When your teen years are so messed up, how do you grow up happy? Andy Burton knows a thing or two about survival. Since she was removed from her mother’s home and placed in foster care when she was nine, she’s had to deal with abuse,...
Young adult fiction
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Author:Scarrow, KristineSummary: - Author:McKay, Sharon, Gerszak, RafalSummary:
Best friends Tamanna and Yasmine cannot believe their good fortune when a school is set up in their Afghan village; however, their dreams for the future are shattered when the Taliban burns down the school and threatens the teacher and...
- Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
Hockey stars Mike “Crazy” Keats and his Cree Indian friend, Dakota, are caught in a web of violence which makes winning this year’s hockey league championship the least of their concerns. Mike’s new to the Seattle Thunderbirds, and...
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Jeremy’s band is hot, really hot. Thunderbowl is on the way up and they have had their first big break, a long-term gig at a local bar. The only problem is that while Jeremy should be doing his homework and keeping up in school, he is...
- Author:Walls, ShawnaSummary:
Young Mirya Thunderstone, like all Dwarf women, has lived her entire life inside her people's mountain home. Frustrated by her confinement, she longs to take up her family's legendary axe, and follow in the footsteps of her late, war-...
- Author:Houck, ColleenSummary:
Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan race against time and the evil sorcerer, Lokesh, on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal as they seek Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, that will finally break the tiger's curse.
- Author:Houck, ColleenSummary:
After battling the villainous Lokesh, Kelsey and the Indian princes Ren and Kishan return to India, where Kelsey learns that Ren has amnesia, and five cunning dragons try to keep the trio from breaking the curse that binds them.
- Author:MacLeod, DougSummary:
Have you heard the one about the guy who lost a grandfather, but found a girlfriend? It's funny. It's also kind of sad. And some of the bits that are sad are also kind of funny (but only if you laugh at that sort of thing)....
- Author:Eddings, MazeySummary:
Tilly Twomley is desperate for change. White-knuckling her way through high school with flawed executive functioning from ADHD has left her burned-out and ready to start fresh. Working as an intern for her perfect older sister's...
- Author:Maher, AllisonSummary:
Andrew's mother, Marion, works for Epsom Electronics, a security company that makes high-tech spy gear to keep world leaders safe. When she goes missing on the eve of a G8 summit in Halifax, Andrew and his father work desperately to...
- Author:Schraff, Anne E.Summary:
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:Wibberley, EmilySummary:
Fitz Holton waits in fear for the day his single mother's early-onset Alzheimer's starts stealing her memory. He's vowed to stay close to home to care for her in the years to come—never mind the ridiculous college tour...
- Author:Lyga, BarrySummary:
Four teens have dug up the time capsule that their parents buried in 1986 and never bothered to recover. But in addition to the expected ephemera of mixtapes, Walkmans, photographs, letters, toys, and assorted junk, Elayah, Liam, Marcie...
- Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
Jim Webb's pursuit of the truth about his grandfather's role in the Vietnam War puts him squarely in the sights of someone high up in the US military who wants certain events from that war left in the past. Webb goes on the run in the...
- Author:Jones, CarrieSummary:
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEED AND CAPTIVATE Winner of the 2008 Maine Literary Award! It isn’t every day that my high school boyfriend, Eastbrook High School’s Harvest King, tells me he’s gay. It’s not every day that...
- Author:Jones, CarrieSummary:
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEED AND CAPTIVATE Winner of the 2008 Maine Literary Award! It isn't every day that my high school boyfriend, Eastbrook High School's Harvest King, tells me he's gay. It'...
- Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
Jack’s dad is tough on him, but he has learned to live with it. For the most part, Jack has it pretty good. He’s a star player on his high school basketball team with everything going for him; scoring records, popularity and an easy...
- 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:Schraff, Anne E.Summary:
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: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...
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