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Beyond Paradise

by Hertenstein, Jane

Within months of arriving in the exotic Philippines from Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to live with her missionary parents on the island of Panay, fourteen-year-old Lo...

TEA LEAVES HERBS & -NOP/

by Kemp, Gillian

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North by Night

A Story of the Underground Railroad

by Ayres, Katherine

Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Annie's Baby

The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager

by Sparks, Beatrice

When Annie discovers she's pregnant by her boyfriend, she's devastated. She has never felt so alone. With no one she can talk to, she pours her heart out to he...

Strays Like Us

by Peck, Richard

When her drug-addict mother can no longer care for her, twelve-year-old Molly comes to stay with her great-aunt and slowly begins to realize that others in the...

A stone's throw from Paradise

by High, Linda Oatman

Twelve-year-old Lizzie searches for memories of her mother while spending a summer with her great-grandmother among the Amish in Pearly Gates, Pennsylvania.

A Stone's Throw from Paradise

by High, Linda Oatman

Twelve-year-old Lizzie searches for memories of her mother while spending a summer with her great-grandmother among the Amish in Pearly Gates, Pennsylvania.

The Voice on the Radio

by Cooney, Caroline B.

Fifteen-year-old Janie feels devastated when she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her and her family through his college radio program.

In re Gault (1967)

juvenile justice

by Gold, Susan Dudley

Discusses the case involving fifteen-year-old Gerald Gault and its impact on children's rights and due process of law for juveniles.

Engel v. Vitale (1962)

religion in the schools

by Dudley, Mark E.

Points out that although a 1962 Supreme Court case decided that official prayers in public schools are unconstitutional, the issue of separation of church and ...