Rashad is savagely beaten by a local policeman who (wrongly) suspects him of shoplifting and assaulting a white woman. Quinn sees the beating and initially pretends he didn't. This book looks at a specific instance of police brutality from the perspectives of two high school classmates.
Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland.
When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.
Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and adjusting to life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.
After a successful start in a boxing career, a Harlem high school dropout decides that competing in the ring isn't enough of life and resolves to aim for different goals.
Basketball-playing twins find challenges to their relationship on and off the court as they cope with changes in their lives.
Only a few researchers and virus hunters suspect the truth: that the deadly new disease that infects pregnant women is caused by an ancient virus coded in DNA, a virus that had been dormant since the dawn of time.
Reyna's childhood has been spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother.
A six-year-old boy is taken from his family on Earth to an orbital military academy to be molded into a soldier for a looming extraterrestrial war.
In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly three hundred pounds, gets a new perspective on life when Curt, a semi-homeless teen who is a genius on guitar, asks Troy to be the drummer in a rock band.
Hayling Island seems insulated from problems such as war, terrorism and refugees, but when Alix and her friend Samir go to the beach and pull a drowning man out of the incoming tide, her world changes.
This is the amazing true story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program.
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up.
A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.
After a rocky start, Cindy (Zomorod to her parents) finds a comfortable niche in her California middle school until political upheaval and revolution in Iran reach the United States, threatening her future and her family’s safety.
A fictional account of four days in July, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg which discusses tactics, plans, and preparations for battle from both the Northern and Southern points of view.
Ben Holiday buys some real estate through the classified ads and discovers he's bought a magical kingdom, which expects him to start work as its local wizard!
Adopted teen Molly knows she is Asian, but exactly which ethnicity is she?
Teenager Steve Harmon is in juvenile detention and on trial. This book shows how one single decision can change our whole lives.
Struggling with his feelings of inadequacy and his failure to make the basketball team at his new school, seventeen-year-old Joe Faust finds himself willing to trade his soul for one perfect season of basketball.
After accidentally busting an end-of-summer party due to an unnamed incident, Melinda is ostracized by her peers because she will not say why she called the police. Unable to talk about what happened, Melinda nearly stops speaking altogether, expressing her voice through the art she produces for class.
Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward.
After struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, a young Jewish girl and her mother endure much suffering in Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Tauentzien concentration camps and on an eleven-day death march before being liberated by the Russian army.
Ailin's success in defying the Chinese tradition of having her feet bound leads to both opportunities and consequences.
"Bella" Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to Forks, Washington, and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen.
Eighth-grader Tomikazu Nakaji's life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.
Thirteen-year-old September and her younger brother Ivan disobey their father's orders, venture out on their Alaskan bay in a boat, and are caught in a violent storm.
Paralyzed as a result of a football accident, a high school student struggles to accept the reality of his condition and the effect it will have on his friendships and his future.
While studying wizardry, rebellious Sparrowhawk summons an evil spirit on a dare and must pursue it in a dangerous chase across all the islands of his world.
Historical fiction by Malcolm X's daughter, this novel follows the formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world.