Breaktime
by Aidan Chambers | 
The Torn Skirt
by Rebecca Godfrey | 
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
by Ursula K. Le Guin | 
Winter Birds
by Jim Grimsley | 
Margarettown
by Gabrielle Zevin | 
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
by Tom Spanbauer | 
Father of Frankenstein
by Christopher Bram | 
Edinburgh
by Alexander Chee | 
Libby on Wednesday
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder | 
Face
by Benjamin Zephaniah | 
Now Is the Hour
by Tom Spanbauer | 
Until Tomorrow
by Robin Jones Gunn | 
Mysterious Skin
by Scott Heim | 
The Book of Fred
by Abby Bardi | 
The Butterfly Tattoo
by Philip Pullman | 
Wonder
by R. J. Palacio | 
Eleanor and Park
by Rainbow Rowell | 
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
by Carol Rifka Brunt | 
Okay for Now
by Gary D. Schmidt | 
Luna
by Julie Anne Peters |
Charles didn't know much about life ... until he met The Man Without a Face "I'd never had a friend, and he was my friend; I'd never really, except for a shadowy memory, had a father, and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate with or trust, and I communicated with him all the time, whether I was actually talking to him or not. And I trusted him ...... Fourteen-year-old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a mysterious scarred man named Justin McLeod, nicknamed ""The Man Without a Face." Charles enlists McLeod's help as tutor for the St. Matthew's school entrance exams, his ticket away from the unpleasant restrictions of his home life. But more important than anything he could get out of a book, that summer Charles learns from McLeod a stirring life lesson about the many faces of love. '??Not much affection had come Charles'??s way until the summer he was fourteen, when he met McLeod [a man whose face was deeply scarred] and learned that love has many facets.'?? '??BL. '??A highly moral book, powerfully and sensitively written; a book that never loses sight of the human." '??H. 1972 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) Best of the Best Books (YA) 1970-1983 (ALA) Outstanding Children's Books of 1972 (NYT)