National Network for Equitable Library Service

Fifteen-year-old Rick Hansen is confident, outgoing, and the star of his high-school basketball team.

Skin introduces us to a group of Canadian teenagers who are coming of age in the late 1980s.

Heartwarming and humorous, Kindness sensitively captures the reality of children's feelings as they navigate the small and large events in their world.

Poised between hope and despair, each man faces how best to move beyond the past and adapt to a future in which cultural legacy seems destined to diminish.