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The Year of Secret Assignments

by Moriarty, Jaclyn

Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, ...

The Canning Season

by Horvath, Polly

Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a va...

Revenge of the Whale

The True Story of the Whaleship Essex

by Philbrick, Nathaniel

Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds. Based on the autho...

Parasite Pig

by Sleator, William

Sixteen-year-old Barney, infected by an alien parasite, is taken to the planet J'koot, along with his friend Katie, by extraterrestrials intent on playing the ...

Hole in My Life

by Gantos, Jack

The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all...

Lucy the Giant

by Smith, Sherri L.

Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as ...

Soldier Boys

by Hughes, Dean

Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join their respective armies during World War II, and their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.

The Gospel According to Larry

by Tashjian, Janet

Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a web site tha...

The Boy in the Burning House

by Wynne-Jones, Tim

Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, wh...

A Step from Heaven

by Na, An

A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.