IT'S A GUY THING

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams (YA ADAMS) 215p MS/HS
What do you do when your planet’s destroyed? Hitchhike about the galaxy!

Clay
David Almond (YA ALMOND) 224p MS/HS
Be careful what you bring to life...you may regret it!

The Book Without Words
Avi (YA AVI) 203p MS/HS
Your master knows the secret to immortality. Cool! But to get it, you must die.

Road of the Dead
Kevin Brooks (YA BROOKS) 339p HS
Ruben uses his psychic powers to find his sister’s killer.

Code Talker
Joseph Bruchac (YA BRUCHAC) 240p MS/HS
The native language Ned is forbidden to speak makes him a war hero.

Doing It
Melvin Burgess (YA BURGESS) 326p HS
When 3 guys aren’t thinking about sex, they’re doing it. Which is
sometimes great...and sometimes not.

Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card (YA CARD) 357p MS/HS
One boy will decide the fate of the world.

Code Orange
Caroline Cooney (YA COONEY) 200p MS/HS
Who knew doing homework could give you a deadly disease?

Whale Talk
Chris Crutcher (YA CRUTCHER) 224p HS
There’s bad & good news about the CHS swim team. The bad: no pool.
The good: only one of them can swim.

Runner
Carl Deuker (YA DEUKER) 216p MS/HS
Destitute Chance jumps at a job offer. He knows how much he’ll earn;
what he doesn’t know is how much he’ll pay….

Playing It Cool
Joaquin Dorfman (YA DORFMAN) 339p HS
Sebastian fixes others’ problems. This time he’s in over his head.

Car Trouble
Jeanne DuPrau (YA DUPRAU) 288p HS
6 days to drive 3,000 miles to riches. Simple, right?

Tell It To Naomi
Daniel Ehrenhaft (YA EHRENHAFT) 200p MS/HS
Dave’s posing as a female advice columnist to get the girl.
What could go wrong?

Every Man for Himself: 10 Stories About Being a Guy
Walter Dean Myers, ed. (YA EVERY) 154p MS/HS
Stories about being a guy, written by guys.

Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery
John Feinstein (YA FEINSTEIN) 256p MS/HS
Winning a trip to the Final Four is a dream come true, until Danny overhears talk of blackmail...and a thrown game.

Fade to Black
Alex Flinn (YA FLINN) 184p HS
What really happened? 3 people. 1 truth. Who will tell it?

As Simple as Snow
Gregory Galloway (YA GALLOWAY) 308p HS
When Anna goes missing, her boyfriend’s left to puzzle out her fate….

Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman (YA GAIMAN) 337p HS
One moment: help a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. The next: alternate reality!

Freshman
Michael Gerber (YA GERBER) 340p HS
You’ve never seen college life like this!

Pucker
Melanie Gideon (YA GIDEON) 273p MS/HS
Always the outsider, Pucker’s given a chance to change that. Is it worth his home? His personality? His mother’s life?

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon (YA HADDON) 256p HS
Autistic Christopher can barely function, but he’ll find out who killed Wellington

Grand & Humble
Brent Hartinger (YA HARTINGER) 213p HS
2 guys are losing their grip. What’s up w/ these “visions” & nightmares?

Rash
Pete Hautman (YA HAUTMAN) 249p MS/HS
Pizza factory prisons. Illegal football. Hungry bears. The USSA. It’s a whole new
world for Bo. And all because of one little mistake.

Across the Nightingale Floor
Lian Hearn (YA HEARN) 288p HS
Danger, adventure, betrayal, love, magic. And that’s just in the first few
days of Takeo’s new life as adopted son to Lord Otori!

The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton (YA HINTON) 188p MS/HS
Gang life’s tough, but it’s all they know.

Assassin’s Apprentice
Robin Hobb (YA HOBB) 356p MS/HS
Fitz, bastard son of the Prince, is raised to serve the court as an assassin.

Diamond Brothers Mysteries
Anthony Horowitz (YA HOROWITZ) 191p MS/HS
They may be the world’s worst detective agency, but they still solve crimes.

Search & Destroy
Dean Hughes (YA HUGHES) 216p MS/HS
Rick wants to go to war. To be a man. But war’s a lot different than
anything he could have imagined.

New World Order
Ben Jeapes (YA JEAPES) 441p MS/HS
War’s a lot different when aliens get involved!

The First Part Last
Angela Johnson (YA JOHNSON) 144p MS/HS
Everyone’s telling Bobby that the best thing to do is give up his baby.
So why does it feel like the worst thing?

Nailed
Patrick Jones (YA JONES) 224p HS
Sometimes you have to risk getting hammered to build a great future.

The Long Walk
Stephen King (YA KING) 370p HS
100 guys start walking. 1 wins. The others lose...forever.

Dark Angel
David Klass (YA KLASS) 311p HS
Oh, good! Jeff’s murderer brother has come home to stay!

Boy Girl Boy
Ron Koertge (YA KOERTGE) 176p HS
Larry, Teresa, Elliot. Boy, Girl, Boy. That’s how it’s always been. How it’ll
always be. That’s the plan. Plans change.

Born to Rock
Gordon Korman (YA KORMAN) 261p MS/HS
"There are two kinds of people in this world--those who have had a
cavity search, and those who haven't. This is the story of how I wound
up in the wrong category."

A Crack in the Line
Michael Lawrence (YA LAWRENCE) 336p MS/HS
2 teens live parallel lives in parallel universes. With one important,
life-changing difference. And then, they meet.

Catch
Will Leitch (YA LEITCH) 304p HS
Tim has to choose: remain a small-town hero, or follow his dreams?

Boy Meets Boy
David Levithan (YA LEVITHAN) 185p HS
Paul has met THE guy. But his ex—who dumped him for girls—wants
Paul back. Now what?

The Goodness Gene
Sonia Levitin (YA LEVITIN) 320p MS/HS
Are you more than your DNA?

Raiders Night
Robert Lipsyte (YA LIPSYTE) 240p HS
In a town where football’s everything, does superstar Matt stick w/
the team, or go long alone?

In the Break
Jack Lopez (YA LOPEZ) 192p HS
3 teens run away from a brutal stepfather & to a quest for the perfect wave.

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
David Lubar (YA LUBAR) 279p MS/HS
Starting high school’s baby enough without a stupid baby sibling on the way.

Inexcusable
Chris Lynch (YA LYNCH) 176p HS
He’s a nice guy. So how could he have done something so awful?

Zoo
Graham Marks (YA MARKS) 266p MS/HS
Why does Cam have cops, kidnappers & armed agents after him?

Gil’s All Fright Diner
A. Lee Martinez (YA MARTINEZ) 272p HS
Need to get rid of zombies? Hire a werewolf & a vampire!

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
Christopher Moore (YA MOORE) 408p HS
“The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was sitting near the central wall in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out of his mouth.”

The Squire’s Tale
Gerald Morris (YA MORRIS) 212p MS/HS
Jousting, questing, fighting, bleeding. Just another day in the life of a squire.

Shooter
Walter Dean Myers (YA MYERS) 224p HS
"I have bought a gaw-juss weapon. It lies beneath my bed like a secret
lover, quiet, powerful, waiting to work my magic."

Hatchet
Gary Paulsen (YA PAULSEN)195p MS/HS
Stranded in the wilderness with only a hatchet & your wits.

Ball Don’t Lie
Matt de la Pena (YA PENA) 280p HS
“I think God put me here to play ball.”

Home Invasion
Monique Polak (YA POLAK) 105p MS/HS
Josh doesn’t know why he breaks into people’s houses. But he can’t stop.

Devil’s Footsteps
E.E. Richardson (YA RICHARDSON) 184p MS/HS
Something’s out there, haunting your nightmares...when you’re awake!

Small Steps
Louis Sachar (YA SACHAR) 272p MS/HS
Armpit is trying to turn his life around. But it’s hard, when everyone
expects the worst of you.

Lord Loss (Demonata #1)
Darren Shan (YA SHAN) 233p MS/HS
Don’t you hate it when you come home & find your family ripped to pieces?

The Rise of Lubchenko
Michael Simmons (YA SIMMONS) 217p MS/HS
Don’t you hate it when you discover your dad’s partner is going to sell
smallpox to terrorists, frame your dad, & then kill him?

The Afterlife
Gary Soto (YA SOTO) 161p MS/HS
You'd think that a knife in the ribs would be the end of things, but for Chuy, that's when his life finally gets interesting.

The Book of Mordred
Vivian Vande Velde (YA VANDE) 342p MS/HS
The man who brought down King Arthur.

It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Ned Vizzini (YA VIZZINI) 448p HS
Home, sweet psych ward.

Rooftop
Paul Volponi (YA VOLPONI) 199p HS
Clay saw the white cop shoot his unarmed black cousin. But he doesn’t tell. Now he has to figure out how to seek redemption....

Peeps
Scott Westerfeld (YA WESTERFELD) 320p HS
How’d you like a job hunting down vampires...including your girlfriend?

Pay the Piper: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fairy Tale
Jane Yolen (YA YOLEN) 176p MS/HS
Curse the curse that compels a rocker to steal children!

Girls for Breakfast
David Yoo (YA YOO) 294p HS
It’s all about the girls & getting out of social Siberia.

Dragon & Thief (Dragonback series)
Timothy Zahn (YA ZAHN) 254p MS/HS
Talk about an odd couple!

MS = Most appropriate for middle schoolers
MS/HS = Most appropriate for middle/high schoolers
HS = Most appropriate for high schoolers

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