Far From Xanadu by Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters | Far From Xanadu | Every day in Coalton is pretty much the same. Mike pumps iron in the morning, drives her truck to school, plays softball in the afternoon, and fixes t
YA Fiction (Young Adult)
Keeping You A Secret by Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters | Keeping You A Secret | With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Hol
What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci
Carol Plum-Ucci | What Happened to Lani Garver | Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd
What Are Ya? by Jenny Pausacker
Jenny Pausacker | What Are Ya? | Leith and Barbara have been close friends since childhood, but now, at 16, they are discovering a new world an adult world in which difficult choice
Define ‘Normal’ by Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters | Define ‘Normal’ | This thoughtful, wry story is about two girls–a ‘punk’ and a ‘priss’–who find themselves facing each other in a peer-counseling program and discover
Sugar Rush by Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill | Sugar Rush | Fifteen-year-old Kim is horrified when her dad tells her she’s got to leave her posh private school and go to infamous Ravendene Comprehensive, ‘the s
Between Mom and Jo by Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters | Between Mom and Jo | Jo promised Nick they’d always be together. So did Mom. When you’re a stupid little kid you believe what your parents tell you. You want to believe th
Letters in the Attic by Bonnie Shimko
Bonnie Shimko | Letters in the Attic | Lizzy McCann is a feisty 12 year old who lives with her mother and father in a fleabag hotel. A divorce leads to mother and daughter moving to upstate
Gravity by Leanne Lieberman
Leanne Lieberman | Gravity | Ellie Gold is an orthodox Jewish teenager living in Toronto in the late eighties. Ellie has no doubts about her strict religious upbringing until she