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A Good Cry ...
Tearjerkers
for Teens
Watership Down
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by Richard Adams | YA FIC ADAMS |
Facing the destruction of their home, Hazel, Fiver, and
a group of rabbits set out on an epic quest to find a safe place where they can
establish a new warren. |  |
| Running Loose by Chris Crutcher |
YA FIC CRUTCHER |
Louie Banks has the world by the tail. He's a senior,
and he has wheels, a starting spot on the football team, good friends, and the
girl of everyone's dreams. But the world suddenly turns and snatches Louie by
the tail, and it just won't let go. His visions of sportsmanship and fair play
go up in smoke by the second game of the season; his expectations of life are
shattered by spring.
| Say Goodnight, Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver |
YA FIC DEAVER |
Morgan and Jimmy were kids together, whirling around the
porch in summer. They do everything together, from cutting school to coaching
each other at auditions. They even argue well. A perfect friendship … until
Morgan has to face life alone. Without Jimmy around, it's like the best part of
her has died. How could he do this to her? And why is love so hard?
| A
Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin | YA
FIC HURWIN | Samantha and Juliana
- Sam and Jules - have been best friends forever. Now, in the summer before their
senior year, they're ready for anything. College? Professional dance careers?
But neither of them is prepared for what does happen next. Jules is diagnosed
with cancer. And there is no cure.
| Love, Sara by Mary Beth Lundgren |
YA FIC STAPLES |
Sara finally lands in a foster home where people genuinely
care about her. Dulcie finds her own life spinning out of control when she and
a popular football player fall in love. When his parents learn that Dulcie is
pregnant, they throw him out of the house. Sara must race against time to try
to prevent her friends from doing what they feel is necessary.
| Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes |
YA FIC KEYES | Mentally
disabled Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius,
but only temporarily.
| Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley |
398.209 MCKINLEY |
Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled
to stay, and through her love he is released from the curse that had turned him
from man to beast.
Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever
| by Lurlene McDaniel | YA
SERIES MCDANIEL | Melissa has
always worked hard to make things go her way. As the school year begins, her grades
are up and she and her best friend, Jory, are determined to have the best junior
year ever. But suddenly Melissa receives devastating news about her health. At
first she refuses to accept the diagnosis, but as her illness gets worse she cannot
deny the truth.
| Earthshine by Theresa Nelson |
YA FIC NELSON |
Caring for her father, a charismatic actor who is dying
of AIDS, Slim joins a support group and meets Isaiah, who convinces her that their
family members can be cured by the Miracle Man who lives in the Hungry Valley.
| Close Enough to Touch by Richard Peck |
YA FIC PEC | Matt
has lost his wonderful girlfriend Dory. While trying to recover, he meets an unusual
girl.
| Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls |
YA FIC RAWLS | Hunting
the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country, Old Dan had the brawn, Little
Ann had the brains, and Billy had the will to make them into the finest team around.
They were earning glory and victory, but sadness waited, too, for Billy and his
dogs.
| Love Story by Erich Segal |
FIC SEGAL | The
story of a rich Harvard jock and a wisecracking Radcliffe music major who have
nothing in common but love ... and everything to share but time.
| Bringing Up the Bones by Lara M. Zeises |
YA FIC ZEISES |
Bridget Edelstein is taking a year off before she goes
to college, to try to recover from the the recent death of Benji, her longtime
best friend-turned-reluctant boyfriend, when she meets cutie Jasper. Is she ready
to love somebody else, or does she need to learn to love herself first?
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updated
November 28, 2007 |
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