Caroline is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, the only child in a loving and attentive family. Although she has dated before, she falls hard for a grocery store clerk named Jake, who is three years her senior, and she becomes embroiled in an intense… Read More ›
Body Acceptance
Love and Other Curses
Sam is about to turn 17. He lives with his father, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother in a small town in central New York. The people in his bloodline are cursed such that if they fall in love before the age… Read More ›
We Rule the Night
In this fantasy novel, war is going on between the Union of the North and the Elda. Two young girls work independently of each other to further the success of the Union effort. Revna, who is considered defective and inferior… Read More ›
Earth to Charlie
Charlie is a sweet kid finishing up his freshman year in high school. His mother left long ago, telling him the aliens were coming to get her but that they would return later for him. His dad has turned into… Read More ›
Pretty in Punxsutawaney
The book cover’s byline that says “wake up. go to school. fall in love. repeat” cleverly introduces the plot of this story. Andie is a new girl in town, having moved to Punxsutawaney the summer before her senior year of high… Read More ›
The Art of Losing
Freshman year for Harley Langston changes dramatically when Mike Baker, newly-transferred lacrosse and basketball star, sits down at her cafeteria table and starts up an intense conversation when he sees her reading Gail Simone’s BIRDS OF PREY. As they find… Read More ›
When Elephants Fly
T. Lillian Decker (Tiger Lily Decker) is an 18-year-old high school senior whose schizophrenic mother almost kills her at the age of seven by insisting she can fly off a roof. The mother goes to prison for attempted murder and… Read More ›
Freak ‘n’ Gorgeous
Sixteen-year-old Konrad Wolnik is your normal-looking high school sophomore who has recently broken up with his hot girlfriend of seven months, Sara. He wakes up one morning the victim of an Inexplicable Development, a rare chromosomal event that transforms him… Read More ›
What Not to Do if You Turn Invisible
Ethel is a 12-year-old girl living along the northeast coast of England with her grandmother. Her own mother died when she was three and her dad split to parts unknown. She has a great-grandmother nearby in a senior living community…. Read More ›
In Your Shoes
Four middle-schoolers navigate blossoming boy-girl romances, attending their first school dance, dealing with parents and the older generations, and managing anxieties over various issues. Miles sometimes overthinks problems and is an obsessive worrier. His Grandpop Billy, who is wheelchair-bound because… Read More ›
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