Self-perception | Batavia High School Media Center

Monster

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the cou

African Americans, fiction, Prisons, Self-perception, Trials (Murder)

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MYE

Nailed

Patrick Jones

An outcast in a school full of jocks, sixteen-year-old Bret struggles to keep his individuality through his interest in drama and music, while trying to reconnect with his father.

Fathers and sons, fiction, High schools, Juvenile fiction, Schools

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JON

An Abundance of Katherines

John Green

Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find so

fiction, Interpersonal relations, Juvenile fiction, Man-woman relationships, Mathematics

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GRE

Be More Chill

Ned Vizzini

Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.

Children's audiobooks, Compact discs, fiction, High schools, Interpersonal relations

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VIZ

Talk

Kathe Koja

Hoping to escape from himself for awhile, Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting, struggles with coming out, and both he and his costar face crises in their

Coming out (Sexual orientation), fiction, Homosexuality, School stories, Schools

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Koj

Boy Girl Boy

Ronald Koertge

Three troubled high school seniors, who plan to run away together from Illinois to California after graduation, try to figure out who they are and who they want to be.

fiction, Friendship, Homosexuality, Self-perception

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Koe

Far From Xanadu

Julie Anne Peters

In a small Kansas town, sixteen-year-old Mary-Elizabeth "Mike" Szabo tries to come to terms with her father's suicide and her own homosexuality.

Family problems, fiction, Grief, Homosexuality, Interpersonal relations

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Pet

The Queen of Cool

Cecil Castellucci

Bored with her life, popular high school junior Libby signs up for an internship at the zoo and discovers that the "science nerds" she meets there may have a few things to teach her about friendship a

Conduct of life, fiction, High schools, Schools, Self-perception

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CAS

Love and Other Four-letter Words

Carolyn Mackler

When she and her mother move to an apartment in New York City after her parents decide on a trial separation, sixteen-year-old Sammie learns to deal with her mother's fragile mental state, her best fr

Family problems, fiction, Interpersonal relations, Mothers and daughters, New York

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MAC

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

Carolyn Mackler

Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical re

Assertiveness (Psychology), Family problems, fiction, High schools, New York (N.Y.)

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MAC