Booklist: Is this it?

All of these books are on our "Is this it?" booklist. If we've missed your favourite, please let us know! Better still, if we listed your favourite, why don't you let us know what you thought? Submit a review here. Basically, this booklist is sorted by issues and ideas and things that happen to teenagers, that you might want to read about.

Around the World

Ashley, Bernard - Little soldier
Ellis, Deborah - Parvana
Brooks, Martha - Bone dance
Caswell, Brian - Only the heart
Fusillo, Archie - The Dons
Fusillo, Archie - Sparring with shadows
Gwynne, Phillip - Deadly unna? and Nukkin ya
Heffernan, John - More than gold
Hicyilmaz, Gaye - The frozen waterfall
McDonald, M. - The binna binna man and Pryor, Boori
Moloney, James - Dougy, Gracey and Angela
Morpurgo, M. - Waiting for Anya
Naidoo, Beverley - The other side of truth
Provoost, Ann - Falling
Svendsen, Mark - Poison under their lips
Zephaniah, B. - Refugee boy

Change

Chambers, Aidan - Postcards from no man's land
Earls, Nick - 48 shades of brown
Mahy, Margaret - 24 Hours
McCarthy, Maureen - Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude get a life

Domestic violence

Condon, Bill - Dogs
Cormier, Robert - All fall down
Cormier, Robert - After the first death
Dessen, Sarah - Dreamland
Marsden, John - So much to tell you

Drugs and Alcohol

Bowles, Colin - Wasted
Burgess, Melvin - Junk
Klein, Robin - Came back to show you I could fly

Eating disorders

Barnes, Helen - Killing Aurora
Bell, Julia - Massive
Brill, Sarah - Glory
Hautzig, Deborah - Second star to the right

Family problems/issues

Almond, David - Kit's wilderness
Bone, Ian - Tin soldiers
Clarke, Judith - Wolf on the fold
De Goldi, Kate - Closed, stranger
Doyle, Roddy - Not just for Christmas
Erlich, Amy - Joyride
Gleeson, Libby - Refuge
Herrick, Steven - The simple gift: A novel
Moriarty, Jaclyn - Feeling sorry for Celia
Moloney, James - Bridge to Wiseman's Cove
Zusak, Marcus - The underdog

Grieving

Abelove, Joan - Saying it out loud
Bowles, Colin - Going off
Creech, Sharon - Walk two moons
Metzenthen, D. - Gilbert's ghost train
Stewart, Alison - The memory shell
Wheatley, Nadia - Vigil

Mental Health

Clarke, Judith - Night train
Clarke, Judith - Starry nights
Hyde, Michael - Max
Konigsberg, E.L. - Silent to the bone
Sones, Sonya - Stop pretending
Wild, Margaret – Jinx

Pregnancy/parenting

Doherty, Berlei - Dear nobody
Fienberg, Anna - Borrowed light
Horniman, J. - Mahalia
Lanagan, Margo - The best thing
McCarthy, M. - Cross my heart
Monagle, Bernie - Hot hits
Wolfer, Dianne - Choices

Peer Pressure

Ashley, Bernard - Little soldier
Bowles, Colin - Going off
Carmody, I. - The gathering
Hartnett, Sonya - All my dangerous friends
Hathorn, Libby - Rift
McRobbie, D. - Tyro
Myers, W. D. - Monster

School life

Gardner, Scott - One dead seagull
Marchetta, M. - Looking for Alibrandi
Metzenthen, D. - Stony heart country
Rennison, Louise - Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging
Moloney, James - Touch me
Monagle, Bernie - Blue girl, yella fella
Monk, Scott - The crush

Sexual Assault

Savvides, Irini - Willow tree and olive
Voigt, Cynthia - When she hollers

Sexuality

Boock, Paula - Dare, truth or promise
Burgess, Melvin - Lady
Fox, Paula - The eagle kite
Magrs, Paul - Strange boy
Moloney, James - Touch me
Pluss, Nicole - Beach baby
Sones, Sonia – What my mother doesn’t know
Taylor, William - The blue lawn
Van Lieshout, T. - Brothers
Voigt, Cynthia - David and Jonathan

WWW & email

Duder, Tessa - Hot mail
Honey, Elizabeth - Remote man
Jinks, Catherine - What's Hector McKerrow doing these days?