Todd Strasser
1) Fallout
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an unthinkable nuclear attack occurs in an alternate-reality 1962, Scott is forced into his father's bomb shelter with his family and neighbors, where they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside.
Author
Series
Publisher
EgmontUSA
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"They always agreed to meet me. Of course, I told them I was bringing them money. I said it was cash and I didn't want to send it through the mail. They might have hesitated at first about meeting me, but I never had to work very hard to convince them. Why?. . . It was the only way they could prolong their pathetic dreams of someday becoming rich, famous models."
Shelby's life in Soundview has always been comfortable. Her dad provides...
Shelby's life in Soundview has always been comfortable. Her dad provides...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"With his girlfriend, Robin, away in Canada, eighteen-year-old Lucas Baker's only plans for the summer are to mellow out with his friends, smoke weed, drop a tab or two, and head out in his microbus for a three-day happening called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. But life veers dramatically off track when he suddenly finds himself in danger of being drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam."--Amazon.com.
6) The good war
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
There's a new afterschool club at Ironville Middle School. Ms. Peterson is starting a video game club where the students will playing The Good War, a new game based on World War II. They are divided into two teams: Axis and Allies, and they will be simulating a war they know nothing about yet. Only one team will win. But what starts out as friendly competition, takes an unexpected turn for the worst when an one player takes the game too far. Can an...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Shuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A young man, injured and home from the war, is lauded as a hero. But he doesn't feel very heroic in the face of all that he witnessed."
Hailed as a hero, twenty-year-old Jake returns to his pro-military hometown and family injured physically and emotionally, unsure if he can return to active duty but uncomfortable with the alternative.
14) No place
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Dan and his parents can no longer pay their mortgage, they end up homeless and living in a local tent city. It's a bad situation, and it only gets worse when the leader of the tent city is brutally beaten. Who is trying to shut down the tent city, and why?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Aboard the Pequod, seventeen-year-old Ishmael arrives on the planet Cretacea to hunt down great ocean-dwelling beasts to harvest and send back to the resource-depleted Earth. But the ship's captain, Ahab, who lost his leg to the Great Terrafin years ago, is obsessed with hunting down the beast. The classic tale of Moby Dick as set in the future.
16) Anakin Skywalker
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Provides the tale of Anakin Skywalker's early years when he left his homeland of Tatooine behind in order to join the Jedi ranks and begins the journey of his life that eventually led him to become Darth Vader.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Friends Kyle, Wilson, and Dusty have no fear about performing practical jokes and doing risky things since they never get caught, and now they have their sights set on the sodas in the teacher's lounge in their no-soda-allowed school.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Tired of being hungry, cold, and dirty from living on the streets of New York City with a tribe of other homeless teenagers who are dying, one by one, a girl named Maybe ponders her future and longs for someone to care about her.
20) Give a boy a gun
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Events leading up to a night of terror at a high school dance are told from the point of view of various people involved.