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  • Unity club
    Author:
    Spafford-Fitz, Karen
    Summary:

    Brett is president of her school's Unity Club. When a new group home for at-risk youth opens in the neighborhood, Brett becomes friends with Jude, one of the boys who lives at the home. After a series of acts of vandalism, the...
  • The blue helmet : a novel
    Author:
    Bell, William
    Summary:

    Lee wants to be a Tarantula -- a member of the biggest, most powerful gang in his neighborhood. When his initiation goes wrong and the police catch him robbing an auto supply store, Lee's father sends him to live with his aunt in New...
  • Straight punch
    Author:
    Polak, Monique
    Summary:

    Tessa McPhail has a bad habit--tagging--that lands her at New Directions, an alternative school in Montreal's toughest neighborhood. The school is far from Tessa's home and full of troubled kids. To make matters worse, half of every...
  • Snitch
    Author:
    McClintock, Norah
    Summary:

    Josh had been living in a group home after being ratted out by Scott, his one-time best friend. Now he has been sent to a class designed to teach him to deal with his anger. When an old enemy continues to push his buttons and Scott...
  • Skud
    Author:
    Foon, Dennis
    Summary:

    Four guys -- Tommy, Brad, Andy and Shane -- are all making their way through the jungle that is the last year of high school. Tommy, model student, is heading for the military to learn to fly fighter jets, something that will please his...
  • Secret of McKinley Mansion
    Author:
    Breene, K. F.
    Summary:

    It's no easy job being the town nutcase. Ella knows from experience. She's grown up in a quaint little place with people that pretend the extraordinary isn't happening around them. They ignore the bumps in the night and won't talk about...
  • Rooster
    Author:
    Trembath, Don
    Summary:

    Rooster Cobb is in trouble, with his school, with his mother, with his girlfriend. He smokes too much and he hates his stepfather. In fact, he might not graduate from high school. But he just doesn't seem to care. That is until the...
  • Picture this
    Author:
    McClintock, Norah
    Summary:

    Ethan lives in a foster home, struggling to put his life on the right track. Involved in a photography program for at-risk kids, he finds himself threatened again and again by someone who wants his camera. What does Ethan know? And what...
  • Pain & wastings
    Author:
    Mac, Carrie
    Summary:

    At fifteen, Ethan is on the fast track to nowhere. In and out of group homes and constantly in trouble, he is fighting to find a sense of who he is. After breaking into an amusement park and being savaged by a police dog, Ethan is...
  • Ni un día más (Kicked out)
    Author:
    Goobie, Beth
    Summary:

    Dime tiene 15 años y siempre está enojada. Sus padres no la comprenden y su hermano quedó paralizado por un accidente. Cuando las peleas y las acusaciones la sobrepasan, Dime se muda con su hermano. Pero los problemas la siguen. Si Dime...
  • My time as Caz Hazard
    Author:
    Kyi, Tanya
    Summary:

    Caz has a pretty good reason when she punches her boyfriend in the face, but she gets expelled anyway. Moving to a new school, she is told she is dyslexic and is sent to special education classes. Caz tries to fit in and get by while...
  • Mama's boy, game over
    Author:
    Goudreault, David
    Summary:

    At the end of this story I'm going to kill myself. And then die. That's the way it is. All good things must come to an end, including me.
    Mama's Boy Game Over is the third and final book in David Goudreault's bleakly comic...
  • La otra vida de Caz (my time as Caz Hazard)
    Author:
    Kyi, Tanya
    Summary:

    Caz tuvo una muy buena razón para darle un puñetazo en la cara a su novio, pero aun así es expulsada. En su nueva escuela le dicen que es disléxica y que estará en el salón de educación especial. Caz trata de integrarse y de sobrellevar...
  • Isaac Cole
    Author:
    Havendean, Cynthia
    Summary:

    Lui, c'est Isaac Cole, le garçon le plus détesté de la ville de Princeton. Partout où il passe, il suscite la controverse et il cumule les bagarres. Arrogant, violent, agressif, impulsif… Sensible, courageux, romantique, sexy… Il est...
  • Inferno
    Author:
    Stevenson, Robin
    Summary:

    Dante thinks high school is an earthly version of hell. She hates her new home in the suburbs, her best friend has moved away, her homeroom teacher mocks her and her mother is making her attend a social skills group for teenage girls....
  • I'll be there : urban underground, Cesar Chavez High School
    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...
  • Goth girl
    Author:
    Mosher, Melanie
    Summary:

    There are only three things fifteen-year-old Victoria Markham truly enjoys: English class, her signature "Goth Girl" look, and art. It's just that she tends to do the last one late at night, with spray paint, in public places. It isn't...
  • Fouling out
    Author:
    Walters, Gregory
    Summary:

    Craig and Tom have been friends since second grade, but that was five years ago and Craig is getting sick of Tom's out-of-bounds behavior. When Craig begins to realize that he may have more potential in school than he ever thought, he...
  • Far from shore
    Author:
    Major, Kevin
    Summary:

    Faced with instability on many sides, and living in an outport community in Newfoundland, fifteen-year-old Chris gropes for direction in a family broken apart by unemployment. Even his easy-going, humorous attitude fails to steady him...
  • Explore
    Author:
    Goerzen, Christy
    Summary:

    When Mike Longridge gets in trouble yet again, he is given a choice: juvenile detention or an outdoor program called Explore. He chooses Explore, but he worries about how he can survive ten months with the hippies and keeners in the...

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