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Some books to consider...

The Alchemist, Paulo Coehlo
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

Some authors to consider...

Horror: Christopher Pike, Chris Crutcher, R.L. Stine
Male: Robert Cormier, Gary Paulsen, John Sandford,
Robert Lipsyte, Walter Dean Myers
Female: Laurie Halse Anderson, Deborah Tannen, Sharon Creech,
Gail Carson Levine , Cecily von Ziegesar
Mystery: James Patterson, Mary Higgins Clark, John Grisham
Advice: Melissa Bank, Lauren Henderson, Rachel Simmons
Sci-Fi: Ray Bradbury, Frank Herbert, Ursula Le Guin
 

If you enjoyed...
		The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros Tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong - not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.
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	How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez

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		Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes A classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance--until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?
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	Of Mice and Men, by John Stienbeck

If you enjoyed...
		Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury First published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 is a classic novel set in the future when books forbidden by a totalitarian regime are burned. The hero, a book burner, suddenly discovers that books are flesh and blood ideas that cry out silently when put to the torch.
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	Animal Farm, by George Orwell

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		A Separate Peace, by John Knowels Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
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	A Stolen Past, by John Knowels

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		The Human Comedy, by William Saroyan The place is Ithaca, in California's San Joaquin Valley. The time is World War II. The family is the Macauley's—a mother, sister, and three brothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those of America's second-generation immigrants. In particular, fourteen-year-old Homer, determined to become one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the West, finds himself caught between reality and illusion as delivering his messages of wartime death, love, and money brings him face-to-face with human emotion at its most naked and raw.
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	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith

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