Amiri & Odette: A Love Story

Author	James Brandon
ISBN	0525517642

The year is 1973. The Watergate hearings are in full swing. The Vietnam War is still raging. And homosexuality is still officially considered a mental illness. In the midst of these trying times is sixteen-year-old Jonathan Collins, a bullied, anxious, asthmatic kid, who aside from an alcoholic father...

Author	Nikki Grimes
ISBN	0142501891

When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There's Lupe Alvarin,...

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Jason Reynolds

From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all they different directions a walk home can take.

This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it...

Author	Eireann Corrigan
ISBN	0439297710

A startling autobiographical account of a young woman's battle with eating disorders that put her in and out of hospitals over a span of four years and led to her own parents fighting for the right to commit her. When her last source of support, her boyfriend, attempts suicide and ends up in a coma, she is...

Author	Leza Lowitz
ISBN	0553534769

A novel-in-verse about how one teen boy survives the March 2011 tsunami that devastates his coastal Japanese village.
 
On that fateful day, Kai loses nearly everyone and everything he cares about in the storm. When he’s offered a trip to New York to meet kids whose lives were changed by 9/11,...

Author	Helen Frost
ISBN	0374400121

An unforgettable narrative collage told in poems

Keesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to her house when they just can’t make it on their own. They are Stephie – pregnant, trying to make the right decisions for herself and those she cares about; Jason – Stephie’s...

Author	Gertrude Chandler Warner
ISBN	0807511455

"When you have your heart set on chocolate, it's hard to change your mind."

The ice cream parlor in Greenfield has a new owner: Mr. Brown. Also new to Greenfield is an ice cream truck owned by Mrs. Saunders. When Benny, Violet, Jessie and Henry stop in for an ice cream, they meet the new staff: Brian,...