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Mistik Lake

by Brooks, Martha

After Odella's mother leaves her, her sisters, and their father in Manitoba and moves to Iceland with another man, she then dies there, and the family finally ...

One Whole and Perfect Day

by Clarke, Judith

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Your Own, Sylvia

A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

by Hemphill, Stephanie

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Street Love

by Myers, Walter Dean

This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bol...

Trigger

by Vaught, Susan

Jersey Hatch can’t remember if he rammed the car into his parents’ house. He can’t remember why his best friend won’t speak to him. He can’t remember...

Notes from the Midnight Driver

by Sonnenblick, Jordan

After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart abou...

Boris

by Rylant, Cynthia

A series of poems describes a pet cat, Boris, and the companionship between Boris and his owner.

Montmorency on the Rocks

Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer?

by Updale, Eleanor

In Victorian London, when Montmorency and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr. Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become involved in solvin...

Finding Grace

by Brugman, Alyssa

Undecided about her future after graduating from high school, an Australian girl takes a job caring for a brain-damaged woman. RACHEL HAS JUST graduated from h...

Margaux with an X

by Koertge, Ron

YA. Margauxis the prettiest girl in her school, blazingly intelligent, and witheringly apathetic. Known as a "tough chick" at her Los Angeles high school, she ...