Teen Fiction in which the main character connects with a book

In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth

• A teenage girl reads and rereads her late mother's copy of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Call Me Hope by Gretchen Olson

• Hope, who is trying to cope with a verbally abusive mother, bonds with Anne Frank's diary.

The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard

• After her mother is killed, Wendy reads The Diary of Anne Frank and Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers.

King Dork by Frank Portman

• A teen is obsessed with his late father's copy of The Catcher in the Rye.

A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone

• Love doesn't last forever as learned in Judy Blume's Forever.

Deadline by Chris Crutcher

• After reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Ben decides to campaign to name a street after Malcolm X in his small Idaho town.

Slam by Nick Hornby

• Sam has read Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder so many times that he feels he knows Tony Hawk.

Red Glass by Laura Resau

• Sophie's family finds a young boy in the desert who needs a home, and Sophie reads The Little Prince to the principito.

Love and Lies by Ellen Wittlinger

• It's a small part of the book, but Marisol finds first lines for a writing class assignment.  She cites Feed, Fair Weather, The Bell Jar, and others.

Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande

• Mena connects with Dickens when she is going through "the worst of times" freshman year.