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Elsewhere

by Zevin, Gabrielle

After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new ...

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, ...

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...

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 ...

Run If You Dare

by Powell, Randy

Fourteen-year-old Gardner, trying to find some direction in his life, is shocked to discover that his unemployed father considers himself a failure.

Memories of Summer

by White, Ruth Anne

In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan and her older sister Summ...

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...