Victoria Leonard and Caitlin Somers, two girls from very different backgrounds, form a friendship that blooms over the summers spent in Caitlin's privileged world, until heartbreak and betrayal tear them apart.
Paul lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik and fights for the right to play soccer, despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.
A comic lineup of stories, essays, cartoons, and more, from Lardner and Runyon to Philip Roth, Charles Addams to Charles Schulz, plus dozens of other funny fans.
With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most.
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of a baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.
Presents fourteen short horror stories by Stephen King, including several prize-winning selections as well as "Riding the Bullet," originally published as an e-book.
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
After being accepted as a fledgling vampire at the House of Night prep school and receiving special powers by a goddess, sixteen-year-old Zoey Montgomery discovers one of her peers is misusing her powers and must decide what the right thing to do is.
Listen to the beginning of 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher!
Wealthy Massie is determined to exclude middle class Claire, the daughter of her father's old friend, from her seventh-grade clique at a very exclusive private school in Westchester, New York, but after Massie steals her only friend, Claire strikes back.
High school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing seven cassette tapes recorded by his crush, Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
A memoir of the author's time as a platoon sergeant during the Vietnam War after enlisting to avoid the draft, and covers his experiences upon returning to the U.S. and trying to acclimate to civilian life.
Examines the life and career of electric guitarist Jimi Hendrix, discussing his rise to fame, the mysteries surrounding his death, and his musical influence and legacy.
Bo and Pollo, white and black, watch as their idyllic sixteenth summer turns dark and violent due to the Jim Crow laws and small-mindedness of the 1950s, and years later they are forced to confront their shared history in order to save their friendship.
Latin instructor Jerome Washington, the only African-American teacher at an all-boys boarding school in Connecticut, finds his ideals about race challenged by a promising young African-American student who responds to Jerome in an unexpected way.
Ex-slave Sadie Watson reveals to her granddaughter her experiences while in bondage and the love she had for her husband, Jim, who escaped down the Mississippi with Huck Finn when he learned he was to be sold.
Airline captain Rayford Steele, stunned when over one hundred passengers vanish from his plane in the blink of an eye, quickly realizes the Rapture his wife had been telling him about--an event in which Jesus would return to take his followers to Heaven before they die--has happened and he has been left behind.
Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.
Presents ten short stories about teenage girls struggling with issues of self-worth.
Jenny's only hope for happiness lies in unraveling the truth about the past, a truth hidden in the great house that has become her prison.
Laine struggles to come to terms with her friendship with troubled Leah Greene, whose secrets were too much for Laine to bear and whose actions sent Laine on a painful journey of self-discovery.
Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.
Cap lives in isolation with his grandmother, a former hippie; but when she falls from a tree and breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a foster home where he has his first experience in a public school.
Henry Burton signs on as a staff member working on the presidential campaign of Jack Stanton, the governor of a small southern state, and gets an education in the workings of American politics as played by the draft-dodging, womanizing, charm-oozing Stanton.
When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone.
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers, in place of her younger sister, to become a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a horrifyingly grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
Shadow-kissed Rose is hunted by the immortal undead that are seeking vengeance on her for her Strigoi kills, which puts her in a terrible position that could result in the death one of the two people she values most, her best friend Lissa, or her tutor Dimitri Belikov, the man she loves.
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.
As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, and demands that Bluejay either surrender or doom the children to slavery in the silver mines.
