National Network for Equitable Library Service

Linda is a young, hardworking single mom struggling to get by from paycheck to paycheck.

This is Mickey’s first year at Grandview High. After transferring, all he wants to do is keep his head down, work hard and fit in with the upscale crowd.

George is hardly bigger than a child's middle finger. His knees and his elbows don't bend and his legs are fused together.

In the fall of 1066, a thirteen-year-old Anglo-Saxon girl named Catla watches from afar as Viking raiders burn her village and imprison her family and the other villagers.

How can you liven up a boring camping trip with your grandpa and your younger brother? Spencer has the answer: lose the new cell phone you weren't supposed to bring with you.

Darcy's mother is getting out of jail. Ten years ago she was convicted of throwing Darcy's baby sister off a fifth floor balcony.

Kate is determined to win her spelling club's spelling bee, but the competition is fierce.

MacIntyre, son of firebrand lawyer Andy MacIntyre, smells something fishy about one of his mother's cases. And it's not just that there are sea lice in the coffee.

Hockey stars Mike “Crazy” Keats and his Cree Indian friend, Dakota, are caught in a web of violence which makes winning this year’s hockey league championship the least of their concerns.

When Meg’s summer ballet program is canceled and her ballet teacher suggests she attend Camp Dance to learn new dance styles, Meg is devastated.

When grade-eight science-project time rolls around, J.J. Murphy skips the beakers and the papiermâché and dives into research about jerks. And idiots. But mostly jerks.

Readers of Hoop Crazy will remember Ned as the bug-loving beanpole who lives in an isolated national park out West, three hours from the nearest basketball court.

When her mother suddenly moves them to a new town, Zoe is unhappy about leaving behind what passes for a normal life.

Fifteen-year-old Kyle Evans has been a jock for years – a triple-threat basketball player who can dribble, pass or shoot with considerable skill.

Small-town reporter Claire Abbott wakes from a nightmare, convinced a bomb will go off in the local school. And then, strangely enough, there really is a bomb scare.