This list of
fiction books has been developed for the 9th grade Social Issues course
at Redwood High School.
| Listed by Author | Listed by Theme | Annotated Social Issues Books (pdf) |
AUTHOR LISTS
| AUTHOR | TITLE | THEME |
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Agee, James Allison, Dorothy Alvarez, Julia Atwood, Russell Avi Banks, Russell Bauer, Joan Beckman, Gunnel Bennett, Cherie Berg, Elizabeth ----------. Berry, Liz Block, Francesca ----------. Blume, Judy ----------. Bonham, Frank Bradbury, Ray Brautigan, Richard Bridgers, Sue Brown, Rita Mae ----------. Burgess, Anthony Burns, Olive Ann Burroughs, William S. Campbell, Bebe Cao, Lan Carroll, Jim Cart, Michael Carter, Alden R. Chambers, Aiden Chehak, Susan Taylor Childress, Alice Childress, Mark Cisneros, Sandra Clark, Mary Higgins Cole, Sheila Cooney, Caroline B. Cormier, Robert ----------. ----------. Craven, Margaret Crew, Linda Culin, Charlotte Deaver, Julie Deuker, Carl Donovan, Stacey Dorris, Michael Doyle, Paddy Esquivel, Laura Ferris, Jean ----------. Flagg, Fannie Forster, E.M. Gallo, Donald R., ed. Garden, Nancy Gibbons, Kaye Goines, David Lance Golding, William Grant, Cynthia D. Green, Bette Greene, Shep Grumley, Michael Guest, Judith ----------. Guy, Rosa Hanauer, Cathi Hautzig, Deborah Hayden, Torey L. Head, Ann Hentoff, Nat Hinton, Nigel Hinton, S.E. ----------. ----------. Holland, Isabelle ----------. Holman, Felice Hopkins, Jerry Houtzig, Deborah Ingold, Jeanette Irving, John Jackson, Shirley Kata, Elizabeth Kay, Terry Kaysen, Suzanna Kellogg, Marjorie Kennedy, William Kent, Debora Kerr, M.E. ----------. ----------. Kesey, Ken Keyes, Daniel Kincaid, Jamaica King, Buzz Kingsolver, Barbara Klein, Norma ----------. Knowles, John Lamott, Annie Lee, Gus L'Engle, Madeleine Levenkron, Steven Levitin, Sonia Lifton, Betty Jean Lipsyte, Robert ----------. Matas, Carol Mazer, Norma Fox ----------. ----------. ----------. ----------. McBride, James McCullers, Carson McCunn McDaniel, Lurlene Miklowitz, Gloria Mishima, Yukio Morrison, Toni Mowry, Jess ----------. Murray, Yxta Maya Myers, Walter Dean ----------. Nabokov, Vladimir Naylor, Phyliss Reynolds Neufeld, John ----------. ----------. Newton, Suzanne Oughton, Jerrie Oneal, Zibby Paterson, Katherine Paulsen, Gary ----------. Payne, C.D. Peck, Richard ----------. Pennebaker, Ruth Plath, Sylvia Ramsey, Martha Reynolds, Marilyn ----------. ----------. Rottman, S.L. Rubin, Theodore Isaac Ruckman, Ivy Ryan, Joan Salinger, J.D. ----------. Sanders, Dori Scoppettone, Sandra Sender, Ruth Minsky Shulman, Irving Shusterman, Neal Snyder, Anne Sparks, Beatrice Staples, Suzanne Fisher ----------. Stoehr, Shelley Swarthout, Glendon Fred Thomas, Piri Thurman, Wallace Townsend, Sue Voigt, Cynthia ----------. ----------. Walker, Alice Ward, Mary Jane Wilder, Thornton Witinger, Ellen Wojciechowska, Maia Wolff, Virginia Euwer Woodson, Jacqueline Yablonsky, Linda |
Go ask Alice
A death in the family Bastard out of Carolina How the Garcia girls lost their accents East of A Nothing but the truth Rule of the bone Rules of the road Admission to the feast Life in the fat lane Joy school Durable goods Mel Girl goddess #9 The hanged man Tiger eyes It's not the world Viva Chicano Fahrenheit 451 Watermelon sugar Home before dark Sudden death Rubyfruit jungle A clockwork orange Cold Sassy tree Naked lunch Your blues ain't like mine Monkey bridge Basketball diaries My father's scar Between a rock and a hard place Dance on my grave Smithereens A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich Crazy in Alabama House on Mango Street A stranger is watching What kind of love? Driver's ed After the first death The chocolate war In the middle of the night I heard the owl call my name Children of the river Cages of glass, flowers of time Say goodnight, Gracie Night hoops Dive Sees Behind Trees Paddy Clark, ha ha ha Like water for chocolate Looking for home Invincible summer Daisy Fay and the miracle man Maurice Time capsule Good moon rising Ellen Foster Cry revenge Lord of the flies The white horse The drowning of Stephan Jones The boy who drank to much Life drawing Ordinary people Second heaven Ruby My sister's bones Second star to the right Murphy's boy Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones I'm really dragged but nothing gets me down Collision course The outsiders Rumble fish That was then, this is now The man without a face Of love and death and other journeys Slake's limbo No one here gets out alive Second star to the right The window The cider house rules We have always lived in the castle Patch of blue The kidnapping of Aaron Greene Girl, interrupted Like the lion's tooth Ironweed Ten speed summer Deliver us from Evie Night kites Hello, I lied One flew over the cuckoo's nest Flowers for Algernon Annie John Silicon songs Pigs in heaven Sunshine Taking sides A separate peace Rosie China boy The young unicorns The best little girl in the world The singing mountain I'm still me The contender The brave Sworn enemies After the rain Out of control Silver Solid gold kid Taking Terri Mueller The color of water The heart is a lonely hunter Thousand pieces of gold: A biographical novel When happily ever after ends Close to the edge Forbidden colors The bluest eye Way past cool Six out seven Locas Crystal Scorpions Lolita Walker's Crossing Lisa, bright and dark Edgar Allen Almost a hero Where are you when I need you? Perfect family In summer light Bridge to Terabitha The car Hatchet Youth in revolt The last safe place on earth Remembering the good times Don't think twice The bell jar Where I stopped Detour for Emmy Jeff's baby Too soon for Jeff Hero Lisa and David The hunger scream Little girls in pretty boxes The catcher in the rye Franny & Zooey Clover The late, great me The cage West Side story What daddy did My name is Davy--I'm an alcoholic It happened to Nancy Shabanu: Daughter of the wind Haveli Crosses Bless the beasts and children Down these mean streets The blacker the berry The Adrian Mole diaries When she hollers Orfe The homecoming The color purple The snake pit The bridge of San Luis Rey Hard love Tuned out Make lemonade If you come softly The story of junk |
drug abuse
death; growing up alcoholism; child abuse growing up Dominican American urban crime censorship runaways; drug use; Rastafarians growing up death body image growing up growing up mentally ill self-image child abuse death divorce growing up censorship drugs growing up homosexuality growing up poor and gay gangs; violence family life drug abuse prejudice growing up Vietnamese American drug abuse alcohol; homosexuality; child abuse diabetics; suvival homosexuality peer pressure drug abuse; African Americans growing up in Alabama in 1965 growing up Latino kidnapping teenage pregnancy peer pressure kidnapping peer pressure death; father-son death growing up Cambodian American child abuse; alcoholism death basketball; friendship death; growing up Native Americans; blindness growing up Irish love teenage pregnancy terminal illness; friendship growing up; father-daughter Edwardian gay love 20th century America growing up gay alcoholism; growing up gang violence peer pressure; survival heroin addiction homophobia alcoholism drug abuse; gay men mental illness; suicide child abuse West Indian American lesbian sisters; growing up Jewish anorexia child abuse teenage pregnancy draft resistance; growing up hit-and-run drivers growing up growing up growing up friendship; homosexuality death; parent-child; divorce homelessness rock music anorexia blindness abortion murder blindness; prejudice extortion mental illness child abuse; violence alcoholism love lesbian relationship AIDS rock music; bisexuality mentally ill mental retardation growing up in Antigua computer crime; homelessness adoption terminal illness divorce friendship; war alcoholism; mother-daughter growing up Chinese American gangs; blind anorexia growing up in Israel adoption gangs; boxing growing up Native American; boxing hate growing up sexual harassment child sexual abuse kidnapping kidnapping; divorce bi-racialism deafness growing up Chinese American death; suicide suicide incest
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| ADOPTION | Kingsolver. Pigs in Heaven
Lifton. I'm Still Me Neufeld. Edgar Allen Penneboker. Don't Think Twice |
| AIDS | Kerr. Night Kites
Sparks. It Happened to Nancy |
| ALCOHOL | Allison. Bastard Out of Carolina
Cart. My Father's Scar Culin. Cages of Glass, Flowers of Time Gibbons. Ellen Foster Greene. The Boy Who Drank Too Much Kennedy. Ironweed Lamott. Rosie Scoppettone. The Late Great Me Snyder. My name is Davy: I'm an alcoholic |
| CHILD ABUSE | Allison. Bastard Out of Carolina
Block. The Hanged Man Cart. My Father's Scar Guest. Second Heaven Hayden. Murphy's Boy Kellogg. Like the Lion's Tooth Mazer. Silver Morrison. The Bluest Eye Neufeld. Almost a Hero Voigt. When She Hollers |
| COMPUTER CRIME | King. Silicon Songs |
| DEATH AND DYING | Agee. A Death in the Family
Beckman. Admission to the Feast Blume. Tiger Eyes Cormier. In the Middle of the Night Craven. I Heard the Owl Call My Name Deaver. Say Goodnight, Gracie Donovan. Dive Ferris. Invincible Summer Guest. Ordinary People Hinton. Collision Course Holland. Of Love and Death and Other Journeys Klein. Sunshine Mazer. When the Phone Rang McDaniel. When Happily Ever After Ends Peck. Remembering the Good Times Shusterman. What Daddy Did Sparks. It Happened to Nancy Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| DISABILITIES | Carter. Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Dorris. Sees Behind Trees Ingold. The Window Kata. A Patch of Blue McCullers. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| DIVORCE | Blume. It's Not the World
Holland. Of Love and Death... Klein. Taking Sides Mazer. Taking Terri Mueller Paulsen. Hatchet |
| DRUGS | Go Ask Alice
Burroughs. Naked Lunch Childress. A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich Neufeld. Lisa Bright and Dark Stoehr. Crosses Voigt. Orfe Wojciechowska. Tuned Out Yablonsky. The Story of Junk |
| EATING DISORDERS | Hanauer. My Sister's Bones
Hautzig. Second Star to the Right Levenkron. The Best Little Girl in the World Ruckman. The Hunger Scream Stoehr. Crosses |
| ETHNIC ISSUES | Alvarez. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Armstrong. Sounder Arrick. Chernowitz Baldwin. If Beale Street Could Talk Bambara. Gorilla, My Love Beatty. White Boy Shuffle Berger. Little Big Man Bonham. Viva Chicano Borland. When the Legends Die Butler. Kindred Campbell. Your Blues Ain't Like Mine Childress. Crazy in Alabama Craven. I Heard the Owl Call My Name Dorris. Sees Behind Trees Ellison. Invisible Man Gaines. The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Guy. The disappearance ----------. Ruby Kadohata. The Floating World Hodge. For the Life of Letitia Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird Levitin. The Return Lowry. Number the Stars Marshall. Brown Girl, Brownstones Mathis. Listen to the Fig Tree McMillan. Waiting to Exhale Meyer. White Lilacs Miklowitz. The War Between the Classes Momaday. House Made of Dawn Mowry. Way past cool ----------. Six out seven Myers. Scorpions Okada. No-no Boy Parks. The Learning Tree Paton. Cry, the Beloved Country Sanders. Clover Silko. Ceremony ----------. Almanac of the Dead Soto. Baseball in April Sinclair. Coffee Will Make You Black Straight. I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots Taylor. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Thurman. The Blacker the Berry Walker. The Color Purple Williams. The Man Who Cried Woodson. Maison at Blue Hill ----------. From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun Wright. Native Son ----------. Rite of Passage |
| GANGS | Burgess. A Clockwork Orange
L'Engle. Young Unicorns Lipsyte. The Contender Mowry. Way past cool ----------. Six out seven Murray. Locas Myers. Scorpions Shulman. West Side Story Thomas. Down These Mean Streets |
| GROWING UP | Agee. A Death in the Family
Allison. Bastard Out of Carolina Banks. Rule of the Bone Burns. Cold Sassy Tree Childress. Crazy in Alabama Cisneros. The House on Mango Street Doyle. Paddy Clark, Ha Ha Ha Flagg. Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man Gibbons. Ellen Foster Hentoff. I'm Really Dragged But... Kincaid. Annie John Lipsyte. The Brave Mazer. Silver ----------. After the Rain Newton. Where Are You When I Need You? Oneal. In Summer Light Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye Staples. Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind ----------. Haveli Swarthout. Bless the Beasts and Children Townsend. The Adrian Mole Diaries |
| HOMELESSNESS | King. Silicon Songs
Neufeld. Almost a Hero Paulsen. The Car Voigt. The Homecoming |
| HOMOSEXUALITY | Brown. Sudden Death
----------. Rubyfruit Jungle Cart. My Father's Scar Chambers. Dance on My Grave Forster. Maurice Garden. Good Morning Rising Green. The Drowning of Stephan Jones Grumley. Life Drawing Guy. Ruby Holland. The Man Without a Face Kerr. Deliver Us From Evie ----------. Night Kites ----------. Hello, I Lied Mishima. Forbidden Colors Warren. The Front Runner |
| IMMIGRANTS | Alvarez. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Cao. Monkey Bridge Crew. Children of the River McCunn. Thousand Pieces of Gold Lee. China Boy Thomas. Down These Mean Streets |
| KIDNAPPING | Clark. A Stranger Is Watching
Cormier. After the First Death Duncan. Five Were Missing Mazer. Solid Gold Kid ----------. Taking Terri Mueller |
| MENTAL ILLNESS | Berry. Mel
Fitzgerald. Tender Is the Night Guest. Ordinary People Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper Jackson. We Have Always Lived in the Castle Kellerman. Over the Edge Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Keyes. Flowers for Algernon Neufeld. Lisa Bright and Dark Piercy. Woman on the Edge of Time Plath. The Bell Jar Rubin. Jordi ----------. Lisa and David Reynolds. But What About Me? Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men Ward. The snake pit |
| PEER PRESSURE | Alcook. The trial of Anna Cotman
Bunting. Jumping the Nail Carrere. Class Trip Chehak. Smithereens Cooney. Driver's Ed Cormier. The Chocolate War Duncan. I Know What You Did Last Summer Rhue. The Wave |
| POVERTY | Arnow. The Dollmaker |
| PREGNANCY & PARENTING | Cole. What Kind of Love?
Ferris. Looking for Home Head. Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones Irving. Cider House Rules Lyle. Fair day, and Another Step Begun Neufeld. For All the Wrong Reasons Oughton. Perfect family Pennebaker. Don't Think Twice Reynolds. Detour for Emmy ----------. Jeff's Baby |
| SELF-MUTILATION | Levenkron. Best Little Girl in the World
Stoehr. Crosses |
| SEXISM & SEXUAL HARASSMENT | Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale
Auel. The Clan of the Cave Bear Duncan. Daughters of Eve Hurston. Their Eyes Were Watching God Mazer. Out of Control ----------. Silver Miklowitz. Past Forgiving ----------. Desperate Pursuit Tamar. Fair Game Tan. The Joy Luck Club Trice. Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven |
| SUICIDE | Arrick. Tunnel Vision
Bambara. The Salt Eater Bunting. Jumping the Nail Guest. Ordinary People McDaniel. When Happily Ever After Ends Miklowitz. Close to the Edge Oe. The Silent Cry Peck. Remembering the Good Times Tyler. Saint Maybe |
| VIOLENCE | Bennett. Skinhead
Chahek. Smithereens Cormier. After the First Death ----------. We All Fall Down ----------. The Chocolate War Duncan. Killing Mr. Griffin Golding. Lord of the Flies Kellogg. Like the Lion's Tooth Lynch. Iceman ----------. Shadow Boxer Taylor. Sweet Friday Island |