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Some books to consider...

Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

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...
		To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee At the age of eight, Scout Finch is an entrenched free-thinker. She can accept her father's warning that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, because mockingbirds harm no one and give great pleasure. The benefits said to be gained from going to school and keeping her temper elude her. The place of this enchanting, intensely moving story is Maycomb, Alabama. The time is the Depression, but Scout and her brother, Jem, are seldom depressed. They have appalling gifts for entertaining themselves—appalling, that is, to almost everyone except their wise lawyer father, Atticus.
...you might enjoy...
	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
	The Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers

If you enjoyed...
		Night, by Elie Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man’s capacity for inhumanity to man.
...you might enjoy...
	Dawn, by Elie Wiesel
	Mila 18, by Leon Uris
	The Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank

If you enjoyed...
		The Contender by Robert Litsyte Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a high school dropout and his grocery store job is leading nowhere. His best friend is sinking further and further into drug addiction. Some street kids are after him for something he didn't even do. So Alfred begins going to Donatelli's Gym, a boxing club in Harlem that has trained champions. There he learns it's the effort, not the win, that makes the man -- that last desperate struggle to get back on your feet when you thought you were down for the count.
...you might enjoy...
	The Brave, by Robert Litsyte
	The Natural, by Bernard Malamud

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