Gwendolyn’s Picks |
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 | Anderson, Laurie Halse | | Speak | | Melinda Sordino called the cops to a party last summer. Now she’s a total social outcast--and she won’t talk about the thing that happened the night of the party. |
| | Bauer, Joan | | Squashed | | As Ellie pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a boy with similar interests. |
| | Bloor, Edward | | Tangerine | | Paul Fisher’s brother has always been the sports hero, until the family moves to Tangerine, Florida, where nothing is what it seems. |
| | Crutcher, Chris | | Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes | | Eric and Sarah have been friends since junior high, when his weight and her scars made them outcasts. Now Sarah sits silent in a hospital — can Eric answer her unspoken cry for help? |
| | Danziger, Paula | | The Cat Ate My Gymsuit | | When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, thirteen-year-old Marcy Lewis uses her new found courage to campaign for the teacher’s reinstatement. |
| | Forde, Catherine | | Fat Boy Swim | | Jimmy aspires to be a chef, but hides the fact from everyone who torments him for being overweight. A new coach helps him turn his self-loathing life around by learning how to swim. |
| | Johnson, Angela | | First Part Last | | Bobby’s carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. |
| | Koertge, Ronald | | Shakespeare Bats Cleanup | | A straight-talking 14-year-old first baseman, benched by mono, takes a swing at writing poetry. |
| | Le Guin, Ursula | | A Wizard of Earthsea | | Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. |
| | Lowry, Lois | | A Summer to Die | | Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister’s beauty and popularity. Her feelings don’t make it any easier for her to cope with Molly’s strange illness and eventual death. |
| | Lubar, David | | Flip | | Twins Taylor and Ryan discover mysterious disks dropped by aliens in the woods. When properly "flipped," each disk temporarily projects into the person the abilities and knowledge of a "legend" from the past. |
| | McKinley, Robin | | The Hero and the Crown | | Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North. |
| | Perkins, Lynne Rae | | Criss Cross | | The 2006 Newbery Medal went to this sweet, honest account of the intertwined lives of five friends one summer. |
| | Pierce, Tamora | | First Test | | Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight. |
| | Reider, Katja. | | Rosalie and Truffle | | Two pigs meet and fall in love, but will their passion endure the well-meaning but ill-conceived advice of their friends? |
| | Rosoff, Meg | | how i live now | | This staggering novel, winner of the 2004 Printz Medal, examines a contemporary WWIII through the eyes of the freshest, most honest literary heroine in decades. |
| | Shull, Megan | | Amazing Grace | | Tennis has a new "it" girl and her name is Grace Kincaid. The only problem is -- Grace wants out. |
| | Strasser, Todd | | The Wave | | The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred when a teacher’s classroom experiment dealing with group pressure spun out of control. |
| | Tunnell, Michael O. | | Wishing Moon | | After a fourteen-year-old orphan named Aminah comes to possess a magic lamp, the wishes granted her by the genie inside it allow her to alter her life by choosing prosperity, purpose, and romance. |
| | Zindel, Paul | | The Pigman | | When two troubled teens play a practical joke on an old man, they find in him something they couldn’t find anywhere else. But a gift that rare can’t last forever. |
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