Paddy loves his family, all except for his annoying stepfather Anthony. When they have a discussion about his future, Paddy overreacts and threatens to join the Army. Unable to back down, he’s soon alienated everyone around him. But it’...
Young adult fiction
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Author:Grant, VickiSummary: - Author:Monninger, JosephSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Baby's last chance at foster care is with the Potters, and while she likes them and enjoys learning to race their sled dogs, she feels she should go back on the streets with her boyfriend if she cannot find the mother...
- Author:Block, Francesca Lia.Summary:
Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother.
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
Jojo's back, released from jail, and people are tense and afraid all over again. They wonder if his friends will start showing up again. They wonder if they'll be walking down the street one day and they'll run into Jojo and Jojo will...
- Author:Bernardo, Charlotte, Zaman, NatalieSummary:
It’s Hell on heels—again! When Shar tries on a Tiffany’s diamond ring from Hades, the annoyingly hot Lord of the Underworld, it activates an obscure contractual clause that puts Shar and former-frenemy-turned-friend Meg in Hades’...
- Author:Acton, VanessaSummary:
After losing his job and getting grounded, Elijah is sure this will be the worst summer ever. Little does he know, it's about to get worse. News breaks that a wildfire is burning out of control-and it's headed straight for his...
- Author:Lomax, DavidSummary:
"Help me make it not happen, Kenny. Help me stop him." When Kenny Maxwell moves into his family's new yet falling apart Victorian home in 1977, he makes a shocking discovery in the carriage house. Buried inside the wall is a baby's...
- Author:Schraff, AnneSummary:
Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
- Author:Wieler, DianaSummary:
Hockey is the only game worth playing in the rough-and-tumble prairie town of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. When sixteen-year-old A.J. Brandiosa makes the Triple A team of his dreams, he can hardly believe that his life is finally coming...
- Author:Dakers, DianeSummary:
Lindy takes advantage of an elderly woman she works for.
- Author:Stiefvater, MaggieSummary:
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL SHIVER Remember us, so sing the dead, lest we remember you James Morgan has an almost unearthly gift for music. And it has attracted Nuala, a soul-snatching faerie muse who fosters...
- Author:Marsh, CharisSummary:
Presenting the three titles in the Ballet School Confidential series, which follows a group of friends (and sometimes adversaries) during their time attending the Vancouver International Ballet Academy. Kaitlyn was the star at her old...
- Author:Skelton, JohnSummary:
In 1755, on the eve of the Seven Years’ War, fifteen-year-old Nola and her Acadian parents face expulsion from Grand Pry the British. Nola, her friends Hector and Jocelyne, Nola’s grandfather, and a band of bold teenagers manage to flee...
- Author:Lyga, BarrySummary:
At the age of four, Sebastian Cody accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun. Now, ten years later, he has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer,...
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
Quentin and JD have been friends forever. Hanging out together, Quentin learns JD has a gun, and when they are caught in a robbery, JD uses the gun–with deadly results. Trying to cover up the crime and get away with it, Quentin gets in...
- Author:Heneghan, James, Charles, NormaSummary:
Nell has been in foster homes all her life -- most of them have been horrible. She finally gets moved to a home she likes, and the ministry threatens to close it down unless an expensive renovation is made to the house. Nell and the two...
- Author:Royer, LouiseSummary:
Après avoir réussi à échapper aux agents de la CIA dans «Culotte et redingote au 21e siècle», Sophie et François vivent une vie de famille rangée avec leur petit bébé. Mais cette routine sera vite perturbée par la visite de Mike, un des...
- Author:Bayle, B.J.Summary:
Ben and Charity Muldoon are 15-year-old twins who find themselves in the midst of politically charged events in the Saskatchewan River Valley in 1885. One day, as Ben is walking through a ravine, he encounters a Cree boy named Red Eagle...
- Author:Denman, K. L., Productions, IambicSummary:
Jay, Kelvin and Cia are the Lunar Ticks, a dedicated band who are convinced they are on the way up. They want to win an upcoming battle of the bands where the first prize is a full day in a recording studio. Jay is struggling to write...
- Author:Smith, HeatherSummary:
Growing up in a picturesque Newfoundland fishing village should be idyllic for sixteen-year-old Kit Ryan, but living with an alcoholic father makes Kit's day-to-day life unpredictable and almost intolerable. When the 1992 cod moratorium...
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