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Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an...

Fourteen-year-old Roonie loves hip-hop almost as much as she loves her grandmother. She cannot wait to compete in her school's dance...

Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two...

From the award-winning author of The Running Dream and Flipped comes a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom but begins a...

Jane has no interest in boys. Her mom, Sherry, has brought home so many creeps over the years that Jane has decided to focus for the next...

Risk everything . . . for love. What if you couldn’t touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun...

In this New York Times bestselling novel, two teens—one black, one white—grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that...

From the moment Jessica arrives, life is never quite the same for Tom and his seventh-grade classmates. Jessica was badly burned in a...

A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four...

"Speak up for yourself―we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda...

Eleven-year-old Isabella’s parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week: One week she’s Isabella with her dad, his...

A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning...

Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can’t nobody...

"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I’m...

Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every...

Justyce McAllister is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend—but none of that matters to the police officer who...

Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation....

Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson, haunted by his secret knowledge of his mother’s infidelity, is traveling by single-engine plane to visit...

Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her...

"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda...