Radical Reads 101 YA Novels on the Edge

Offers a bibliography and several indices based on such themes for young adults as drug abuse, pregnancy, and suicide, while also considering each title's depth of subject matter and controversiality.

Joni Richards Bodart is the reference librarian and computer liaison for the Woodbury Branch Library of Denver Public Library System and adjunct professor of library and information services at the University of Denver

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

xi

Tips for Writing Effective Book Reports

xv

Tips for Writing Effective Booktalks

xvii

Guide to Abbreviations

xxi

SECTION ONE: Am I Blue? to Burning Up

Am l Blue? Coming Out from the Silence

1

(4)

Are You Alone on Purpose?

5

(3)

Asylum for Nightface

8

(3)

Babylon Boyz

11

(4)

Bad

15

(3)

Bat 6

18

(4)

Bee & Jacky

22

(2)

The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer

24

(3)

Blackwater

27

(2)

Blood and Chocolate

29

(4)

The Body of Christopher Creed

33

(3)

Boys Lie

36

(3)

Breaking Boxes

39

(3)

Breaking Rank

42

(3)

Breathing Underwater

45

(4)

Bruises

49

(3)

The Buffalo Tree

52

(3)

Burger Wuss

55

(2)

Buried Onions

57

(3)

Burning Up

60

(5)

SECTION TWO: Chinese Handcuffs to Forged by Fire

Chinese Handcuffs

65

(4)

Crazy Jack

69

(2)

Dancing on the Edge

71

(3)

Dare, Truth, or Promise

74

(3)

Deep Waters

77

(2)

A Door Near Here

79

(3)

Dovey Coe

82

(3)

Downsiders

85

(3)

Dreamland

88

(3)

Drive

91

(2)

Eight Seconds

93

(3)

The Empress of Elsewhere

96

(3)

Every Time a Rainbow Dies

99

(3)

Facing the Music

102

(2)

The Facts Speak for Themselves

104

(3)

Fair Game

107

(4)

Fighting Ruben Wolfe

111

(2)

The Fool Reversed

113

(3)

Forged by Fire

116

(5)

SECTION THREE: Give A Boy a Gun to Nobody Else Has to Know

Give a Boy a Gun

121

(5)

Hard Love

126

(3)

Hate You

129

(3)

Heroes

132

(3)

Holes

135

(3)

Honor Bright

138

(3)

Ironman

141

(3)

Jumping the Nail

144

(3)

The Killer's Cousin

147

(3)

Kissing Doorknobs

150

(3)

Learning to Swim

153

(3)

Life in the Fat Lane

156

(3)

Life Is Funny

159

(4)

Like Sisters on the Homefront

163

(3)

Make Lemonade

166

(3)

Monster

169

(3)

The Music of Dolphins

172

(3)

Nobody Else Has to Know

175

(4)

SECTION FOUR: On the Fringe to Swallowing Stones

On the Fringe

179

(4)

Ordinary Miracles

183

(3)

Out of the Dust

186

(3)

Over the Wall

189

(3)

Paper Trail

192

(2)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

194

(3)

Plague Year

197

(3)

Playing Solitaire

200

(3)

Rats Saw God

203

(3)

Romiette and Julio

206

(3)

Rules of the Road

209

(3)

Rundown

212

(3)

The Sacrifice

215

(3)

Saying It Out Loud

218

(2)

Shade's Children

220

(3)

Silent to the Bone

223

(3)

Slot Machine

226

(3)

Smack

229

(4)

Speak

233

(3)

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

236

(3)

Stones in Water

239

(3)

Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

242

(3)

Stuck in Neutral

245

(2)

Swallowing Stones

247

(4)

SECTION FIVE: The Taking of Room 114 to Wringer

The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems

251

(3)

Tangerine

254

(3)

Tenderness

257

(3)

The Terrorist

260

(3)

Tomorrow, when the War Began

263

(4)

Tunes for Bears to Dance To

267

(3)

Twelve Shots: Outstanding Short Stories about Guns

270

(4)

Vanishing

274

(2)

Virtual War

276

(3)

Whale Talk

279

(4)

What Jamie Saw

283

(2)

What's in a Name?

285

(4)

When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune

289

(3)

When She Hollers

292

(3)

When She Was Good

295

(3)

Whirligig

298

(3)

Whistle Me Home

301

(3)

The White Horse

304

(3)

Wild Side

307

(2)

Wringer

309

(6)

Appendix One: Censorship: What It Is, Why It Is, and How to Deal with It

315

(6)

Appendix Two: How to Write a Rationale

321

(10)

Appendix Three: Sources of Support for Resisting Censorship

331

(4)

Appendix Four: Bibliography

335

(4)

Author Index

339

(4)

Reading Level and Interest/Age Level Index

343

(2)

Curriculum Areas Index

345

(6)

Genre Index

351

(4)

Subject Index

355

(22)

About the Author

377

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