Playing in Traffic

Author	Aki Morimoto
ISBN	1569707677

Kanae is a university student whose "cold beauty" has led people to spread nasty rumors about his promiscuity. In truth, Kanae is a virgin, and is secretly in love with the Don Juan of the campus, Yuuichi. Poor Kanae would do anything to be with Yuuichi, even if it meant a merely sexual relationship with...

Author

Jenny Davis

Fictional narrative that follows the story of Olivia Sinclair who is recalling her freshman year in a new city and high school. During this year, she meets her first "love", David, in a biology class which turns into an untraditional, exploratory, and eye-opening sex education class. As a project for...

Author	Alex Flinn
ISBN	0064473716

How far would you go to fit in?

Paul is new to Gate, a school whose rich students make life miserable for anyone not like them. And Paul is definitely not like them. Then, something incredible happens. Charlie Good, a star student and athlete, invites Paul to join his elite inner circle. All Charlie...

Author	Chris Crutcher
ISBN	0060094907

Willie Weaver used to be a hero.
Now he's nothing.Willie is a top athlete, the star of the legendary game against Crazy Horse Electric. Then a freak accident robs him of his once-amazing physical talents.

Betrayed by his family, his girlfriend, and his own body, Willie's on the run, penniless...

Author	E.R. Frank
ISBN	0689853858

Most well-known for her devastatingly poignant teen tales of urban desperation and redemption, renowned young adult author E. R. Frank switches gears and narrows her focus to the pivotal events of one 8th grade classroom.

The progressive petri dish of Forest Alternative's middle school...

Author	Cynthia Rylant
ISBN	0439231493

A timeless novel for all ages from Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant. Now repackaged with an updated look and feel. "This is a special book... it will move young readers. " -- Booklist, starred review

Here is Cynthia Rylant's most memorable writing yet -- a spiritual novel about the wonders of...

Author	David Klass
ISBN	0590485911

When he joins a predominantly black "Teen Dream Team" that will be representing the United States in an international basketball tournament in Rome, Jimmy Doyle makes some unexpected discoveries about prejudice, racism, and politics. In this award-winning novel, a young basketball star confronts...

Author	Paul Volponi
ISBN	0670062839

Noah and his friends go to a predominantly white neighborhood with a plan: steal a car, sell it to a chop shop, and make some fast cash. But that never happens. Instead, Noah, a teen father, is the victim of a vicious beating that leaves him with a fractured skull. Was the attacker just protecting his turf,...

Author	Shawn Goodman
ISBN	0385739397

17-year-old Shavonne has been in juvenile detention since the seventh grade. Mr Delpopolo is the first counselor to treat her as an equal, and he helps her get to the bottom of her self-destructive behavior, her guilt about past actions, and her fears about leaving the Center when she turns 18. Shavonne...

Author	Mariah Fredericks
ISBN	0689869584

Cool is cool and geek is geek, and at Eldridge the two "definitely" do not mix.Sari and Jess are best friends and total opposites. They've liked each other ever since they discovered that they are the only two normal people at Eldridge Alternative. As they prepare to face the trials of ninth grade, Sari...

Author	Vivian Vande Velde
ISBN	0152059768

Fifteen-year-old Raquel Falcone is, as one of her classmates puts it, the kind of kid who has a tendency to be invisible. That is until the night she's hit by a car and killed while walking home from the movies.
    
In brief, moving chapters, we hear about Raquel from her classmates, her best...

Author	Patrick Jones
ISBN	0802796281

Break free.

Before he died, Christy's daddy used to say that when you feel lost, follow the tail lights of the truck in front of you, and they'll get you somewhere safe. Christy keeps chasing those tail lights, but somehow, she's always still lost in Flint, Michigan. Like most teens in Flint,...

Author	Evan Kuhlman
ISBN	1416957979

MY NAME IS FINN GARRETT AND THIS IS MY STORY.

I don't want to give anything away, so I'll tell you what you could probably guess from looking at the cover and flipping through the book.

1. It's about an invisible boy. Obviously. That's me. Actually, I'm not totally invisible. Yet. But...

Author	Paul Acampora
ISBN	1596435488

Zachary's mom just up and disappeared from their home in Copper Lake, Colorado. The good news is that Zachary and his dad are trying to move on, and Falls, Connecticut is just the place for a fresh start. With the help of a new friend, Rachel, and her brother Teddy, Zachary is learning about new beginnings,...

Author

Tamara Thorne

THE PAST...
Will Banning survived a childhood so rough, his mind h as blocked it out almost entirely - especially the horrific day his brother Michael died, a memory that flickers on the edge of his consciousness as if from a dream.

ISN'T GONE
Now, as a successful psychologist, Will...

Author	Joseph Olshan
ISBN	0425176614

In this brilliant literary mosaic centered around a love affair, acclaimed novelist Joseph Olshan explores the intense pressures and passions of gay life in New York City during the AIDS epidemic

Ten years ago, Will Kaplan and his lover went for a night swim in the Pacific Ocean—but only...

Author	Elise Title
ISBN	3548244491

Critics have fallen hard for the nerve-shattering novel acclaimed as "a smashing debut. . . . If you like Thomas Hardy, John Sandford, and James Patterson, you are going to love "Romeo"" ("San Francisco Examiner"). In the bestselling tradition of "Gone, but Not Forgotten, Romeo" tells the gripping...

Author

Edward Averett

“Mad crashes into happy and sad bounces off of guilty until they all live in a big smoky heap in my mind.” Fourteen-year-old Cameron Galloway of Lexington, Washington, understands that he has schizophreniform disorder and needs to take pills to quiet the voices in his head. But he likes the voices,...

Author	Susan Vaught
ISBN	1481422766

Footer Davis is on the case when two kids go missing after a fire in this humorously honest novel that is full of Southern style.

"Bless your heart" is a saying in the South that sounds nice but really isn't. It means, "You're beyond help." That's what folks say about fifth grader Footer Davis's...

Author	Katherine Applegate
ISBN	0061783706

In this final Roscoe Riley book to date, Neo and I undertook quite the adventure. Learning about estimating, superstitions, and the troubles that Roscoe can create for himself, we were highly entertaining and enthralled at the same time. When Roscoe learns that there is a contest taking place at the...

Author

Osamu Tezuka

Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic young genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Though a trained physician, he refuses to accept a medical license due to his hatred and mistrust of the medical community's hypocrisy and corruption. This leads...

Author	Marlene Perez
ISBN	1596430060

"I'm not sure you really want to get into what I did this summer, Mrs. Westland. Sex. Sex is how I spent my summer vacation."

Megan knows twenty different words for "breasts," and can recite them alphabetically-but she can't remember the last time a guy looked her in the eye first, not the chest

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Author	Anna Dale
ISBN	1599900025

Dawn Buckle spends most of her days trying to get people to notice her, but whether at home or at school, it's as if she's invisible. And that's exactly what makes her the ideal recruit for S.H.H. (Strictly Hush Hush)—a secret intelligence agency. How the world's most forgettable girl transform herself...