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Winner of the YA Book Prize 2021.

"The energy. The clarity. The beauty. Elisabet Velasquez brings it all. . . . Her voice is fire!"- New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Woodson.

When Ally's mom dies, Ally is left with no family, no friends and no future. Put into foster care at the age of fifteen, she has less than $200 to her name and nothing left to lose.

Just when sixteen-year-old Cameron thinks he's going to straighten out his troubled life, his parents break up and he ends up living on the street with his dog, Ozzie.

Rico and his ex-druggie friend head to the country in search of something better than 1960s New York City but discover that picket-fenced apple-pie people can be just as violent and judgmental as t

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children’s novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her two stern aunts in the fictional village of Rive

Laguna Beach, California, 2010. Reza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot.

Driven by curiosity about her small Carribean island, Myrna secretly excavates the ruins of a former slave plantation.

"A coming-of-age novel about a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Toronto in the 1960s with a father who tortures him psychologically.

In 1988, a catastrophic episode of teen violence shatters a suburban community. Hey Nostradamus!

The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is workin

The Berrybender's party is moving forward across the Great Plains of the West towards Santa Fe.

While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.

After her mother leaves home, Rae Dodson, only a child, must care for her grief-stricken father.

She was looking for a place to land. Anna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood, and she's had it with her life at home.