	200
	Levitin, Sonia, Escape from Egypt	203
	Mazer, Harry, A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor	206
	Park, Linda Sue, A Single Shard	209
	Rinaldi, Ann, Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phyllis Wheatley	212
	Staples, Suzanne Fisher, Shiva's Fire	215
	Taylor, Mildred D., The Land	219
	Temple, Frances, The Ramsay Scallop	222
6	Sports in Fact and Fiction	226
	Bachrach, Susan D., The Nazi Olympics	226
	Colton, Larry, Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn	228
	Crutcher, Chris, Whale Talk	231
	Deuker, Carl, On the Devil's Court	235
	Jenkins, A. M., Damage	238
	Remnick, David, King of the World	241
	Sweeney, Joyce, Players	244
	Wallace, Rich, Playing Without the Ball	247
	Weaver, Will, Farm Team	250
7	Biography and General Nonfiction	254
	Alexander, Caroline, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition	254
	Aronson, Marc, Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado	257
	Bober, Natalie, Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution	259
	Fradin, Dennis Brindell, and Judith Bloom Fradin, Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement	262
	Freedman, Russell, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery	265
	Krakauer, Jon, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster	268
	Lobel, Anita, No Pretty Pictures	271
	Marrin, Albert, Sitting Bull and His World	274
	Murphy, Jim, Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America	277
8	Guidance and Health	281
	Abner, Allison, and Linda Villarosa, Finding Our Way: The Teen Girls' Survival Guide	281
	Canfield, Jack, Mark Victor Hansen, and Kimberly Kirberger, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love, and Learning	284
	Packer, Alex, Bringing Up Parents: The Teenager's Handbook	286
	Pollack, William S., with Todd Shuster, Real Boys' Voices: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood	289
9	Challenging Adult Novels	292
	Buck, Pearl S., The Good Earth	292
	Chevalier, Tracy, Girl with a Pearl Earring	295
	Dickens, Charles, Oliver Twist	298
	Haruf, Kent, Plainsong	302
	Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God	305
	Lamb, Wally, She's Come Undone	308
	Updike, John, Gertrude and Claudius	311
	Wright, Bill, Sunday You Learn to Box	313
	Author Index	317
	Title Index	325
	Subject Index	333