The First Part Last
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| Author | Matt de la Pena |
| ISBN | 0385733100 |
But at his private school,...
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| ISBN | 0142500275 |
After flying through the sky for a long...
| Author | Allan Stratton |
| ISBN | 1550378341 |
I'm Allan Stratton, the author of CHANDA'S SECRETS. I love meeting readers and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. Just write me c/o this site, or, if you want to see all the foreign edition covers, at my website www.allanstratton.com Also the movie trailer!
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| ISBN | 0374311250 |
"Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say."
From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because...
| Author | Nikki Grimes |
| ISBN | 0142501891 |
| Author | Aidan Chambers |
| ISBN | 0525468633 |
| Author | Marilyn Nelson |
| ISBN | 0618397523 |
| Author | Coe Booth |
| ISBN | 0439838797 |
Tyrell is a young, African American teen who can't get a break. He's living (for now) with his spaced-out mother and little brother in a homeless shelter. His father's in jail....
| Author | Terry Trueman |
| ISBN | 0064472132 |
| Author | K.L. Going |
| ISBN | 0142402087 |
Troy Billings is seventeen, 296 pounds, friendless, utterly miserable, and about to step off a New York subway platform in front of an oncoming train. Until he meets Curt MacCrae, an emaciated, semi-homeless, high school dropout...
| Author | Jack Gantos |
| ISBN | 0374430896 |
In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin...
| Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| ISBN | 0060890355 |
Sym is not your average teenage girl. She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the...
| Author | David Almond |
| ISBN | 0440416051 |
The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town, to care for Kit’s recently widowed grandfather. When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family has both worked and died in the mines, Askew invites Kit to join him in playing...
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 0670059544 |
| Author | Helen Frost |
| ISBN | 0374400121 |
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 | Beverley Brenna |
| ISBN | 0889954836 |
| Author | Carolyn Coman |
| ISBN | 0142301485 |
The main character, Berry, is the younger sibling by quite a few years. When she was in middle school, Laura, her older sister, was in college. Their father had...
| Author | Virginia Euwer Wolff |
| ISBN | 0689852886 |
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| ISBN | 0590458817 |
Melanin Sun's mother has some big news: she's in love with a woman. Now he has many decisions to make: Should he stand by his mother even though it could mean losing his friends? Should...
| Author | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| ISBN | 0440413311 |
As his best friend Sparky says, “Flint’s nothing but the Titanic.”
And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, “Take my advice and stay off the sucker path.”
The Sarge milked the system to build an empire of slum...
| Author | Connie Rose Porter |
| ISBN | 0618056785 |
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| ISBN | 0786806931 |