Start with high-confidence values & choices books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Handbook for Boys
Walter Dean Myers
Scorpions
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton
Simon Says
Elaine Marie Alphin
Swing
Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess
Gathering Blue (for Pob Boxed Set Only)
Lois Lowry
Runner
Carl Deuker
