Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: 9 YA
I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember. Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly w ...Show more
Category: Verse Novels
This first collaboration between a prize-winning poet and the former UK Children's Laureate takes a whole classful of children, plus the class hamster, and draws deft portraits of them all: the pushy, the shy, the dreamy, the daring, the ordinary, the one who wants to be best friends, the one who runs i ...Show more
Category: Verse Novels
Fiercely told, this is a bold and timely coming-of-age story, told in verse about one boy's journey to self-acceptance. Perfect for fans of Sarah Crossan, Poet X and Orangeboy. One boy's journey coming to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen. This is a story about the power of embracing you ...Show more
Category: Middle Fiction
In a country town, in a school just like yours, the kids in Class 6A tell their stories. There's Mick, school captain and sometimes trouble-maker, who wants to make the school a better place, while his younger brother Jacob just wants to fly. There's shy and lonely Laura who hopes to finally fit in with ...Show more
Category: Middle Fiction
Everyone says you couldn't get two brothers more different than Shaun and Toby. Toby struggles at school, has a stumbly, fumbly, bumbly body and thinks that Sports Day is the worst day of the year. No matter how hard he tries, he's not good at anything ...except running away from his 'big, better brothe ...Show more
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A powerful novel-in-verse about how one teen boy survives the March 2011 tsunami that devastates his coastal Japanese village. "Successfully captures the raw emotions of loss, grief, and what it means to move forward." --BuzzFeed On the day the tsunami strikes, Kai loses nearly everyone and everything h ...Show more
Category: Young Adult Fiction
New York Times bestseller Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure, and trage ...Show more
Category: Verse Novels
From Printz Honor author Helen Frost, a middle grade novel in verse about the summer everything changes for two sisters.
Category: Young Adult Fiction
"Did you hear?" "Who told you?" "Do you think it's really true?" Brutally honest and authentic in tone, this collection of voices centers on the suicide of high school freshman Anna Gonzales. Each piece, read alone, portrays a classmate's or teacher's personal reaction to the loss, taken hard by some, b ...Show more
Category: Verse Novels
Finding Baba Yaga is a mythic yet timely novel-in-verse by the beloved and prolific New York Times bestselling author and poet Jane Yolen, "the Hans Christian Andersen of America" (Newsweek). A young woman discovers the power to speak up and take control of her fate--a theme that has never been more ti ...Show more
Category: Young Adult Fiction
New York Times bestselling authors Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess (Solo) tell a lyrical story about hope, courage, and love that will speak to anyone who's struggled to find their voice. And the surprise ending shines a spotlight on the issues related to our current social divide, challenging perspe ...Show more
Category: Verse Novels
Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can't nobody stop you/can't nobody cop you... Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad boy who absolutely hates books. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel The Crossover, fo ...Show more
