Young Adult

Books in Young Adult

101 Ways to Dance

What if you lusted after someone you shouldn't? What if you wanted to touch someone that you couldn't? And then... what if... you did? These are just some of the steamy questions that the teens in... more

A Riddle of Roses

Fantasy fiction with Celtic influence for today's adolescent reader... Meryl's mother was a great bard - a storyteller and musician who sang of life and the world around her. Meet Meryl, already a... more

Between Myself And Them

For the first time, adults in their 20s share their real experiences living with disability... This collection of first-person narratives and dialogues is grouped into sections pertaining to diffe... more

Branded by the Pink Triangle

A time when your sexuality could be your death sentence Before the rise of the Nazi party, Germany, especially Berlin, was one of the most tolerant places for homosexuals in the world. Activists, ... more

Child of Dandelions

Sabine has a happy life in Uganda, until the "countdown monster" changes everything - ordering her and everyone like her to leave their home and their country. It is 1972, and fifteen-year-old Sab... more

Fostergirls

Here comes trouble... She's a fostergirl. Her name is Sadie, but she might as well be called Fostergirl. Grouphomegirl. That's how everyone thinks of her. Sadie doesn't care. In fact, she'd be hap... more

girlSpoken

Being a teenage girl is not for the weak. From pen, brush, and tongue, girls and young women (ages 13-19) speak their truths, tell it like it is, and call for change. This collection of creative wo... more

Hear Me Out

More and more gay teens are talking. They are speaking about their lives, about the realization of their sexuality, and the consequences for themselves. These young people discuss the reactions of ... more

Heroine: A Journal

(Formerly announced as Women Who Rocked the World: A Not-Quite-Blank Journal) A striking journal featuring thirty bold and fascinating women who have defied convention, challenged gender roles and ... more

Leap

Hello summer... Hello turning fifteen! Finally, Natalie's turned fifteen. She's officially a grown-up (just tell her mother that) and ready for anything. School is out, and she and her best frien... more

Old Photographs

Summer vacation turns into a real-life mystery tale for a teen detective... Fourteen-year-old Phoebe Hecht is slowly making her way through the long boring days of summer vacation. It doesn’... more

Pure

With the potential for cloning already a reality, today's teens will soon have to face some major ethical questions. Who has a right to determine a person's genetic makeup? And how will we treat ou... more

Rachel's Promise

Rachel's Secret

Rachel, a Jew, and Sergei, a Christian, find their worlds torn apart by violence in pre-revolutionary Russia... Rachel is a Jew living in Kishinev, Russia. At fourteen, Rachel knows that she wants... more

Rough Magic

Out in the midst of the ocean, rising out of the rough seas, lies a mysterious island... It has seen visitors over the years, and has learned to fear them. Humans have done nothing but take, steali... more

Take The Stairs

Gritty, heartfelt and ultimately redemptive stories for young adults... 64 Wilnut Street: a fifteen-storey brick building butted against a pocket of comfortable houses, some of which have pools and... more

The Color of Silence

Two girls, both without a voice. One refuses to speak, the other is trapped in a body that won’t let her. At seventeen, Alex feels as if her life is over. She will never recover from the tra... more

The Courage To Change

Teens talking to teens in a powerful book where formerly violent young people speak out to their peers... Not all teenagers start out with the skills and experience to make appropriate choices. Yet... more

The Nordlings

Readers aged 9 to 13 will appreciate the pluckiness of Notherland's inhabitants,and the rescue mission makes for an adventure-filled plot ... Peggy is a likeable and compelling character and her re... more

The Scratch on the Ming Vase

An attack on her kung fu master leads a budding spy on a mysterious adventure... Born in China, Nicki Haddon was adopted by a wealthy North American family as a baby. Now sixteen, she has a talent... more

The Second Trial

What do you do when your father becomes the enemy of your family? Danny McMillan never knew that his father was abusing his mother, until a night of violence that shattered his family forever. Wat... more

The Shining World

The Shining World is the second book in a projected trilogy, and the sequel to The Nordlings, Kathleen McDonnell's fantasy-adventure novel published in 1999. When the story opens, sixteen-year-old... more

The Songweavers

Has Peggy destroyed the imaginative universe she created? As a teenager, Peggy has plenty on her mind without having to take care of Notherland, the imaginary world she created as a child. When a ... more

The Way It Is

It may be the '60s - the era of equal rights and free love - but two teens find that change is slow in coming to their small town... To Ellen Manery, a brilliant, introverted, socially isolated f... more

thinandbeautiful.com

Visit Liane Shaw's blog - www.thinandbeautiful.com - the challenge of feeling good about yourself and your body. Maddie finds a dangerous "thinspiration" on-line... Seventeen-year-old Maddie has al... more

Until Today

What Happened to Ivy

In David’s family, life revolves around Ivy David’s younger sister Ivy, born with multiple disabilities, needs constant attention. She may be eleven years old, but in many ways... more

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