WAITING FOR NORMAL by Leslie Connor, HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen, February 2008, 290p., ISBN: 978-0-06-0189088-9; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-06-089089-6

WAITING TO SCORE by J.E. MacLeod, WestSide Books, February 2009, 200p., ISBN: 978-1-934813-01-0

WAKE UP OUR SOULS: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK AMERICAN ARTISTS by Tonya Bolden, Harry N. Abrams Inc., published in association with the Smithsonian American

WALT WHITMAN: WORDS FOR AMERICA by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, October 2004, 56 pages, ISBN: 0-439-35791-8

WAR IS: SOLDIERS, SURVIVORS, AND STORYTELLERS TALK ABOUT WAR edited by Marc Aronson and Patty Campbell, Candlewick Press, September 2008, 200p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-3625-8

WARCHILD by Karin Lowachee, Warner Aspect, April 2002 (Mass Market Paperback)

THE WATCH THAT ENDS THE NIGHT: VOICES FROM THE TITANIC by Allan Wolf, Candlewick, October 2011, 480p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-3703-3

WATER SINGS BLUE: OCEAN POEMS by Kate Coombs and Meilo So, ill., Chronicle, March 2012, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-8118-7284-3

WE ARE THE SHIP: THE STORY OF NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL by Kadir Nelson, Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, January 2008, 88p., ISBN: 0-7868-0832-2

WE MARCH by Shane W. Evans, Roaring Brook, January 2012, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-59643-539-1

WE WERE HERE by Matt de la Pena, Delacorte, October 2009, 368p, ISBN: 978-0-385-73667-1; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-385-73667-1

THE WEDNESDAY WARS by Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion, June 2007, ISBN: 0-618-72483-4

WE’VE GOT A JOB: THE 1963 BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN’S MARCH by Cynthia Levinson, Peachtree, February 2012, 176p., ISBN: 978-1-56145-627-7

WHALE TALK by Chris Crutcher, Greenwillow Books, April 2001

WHAT CAME FROM THE STARS by Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion, September 2012, 304p., ISBN: 978-0-547-61213-3

WHAT HAPPENED ON FOX STREET by Tricia Springstubb, HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, August 2010, 224p., ISBN: 978-0-06-198635-2

WHAT HAPPENED TO CASS MCBRIDE by Gail Giles, Little Brown, November 2006, publisher age recommendation: 15 and up, ISBN: 0-316-16638-3

WHAT HAPPENED TO LANI GARVER by Carol Plum-Ucci, Harcourt, September 2002

WHAT MY GIRLFRIEND DOESN'T KNOW by Sonya Sones, Simon & Schuster BFYR, June 2007, ISBN: 0-689-87602-5

WHAT MY MOTHER DOESN'T KNOW by Sonya Sones, Simon & Schuster, October 2001

THE WHAT TO EXPECT BABY-SITTER'S HANDBOOK by Heidi Murkoff with Sharon Mazel, Workman, January 2004, ISBN 0-7611-2845-X

WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead, Random House/Wendy Lamb Books, July 2009, 208p., ISBN: 978-0-385-73742-5; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-385-90664-7

WHO AM I WITHOUT HIM?: SHORT STORIES ABOUT GIRLS AND THE BOYS IN THEIR LIVES by Sharon G. Flake, Hyperion/Jump in the Sun, May 2004, ISBN 0-7868-0693-1

WHO HAS WHAT? ALL ABOUT GIRLS' BODIES AND BOYS' BODIES by Robie H. Harris and Nadine Bernard Westcott, ill. Candlewick Press, September 2011, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-2931-1

WHY WAR IS NEVER A GOOD IDEA by Alice Walker, illustrated by Stefano Vitale, September 2007, ISBN: 978-0-06-075386-3

WILL by Maria Boyd, Knopf, July 2010, 320p., ISBN: 978-0-375-86209-0

THE WILLOUGHBYS by Lois Lowry, Houghton Mifflin, March 2008, 174p. ISBN: 0-618-97974-3

WITCH CHILD by Celia Rees, Candlewick, July (Friday the Thirteenth) 2001

WITH COURAGE AND CLOTH: WINNING THE FIGHT FOR A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO VOTE by Ann Bausum, National Geographic, September 2004, 112 pages, ISBN: 0-7922-7647-7

WITH THEIR EYES: SEPTEMBER 11TH--THE VIEW FROM A HIGH SCHOOL AT GROUND ZERO edited by Annie Thoms, Harper Tempest, September 2002

WITNESS by Karen Hesse, Scholastic Press, September 2001

WIZARDS OF THE GAME by David Lubar, Penguin Putnam/Philomel, April 2003, ISBN 0-399-23706-2

THE WOLVES ARE BACK by Jean Craighead George, illustrated by Wendell Minor, Dutton, April 2008, 32p. ISBN: 0-525-47947-3

WONDER by R.J. Palacio, Knopf, February 2012, 320p., ISBN: 97800-375-86902-0; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-375-96902-7

WONDERSTRUCK by Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, September 2011, 640p., ISABN: 978-0-545-02789-2

WOODS RUNNER by Gary Paulsen, Wendy Lamb/Random House, January 2010, 176p. ISBN: 978-0-385-73884-2

WORKING FIRE: THE MAKING OF AN ACCIDENTAL FIREMAN by Zac Unger, The Penguin Press, March 2004, ISBN: 1-59420-001-7

A WREATH FOR EMMETT TILL by Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by Philippe Lardy, Houghton Mifflin, March 2005, ISBN: 0-618-39752-3

WRECKED by E.R. Frank, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/A Richard Jackson Book, October 2005, ISBN: 0-689-87383-2

WRITE NAKED by Peter Gould, Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 2008, ISBN: 978-0-374-38483-8

THE YEAR MONEY GREW ON TREES by Aaron R. Hawkins, Houghton Mifflin, September 2010, 304p., ISBN: 978-0-547-27977-0

THE YEAR OF SECRET ASSIGNMENTS by Jaclyn Moriarty, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books, February 2004, ISBN 0-439-49881-3

THE YEAR OF THE HANGMAN by Gary Blackwood, Dutton, September 2002

YOU by Charles Benoit, Harper Teen, August 2010, 240p., ISBN: 978-0-06-194704-9

YOU DON'T KNOW ME by David Klass, Frances Foster Books, March 2001

YOUR OWN, SYLVIA: A VERSE PORTRAIT OF SYLVIA PLATH by Stephanie Hemphill, Alfred A. Knopf, March 2007. ISBN: 0-385-83799-9; Lib. ISBN: 0-375-93799-6

Z IS FOR MOOSE by Kelly Bingham and Paul O. Zelinsky, ill. Greenwillow, February 2012, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-06-079984-7

ZEN TIES by Jon J. Muth, Scholastic Press, February 2008, 40p. ISBN: 0-439-63425-3

ZIGZAG by Ellen Wittlinger, Simon & Schuster, August 2003, ISBN 0-689-84996-6

ZOMBIE IN LOVE by Kelly DiPucchio and Scott Campbell, ill, Atheneum, August 2011, 32p., ISBN: 978- 1-4424-0270-6