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.
