Comfort
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Meet seventeen-year-old Mike, who visits his grandmother's bedside and learns a family secret.
A divorced father who discovers only love, not bribes, can keep his daughter "his" on Thursdays.
And Jerry, a young boy desperately looking for the missing Grover Cleveland card to complete his...
| Author | Tedd Arnold |
| ISBN | 0803730209 |
The dead body found in the Chemanga River has nothing to do with Todd. He's been busy making beds at the family motel and writing alien stories to entertain his friends. Sure, a murder is big news, but what would "really" interest him? A paying job and a story line free of UFOs and poop jokes. And then he meets...
Rick Ward wants to go to war.
He doesn't know why. Maybe he's running from his dad, who has an uncontrollable temper. Maybe he's running from a lost love, his high-school sweetheart, who is a stranger to him now. Or maybe he's just running -- to find himself.
Desperate to experience...
| Author | Catherine Atkins |
| ISBN | 0142402354 |
Susan Calloway, bullied and overweight, faces daily humiliation at the hands of her classmates - and she's had enough. With her anger about to reach the boiling point, Susan lands in an alternative education class, a sort of group therapy for the nearly expelled.
School is bad enough, but facing...
| Author | J. Adams Oaks |
| ISBN | 1416911774 |
Wyatt Reaves takes the seat next to you, bloodied and soaking wet, and he is a big-fisted beast. Tell him to stretch out like an X across asphalt and you've got a parking space. But Wyatt's been taking it lying down for too long, and he is NOT happy.
Since he turned twelve and a half, he's been living...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0380722909 |
Reread November 2015:
Well Past Self called it because I reread this and am bumping it from 3 stars to 4. If I read it again, I'll probably give it 5.
One, Sarabeth's friends are in it more than I remember and they are lovely. Yay, Patty. And Leo is there at important times and says things that...
| Author | Paul Griffin |
| ISBN | 0803732848 |
A stunning debut novel about survival and friendship on the streets of New York City. Best friends Ray and Jose are not your typical thirteen-year-olds. They've escaped foster care and juvenile detention centers to live on their own together in an abandoned building located near Manhattan Park called...
| Author | Susan Taylor Brown |
| ISBN | 1582461805 |
When her mom runs away from home, Rachel is left behind with her emotionally distant father and many questions she cannot answer. Over time, she learns the truth about her mom. But it's only when she learns the truth about her dad, the rock- immoveable and always there for her to lean on-that Rachel can...
| Author | Robert Lipsyte |
| ISBN | 0060599464 |
The pressure is on.
At Nearmont High School, football stars are treated like royalty, and Matt Rydek has just ascended to the throne. As co-captain of the Raiders, he's got it all, or so it seems: hot girls, all the right friends, plenty of juice to make him strong, and a winning team poised to go...
| Author | Marlene Fanta Shyer |
| ISBN | 0689712138 |
Neil Oxley's older sister, Geraldine, is coming home for the first time. After spending most of her life in institutions for the retarded, she is finally going to live with her family and adapt to the "real world".
"Skillful juxtaposition of two seemingly incompatible elements--light humor...
| Author | Robert Rigby |
| ISBN | 0152057986 |
While growing up on the tough streets of Los Angeles, Santiago's greatest joy is playing soccer. So it is a dream come true when a British scout sees him playing in the park and offers him a trial with one of England's top Premiership clubs. Determined to succeed, Santiago leaves behind his struggling...
| Author | Don Wood |
| ISBN | 0439726719 |
Caldecott Honor Illustrator and international bestseller Don Wood creates his first full-color graphic novel, filled with action, drama, and adventure.
Sumno and Duffy pugg (brothers) are told they must travel to a volcanic island to help an aunt they have never met. When they arrive on the island,...
| Author | Novel Units, Inc. |
| ISBN | 1608781003 |
Don't you dare read this, Mrs. Dunphrey is a book about a teacher named, of course Mrs. Dunphrey, and she teaches an English class and makes her students write in a journal. One of her students, named Tish accepts this and writes about her own personal issues in her life down in her journal. She puts on her...
| Author | Neal Shusterman |
| ISBN | 0142500895 |
The Shadow Club doesn't exist anymore. The group of second-best kids used to play anonymous practical jokes on their rivals, until things spiraled out of control. Now Jared and the ex-Shadow Club members are having a hard time shaking their reputation. And when the new golden boy at school is the victim...
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0064438287 |
"Two of the things Benjamin Hunter received for his twelfth birthday took him completely by surprise: A room and a letter. The room was from his parents. The letter was from his uncle."
Ben was just two years old when he and his uncle, Ian, were last together, so Ben didn't remember him. And no one...
| Author | Louise Plummer |
| ISBN | 0385325118 |
-This book is about a couple that likes each other and been knowing each other for a while.Hannah’s mom finds out Hannah is pregnant, her mom didn’t ask what will she do with the baby or ask how she feels about it. She doesn’t even ask if she’s going to school.Hannah’s dad died by burping, it didn’t...
| Author | Pamela Wells |
| ISBN | 0439026938 |
The girls from The Heartbreakers are back, and this time, they're looking to fall in love.
Raven behaves as if it's okay for her to be applying the code to just anyone, but (not surprisingly), she finds it works best when directed at her kinda-sorta actual boyfriend, whether she's ready to commit...
From the remarkable author of the PUSH bestseller YOU REMIND ME OF YOU, a searing novel in poems about a family falling apart after a violent assault.
It's about the aftermath. It's about what happens after a stranger breaks into a house and attacks a family. It's about the sisters who must barricade...
| Author | Deborah Ellis |
| ISBN | 1554981816 |
Joint winner of the South Asia Book Award, longlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award, selected for the IRA Notable Books for a Global Society List, the Bankstreet College of Education's Best Children’s Books of the Year 2013, the USBBY Outstanding International...
| Author | Diann Hunt |
| ISBN | 1595541942 |
Same mom. Same dad. Completely different lives. Who's to say which sister has it sweeter?
Viney Haverford always told her daughters to "be sweet." But the only thing sweet about Charlene Haverford these days is her sweet tooth. Little sister Janni is the nice one. The one with the intact marriage,...
| Author | Melissa Schorr |
| ISBN | 0786838523 |
Reviewed by Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen for TeensReadToo.com
All a girl wants to do is find the love of her life, or in this case a high school sweetheart. Fortunately for Rachel Lowenstein, she has just found the guy at her brother's bar mitzvah. He's handsome, a basketball player,...
| Author | Jonah Black |
| ISBN | 0064408000 |
"Jonah still doesn't know who I am, and it's driving me crazy."-- Northgirl999"Watch it, Jonah Black. You're a good diver, but you're not that good."-- Lamar Jameson"My son's diary is a testament to the fact that young people today need to be nicer to themselves. We all do."-- Dr. Judith Black, Radio...
| Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| ISBN | 0689855435 |
A journey to the center of their hearts
Ever since their father's sudden death eight years ago, Chuck and Lori's mom has spent most of her time on the road as a motivational speaker, leaving them and their younger siblings in the care of their grandparents. But this trip is different; this time,...
