What's in a Name
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| Author | Nancy Garden |
| ISBN | 0374386676 |
When Wilson High Telegraph editor Jamie Crawford writes an opinion piece in support of the new sex-ed curriculum, which includes making condoms available to high school students, she has no idea that a huge controversy is brewing. Lisa Buel, a school board member,...
| Author | Ashley Hope Pérez |
| ISBN | 0761361561 |
| Author | Kathi Appelt |
| ISBN | 0152051279 |
In these moving tales and others, Kathi Appelt captures...
| 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 | Jacqueline Woodson |
| 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 | Terry Trueman |
| ISBN | 0060574941 |
This should be the best year of Scott's life: It's his last season of varsity ball, his team is about to go to the city championship,...
| Author | Kathe Koja |
| ISBN | 0374373825 |
Kit Webster is hiding a secret. Carma, his best friend, has already figured it out, and pushes him to audition for the high school play, Talk. When he's cast as the male lead, he expects to escape his own life for a while and become a different person. What he gets...
| Author | Mariah Fredericks |
But, after I started I realized that this was much different than what...
| Author | Trish Cook |
| ISBN | 0451215087 |
Trace lives smack in the middle of picture-perfect suburban Winnetka, Illinois. But her life is anything but cookie-cutter normal. Her mom, Bebe, is a zillion years younger...
| Author | Shelia P. Moses |
| ISBN | 1416907165 |
| Author | Davida Wills Hurwin |
The only time...
| Author | Stephanie Hemphill |
| ISBN | 0786837454 |
Until she met Robin. Once Robin comes into the picture, Sarah's life changes. Her closet begins to fill with black clothes. Good grades become something to be studiously avoided. And maintaining...
Night Kites
| Author | M.E. Kerr |
| ISBN | 0064470350 |
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0385901674 |
Piece, Love, and Happiness
| Author | Emily Franklin |
| ISBN | 0451216660 |
| Author | Frances Temple |
| ISBN | 0064471365 |
Makes a Story
Djo has a story: Once he was one of "Titid's boys," a vital member of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide's election team, fighting to overthrow military dictatorship in Haiti. Now he is barely alive, the victim of a political firebombing.
Jeremie has a story:...
The Spiral Labyrinth
| Author | Matthew Hughes |
| ISBN | 1597800910 |
(It's a Purl Thing)
| Author | Elizabeth Lenhard |
| ISBN | 0142406953 |
Scottie feels like her whole world is turning upside down. Then she discovers knitting, and it s as if she s been thrown a cashmerino lifeline. Soon Scottie and her best friend Amanda along with new friends Bella and Tay find themselves hanging at...
Vote for Larry
| Author | Janet Tashjian |
Instructions: Place a cross in the square opposite your choice of candidate for President of the United States of America.
(x) Cult teenage hero who makes miraculous return from the dead!1
(x) Seventeen-year-old boy adored by two...
Every Time a Rainbow Dies
| Author | Rita Williams-Garcia |
| ISBN | 0064473031 |
In a beautifully written but hard-hitting tale about the harsh realities of life, African-American author Rita Williams-Garcia offers the elegantly poignant young adult novel Every Time a Rainbow Dies. Sixteen-year-old Thulani has been adrift in his...
Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music
| Author | Anthony Ashton |
| ISBN | 0802714099 |
Queen of Secrets
| Author | Jenny Meyerhoff |
| ISBN | 0374326282 |