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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...

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

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...