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Both Sides Now

by Pennebaker, Ruth

Fifteen-year-old Liza tries to deal with the normal everyday crises of life in an Austin, Texas, high school, a process complicated by her mother's fight with ...

The Education of Robert Nifkin

by Pinkwater, Daniel Manus

Set in the 1950s in Chicago, Robert Nifkin tells his highly unorthodox high school experiences in the form of a college application essay.

Go and Come Back

by Abelove, Joan

Alicia, a young tribeswoman living in a Amazonian village in the Andes, tells about the two American women anthropologists who arrive to study the way of life ...

Mary Wolf

by Grant, Cynthia A.

Sixteen-year-old Mary tries to keep her family together as they aimlessly travel the country after her father's business fails and he starts to change.

Others See Us

by Sleator, William

WHEN AN ACCIDENTAL DUNKING IN TOXIC WASTE GIVES SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD JARED THE ABILITY TO READ MINDS, HE DISCOVERS HORRIFYING SECRETS ABOUT FAMILY MEMBERS AT THE S...

Skipping School

by Haas, Jessie

Fifteen-year-old Phillip feels isolated and confused as he tries to cope with his father's teminal illness and his family's recent move from their farm to a ho...

Dear Nobody

by Doherty, Berlie

Eighteen-year-old Chris struggles to deal with two shocks that have changed his life, his meeting the mother who left him and his father when he was ten and hi...

Taste of Salt

A Story of Modern Haiti

by Temple, Frances

In the hospital after being beaten by Macoutes, seventeen-year-old Djo tells the story of his impoverished life to a young woman who, like him, has been workin...

The Mouse Rap

by Myers, Walter Dean

During an eventful summer in Harlem, fourteen-year-old Mouse and his friends fall in and out of love and search for a hidden treasure from the days of Al Capon...