Still, the two baseball fanatics have the kind of friendship that should last forever. But when Seth experiences an unthinkable loss, he's forced to find his own personal strength--on and off the field. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults An ALA Best Book for Reluctant ReadersA New York Public Library Book for the Teen AgePennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Book of the Year

    He's consumed with guilt for driving the night of the accident after a long evening of drinking and partying. With perceptiveness and compassion, Sharon M. Draper portrays an African-American teenager who feels driven to consider suicide in the wake of a devastating tragedy.

    Eleven! She must be on the roof when the next bell tolls. Twelve! With a deep breath, and only half believing she will survive, Cara jumps off the church roof and into Luster, land of the unicorns.In Luster, Cara meets many wonderful creatures, but the most magnificent of all is Lightfoot, a rebellious young unicorn. Cara's band of friends comes to include a hairy creature named the Dimblethum and the monekey-like Squijim. Together, they set out to reach the Unicorn Queen before the mysterious man who is following them does - to prevent the destruction of all unicorns forever."Coville weaves traditional unicorn myths into his accessible fantasy...[with] an ending that hints at the next adventure." Booklist

    Read by the author." 6 CDs.

    As part of a neo-Nazi gang in her town, she's finally found a sense of belonging. But when she's critically injured in an accident, everything changes.Somehow, in her mind, she has become Chana, a Jewish girl fighting for her own life in the ghettos and concentration camps of World War II.Han Nolan offers powerful insight into one young woman's survival through the Holocaust and another's journey out of hatred and self-loathing.Reader's guide and an interview with the author included.

    When he lags behind to practice shooting his new rifle, he is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one-armed man to help Francis come of age and survive the gritty frontier.

    The story details Ralph's struggle to reconcile the strands of his life.

    Dajani and his swans; Sitti Khadra, who never lost her peace inside.Maybe they have something to tell us.Naomi Shihab Nye has been writing about being Arab-American, about Jerusalem, about the West Bank, about family all her life. These new and collected poems of the Middle East -- sixty in all -- appear together here for the first time.

    And of the hunters who killed them and reclaimed her to human society--as a slave.Tanith has grown up as part of a savage, plundering clan, in a world ruled by brute strength, superstition, and animal cunning. Now, hated and shunned, Tanith flees human society for the more humane company of wolves. But the gentle son of a chief from a neighboring clan beckons her back. He offers Tanith the chance to join once again with her own kind. She must make her final choice of which cry to answer--the wavering, longing bellow of the human or the steady, beating call of the wolf.

    Titles include digest-sized editions of "Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island" and "Anne of Windy Poplars".

    Intrigued by the mysterious and angry Romany boy who joins her class, thirteen-year-old Gray finds that he shares her love of horses but harbors a dark secret.

    The first novel centers on a young girl's discovery that the exciting, rich boy she's fallen in love with is involved in the mysterious disappearance--and possible murder--of another girl.

    Fourteen-year-old Therese recalls life on her family's farm on the Canadian prairie during the winter of 1906 when the arrival of both blizzards and wolves leads to a terrifying revelation about her beautiful, other-worldly mother.

    As Harper grows older and realizes how valuable reading is to her, she comes to understand that her parents’ radical efforts in favor of educational censorship are related to a quest for control within their own family. And so Harper finds she must make the hardest choice of all. “Sure to be controversial, prepare for a stimulating conversation.”--The New Advocate

    A young woman's journey takes her into her own spiritual memories -- a journey that will reconnect and heal the lives of four generations of daughters and reweave the stories of Hecate, Demeter and Persephone.

    Envious of the boys' freedom and uninterested in the domestic arts, despite her mother's coaxing, DeLanna causes an uproar among her elders when she enters a daring contest with a good-looking boy named Andrew Tabor.

    A collection of nine short stories featuring an angel, unicorn, vampire, werewolf, and other unusual creatures.

    "Wonderful reading, conjuring not only images of Farley's Black Stallion and the courtship of Laura and Almanzo Wilder, but also parent-child conflicts that seem very contemporary." -- Booklist, starred review

    "I could tell you an extensively strange story," I warned."Oh, good!" Gram said. "Delicious!"And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic.As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold — the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother.In her own award-winning style, Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.

    In a chilling tale based on a traditional Japanese legend, a samurai faces the ultimate challenge when an evil shape-changing fox takes on an unexpected form.

    When she and her friends open the plain white box at her boyfriend Tom’s birthday party, she chills to the warning: “Entering the Shadow World can be deadly. Do so at your own risk.” Spellbound, they piece together the rooms with their darkest nightmares. Suddenly the game is real! They’re in the house of horrors, running from The Shadow Man – Julian himself, who forces them to confront their worst nightmares or be lost in a private hell. It’s Julian’s game, and Jenny is the prize he’s stalked for years. He’ll do anything to win her as she bargains desperately for her body – and soul . . .

    With a flapjack tongue and oversized feet, this is the ugliest puppy Elizabeth has ever seen. It will be easy to resist loving her. And since Beauty is only staying until she can be trained as a guide dog, there is no room for love in this relationship...At the age of twelve, with busy parents, a sister who's too cool for words, and two best friends suddenly dating each other, Elizabeth could use a little unconditional love.

    Lower and lower she sank into a life of prostitution, heroin addiction, physical abuse and daily threats from the vicious pimp she'd hoped would protect her from a worse fate. When two kind strangers appeared out of nowhere and offered Debbie a new life based on Jesus' teachings, it didn't take her long to accept it.

    This collection of original folktales illustrates each of the seven principles which Kwanzaa honors: faith, creativity, collective work and responsibilty, purpose, unity, self-determination, and cooperative economics.

    A heapin' helpin' of hillbilly vittles! Illustrated and indexed.

    Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest friends are altar boys at Blessed Heart Catholic Church and eighth-grade classmates at the parish school. They are also inveterate pranksters, artistic, and unimpressed by adult authority. When Sodom vs. Gomorrah '74, their collaborative comic book depicting Blessed Heart's nuns and priests gleefully breaking the seventh commandment, falls into the hands of the principal, the boys, certain that their parents will be informed, conspire to create an audacious diversion. Woven into the details of the boys' preparations for the stunt are touching, hilarious renderings of the school day routine and the initiatory rites of male adolescence, from the first serious kiss to the first serious hangover.

    When the herring fleet arrives in Whitby and the herring girls come south to gut the fish, she and two companions quickly become proficient. By the author of The Flither Pickers.

    Teaming up with another streetwise junkie named Oscar, he entered the double-dealing world of drug connections, theft schemes, and fugitives fleeing the law. Minutes before undercover policemen closed in on Lefty and Oscar, two compassionate strangers offered them a chance to stop running--and start life all over again. For one of them, however, it turned out to be too late.

    In fact, Kimmie can't imagine anything ever coming between them, even when a boy named Bradley enters the picture. But then, in one tragic moment, all that Kimmie holds dear changes forever in this gripping novel of love and loss, and finally, hope.

    Now they're trapped in a primitive desert world inhabited by six different hostile tribes. This gripping survival story is based on Native American mythology.

    Contents:Die softlyRoad to nowhereSpellbound

    You know how it begins for them. The lure of 'easy' money. the perfect set-up--bungled. Bang. They're in jail--or a detention center. They serve their sentences. Some escape the cycle, but not for long. Soon they're back behind bars--biding their time. Do any of these teenage girls break loose from the vicious cycle? The statistics aren't encouraging. But they don't tell the whole story. They don't tell the story of TERRI.

    But, during one horrendous night, it died...and for a hundred years it has been nearly empty. A ghost town waiting to live again.Now that's about to happen...Fourteen-year-old Bryce Willems, whose family has just arrived from New York, is beginning to appreciate the unfamiliar charms of his new home. But gradually it becomes apparent that something about the town is very strange.As he and stepsister Megan discover the terrible secret of the nearby Wizard mine, they are caught up in a clash of ancient, vengeful powers that cannot rest until a deadly wheel of destiny is set in motion once again.

    In "The Charmer," a handsome but manipulative prodigal son creates a family breakdown. In "Cordelia Clark," a new girl moves into town and kindles division and jealousies between friends who must work out their animosities when she suddenly moves away. And in "Joanna and the Dark," a young woman witnesses her role model being a less-than-ideal father, and realizes that adults aren't always what they seem, nor do they have all the answers.

    Here in the wilderness they must learn to survive against a backdrop of desolate country and mounting personal conflict.

    In Mississippi in 1936, twelve-year-old Shortning Bread Jackson tries to help his falsely convicted father while dealing with the troubled racial climate in his town.

    1 Blue Geranium2 Tuesday Night Club3 Bloodstained Pavement4 Idol House of Astarte5 Caretaker6 Tape Measure7 Herb of Death8 Affair at the Bungalow

    Answers teenage girls' questions about God, school, self-image, parents, sex, and grooming.

    Trying to raise bail to get her father out of jail, Jessie commences a treasure hunt on the family property.

    10,000print.

    It's outrageously silly, and tailor-made for the junior-high crowd.

    

    Determined to be herself, not the "perfect" girl her mother hopes for, Julia chooses to live with her grandmother and her divorced father in a little town in the Cascade Mountains.But tiny Moon Valley lacks the one thing Julia desperately craves: a good music teacher. When a girl dressed in white appears among the cattails, singing Puccini arias in a haunting voice, Julia knows she must meet her and find out where she studies. But the girl always manages to slip away and vanish among the trees. There are hints that the people of Moon Valley may have the answer to the mystery, and surely Luke Sutherland, Julia's silent, blue-eyed neighbor, knows more about this elusive person than he will admit.With her latest novel, Cattail Moon, award-winning Jean Thesman has created a romance, a mystery, and an absorbing story of a young girl who is learning to claim her decisions and choices as her own.

    Sarah is shocked and devastated when her boyfriend, Josh, kills himself. When Sarah learns that Josh's family is descended from Victor Frankenstein, the man who created the monster, she becomes convinced that Josh can be brought back to life. . . .

    

    A mysterious alien craft, which has been traveling for 2000 years, moves slowly through deep space, searching for only one planet - for contact.

    Bits, feeling lonely since her family's move from Chicago to Wisconsin, befriends a stag she finds in the wood behind her house, and is horrified to learn that their friendship may mean the stag's death when hunting season starts.

    -- ALA Quick Pick-- Parents' Choice Award winner, 1995-- American Bookseller "Pick if the Lists", 1994-- "A Few Good Books" for 1994, Book Links-- John Burroughs List of Nature Books, 1994-- Outstanding Science Trade Book, 1995-- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1995-- Texas Bluebonnet Award, Masterlist, 1996-97

    A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.

    Then he falls for a sweet girl named Alice. Suddenly, everything that can go wrong, does.Most of these troubles spring from Gilbert's old rival, whose pranks begin to border on criminal. The conflict leads Gilbert to uncover a local land development conspiracy around which even deeper troubles center. These include a friend being blackmailed and the looming loss of Alice as well as the family farm. Gilbert scrambles to fix everything but unseemly bad luck always causes his schemes to fail.When all seems doomed an act of selflessness earns Gilbert a new experience: triumph and closure. Though he lost dearly, he comes away believing he at least learned the truth. But the true ending only comes three years later after Gilbert returns home from a combat tour in Vietnam that included a devastating "chance" encounter with his old rival. A demoralized Gilbert, when confronted by someone he once cared deeply about, is stunned to find that he'd gotten it all wrong and things had never been exactly what they'd seemed.

    Hanging out in bars at the age of fifteen, she finds herself involved with wrong type of people. Convinced that she can make 'big money' as a prostitute, she is caught in a miserable, degrading spiral of sex, crime and disillusionment. Running away from her life in one city after another, it seemed that she would never escape the ruthless, sordid world of prostitution.

    When her boyfriend is arrested and charged with murdering the school guidance counselor, seventeen-year-old Ashlyn tries to find the real killer.

    A teenage boy and girl, aided by ancestral ghosts, embark on a treasure hunt to find an heirloom necklace hidden years earlier by a guest at South Bass Island's historic Victory Hotel.

    When her older brother returns home because he is dying of AIDS, thirteen-year-old Lacy deals with changes in her family life, in relationships with classmates, and in her commitment to her swimming team.

    The family's new housekeeper, Cissy, also senses Shadow and feels the cat's spirit is trying to protect someone in the house. It's as if Shadow knows something terrible is going to happen. A gripping novel of taut psychological and supernatural suspense.

    Three novels--Jaws, Beast, and The Girl of the Sea of Cortez--by one of the masters of the thriller genre and the author of the Deep.

    Yet when her mother goes to Japan for three months, Molly has to take charge of her sisters -- and her father, the original absentminded professor. Now, just as everything goes even crazier than usual, Molly must prove to her archenemy, Candy Carlisle, that her odd family is as normal as apple pie . . .

    Forced to leave her old life behind, Lila joins up with the handsome Rider, a werewolf like herself. Now, someone from Lila's past has learned her secret, and is slowly closing in on her trail.

    The award-winning writer for young adults comments on the creative process; American values in schools, malls, and elsewhere; changing lifestyles and expectations; and how it all relates to the kinds of writing to which young readers respond.

    It gestured and clicked several times. It took the boy only seconds to tune into its language'Investigating a strange light coming from the woods, Sarah meets a boy with no name and no family, but with remarkable powers. What sort of person can speak with animals, take away pain and cause a polluted lake to team once more with fish? As the stange boy's influence affects more and more people in the village, the questions about him grow?Then the sinister Dr Ahriman appears, demanding the return of the boy he says is an escapee from a secret project at the Psychic Research Institiute.But the truth is not that simple...Shortlisted for a Bisto Book of the Year award

    Chronicles the tragic history of Gore+a7e Island, off the coast of Senegal in Africa, a place that had once marked a holding place for captured Africans who awaited transport to the New World as slaves.

    A mysterious and powerful protein powder turns Erie High's football team into bulked-up monsters who will stop at nothing to win, no matter how dangerous things get--and no matter who gets hurt.