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by Wendy Mills
Published Aug 2017
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2016 BookBrowse Award for Best Young Adult Novel
Interweaving stories from past and present, All We Have Left brings one of the most important days in our recent history to life, showing that love and hope will always triumph.
by Tommy Wallach
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsTommy Wallach, the New York Times bestselling author of the "stunning debut" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) We All Looked Up, delivers a brilliant new novel about a young man who overcomes a crippling loss and finds the courage to live after meeting an enigmatic girl.
by Lara Avery
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsThey tell me that my memory will never be the same, that I'll start forgetting things. At first just a little, and then a lot. So I'm writing to remember.
by John C. Whaley
Published Mar 2015
Read ReviewsTravis Coates has a good head on someone else's shoulders. A touching, hilarious, and wholly original coming-of-age story from John Corey Whaley, author of the Printz and Morris Awardwinning Where Things Come Back.
by E Lockhart
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsWe Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.
by Matt Greene
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsA brilliant and moving coming-of-age story in the tradition of Wonder by R. J. Palacio and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - this debut novel is written with tremendous humor and charm.
by Siobhan Dowd
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsMemories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels transformed. Shes not Holly anymore, shes Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the supersharp talk.
by David Shields, Bradford Morrow
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsWhat is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers.
by Sara Zarr
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsSamara Taylor used to believe in miracles. But her mother is in rehab, and her father seems more interested in his congregation than his family. And when a young girl in her small town is kidnapped, her already-worn thread of faith begins to unravel. (Young Adults)
by Natalie Standiford
Published Dec 2010
Read ReviewsNew to town, Beatrice is seated next to Jonah, aka Ghost Boy, a quiet loner who hasn't made a new friend since third grade. Something about him, though, gets to Bea, and soon they form an unexpected friendship.
by Gayle Forman
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsIn a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsIn her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson explores a girl's descent into the powerful vortex of anorexia, and her painful path toward recovery.
by Helen Garner
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsA powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two womenone dying, the other called to care for herfrom an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author.
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsA meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should Miranda's family prepare for the future?
by Scott Simon
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsAs a journalist, Scott Simon covered the siege of Sarajevo. Here, in a novel as suspenseful as a John le Carré thriller, he re-creates the atmosphere of that place and time and the pain and dark humor of its people.
by Meg Rosoff
Published Jul 2005
Read Reviews'Rarely does a writer come up with a first novel so assured, so powerful and engaging that you can be pretty sure that you will want to read everything this author is capable of writing'.
by Jodi Picoult
Published Feb 2005
Read ReviewsThe emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.
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by Louise Rennison
Published Mar 2003
Read ReviewsIn this third installment of Georgia's hilarious confessions, Georgia's 'red bottomosity' is out of control! Whatever will happen next?
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