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Ten stories portray life
on a block in
Harlem.
All-American Girl
Meg Cabot, bestselling
author of The Princess
Diaries, shoots off literary
fireworks in this capital
romance about an artistic
alterna-girl, whose world
is rocked when she saves
the life of the U.S.
president and gets
chummy with his son.
Amazing Facts
About Ancient Egypt
Did you know that in
ancient Egypt ritual
false beards were worn
by queens as well as
kings? Or that the
Egyptians were the first
people to hatch eggs
artificially? These, with
hundreds of other
curious, zany, and
extraordinary facts fill
this unique and wittily
illustrated book. Full
color.
America: A Novel
Teenage America, a
not-black, not-white,
not-anything boy
who has spent many
years in institutions
for disturbed,
antisocial behavior,
tries to piece his life
together.
Angus, Thongs
and Full-Frontal Snogging
Presents the humorous
journal of a year in the
life of a fourteen-yearold British girl who tries
to reduce the size of her
nose, stop her mad cat
from terrorizing the
neighborhood animals,
and win the love of
handsome hunk
Robbie.
Annotated Art
Arctic & Antarctic
Here is an exciting and
informative guide to the
vast, icy wastes at the
ends of the earth. Color
photographs of snowy
mountains and frozen
seas, rare animals and
plants, and the teeming
life on and under the ice
offer a unique view of
our planet's polar
wildernesses.
Basketball’s Best Shots
Relive spectacular
moments from the
history of basketball
that illustrates the
grace, speed, and
power of the game.
Behind the Wheel:
Poems About Driving
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Thirty-six poems look
at various aspects of
driving, including
passing the written
driver's test, being
pulled over by a cop,
and having an
accident, and treat
them as metaphors
for life.
Between Boardslides and
Burnout:
My Notes from the Road
With this all-access pass, Tony
Hawk shares the joy, the
exhaustion, the adrenaline,
and the pain of life on the
road. Between Boardslides
and Burnout puts you right
on the edge of the ramp and
on the road with him — from
competitions to demos, to
store openings, to autograph
signings, to movie sets, and
back home.
Blackwater
When a boy and girl
are drowned in the
Blackwater River,
thirteen-year-old
Brodie must decide
whether to confess
that he may have
caused the accident.
Blood and Chocolate
Having fallen for a
human boy, a
beautiful teenage
werewolf must battle
both her packmates
and the fear of the
townspeople to
decide where she
belongs and with
whom.
Breathing Underwater
Sent to counseling for
hitting his girlfriend,
Caitlin, and ordered to
keep a journal, sixteenyear-old Nick recounts
his relationship with
Caitlin, examines his
controlling behavior and
anger, and describes
living with his abusive
father.
Brian’s Return
After having survived
alone in the
wilderness, Brian
finds that he can no
longer live in the city
but must return to
the place where he
really belongs
Bronx Masquerade
While studying the Harlem
Renaissance, students
at a Bronx high school
read aloud poems
they've written,
revealing their
innermost thoughts and
fears to their formerly
clueless classmates.
Bull Catcher
Pete and Jeff continue
their friendship and
love of baseball as
they progress from
ninth grade through
high school in their
small Wisconsin
town.
Buried Onions
When nineteen-yearold Eddie drops out
of college, he
struggles to find a
place for himself as
a Mexican American
living in a violenceinfested
neighborhood of
Fresno, California.
Burning Up: A Novel
When a girl she had met
at an innercity church is
murdered, fifteen-yearold Macey channels her
grief into a school
project that leads her to
uncover prejudice she
had not imagined in her
grandparents and their
wealthy Connecticut
community.
Celebrity Skin:
Tatoos, Brands, and Body
Adornments of the Stars
What did Johnny Depp do with his “Winona
Forever” tattoo after she dumped him?
What is the ritual surrounding the Dixie
Chicks and the little birdies on their feet?
How many times does Angelina Jolie
have “Billy Bob” tattooed on her body and
where? Celebrity Skin has the answers
and much more in this ultimate photo
collection of the tattoos and body art of
celebrities—from Drew Barrymore, and
Sean Connery to Dennis Rodman, the
Backstreet Boys, and Eminem. With over
100 pages of full-color photographs,
Celebrity Skin gets the inside story (and
inside look) at the beauty marks of the
beautiful people.
The Century for Young People
Chicken Soup
for the Teenage Soul
Classic American Cars
Celebrate the exuberance and
eccentricity of America in the
twentieth century with
Classic American Cars. You'll
find every dream machine
here, from the 1949 Cadillac
Sedanette to the 1969
Corvette, from the 1955
Thunderbird to the 1976
Cadillac Eldorado
Convertible. This book is
truly a car show full of the
greats in automobile history.
Close to a Killer
Seventeen-year-old
Barrie finds herself
involved in a string
of murders that are
somehow connected
to her mother's hair
salon.
Companions of the Night
When sixteen-year-old
Kerry Nowicki helps
a young man
escape from a group
of men who claim he
is a vampire, she
finds herself faced
with some bizarre
and dangerous
choices.
The Complete
Book of Hairstyling
There are easy-tofollow instructions
for more than 100
hairstyles in this
glossy and very
user-friendly book
Confessions of a
Teenage Drama Queen
Mary Elizabeth Cep (or Lola, as she
prefers to be called) longs to be in
the spotlight. But when she moves
to New Jersey with her family and
becomes a student at Dellwood
"Deadwood" High, Lola finds the
role of resident drama queen
already filled, by the Born-to-Win,
Born-to-Run-Everything Carla
Santini. Carla has always gotten
everything she wants -- until Lola
comes along and snags the lead in
the school play. Can Lola survive
Carla's attempts at retaliation?
Once the curtain goes up on the
school play, which drama queen will
take center stage?
Crush
A series of nine
romantic episodes in
the lives of B.J. and
other students at
Cutter's Forge High
as they plan for the
Valentine's Day
Sweetheart Stomp.
Cut
While confined to a mental
hospital, thirteen-yearold Callie slowly comes
to understand some of
the reasons behind her
self-mutilation, and
gradually starts to get
better.
Define “Normal”: A Novel
When she agrees to meet
with Jasmine as a peer
counselor at their
middle school, Antonia
never dreams that this
girl with the black
lipstick and pierced
eyebrow will end up
helping her deal with
the serious problems
she faces at home and
become a good friend.
Devastation!:
The World’s Worst Natural
Disasters
Our understanding of the natural
phenomena that cause these
tragedies has made huge
strides in the last 30 years.
Devastation! Provides riveting
accounts of what happened
during the world's most
spectacular natural disasters
accompanied by stunning
you-are-there photography.
More than 400 color
illustrations .Gazetteer of
dates and details of more than
500 major natural disasters.
Doing Time:
Notes from the Underground
Each of these ten
short stories focuses
on a high school
student's mandatory
200 hours of
community service
and the youth's
response to the
required project.
Dreamland: A Novel
After her older sister runs
away, sixteen-year-old
Caitlin decides that she
needs to make a major
change in her own life
and begins an abusive
relationship with a boy
who is mysterious,
brilliant, and dangerous.
Ella Enchanted
In this novel based on
the story of
Cinderella, Ella
struggles against
the childhood curse
that forces her to
obey any order
given to her.
The Facts Speak for Themselves
At the request of her social
worker, thirteen-yearold Linda gradually
reveals how her life with
her unstable mother
and her younger brother
led to her rape and the
murder she witnessed.
The Fairies:
Photographic Evidence of the
Existence of Another World
After mysteriously
receiving a copy of
an old manuscript,
an archeologist sets
off around the world
to photograph and
document the
existence of a
variety of fairies.
Flash Fire
As fire sweeps through
a canyon near Los
Angeles, teenagers
Danna and Hall
Press and other
children whose
parents are not
around must work
together to save
themselves.
Forged By Fire
Teenage Gerald, who
has spent years
protecting his fragile
half-sister from their
abusive father, faces
the prospect of one
final confrontation
before the problem
can be solved.
Funny Cars
Gallows Hill
When seventeen-year-old
Sarah works in the
fortune-telling booth at
a school carnival, she
finds that sometimes
she can really see the
future in the crystal ball,
a talent that disturbs
some of the other
students and makes
them suspect her of
being a witch.
The Girl Death Left Behind
Numb with grief when an
accident kills her entire
family, fourteen-year-old
Beth suddenly finds
herself living with her
spoiled cousin Terri and
trying to make friends at
a new school.
The Girls
Each of the girls in a
middle-school clique
reveals the strong,
manipulative hold
one of the group
exerts on the others,
causing hurt and
self-doubt among
the girls.
Gossip Girl: A Novel
Presents a world of
jealousy and
betrayal at an
exclusive private
school in
Manhattan.
Hanging on to Max
When his girlfriend
decides to give their
baby away,
seventeen-year-old
Sam is determined
to keep him and
raise him alone.
Hard Love
After starting to publish a
zine in which he writes
his secret feelings
about his lonely life and
his parents' divorce,
sixteen-year-old John
meets an unusual girl
and begins to develop a
healthier personality.
Harlem: A Poem
A poem celebrating
the people, sights,
and sounds of
Harlem.
Harley, Like a Person
Fourteen-year-old
Harley, an artistic
teenager living with
her alcoholic father
and angry mother,
suspects that she is
adopted and begins
a search for her
biological parents.
Hate You
Nursing hatred for the
father who choked her
and damaged her voice
as a child, seventeenyear-old Alice writes
songs she feels she
cannot sing and seeks
to reconcile her feelings
for herself and her
father.
The Haunting
When her mother
inherits an old
plantation house in
the Louisiana
countryside, fifteenyear-old Lia seeks
to rid it of the evil
spirit that haunts it.
Heroes: A Novel
After serving in the United
States Army in World
War II and having his
face blown off by a
grenade, Francis, a
young soldier, returns
home hoping to find-and kill--the former
childhood hero he feels
betrayed him.
Hidden Evidence:
40 True Crimes and How
Forensic Science Helped to Solve
Them
Holes
As further evidence of his family's bad
fortune, which they attribute to a
curse on a distant relative, Stanley
Yelnats is sent to a hellish boys'
juvenile detention center in the
Texas desert. As punishment, the
boys here must each dig a hole
every day, five feet deep and five
feet across. Ultimately, Stanley "digs
up the truth" -- and through his
experience, finds his first real friend,
a treasure, and a new sense of
himself. Winner of the 1998 National
Book Award for young people's
literature, here is a wildly inventive,
darkly humorous tale of crime and
punishment -- and redemption.
How I Changed My Life
Overweight high school
senior Bo decides to
change her image while
working on the school
play with a former star
football player who is
also struggling to find a
new identity for himself.
Hush Little Baby
When Kit's ex-stepmother
thrusts a baby into her
arms and speeds away,
Kit's world is turned
upside-down. Now she
must save herself and
the baby from the crazy,
desperate people who
want it.
I Am the Darker Brother:
An Anthology of Modern Poems
Arnold Adoff updates the classic
collection I Am the Darker Brother: An
Anthology of Modern Poems by African
Americans, first published in 1968, with
23 new poems by Nikki Giovanni (who
also contributes a foreword), Ishmael
Reed, Maya Angelou and others. This
anthology covers not only well-known
poems by Langston Hughes,
Gwendolyn Brooks, Claude McKay and
Paul Laurence Dunbar, but fills in other
bright spots in a strong and often
neglected tradition. Illustrations, by
Benny Andrews, not seen by PW.
I Was a Teenage Fairy
A pinkie-size, straighttalking fairy, who may or
may not be real, helps
Barbie and Griffin
uncover the strength
beneath their pain and
teaches that love -- like
a sparkling web of light
spinning around our
bodies and souls -- is
what can heal even the
deepest scars.
I Will Survive
Poor Ellen. Her boyfriend is
cheating on her with her best
friend. Her other (male) best
friend is in love with her when he
really shouldn't be. Her beauty
queen sister is on a rampage.
And her mom is having an affair
with one of her teachers. At first,
Ellen wants to climb into bed
and never get out again. Then
she decides she's not going to
take all of this lying down. She's
out for revenge a very comic
revenge with some very
In the Middle of the Night
Sixteen-year-old Denny
lives in the shadow of a
deadly accident with
which his father was
connected when he was
Denny's age, a disaster
for which some of the
survivors still blame his
father.
Inhalants and Your Nasal
Passages:
The Incredibly Disgusting Story
Ironman: A Novel
While training for a
triathlon, seventeenyear-old Bo attends
an anger
management group
at school which
leads him to
examine his
relationship with his
father.
Jump Ball:
A Basketball Season on Poems
Tells the story of a
high school
basketball team's
season through a
series of poems
reflecting the
feelings of students,
their families,
teachers, and
coaches.
Katie.com: My Story
Katherine Tarbox was thirteen when she met twenty-threeyear-old "Mark" in an online chat room. A top student and
nationally ranked swimmer attending an elite school in an
affluent Connecticut town, Katie was also a lonely and
self-conscious eighth-grader who craved the attention her
workaholic parents couldn't give her. "Mark" seemed to
understand her; he told her she was smart and wonderful.
When they set a date to finally meet while Katie was in
Texas for a swim competition, she walked into a hotel
room and discovered who -- and what -- her cyber soul
mate really was. In Katie.com, Tarbox, now eighteen, tells
her story -- a frightening and eyeopening tale of one
teenager's descent into the seductive world of the Internet.
Tarbox's harrowing experience with her online boyfriend
would affect her life for years to come and result in her
becoming the first "unnamed minor" to test a federal law
enacted to protect kids from online sexual predators.
In a time when a new generation is growing up online,
Tarbox's memoir offers a rare and candid look at what it's
like to be a girl in the Internet Age.
Keeping the Moon
Fifteen-year-old Colie has never fit in. First, it
was because she was fat. Then, after she
lost the weight, it was because of a
reputation that she didn't deserve. So when
she's sent to stay with her eccentric aunt
Mira for the summer, Colie doesn't expect
too much. After all, why would anyone in
Colby, North Carolina, want to bother with
her when no one back home does? But
Colby turns out to be a nice surprise for
Colie. Almost without trying, she lands
herself a job at the Last Chance Bar and
Grill. There she meets fellow waitresses
Morgan and Isabel -- two best friends who
teach her what friendship is all about, and
help her learn to appreciate who she really
is
The Killer’s Cousin
After being acquitted of
murder, seventeenyear-old David goes to
stay with relatives in
Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where
he finds himself forced
to face his past as he
learns more about his
strange young cousin
Lily.
Kim: Empty Inside
The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager
Seventeen-year-old Kim,
feeling the pressure of
maintaining an A
average to stay on her
college gymnastics
team, becomes
obsessive about her
weight and develops
anorexia.
Kissing Doorknobs
Fourteen-year-old Tara
describes how her
increasingly strange
compulsions begin
to take over her life
and affect her
relationships with
her family and
friends.
Knocked Out
By My Nunga-Nungas:
Further, Further Confessions of Georgia
Nicholson
The saga of fourteen-yearold Georgia Nicolson
continues as she travels
to Scotland on a
nightmarish family
vacation, confesses her
anxiety over being the
girlfriend of a sex god,
and tests the limits of
true friendship.
The Last Safe Place on Earth
Fifteen-year-old Todd sees
his perfect suburban
world start to unravel
when his little sister has
her mind poisoned by a
member of a
fundamentalist sect and
he begins to notice
signs of censorship in
his community.
Leaving Home: Stories
An international
anthology that
reflects the thoughts
and feelings of
young people as
they make their own
ways into the world.
Leslie’s Journal: A Novel
In this novel, Stratton takes us into a teen world that reverberates with the emotion and
tension of a relationship gone wrong. Here is a book that examines the
adolescent girl's deep need for affirmation as a sexually attractive being and how
the drive for that affirmation can lead to unimaginable consequences.
For Leslie, grade nine was trouble-filled and grade ten is worse. The V.P. is constantly
on Leslie's case for skipping or wearing 'inappropriate' clothes.
Enter Jason McCready, new at school and ultra-cool. He gives her a wink the first time
they bump into each other. When Leslie approaches Jason to prove to the girls
they have met, he gives her a kiss -- in front of everyone! Leslie is in love!
She is the envy of all the girls when Jason asks her out, but on their first date he takes
her to his place instead of to the movies. He explains that his parents are away
and begins pouring scotches, then beers. The lights get dimmer, the music
louder, and things get fuzzy. Time seems to stop for Leslie, when suddenly Jason
is throwing her clothes at her, stuffing money for a cab in her hand and telling her
to get going because his parents are on their way home. It isn't until later that she
realizes what has happened.
So begins Leslie's first relationship. Telling Leslie he loves her one minute and
teaching her some hard life lessons the next, Jason begins to control Leslie's
every move. How is it possible to be so lonely when you are in love? Thank god
she has her English-class journal, where she can record everything. It helps to
get her feelings on paper. But when Ms. Graham gets ill and the substitute reads
the private journals, Leslie's world collapses.
Words like rape and abuse surface. Jason's behavior becomes even darker, and he
has pictures he is threatening to show. The principal doesn't believe her anyway
and there is no way she will tell her parents. Leslie's nightmare keeps growing. In
the end, she must find the strength to fight back to set things right.
Life is Funny
The lives of a number of
young people of
different races,
economic backgrounds,
and family situations
living in Brooklyn, New
York, become
intertwined over a
seven year period.
Like Sisters on the Homefront
Troubled fourteenyear-old Gayle is
sent down South to
live with her uncle
and aunt, where her
life begins to change
as she experiences
the healing power of
the family.
Look For Me By Moonlight
While staying at the
remote and reputedly
haunted Maine inn run
by her father and
pregnant stepmother,
sixteen-year-old Cynda
feels increasingly
isolated from her
father's new family and
finds solace in the
attentions of a charming
but mysterious guest.
Love and
Other Four-Letter Words
When she and her mother
move to an apartment
in New York City after
her parents decide on a
trial separation, sixteenyear-old Sammie learns
to deal with her
mother's fragile mental
state, her best friend's
self-centeredness,
several new friendships,
and her own budding
sexuality.
Mad About Super Heroes
Continuing their attack on pop culture,
the warped minds of MAD tackle the
world's greatest super-heroes in this
satirical look at the men and women
of the Spandex and cape world.
Featuring an introduction by Adam
West, Mad about Superheroes has
the Usual Gang of Idiots mocking the
heroic legends of comic books,
television shows, and movies.
Including amusing and irreverent
parodies of Batman, Superman,
Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, the XMen, the Hulk, and the Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles, this black and
white compilation is a must-have for
every hero worshipper out there.
Midnight Predator
Turquoise Draka, a
mercenary trained to
fight vampires, witches,
and shape-shifters,
infiltrates a vampire
stronghold, but ghosts
from her past and new
possibilities for her
future threaten to
distract her from the
work at hand.
Milk Mustache Mania
This book is a collection of the
newest and most coveted ads
featuring music, sports, TV,
and movie stars who are
popular with kids and teens.
The Powerpuff Girls, Batman,
Britney Spears, Carson Daly,
players from the NBA and
NFL, and lots more are all
here, along with behind-thescenes stories about each
photo shoot and a look at the
making of this popular ad
campaign.
Monster
A Mother’s Gift: A Novel
Fourteen-year-old Holly
Fay Lovell leaves the
small southern town
where she lives with her
mother, a seamstress,
in order to pursue her
dream of a singing
career, not knowing the
whole truth about her
humble beginnings.
Much Ado about Prom Night
Political uproar about
a peer counseling
program in a
southern California
high school keeps
two star-crossed
antagonists at odds
before the upcoming
prom.
NBA Basketball Basics
Never Trust a Dead Man
Winner of the 2000 Edgar
Allen Poe Award for
Best Young Adult.
Wrongly convicted of
murder and punished
by being sealed in the
tomb with the dead
man, seventeen-yearold Selwyn enlists the
help of a witch and the
resurrected victim to
find the true killer.
No Easy Answers:
Short Stories about Teenagers
Making Tough Choices
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A collection of sixteen
short stories, by Louise
Plummer, M.E. Kerr,
Jack Gantos, and
others, about
teenagers in situations
that test their
character.
Oh My Goddess!:
Wrong Number
At long last, the "lost" Oh Mh Goddess" stories
are collected for the first time, in this new,
remastered first volume of the popular manga
series, the first of three new volumes that
restore the complete Oh My Goddess
storyline and fill in early details of this
delightful, funny, and exciting tale of college
student Keiichi Morisato, who accidentally
dials the Goddess Technical Helpline and is
delivered the living, breathing, literal goddess
Belldandy...and one wish. When he jokingly
asks for Belldandy to stay with him forever, he
gets his wish, and one hilarious headache
after another as Keiichi and his Goddess-outof-water adjust to the inevitable clash of the
Spiritual Plane and the Material World. Also
includes material from the previously
On the Bright Side, I’m Now the
Girlfriend of a Sex God
Fourteen-year-old Georgia
continues her diary in
which she records her
misadventures trying to
reclaim the attention of
seventeen-year-old
Robbie, while coping
with her friends, family,
and dog-like cat Angus
at the same time.
Past Forgiving
Fifteen-year-old
Alexandra finds that
her boyfriend Cliff
demands all her
time, isolates her by
his jealousy, and
finally becomes
physically abusive.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
This is the story of what it's like to grow up in
high school. More intimate than a diary,
Charlie's letters are singular and unique,
hilarious and devastating. We may not know
where he lives. We may not know to whom he
is writing. All we know is the world he shares.
Caught between trying to live his life and
trying to run from it puts him on a strange
course through uncharted territory. The world
of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas
and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one
requires is that perfect song on that perfect
drive to feel infinite. Through Charlie, Stephen
Chbosky has created a deeply affecting
coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will
spirit you back to those wild and poignant
roller coaster days known as growing up.
Play Like a Girl:
A Celebration of Women in Sports
Photographs and text
portray the joy and
dedication of women
participating in a
variety of sports.
Players
Eighteen-year-old Corey
sees a threat to his
dream of winning the
basketball
championship when he
discovers that the new
player on his team is a
girl-stealing, friendframing, teamdestroying force of evil.
The Princess Diaries
"So, what I want to know is, if my dad's an
actual prince, how come I have to learn
algebra?" Mia ponders this, and much
more, when she finds out that her
father is prince of Genovia. Living with
her cool artist mom in New York City,
Mia can't imagine leaving to become
princess in Genovia. But because her
father can't have any more kids, she is
the heir to the throne. Accepting her
title means getting lessons on being a
perfect princess and leaving
Manhattan - will Mia eventually give in
to her father and become Princess
Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi
Thermopolis Renaldo?
Princess in Love
In a series of
humorous diary
entries, a New York
City ninth grader
agonizes over her
love life, final
exams, and future
role as the princess
of Genovia.
Princess in the Spotlight
Having recently
discovered she is the
sole heir to the throne
of a tiny European
principality, fourteenyear-old Manhattan
resident Mia writes in
her journal about her
attempts to cope with
this news, as well as
with more typical
teenage concerns.
Rats
When mutant rats
threaten to take over
Staten Island, which
has become a huge
landfill, fourteenyear-old Sarah and
her younger brother
Mike try to figure out
how to stop them.
Reef of Death
While helping a
beautiful
Aboriginal girl
search for her
people's missing
treasure near the
Great Barrier
Reef, seventeenyear-old PC finds
himself fighting an
evil scientist and a
deadly underwater
monster.
Rewind
Not long after learning
that he was
adopted, elevenyear-old Peter is hit
by a car and then
given several
chances to alter
events that could
lead to his death.
The Rose that
Grew from Concrete
Here now, newly
discovered, are Tupac's
most honest and intimate
thoughts conveyed
through the pure art of
poetry -- a mirror into his
enigmatic life and its
many contradictions.
Written in his own hand at
the age of nineteen, they
embrace his spirit, his
energy...and his ultimate
message of hope.
Rules of the Road
Sixteen-year-old Jenna
gets a job driving the
elderly owner of a chain
of successful shoe
stores from Chicago to
Texas to confront the
son who is trying to
force her to retire, and
along the way Jenna
hones her talents as a
saleswoman and finds
the strength to face her
alcoholic father.
Runs with Horses
Sixteen years old in
1886, Runs With
Horses trains to
become a warrior
with Geronimo's
band of Apaches in
the American
Southwest.
Safe at Second
Paulie Lockwood's best
friend Todd Bannister is
destined for the major
leagues until a line drive
to the head causes him
to lose an eye and they
both must find a new
future for themselves.
Sarny: A Life Remembered
Continues the adventures
of Sarny, the slave girl
Nightjohn taught to
read, through the
aftermath of the Civil
War during which time
she taught other Blacks
and lived a full life until
age ninety-four.
Shattered Mirror
As seventeen-year-old
Sarah, daughter of a
powerful line of
vampire-hunting
witches, continues to
pursue the ancient
bloodsucker Nikolas,
she finds herself in a
dangerous friendship
with two vampire
siblings in her high
school.
Short Takes:
Fast-Break Basketball Poetry
Simpson’s Comics Royale
The Skin I’m In
Thirteen-year-old
Maleeka, uncomfortable
because her skin is
extremely dark, meets a
new teacher with a
birthmark on her face
and makes some
discoveries about how
to love who she is and
what she looks like.
Slam!
Sixteen-year-old "Slam"
Harris is counting on his
noteworthy basketball
talents to get him out of
the inner city and give
him a chance to
succeed in life, but his
coach sees things
differently.
Slot Machine
When overweight thirteenyear-old Elvin Bishop is
sent to camp at St.
Paul's Seminary Retreat
Center, he and his two
best friends are forced
to try out various sports
in order to find out
where they belong.
Soldier’s Heart
Eager to enlist, fifteenyear-old Charley
has a change of
heart after
experiencing both
the physical horrors
and mental anguish
of Civil War combat.
Son of the Mob
Seventeen-year-old
Vince's life is constantly
complicated by the fact
that he is the son of a
powerful Mafia boss, a
relationship that
threatens to destroy his
romance with the
daughter of an FBI
agent.
Speak
When Melinda Sordino's
friends discover she
called the police to quiet
a party, they ostracize
her, turning her into an
outcast -- even among
kids she barely knows.
But even worse than
the harsh conformity of
high-school cliques is a
secret that you have to
hide.
Spiders in the Hairdo:
Modern Urban Legends
This modest collection of urban myths
assembles 50 brief stories from
modern oral tradition. Commonly
attributed to FOAFs (friend of a friend),
they are intriguing and often frightening
tales passed along in casual
conversation. These tales are the
substance of modern folklore, an
evolving treasury of evanescent
narratives. From the famous Vanishing
Hitchhiker to incredulous tales of
alligators in the New York City sewer
system, these stories are alive in the
modern information
dynamicnewspapers, hearsay, Internet
exchanges, schlock movies.
Sticks and Stones
Stone Cold
Sixteen-year-old Denn
finds himself
alienating both
friends and family
when he becomes
obsessed with
playing high-stakes
poker with adult
gamblers.
Stop Pretending:
What Happened When My Big
Sister Went
A younger sister has a
difficult time
adjusting to life after
her older sister has
a mental
breakdown.
Stuck in Neutral
Fourteen-year-old Shawn
McDaniel, who suffers
from severe cerebral
palsy and cannot
function, relates his
perceptions of his life,
his family, and his
condition, especially as
he believes his father is
planning to kill him.
Tall Tales:
Six Amazing Basketball Dreams
In this collection of
stories illustrated
with photographs,
youngsters show off
their smooth moves
on the basketball
court.
The Terrorist
Sixteen-year-old
Laura, an American
living in London,
tries to find the
person responsible
for the death of her
younger brother
Billy, who has been
killed by a terrorist
bomb.
There’s a Hair in My Dirt!:
A Worm’s Story
Things I Have to Tell You:
Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls
A collection of poems,
stories, and essays
written by girls twelve to
eighteen years of age
and revealing the
secrets which enabled
them to overcome the
challenges they faced.
The Ultimate Race Car
Race car enthusiasts, start your engines!
An indispensable reference for the
racing enthusiast and a compelling
introduction for the general reader, The
Ultimate Race Car uses superb color
photography as the foundation of indepth profiles of 80 of the greatest
competitive cars of this century. In
addition, The Ultimate Race Car
explores the tracks, races, marques,
and personalities of the fast-paced and
fascinating world of auto racing.
Stunning, full-color photos of the great
cars from the 1900s to today In-depth
profiles of leading drivers, engineers,
and designers Includes a complete
history of the sport, including the great
courses and circuits.
Ultimate Spider-Man
Violet & Claire
In search of material for a
screenplay they are
developing, seventeenyear-old Violet and her
new friend Claire try to
make life a movie as
they chase their dreams
through dangerously
beautiful Los Angeles.
Wanted!
It all started with a phone call. In a tense
voice, Alice's very rational father
suggests that she drive his precious
Corvette and meet him. But Alice doesn't
have a driver's license. "It doesn't
matter!" he yells. Yet he never shows up.
Never calls. Something is very wrong.
Then Alice hears an announcement over
the radio. Her father is dead. And
someone has already confessed to his
murder via E-mail.
That someone is Alice.
Everyone, including her mother, believes
that Alice is guilty. The police are after
her. And the real murderer is, too.
It's only a matter of time before somebody
catches her...
What Kind of Love?
The Diary of a Pregnant Teenager
Told in a six month excerpt from
a teenage girl's diary, this
novel recounts a troubling
and all-too-common story. An
accomplished violinist, a
great student and dating the
cutest guy in school, 15year-old Val has everything
going for her. But one small
indiscretion throws Vals'
world into chaos after she
becomes pregnant.
What My Mother Doesn’t Know
Sophie describes her
relationships with a
series of boys as
she searches for Mr.
Right.
When Dad Killed Mom
When Jenna and
Jeremy's father
shoots and kills their
artist mother, they
struggle to slowly
rebuild a functioning
family.
The White Horse
In her writing for a
concerned teacher,
sixteen-year-old
Raina reveals her
troubles with a
disfunctional family,
life on the streets,
drug abuse, and
finally an unplanned
pregnancy.
Who Are You?
When the police discover
that a man who has
been shot has been
keeping a file of her
entire life, sixteen-yearold Kristi, an aspiring
artist, suspects a
connection with the
possible theft of a
painting from a
museum.
The Worst-Case Scenario
Survival Handbook
You Hear Me?:
Poems and Writings by Teenage Boys
In this fascinating collection, Franco brings
together original pieces from adolescent
boys who are writing about issues that
concern them. Spurred by the needs of
her own three sons, Franco gathered
submissions from around the country.
She leaves all adult sentiment aside to
present these original works, the topics
of which range from seXual awakenings
to identity development to dreams and
wishes. The pieces are fresh and
stimulating. Boys and girls in classrooms
around the country will recognize their
own voices in these pieces. An amazing
collection of authentic writings.
You Know You Love Me:
A Gossip Girl Novel
Blair and Serena, who
go to an exclusive
private school in
Manhattan, are no
longer best friends
but are still both
consumed with
thoughts of
boyfriends and
college.
Zach’s Lie
When Jack Osborne is
befriended by his
school's custodian and
a Basque girl, he begins
to adjust to his family's
sudden move to Elko,
Nevada, after entering
the Witness Security
Program, but the drug
cartel against which his
father will testify is
determined to track
them down.