Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction. A New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year," an Oprah's Book Club Selection, an instant New York Times Bestseller, an instant Wall Street Journal...
Teenage Boys
- Author:Kingsolver, BarbaraSummary:
- Author:Choi, JohnSummary:
Emerson Yeung seems to have every reason to be happy-- he gets good marks, has some friends, and has a part time job at his parents' dry cleaning business. But Emerson has been hiding something. The pressure to be the perfect son put on...
- Author:Pacat, C. S.Summary:
Heroes and villains of a long-forgotten war are reborn and begin to draw new battle lines. Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his mother. Then an old servant tells him of his destiny to fight...
- Author:Hijuelos, OscarSummary:
Rico and his ex-druggie friend head to the country in search of something better than 1960s New York City but discover that picket-fenced apple-pie people can be just as violent and judgmental as those they left behind.
- Author:Johnstone, William W., Johnstone, J. A.Summary:
On the wagon road toward the untamed Oregon Territory of 1845, the Colter family is ambushed by a kill-crazy gang of cutthroats. Fifteen-year-old Tim Colter manages to escape and hide, only to find his parents butchered, his sisters...
- Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
After discovering tainted water in the creek near his grandmother's cabin in the Kentucky hills, senior Roy Linden slowly uncovers a connection between his high school team's new star quarterback, his own football future, and the source...
- Author:Van Tol, AlexSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Chick struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and his father's expectations.
- Author:Scarsbrook, RichardSummary:
This compelling coming of age story will leave older teenage boys alternatively snorting with laughter and silently shivering in recognition at the strength and power of bullies. Dak Sifter grows from a bright, 12-year-old beginning to...
- Author:De Castell, SebastienSummary:
A failed mage learns that, just because he's not the chosen one, it doesn't mean he can't be a hero. And now Kellen's life as an outlaw spellslinger is about to get a lot worse.
- Author:Rud, JeffSummary:
In this high-interest sports novel, Jake Burnett must choose between advancing his basketball career and doing the right thing when he uncovers the truth about the prestigious Centerville Prep school.
- Author:Smith, Mark DavidSummary:
In 17th Century Rome, connections are everything. But for 15-year-old Beppo Ghirlandi, an indentured servant accused of murder, there is nowhere to turn. The only one who will help him is the painter from across the Piazza, the madman-...
- Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:
This wonderful classic combines three unbeatable elements: a sea story, lively and dynamic characters, and a protagonist who undergoes a transformation. Harvey Cheyne is the pampered son of a multimillionaire who falls off an ocean...
- Author:Aciman, AndréSummary:
"...Hammer's voice is brimming with such melody that, if you listen to it long enough, you can probably get drunk off it." — Vulture.com *Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée...
- Author:MacLaverty, BernardSummary:
- Author:Isaka, KōtarōSummary:
Nanao boards a bullet train with one simple task: grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. When he realizes four other assassins are on board, he realizes their missions are not as unrelated as they first appear.
- Author:Streep, AbeSummary:
"A heart-stomping, heart-stopping read. Unsentimental. Unforgettable. Astonishing. Brothers on Three captures the roar of a community spirit powered by blood history, loyalty, and ferocious love."--Debra Magpie Earling, author...
- Author:Bialik, MayimSummary:
Mayim Bialik, Jeopardy! host and star of The Big Bang Theory and author of the #1 bestseller Girling Up, puts her Ph.D. to work to talk to teen boys about the science and pressures of growing up male in today's world. A must-have...
- Author:Levithan, DavidSummary:
What if you went to a school where it was actually all right to be who you really are? That’s the enchanting place David Levithan has created in his highly acclaimed first novel. But even if the gay kids and the straight kids all get...
- Author:Weston, Robert PaulSummary:
She walks in with her music and out with his heart Kaz Barrett should be saving for college. Instead, he saves his pay from the Sit ’n’ Spin Laundromat to send his mother to an expensive sleep clinic in New York. She suffers from a rare...
- Author:McCarthy, CormacSummary:
His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars,...
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