Cold Hands, Warm Heart
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WOULD YOU RATHER know what’s going to happen or not know?
A summer night. A Saturday. For Natalie’s amazing older sister, Claire, this summer is fantastic, because she’s zooming off to college in the fall. For Natalie, it’s a fun summer with her friends; nothing special. When Claire is...
| Author | Neesha Meminger |
| ISBN | 1416954953 |
Seventeen-year-old Samar -- a.k.a. Sam -- has never known much about her Indian heritage. Her mom has deliberately kept Sam away from her old-fashioned family. It's never bothered Sam, who is busy with school, friends, and a really cute but demanding boyfriend.But things change after 9/11. A guy in...
How do you get through every day when you think you should be dead?
Elle is 13 when she realizes she is not meant to be here. Telling her parents lands her in therapy and on depression meds, and by the age of 16 nothing has changed - except that Sam, the boy-next-door, seems to want to be more than just...
| Author | Tony Varrato |
| ISBN | 1897073798 |
Ideal for reluctant readers and ESL students, this short novel has action, intrigue, and relatable teen characters.
At first glance, Alex Miller seems like a typical kid, typical hair, typical clothes, typical hobbies. But Alex's life is anything but typical... and fitting in has become a matter...
| Author | Jen Bryant |
| ISBN | 0375840486 |
Will Lyza's 1968 summer mystery lead to . . . pirate treasure?
When Lyza helps her dad clean out her late grandfather's house, a mysterious surprise brightens the sad task. In Gramps's dusty attic, Lyza discovers three maps, carefully folded and stacked, bound by a single rubber band. On top,...
| Author | Paula Yoo |
| ISBN | 0060790857 |
How to make your Korean parents happy:
1. Get a perfect score on the SATs.
2. Get into HarvardYalePrinceton.
3. Don't talk to boys.*
Patti's parents expect nothing less than the best from their Korean-American daughter. Everything she does affects her chances of getting...
| Author | Rachel Wright |
| ISBN | 0399250948 |
Lozzie Cracknell is a girl on the edge. Her parents have recently separated; she forgot to mail the invitations to her mum's super-important client party; the school bully is out to get her following an unfortunate e-mail incident involving Photoshop and a picture of a horse's behind; and now it looks...
| Author | Ronald Kidd |
| ISBN | 1416958924 |
The year is 1955, and there’s nothing that Paul and his best friends, Oz, Arnie, and Crank, love more than horror movies. So when Invasion of the Body Snatchers starts filming in their small California town, they couldn’t be more excited. But when their acquaintance with Laura and Darryl, extras...
| Author | Mark Teague |
| ISBN | 0545151422 |
Bestselling writer/illustrator Mark Teague presents a witty, vivid novel about Jack and Isadora, two kids who discover a spaceship and are taken aboard by aliens who plan to take over the Earth!
When a spaceship lands in Vern Hollow, Jack's hometown, he and his no-account inventor-uncle...
| Author | Victoria McKernan |
| ISBN | 0375837507 |
When orphans Aiden and Maddy Lynch first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson in the spring of 1865, they're struggling to survive on their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. So when Jackson offers an escape – a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world – Aiden knows it's their...
I had decided I would have a future.
Will can see his future stretch out before him. It's as clear as the plains that lead to La Junta and the first-place prize at the rodeo. He will become a man, a cowboy with a life of his own. But his twin brother, Denny, follows, bringing with him the memory of that...
The Last Newspaper Boy in America
| Author | Sue Corbett |
| ISBN | 0525422056 |
Wil David can't wait to take over his brother's paper route. For years it has been the tradition in his family to hand over the route to the next boy in line on his twelfth birthday, and Wil is just about to turn twelve and get his chance to put his sidearm throw into action. But when the newspaper company cancels...
| Author | Arthur Slade |
| ISBN | 0006395694 |
The Starker family is infamous. They’ve been chronicled on blogs, profiled on TV and researched by paranormal investigators. They appear to be cursed: everyone of Starker blood has died after being struck by lightning. Fourteen-year-old Newton Starker is the last of his line—except for his...
Naked Eggs and Flying Potatoes: Unforgettable Experiments That Make Science Fun
WOW! That's just the beginning of what we think of Unforgettable Experiments That Make Science Fun by Steve Spangler! It's amazing, it's incredible, it's FUN! This book has all the elements (pardon the pun) that make science fun and interesting... the step by step easy to follow directions with incredible...
Women of the Frontier: 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers
| Author | Brandon Marie Miller |
| ISBN | 1883052971 |
An Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
Using journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam...
Martin was sitting on the front stoop of his apartment building minding his own business when he was arrested for something he didn't even mean to do. Five months later, he's still locked up on Rikers Island, in a New York City jail. Just when it seems things couldn't get much worse, Martin is caught between...
| Author | Ashley Sanders |
| ISBN | 1426948018 |
An inspirational YA fiction novel, Facing Demons follows the journeys of four teenagers as they tackle their problems whilst at the Anchor Beach Rehabilitation Clinic. The facilitator, Blake Solomon has succeeded in his own battle with cancer and feels obliged to pass on this second chance to those...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0385734484 |
Choices do matter and forgiveness is possible.
Jack Fountain knows that what’s happened to his family sounds like the most horrible soap opera anyone could ever write. But it happened—to Jack; his parents; his sisters, Smithy and Madison. And to his baby brother, Tris. What made it worse...
| Author | Isamu Fukui |
| ISBN | 0765322625 |
Fifteen years ago, the Mayor of the Education City was presented with an unwelcome surprise by his superiors: twin six-month-old boys. As the Mayor reluctantly accepted the two babies, he had no way of knowing that they would change the city forever….
Raised in the comfort of the Mayoral...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0385738455 |
“Sometimes having company is not all it’s cracked up to be.” Fourteen-year-old Finn is a loner, living with his dad and his amazing dog, Dylan. This summer he’s hoping for a job where he doesn’t have to talk to anyone except his pal Matthew. Then Johanna moves in next door. She’s 10 years older,...
| Author | Courtney Sheinmel |
| ISBN | 1416971696 |
Since the day Emerson Pressman and her mother were diagnosed as HIV positive, nothing has been the same. When her mother dies of AIDS, Emmy has to go live with the father and stepmother she barely knows, and she feels more alone than ever. Now she has to take pills by herself, and there is no one left who understands...
| Author | John Brindley |
| ISBN | 1580136087 |
A move away from the effervescent over-the-top world of Amy Peppercorn, this is the first of a series (to be followed by "City of Screams").
We enter a futuristic world and meet a band of sixteen year olds who were dumped in isolation at an early age. They're educated partly by gleaning facts from...
| Author | Peter Cocks |
| ISBN | 1406324752 |
When he is seventeen Eddie Savage learns two things: the first is that his brother Steve has been working undercover. The second is that his brother is dead. Eddie is suspicious about the circumstances of Steve's death and decides to follow in his footsteps, taking on a job to infiltrate the Kelly family...
Beauty is only skin deep.
At age fifteen, Angela Dunne was plucked out of the crowd at her local mall by modeling agent, Olivia Lennox.
After fighting her way to the top, Angela is catapulted into the world of magazine covers, photo shoots, and runway shows. She’s traveling the globe,...
| Author | Karin Mitchell |
| ISBN | 1499584776 |
12-year-old Seffra knows that her drug-addicted mother isn't perfect, but they're family and love each other. Sometimes love isn't enough, though, and when Seffra moves into an institution, a center with kids from all kinds of backgrounds, she gets a reality check and struggles to accept the control...
