When their mother is called to Iraq with her National Guard unit, 17-year-old Mario Barajas and h...

Autumn's life is nearly perfect-she's a top volleyball player and student, has close friends, and...

Six short stories about teens in crisis are presented with alternate male and female narrators. S...

Thirty-five poignant and sensual poems, in which the poet performs word ballet, pirouetting her w...

At 15, Lauren Riley promised herself that she would not mess up her life and would stay away from...

In the 9th grade, Emmy is an A student, a soccer star, and a lead soprano in the school choir. Sh...

At the age of twelve, Cassie is old enough to babysit. But when the father of two children for wh...

Eddie Barajas just wants to enjoy senior year, but everyone -- even his girlfriend -- thinks he s...

Jeff Browning is a talented high school debater who stands a solid chance of winning a scholarshi...

Erica has always been a serious student, but when her boyfriend's life starts spinning out of con...

This collection of short stories focuses on moments in life when something turns, a choice is mad...

Melissa doesn't consider herself abused-Rudy only hits her occasionally when he's drinking-until ...

A collection of thirty-six evocative poems, melancholic and whimsical, that explores the natural ...

This young adult novel accurately portrays the widespread effects of a young lesbian's decision t...

Widowed Deborah Huntworth is elated when her tyrannical great-aunt dies. At last Deborah can purs...

The Nezel are refugee servants, toiling in a desert land where their culture is barely tolerated....

'A luminous novel about the power of compassion. Runaway Katya visits a widowed doctor but vanish...

A collection of wry, warm essays on aging into one's ninth decade, offering neither gooey sentime...