One of my top ten picks for teens! Cole Matthews is an angry kid who retaliates against a ninth-grader for "ratting him out" by smashing the kid's head into...

Jason Pfeiffer really does not want to take swim lessons. He almost drowned last summer, and the last thing he wants to do is put his...

Henry lives with his star athlete brother, Franklin, and his up and coming sister, Louisa, in the well-to-do family home that has been in the family for generations. ...

Eleven-year-old Turtle is on her way to Key West and her mother's sister, Aunt Minnie. It's 1935 and Turtle's mother just got a job as a housekeeper which...

Author Allison Whittenberg pitches two African American teens from very different backgrounds into a series of life-changing episodes beginning when Hakiam reluctantly forces himself to sign up for a...

What a powerful story of a guy trying to figure out who he is and what his values are, while his parents are falling apart, and the girl of...

Tyrell’s life isn’t easy. His dad is in jail. His mom doesn’t have a job and his little brother doesn’t have anything to eat. They are homeless. His young...

  Four months ago, ten-year-old Annie Richards' brother Jared died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart ailment. Now Annie is super-worried--about rare illnesses, minor...

Be careful…joining a book club just might be the death of you. It’s the summer before junior year, and Adrienne’s mom is ruining her life. As if being stuck...

Fourteen-year-old Lupita watches Mami carefully and even searches secretively in Mami's purse looking for clues that will tell her the secret she knows Mami is keeping from her. Lupita's...