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All these titles are 'classic' young adult fiction--all these titles are in the PHS Library!

FIC  AVI Avi,  The fighting ground.  Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.
FIC AVI  Avi, 1937-. Romeo and Juliet together (and alive!) at last. The eighth grade's plan to get two reluctant "lovers" together by means of a classroom production of Shakespeare's play has some very unexpected results.
FIC COONEY 
Cooney, Caroline B. The face on the milk carton. A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
FIC CORMIER  Cormier, Robert. We all fall down : a novel. As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.
FIC CORMIER  Cormier, Robert. In the middle of the night.  Sixteen-year-old Denny lives in the shadow of a deadly accident with which his father was connected when he was Denny's age, a disaster for which some of the survivors still blame his father.
FIC CREW  Crew, Linda. Children of the river. Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.
FIC CRUTCHER  Crutcher, Chris. Chinese handcuffs.  Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her stepfather is doing to her.
FIC DICKINSON Dickinson, Peter.  Eva.  After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.
FIC FRENCH  French, Michael.  Pursuit : a novel. After a boy falls to his death on a hiking trip, his brother is pursued through the wilderness by the man he believes responsible.
FIC GARLAND  Garland, Sherry. Shadow of the dragon. High school sophomore Danny Vo tries to resolve the conflict between the values of his Vietnamese refugee family and his new American way of life.
FIC KERR  Kerr, M. E. Deliver us from Evie. Sixteen-year-old Parr Burrman and his family face some difficult times when word spreads through their rural Missouri town that his older sister is a lesbian, and she leaves the family farm to live with the daughter of the town's banker.
FIC KLAUSE  Klause, Annette Curtis. The silver kiss. A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoë come to terms with her mother's terminal illness.
FIC MIKLOWITZ  Miklowitz, Gloria D. The war between the classes. Seventeen-year-old Emiko, brought up in a strict Japanese-American family, is in love with handsome blond Adam, although she realizes her old-fashioned father expects her to find a Japanese husband.
FIC MIKLOWITZ Miklowitz, Gloria D. Past forgiving.  Overlooking her new boyfriend's quick temper and dark personality, fifteen-year-old Alexandra convinces herself that his possessiveness is just his way of demonstrating love, but when Cliff rapes her, she realizes that certain lines cannot be crossed.
FIC MYERS  Myers, Walter Dean.  Fallen angels.  Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
FIC NIXON  Nixon, Joan Lowery. The other side of dark.  Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.
FIC PAULSEN  Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet. After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
FIC PECK  Peck, Richard. Voices after midnight : a novel. Living with their sister and parents in a rented house in New York City during the summer, Chad and Luke uncover a mystery involving the former tenants of the house when the two brothers slip back in time to 1888.
FIC SLEATOR  Sleator, William. Interstellar pig. Barney's boring seaside vacation suddenly becomes more interesting when the cottage next door is occupied by three exotic neighbors who are addicted to a game they call "Interstellar Pig.".
FIC SPEARE  Speare, Elizabeth George. The sign of the beaver.  Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
FIC VOIGT  Voigt, Cynthia. Izzy, willy-nilly. A car accident causes fifteen-year-old Izzy to lose one leg and face the need to start building a new life as an amputee.
FIC YOLEN  Yolen, Jane. Dragon's blood : a fantasy.  Jakkin, a bond boy who works as a Keeper in a dragon nursery on the planet Austar IV, secretly trains a fighting pit dragon of his own in hopes of winning his freedom.
SC VAMPIRES Vampires : a collection of original stories.  Nobody has to know / James D. Macdonald and Debra Doyle -- There's no such thing / Charles de Lint -- Curse of the undead / Chuck Rothman -- Blood kin / Delia Sherman -- Miss Emily's roses / Mary Frances Zambreno -- The blood-ghoul of Scarsdale / Esther M. Friesner -- The magic-stealer / Josepha Sherman -- Ahvel / Mary K. Whittington -- A cold stake / Phyllis Ann Karr -- Blood libel / Leigh Ann Hussey -- Aunt horrible's last visit / Jeff Hecht -- Mama gone / Jane Yolen -- Richie / Lawrence Watt-Evans. A collection of thirteen original stories about vampires by a variety of authors.