Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
Three Southern children, two black and one white, escape from their homes during the horrors of the Civil War and, after meeting in the woods, gradually come to rely on each other as they make their way slowly north, enduring hunger, fear, sickness, and constant danger, before arriving in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
Seventeen-year-old Antonio and his 16-year-old girlfriend Natashsa have their world turned upside down when Antonio finds himself in jail, accused of a shocking crime. This powerful story is told through letters.
Anticipating the best summer of her life when Ricky and she are accepted into an enrichment program in New York City, Gia is frustrated by her unrequited feelings for Ricky and pursues a relationship with Rashad, with unexpected results.
Handsome and popular Jason tries to come to terms with his often absent father and his growing attraction to the studious Kyra, when they are paired up for a class project.
Fifteen-year-old Amari is branded, beaten, dragged on to a slave ship, and forced to endure humiliations– including being sold to a plantation owner in the Carolinas who gives her to his 15-year-old son as his birthday present.
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.
Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
Fifteen-year-old Cameron living with her single mother in Brooklyn finds her search for identity further challenged when she discovers that she is the product of a biracial relationship.
Wealthy and beautiful African American twins both face boyfriend problems as they continue to delve into a mystery that somehow involves both their father and stepfather.
The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.
Damien is a straight straight-A student headed for Brown University when he falls in love with Junice, a girl whose mother has just been incarcerated for selling drugs. Will his direction now change?
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them.
Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.
Follows the Kansas City Central High School's debate squad through its 2002 season, which ended with a top-ten finish at the national championships, in this story of four debaters and their coach at an inner-city school.
The popular young adult author gives a fascinating account of his oft-troubled childhood, from gang warfare and racism to the dark secret his father kept for years.
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
He sees his uncle murdered for being a successful business man. He
cannot use a public library simply because he is black, yet he refuses to
let the white South break his spirit.
Malcolm Little, who became Muslim Malcolm X, evolved from being the
unrelenting enemy of all white men to a black leader who understood the
real barriers that kept the races apart.
Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.
Maya goes against her better judgement when she and a popular, but somewhat disreputable boy, start a school-wide cheating ring in order to save her family's Thai restaurant.
With the encouragement of one of her teachers, a Chinese American high school senior asserts herself against her demanding, old-school mother and carves out an identity for herself in late 1980s San Francisco.
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by her first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty.
Two teens find each other surrounded by the destruction left in the wake of the most devastating tsunami the world has ever seen. Ruslan is a native of Aceh and is in search of his missing father. Sarah is an American girl who has already lost her mother and is now struggling to find medical treatment for her sick brother.
When she is tricked by her stepfather and sold into prostitution, 13-year-old Lakshmi becomes submerged in a nightmare where her only comfort is the friendship she forms with the other girls.
Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for the better.
Two sisters, Mina and Suna, grow up in a Korean household with a demanding mother, a quiet father, and expectations that are nearly impossible to meet.
Fifteen-year-old Sabine’s comfortable life is torn apart on August 6, 1972, the day that Idi Amin issued his expulsion order for all Indians in Uganda.
In India in the 1940's, 13-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.
Eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert in Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family. She must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
Jin is a boy faced with the casual racism of fellow students and the pressure of his crush on a Caucasian girl; the Monkey King, a character from Chinese folklore, has attained great power but feels he is being held back because of what the gods perceive as his lowly status; and Danny, a popular high-school student, suffers through an annual visit from his cousin Chin-Kee, a walking, talking compendium of exaggerated Chinese stereotypes.
Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.
Eighteen-year-old Kwok Wong desperately wants to play soccer and
attend the university in order to break away from his Chinese family's
traditions and their dirt-poor farm.
A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.
A trapped miner tries to save himself and his co-workers when they are trapped hundreds of feet underground, while the mining company and the government attempt a daring rescue and the workers' families keep a hopeful vigil.
Upholding her family traditions throughout her lifetime, dutiful Indo-American sari maker Lakshmi Sen agrees to marry an upstanding doctor selected for her by her widowed mother, employs her mystical abilities to identify the perfect fabrics for her customers, and finds herself falling in love with a famous actress's bodyguard.
After a criminal gang attacks his caravan and he loses his identity as a Brahmin, Arjun resigns himself to his new life as a soldier, becomes an elephant driver, and searches for his kidnapped sister.
New Delhi native Vikram Chandra introduces listeners to Inspector Sartaj Singh, a Sikh member of the Mumbai police force, and his long-time nemesis Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted hoodlum in India.
Seventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that
she is not Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the
Americans.
A prize-winning poet's first work of fiction describes the love story between Babo, an Indian man, and Sian, a fair-skinned woman from Wales, who forged a life for themselves and their hybrid family in Madras, India.
This multigenerational story is about the Ganguli family, who arrive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from Calcutta in the 1960s. Over forty years, the reader follows the arranged marriage of Western-oriented Ashoke and his traditional wife, Ashima, and the efforts of their children to live both American and Indian lives.
In 1969, in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of their family life, as they discover that the entire world can be transformed in a single moment.
From the moment of her birth, Parvati seems to be capable of a mystical power that manifests itself in her inspired classical Indian dance. This talented dancer sacrifices family and friends for her art.
American soldier, Sam, falls in love with Mila, the daughter of a local political agent in western India. Thier doomed love affair is told on told on the stage of a country torn between imperialism and nationalism.
When an uneducated orphan wins a jackpot of a billion rupees on a trivia show, the show's directors have him arrested for cheating. Basis for the film Slumdog Millionaire.
Bound by her cultural and religious obligations, thirteen-year-old Koly is first married to a sickly husband and then subjected to the brutal life of a Hindu widow.
Sofi Mendoza lies to her parents and crosses the border into Mexico for a weekend party. She had no idea that she would get stuck in a Mexican village with a family she has never met before, unable to return to the United States.
Fifteen-year-old Milly Kaufman is an average American teenager until Pablo, a new student at her school, inspires her to search for her birth family in his native country.
This novelization, set during the days of the Trujilo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, tells the story of the Mirabal sisters who were assassinated after visting their jailed husbands.
In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.
Sixteen-year-old Danny, half Mexican, half white, has conflicts to overcome due to his biracial heritage. He feels he's too brown to fit in at his at his mostly-white prep school, and too pale when he visits the Mexican side of his family.
It’s 1969 and Sammy Santos is a graduating high school senior in the unglamorous town Hollywood, New Mexico. Sammy faces the challenges of “gringo” racism, unpopular dress codes, the Vietnam War, barrio violence, and poverty.
After unexpectedly falling in love with a "nerdy" boy, fourteen-year-old Marisa works to change her life by transferring to another school, altering some of her behavior, and losing weight.
Having tried for years to deny her psychic abilities, high school sophomore Paski has disturbing visions about the popular girl at her new high school in Orange County, California.
Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
Junior wants more from life than what the reservation has to offer him so he transfers to an all-white high school in town where he is stunned and amazed by this strange and affluent new world.
This painful and poignant account captures the determination of people struggling to survive the bleak environment of life on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
The story intertwines three generations of American Indian women, depicting the hardships they faced and the coming of age of the youngest girl, Rayona.
In a future world ravaged by a mutant virus, sixteen-year-old Ceej and three other teenagers seek to save the Grand Canyon from being flooded, while trying to avoid capture by a band of renegade Survivors.
Having left the Indian reservation for the streets of New York,
17-year-old boxer Sonny Bear tries to harness his inner rage by
training with a policeman who is a former boxer. Sequel to The
Contender.
Four high school students face off against a soul-stealing beast that has been making young people disappear from their small Ontario, Canada, town for centuries.
