Adolescent Lit?

I'm not sure if all of these would be considered YA, but here are a few off the top of my head:

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg
The Giver- Lois Lowry
The Pigman - Paul Zindel
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
I Know What You Did Last Summer- Lois Duncan (I know the films were lame, but the book was good, or at least I thought so in 7th grade)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and More- Roald Dahl (great short stories, but for an older crowd than his other stuff)

Books that are considered classics that I think you can read at that age and still enjoy:
The Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar (well I did), and To Kill a Mockingbird

I'm sure I can think of more- I think I did the most reading between 5th and 8th grades!

I loved "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. I don't know if the "Ramona" series by Beverly Cleary is too young, but I remember reading those over and over well into my early teens.

The Phantom Tollbooth!!

I second The Giver.

I'll add:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
His Dark Materials (trilogy,) Phillip Pullman
Artemis Fowl (trilogy or series, I can't remember,) Eoin Colfer

Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini

Gosh, I feel like I did this before, but I scrolled through the highlighted threads and didn't see myself ranting.
EVERYTHING by Paul Zindel is great. I think "The Pigman" was the last book I read of his as a y.a.
I think it's important for young adults - teens, tweens, pre-pubescent adolescents, adolescents indeed, or whatever - to read some history as well.
Night, by Elie Wiesel, was a very important book for me as a y.a.
I think the kids are so savvy these days that they could probably handle some post-adolescent memoirs.
Elizabeth Wurtzel or Augusten Burroughs. Throw some Sedaris (carefully - the parents might freak out) in there and I bet a very interesting soup would emerge.
I also think, to combat the fundamentalist Christians, that reading parts of the Bible as literature, and analyzing the text, might be effective. Especially if it were given the same importance as the Quoran.

Gosh, I feel like I did this before, but I scrolled through the highlighted threads and didn't see myself ranting.
EVERYTHING by Paul Zindel is great. I think "The Pigman" was the last book I read of his as a y.a.
I think it's important for young adults - teens, tweens, pre-pubescent adolescents, adolescents indeed, or whatever - to read some history as well.
Night, by Elie Wiesel, was a very important book for me as a y.a.
I think the kids are so savvy these days that they could probably handle some post-adolescent memoirs.
Elizabeth Wurtzel or Augusten Burroughs. Throw some Sedaris (carefully - the parents might freak out) in there and I bet a very interesting soup would emerge.
I also think, to combat the fundamentalist Christians, that reading parts of the Bible as literature, and analyzing the text, might be effective. Especially if it were given the same importance as the Koran.

MRS MIKE by Benedict and Nancy Freeman

D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths. I think I had several of the stories memorized at one point, and I used to stare at the illustrations for hours.

I'm kinda awestruck that 'The Basic Eight' isn't on either thread! So good.

The Face on the Milk Carton series is good and enjoyable.
The young adult fiction at the middle school level is generally disliked by the children who are assigned the reading (e.g. The Pigman). Most of the reading involves children overcoming fears, survival issues and learning to .recognize and respect differences among dissimilar groups.
For middle school The Giver is excellent. So is, I think it's called Number the Stars, a holocaust book.

For 9th or 10th graders and on, there's Stranger in a Strange Land, and Geroge Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm. My Name is Asher Lev is good. And what about Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth and defintely Steibeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the one book wonder To Kill a Mockingbird. How about Farenheit 451. These are all better than super books and boring to read.

Daniel Pinkwater:

The Worms of Kukumlima
Lizard Music
The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
Alan Mendolsohn, Boy From Mars

A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck.

I have a guilty love for Louise Rennison (though in real life she needs a slap). But perhaps they are pre-teen rather than teen?

Lois Lowry
Margaret Mahy esp. The Changeover, The Tricksters, The Catalogue of the Universe
Gordon Korman, though with care as some of these are more for kiddies
Margaret Atwood

JUDY BLUME! Always a favorite.
The "pants" books
Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty
And some old school - Madeline L'Engle

Has anyone read Kira-Kira? I have it at home but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689856393/102-3810610-7663338?v=glance&n=283155

Also, I started the second book of the Dark Materials but I put it down a while ago and now I've migrated back to adult books.

More in the JF range, I have the Tale of Despereaux at home and am also waiting for the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulanle.

Back to YA, non-fiction department, I read Hitler Youth and John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth. I couldn't really figure out why the Lennon book was necessarily YA, but some father tried to make off with it while I was reading it and when I told him it was YA he cooled off.