Determined to receive a good education, budding cartoonist Junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the
decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old
man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.
Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully
which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants,
Burger Queen and O'Dermott's.
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads
to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in
serious trouble.
Seventeen-year-old Laker Wyatt, is kicked out of his home and fate brings
him together with Henry Olsen, an 83-year-old with family troubles of his
own.
The story alternates between 18-year-old Andy Logan’s freshman year and
various times during the past, describing the key events in a homosexual
boy's growth to manhood and independence.
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped
and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use
their special powers to search for them.
Sixteen-year old Russel Middlebrook spends the summer as a counselor
in a camp for burn victims. Searching for a way to connect with his
cabin full of unruly ten-year-olds, he comes up with the Order of the
Poison Oak, a secret society for outsiders. Sequel to Geography Club.
Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death,
as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their
adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders."
Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a
wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his
boats, and try to run the dangerous whitewater at the bottom of the Grand
Canyon.
After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and
his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness
of the Northwest Territories.
During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, 13-year-old Toby and his
best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the
fattest boy in the world.
On his 16th birthday, David decides to become the cartoon alter ego he
invented after his father’s unexpected death, hoping to find a way to make
a difference in the world.
Beat Generation Sal Paradise wanders around the United States, visiting
friends, getting drunk and searching for the meaning of life through sex,
drugs and jazz.
Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school.
A teenager at a German boarding school learns about what friends are, what
girls are, and how you find your way in a crazy world by just being your
crazy self.
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas
becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his
community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he
lives.
This darkly funny look at growing up male in America is narrated by a
chubby fourteen- year-old who describes, with sarcasm, his increasingly
painful efforts to find his appropriate athletic "slot."
There's more to Bobby Marks than his two hundred pounds. He's about to
find out just how terrifying and exhilarating, how dangerous and
wonderful, one fat summer can be.
In 1944, a 15-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel
in the West, but instead enlists in the United States Air Corps and is
subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans.
In a savage post nuclear world, four young fugitives attempt to
overthrow the bloodthirsty rule of the Overlords with the help of Shade,
their mysterious mentor.
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home
life, an 11-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is
given an introduction to a whole new world.
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days
in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a
hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his
parents' divorce.
When high school loser Tom Henderson discovers his deceased father's copy of Catcher in the Rye, he finds himself in the middle of several interlocking conspiracies and at least half a dozen mysteries involving dead people, naked people, fake people, ESP, blood, a secret code, guitars, monks, witchcraft, the Bible, girls, the Crusades, a devil head, and rock and roll.
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her
best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of
gruesome experiments in the Far North.
Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert
where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of
himself.
Barney's boring seaside vacation suddenly becomes more interesting
when the cottage next door is occupied by three exotic neighbors who are
addicted to a game they call "Interstellar Pig."
To make up the credit for a failed English class, 18-year-old Steve York
produces a journal revealing how he has gone from a National Merit scholar
to an underachieving stoner.
As part of their high school orientation, a group of students hikes
into the woods. What they don't immediately realize is that their parents
do not plan for them to come out alive.
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably
in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses
him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
Through the urgings of the enigmatic wizard Gandalf, young hobbit
Frodo Baggins embarks on an urgent, incredibly treacherous journey to
destroy the One Ring. The first book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
This humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression begins with the sentence "It's so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself".
Two self-described social misfits use the resources of the Internet to try
to construct a new future for themselves, escape the boundaries of their
dead-end lives, and find a community they can belong to.
