Choose Civility Teen Booklist at Howard County Library

All the right stuff /

Author: Myers, Walter Dean,
ISBN: 9780061960895;9780061960871
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/27/2012
Summary: The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who w
Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction. - Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - Social contract - African Americans - Coming of age
Call number: YA MYE

Black and white /

Author: Volponi, Paul.
ISBN: 9780142406922;0670060062
Year: 2005
Date added: 02/08/2007
Summary: Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency - Fiction. - Schools - High schools - Basketball - Fiction - Race relations - African Americans
Call number: YA VOL

Bystander /

Author: Preller, James.
ISBN: 9780312547967;9780312379063;0312379064
Year: 2009
Date added: 10/02/2009
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.
Subjects: Divorce - Fiction. - Schools - Bullies - Family life - New York (State) - New York - Middle schools - Conduct of life - Long Island (N.Y.) - Moving, Household - Fiction
Call number: YA PRE

The contender /

Author: Lipsyte, Robert.
ISBN: 0064470393;0060239204;9780064470391;0064470393
Year: 1967
Date added: 12/19/2001
Summary: A Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard and often discouraging work, but that you don't know anything until you try.
Subjects: Boxing - Fiction. - African Americans
Call number: YA LIP

Crash /

Author: Spinelli, Jerry.
ISBN: 0679879579;0440238579;9780440238577
Year: 1996
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction. - Family life - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: YA SPI

Giving : how each of us can change the world /

Author: Clinton, Bill,
ISBN: 0307266745;9780307266743
Year: 2007
Date added: 09/21/2007
Subjects: Social action. - Voluntarism. - Charity. - Generosity.
Call number: 361.7C

Holes /

Author: Sachar, Louis,
ISBN: 0374332665;044022859;9780374332662
Year: 2008
Date added: 05/18/2004
Summary: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Subjects: Buried treasure - Fiction. - Homeless persons - Juvenile delinquency - Friendship - Fiction - Newbery Medal.
Call number: YA SAC

Just don't fall : how I grew up, conquered illness, and made it down the mountain /

Author: Sundquist, Josh.
ISBN: 9780670021468
Year: 2010
Date added: 01/22/2010
Subjects: Sundquist, Josh - Health. - Ewing's sarcoma - Patients - United States - Autobiography. - Tumors in children - Biography.
Call number: B SUNDQUIST

The lions of Little Rock /

Author: Levine, Kristin
ISBN: 9780399256448
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/04/2012
Summary: In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.
Subjects: Little Rock (Ark.) - School integration - Fiction. - History - 20th century - African Americans - Family life - Bashfulness - Arkansas - Friendship - Fiction - Middle schools - Race relations - Schools
Call number: YA LEV

Manners made easy for teens : 10 steps to a life of confidence, poise, and respect /

Author: Moore, June Hines.
ISBN: 9780805444599
Year: 2007
Date added: 10/18/2007
Subjects: Child rearing - Religious aspects - Christianity. - Etiquette for children and teenagers.
Call number: 395.123M

Marcelo in the real world /

Author: Stork, Francisco X.
ISBN: 9780545056908;9780545054744
Year: 2009
Date added: 02/17/2009
Summary: Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
Subjects: Autism - Fiction. - Asperger's syndrome - Interpersonal relations
Call number: YA STO

The misfits /

Author: Howe, James,
ISBN: 0689839553;9780689839566;0689839561
Year: 2001
Date added: 09/24/2002
Summary: Four students who do not fit in at their small-town middle school decide to create a third party for the student council elections to represent all students who have ever been called names.
Subjects: Elections - Fiction. - Friendship - Teasing - Schools
Call number: YA HOW

The moves make the man : a novel /

Author: Brooks, Bruce.
ISBN: 0060206799;9780064405645;9780064470223
Year: 1984
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A Black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship.
Subjects: Emotional problems - Fiction. - Friendship - Fiction - African Americans - Newbery Medal.
Call number: YA BRO

My brother Sam is dead /

Author: Collier, James Lincoln,
ISBN: 9780590427920;9780439783606;9780027229806
Year: 1974
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Fiction.
Call number: YA COL

Notes from the midnight driver /

Author: Sonnenblick, Jordan.
ISBN: 0439757819;0439757797;9780439757812
Year: 2006
Date added: 12/06/2006
Summary: After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.
Subjects: Nursing homes - Fiction. - Family problems - Fiction - Guitar - Friendship - Self-perception - Musicians
Call number: YA SON

Nothing but the truth : a documentary novel /

Author: Avi,
ISBN: 038071907;0531059596;0531085597;9780545174152
Year: 1991
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.
Subjects: High schools - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Schools
Call number: YA AVI

Operation Yes /

Author: Holmes, Sara.
ISBN: 9780545107952
Year: 2009
Date added: 11/30/2009
Summary: In her first ever teaching job, Miss Loupe uses improvisational acting exercises with her sixth-grade students at an Air Force base school, and when she experiences a family tragedy, her previously skeptical class members use what they have learned to hel
Subjects: Acting - Fiction. - Cousins - Military bases - Schools - Teachers
Call number: YA HOL

Out of my mind /

Author: Draper, Sharon M.
ISBN: 9781416971702
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/12/2010
Summary: Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Subjects: Cerebral palsy - Fiction. - People with disabilities - Communication - Interpersonal relations - Genius
Call number: YA DRA

Pop /

Author: Korman, Gordon.
ISBN: 9780061742286;9780061742613
Year: 2009
Date added: 09/08/2009
Summary: Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
Subjects: Schools - Fiction. - Alzheimer's disease - High schools - Football - Divorce - Moving, Household - Fiction
Call number: YA KOR

Schooled /

Author: Korman, Gordon.
ISBN: 9780786856923;9781423105169;0786856920
Year: 2007
Date added: 08/06/2007
Summary: Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the loc
Subjects: Middle school students - Fiction. - Home schooling
Call number: YA KOR

Some girls are /

Author: Summers, Courtney.
ISBN: 9780312573805
Year: 2010
Date added: 01/05/2010
Summary: Regina, a high school senior in the popular--and feared--crowd, suddenly falls out of favor and becomes the object of the same sort of vicious bullying that she used to inflict on others, until she finds solace with one of her former victims.
Subjects: Emotional problems - Fiction. - Bullies - Cliques (Sociology) - High schools - Schools
Call number: YA SUM

Soul searching : a girl's guide to finding herself /

Author: Stillman, Sarah,
ISBN: 9781582703039
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/07/2012
Summary: "Girl Power lives! Written when the author was sixteen and updated to address the concerns of today's teens, Soul Searching brings girl power to the printed page by offering young women a clear path to self-discovery and empowerment. Through fun quizzes,
Subjects: Girls - Conduct of life. - Spiritual life.
Call number: 158.0835S

Teen manners : from malls to meals to messaging and beyond /

Author: Senning, Cindy Post.
ISBN: 0060881984;9780060881986
Year: 2007
Date added: 02/15/2008
Subjects: Etiquette for children and teenagers.
Call number: 395.123S

The truth about Truman School /

Author: Butler, Dori Hillestad.
ISBN: 9780807580950;9780807580967
Year: 2008
Date added: 07/28/2008
Summary: Tired of being told what to write by the school newspaper's advisor, Zibby and her friend Amr start an underground newspaper online where everyone is free to post anything, but things spiral out of control when a cyberbully starts using the site to harras
Subjects: Middle schools - Fiction. - Newspapers - Gossip - Underground newspapers - Web sites - Bullies - Schools - Journalism
Call number: YA BUT

Who moved my cheese? : for teens : an amazing way to change and win! /

Author: Johnson, Spencer.
ISBN: 0439283574;0399240071
Year: 2002
Date added: 11/04/2002
Summary: Presents the author's parable about change framed in a story about a group of high school friends trying to handle change in their lives.
Subjects: Change (Psychology) - Teenagers - Conduct of life.
Call number: 155.24J

Wicked girls : a novel of the Salem witch trials /

Author: Hemphill, Stephanie.
ISBN: 9780061853289
Year: 2010
Date added: 09/07/2010
Summary: A fictionalized account, told in verse, of the Salem witch trials, told from the perspective of three young women living in Salem in 1692--Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam, Jr.
Subjects: Salem (Mass.) - History. - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Fiction. - Novels in verse. - Trials (Witchcraft) - Witchcraft
Call number: YA HEM

Wonder /

Author: Palacio, R. J.
ISBN: 9780375869020
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/16/2012
Summary: Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his
Subjects: Abnormalities, Human - Fiction. - Middle schools - Schools - Self-acceptance
Call number: YA PAL