Teen Booklist

  • TTYL

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    By Myracle, Lauren  Chronicles, in "instant message" format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they begin tenth grade. (Sequel: TTFN)
  • Vlad the Undead

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    By Lutzen, Hannah  The story of Vlad Dracula as related by the captain of a 19th-century sailing ship, and what happens to a young woman reading that account in the late 20th century. As Lucia reads the account of the voyage, she becomes increasingly obsessed with the character of Vlad. Written as a series of manuscripts, letters, and diary entries.
  • Witch Child

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    By Rees, Celia 

    In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusettes.

  • Wolf Tower

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    By Lee, Tanith 

    When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.

    Other books in The Claidi Journals: Wolf Star, Wolf Queen, Wolf Wing

     

  • Z for Zachariah

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    By O'Brien, Robert C.  Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.
  • Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo

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    By Filipovic, Zlata  Eleven-year-oldn Croation Filipovic's graphic firsthand account of life in embattled Sarajevo. "Provides a vivid description of the ravages of war and its effect upon one young woman."