Top 10 Bext Books for Teens in 2001

(Listed in Alphabetical Order by Author)

Forgotten Fire

by Adam Bagdassarian

Horrors of the Armenian genocide become clear when a privileged boy is torn from his home and family.







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Hope Was Here

by Joan Bauer

Sixteen-year old Hope and her aunt move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin cooking up a storm.






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Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

In Holland in 1664, Griet leaves her family to become a maid in the painter Vermeer’s household, but the passion she inspires in the artist and the passion art inspires in her end in sorrow.




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Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho

by Jon Katz

Trapped in rural Idaho, two 19-year old, self-proclaimed “geeks” use their computer skills to land jobs, find an apartment, and start new lives in Chicago.






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Silent to the Bone

by E.L. Konigsburg

Thirteen-year old Branwell becomes unable to speak when the au pair accuses him of hurting his baby sister; and only his best friend, Connor, can reach him.





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The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer

by Gary Paulsen

After running away from home, a 16-year old boy first becomes a migrant farm worker and then a carny, and, in the process, learns a lot about life.





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Esperanza Rising

by Pam Munoz Ryan

Esperanza and her mother are forced to flee their live of privilege in Mexico and go to a farm-labor camp in California.







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Stargirl

by Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl, an eccentric new student, sees life from a different angle, and her nonconformist behavior changes her classmates and their perceptions of popularity.





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Homeless Bird

by Gloria Whelan

A 13-year-old girl living in modern India is forced into an arranged marriage with a dying boy. As a teenage widow, she finds herself abandoned in a strange city, where she must make a new life.





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Memoreis of Summer

by Ruth White

In 1955, 13-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to Michigan City, and her older sister, Summer, descends into mental illness.




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