Weird Girl and What's His Nameby Megan Brothers
Lula knows that she and Rory have no secrets from each other; but when Lula discovers that Rory tried out for the Hawthorne football team without telling her, but is also in a relationship with his middle-aged boss, Lula runs away to find her missing mother, whom she hopes will have some answers for her.
by Betsy Cornwell
A retelling of Cinderella about an indomitable inventor-mechanic who finds her prince, but realizes she doesn't want a fairy-tale ending after all.
by Mercedes Lackey
A teenage girl leaves home to join the legendary Hunters, who protect people from the terrifying monsters that have overrun their world.
by Michael Morpugo
A tale inspired by the sinking of the Lusitania during World War I follows the experiences of a young British boy and his father, who take in a lost girl who is suspected of being a German.
by Julie Murphy
When an athletic boy appears to return her affections, Willowdean questions her plus-sized body for the first time, but enters the city's beauty pageant anyway, using her sassy styles and talents to compete against thinner contestants.
by Cindy Pon
Skybright, a young girl who worries about her growing otherness, begins to notice troubling changes the day she turns sixteen. By day, she is a companion and handmaid to the youngest daughter of a very wealthy family. But nighttime brings with it a darkness that not even daybreak can quell; despite a dark destiny, Skybright must find a way to retain a sense of self.
by James Preller
In writing in his journal about middle school classmate Morgan Mallen's suicide from bullying, Sam explores whether he was a friend, or one of the bullies who ignored her at school and tormented her online.
by Leila Sales
Seventeen-year-old Arden of Cumberland, Maryland, finds solace in the blog of an aspiring writer who lives in New York City; but when she goes to meet him, she discovers that he is a very different person than she believed him to be.
by Courtney Sheinmel
Lorrie Hollander lives with her unstable aunt Gigi in a decrepit eyesore of a mansion called Edgewater. But when Charlie, the son of an esteemed senator, takes an interest in Lorrie she's ashamed of her lifestyle . . . but learns that Charlie's family is hiding something, too, and that their family secrets are inextricably knotted together.
by Gary Schmidt
Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph begins to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice.
by Andrew Smith
Now a senior at Pine Mountain Academy, fifteen-year-old Ryan Dean West becomes captain of the rugby team, shares his dormitory room with a twelve-year-old prodigy, Sam Abernathy, and through the course of the year learns to appreciate things he tried to resist, including change.
By Nicola Yoon
This innovative, heartfelt debut novel tells the story of a girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she beings a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known.
by Maggie Thrash
All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and full of humor, this graphic novel memoir is a debut of the rarest sort. Maggie Thrash as spent almost every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys in a really deep way, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing . . . until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an older, wiser, and most surprising of all (at least to Maggie), female counselor named Erin. But Camp Bellflower is an impossible place for a girl to fall in love with another girl, and Maggie's savant-like proficient at the camp's rifle range is the only think keeping her heart from exploding. When it seems as if Erin maybe feels the same way about Maggie, it's too much for both Maggie and Camp Bellflower to handle, let alone understand.
by Chelsea Clinton
In a book that tackles the biggest challenges facing is today, Chelsea Clinton combines facts, charts, photographs and stories to give readers a deep understanding of the world around them---and how anyone can make a difference. With stories about children and teens who have made real changes big and small--in their families, their communities, in our country, and across the world--this book will inspire readers of all ages to do their part to make our world a better place. In addition to informing and inspiring readers about topics including poverty, homelessness, food insecurity, access to education, gender equality, epidemics, non-communicable diseases, climate change, and endangered species, this book encourages everyone to get going! You can make a difference. You can make a change. It's your world.
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleansby Don Brown
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 bilion. One thouand, eight hundred and thirty three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage--and also incompetence, racism, and criminality.
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