Thumbsucker
by Walter Kirn | 
Towelhead
by Alicia Erian | 
Joy School
by Elizabeth Berg | 
Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
by Dean Bakopoulos | 
The Topeka School
by Ben Lerner | 
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
by Hannah Tinti | 
The Best of Friends
by Joanna Trollope | 
The Only Problem
by Muriel Spark | 
The Everlasting Story of Nory
by Nicholson Baker | 
Vacant Possession
by Hilary Mantel | 
The Game
by A. S. Byatt | 
The Bat Tattoo
by Russell Hoban | 
Great Jones Street
by Don DeLillo | 
By Love Possessed
by James Gould Cozzens | 
Final Argument
by Clifford Irving | 
Wonder
by R. J. Palacio | 
Eleanor and Park
by Rainbow Rowell | 
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
by Carol Rifka Brunt | 
Okay for Now
by Gary D. Schmidt | 
Luna
by Julie Anne Peters |
As she grows up in a commune in rural New York, twelve-year-old Saskia invents an imaginary world to escape her humdrum surroundings, but a mysterious invitation from her father soon attracts her attention