• Edge by Michael Cadnum
  Zachary has dropped out of high school because of the attitude he encounters from his classmates. When his father is shot during a carjacking, Zachary finds the .38 he picked up in a brawl and is tempted to use it
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier YA FIC CORMIER
  Jerry refuses to sell chocolates for his school's annual fundraiser, and his teacher and the group of bullies who control the school begin to treat him as an outcast.
  
• On the Fringe by Don Gallo ON ORDER
  Chris Crutcher, Joan Bauer, Ron Koertge, M. E. Kerr, and Nancy Werlin are among the authors who have contributed stories to this collection about outsiders.
• Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? A Mystery in Poems by Mel Glenn YA FIC GLENN
  The unexplained shooting death of a high school teacher sparks various responses from his students, other teachers, and policemen.
• Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers (Newbery Honor Book) YA FIC MYERS
  Jamal cares about his mother, sister, and best friend, Tito, but everybody's messing with him as he struggles to survive. His brother Randy is in the slam ... if Jamal takes charge of the Scorpions and starts to run crack, he could get the money for Randy's appeal. But is it worth the danger?
• The Brimstone Journals by Ron Koertge YA811.54 KOERTGE
  Students at Branston (aka Brimstone) High School hear that their angry classmate Boyd has a list of "everyone who ever blew me off, flipped me off, or pissed me off." Does he want people to stop him from using the arsenal he's built up in his basement?
• Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser YA FIC STRASSER
  Two outsiders take their classmates hostage in this story, told through interview-style passages with the victims and perpetrators.
• Making up Megaboy by Virginia Walter YA FIC WALTER
  Robbie Jones is "quiet, something of a loner" ... "He liked to draw..." One day, he takes a .44 from his father's sock drawer, rides his new bike to Main Street, and shoots an elderly Korean shopkeeper dead. This book, arresting as a TV news brief, describes Robbie's actions and arrest. The boy, meek and shivering, confesses but does not explain. Why did he do it?<

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