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Top Lists

To help teachers and parents pick appropriate books, our consultants have come up with these "top lists" of HIP titles:

Top Picks for Older Teens
Avalanche cover

More mature subjects, older characters

  • Avalanche

  • Hitting the Road

  • Juvie

  • Playing Chicken

  • Street Scene

  • Student Narc

Top Picks: "Girl" Books
Show Off cover

Female characters, emotion centered

  • The Bully

  • Dark Ryder

  • My Broken Family

  • Misty's Revenge

  • Running for Dave

  • Show Off

Top Picks: "Guy" Books
Street Scene cover

Male characters, action centered

  • Against All Odds

  • Caught in the Blizard

  • Hacker

  • Hitting the Road

  • Scarface

  • Street Scene

Top Picks Younger Readers
Ghost House Cover

No death, no romance, little violence - HIP Jr. of course, then...

  • Caught in the Blizzard

  • Ghost House

  • The Kid is Lost

  • Our Plane is Down

  • Tag Team

Top Picks for "Good" Readers
One Crazy Night cover

More literary techniques, more text sophistication

  • Against All Odds

  • Avalanche

  • Hacker

  • One Crazy Night

CCBC "Our Choice 2006"

 Choose Your Bully cover

Selected by the Canadian Children's Book Centre for their "Our Choice 2006" listing

  • Avalanche

  • Choose Your Bully 

  • The Crash 

  • Hacker

  • One Crazy Night (Starred selection) 

  • Running for Dave

CCBC "Our Choice 2007"

Selected by the Canadian Children's Book Centre for their "Our Choice 2007" listing

  • Juvie

  • Pump!

  • Shooting the Rapids 

  • Misty Knows

  • Bats in the Graveyard