Indigo Summer

Author	Coe Booth
ISBN	0439925363

The acclaimed author of TYRELL returns to PUSH with a striking novel about a mother and daughter who are only fourteen years apart, but need to learn to understand each other before it's too late.

Kendra's mom, Renee, had her when she was only 14 years old. Renee and her mom made a deal -- Renee could...

Author	Sharon M. Draper
ISBN	0689851340

He's a "lemon drop wrapped in licorice": tall, dark, handsome, and as smooth as his silk shirts and leather jacket. He can discuss everything from art to world events, he's traveled the world, and he owns a Jeep, a condo, and a jazz CD collection. But best of all, twenty-three-year-old Jonathan Hathaway,...

Author	Ni-Ni Simone
ISBN	0758228392

A YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

What happens when the girl everyone least expects gets the guy all the chicks want. . .?

she can rock Apple Bottoms jeans and stilettos like nobody's business, but she's got her share of issues. It's not easy being the thickest one...

Author	Dana Davidson
ISBN	0786818514

Jason is a basketball star and one of the most popular guys in school. Brainy Kyra isn't, but she doesn't much care what other people think. Under normal circumstances, Jason and Kyra would live in their separate worlds until graduation. But fate intervenes, and the unlikely duo is paired up for a class...

Author	Rita Williams-Garcia
ISBN	0140385614

When Gayle gets into trouble with her boyfriend, her mother sends the street-smart 14-year-old-and her baby, José, down to Georgia to live with Uncle Luther and his family. There's nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no one around except kneesock-wearing, Jesus-praising cousin Cookie. Then Gayle...

Author	Dream Jordan
ISBN	0312382847

It’s summertime in Bed-Stuy “Do or Die†Brooklyn, and Kate is feeling down in the dumps. Not only is she tired of her raggedy, tomboy image, but she’s also missing her best friend, Felicia, who’s away for the summer. Lonely and not exactly getting along with her new...

Author	Earl Sewell
ISBN	0373830920

How had Keysha gone from popular to social outcast? One word: frenemy. A girl Keysha thought was her friend planted drugs on her—and Keysha got caught. The media blitz on their wealthy suburb turned everyone against her. First day back at school, and Keysha is stared down in the halls. Whispered about....

Author	Denene Millner
ISBN	0545003083

Designer clothes. Gorgeous boys. Family secrets. Major drama. Welcome to Atlanta and the lives of the Duke twins, Sydney and Lauren. They don't call it Hotlanta for nothing!

The Duke twins, Sydney and Lauren, live the life: They attend the fanciest school in Atlanta, they live in Buckhead,...

Author

Chandra Sparks Splond

Raised in a strict household, sixteen-year-old Courtland Murphy never had a date. But that was before the guy of her every dream—basketball star Allen Benson—asked her out. She's gone from never-been-kissed to dating the hottest guy in school. And now her new boyfriend is pressuring her to prove...

Author	A.J. Byrd
ISBN	0373830904

Best Friends Forever—that's Anjenai, Kierra and Tyler. Growing up together in an Atlanta housing project, the girls have always been there for each other. But high school is a whole new world, and the drama is just beginning….

Anjenai, Kierra and Tyler believe their bond is strong enough...

Author	Cassandra Carter
ISBN	0373830769

Caught up in a world of easy money,

designer labels and drug-dealing boyfriends, sixteen-year-old Kyra Jones is living life on the fast track. But when her single mom is offered a job that takes Kyra away from her old Chicago neighborhood, and the drugs and gang violence that go along with it,...

Author	L. Divine
ISBN	0758225369

Rah and Jayd, A new love? But hey Jeremy still loves her and it is obvious. Mickey's unexpected pregnancy and Misty's STD is not a secret anymore.
I can make a text to text connection with this book. In this book and Breaking Dawn by Stephanie. Meyer. Bella and Mickey don't know that they are both pregnant....

Author	L. Divine
ISBN	0758231059

This book waz really good. All bookz that L. Divine write are pretty good. Especially the Drama High Seriez. When i first read it, I thought that it waz going to be boring, due to the fact that it waz dealing with voo doo and thingz like that. But when I read the first chapter of "Courtin' Jayd", i thought "This...

Author	Peggy Kern
ISBN	1591941768

Bluford High freshman Harold Davis is trapped. Medical bills for his sick grandmother are piling up, and a social worker has threatened to put him in a foster home. Desperate for money, he reluctantly agrees to work for Londell James, a neighborhood drug dealer. The choice leads him into a world of dangerous...