Chris Lynch
1) Inexcusable
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.
2) Hothouse
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Teens D.J. and Russell, life-long friends and neighbors, had drifted apart, but when their firefighter fathers are both killed, they try to help one another come to terms with the tragedy and its aftermath.
4) Freewill
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A teenager trying to recover from the tragic death of his father and stepmother believes himself to be responsible for the rash of teen suicides occurring in his town.
5) Who the man
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Earl Pryor is much too big for his age, and much too powerful for the anger that rages within him when classmates tease him, the girl he likes disappoints him, or his parents' problems get too real.
Author
Series
World War II volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After America is drawn into World War II, Hank McCallum finds himself on the USS Yorktown, an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, separated from his brother Theo, in constant danger from torpedoes, and just learning about the prejudice and segregation that plague his new friend from Tonga Bradford.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Four best friends serving in the Vietnam War make a pledge to one another that they will do all they can to return home safely together.
10) The liberators
Author
Series
World War II volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Nick Nardini enlists in the Marine Corps' new paratrooper combat unit at the start of World War II, he has to talk his best friend, Zachary Klecko, into joining him in what he sees as an adventure--but from boot camp on it is clear that Zach is much more serious about the war than Nick is, at least until they are assigned to one of the POW recovery teams on the Japanese mainland.
11) Free-fire zone
Author
Series
Vietnaqm volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
One of four friends who have volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War, the intellectual Beck is in the Air Force, where he is part of a crew spraying Agent Orange, but the destruction of the jungle and his isolation from the fighting going on below is starting to effect him.
13) The right fight
Author
Series
World War II volume One
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When the draft board calls on the eve of World War II, Roman leaves behind a career in minor-league baseball to join the army, and finds himself driving a tank in the North African campaign.
15) Iceman
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Eric, a ruthless hockey player prone to violence on the ice, tries to reconcile his own needs with those of his parents.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Arlo Brodie loves being at the heart of the action on the football field, and while his dad cheers him on, his mother quotes head injury statistics and refuses to watch, but Arlo's winning plays, the cheering crowds, and the adrenaline rush are enough to convince him that everything is OK, in spite of the pain, the pounding, the dizziness, and the confusion. --publisher marketing.