What Booklists can we brainstorm together?

Here are some more ideas (a wide variety):

FICTION

Shelter by Whitmore

Thicker Than Water by Jablonski

True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet by Douglas

More Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet by Douglas

Stoner and Spaz by Koertge

Monster in Me by Harrison

Before, After, and Somebody In Between by Garsee

After the Wreck by Oates

True Believer by Wolff

Make Lemonade by Wolff

Elsewhere by Zevin

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Zevin

Taken by Bloor

Beige by Castellucci

Story of a Girl by Zarr

The Book Thief by Zusak

Dead Girls Don't Write Letters by Giles

Maybe she could use a little humor fiction, also. Too much angst?

Carol Burdick

19 year old, likes Cut, Go ask Alice, It happened to Nancy, Weetzie Bat,

Crosses. Doesn't like boy main characters. Suggestions?

FICTION

Ellen Hopkins titles (glass, Crank, Identical)

Notes from the Teenage Underground by Howell

Tillerman Series by Cynthia Voight (starts with Homecoming)

Unwind by Shusterman

This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn by Aidan Chambers

NONFICTION/BIOGRAPHY

Three little words : a memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Transparent : love, family, and living the T with transgender teenagers by Cris Beam

Still kicking : my journey as the first woman to play Division I college football by Katie Hnida

Rolling away : my agony with ecstasy by Lynn Marie Smith

When I was a soldier : a memoir by Valérie Zenatti

My thirteenth winter : a memoir by Samantha Abeel

Decades (50's, 60's, 70's and 80's)

Book about something from those decades rather than books themselves from those decades (altho there might be some overlap).

1950s

King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher (autobiography)

Chris Crutcher, author of young adult novels such as "Ironman" and "Whale Talk," as well as short stories, tells of growing up in Cascade, Idaho, and becoming a writer.

Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam (autobiography)

Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Pageant by Kathryn Lasky

Dancing with Elvis by Lynda Stephenson

Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

Memories of Summer by Ruth White

1960s

Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (adult fiction)

Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes

Sonny's war by Valerie Hobbs

In the late 1960s, fourteen-year-old Cori's life is greatly changed by the sudden death of her father and her brother's tour of duty in Vietnam.

Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

As a Chicano boy living in the unglamorous town of Hollywood, New Mexico, and a member of the graduating class of 1969, Sammy Santos faces the challenges of "gringo" racism, unpopular dress codes, the Vietnam War, barrio violence, and poverty.

Long Time Passing by Adrienne Jones

Gemini Summer by Ian Lawrence

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Spite Fences by Trudy Krisher

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

Wednesday Ways by Gary D. Schmidt

Criss cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.

Rooster by Beth Nixon Weaver

On a small Florida orange grove in the 1960s, fourteen-year-old Kady Palmer is burdened with housework and caring for her senile grandmother and mentally handicapped neighbor, so when a rich, handsome boy from school becomes interested in her she devises a plan to spend time with him.

Semiprecious by D. Anne Love

Uprooted and living with an aunt in 1960s Oklahoma, thirteen-year-old Garnet and her older sister Opal brave their mother's desertion and their father's recovery from an accident, learning that "the best home of all is the one you make inside yourself."

Runaround by Helen Hemphill.

In Kentucky in the 1960s, partly as revenge against her older sister for publicly embarrassing her, eleven-year-old Sassy decides to make the handsomest boy in the neighborhood her boyfriend, but first she has to find out what makes a boy like a girl, and how to know when he does.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

When it was first published in 1967, "The Outsiders" defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.

Boom! Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today by Tom Brokaw (nonfiction/memoir)

Race, war, politics, feminism, popular culture, and music are all explored here, and we learn from a wide range of people about their lives. Tom Brokaw explores how members of this generation have gone on to bring activism and a Sixties mindset into individual entrepreneurship today.

1970s

Rat life by Tedd Arnold

After developing an unusual friendship with a young Vietnam War veteran in 1972, fourteen-year-old Todd discovers his writing talent and solves a murder mystery.

Our time on the river by Don Brown

Two brothers take a river trip by canoe in advance of the elder brother being shipped out to Vietnam.

The life history of a star by Kelly Easton

For more than a year, fourteen-year-old Kristin uses her diary to record her confused thoughts about the physical changes brought on by adolescence and the emotional strain on her family of living with the "ghost" of her beloved older brother who was physically and mentally destroyed while serving in Vietnam.

Clay Marble by Minfong Ho

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

Search and destroy by Dean Hughes

Recent high school graduate Rick Ward, undecided about his future and eager to escape his unhappy home life, joins the army and experiences the horrors of the war in Vietnam.

Postcards to father Abraham by Catherine Lewis

When sixteen-year-old Meghan loses her leg to cancer and her brother to Vietnam, she expresses intense anger in postcards which she writes to her idol, Abraham Lincoln.

Stuck in the 70's by D.L.Garfinkle

A spoiled, rich, seventeen-year-old girl is mysteriously transported from 2006 Los Angeles back to 1978, where she meets Tyler, a super-smart high school senior who promises help her return her to 2006 if she will give him some lessons on how to be popular.

Greetings from Planet Earth by Barbara Kerley

In 1977, as twelve-year-old Theo struggles with a science class project on space exploration, questions emerge about why his father never returned from Vietnam and why Theo's mother has been keeping secrets for many years.

1980s

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (published in 1982)

Pepperland by Mark Delaney

Struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother in the late 1980s, sixteen-year-old Beatles fan Star Cochran hopes to find closure by delivering to John Lennon a letter her mother wrote to him in 1964 but never sent.

Addiction

My Brother's Keeper by McCormick

Rx by Lynn

The Beast by Myers

Bottled Up by Murray

Go Ask Alice

Crank

Glass

Cut

America by Frank

Raiders Night by Lipstye has steroid use in it

Loss of Parent

We need a Booklist for teens about loss of a parent/mother, particularly for young teen girls.

Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas by Alan D. Wolfelt NF

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

One of those hideous books where the mother dies by Sonya Sones

The tree shepherd's daughter by Gillian Summers (fantasy)

Firmament (father) Bowler YA

Pieces of Georgia (parents) Bryant YA

Alone At Ninety Foot (mother) Holubitsky YA

The Key to the Golden Firebird (father) Johnson YA

Swallowing Stones McDonald YA

Missing Girls (mother) Metzger YA

The Spying Game (father) Moon YA

Blizzards Wake (mother) Naylor YA

A Dance of Sisters (mother) Porter YA

Under the wolf, under the dog (mother) Rapp YA

Sky Rider (mother) Springer YA

Going for the Record (father) Swanson YA

Dead Birds Singing (mother) Talbert YA

Dancing Through the Shadows (mother) Tomlinson YA

November Ever After (mother) Torres YA